Historical Source
The Palais Glide — Description by D. T. Foster B.A.T.D.; music ("Little Brown Jug" / "Waiting At The Church") by Harris Weston (Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., London, 1935)
Publisher: Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 138-140 Charing Cross Road, London W.C.2 (New York: Francis, Day & Hunter Inc., 745 Fifth Avenue; Sydney Agents: J. Albert & Son, Pty., Ltd., 137-9 King Street). Plate No. F.&D.Ltd.20054. Copyright 1935 by Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd. Printed in London, England by The Compton Printing Works (London) Ltd. Sheet-music dance instruction bound with "Little Brown Jug" and "Waiting At The Church" — music by Harris Weston, moderato (well marked), steady tempo. Dance description by D. T. Foster B.A.T.D. (Ballroom Associate of Teachers of Dancing, UK). Eight-bar line dance in common time: "Danced in a line by two or four persons (or more) facing line of dance. Arms linked behind. Both Lady and Gentleman commence left foot." Signature side-cross-step pattern with heel-point diagonals (to centre on bar 1; to wall on bar 2) and two bars of over-pass side-cross-steps (bars 5-6), closing with a forward-swing-and-travel phrase (bars 7-8). From the Richard Powers collection (Palais_Glide.txt, 81 lines). Historical value: the definitive 1935 UK novelty line-dance pamphlet — the authoritative printed source for the Palais Glide which became a staple of British pre-WWII and post-WWII ballroom novelty sets. The "Palais" name references the Hammersmith Palais de Danse and the UK dance-hall circuit's 1935 shift toward group/line novelty dances, parallel to but distinct from the contemporaneous US Big Apple circle-dance tradition (POWERS-1938-BIG-APPLE). Has_Step_Detail=Partial: bar-and-beat counts with foot-direction prose but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall/footwork notation.Year: 1935Family: foster-palaisglideCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 138-140 Charing Cross Road, London W.C.2 (New York: Francis, Day & Hunter Inc., 745 Fifth Avenue; Sydney Agents: J. Albert & Son, Pty., Ltd., 137-9 King Street). Plate No. F.&D.Ltd.20054. Copyright 1935 by Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd. Printed in London, England by The Compton Printing Works (London) Ltd. Sheet-music dance instruction bound with "Little Brown Jug" and "Waiting At The Church" — music by Harris Weston, moderato (well marked), steady tempo. Dance description by D. T. Foster B.A.T.D. (Ballroom Associate of Teachers of Dancing, UK). Eight-bar line dance in common time: "Danced in a line by two or four persons (or more) facing line of dance. Arms linked behind. Both Lady and Gentleman commence left foot." Signature side-cross-step pattern with heel-point diagonals (to centre on bar 1; to wall on bar 2) and two bars of over-pass side-cross-steps (bars 5-6), closing with a forward-swing-and-travel phrase (bars 7-8). From the Richard Powers collection (Palais_Glide.txt, 81 lines). Historical value: the definitive 1935 UK novelty line-dance pamphlet — the authoritative printed source for the Palais Glide which became a staple of British pre-WWII and post-WWII ballroom novelty sets. The "Palais" name references the Hammersmith Palais de Danse and the UK dance-hall circuit's 1935 shift toward group/line novelty dances, parallel to but distinct from the contemporaneous US Big Apple circle-dance tradition (POWERS-1938-BIG-APPLE). Has_Step_Detail=Partial: bar-and-beat counts with foot-direction prose but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall/footwork notation. (1935). Imported from local collection.