For many, being a Sea Gal is a glamorous way to continue dancing, something most have been doing their whole lives.
As Mrs. Kellogg, she was already well known as a glamorous hostess with something of a wild streak, occasionally dancing on tables, and, according to an article in New York magazine shortly after their affair was uncovered, catching Mr. Bass's attention by throwing a dinner roll at him during a party in Southampton, N.Y.
The party was in Leon's loft and it was filled with glamorous people, sinuous and of high fashion, all of them dancing intensely.
Meanwhile, back in the waiting room, my daughter was befriended by a glamorous young woman who had broken her leg while cage dancing.
But in threadbare postwar Britain, the press often portrayed her as a glamorous, high-spirited young woman who delighted in trips to Paris and dancing through the night in fashionable London clubs.
The presenter, who was voted off the BBC ballroom show last month after dancing a steamy salsa with Artem Chigvintsev, said she revelled in her new glamorous image.
Soon after Christmas, Rebecca Krohn, dancing the Sugar Plum Fairy with Zachary Catazaro, suddenly showed a kind of glamorous authority and individuality — intermittent, true, but piercing — that raised hopes that she will achieve the same again in ballerina material.
But Ms. Krohn, Maria Kowroski and Jenifer Ringer, partnered by Mr. Angle, Philip Neal and Stephen Hanna, were just as glamorous as they needed to be, and the showstopping finale — a plethora of Astaires and Hayworths dancing beneath the film — is sigh-worthy pleasure.
Hedda must radiate a glamorous life that is forever lost, "what it must have been like," in Mr. Baitz's stage words, as the daughter of the fabled General Gabler, "surrounded by men dancing around her".
