Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...
...Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno...
Canadian tobaccoman, left an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. According to his will, the principal is not to be disturbed for 50 years, but the interest goes to his widow and son, Mortimer B. Davis Jr. (husband of Dancer Rosie Dolly). After 50 years...
...just returned from Hollywood where she supervised and arranged all of the dances in Gilda Grey's vehicle "The Devil Dancer", Miss Braggiotti also took a part in this picture...