Dust off your dancing shoes

August 22, 1893: American author and wit Dorothy Parker was born. A poem by her:

Leave for her a red young rose,
Go your way and save your pity;
She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty.



August 23, 1912: Dancer Gene Kelly born.

"Dancing? Oh, dreadful. How it is ever adopted in a civilized country I cannot find out." -- Fanny Burney.