Word: ballroom
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...called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled the Queen about the ballroom in a lively foxtrot, some of his countrymen started cutting in on the faintly startled Elizabeth. Protocol soon died an informal death. When the Queen's customary departure hour of midnight came, she stayed on, danced with all cutters-in, wound up having ham and eggs...
...tell that the words were in English (in a translation by John Gutman), but it hardly mattered, because most of the conversation that came through was a bore. Rolf Gérard's scenery, on the other hand, was both attractive and understandable: the vast gold and white ballroom in the second act had beautifully costumed couples waltzing in the background, and the third act's red-plush hotel lobby was an atmospheric masterpiece...
...annual March of Dimes fashion show in Manhattan, well-known ladies from all walks of U.S. life dressed them selves in newly designed getups, paraded about the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria to help raise money for a final victory over polio. Among the models were austerely beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (who displayed what Couturier Charles James called "the highest bust line in 125 years"), socially registered Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, TV Star Margaret Truman, and split-bustled sometime Stripteaser-Novelist Gypsy Rose Lee. Bubbled Gypsy: "I don't worry about shoes. When they start looking...
...orchestra simmered down, the sepulchral voice announced: "Miss Elenita Ziegler!" and a stately young woman entered from stage right, on the arm of a young man. To an applauding ballroom she made a deep curtsy; then her young man led her down four red velvet stairs through the photographers, to a point where the choreographer, Mrs. Beulah Phelps Shonnard ("Now just a housewife, but used to work in a dance studio"), directed her to her seat...
...Hold My Cigar." For the next three hours the Grand Ballroom and three adjoining rooms rocked to mambos, waltzes, and sambas. In the East Foyer, pretty matrons sold raffle tickets on a 1955 Plymouth and the ball took on a fine Christmas spirit. When a photographer approached to take his picture, Veteran Actor Charles Coburn turned to a debutante. "Here," he said, "hold my cigar." Then he twinkled at the camera through his monocle. By 3 a.m., nearly all the young folks had gone off to El Morocco or the Stork Club for some serious dancing, and the last fathers...