Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention at a friend's Persian ball, one George Pope Jr., poloist, dressed up as a Persian chief, mounted a white horse, rode to the friend's front door, asked for the butler, spurred up the steps past gaping guards, clattered through the reception hall into the ballroom. The band blared. Women squealed. The white horse slithered. Mr, Pope fell...
...beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel Jeans, blond as honey. The plot gyrates masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara...
Last week in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, 2,000 men and women in evening dress sat down to an expensive banquet. Each had paid $205 for the privilege-$5 for the food, $200 because Anne Morgan had an idea. There was, of course, a speakers' table, lifted not so much by carpenters as by its occupants-a half-dozen ambassadors, a sprinkling of ministers and delegates from the world's various corners, and Anne Tracy Morgan who thought nothing of summoning them. Coffee finished, they arose in diplomatic order to speak. Sir Esme Howard told...
...Harvard Clubs of Providence, Cleveland, and Albany will sponsor concerts in their respective cities: and in addition, New York, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, and Washington will be visited. The schedule for this tour follows: April 16, Elk's Auditorium, Providence: April 18, Town Hall, New York: April 19, Hotel Stailer Ballroom, Buffalo: April 20, Masonic Hall, Cleveland: April 21, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh: April 22, Masonic Auditorium, Washington: April 23, Chancellor's Hall, Albany...
...Harvard undergraduate who enters the Princess ballroom of the Somerset to experience the chaste pleasure of his first Friday evening, and next year rises higher to coming out parties in the gilded salon above, and proceeds to the ocean of engraved cards of Junior year takes a fairly thorough course in the social graces. He learns to sit down without thought of his coat-tail; he has to be able to tell what he thinks of Koussevitsky; he learns the proper interjections into a discourse that is beyond him. Quite naturally then, he comes by all Mrs. Post...