The Sisters Wiesenthal at the London Hippodrome

The three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, who were causing a sensation at the London Hippodrome in 1909 when the theatre had re-opened after a four-month long refurbishment. The sisters danced gavottes and waltzes freely and exuberantly and Grete's whirling dance to the Blue Danube, according to this report in The Bystander, nightly creates a furore

Berta Drei Elsa Expressive Grete Hippodrome Nov19 Schwestern Siblings Viennese Wiesenthal

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