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The George White dancing turn sort of showed up the St Denis act, inasmuch as White could follow St. Denis, without the little classical stuff with the four girls, in their Grecian gowns, but you can never tell whether George White is kidding in his dances. For it was George White who introduced the shimmy to Broadway some time ago.' Mr. White is at the Palace In his third week. Vaudeville has never had a dance producer just like him, ' a producer of quite indisputable originality, who stages his own turns and makes them liked, besides of much personal popularity. And that the same hard shoe stepper In a two-act not so long ago. The Keith management could do no better than place Mr. White under a yearly contract to produce popular dancing for them, for in that way they would be certain of always having the latest dance first in vaudeville.
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Variety, 54:1 (02/28/1919)