BY RADIO-PHONES.
LONDON. Jan. 22. forty professional dancing teachers were seated in a West End studio, before a telephone, when, with startling clearness, there came the words, “Nc-w York Here! Arthur Murray speaking. Get ready for lesson.” It was a 050 dancing lesson in the now American ballroom craze. “Black-bottom” over the Trans-Atlantic radio telephone and it was so clear that those in the room overhead the telephone and the gramophone music with which the directions were accompanied. The American voice went on outlining every movement. while with a pupil of Santos Sasani. the famous “Charleston” exponent. moved obediently over the floor bending, straightening the knees with rythnietic precision. At the end of six minutes. £3O worth of the lesson, the pupil had mastered the intricate steps.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1927, Page 2
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127BY RADIO-PHONES. Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1927, Page 2
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