FRED ASTAIRE’S CLEVER DANCING
Combining a P. G. Wodehouse story with a group of sparkling songs by the late George Gershwin and his brother Ira, Fred Astaire’s new starring picture with Burns and Allen, for RKO Radio, “A Damsel in Distress,” is one of the year’s funniest and most tuneful screen offerings. Joan Fontaine
Astaire reveals a novel group of dance routines, most conspicuous and sensational of which is his Drum Dance, in which he plays a dozen different percussion instruments while doing his steps in the midst of an orchestra stage. Another novelty is the Whisk Broom dance which he performs with Burns and Allen as his partners.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6
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