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Entertainment - Ken Dodd and Bluebell Girls Photocall - London

Ken Dodd the comedian from Liverpool's Knotty Ash, has been booked by the BBC to star in a weekly series of summer shows to be televised live on sunday from Blackpool, starring in July. The shows will feature the famous Bluebell Girls dancing troupe, appearing in their first series on British television. Ken Dodd is seen trying out some dance steps at Broadcasting House, London with Madame Bluebell who comes from Liverpool, and two of the Bluebell Girls, Monique Swarz 23, of Paris (left), and Gillian Elvins, 21, of Grove Park, London

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Apache Dance, 1908

APACHE DANCERS : by a strange swing of fashion the sinister gangsters of the Paris under- world are seen as picturesque, and their macho dance style becomes the craze of the day

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Director of the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas Mr. Larrain talking to Rudolf Nureyev

Director of the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas Mr. Larrain (L) talks 22 June 1961 with Soviet born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev at the Theatre des Champs Elyses in Paris where he will perform with the troop. Nureyev studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School, and became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet. While touring with the Ballet in 1961, he obtained political asylum in Paris. Nureyev's virtuosity and expressiveness made him one of the greatest male dancers of the 1960's, in both classical and modern ballets. He became ballet director of the Paris Opera in 1983. / AFP PHOTO

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