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Show An Early Skirt Dancer. Kate Vaughan, who died recently in Johannesburg, is aiieged by the English Eng-lish to have been the originator of the skirt dance. She was an all round actress and had been on the stage from early childhood, the parts of Little JJell and Little Em'ly.ln "David Copperfleld,'1 being among her preliminary pre-liminary triumphs. She first attempted attempt-ed her dancing In the "tempestuous j petticoat" so long ago that few living exponents of the art will care to contest con-test the claim that she was first. It is said that the manager of the London Lon-don theater in which Miss Vaughn first gave the dance cheerfully paid: a weekly bill of $40 for the renewal of her skirts. |