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When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling...
...evening progressed the cold outside and the tempo inside increased apace. The Tiger Inn had free Bud-weiser on tap, Lester Lanin played for dancing at Cottage, and somebody from Rutgers claimed that another club had liquor downstairs that "just won't quit...
...Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...
...your desire to escape the memory of dining hall food, you will probably rush madly hither and you. Let the following guide you. The Carnaval Room of the Sherry--Netherlands offers dinner and supper dance music by sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Down the street a bit, Le Ruban Bleu, 4 E. 56th Street features no less than ten night club artists to form a pleasant distraction during the meal time. A block away is Le Coq Rouge at 65 E. 56th Street. It supplies Phil D'Arcy's trio and Eddie Davis' orchestra. There is dancing here...
Fifth Ave. at 59th Street. The Carnaval Room features dinner and supper dance music by sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Drop down a couple of blocks to 152 E. 55th Street, if you prefer, and be amused by a half-dozen entertainers while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while...