Just Wondering Rob.P, Cappy & John.S

[gray_marian]

Could this be pegleg Mary's sister??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OacPk0-OVz0

[j.sabourn]

Marian... The Sand dancers are definetley from Sunderland. Remember seeing them years ago. Is it the Female one Betty you are referring to. Or is it the one in the song about the Westend. John S

[gray_marian]

#2, John, I am referring to" Fanny" the lady??? in the song....Think it would be a great injustice to compare Betty with Fanny or peg leg Mary

[john sutton]

john s
the sand dancers were from London .they used to busk the theatre queus in the west end .I believe they appeared on the royal command at the palladium.

[gray_marian]

#2,& 4, Here you go lads..........................Poor Fanny is being ignored!!


Jack Wilson (29 January 1894–24 August 1970), was born in Liverpool in England, and emigrated to the USA at a young age, making his stage debut in 1909 as a high-kicking dancer. He then travelled to Australia, where he joined Colleano's Circus. During the First World War Wilson served with the Royal Navy.

Returning to Australia after the war, he met Joe Keppel (5 May 1894–14 June 1977), who was born in County Cork in Ireland. Like Wilson, Keppel had emigrated to the USA at a young age, and in 1910 made his stage debut in Albany as a tap dancer. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps, and after making his way to Australia, also joining Colleano's Circus, where he teamed up with Jack Wilson.[1]

International celebrity[edit]
Travelling to the USA together they appeared in New York in 1919 as a comedy acrobatic and tap dancing act. They started their trio act with Kansas-born Betty Knox (Alice Elizabeth Peden - (1906-1963)), at Des Moines in Iowa in 1928. She had married mechanic Donald Knox in 1923 and after a brief marriage went on to be a chorus girl in a production which also featured a young Jack Benny.[2]



Betty Knox became in 1944 a war correspondent for the London Evening Standard.
The act came to Britain to appear at the London Palladium for a few weeks in 1932 and stayed permanently. Over the years there were between 8 and 12 'Bettys', most of these appearing during the act's later years: Betty Knox retired from the act in 1941 to go into journalism, becoming a war correspondent during the Second World War,[3] and reporting on the Nuremberg Trials for three years as a correspondent for the London Evening Standard.[4] She was among the first to report the suicide of Hermann Göring[5]

Her daughter, Patsy Knox, (born 1924 in Salina, Kansas), took over as 'Betty' in 1941, staying with the act until 1950. The trio, in its various line-ups, appeared at the Royal Variety Performance in 1933,[6] 1945 and 1947.

Futher info from Wikipedia

Wilson, Keppel and Betty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%2C_Keppel_and_Betty Cached
Wilson, Keppel and Betty formed a popular British music hall act in the middle decades of the 20th century. They capitalised on the fashion for Ancient Egyptian

[happy daze john in oz]

Fanlight Fanny, Fanny by Gaslight! Just how many ways can you see them?????

[j.sabourn]

#4... When I said the sand dancers were from Sunderland, I was referring jokingly to the term sand dancer which people from that ar are known as,howver remember seeing this particular threesome on the old black and white tv which must have been in the 50"s. Cheers JS

[cappy]

sandancers are the fine people of soth shields.....sunderland people are mackems.......north shields folk ie js are somethingto do with skate ...i believe they are known as skatenders ...cos they put the skate on there end.....or something like that...regards cappy

[j.sabourn]

Sorry Hinny, been away that long forgetting my heritage now. Your quite right of course. Even Marian knew that and shes from the other side of Hadrians Wall. Wasnt you on the old black and white tellie was it. Cheers John S

[cappy]

Sorry Hinny, been away that long forgetting my heritage now. Your quite right of course. Even Marian knew that and shes from the other side of Hadrians Wall. Wasnt you on the old black and white tellie was it. Cheers John S

####it was me bruvver......bonny lad....rgardscappy