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Harvard will have its own Roseland on Friday night when the Student Union imports 600 girls from Wellesley, Radcliffe and Simmons for their annual dance in Memorial Hall...
...Raymor ballroom. Here you can dance with anyone you want--girls go stag--and the dim lights make it a sporting proposition. Harvard boys are disliked by much of Raymor's clientele, because of their condescending "lets go slumming" attitude. A nice car usually fixes that. Beware of the Roseland State, another dance hall--you're apt to find yourself at old-timers' night...
...some fine arrangements done for them by a Harvard Med. School student. Place usually has some good dancers and a singer who gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor, this place also does pretty well with Tommy Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music...
Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...
Alexander hasn't played much in this territory before. As a matter of fact, the band hasn't been outside of New York City--but at the Roseland Ballroom there, it played for some weeks this summer to very heavy crowds. And don't let anyone kid you--no band is a success at the Roseland unless they are good. It, the Glen Island Casino on Long Island Sound, and the Palamar Ballroom on the Pacific Coast are considered the band-making spots of the country...