Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comely Northerner (Alan Prior) eases her heart. Two of Composer Youman's best tunes, the lingering "Without A Song," the jubilant "Great Day," are magnificently reverberated by an Afric choir of 40 voices led by Mr. Lois Deppe. Other Youmans' melodies which will soon reach ballroom and loudspeaker: "Happy Because I'm In Love," "More Than You know," "Open Up Your Heart...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
Certainly there was nothing spectacular last week in the wilted mien of Belgian Banker Leon Delacroix as he went up to bed from the busy ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...
...ballroom next morning there were eulogies. Cried Banker Delacroix's colleague, Belgian Delegate Louis Franck, "He died like a soldier on the field of battle, but more happily than a soldier, for he fell not in cruel struggle but in the service both of his country and mankind!" Other delegates were as meaninglessly effusive. Then spoke blunt Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, famed President of the Reichsbank. Recalling the hate-pregnant past, when Belgium's Delacroix came to Berlin directly after the War as a trustee for German railway bonds and a mem ber of the commission which revised...
...event in question is the annual Harvard-Dartmouth football dance to be held tonight in the Imperial ballroom of the Hotel Statler. Miss Britton, known as Miss Universe or at least one of the Miss Universes, seemed inclined to talk about the event with an also willing CRIMSON reporter. "I've never heard the Harvardians play but I understand they made quite an impression in Europe last summer," she volunteered, "but then I suppose the Dartmouth orchestra must be good too. It will be sort of a battle of music before the real battle...