Tyrolean Singers and dancers of Toni Praxmair's bar
The Tyrolean Singers and dancers of Toni Praxmair's bar at Kitzbuhel performing at a five-week season of cabaret at The Washington on Curzon Street, Mayfair, London. The troupe, ten boys and four girls led by Zither Player Toni Praxmair himself are guides, ski-instructors, wood-carvers or farmers. The girsl are waitresses. In these pictures, the troupe are performing the Watschentanz, the ear-boxing dance, a merry rough-and-tumble showing how mountain lads enjoy wrestling against each other. Josef Loferer and Konrad Staudinger attempt a tricky routine (bottom right)
Picture No
13929526
Media ID
46807929
Size
4066px x 5640px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Roger Wood in The Sketch', 26 September 1951, page 291
Date
1951
