Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which the braggart Parolles (superbly played by Douglas Campbell) is exposed as a miserable coward becomes a genuinely funny affair, full of the gaiety, and cruelty, peculiar to the pranks of soldiers and children...
...KING's RATHSKELLER has the unique power to draw collegians from all parts of the East. Combinations of food, drink, and entertainment are offered in various proportions at the NUMBER ONE BAR, CERRUTI's the COQ ROUGE, and THE OLD KNICK. The COTILLION ROOM at the Pierre and the CARNAVAL ROOM at the Sherry-Netherlands are two top hotel night spots. The price range is a bit easier at the CAFE 68 of the Park Chambers...
...jailed students were returning from a Saturday party at the Brookline Country Club, given for one of the debutantes at Friday's cotillion...
Bevies of pretty young girls in white ballroom gowns were introduced to society on schedule at Philadelphia's Assembly Ball, the Chicago Cotillion, the Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and at other smaller affairs. Cole Porter's new musical Out of This World opened on Broadway (see THEATER) , and was all but eclipsed on its own opening night when members of the audience spotted the Duke & Duchess of Windsor during intermission and swarmed around them thrusting out pencils and scraps of paper. Not all audiences were that boisterous. New Yorkers crowded Manhattan...