Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Maurice Mouvet, famed as "Maurice," perhaps the most notable of Manhattan's professional male ballroom dancers, successively dance teammate of Florence Walton, Leonora Hughes, and Barbara Bennett; to Miss Eleanore Ambrose, whom he has been grooming for his dance partner for some months...
...years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford has never heard of them...
...that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof partition, which he demonstrated in Washington. On a night when two dances were being given in the Mayflower Hotel-a charity ball in one ballroom and a party for members of the Diplomatic Corps in another-he put up his partition between the two dance floors...
Time came for the first dance. A nine-piece orchestra struck up a fox-trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable...
...street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel at 11:00 a.m., lunched with the leaders of the Federation while Mrs. Coolidge was entertained by Mrs. Oscar E. Bradfute, wife of its President, and promptly took train again for Washington...