Dance Gallery

A Cats Christmas Dance by Louis Wain

A large group of cats enjoying a Christmas dance. Wain was able to turn his hand to drawing a wide variety of animals prior to the fame he achieved with his feline creations. Sadly his growing obsession with cats turned to insanity and he died penniless in a mental asylum in 1939

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The Monseigneur - Londons latest chic restaurant

Evening at The Monseigneur, a fashionable London restaurant, with diners watching a cabaret performance. The Monseigneur Restaurant was one of three main hot spots for dance music in the 1930s. It shared rival prominence with the Savoy Restaurant and the Mayfair Hotel as the top showcases for the popular music of the day. Reginald (Roy) Fox and Lew Stone were the bandleaders who inhabited the Monseigneur during the depression years in the UK. The well-known restaurateur, M. Taglioni is seen standing in the right foreground

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Lingering music sheet cover

Music sheet for Lingering, performed at The Palais de Danse, London. The music was written by T. W. Thurban and the words by John P. Harrington. A couple are dancing in the foreground, the woman wearing a little red dress, the man in a harlequin costume. In the background a fancy dress ball at The Palais de Danse is underway. Date: 1921

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