Tap Dancing (1924)--how about 1911?

[Sam Clements]

>From ancestry.com, The Washington Post, January 29, 1911.  (P. 3, col. 3)

     "Karl Emmy's pets, Bissett and Scott, in fance tap dancing and catchy
songs, and the Royal Colibris, lilliputian comedians, in their fanciful
sketch, "The Baby, the Nurse, and the Corporal," complete the bill."

(I'm still trying to figure out why Karl's pets had names like Bissett and
Scott  <rimshot> )

SC
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> Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That
Invented
> Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the Worlds Most Notorious Slum
> by <A
HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books%26fiel
d-author=Anbinder%2C%20Tyler/102-4945333-7641756">Tyler Anbinder</A>
>
>
>    In the name of the late Gregory Hines--is this true?  And if it is
true,
> is there a plaque anywhere in NYC to mark the spot of that first tap?
>    I'm away from my ProQuest databases right now.  Merriam-Webster's 11th
has
> 1928.  There are some more "hits" to check (Sam can look), but I gotta go.
>
>
>    21 December 1924, INDIANAPOLIS STAR (Indianapolis, Indiana), pg.9, col.
5:
>    The old buck and wing and tap dancing should not be snuffed out by such
> inanities.
>
> (O.O. McIntyre column from New York--ed.)
>