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...Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel presents Shirley Temple in hoop skirts and high-button shoes, pairs her with Tap Dancer Bill Robinson. Still first-rate entertainment are the steps the two per form in a slave cabin, when they wish to distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with...
...organization gave its first substantial demonstration after the Hänsel und Gretel performance, presented comely ballerinas, several of them highly talented. Outstanding performances were given by Anatole Vilzak, once of the Russian Imperial Ballet, and young William Dollar, who has the most spectacular technique of any male dancer now appearing in public. Unfortunately the ballet was Reminiscence, which calls for all the classical steps, demands long classical training. The young organization was unable to present a finished ensemble...
Married- Bertrand L. Taylor, socialite Manhattan stockbroker, father of Mary Taylor, famed photographers' model; and Olive McClure, Broadway dancer; in Manhattan...
...niggardly pay she earned in a department store gave her the right to buy (on the installment plan) all sorts of luxury-conveniences. Their children thought that somehow there ought to be money enough to pay for their chosen careers: Dallas wanted to be a lawyer, Sythia a famed dancer, Darthula a rich man's wife. None of them would face the fact that they were living hopelessly beyond their income...
...attempts the amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile'' from Rigoletto without being forcibly stopped...