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...more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties as commander of Western Europe's defense forces. Temporarily settled in Versailles' Trianon Palace Hotel, Mamie Eisenhower's first job was to find a place for them to live. Like many another American in Paris, she found few likely prospects...
...years, U.S. dance-band managers have waltzed attendance on a stubby voluble Chicagoan named William Karzas. An engagement at Karzas' famed "wonder ballrooms"-the Trianon on Chicago's South Side and the Aragon on the North Side-means big money (an average of $4,000 a week), and often the making of a new band...
...sound idea that 1) big cities are lonely places, and 2) the lonely men & women would .get together and dance if they did not have to patronize Chicago's scabrous dance halls. So the Karzas brothers decided to build them a dream palace, the $1,500,000 Trianon, a garish replica of the palace at Versailles. It opened in 1922 with the biggest charity ball Chicago has ever known...
...Trianon proved so profitable that the brothers laid out $1,750,000 in 1926 to build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...
...plays no instrument well. He became a bandleader for a businesslike reason: to make money. He stuck strictly to his musical last until 1941, when he began buying likely bits of property. The big break came two years later. Heidt guessed that a profitable urban Los Angeles ballroom, the Trianon, could be bought by catching the owner off guard with enough ready cash...