... CLOG-DANCING CONTEST. Sir John Suckling, who died somewhere about 1641, was an enthusiast about dancing evidently, but when he wrote She dances such a way, no sun upon an Easter day is half so fine a sight, it is fair to presume that he was speaking ...

... judge between ladies; but clog-dancing was not like r pump dancing or step dinc ug, and the great secret of it t was the twizzle. 'This northicountrY term apparently describes very aptly a shaking of the foot, which every I clog dancer is anxious to acquire ...

... philosophy, his dancing, and singing. The boxing competition by the Dodo topweight champions, Messrs Thorpe and itycroft, cannot he considered so humornus as that of last year ; but the grotesque quadrille, after the Girard pattern, danced by Messrs Simon ...

... respects admirable. BRITANNIA Music HALL.-Lessee and Manager, Air W. Kean.-One of the big features this week is a clog- dancing competition for a championship belt, the audience being constituted judges of the contest. The company includes the Pocket Asheroft ...

... called upon to give a grotesque song and dance, and certainly he amply justified his boast, that he has a facility for showing agility. He did all that was possible with his part, and in the above-mentioned clog-dance with Miss Amalia was cordially cheered ...

... the Stowaway. MISS BEELA PERMSAN, of the Perman Trio, from Australia, who was unable to take part in the clog- dancing contest, would like to dance the winner, Miss Minnie Ray, or any other lady who may lay claim to the title of champion, for 100 a-side ...

... be pleased to dance her in clogs for £50 a-side-this sum having been deposited with the editor of The Era. Miss Dell also sends £5 for the purpose of starting a Ladies' Sweepstake, open to the ladies of the profession, to dance three dances :-Steps (schottische ...

... Hawkins sang in admirable style the ballad Napolitaine. The second part inclded, among a variety of miscellaneous items, a clog-dance deftly executed by nine performers, preceded by some skilful drum-playing, anti followed by tableaux illustrative of many ...

... boisterous personalities at express speed, in athletic competitions, such as tumbling, jump- ing, rowing, &c., and at the end of the first act the audience was threatened with an entire Inter 'Varsity competition. All we can say is that if these alumni are to ...

... Monday evening, Dec. 7th, the cause of death being the bursting of a blood-vessel. Mr Sullivan was well known as a clog-dancer, having danced second to the late J. H. Haslam for the championship of the world. Mr Sullivan and his wife were better known by ...

... burlesqued. Mr Harry Lennard was very successful in his Serpentine Dance, in which he cleverly imitated the graceful evolutions of Miss Jenny Joyce. He calls it a Jit de si&le dance, and it was heartily applauded by the audience. Another extremely comic ...

... usual quaint manner. La Roland. in her extremely clever and effective fire dance, entitled She, introduces effects which are astonish- ing as well as charming, the lady dancing on a sheet of glass while various coloured lights are thrown on her from ...