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CLOG-DANCING CONTEST

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 17 | Tags: News 

THE CLANG OF THE WOODEN SHOON

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 20 | Tags: News 

AMUSEMENTS IN GLASGOW

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1895
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2628 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3316 | Page: 19 | Tags: News 

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1895
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4035 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1892
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON MUSIC HAL

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5009 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... Stowaway. M MIss BELLA PERMAN, of the Perman Trio, from a Australia, who was unable to take part in the clog- D dancing contest, would like to dance the winner, Miss a Minnie Ray. or any other lady who may lay claim to r the title of champion, for £100 ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2753 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... a good selection of topical songs; Bliss Minnie Bingham dances aud renders her serio songs effectively ; and Mr J. P. Curlett secures applause by his rendering of Irish songs and by his dancing. ST. GEOeiiiE'S HALL.-Under the Management of Mr Walter Holmes ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14562 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... whimsi- cal pantomimic duet and their clever and eccentric dancing, being followed with good effect by the Sisters Milanlin, serio-comics and dancers. BPr Fred. Storey, as usual, delights with his dancing, but should be called severely to order for part of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3604 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... WVest bV storm with the perfection of her dancing. Be it the chic and abandon of a prima donna assoluta in a tee solo, the conventional steps of a Dutch clog dancer, or the pats boedissaint of a French dancing master-of all these examples of the Terpsichorean ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3321 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture