Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guest of honor at a dinner preceding the 77th annual Charity Ball for the New York Nursery & Child's Hospital, was white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted...
...divorce, His Grace married cool, beautiful Bostonian Gladys Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season he lived alone at the Ritz Hotel, gave big week-end parties without her at Blenheim Castle.* Socialites assume that a second Marlborough divorce is imminent...
...choice) the Italian, Hamburg-American, Cunard and White Star lines welcome visitors. . . If the dogs of conscience drag you to the Art Museum, don't forget you can get lunch on the premises. . . And finally, if you can save out seventy-five cents, there's tea at the Ritz...
Echoes of old songs hovered over Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton ballroom one night last week, reviving memories of the days when people crowded three and four on a piano bench, craning to read sheet music tattered from use, or when they sat in beer gardens singing along with wheezy little orchestras, beating time with their fans. At the Ritz the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers was having its annual dinner. No music was played but present among the 350 songwriters were erect, square-cut old Theodore Metz, 86, who wrote "There'll Be a Hot Time...
...married Roger Thayer Stone of Boston, last summer furnished Mr. Zemurray with a grandson at 56. His son, Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department...