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...achievements are never limited to such trivial reformations, for she is a minor Orphan Annie. This time she puts over a night-club venture for a bunch of Russian immigrants whom she met on the way over, and brings the erstwhile namby-pamby into conjunction with the pretty dancer of the lot. Lesser triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends...
Sarita, Spanish dancer, will give a recital of gypsy, and popular Spanish dances this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Jordan Hall. Her program will include several of her own choreographic compositions such as "Rapsodia Valencia", a compendium of the varied rhythms of vivid and exciting Valencia, "Zambra" a Moorish gypsy dance and several other interpretations based upon the colorful, impassioned themes of popular Spanish melodies...
Vaudeville dancing led George White into producing tabloid revues. In 1919, with dark and lovely Dancer Ann Pennington for his star, White put on his first Scandals. Successive reincarnations have produced such national dance steps as the Charleston (1926) and Black Bottom (1927), such tunes as The Birth of the Blues (1926) and That's Why Darkies Were Born...
...Zurich a spindly, pint-sized girl of 17 marched onto the stage of the old Schanspielhaus and solemnly pretended to be an unfolding flower, a crow hopping in the fields, a shackled slave fighting fate. The girl had no claim to beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm for the benefit...
Divorced. Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"), 25, clownish Chicago fisticuffer; by Mrs. Roxanne Glickman Levinsky, 20, onetime Century of Progress fan-dancer; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. Five weeks after their wedding he punched her on the chin...