DANCER

    Adelaide and Hughes were labeled "America's Foremost Terpsichorean Artists." The "Joys of the Dance" sheet music was dedicated to them. Adelaide started performing as a child (la Petite Adelaide) in acrobatic dances who would eventually become a Ballet dancer on the Vaudeville Stage. Adelaide would professionally perform from around 1905 to the 1930s.

    One of Adelaide's signature dances was called the Doll dance and even did the dance on Point on Horseback at the Hippodrome Theater in 1907. In 1910 Adelaide partnered up with Johnny Hughes which proved to be a major success for the both of them. They would eventually create unique and entertaining dance routines that would bring them great fan fare. They opened their own studio called Bensonhurst by the Sea and would perform at many Dansants and Teas as well as nightclubs like the Jardin de Danse in New York.

     In September, 1916, of B.F. Keith's Show "Vaudeville Bill." They headlined the show, they had their own orchestra and did four acts, one called the "Birth Of The Dance" which consisted of

1) Inspiration,
2) Music,
3) Rhythm,
4) and Execution,
and their second act was called "Classics of and Age," the third was called a 'Divertissement' along with others and last was entitled "The Garden Of The World"* which was an allegorical ballet based on military fact.