Now it's sixty cents a dance ; Dance hostesses are back again at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse but times have changed since those 1939 days . The sixpenny dance tickets have been abolished and the more serious type of patron encouraged by the substitution of set fees of three shillings for a quarter of an hour , or 10 shillings per hour . John McGregor usually brings his own partner but tonight he'll dance with one of the Palais girls 1947