Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience of 900 in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, grave Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, chief of the 65-man U.S. delegation, cited a more accurate and less happy figure. "A recent survey," he said, "revealed that one out of three people in the U.S. still does not know what the United Nations is or what it does." He also called upon the U.N. General Assembly to devise means to protect the Greek people from Communist aggression. But he left them free to figure out how this is to be done...
...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
Tomorrow night the Union will some-how be metamorphized to resemble a most desirable, if somewhat temporary, ballroom. It is here that six models are reported lying in wait to ensnare unsuspecting Yardlings...
...learn the new Royal Minuet, prepared as "a tribute to H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her 21st birthday." The first part (with dance partners side by side, hands crossed in front) was a sprightly gavotte; after that came a quick waltz-step chorus to be danced in ballroom style...
...Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...