Everything in the ballroom should suggest gayety, light and beauty. The floor, of course, is the most important detail. A polished hardwood floor offers the most pleasing surface for dancing. If the wood seems sticky, paraffine wax adds a smoothness…
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The Bachelor Dance
Wealthy bachelors find pleasure and diversion in giving huge balls and dances. Dinner or a midnight supper may be a delightful adjunct to the dance. A fashionable ball of this kind is sometimes given for the important purpose of introducing a young s…
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Subscription Dances
What is the purpose of the subscription dance? The question is a common one. And the answer is simple.A subscription dance is given for the same reason that any other dance is given–to be surrounded by one’s friends, to enjoy music and dancing, and …
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Costume Balls
The costume ball is conducted very much on the same order as the formal ball. The invitations are issued two or three weeks before the date set for the dance, and as for the debut dance, the word ball does not appear on it. Instead the words “Costume…
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The Debut Dance
Perhaps the most important dance of all is that given in honor of the debutante. No matter how large or formal a dance may be, it is never called a “ball” in the invitation. The latter is used only in case of a large public dance or function. The us…
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Ballroom Dancing as a Healthful Art
Ballroom dancing is an art. More than that, it is a healthful art. In its graceful movements, cadenced rhythms, and expressive charms are evident the same beautiful emotions that are so eloquently expressed in music, sculpture, painting. And it is t…
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Dress of the Debutante
A gown is chosen with much premeditated consideration for so momentous an occasion as being ushered into society. The young lady does well to seek the advice of her friends who are already in society, and of her modiste who knows by long experience ju…
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George Clooney: Co-Star Bernie Mac “Will Be Dearly Missed”
Friends and co-stars of comedian Bernie Mac are speaking out following his Saturday morning death.”The world just got a little less funny,” Ocean’s 13 co-star, George Clooney, said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight. “He will be dearly missed.”Add…
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Matt Damon: USA’s Problems Could Be Solved “if People Had Thick Passports”
Matt Damon thinks Americans should be more internationally-focused.”I think many of our problems as a country would be solved if people had thick passports,” the actor, 37, tells Conde Nast Traveler in its September issue.”There’s just no substitute fo…
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Elizabeth Edwards: “John Made a Terrible Mistake”
Elizabeth Edwards is speaking out on her husband, John’s, affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter.”Our family has been through a lot,” Elizabeth, who is battling an incurable form of cancer, wrote on Daily Kos. “Some caused by nature, some caused by human…
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