Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancelling the annual New Year's reception to the public, the President spared himself an ordeal and gained valuable working time. Only holiday function at the White House was a supper dance given by Mrs. Roosevelt for 300 youngsters and her children night before New Year...
...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. Backstage had all been carpeted to protect the ballerinas' feet. Samovars and champagne pails were in the dressing-rooms. Out front were people who had paid up to $100 for their seats. There were cheers and flowers for every curtain call. At a champagne supper afterwards old Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath was so enthusiastic that he drank a toast from a $65 slipper...
...London calls the second Pavlova. She was born in a train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London...
...Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles...
...annual supper dance of the Harvard Menorah Society will be held tonight at 10 o'clock, in the Southern House in Brookline, with Lew Tobin and his Hotel Wentworth Orchestra supplying the music. Supper will be served at midnight, and the dance will continue until 2 o'clock. Bud Brooks of radio fame, as well as eight other radio entertainers, will be there...