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...Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers...
...sing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine choir, later began working his way through Amherst by washing dishes. He quit that after a year, took up newspaper work at which he was cheerful but unsuccessful, got his first chance on the stage through the recommendation of a dancer friend. Critics like his freshness and sincerity and the Cornell pressagent is billing him as "the Hamlet...
...Eleanor Powell is generally considered the ablest female tap-dancer in the world. She started her professional career in 1929 after her father, a Springfield, Mass., gentleman farmer, lost money in Florida real estate. Her first engagement was a 20-week vaudeville tour at $100 a week, when she was 15. Since then she has appeared in Follow Through, Fine & Dandy, two of George White's Scandals, toured in Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt. At Manhattan's Casino de Paree, where the average engagement is two weeks, she stayed...
...Scandals, experts estimate that Dancer Powell covers four miles in the course of her routine. She has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs 117 Ib. Her next picture: Broadway Melody...
...hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...