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Commanders to appear in the Royal Command of Variety Performance are the young Canadian

Commanders to appear in the Royal Command of Variety Performance are the young Canadian dance team Blanche and Allan Lund, who made their name in the Canadian Navy revue "Meet The Navy" and appearing in "Picadilly Hayride".
Picture shows: Blanche, wearing a dress specially flown in from Canada by TransCanada airlines bought for her by her parents.
2 November 1946 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

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The latest dancing craze to hit Londons dance halls, which is expected to take place

The latest dancing craze to hit London's dance halls, which is expected to take place alongside the "Lambeth walk" "Boomps-a-daisy", "Hokey-kokey" and such is the "Re-bob-bob" which was written by the two South Africans Carl and Roger Yale, dancers are expected to "bob up and down like a monkey on a stick, clap hands, twist, waggle hands at their ears, and re-bob-bob".
Picture Shows: Roger Gale with his wife Carol who helped work out some of the dance steps, do a spot of "hand waggling at their ears" while demonstrating the new "re-bob-bob" dance in London.
20 August 1947 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy 40s 1940s vintage news archive

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School children are playing a prominent part in the Eltham Festival celebrations

School children are playing a prominent part in the Eltham Festival celebrations organised to mark the eight hundredth anniversary of the Parish of Eltham . Pupils from Ealdham Road Junior School are busy rehearsing for the display they are to give on Friday evening . They are seen here performing one of the country dances which forms part of their programme, leading the team into a Scottish reel is nine year old Cynthia Elliott of Edgeworth Road Eltham, South East London, England .
29 March 1960 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

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