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“Opportunity” is the wonder-worker of the show business. Howland and Leach are an example. Of the many “society dancers” who have gained quick fame and fortune in the dance craze, this couple missed. When they were at Shanley’s before going to Europe, they were among the very best society dancers, and they are yet but they didn’t land. Just why, no one could tell. It was opportunity for the others, and the goddess passed up this couple. Maybe it was because they first danced in a restaurant-cabaret that did not have a ballroom floor. But the fact remains. Mr. Howland is of the Vernon Castle type, tall and graceful. Miss Leach is a pretty girl, bring looking, always smiling (not machine made) and dances well, besides doing some acrobatics. Howland and Leach also created a dance that has been copied and they possess enough class to drive the pretenders on the small time back to where they came from, if this team continues over the circuits. Howland and Leach have everything the others have, excepting the reputation and money, Why?
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Variety, Volume XXXVI no. 5, October 3, 1914