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DANCE TIME.
THE FAST OR SLOW FOX.TROT.
The following is from The Olarver "of November 3rd:-
Whether
PUZZLE OF TWIN HUSBAND.
IS HE HIMSELF OR HIS BROTHER?
The strangest answer ever recorded us given to the ancient question, âm I my brother keeper has been puzzling the law courts of New Jersey.
Mr Hears 1 Morgan, a commercial traveller, who is secused of bigamy, ad mitted that for two years he has played the other. John, who was killed in part of husband to the widow of his twin, Francs while a
to spare his
I
composers, or rier veres, is a question. New Jersey: where they lived
Soma experts declare that most of
The gay season of charity balls has opened at a time when the inner circle of the dancing world is in the middle of a controversy as to whether the fove trot should be taken slow or fast. The point does not sound tremendous; but who dances much will or everyone
Far dancers preciate its importance. the issue is not academic; it spells the whole difference between pleasure and formed the course in trip. discomfort, gaiety and dullness, in the brother's family the shock which th
modern
ernews. of their bereavement would causs ballroom. The real lords of the ballroom are the muse-makers, not the them, he acted as father to his own have started the trouble which is now ignorant of his real identity. dancing masters. It is the former who nephews, who, like their mother, were
the perplexing dancers.
Two women.. both conpely, appears
court.
testified that she bands are more to blame than the in
married Henry six months ago at Pino-
until
her suspicions were
He quicker rhythm, and pull back
Whilst ethers assert that five days of each week at home. taken slowly; the bands
explained to her that he spent the other are following the lead of Paul Whiteman, and are speeding up two days with his brother's family in the normal dance time from 41.40 bars Philadelphia.
makes all
HE 18 ur own." a minute to 50 bars-which the difference.
The second woman, weeping drama-
This is not Heng Dancers themselves aro divided. Solar
He is like the slower time, some the faster.tically, said:
one can never be Morgan, my husband's brother. The result is that quite certain now, as one goes from ball John Morgan, my own husband. There to ball, in private, chib and restaurant is po possible doubt about it. Do you ballrooms, whether one is going to have think a man's own wife and children
could be deceived as to his identity ? plave fast, slow, one's foxtrots
Mr. Morgan protesting vigorted argued that he had
feeling bigamy. but had acted from a of pure afection for his dead brother, He was releasd on £400 bail pending trial to determine whether he is John
Henry
modern tunes are written in a wiched by the fact that he spent only.
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A the lust dianer, of the Dancers' Circle, an informal ansual meeting of
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NEW BURDEN OF MIDDLE
CLASSES. "
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the leading experts, this matter was dis-whom he resembled even to birthmarks cussed, and it was decided to recognise two distinct foxtrots, one for the 44.4 bar dance, one for the 50-bar one. It is hoped that the latter dance will become known as the Quickstep, catch on, and evolve into a new dance, thus solving the great problem which is, turning all Oper turns and the teachers grey. threesteps-the foxtrot proper would
and
COST OF PRESERVING HEALTH. done to the slower time,
between rhythmic walk, something
The cost of presoring good health is foxtrot and a onestep, is contemplated for the fast time. It is farther thought becoming increasingly burdensome to the that people can be persuaded to do the middie" classes, said Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician, in an ad- ordinary foxtrot in spacious ball-roonis, and the Quickstep foxtrot when i crush dress to the Insurance Institute of Lon-
free
movemcuta At pre-lon. prevents sent, of course, we simply slow down in a crush and do a variety of things term- ed. in the ensemble, standstill steps The younger generation find the latter a certain especially as very pleasant,
of bodr movement is now In any case, the whole controversy is not likely to interfere with the galety of the charity balls, which are the only sort of dances people really, interest them selves in this sitic of Christmine. Fashion or perhaps one should say the erola tion of the dance babit has not left these fuzetions untouched. They have had to have regard to such influences as the vogue of cabaret, the tendency to wake dances shorter, and the decided popularity of the afternoon dance, the rage for after-the-theatre affairs.
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CHARITY BALL FASHIONS. Consequently one sees a charity here relying on a series of 3-tille dances in replenish its fashionable Ectel to
usual there the
9-till-a coffers; and costane ball discarded in favour of an 11-till- cabaret-supper dance, the tickets for the latter costing half as much again as the tickets for the former used to cost. but still, going off like hot cakes. Big fancy dress balls of the tille variety are
in the ran still public favour, however; but they have
be livened with
up organised revelry, spectacles, surprises, processions, con- fetti snow-storms, midnight punchbowls, and the distribution of carnival tags by
'to
of
the hundredweight, otherwise the fun
.
3000
Tickets Bags
12th
two
for these affairs
The more medical knowledge improved the larger the expense that fell upon the head of the faintis. He had known of families, crippled for 10 years by the heavy cost of modern roethods of treat ing disease. Every family spent far more now-a-days on the care of the teeth," on the tonsils, and on the shape of the
and the feet of the rising genera tion. If it were not so, should we tolerate the short skirts which are in vogue to-day be asked.
The hom was becoming less and less suitable as place where illness could be
treated.
There wits more need for in- stitutional treatment. The arrival of a baby was looked upon by the domestic staff of a house is a matter almost of personal grievance. In very few homes would the servants tolerate illness.
Clinics and hospitals were needed for middle-class families, but care should be taken, not to separate the patiens from the attention of his family doctor.
"To man these places with whole-time melical officers would be embarking on the slippery slope that led to a nationali- sation of the health services.
Unless some.solution of the present found the alternative difficult, were would ultimately be a nationalised medi- cal service.
CINEMA NOTES.
QUEEN'E THEATRE.
A distinctly pleasing novelty is "The vary from a guinea to five guineas. The Sint Call. the current photodrama at Three Arts Eal, which takes place on the Queen's Theatre, where it commerced December
sold all its double five tickets
weeks before ball night, and four days' engagement yesterday. In double story; the this picture, there is for is
guineas single interlocking of the double plots, being ticfr.
Betting it.
private accomplished through the agency of For the smaller affairs in houses, the banque is voted the Strongheart, the world's most marvellous smartest thing and lately the idea of police log, who is the real hero of the of photoplay The second element of novelty change providing facilities for Messrs. costume half-way through the ball haslies in the remarkably beautiful scenery annual been imported from America. Altage of the production.
Twother dances are very much gayer; and.
CO.S
of
ballrooms which is
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Chinese it
it may be this new liveliness in the Hoogkorg einerna goers can depend on Babies" (boys), drawn by a Artist, with a pretty landscape in the atmosphere of our
the actable Uni- The babies,
Merry-Go-Round striving causing the dance hards to jazz up seeing something distinctly unusual in background.
of a bottle of the the foxtrot to the extent of four adversal production which comes to the for the posses product, and seem totional bars a minute. fers famous
that on past supplies have done so well thosh unacquainted with the reculiarities of Chinese art may diagnose the heads na a caso of megalocrania
Like most thiage in China that seem there is a sound strange at first sight, reason underlying this, and it becomes evident if one makes an accurate draw- ing of a baby to scale and then, for purposes of comparison, enlarges it to the size of an adult. It will be seen
baby is very much "head" in that
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Chinese art and scious of this.
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MARRIED LIFE.
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Coronet this evening, as the icature at traction for the next few days." Merry. Go-Round" is unusual because the pro- ducer luas approached the work of mak ing this picture from an entirely new angle. He has sought to present, cct the usual pulpable narrative, but a piece of real life. And it must be said, that' When the British Control Committee of he has succeeded in a very striking way the National Council of Public. Morais indeed. The story of Merry-Go-Round continued its sitting at Sion College, opens in the brilliant dazzling Vienna under the chairmanship of the Bishop of the days just before the Great War the Woven round the lives of the scion of of Winchester,
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to the natural mao the Christian nourished
darlings of difficult t Horlick's Malted Milk Co., reminds us standard as regards sexual relations Mary Philbin, Universal's "discovery" that the Chinese have embodied in their was, we had to maintain it, and he of the year, plays the role of a pretty Christian standard made young organ grinder, and her charm and ideograph for baby their characteristle thought the C love for the child, and especially the the procreation of children the chief innate artistry mark her out as one of man-child, in much the same terms as end and justification of those relations forbids mention of all the other players, verbis in dincases Writing from impers blood. It searches ont and expels from the the great names of the screen. Space Rever before was there anything like it, or are its marvelinus properties likely ever ta the Roman matron Cornelia expressed as a whole, it,
"It might be said: "What is the use but a special tribute must be paid to vital current every larking trace of poisonous matter, curing blood and skin disones, When asked to show her jewels she'
George Seignano, who as the bullyingfulous and glandular swellings, bad legs, abscenes, ulcers, eczema, goat, rheuma owner makes a particularly, goilre cz Derbyshire Neck, ste. It improves the general health, and quickly presented her sons, and on her death of the Christian Church fighting status was erected to her memory losing battle against a practice which circus
moves long-standing bronchitis, asthma and hacking, straining, spaemedie sough,
Loo often the precursor of consumption. inscribed Comelia, the mother of the is sure to become more and more pre odious and detestable villain, which is Gracchi."
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"woman" below. The character is older both of the difficulties of some methods MEETINGS of the
His conclusion was that the Church thethan Cornelia and the gloss say that recommended, of the physical risks of LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
children are the necklace ornaments or others, and of their moral repulsive. preciosities round & women's neck. ness. He thought tradition or conscience and in particular the Anglican Church, Chipa has thus a mentorial to its would make a good fight, even in quar must maintain its condemnation of, and
protest against, contraceptives, mother love, more enduring than that offer which were not very Christian in matt give intelligent and intelligible Cornelia, enshrined in its marvellous Profession,
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