Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something...
...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
...Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
...Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet, is chief wisecracker. Elongated Clifton Webb does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house...
...ballroom of Hotel Commander will be the scene on May 8, at 8.15 o'clock of a concert of music by Randall Thompson '20 to be sponsored by the Liberal Club of Harvard University...