ASTAIRE-ROGERS.
Dancing on steel plates which give varied tones to his staccato taps is the latest novelty Fred Astaire is introducihg in "Shall We Dance," RKO Radio musical film in which he appears with Ginger Rogers. The steel plates of his strange dancing floor comprise. the deck of an ocean liner engine room setting. By use of various qualities and thickness
of steel, the director, Mark Sandrich, set out to attain an effect akin to that of having his star dancing on a xlyophone. The .varied tone taps are to be but one of several novelties in this dance routine. Machinery of the engine room setting has been electrically synchronised to operate in rhythmic harmony with the tempo of the George Gershwin melody, "Slap That Bass," to which Astaire dances. 4
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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131ASTAIRE-ROGERS. Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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