MR. ASTAIRE.
"Born to Dance" is apparently developing into the season's most lavish potpourri of music and dancing. The photoplay, which will next present :• the dynamic Eleanor Powell as a star, just about runs the entire gamut of rhythm. In all, there are more than 250 dancers and more than 200 instrumentalists and singers in this new production with a nautical background; Music and lyrics are by Cole Porter, Broadway's tunester and lyrist. Miss Powell, whose versatility and appealing personality won her stardom in a single picture, "Broadway Melody of 1936," will introduce fourteen varieties of dance steps in the new musical. In one number she will do a medley of six different types of dancing in as many minutes. She even leads a 75-piece band with taps. In addition one dance group of 110 men does a fast tempo routine, which embraces the shuffle, truckin', snakehips, waltz, waltz clog, the strut, fast and slow buck and wing, milir tary tap. the drag, fox-trot with imaginary partners, and an exceedingly fast straight tap.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 22
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173MR. ASTAIRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 22
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