Private Lessons LeRoy, Hal performer Film 1934-04-18 Vitaphone/Warner Brothers Two-reel Vitaphone short subject film that includes the tap dancing of Hal LeRoy.staged by Cyrus Wood and Eddie Moran, with Dawn O'Day, Dorothy Dare, Barbara McDonald, Kirk Alyn, dances staged by Paul Florenz. Set at the Dawn O'Day School of Dancing, tap dancer Hal LeRoy get excited at seeing the class of girls and, in the course off demonstrating to them the steps he is skilled at, hires himself to teach private lessons, turning heavy-hitting amateurs into light steppers, and also yields himself a bit of romance. The tap dancing of the girls is standard fare for thirties chorus dancing: crossover steps, suzi-q's, side-steps, toe tapping and cramp rolls. LeRoy is a tall and lanky dancer who dances upright; legomania and twisting off the legs; he looks very much like an Irish influenced tap dancer as much of the movement is in the legs and fast feet, and many crossovers of the feet: The finale, staged by Paul Florenz becomes a Busby Berkeley like fantasy of moving circles of women making designs. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts 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 (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Hal LeRoy (biography) loc.music.tdabio.127 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.300