SUCCESS ABROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18165, 1 November 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

SUCCESS ABROAD.

YOUNG AUSTRALIAN DANCER. YOUTH’S ROMANTIC CAREER. ■ Frederick Carpenter, the Australian dancer with the locks of flame, has got America under his thumb (says the Sydney Sun). Now he is out after London’s collective scalp. It reads like a romance —this boy’s career. Maybe you remember him as the leaping dancer —very Russian! in “Hullo, Healol” at the Palace a few years ago. Soon after he went, to America. Jennie Brennan and Minnie Hooper gave him his first training here. The famous Michael Mordkin and Fokine polished him up in New York. He came under the notice of the notable producer of revues and spectacular plays, John Murray Anderson, •and after dancing with a partner, Frances Mann, at the Roxy, New Aork, he was given an extended contract with Anderson. He was starred in “The Young King,” a romantic drama taken from Oscar Wilde's story, and made his name in America for all time. He will go to Hollywood to play the part in the film production next year-. Carries On with Strained Back. Freddie Carpenter is now 22. Four times his visitor’s leave was extended in the States, and then he had to leave on account of his Australian citizenship. After six months he will be allowed to return. 1 But the moment of his leaving was unhappy, because he had rehearsed to play in the film “The King of Jazz,” and the dances in that were his. Nothing daunted, he went to London, secured an immediate engagement for Ciro’s night club, next, one for Monte Carlo, and then one for England with Jack Hulbert’s "Follow a Star,” Sophie Tucker being the star in question. At Manchester, where the show opened, he strained his back during one of the high leaps his dancing features, hut .carried on with adhesive plaster keeping his muscles taut, though in great pain.

I’hey are saying in England that his dancing is astonishingly athletic, after the style of the most famous Russians, and his leaps in the air are making him a spectacular figure in the dancing world. He has unusual grace and abandon in his work.