Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...
...pair cavorted, banknotes fluttered after her like autumn leaves. Scandalized, the Casino management detailed two croupiers to follow Spendthrift Josephine Baker, famed blackamoor danseuse, around the ballroom, collecting banknotes which they returned to her when her ebullience had subsided...
Both the conference and the dinner were sponsored by educators and meatpackers. Pressing invitations went to prospective speakers, prospective guests. Looking down the tables in the Hotel Astors ballroom, Lord Melchett saw many a familiar face...
...straight again. Hundreds of young women crowded the theatres where this picture showed last week. Romantic vocal melodies on the vitaphone accompany the soapy looks and violent embraces of the principals. Best shot: a nameless extra in a cap and an army shirt sweeping out the empty ballroom of the club after the party...
...happened last week in Indianapolis. Other things happened also. Four men in an old car, for instance, drove up to the Broadmoor Club and parked near the door, leaving the engine running. The orchestra was playing "Dear, On A Night Like This" as the four men came into the ballroom and fired at the floor. Three of them stood guard over the line of 200 ladies and gentlemen while a fourth went down the line with a canvas bag into which the guests dropped their money and jewels...