Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearts of the rank and file. I recall that he came to the Yacht Club with his host, now General Cornelius Vanderbilt, and that a debonair feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend Hobart Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago and Santa Barbara. At the gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in passing down one of the circular side staircases the exuberant "Princess Alice" just missed hitting me in the chin when she displayed the dreadful bracelet with his portrait as the War Lord, which Kaiser sent to that vivacious young lady. Miss Roosevelt said...
...House Christmas Dinner-Dance. Jacques Mar-Iowa and his Newport Casino Orchestra will provide the music for the dance and will also play during the dinner when they will wander in small groups among the tables. Both the orchestra and the attendants will be dressed to costumes for the gala occasion. Dancing will be from 8.30 to 2 o'clock...
...artisans have been busy preparing a section of the first eleven floors of the 70-story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with...
Although two Crimson fencers won places last year, Harvard has never been very successful in these matches; and has not won first place for almost 50 years. The matches are always climaxed by a gala dress ball...
...King Kong has deftly crossed the continent without the use of three league boots or a special train. He needs no publicity. The Gala Hollywood Premiere held at the R.K.O. Keith's at a late hour last night would have hurt his sensibility were he there, but, alas, he is dead...