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...dance that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

Kitty & the Dollar Princess. For years, Vienna's Typical American was a rich heiress who traveled about the Continent buying up lesser kingdoms. Trilled the Dollar Princess Waltz, in Vienna's golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Play's the Thing | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Died. Moriz Rosenthal, 83, famed Polish concert pianist who played for kings and emperors in the glittering days of the Strauss waltz, was the last of the famous pupils of prodigious Pianist Franz Liszt; in Manhattan (see Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Vigilantes brought a violent kind of order out of the violent chaos. San Franciscans settled down to ordinary, corrupt city politics and a less homicidal good time. Ladies like "Cowboy Maggie" Kelly on the Barbary Coast still provided entertainment in the old style. But '49ers learned to waltz at Lawyer Hall McAllister's wife's cotillions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...effects by hiring eager newcomers and first-rate but not too expensive veterans whose capacity for hard work matched his own. Chief weakness of George Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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