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When the old grandfather clock in the East Room chimed midnight, the orchestra played The Anniversary Waltz. The President bowed to Mamie, caught her around the waist and swung her expertly around the polished floor for a few turns before they both gave up in laughter and embarrassment. Afterwards, Ike recalled that it was the first time he and Mamie had danced together since...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...present state, La Ronde is neither as daring as publicity would indicate, nor as funny. Its ingenious sets of Vienna in 1900, however, plus Oscar Strauss' waltz "Love Makes the World Go Round" add a romantic flavor to the film, and Schnitzler's carnival of love emerges pleasantly, if not spectacularly...
Anniversary Waltz (by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields) tells of a couple (Kitty Carlisle & Macdonald Carey) who are celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. The husband gets high enough to inform his in-laws that it is really a 16th anniversary-there was a year of unholy wedlock at the outset. No sooner are the wife's parents quieted down than the couple's teen-age kids start acting...
There is something so authentically unpleasant about the characters that the play might have some value if it aimed at realism. Aiming as it does at entertainment, it merely proves the shoddy road that can be traveled in the quest for laughs. Anniversary Waltz fetches a laugh, now and then, at the expense of such sitting ducks as TV and progressive schools...