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    Ned Wayburn (né Edward Claudius Weyburn; 30 March 1874 – 2 September 1942) was an American choreographer. Edward Claudius Weyburn was born on March 30...
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    in Ziegfeld productions, particularly those staged by choreographer Ned Wayburn. Described as atop this hierarchy were the showgirls, tall women who...
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    ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera and from American choreographer Ned Wayburn. Ann Astaire home schooled her children, with the exception of a stint...
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    reunited with a more stable financial standing, Allyson was enrolled in the Ned Wayburn Dancing Academy and began to enter dance competitions with the stage...
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    Demi-Tasse Capitol Revue – "Come to the Moon" (lyrics by Lou Paley and Ned Wayburn); "Swanee" (lyrics by Irving Caesar) 1920 – Dere Mabel – "We’re Pals"...
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    following February. Later in 1915, Webb was cast in the all-star revue Ned Wayburn's Town Topics, which boasted 117 famous performers, including Will Rogers...
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    in a 1911 revue A La Broadway put on by her former dancing teacher, Ned Wayburn. The show folded after eight performances, but West was discovered and...
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    continued her dance training in the United States, where she worked with Ned Wayburn. In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first...
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    from 1918 onwards, she also worked as an assistant to choreographer Ned Wayburn. In April 1923 Eaton starred in Plunder at Poli's Majestic Theater in...
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    Ziegfeld. When Travis accompanied Pearl to a rehearsal, dance supervisor Ned Wayburn spotted her and hired her for a role in the summer touring company of...
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    The Garrick Gaieties (1925), Merry-Go-Round (1927), Rainbow (1928), Ned Wayburn's Gambols (1929), Revenge with Music (1934), You Never Know (1938, score...
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    few days before the opening, The New York Times quoted the producer, Ned Wayburn, as saying: "Signor Leoncavallo was eager to write a farcical musical...
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    at New York's Heckscher Theatre in the 1928 Dance Recital produced by Ned Wayburn. Her first appearance on the stage came during the run of The Merry Malones...
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    appeared in his multiyear touring production of The Kissing Girl. When Ned Wayburn rolled out his production of The Passing Show on a national tour in 1913...
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  • John Philip Sousa (Recorded on Berliner Records) "Syncopated Sandy" by Ned Wayburn & Stanley Whiting "Take Back Your Gold"     w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld...
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  • Hammond, Indiana Times, March 7, 1940, Page 14. Knapp, Margaret M, "Ned Wayburn", in Banham 1995, p. 1188 Laurie 1953, p. 45 Slide 1994, p. 121 Knapp...
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    at Reisenweber's Cafe in Manhattan, to cover the production costs of Ned Wayburn's revues held there. According to Massachusetts law, subject to a penalty...
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    in vaudeville and to study dance at the school of famed choreographer Ned Wayburn. Chandler maintained a successful career throughout the 1920s as a dancer...
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    of Girls, L. T. Meade 14,000th 1 Dec 2008 The Art of Stage Dancing, Ned Wayburn 15,000th 12 May 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
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    and took dance lessons. One of his early instructors in New York was Ned Wayburn, who taught eleven-year-old Astaire in 1910.: 14  After graduating from...
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    inspired Dell to seek a career on stage, and she became a student of Ned Wayburn. Dell began her professional career on Broadway in 1925 as a chorus member...
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  • Jr. produced the show. Staging was by Edward Royce, Leon Errol, and Ned Wayburn, with set design by Joseph Urban. Max Hoffman directed the orchestra...
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  • York where he broke into the theater as a dancer. His dancing teacher, Ned Wayburn, got him his first job, in Hoboken Hoboes in 1928. Le Roy quickly worked...
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  • Hike! (Along the Old Turn Pike)" w.m. Nat Vincent "How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?"...
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  • of ballet", before Grace was sent to her first professional job for Ned Wayburn, at $4 a week. Other actors who went through the agency as kids were...
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    Tex Rickard as himself Damon Runyon as himself Earl Sande as himself Ned Wayburn as himself H. C. Witwer as himself With no prints of The Great White...
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    Ned Wayburn's Town Topics was a musical comedy revue that ran at the Century Theatre from 23 September 1915 to 20 November 1915. It was written Harry...
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    Central Theatre. It opened on July 28, 1920. The production was staged by Ned Wayburn, who also did the lighting design. It was choreographed by David Bennett...
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    singing lessons with Wassili Leps and landed a job in the chorus of Ned Wayburn's The Demi-Tasse Revue, a musical entertainment presented between films...
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    (musical comedy) – 1915 Role of “Albany Dayline” Conceived of and staged by Ned Wayburn Canary Cottage – 1916–1917 Role of “Blanche Moss” Trixie Friganza easily...
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