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Viennese ball: Stately, lavish affair.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
The Washington Times
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March 19, 1997|
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THE EVENT: Friday's Viennese Opera Ball at the National Building Museum, which raised an estimated $100,000, for the U.S. branch of SOS Children's Villages, an international housing program for homeless youth.
THE SIGHTS: A vision Emperor Franz-Josef himself would have been proud of, a glittering pageant of music and dance reminiscent of fin-de-siecle Vienna.
After passing huge white Lipizzaners and stately black carriages tended by coachmen and pages at the door, guests entered to find the museum's vast colonnaded hall had been transformed by a ...
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