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Lily explained how Russell Markert added his own style to the Precision Dance routines; this found its way back to the Tiller girls in the United Kingdom. [4] Girls who had visited the United States during the late 1930s and 1940s danced for the troops and liked the American style of dancing and the costumes with headdresses that they saw.
Adelita Domingo (1930–2012), dancer, songwriter, concert pianist, teacher of dance and tonadilla songs Lola Flores (1923–1995), flamenco dancer, actress Cristina Hoyos (born 1946), flamenco dancer, choreographer, film actress
Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. [5] There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn friends with Diamond and introduced them.
Her typical roles were described in an obituary: "From 1933 to 1943, she appeared in dozens of quickly made second features, often cast as what were termed 'good-time girls,' as distinct from good girls, sometimes with invented ooh-la-la French names." [1] In the 1930s, she became one of the period's most popular musical stars.
Joe Frisco (November 4, 1889 – February 12, 1958), American vaudeville performer who first made his name on stage as a jazz dancer, but later incorporated his stuttering voice to his act and became a popular comedian. Frisco was a mainstay on the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s.
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers was a professional performing group of exceptional swing dancers that was first organized in the late 1920s by Herbert "Whitey" White in the Savoy Ballroom and disbanded in 1942 after its male members were drafted into World War II.
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The ethnic diversity of patrons who danced with white women caused fights, especially for dance halls located in rural areas. A taxi dance club that catered to Filipino American farm workers was one cause of the Watsonville riots of 1930. [24] 1948 demonstration against the closure of taxi dance halls in Shanghai, China