--- description: In Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to... title: CANADA: Ming-Toy's Revenge image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # CANADA: Ming-Toy's Revenge by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 22, 1935 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 22, 1935 5:00 AM CUT In Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London’s Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761546/canada-ming-toys-revenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761546/canada-ming-toys-revenge/"},"headline":"CANADA: Ming-Toy's Revenge","datePublished":"1935-04-22T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T17:35:00.195Z","description":"In Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6761546/canada-ming-toys-revenge/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761546/canada-ming-toys-revenge/","name":"CANADA: Ming-Toy's Revenge"}}]}] ```