When he finished making Blue Skies, Fred Astaire thought he would stop dancing. He didn't want people to start asking, "What's that old duffer still hanging around for?" But last week the old duffer was hard at work at some new dances in a new setting.
In Manhattan, Dancer Astaire, now 47, teamed up with an old friend, Charles Casanave, to open a plush new dancing studio (deep red carpets, blue-green walls, yellow and red covered furniture). There, at $70 for a ten-hour course, Astaire hopes to teach all comers to dance something like Astaire....
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