Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater. |
Never having seen this Russian clown-show before, I was also struck by how much it resembled the revues of my youth. |
Concert parties at the time improvised with available talent and material to provide variety revues involving light-hearted music and comedy. |
West End theatres used to run revues or present speciality acts like an American singer surrounded by dancers and back-up acts. |
These were made at a time when her style had matured, so it is not easy to appreciate how she would have performed them in the revues. |
She made her debut dancing with Anton Dolin's company in London in 1929, performing balletic interludes in revues at the Coliseum. |