Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

HEY, LOOK! WE'RE DANCIN'! (Continued from page 58) "At one time I had hopes of being a dancer," sighed Nancy — who'll be Bing's leading lady in Mr. Music. "I used to think I was pretty good — until I went to a senior prom at Wauwatosa High in Milwaukee, and right in the middle of a waltz I tripped on my evening dress and fell flat on my face. Whatever yearnings I had to be a Pavlova ended with that little disaster." Don and Marion DeFore decided to take advantage of the presence of really expert dance instructors and approached Gower — who, with his wife, created and staged the dances for the current New York hit, Lend an Ear. "We've invented a tired two-step," said Don, "and stick to it no matter what the tempo. But we do wish we could rhumba." "We went dancing on our first date," Marion recalled. "We were off to a bad start until we confessed to each other that we really weren't ballroom artists. Then we happily went to the movies." champion advice . . . Gower was a patient instructor — and soon the DeFores were rhumba-ing soundly. Next, Nancy Olson, we Churchills, and even Richard Haydn sought — and received — terpsichorean advice from the Champions. By this time, Mona Freeman and Rhonda Fleming were working out ballet steps on the exercise bars, Billy De Wolfe was dancing with Marge Champion (never, we must admit, tramping on her feet once!), and Reba was following Alan's intricate steps. Then in breezed Bob Hope. He was gussied up in a hunting outfit he wears in Fancy Pants — light tan breeches, riding boots, hunter's cap and red jacket. "Tally-ho, old sports!" he called to everyone. "How about a dance with the king of the ballrooms?" he cried, seizing Rhonda Fleming, his true-love in The Great Lover. Looking ecstatic, he whirled her dreamily through a few steps. Rhonda, who'd been studying the picture of a ballet dancer in a magazine, kept right on studying it over the king's shoulder. "Now you've lived, honey," he said, releasing her. "Well, look, everyone." he announced gaily, "what I really dropped in for was to open up the band-aid concession for this little clambake. Any broken noses? . . . Arms? . . . Legs? . . . No? Well, we'll soon fix that. Let me introduce you to my new round dance — it w?s invented for squares who can't squaredance." Seated nice and comfy on a chair with his boots propped up against an exercise bar, he started calling out directions for the dance. They would have worked fine if we'd all been equipped with four arms and eight hands. Just when we were really fouled up and everyone was interlocked octopus-like with everyone, Bob started reversing the directions. Dick Pribor stopped playing his piano and gazed at him sadly. "Now look, Mr. Hope," he said. Hope eyed us for a moment. Then he said briskly, "Well, guess I'd better get back to the set!" — and with that he departed. 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