“RIGHT ’O—LET’S AWAY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 14

“RIGHT ’O—LET’S AWAY”

PRINCE DOES CHARLESTON GIVES THREE ENCORES The King’s sailor son, Prince George, delighted 600 dancers at Shoreditch Town Mall, by asking that the charleston should be added to the programme and then dancing it four times himself with the Mayor of Shoreditch’s sister. , Miss Violet Varnals. Only on very rare occasions has Shoreditch Town Mall known the charleston danced in its fine ballroom, and then only by special permission of the dance organisers. The occasion was a dance in aid of the Shoreditch School of Mothers, o': which Princess Mary is president, and when Prince George entered the hall, shortly before nine o’clock he found himself in the midst of a gay bevy of dancers, of whom the majority were factory and office girls. For about an hour and a-half the Prince was dancing almost continuously. He had six partners and danced the charleston (four times), three waltzes, and two two-steps. He started with a two-step with the mayoress, Mrs. Ada Varnals, and then asked: “Can’t we have the chaleston ?” The M.C. consulted the mayor, and the mayor agreed: the conductor ot the orchestra was approached, and the Prince chose his partner, Miss Violet Varnals, aged 21, who works as an upholstress in a factory in Hackney Road. So well did the Prince and his partner perform the charleston that the other dancers yelled their enthusiasm and demanded an encore by the Prince and Miss Varnals only. A ring was formed, and not one but three encores were demanded and “He is a perfect dancer and awfully nice. He made me feel at Paso at once,” Miss Varnals told a "Daily Chronicle” representative. "He just said, after we had been introduced: ‘Do you do the flat charleston?’ I said I did, and he replied, ‘Right’o: let’s net away with it, then.’ ”