Which once popular ballroom dance was named in 1914 after the comedian and vaudeville actor who invented it?
"movie shows the marriage happening during World War I, a subsequent divorce, and a reunion after Jenny Dolly's accident. He was actress Evelyn Brent's third husband. http://www.kickery.com/2014/01/dance-mad-dance-madder.html Harry Fox Harry Fox (born Arthur Carringford; May 25, 1882 – July 20, 1959) was a vaudeville dancer, actor, and comedian. Fox is most notably famous for being related as name-source to the Fox Trot dance in New York. In ""Dance Mad"" ny F. Leslie Clendenen (August 15, 1914) the following appears on page 163: ""FOX TROT No.2 (as danced by Mr Fox)"". Harry Fox made a few recordings of popular songs and"
"documented acrobatic dance performers was Tommy Woods, who became well known for his slow-motion acrobatic dance in ""Shuffle Along"", in which he would execute acrobatic movements precisely in time with the music. In 1914, acrobat Lulu Coates formed the Crackerjacks, a popular vaudeville troupe that included acrobatic dance in their performance repertoire up until the group disbanded in 1952. Many other popular vaudeville companies combined acrobatics and dance in their shows, including the Gaines Brothers. Since the decline of the vaudeville era, acrobatic dance has undergone a multi-faceted evolution to arrive at its present-day form. The most significant aspect of"
"Barto and Mann Barto and Mann: Dewey Barto (né Stewart Steven Swoyer; June 10, 1896 – January 31, 1973) and George Mann (December 2, 1905 — November 22, 1977), known as the ""laugh kings"" of vaudeville, were a comedic dance act from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. Their acrobatic, somewhat risqué, performance played on their disparities in height; Barto was 4'11"" and Mann was 6'6"". Initially dancing as singles in Fanchon and Marco's ""Variety Idea"" and ""Dancelogue Idea"", Barto and Mann began dancing together as a comedic dance team in 1926 in Fanchon and Marco's ""Comic Supplement Idea"","
"Harry Houdini Harry Houdini (; born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as ""Harry Handcuff Houdini"" on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it. In 1904,"
"in vaudeville. Although individual dance and acrobatic acts had been performed in vaudeville for several decades prior to 1900, it was not until the early 1900s that it became popular to perform acts that combined dance and acrobatic movements. Acrobatic dance did not suddenly appear in vaudeville; rather, it appeared gradually over time in a variety of forms, and consequently no individual performer has been cited as its originator. Sherman Coates (1872–1912), who performed with the Watermelon Trust from 1900 to 1914, was recalled by fellow dancers as the first acrobatic dancer they had ever seen. Another of the earliest"
"be confused with Sliding Billy Watson ""(né"" William Shapiro; 1876–1939), a popular vaudeville comedian. Coates and Grundy's Watermelon Trust At least one other notable vaudevillian show, that of Coates and Grundy, used the ""trust"" concept; "":"" Coates and Grundy ""Watermelon Trust,"" which ran from about 1900 to 1914. It started as one of two skits in a show the other skit being the ""Kissing Trust."" The show was part of a three-day engagement at the Academy of Music in Wilmington, Delaware, October 15, 16, and 17, 1900, featuring James Grundy, Susie Grundy, Sherman Coates, Lulu Coates, and Tenny Russell. The"
"Laughing Gas (1914 film) Laughing Gas is a 1914 film starring Charlie Chaplin. The film is also known as Busy Little Dentist, Down and Out, Laffing Gas, The Dentist, and Tuning His Ivories. We are told Charlie is a dental assistant. He arrives at work where the patients are already waiting. He joins the tiny second dental assistant in the back room. They have a brief squabble then Charlie goes to the waiting room to clean the floor with a carpet sweeper. He bumps into a patient and a further squabble starts. Then back to the rear room for more"
"a common theme in tap dance. The move is seen by some as a rebuttal to the older minstrel show idea of the tap dancer as a ""grinning-and-dancing clown."" John ""Bubbles"" Sublett is also known famously for popularizing rhythm tap which incorporates more percussive heel drops and lower-body movements. Another notable figure to emerge during this period is Bill ""Bojangles"" Robinson, who was a protégé of Alice Whitman of the Whitman Sisters around 1904 (then 'Willie Robinson'). Well-versed in both Buck and Wing dancing and Irish step dancing, Bill Robinson joined the vaudeville circuit in 1902, in a duo with"
"1898 and formed a partnership. They named their act ""Smith and Dale"" because a local printer gave them a good deal on business cards reading ""Smith and Dale"" (intended for a vaudeville team that had dissolved). Joe Seltzer became Joe Smith, and Charlie Marks became Charlie Dale. By 1902 they joined two singing comedians to form a group called The Avon Comedy Four. Membership changed over the years and from 1913 to 1919 the group included Irving Kaufman (singer) (later a popular singer) and Harry Goodwin. The act became one of the most successful comedy turns in vaudeville. For over"
"of their time. The Fords were vaudeville dancers (Watson). This meant that they were often in humorous variety shows. The Vaudeville shows were popular from the 1910 to the 1930s when they were beat out by the film industry (Kaiserman). It was all of these styles of dance that The Four Fords not only studied but inspired them, and the way that they danced. They created a still-current move, devised by Max Ford, called “The Maxie Ford”. It’s not an extremely difficult move, and even beginner tap dancers can learn it. To do it you step on one foot, then"
"in Santa Monica, California at the time of his death on November 23, 1977 at age 71. George Mann (vaudeville performer) George Kline Mann (December 2, 1905 – November 23, 1977) was best known as the taller half of the comedic and acrobatic dance act, Barto and Mann. Mann was born in Hollywood, California. His father, Mack Andrew Mann, moved to California from Cassopolis, Michigan in the late 1800s and worked as a construction superintendent of railroad bridges. His mother, Jean Kline Mann, was also from Cassopolis. Mack and Jean met and married in Los Angeles, California. George Mann grew"
"Charmion Laverie Vallee ""née"" Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman whose well-publicized suggestive performance was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. A native of Sacramento, Charmion built her act around a memorable routine which opened with her on-stage entrance dressed in full Victorian street attire. She subsequently mounted the trapeze and disrobed down to her acrobat leotards in the midst of the trapeze's swinging motion. She appears to have begun performing while in her late teens, and this was part of"
"the eighteenth century. Two choreographies survive in manuscript copies with attributions to Beauchamp: the ballroom duet ""Rigaudons de Mr Bauchand"", and the theatrical solo for a man ""Sarabande de Mr. de Beauchamp"". The sarabande is unusual amongst the surviving male solos because, although it requires a virtuoso technique with its pirouettes and many ornamented steps, it contains no aerial beaten steps. Pierre Beauchamp Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, called ""Charles"" or Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation. Pierre Beauchamp was born at Versailles (Yvelines), into"
"Jack Cameron (actor) Jack Cameron (born Jacques Kammerer also known as Jack Kammerer; November 22, 1883 – September 25, 1956) was an American actor, singer, and acrobatic comedian whose career spanned almost five decades. He appeared in vaudeville, burlesque, film, radio, and television. Cameron was best known for his vaudeville performances, first as part of the Kammerer & Howland musical comedy act, and later as a principal comedian on the Keith-Albee circuit. He appeared in several motion pictures and could be heard on WPRO (AM) radio as the “Singing Salesman.” Kammerer was born as Jacques Kammerer on November 22, 1883,"
"vaudeville, the most popular form of theater entertainment throughout the early 20th century, “a series of short variety acts"" with actors, dancers, jugglers, musicians, and magicians. As in the circus, these performers traveled from city to city on the Orpheum circuit. Galesburg’s Orpheum Theatre operated on the Orpheum Circuit, and hosted many famous vaudeville stars during its heyday—Houdini, George Burns, Jack Benny, Al Jolson, and the Marx brothers. Vaudeville reached the height of its popularity in 1928 when there were more than 1000 vaudeville theaters in the United States. By this time, short films had become part of the vaudeville"
"George Mann (vaudeville performer) George Kline Mann (December 2, 1905 – November 23, 1977) was best known as the taller half of the comedic and acrobatic dance act, Barto and Mann. Mann was born in Hollywood, California. His father, Mack Andrew Mann, moved to California from Cassopolis, Michigan in the late 1800s and worked as a construction superintendent of railroad bridges. His mother, Jean Kline Mann, was also from Cassopolis. Mack and Jean met and married in Los Angeles, California. George Mann grew up in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, moving to Santa Monica as a teenager with"
"Karyl Norman George Francis Peduzzi (June 13, 1897 – July 23, 1947), known professionally as Karyl Norman, was an American female impersonator who was popular in vaudeville, nightclubs and on Broadway in the 1920s. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on June 13, 1897 to Mary and Norman Augusta Peduzzi. He left home at the age of 16, joined Neil O'Brien's Minstrels, and began performing vaudeville on the US West Coast. In 1917, he traveled to Australia as a theatrical performer. He took the name Karyl because it was sexless, and Norman after his father. He billed himself as ""The"
"Flying trapeze The flying trapeze is a specific form of the trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing. The performance was invented in 1859 by a Frenchman named Jules Léotard, who connected a bar to some ventilator cords above the swimming pool in his father's gymnasium in Toulouse, France. After practicing tricks above the pool, Leotard performed his act in the Cirque Napoleon (now known as the Cirque d'hiver). The traditional flier's costume, the leotard, is named after him. In a traditional flying trapeze act, flyers mount a"
"After being battered against a building in high winds during one escape, Houdini performed the escape with a visible safety wire on his ankle so that he could be pulled away from the building if necessary. The idea for the upside-down escape was given to Houdini by a young boy named Randolph Osborne Douglas (March 31, 1895 – December 5, 1956), when the two met at a performance at Sheffield's Empire Theatre. Another of Houdini's most famous publicity stunts was to escape from a nailed and roped packing crate after it had been lowered into water. He first performed the"
"amusements into a stable, institutionalized form centered in America's growing urban hubs. In the early 1880s, impresario Tony Pastor, a circus ringmaster turned theatre manager, capitalized on middle class sensibilities and spending power when he began to feature ""polite"" variety programs in several of his New York City theatres. The usual date given for the ""birth"" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theatre, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed ""clean"" vaudeville in New York City. Hoping to draw a potential audience from female and family-based shopping traffic uptown, Pastor barred the sale"
"Foxtrot The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to waltz, although the rhythm is in a time signature instead of . Developed in the 1910s, the foxtrot reached its height of popularity in the 1930s and remains practiced today. The dance was premiered in 1914, quickly catching the eye of the husband and wife duo Vernon and Irene Castle, who lent the dance its signature grace and style. The origin of the name of"
"from the 1950s rather than the ragtime era, the tempo is perfectly suited to the signature steps of the dance. Further, as Mr. Judkins was somewhat portly at the time, he is a welcome reminder of the rotund, graceful Officer Peabody. Peabody (dance) The Peabody is an American ballroom dance that evolved from the fast foxtrot of the ragtime era of the 1910s and 1920s. Soon after the introduction of the foxtrot in 1914, two variations developed: a slow version done at about forty measures per minute and a fast version done at more than fifty measures per minute. In"
"relax rules limiting black patrons to specific sections of the playhouse. Despite weighing over 200 pounds, Kersands was also a talented dancer and acrobat. His trademark dance was Essence of Old Virginia or Virginia Essence, which he may have introduced. The dance later developed into the soft shoe. He was also known for the Buck and Wing. His dance routines helped cement such dance acts as fixtures in later vaudeville and Hollywood routines. Billy Kersands Billy Kersands (c. 1842–1915) was an African-American comedian and dancer. He was the most popular black comedian of his day, best known for his work"
"Frederic Franklin Frederic Franklin (13 June 1914 – 4 May 2013), sometimes also called ""Freddie"", was a British-American ballet dancer, choreographer and director. Born in Liverpool, England, Frederic Franklin claimed that on seeing the 1924 film ""Peter Pan"", his only thought was to go on the stage. He began his career in 1931 at the Casino de Paris with Josephine Baker. After briefly dancing with the Vic-Wells Ballet, forerunner of The Royal Ballet, he joined the Markova-Dolin Ballet in 1935. In 1938 Franklin joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo where he was premier danseur until 1952. Known as a"
"One of the co-founders of the dance, Jesse ""Smiley"" Rutland, was murdered by gunshot in his home on December 10, 2017. The suspect, Kumar Reid, was charged by police with second-degree murder and weapons possession. The dance was created by Al B. in 1981, he was known for performing it during breaks at the Entertainer's Basketball Classic basketball tournament at Rucker Park. Harlem resident Al B. ( also known as Ali Saadat and Al Cisco) whose legal name was Albert Leopold Boyce died in 2006 at the age of 43. The dance was first called ""The Albee"" after its creator"
"The form was hounded off the ""legitimate stage"" and found itself relegated to saloons and barrooms, and its content mostly raunchy jokes. Vaudeville is a style of variety entertainment predominant in America in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Developing from many sources including shows in saloons, minstrelsy, British pantomimes, and other popular entertainments, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in America. Part of this entertainment was usually one or more comedians. Vaudeville provided generations of American entertainers including George M. Cohan, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Mae West, Fanny Brice, and W.C. Fields,"
"otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be one of the most famous forebears of tap dance. As the minstrel shows began to decline in popularity, tap dance moved to the increasingly popular Vaudeville stage. Due to the two-colored rule, which forbade black people from performing solo, the majority of Vaudeville tap acts were duets. This gave rise to the famous pair ""Buck and Bubbles"", which consisted of John ""Bubbles"" Sublett tap dancing and Ford ""Buck"" Washington on piano. The duo perfected the ""class act"", a routine in which the performers wore impeccable tuxedos, which has since become"
"to his leotards and rode with consummate skill. Tony Pastor, often called the ""Father of Vaudeville"", also began his career in the circus as a singing clown and acrobat before he opened his variety theatre in New York in 1881. Finally, circus pioneer Dan Castello, W. C. Coup's first partner, was not only a courageous owner and frontiersman, but also a renowned singing and riding clown. However, the first American clown to achieve genuine star status was a jockey, gambler and strong man who used to catch cannonballs on the back of his neck. He was born as Daniel McClaren,"
"vaudeville's two-colored rule, which required African-American performers to work in pairs. A dance contest between Robinson and three other dance legends (typically Ray Bolger, Fred Astaire, and James Martin) in which Robinson emerges the victor is recounted in many places, but no verifiable source can be found describing where and when the contest might have taken place. Robinson is given credit for having popularized the word and claimed to have invented it while still living in Richmond. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" lists the origins of the word as ""unknown"" and documents the earliest written use of the word in 1919,"
"Bernardo De Pace Bernardo De Pace (March 31, 1881 – June 15, 1966) was an actor, musician and comedic vaudeville entertainer of the 1910s and 1920s, billed as ""the Wizard of the Mandolin"". He learned to play mandolin in the Italian tradition under Francesco Della Rosa. De Pace's repertoire and technique was described in the ""Brooklyn Life"" as involving ""the most difficult violin and piano compositions, executed at inconceivably rapid tempi demanding an uncanny technique seldom heard on fretted instruments"". In 1927 the Minneapolis Star said that he had been recognized as one of the best mandolinists in the United"
"Kolb and Dill Kolb and Dill was the stage name of the vaudeville team founded by Clarence Kolb and Max Dill. Clarence and Dill were born in Cleveland, Ohio and were boyhood friends who decided to go into show business together. The book ""Vaudeville Old & New"" lists their prominence and earliest records dating to 1901. The earliest newspaper mention highlights Kolb and Dill's act as part of a new bill at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio in 1899. On September 3, 1899, the Cedar Point listed a change in their bill which noted that ""Ferrell and Starck, comedy trick"
"hat salesman, and as a utility boy, and eventually adapted his middle name ""Edwin"" into his new stage name, ""Ed Wynn"", to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative. Wynn began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. During ""The Follies of 1915"", W. C. Fields allegedly caught Wynn mugging for the audience under the table during Fields' ""Pool Room"" routine and knocked Wynn unconscious with his cue. Wynn wrote, directed, and produced many Broadway shows in the subsequent decades, and was known for"
"for her comedy dance routines. Violet also appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s and '40s. Milt G. Barlow Milt G. Barlow (June 29, 1843 – September 27, 1904) was an American blackface comedian and actor popular in minstrel and vaudeville shows over the latter half of the 19th century. Milton G. Barlow was born on June 29, 1843, at Lexington, Kentucky. He was the son of James Madison and Elizabeth Susan (née Barlow) Barlow. He was probably raised in the household of an uncle in Harrison County, Kentucky, after his parents divorced and his father, a silversmith, relocated"