Word: ballroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck, 35 tapestries...
...ballroom dance was introduced at a dancing masters' convention in Rochester, N.Y.: the MacArthur Glide...
...first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance...
Greta Garbo sat hidden behind a screen in a ballroom of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel last week to hear her good friend Bengamin Gayelord Hauser lecture to a roomful of A.W.V.S. socialites...
...opera came to a halt. On to the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, set to represent a Viennese ballroom of the bustle and muttonchop era, someone dragged a microphone. Entered a lean, intense, bug-eyed young man in white tie & tails. In his hand he bore a mouth organ. Impassively and impressively he proceeded to render a solo. The Blue Danube. Such was the operatic debut of the world's greatest harmonicist, Larry Adler...