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Smash Your Baggage / Ace [film]
- Title
- Smash Your Baggage [Film]
- Performers
- Ace
- Eddie
- Danny
- Smalls' Paradise chorus line
- Williams, "Rubber Legs"
- The Red Caps
- Published/Created
- 1933-03-22
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Vitaphone Corporation
- Abstract
- Vitaphone all-black one-reel sound film featuring Small's Paradise chorus line, and featuring the dancing of eccentric tap dancer "Rubber Legs" Williams (14 July 1907, Atlanta, Georgia- 17 October, 1962, NYC), who was known for his legomania. With Emmet "Babe" Wallace, Mabel Scott, Doris Rubboton, Lew Payton. with music by the Elmer Snowden Orchestra with trumpeter Roy Eldridge (uncredited.)
The plot: A group of Red Caps in a train station perform a musical number to raise money for a sick member of their group.
1.The Red Caps are four very fast-stepping dancers who perform acrobatics, forward rolls, kazotsky kicks, backbends; speed tapping, time steps, somersaults over baggage, ending with no hands assist forward flips.
2. Jump rope tap dance (Danny) from a squatting position
3. a soloist before a chorus of women, doing rubberlegging and legomania.
- Source
- Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
- Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968).
- Vitaphone Internet Database: Vitaphone Internet Database: The Vitaphone Project. www.picking.com/vitaphone54.html ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015