Music: In Murray's Steps

Lambeth Palace, in the southeast part of London, is one of the official residences of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not from this pile but from the narrow, grubby street nearby came the name of England's present dance fad, the greatest in years—the Lambeth Walk. A number in a successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance—an easy, arm-in-arm walk,...

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