The latest craze - ballet on skates, 1929

Photographs reporting on the craze for ice dancing over normal dancing in 1929. The skaters featured were performing ice cabaret at the Hammersmith Ice-Drome which opened on 30 December 1929 on the site of the old Palais de Danse. The Ice-Drome was vast and the largest in London. Top left shows Miss Freda Whitaker, the well-known exhibition skater, rehearsing with her partner Alfredo. Top right shows Miss Muriel Lambton and Miss Elina Munro and the bottom image shows Miss Freda Whitaker's Skating Girls

Alfredo Craze Drome Freda Hammersmith Partner Rehearsing Skater Skaters Skates Whitaker

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