Editing Lew Grade (section)

===Early professional life===
At the age of 15, Grade became an agent for a clothing company, and shortly afterwards started his own business. In 1926, he was declared [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]] Champion of the World at a dancing competition at the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref name="Hoge" /> [[Fred Astaire]] was one of the judges.<ref name="Economist_obit" /> Grade subsequently became a professional dancer going by the name Louis Grad; he changed this name to Lew Grade, which came from a Paris reporter's typing error that Grade liked and decided to keep.<ref name="TH">[http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/lewgrade.htm Television Greats: Lew Grade], Television Heaven entry.</ref> He was signed as a dancer by Joe Collins (father of [[Jackie Collins|Jackie]] and [[Joan Collins]]) in 1931.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 April 1988 |title=Joe Collins, ''Dynasty'' Star's Father |work=Chicago Tribune |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1988/04/02/page/8/article/joe-collins-dynasty-stars-father/ |access-date=12 August 2017}}</ref> Decades later, the octogenarian Lord Grade once danced the Charleston at a party [[Arthur Ochs Sulzberger]] gave in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=22 May 1992 |title=CHRONICLE |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/style/chronicle-921792.html |access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref>