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MR. MORLEY ON UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENTS

... paid to the chairman, on the proposition of Dar. T. Burt, MLA THE CHAMPION CLOG DANCER Lae OiFHE WOELD. Bate last night, at the Empire theatre, Bow, the Clog Dance competition which has been carried- through during six nights (drawing no less than 28 ...

Published: Sunday 13 February 1898
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

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 

CLOG-DANCING CONTEST AT THE PAVILION

... CLOG-DANCING CONTEST AT THE PAVILION. -- ?? A SINGULAR competition tookplace the other afternoon at the London Pavilion. Two ladies, both well known on the boards, competed for the championship of clog- dancing. This form of athletic ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1898
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

LADIES' CLOG-DANCING

... shown in this contest that they have, with praiseworthy enterprise, determined to hold a series, The result of the clog- dancing competition at the Washington Music Hall was declared to be as follows: 1st, M. Ray, Manchester; 2nd, A. Liscombe, South Shields; ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1898
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 744 | Page: 3 | 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 

FOOTLIGHTS

... Miss Sarah Mahoney, of Bow Common. During the competition the greatest excitement prevailed in the crowded auditorium, all the competitors having gallant admirers. On Monday next will start a great clog: dancing contest for the championship of the world. ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1898
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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 

MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 952 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

BALDON

... e the sale attracted an exceptional company of agri- c) culturists alnd others, and from start to finish y the keenest competition rcigned for each lot, re- .1 suiting in one ot the most satisfactory sales that (I hav beess recorded this M4iclhaolmas ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1900
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 764 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE FOOD QUESTION

... disturbed on light grounds ; but the prospect of tl scarcity may render all parties willing to dispense with b] clogs and hindrances in a competition for food. cs The Protectionists have been sadly prostrated both by t( arguments and events; but still, not ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1846
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 994 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... a man's clog, and this corresponded in every particular with the foot prnuts. About two hours afterwards Beecroft entered the Armley police-station, where the two prisoners were in custody. At the time he was carrying in Isis hand the clog he had found ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6618 | Page: 7 | Tags: News