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...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
...Roseland from El Paso, Tex., came Claire Patton. She had been married when she was very young and divorced before she was very much older. At Roseland a girl can make (with good fortune and tips) about $60 weekly. So Hostess Patton earned easily a living wage, devoted leisure hours to improving herself with courses at Columbia University. She used to check her textbooks at Roseland's desk before she prepared to extend Roseland hospitality to all and sundry...
Tonight at 8 o'clock, a Harvard Night program will be broadcasted through radio station WNAC by the University Band in conjunction with the American Legion. The concert will be staged at Roseland Dance Hall as a charity benefit...
Lupino Lane is not. Nor are those dancers in a revue which carries the trite title--"Southern Memories". Some of their steps are excellent, especially the flight of wooden ones on which they mix Charleston and Russian with occasional departures from the norm. Al Mitchell can return to Roseland. He and his band are not absolute necessities. In fact Mr. Arlen would not abide them. He would do just what a certain critic did the other night, only more so. Which after all as the birds which nest on the towers of Our Lady of the Evening would complacently chirp...
...dress rehearsal of Roseland's comedy, "The Romancers," will be given by the Speakers' Club in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Admission to the performance will be by invitation only. The public performance of the play will be given for the benefit of the Cambridge Hospital League, in Brattle Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, and will be followed by dancing. Tickets at $1 each are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce...