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Face Change. Neither set out to be a serious dancer. Ruth-who was born plain Ruth Denis in Newark-made her stage debut as a vaudeville hoofer in 1893, later turned to acting. Then she became interested in the Far East and its sensuous dances. Her 1906 New York dance debut was in a daringly original Oriental program that shocked the tutus off the ballet world. "That year," she remembers, "the face of the dance world really began to change...
...Cornet Man and up-tempo Don't Rain on My Parade to the ballads that are a fever chart of her love affair, from its first tender moments (People) to the dawn of doubt (Who Are You Now?). Danny Meehan is a lively musical addition as a vaudeville hoofer, but Sydney Chaplin sounds as if he needs to be wound...
...Connor's hero is a gabby old stage Irishman named Daniel Considine. A former professional hoofer, he turns up suddenly one night at the home of his son in an unnamed city that is quite obviously meant to be Boston. Daniel has not seen or thought about his son in some 20 years, but he settles down in an upstairs bedroom to live out what promises to be a long and madding old age. In the eariy hours of the morning, before anybody else is astir, he can be heard shuffling through an old dance routine and quavering...
Killer Joe should know. A lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...
Saturday evening's concert was preceded in the afternoon by a program of jazz tap dancing produced by Prof. Marshall Stearns of Hunter College. Six dancers, all members of the Hoofer's Club of Harlem, demonstrated the technique of tap dancing and its relation to jazz...