Word: clog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature act at Keith's this week. The former movie actress, assisted by a talented company, sang and displayed several brilliant gowns on Monday night. Marvel, a dumb mute, performed clever and difficult dances in the same act. Chester and Warren did acrobatic stunts; Caito Brothers jested and clog-danced; Mabel Burke sang; and Swift and Kelley offered "Gum Drops", and act filled with patter...
...other acts which although some what shopworn, drew much applause are the sketch of Ida May Chadwick and her "dad", in which Miss Chadwick as "Tillie" does some clever clog dancing and the act of Demurest and Collins comedians and instrumentalists. The sluging of Miss Gusce Nelson and the acts of W. F. Pollard comedy juggler and of Van Cleve in "Pete and His Gal" complete the bill...
Eddie Leonard, the popular black-faced comedian, heads the bill at Keith's this week. He sings his darky songs and performs his clog dances in the same old delightful manner that charmed vaudeville audiences years ago. He is supported by another marvellous clog dancer...
...this week, the chief attraction is the Ford sisters in their latest dancing act, "Frolics of 1920." They are assisted by their own orchestra, whose offerings constitute one of the principal parts of the program. The entire act is well-staged, and moves swiftly throughout to the rhythmic clog-stepping and dancing of the two sisters. It is the clog numbers especially that meet with applause, for in that specialty the Fords are adepts; the climax, in the shape of a clog-finale, is a faultless interpretation...
...centre of the tangled mass of freight which has forced action by the Interstate Commerce Commission is labor. Here, too, is the greatest of all labor problems. By "ca'cannying," working as little as possible, or by a gradual quitting of jobs, the employees of any industry may effectually clog its wheels...