ENGLISH DANCERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17916, 11 January 1930, Page 16 (Supplement)

ENGLISH DANCERS.

KENDALLS IN NEW ZEALAND. WENT ON STAGE BY CHANCE. An outstanding feature of “Whoopee,” coming to Hamilton next week, is the dancing of Patricia and Terry Kendall. These clever English dancers went on the stage just by chance. Their uncle was managing director of Rector’s, one of London’s most famous night clubs. As they say themselves, they just “pottered about there, practising dance steps and things." Evidently Carl Hyson, the producer, thought that their “pottering about” was worth while, for he engaged them to appear with his Follies entertainment at the Hotel Metropole, the first London hotel to give cabaret entertainment.

Their mother, Marie Kendall, comedienne, was touring New Zealand at the time with a Williamson vaudeville company. She ha'd no idea that her children- would ever*follow a stage career, but when she received their cablegram to say that they had accepted an engagement she was immensely pleased. Before they left London Mr and Miss Kendall appeared in several of the Noel Coward revues, under G. B. Cochran’s engagement. One of them was “On with the Dance,” and later, “This Year of Grace.” They also appeared on the Continent and in South Africa.

“We loved Berlin,” Miss Kendall said, when recalling her Continental tours. “The people are so kind, and cannot do enough for the English. We had great fun on the Riviera, We always lost our salaries at the tables before we had drawn them, Mother had to come to our rescue on two or three occasions to get us back to England.’ 5