Spectacular Adagio Dance

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 14

Spectacular Adagio Dance

ADMIRERS of Adagio dancing are promised unusual thrills in RKORadio’s musical comedy, “The Gay Di voreee.” A feature of the film is a sensational Adagio ensemble number performed by fifty beautiful girls and an equal number of boys, each team fully attired in conventional ballroom costume. The Adagio demonstration comes as a spectacular added effect in “The Continental,” the show’s feature dance. Daring dances of this sort heretofore have been enacted in as scanty garb as possible. The girls are hurled about through the air like basketballs and their safety depends upon accurate catches by the men. Fifty of the dancers are garbed in white evening clothes and fifty in black. The ensemble was rehearsed more than a month prior to filming, and because of its rigours each girl was carefully examined by a physician prior to each day’s work. The film was adapted from Fred Astaire’s international stage nit and stars Astaire and Ginger, with Alice Brady 'and Edward Everett Horton featured.

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