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Dance Moments with Gerardo & Adair Against the Law of Gravity

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
450
Date Released
16 Jan 1930
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1(Untitled record)
  2. 2Snow time for Eve in Japan
  3. 3Girls of Spirits
  4. 4(Untitled record)
  5. 5Dance Moments with Gerardo & Adair Against the Law of Gravity
  6. 6Endurance

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
British Pathe synopsis: Full title reads: "And now for Dance Moments with Gerardo & Adair - America’s Supreme Aero-Dancers with Hillis & Flint & William Straw). In a studio setting a dance incorporating throws, swinging the girls through the air, lifts, falls, somersaults and all manner of acrobatics.
Keywords
Music and dance; Performing arts
Written sources
The Bioscope   15 January 1930, p38.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.115
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP115 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p97.
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