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TOO QUICK DANCES.
THE ELDERLY DANCER 'SPEAKS.
"Modern dancing," sald a doctor who is a tunge expert to me the other day is physical jerks with the jerkingss left out. It is the best possible remedy for the common. placo ills of a sendentary life, and
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1927,
BETTING TAX.
NOW. WORKING SMOOTHLY.
Discussing the Betting Tax yield, Mr. Ronald McNeill, Finan cial Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at Maidenhead, sald: "I think it quite likely that we shall not get £1,500,000. We put I always prescribe it to my it down at that as a rough guess | patients." Indeed, his prescrip- for this portion of the year, but tion on one occasion took this it will probably not be until this form: "Jupiter ald us (usual time next year, that we will be cabalistic sign); one or two pretty able to say whether the particu- frocks, as many nice boys as posar form that this tax takes is the sible, and dancing three evenings right machinery for collecting the a week." This for a girl in the tax, but it is working perfectly Inst 'toen who had working too smoothly. hard at her books.
The Charleston, of course, is the
"The agitation against the tax dance, of the season. It keeps its comes from bookmakers and what peculiar rhythm, though it has are known as professional backers. They are. nut the people upon been flattened", so as to bring whom depends ofther the success into lino with the smooth, suave of racing or the industry of horse technique which is characteristic of the British style that has gon-who tell us that the result of the breeding, but they are the people: quered the world-for everywhere on the Continent and in America tax will be that there will not be (even in the American hinterlands another bet made,
"All I can say is that if that of civilisation to which H. L. Men- cken introduces us in his humor- prophecy comes true, we will go aus..year-books) the British tea- down in history as the greatest cher of dancing is preferred to all moral-reforming Government of others. Even the tie-tac-too, any age.".
suggested which formerly machine-gun's fusillade, has been softened down into a sort of pur ring, overheard in the frou-frou .of skirts.
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THE LEISURED WOMAN.
HER DANCING AND COCKTAILS.
·Mr. Bernard Shaw suggested in a recent lecture at the Kingsway Hall, W., that Mr. G. K. Chester- ton was prepared to defend, the Charleston without being able to perform it, and "that if someone" challenged him to rise on the plat- form and execute a Charleston with Lady Rhondda be would not be able to do it.
Introducing a debate between Lady Rhondda and Mr. G. K, Ches terton on "The Menace of the Leisured Woman," Mr. Shaw skid that formerly a woman had chil- dren to look aftor. She had a
Lelgure was im house to keep.
"She had hardly time possible.
husband ought to really to nag her husband as her
(Laughter.)
be nagged.
all that. We have got rid of the "Nowadays, we have changed house and the housekeeper.
We
have subsituled the service flat and the residential hotel. A wo- man can spend her time drinking cocktails, going to the night club, dancing the Charleston, and doing all the things that many women Mr. McNeill, referring to the seem to imagine will fill their lives new basis of taxation on motorgloriously." vehicles, said he believed It would
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The debate proved to be fail. be far better if, instead of basing Lady Rhondda, who supported the the taxation on horac-power, if The fox-trot, still the staple fare was based upon the fuck used. View that leisured women were a in all ball-roomT programmes, There were many difficulties in the menace, said little to uphold her contention that they were an evil went through the same evolution. way that the system could aur that might wreek civilisation. Sie In Armistice days, it was an immount, but he did not think they declared that plenty could be found possible affair on a populous floor, would hesitate to adopt it. with its "twinkles" and "shim- mies and similar business, and it is not surprising that preachers took up their parable against its I sudden popularity. As thing are, there is as yet no generally- accepted form of the mild and mitigated Charleston.
In all dancing, of course, a ton minute carefulness makes for å merely mechanical perfection. which rubs out all individualBy and diminishes the pleasure of spectators, who feel that the pair are not enjoying their evolutions
there is nothing more catching ihan joyousness in dancing, except the dull and depressing luck of it! Let dancers follow the ex ample of the Prince of Wales. who inherits the dancing instinct from his grandfather and tho roughly enjoys a Charleston 'n his own way. Technique is for thi dancer, not the dancer for tech- nique.
In the "Black Bottom," now des cending from the stage to the Ballroom floor, we have a not im- possible rival to the Charleston. Like the Charleston it originated
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the products of savagery is as ab. sarb as it would be to suggest that the beautiful "spirituals" and plantation songs are merely bar- barism reduced to musical terms. Meanwhile the popularity of the en the cotton plantations, where, Charleston and of the quick-time after a hard day's toil, the negro foxtrot is a source of secret worry middle nged dancer. workers still delight in dancing to the
to the banjo's tinkle and the stars' Hitherto the new dancing has twinkle. In the regions of deep been praised, rightly so, because black alluvial land along the Mis-it does not require athletic ability sissippi, where the soil is so rich, as the old-fashioned waltz on a they say, that the cottonpods bura roomy, well-polished floor un- into sudden white cloudlete like questionably did-and can be en- high explosive shells. you willjoyed by men and women of all fond "floors." or "bottom," of blacages, from eight to eighty." Sugh mud stamped hard and at where high-speed dances are too strenu the coloured folk assemble for cus for the person who is a bit seant o'breath. Youth will be their evening Testivities.
It is nonsense to say that theserved, no doubt, and the, votaries sideways foot-jerk of this dance, of the Charleston are all, or nearly which is also characteristic of the full, young people.
Another change aboriginal Charleston, originate
which vexes
in the way the festive niggers dis- the soul of the oldster, is the posed of the dollops of mud from speeding up of the tempo by so their naked feel. In wet weathe many bands, our British combinn- dancing on the mud floor is out tions having followed the example of the question."
of those imported from America. This foot-twist is characteristic Some bands actually go up to of all American negro formation sixiy bars a minute, which not of the negro's anklo, which is only reduces the veteran-eva quite unlike a white man's. That the slim lady who is fair and is why you are advised out there forty-to an ungraceful gasp, but to hack a coloured gentleman's also prevents even the skilled shins if you are involved in a dis-youthful experts from doing jus-- pirtation with him and wish to in- tice to their artistry. I should capacitate him before he can get like to see an Act of Parliament to work with his razor, the fav passed prohibiting a speed of ourite racial weapon. And to run more than forty-eight bars to the down the negro dances as being minute-Peter Merrill.
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"The clothes we wear to-day," she said, “are only invented for a leisured class that does not have to work, and has most of its time to play with, and to wear flimsy clothes that need constant renewal and washing."
Mr. G. K. Chesterton defended the old tradition that the woman of the home should remain in the home and occupy herself with the tremendous business of bringing up children.
"I am a business woman; I am in commerce and I would not be anywhere else," said Lady Rhond- da, in reply. "I believe business is the fundamental profession of the country."
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