Private Lessons

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Hal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories th... Read allHal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories that Hal's lessons involve more than just tap dancing. He is fired and starts his own dancin... Read allHal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories that Hal's lessons involve more than just tap dancing. He is fired and starts his own dancing school in the same building as O'Day's. Hal and Dawn now realize that their relationship... Read all

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In this short, Hal Leroy is a salesman who gets hired as an instructor at Dawn O'Day's dance academy. He's rumored to be much more, especially by just barely fey Kirk Alyn... who a decade later would play the first big-screen Superman!

It all ends with a major production number, part Busby-Berkley-style overhead shot, part Ziegfeld-style, ornately costumed showgirl display. Leroy would never become the major film dancer that these and the other sixteen shorts he did for Vitagraph would hint at, but they must have been popular enough to warrant their continued production. It also kept him a major star of the Broadway stage and nightclub circuit for decades.

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musical short

Dawn O'Day runs a dance school for a group of young ladies. Hal Le Roy is selling taps for tap shoes door to door. The girls are impressed with his dancing and convinces him to teach. He sets up a dance school next door.

Hal does his style of lanky tap dancing. There are lots of beautiful babes doing the song and dance thing. There is one big synchronize dance to close out this short. It's a lot of song and dance. The attack has an awkward ending. They seem to be trying to keep the scene light, but the groping guy and the dagger do not make for a light moment. It's a fine light musical short.

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Vitaphone production reels #1642-1643.

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Barbara: Dawn, I wish you could get him to give me private lessons.
Dancing Student: I'd like to take them, too!
Babs Henderson: I'd like to give *him* a few private lessons.
Dawn O'Day: Shhh! Babs!
Babs Henderson: You would, too!
Dawn O'Day: Babs, you're terrible.
Barbara: Well, how about it?
Dawn O'Day: Well, I'll ask him. Mr., um...
Hal Le Roy: Oh, just call me Hal.
Dawn O'Day: Well, how would you like to give some private lessons - in dancing?
Hal Le Roy: Well, I - I'd like to, but... I can't.
Dawn O'Day: Won't you do it for me?