Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove amusing rather than embarrassing in women's clothes, Bolger clowns through the evening with his customary long-faced liveliness. And when he takes it into his feet to kick off both his petticoats and the plot, and spins in a medley of tap, softshoe, eccentric and ballroom dancing, Where's Charley? becomes the most delightful disappointment of the season...
...Into the ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, one night last week, swept a trim, greying woman in a ruby red satin dress, with a U.S. Senator on one arm and a retired judge on the other. In the room was just about everybody who was anybody in Kansas City, and they gave a five-minute ovation to 59-year-old Dressmaker Nellie Donnelly...
...star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace...
...hubbub and pageantry of old party conventions was missing . . . The delegates were comfortable enough in the well-lighted, air-conditioned ballroom on the sixth floor. There were no perspiring delegates swinging state banners, but almost every delegate spoke about the 'state of the union' in his state...
...Ballroom Questionnaire. In the quiet grandeur of Stoke's ballroom, the candidates were greeted by Colonel J. R. Pinsent, 59, chairman of Britain's Civil Service Selection Board. Colonel Pinsent invited the candidates to patronize the manor-house bar (Scotch, 30? a nip) in their free time, added a warning: "Naturally, if you start wrecking the furniture, we would probably have some doubts as to your fitness for government service...