Word: waldorf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the most violent Carmen in operatic history was offered last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria-with a real soldiers' chorus. The idea germinated in the head of 23-year-old Corporal John Harrold of nearby Fort Hancock, former student at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Corporal Harrold himself sang Don José. All other male roles were also sung by sweating Fort Hancockers. The Fort Hancock band blasted out a Carmen medley in lieu of the usual overture. Private Lanni Russell hurled himself into an interpolated tap dance (music not by Bizet...
When a dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 10 replaced the annual Stockholm award of the Nobel prizes (discontinued since 1939), it was found that 28 laureates now live in the U.S., counting eleven who have recently arrived, most of them to escape Hitler. Eleven attended the dinner...
...average nightclubber with the intricacy and speed of their steps. Shrewd Xavier Cugat gradually slowed up the professionals, lured the amateurs to try a step or two. After five years of spade work, he had made Los Angeles the most rumbatic of U.S. cities, and Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria beckoned with a fat contract...
...finishing off his eleventh annual engagement at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. His latest Hollywood musical, You Were Never Lovelier (starring onetime Cugat Dancer Rita Cansino, now known as Rita Hayworth), had just finished its second hit week on Broadway. The rumba business was booming loudly...
This week newly crowned Bob Young was feeling too chipper to fret over problems. In light blue silk lounging pajamas, he was relaxing in his Waldorf Towers apartment. Said he of his three new railroad presidents: "They have my wholehearted endorsement." Said he of himself: "I guess I'm sitting...