Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week on the waxed parquetry of a Manhattan ballroom, which had been chartered for the 21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive manufacturers equipped with various body-designs which will define the trend of the new year's elegance: Bodies that reproduced in lustre-lacquers the garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?...
...orchestra tinkled dreamily in the empty ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf, Manhattan. Empty? But no. For some 25 four-footed creatures glided over its glazed parquetry. The music stopped, the 25 four-footed creatures split apart, after the fashion of multiplying atoms, into 50 two-footed creatures. They were dancing masters of the U. S. gathered for their annual convention. Professor Philip N. Nutt, of Vineland, N. J., (in velvet plus-fours and silk stockings) waved his hand. The music began again...
...imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom. To the right is the Ambassador's immense study. Everywhere are paintings of Kings and Queens and the lesser mighty. Only one touch of the incongruous is present and that is when the door of the British Embassy is opened by a flunkey from Spain who has failed...
...their sense of rhythm that enables them to get those difficult steps. And they get their rhythm from ballroom dancing. Every man must know how to dance now. That makes them more graceful than boys used...
...three remaining benefit performances will be those in New York in the Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel on April 24 and April 25. A large part of the proceeds of each of these presentations will be added to the fund which is now being raised in order to permit the completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...