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The dress code is white tie and tails for men and gowns for women.

Long gone are the days of white tie and tails — at least for most people planning a ceremony.

He graduated from the municipal gymnasium as valedictorian in 1938, giving his speech in white tie and tails.

The formality remains — long gowns, long gloves and bouquets for the women; white tie and tails for their escorts.

Resplendent in white tie and tails, he recites a speech from "Hamlet," for the benefit of guests at a New York soirée.

Inspired by the traditional "coming out" parties of centuries past, the annual white-tie and tails event has been held in Paris since 1992.

The New York social calendar still offers very formal occasions, organized by the Metropolitan Opera and Met Museum, where men wear white tie and tails.

In Hollywood's lamented Golden Age, the visual tell for money and social arrival was a tuxedo or, at the highest end, white tie and tails.

There is also the handsome man in white tie and tails who collects and cherishes all the lines that have ever been cut from scripts.

Dear Miss Manners: I've seen two professional orchestral conductors wearing a white cummerbund with the white tie and tails of a man's formal evening suit.

We'd watched him saunter into Parliament practically in white tie and tails; we'd seen the Bullingdon Club pictures and read about the cash-for-access donor parties.

The bride, radiant in an aqua-colored caftan by Oscar de la Renta, and groom, stately in white tie and tails, exchanged ceremonial vows before the Rev.

Dressed in white tie and tails, Mr. Trump made his first foray into a Washington social scene that includes a series of high-profile gatherings of journalists and politicians.

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania left the Philadelphia Orchestra's 160th annual Academy of Music Concert and Ball and rushed to Philadelphia's airport, still clad in white tie and tails.

And Mr. Brown's elegant suits — a dark three-piece for the first act, and white tie and tails for the second — are far too closely tailored for trick-harboring sleeves.

In Britain, the images of Trump greeting the Queen in white-tie-and-tails (however ill-fitting) and reading from a prayer originally delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt fit that bill.

The evening, which began with a receiving line, culminated with each debutante presented in the Grand Ballroom, accompanied by a male escort in white tie and tails as she took a bow.

We soon cut to the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, in Spain, where Langdon sports the white tie and tails he wore nearly 30 years ago as a member of the Ivy Club at Princeton.

There, draped in a feathery gown, she sways back and forth, to the strains of an orchestra, in the arms of the Creature—her private Fred Astaire, with scales instead of white tie and tails.

Queen Elizabeth II, diminutive alongside Mr. Trump, seemed to enjoy showing him and his family around her palace, and the president grinned happily in his sorely ill-fitting white tie and tails at the royal feast.

More searing still is the opera-house sequence in Max Ophüls 's "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948), which finds Louis Jourdan, in white tie and tails, crooning to Joan Fontaine that he's seen her somewhere before.

It's in the second act (that's the white tie and tails portion) that he seems to be plunging into the deepest recesses of his victims' — I mean, volunteers' — thoughts, with results that have you slapping your forehead.

The gaggle of rich New Yorkers from business, politics and the media, in ballgowns and white tie and tails could hardly be more different than blue-collar, white working-class crowds that have flocked to his outsider message.

Prince Troubetzkoy, the half-Russian aristocrat who married Amélie Rives of Castle Hill, was in the habit of foraging on the lawn for edible greens, then turning up at dinner in white tie and tails for his personally harvested salad.

Instead, often clad in white tie and tails, he capers about more in the manner of Fred Astaire, although his macabre aspect — black eyebrows etched above his own, an eerie rictus spreading from ear to ear — recalls more the M.C. from "Cabaret" than anything else.

"On behalf of all Americans, I offer a toast to the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations and to the long cherished and truly remarkable reign of her majesty, the queen," the president, wearing a white tie and tails, said while reading from prepared remarks.

While the thought of a dancing monster may strike some as funny — think Peter Boyle in a white-tie-and-tails routine with Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein" — for Mr. Scarlett it was a chance to reinterpret a story that has long enthralled, and often baffled, readers and audiences.

On the January evening of President Trump's first executive order banning travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, Mr. Casey — an understated, conspicuously moderate Democrat from Pennsylvania — darted early from a Philadelphia Orchestra ball, still in his white tie and tails, to be at the airport where families were being detained.

"As we honor our shared victory and heritage, we affirm the common values that will unite us long into future: freedom, sovereignty, self-determination, the rule of law and reverence for the rights given to us by almighty God," said Trump, dressed in white tie and tails for the highly formal occasion.

Many of the standard trimmings are in place, including a mental asylum, a forbidden basement, and a batch of shifty gentlemen in white tie and tails, but you can spend so long trying to gauge whether the movie counts as period drama, pornography, or pastiche that, as with a Nabokov novel like "Ada," you barely notice that the air has grown warm with longing.

"Wombling White Tie And Tails", "Superwomble" and "The Womble Shuffle" were released as singles. "Down At The Barber Shop" was later released on the B-side of "Let's Womble To The Party Tonight". "Wombling White Tie And Tails" was used in the soundtrack of the 1977 film "Wombling Free".

A telegraphic message is sent indicating that a cashier is on the run. The Cashier arrives at a large city. He buys top hat, white tie and tails.

White Tie and Tails is a 1946 American black-and-white comedy drama film directed by Charles Barton and starring Dan Duryea, Ella Raines, William Bendix, and Frank Jenks.

Polish Assistance (Bratnia Pomoc), founded in 1956, grants financial aid to Polish immigrants, especially the elderly.Callaghan, Edward T. "Bal Polonaise a Tradition in White Tie and Tails." 15 Minutes Magazine. 15 Minutes Magazine Inc, n.d. Web.

"Wombling Merry Christmas" was released as single. "The Orinoco Kid" was later released on the B-side of "Superwomble". "The Wombling Twist" was later released on the B-side of "Wombling White Tie And Tails". "Womble Of The Universe" was used in the soundtrack of the 1977 film Wombling Free.

He was known for wearing a waxed mustache along with white tie and tails. He sometimes wore a pith helmet. Occasionally performing to music, he punctuated his monologues with scat singing and sound effects. His most significant tracks are retellings of historical or legendary events, like "My Own Railroad" and "The Nazz".

It was directed by Mark Sandrich. The songs were written by Irving Berlin. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "Cheek to Cheek" have become American song classics. It has been nostalgically referred to — particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment — in many films, including The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and The Green Mile (1999).

She looks mighty pretty with her hair 'done up in a bun'. She has good-looking 'pins' too. She gives him a 'date', he puts on his white tie and 'tails', and she puts on the 'dog'. They 'go around together', 'painting the town red', going to the 'Stork Club', in a 'box at the opera'.

In the Leslie Henson show Gaieties (1945) Payn and Walter Crisham sang and danced "White Tie and Tails". Coward came backstage after a performance and offered Payn a leading part in his forthcoming show, Sigh No More, which, Payn wrote in his memoirs, "marked the beginning of a personal and professional relationship between Noël and myself that would last until his death."Payn, p. 31.

"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. The song title refers to the formal wear required on a party invitation: top hat, white tie, and a tailcoat. Popular recordings in 1935 were by Fred Astaire and by Ray Noble and his Orchestra (vocal by Al Bowlly and The Freshmen).

The slightly cutaway morning coat was worn for formal day occasions. The most formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers, with a white cravat; this costume was well on its way to crystallizing into the modern "white tie and tails". Full-length trousers were worn for day. Breeches remained a requirement for formal functions at the British court (as they would be throughout the century).

In addition, he began a solo gig at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas which would become part of his regular schedule every summer during the years he was based in Los Angeles. The Dunes had an exclusive restaurant called The Sultan's Table. White tie and tails was his "uniform" and a 9-foot grand piano was his instrument. The Sultan's Table was a favorite among the celebrities working in Las Vegas at the time.

Each year, almost overnight, the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera is turned into a large ballroom. On the eve of the event, the rows of seats are removed from the stalls, and a new floor, level with the stage, is built. The dress code is evening dress: white tie and tails for men; strictly floor-length gowns for women. white opera gloves are still mandatory for female debutantes at the Vienna Opera Ball.

Waistcoats were generally cut straight across the front and had lapels. The loosely fitted, mid-thigh length sack coat continued to slowly displace the frock coat for less-formal business occasions. The slightly cutaway morning coat was worn for formal day occasions. The most formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers, with a white cravat; this costume was well on its way to crystallizing into the modern "white tie and tails".

In order to maintain a respectful atmosphere in the major Roman churches, a dress code is recommended, but those not dressed in a conservative fashion will still be admitted into the church. Upon meeting the Pope, or taking part in Papal ceremonies, the preferred mode of dress is either a business suit or in national costume. Male diplomats may, in formal settings, wear white tie and tails, without top hat. However, black tie is contrary to the norm.

Debutantes presentation waltz from the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America formal debutante ball in the Chicago Hilton and Towers hotel, Chicago, United States (2010). A debutante ball is a formal ball that includes presenting debutantes during the season, meaning usually during the spring or summer. Debutante balls may require prior instruction of social etiquette, and appropriate morals. The dress code is evening dress: white tie and tails for men; strictly floor-length gowns for women.

He forces Giovanni into an improvised vocalization which spans his entire range and an exercise of all his technical skills. He then forces Giovanni to hold a painful, long high G, which brings the Hollywood Bowl crashing down on the singer. Bugs assumes the stereotypical attributes of famous conductors, displaying majesty, arrogance, and tyrannical behavior. He also follows the dress code of the concert hall by wearing white tie and tails, formal wear which is still associated with performers.

Blackstone was in the model of courtly, elegant predecessor magicians like Howard Thurston and Harry Kellar, and the last of that breed in America. He customarily wore white tie and tails when performing, and he traveled with large illusions and a sizable cast of uniformed male and female assistants. For a number of years he toured in the Midwest, often performing throughout the day between film showings. Image of the Great Blackstone in an ad for a performance in Seattle, 1922.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur. Astaire appeared in non-dancing roles in three other films and several television series from 1957 to 1969. Astaire's last major musical film was Finian's Rainbow (1968), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Astaire shed his white tie and tails to play an Irish rogue who believes that if he buries a crock of gold in the shadows of Fort Knox the gold will multiply.

He orchestrated and arranged Let the Eagle Fly, a musical about labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and arranged two songs for American Idol. His arrangements are played by many pops orchestras across the US and around the world. Blank's orchestration of eight songs for the Broadway production of The Producers was acknowledged by Doug Besterman and Mel Brooks at the Tony Awards. Blank also created orchestrations for Tommy Tune/White Tie and Tails, Three Coins in the Fountain, White Christmas and Roman Holiday at the St. Louis MUNY.

The song was famously performed by Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan in the 1953 musical film, The Band Wagon. Dressed in white-tie- and-tails and top hats and leaning on canes, the men sang in unison as if they were competing suitors both rejected by the same woman. They sang the song's first refrain and a sanitized second refrain, and then danced to an instrumental refrain. The tune was the opening theme and used repeatedly in the 1932 William Powell film Lawyer Man.

So far between £40,000 and £50,000 has been raised.Pat Tynan Media Website; Retrieved 5 December 2012 Five "Guide Cats" albums have been produced, "Guide Cats for the Blind", "Missing Persians File", "Top Cat, White Tie and Tails", "Cat Nav" and "Herding Cats". The CDs contain performances of Barker's poems by members of the folk world like June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Steve Tilston, Mike Harding and Tom Paxton and well known figures like Jimmy Young, Nicholas Parsons, Brian Perkins, Terry Wogan, Nicky Campbell, Robert Lindsay, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs.

Like many silent comedians, he had a traditional costume; his was a top hat, white tie and tails, often augmented by a cape and/or walking stick. The coming of sound ended Griffith's acting career, but he did have one memorable role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front. He then segued into a writing/producing career at Twentieth Century Fox. Griffith choked to death at the Masquers Club in Los Angeles, California, aged 62, on November 25, 1957.

For "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", probably Astaire's most celebratedHyam (2007), p.104: "It epitomises the elegance and sophistication that are synonymous with his name." tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called "Say, Young Man of Manhattan," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.Astaire recounts how he got the idea at 4.00 a.m. and woke his sister Adele as he cavorted around his bedroom with an umbrella.

In 2012, Atkinson reprised his character for a live performance as part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. In the scene, Mr. Bean works within the London Symphony Orchestra in its performance of "Chariots of Fire", conducted by Simon Rattle. For this scene, Bean does not wear his usual brown tweed sports jacket but the traditional clothing of the musician - white tie and tails. As they perform the piece, Bean is mostly bored with playing the same note repeatedly on the synthesiser and gets jealous of the more interesting part being played on the grand piano.

It was descended from white tie (the dress code associated with the evening tailcoat) but quickly became a full new garment, the dinner jacket, with a new dress code, initially known as 'dress lounge' and later black tie. When it was imported to the United States, it became known as the tuxedo. The 'dress lounge' was originally worn only for small private gatherings and white tie ('White tie and tails') was still worn for large formal events. The 'dress lounge' slowly became more popular for larger events as an alternative to full evening dress in white tie.

In 1977, Nureyev played Rudolph Valentino in Ken Russell's film Valentino. In 1978, he appeared as a guest star on the television series The Muppet Show where he danced in a parody called "Swine Lake", sang "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in a sauna duet with Miss Piggy, and sang and tap-danced in the show's finale, "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails". His appearance is credited with making Jim Henson's series become one of the sought after programs to appear in. In 1983, he had a non-dancing role in the movie Exposed with Nastassja Kinski.

Welles traded his robe and fez for white tie and tails, and brought along a crew from the show — Shorty Chirello, Tommy Hanlon, Professor Bill and his Circus Symphony, Death Valley Mack, two female assistants and eight chorus girls. Welles performed a few illusions; his own appearance on stage and the comic version of the sawing-a-woman-in-half illusion featuring Dietrich were achieved with trick photography. Welles received $30,000 for his part in the film. The segment was to be shot in four or five days, but Welles stretched filming to 16 days to give additional pay to his crew.

A festival of arts, held during the last week of the summer term, introduced by Fred Shirley in 1952. The week features over 100 events, ranging from classical concerts to theatre performances, held in a multitude of locations around Canterbury. Many of the events are free to attend and require no booking and a number are broadcast live. The week culminates in Commemoration day (known as "Commem") on the last day of the school year when the school leavers in 6a wear court dress of white tie and tails, with breeches and black stockings, or their national dress, and the whole school attends a service to commemorate the school benefactors.

The ballad, with new lyrics by Howard Dietz, was introduced by Clifton Webb in the 1929 Broadway revue The Little Show. Dressed in white-tie-and-tails, Webb sang of his stunned disappointment upon learning that the woman he worshipped from afar was married. It was given the subtitle "The Blue Pajama Song" because of a suggestive line in the second refrain: "I guess I'll have to change my plan / I should have realized there'd be another man / Why did I buy those blue pajamas / before the big affair began?" The full song was in five parts--Verse 1, Refrain 1, Refrain 2, Verse 2 and Refrain 3.

1999 Tune staged an elaborate musical entitled Paparazzi for the Holland America Line cruise ship the Oosterdam in 2003.listing for Holland America He works often with The Manhattan Rhythm Kings, for example touring in a Big Band revue entitled Song and Dance Man and White Tie and Tails (2002). Tune performed in his musical revue, Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance, in Boston in April 2008 and continuing in various venues from Bethesda, Maryland in January 2009 to California in February 2009. The Tommy Tune Awards, presented annually by Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) honor excellence in high school musical theatre in Houston.

The masked balls or dances, where non-masked men wear white tie and tails (full dress or costume de rigueur) and the women wear full length evening gowns, are oriented to adults, with some mystic societies treating the balls as an extension of the debutante season of their exclusive social circles. Various nightclubs and local bars offer their own particular events. Beyond the public parades, Mardi Gras in Mobile involves many various mystic societies, some having begun in 1704, or ending with the Civil War, while new societies were formed every century. Some mystic societies are never seen in public parades, but rather hold invitation-only events for their secret members, with private balls beginning in November, each year.

Mapes contacted Eddie Fitzpatrick and he agreed with MCA. Melick became the house band leader at the famous Sky Room until it closed for good in the summer of 1960."Orc Leader Jack Melick Returns to Mapes Hotel," Reno Evening Gazette, November 27, 1959 His band played for the likes of Ken Murray, Jan Murray, Mickey Rooney, Lili St. Cyr, Sammy Davis, Jr., Myron Cohen, Betty Grable, George Gobel, Dennis Morgan, Billy Eckstine, Jack Carson, and Milton Berle, among others. White Tie and Tails at the Sultan's Table in 1966 Once the Sky Room closed, MCA brought him back to California where he resumed some of his prior regular engagements including the Casino Room at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and comedian Jerry Lewis's restaurant in Hollywood.

Gail was born Zoe Margaret Stapelton in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress known for Tonight at the London Palladium (1955), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), Lady Luck (1948) and Here's Looking at You Gail was also known for her comedic abilities. She was married to Hubert Gregg with whom she had one child, Stacey Gregg, and also married to Bert Bernard. Gail was chosen to switch on the lights at the West End of London in 1949 nearly a decade after they were turned off at the outbreak of World War II. She stood in a spotlight on the balcony of the Criterion Restaurant at Piccadilly Circus, dressed in black top hat, white tie and tails, she sang her hit song I’m Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London.

Carved and decorated canes have turned the functional into the fantastic. An unidentified woman in a soda fountain, pouring distilled alcohol into her drink from a walking stick during Prohibition in the United States, circa 1922. Some walking canes are crafted to hold and conceal a glass vial or flask of liquor accessible from the handle: referred to as a smuggler or flask walking cane The idea of a fancy cane as a fashion accessory to go with top hat and tails has been popularized in many song-and-dance acts, especially by Fred Astaire in several of his films and songs such as Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and Puttin' On the Ritz, where he exhorts "Come, let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts." He danced with a cane frequently.

Extremely modest about his singing abilities (he frequently claimed that he could not sing,e.g. Satchell, p. 144 but the critics rated him as among the finest), Astaire introduced some of the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, in particular, Cole Porter's: "Night and Day" in Gay Divorce (1932); "So Near and Yet So Far" in You'll Never Get Rich (1941); Irving Berlin's "Isn't This a Lovely Day?", "Cheek to Cheek", and "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" in Top Hat (1935); "Let's Face the Music and Dance" in Follow the Fleet (1936); and "Change Partners" in Carefree (1938). He first presented Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight" in Swing Time (1936), the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me" in Shall We Dance (1937), "A Foggy Day" and "Nice Work if You Can Get it" in A Damsel in Distress (1937), Johnny Mercer's "One for My Baby" from The Sky's the Limit (1943), "Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs (1955); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's "This Heart of Mine" from Ziegfeld Follies (1946).

For the 2-LP set originally released on the Verve label in 1958: Verve MGV 4019-2. Side One: #"Let's Face the Music and Dance" – 2:57 #"You're Laughing at Me" – 3:18 #"Let Yourself Go" – 2:20 #"You Can Have Him" – 3:47 #"Russian Lullaby" – 1:55 #"Puttin' On the Ritz" – 2:18 #"Get Thee Behind Me Satan" – 3:49 #"Alexander's Ragtime Band" – 2:43 Side Two: #"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" – 2:36 #"How About Me?" – 3:17 #"Cheek to Cheek" – 3:48 #"I Used to Be Color Blind" – 2:34 #"Lazy" – 2:40 #"How Deep Is the Ocean?" – 3:11 #"All by Myself" – 2:29 #"Remember" – 3:26 Side Three: #"Supper Time" – 3:19 #"How's Chances?" – 2:48 #"Heat Wave" – 2:25 #"Isn't This a Lovely Day?" – 3:29 #"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" – 3:35 #"Reaching for the Moon" – 2:18 #"Slumming on Park Avenue" – 2:24 Side Four: #"The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" (lyrics by Beda Loehner) – 2:30 #"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" – 3:01 #"Now it Can Be Told" – 3:12 #"Always" – 3:09 #"It's a Lovely Day Today" – 2:28 #"Change Partners" – 3:18 #"No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)" – 3:03 #"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" – 3:00 Bonus Track; Issued on the Verve 2000 2CD re-issue, Verve 830533-2 32.