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NEW YORK, February 1st. Old-fashioned, keep-your- distance dances are to displace the modern jazz steps, if the nation-wide reform movement undertaken by the American National Association of Masters of Dancing proves successful The dancing masters, it is announced hero, count upon the support of mothers, Lathers, daughters, sons, dance hall, proprietors, dancing teachers ». and hostesses-and, if necessary,
the
THE GREAT ENGLISH ACTRESS
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police department to exterminate the TEMPEST
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GRAHAM BROWNE, La Bepertoire of Famous Tempest" Comedies,
half-Nelson," "body hold, shimmion Association with lock" and other imported ballroom which are practiced by some dancers.
Cheap and vulgar music also is to come under the ban, and according to a cir- cular just led by the association, thos in charge of community or public dances are urged to show their opposition to undesirable dances by distributing X will please leave the hall cards for those who persist in offending.
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"You will soon see," the circular reads, that you have raised the standard of your establishment and that the less willOPENING THURSDAY, be more than made up by double the aum March 18th, 1920. ber of persons who have respect for you and your dances.
Some of the rules and regulations which all are urged to obey are, dance music should be bright and cheerful, properly accented and the phrases well divided; ebesp, vulgar music of the extreme jazz type invites cheap, vulgar, meaningless dancing. It is useless to expect, refined dancing when the music lacks all refine ment, for, after all, what is dancing, but an interpretation of music!
The association has adopted the follow
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S COMEDY PENELOPE
It is long since one had heard such spontaneous laughter such hushed silence or auch genuine outbursts of applause.The Statesman."
ing tempos, it being impossible, the meFRIDAY, March 19th, tors say, to regulate fast dancing:-
Waltz
49 measures to minite
THE MARRIAGE OF KITTY
*There is a laugh in every line."-
The Statesman
AcefulThe most distinguished Company
Two-step ... 54 measures to minute Ont-stop
measures to minute? Fox trot 40 measures to minute Dancers should assume a light, position," the masters zay. should be no jerky ball-stops, for these cause undesirable variations Partners abould not danes with cheeks close or touching, nor should the clasp be tight. Neck holds are positively unpardon abic, The gentleman's arms should en- circle his partner's waist, his hand rest- ing lightly just above the waist line. The
that has viaited India -
The Englishman." The acting
is brilliant "The Times of India' "The lesser lights shine gloriously."
-"Bombay Chronicle."
lady's left arm should not encircle her SPECIAL_MATINEE
partner's shoulders or neck.
controller should not be taught by dane PENELOPE
Steps or movement that cannot be SACURDAY, March 20th, at 5.30
ing teachers.” Short side-step-first
right, then left, when done continuously and at 9.30 p.m.
are not conducive to refined danging and
should not be permitted. Shimmie dane THE MARRIAGE OF
ing, a shaking or jerking of the upper
part of the body while taking short steps
or standing still, should not be tolerated..
The proper dancing step should be
the same as a natural walking one, creeps day and Cuesday,
in exhibition dancing, which properly bolongs to the stage, not the bull-room. Exceptionally long or short steps are not in good form.
Dancing should be from the waist down, not from the waist ap. Copying of the extreme med on the modern stage is in bad taste The majority of danger desire to dance according to the best accepted standards, that is, without the slightest trace of offence to dignity or decorum
DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE THE BISHOPS MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM
+to
The Bishop of Rochester's refusal, grant a Bromley man permission to be married in church after he had divorced his wife for infidelity raises anew the whole question of the divergence between Church and State law on this questidae
The Bishop of London," an Evchup Standard representative was told at cul- ham Palace, never han sanctioned, and
March 220d and 23rd,
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asapellbound."
A Rawless performance."- The Stare man "It beld Times of India.
A thing of beauty and a ever." Bombay Chronicle
Friday, March 26th,
nover will be likely to sanction, the mag riage of a divorced person. Such mar ringes have taken place in the diocese, but OUTCAST not with his authority or consent
Scarcely a day passes but an applies An Indictment tion for his sanction is made by divorced person. He is overwhelmed with, problems of dimorent kinds, but this is the most dificult of them all.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has laid it down that it is essential for the wall
for
BY HUBERT HENRY DAVIS. "Narer have we witnessed finer emotional acting."-"Times of India.
being of the nation that the marriage law SPECIAL MAĆINEE
should be grounded on a deliberate sensa
of what is reasonable and right if it is Saturday, March 27th, at 5.30
made a merely arbitrary law, which do
not appeal to men's reason, its authority OUTCAST
must be grievously impaired rete
Unfortunately as the Evening Stander and at 9.30 ₺ m.
ara representative was informed at Lam
beth Palace what is reasonable and MRS. DOT: right" in this matter of divorce and re
marriage is so obscure that some Bishops By W. Somerset Maugham. hold far less stringent views than others.
But on the question of the diverged of State and Church, the Primate with no undertain voice. surely," be Баул,
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