THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1938.
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Learn Dancing With Me!
By Santos Casani
(Famous Teacher of Dancing)
VARIATIONS OF THE DIAGONAL WALTZ
The Diagonal Waltz is an entrancing dance, deservedly claim- ing a big place in all modern programmes. Now having practiced and mastered the Natural turn and the Change Step-let us learn the other variations and movements.
In our last lesson we started the Natural turn diagonally to the Right Hand Wall and finished it diagonally to the Centre of the room. Then we danced into a Change Step with no turn at all in it, and thus finished in the same direction. We are now ready for the next step
1.
Reverse Turn.
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2. Step to the side on the ball of the Right foot still turning
to the Left.
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CHANGE STER
WALL
REVERSE TURN,
CENTRE OF ROOM.
RIGHT FOOT
START HERE
Close the Right foot to the Left foot rising on to the toes. You should now be facing diagonally to the Right Hand Wall, hav- Step forward on the Left foot diagonally to the Centre, ing turned about one eighth of a turn on these last three steps. turning on it to the Left.
Hints on Waltzing Gracefully. Meaning that when your foot is ways found pupils have been be that if necessary, you can stop From long experience I have al- forward and flat, you should feel nefited greatly by mastering the still and stand on that one foot. following useful hints.
Keep the knee soft, not bent, for the first and second steps, and then rise right through the feet and knees to your full- height on the third beat. Keep is closing on the third beat. a little pressure on the foot that
3. Close the Left foot to the Right foot, rising on to the toes. You should now have your back to your Line of Dance.
4.
Left.
5.
The accented beat in the mu sic of the waltz is the first beat
Step straight back on the Right foot, turning on it to the in each bar, and the first step of
Step to the side on the ball of the Left foot still turning to
the Left.
6. Close the Right foot to the Left foot rising on to the toes, You should now be facing diagonally to the Right Hand Wall, having turned three-quarters of a complete turn. Now do a Change Step off the disengaged Left foot.
1. Forward Left. 2. Side Right. 3. Close Left foot to Right foot.
No turn at all on this figure. Now do the Natural turn again which is exactly the opposite of the Reverse turn. The Natural Spin Turn. This is an extremely useful and easy figure to dance. Start facing diagonally to the Right Hand Wall and do the first three steps of the Right turn.
1.
2.
3.
Step forward on to the Right foot turning to the Right. Step to the side on the Left foot still turning.
Close the Right foot to the Left foot rising on to your toes. You are now back to your Line of Dance.
4. Take a short step back on your Left foot. Get your weight well on to this step, but do not let the heel drop too quickly. Now pivot round to the Right on this foot
5.
and take a step forward into Line of Dance rising on
to your toes. You should now be facing the Right Hand Wall,
having turned just over a full turn on these 5 steps.
6.
7.
Tiny steps to the side on the Left foot still on the toes.
Soften gently into the Left heel and step straight back on:
the Right foot turning slightly to the Left.
.8.
Step to the side on the ball of the Left foot.
ANTI-WRINKLE EXERCISES
This is Delicious
The following exercises are very Cook four cups of macaroni -good for preventing wrinklesTo tenderness and blanch with hot
prevent a "frilly” jaw-fine, stand
each figure MUST be taken on be swung straight from the hip this. The forward steps should
ensures
to a full comfortable stride, the foot never leaving the floor en- The above exercise move- tirely, and going forward on the your control over your
ments and corrects the very HEEL first. This applies also to the girl when she is coming forward, and is extremely im portant.
on
When the leg is at full stretch, the foot is put flat
floor, and the weight brought on to it immediately
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START
HERE
WHEN YOU BUY
A HAT.
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Insist on seeing yourself in a full-
to length mirror. Even when a hat looks marvellous_from_the_front, back and sides, you must make sure
or
count.
Remember that "off the face” and
getting ahead of the music. common · fault of rushing
and
The side step must be a very definite side step. Get a good width between your feet on the 2nd and 5th steps of each move- to ment. Don't fall back on your back foot when you take a backward stride. Keep the foot firm and your partner will take you gently over it. If you drop your heel too quickly you will bump and pull your partner for
ward jerkily.
Keep your rise and fall very
soft and smooth, and get the impression that you are poised at your full height for a frac- tion of a second, as your feet come together on the third beat.
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If you are in any doubt on any point please write to c/o the Editor of this. Journal enclosing a Stamped Addressed Envelope.
(Copyright by Santos Casani).
If You Lose A Gold Ring
with your shoulders well back and cold water. Cook two tomatoes or that the “balance” is right, taking head tilted back. Open your a half cup of tomato juice with the whole of your figure into ac mouth wide and
Den slowly close two tablespoonsful of minced green | the lower jaw.
pepper and sliced onion all in but brimless styles may make you feel To smooth nose to mouth lines, ter until tender but not browned very young and dashing, but--they fill the mouth with air and puff hard against the inside. of.
your Now melt a half pound package of call for a faultless coiffure.
If you aspire to being the perfect It will not matter half as much as cheeks and your upper lip. Keep American or Parmesan cheese in the secretary or well-dressed business if you lose your resistance to colds.. ing the lips slightly opened, re:
Thousands of dollars choose something fairly colds and thousands of money making. are wasted on lease the air in little puffs as if top of a double boiler and add a woman,
quarter cup of sheery wine.
small and trim. Garden party m | people are obliged to confine them- you were blowing smoke rings.
dels do not look well with-office-clo-selves to bed in consequence of colds A good exercise for the neck and Combine the macaroni, pepper and thes.
at this time of year. chin line is to do the above exer-onion mixture with two sliced hard The angle at which you wear it sistance to colds and other ailments, To strengthen your powers of re- cises, but whilst letting out the imaginary smoke rings, rotate the cooked eggs in a baking dish. Pour is the most important thing about too, is therefore to save yourself money a hat. But for everyday wear, avoid as well as inconvenience and suffering- head slightly from side to side. the wine sauce over the mixture, anything that requires ten minutes To do this the first essential is to keep the food tract clean and healthy and But these exercises will do little Bake in a moderate oven and you adjustment plus the aid of two mir-the eliminative organs in good working good unless you take a serious in- have eight servings. terest in your food. There are some very important nerves that are directly connected with the stom- vegetables to the usual boiling me- ach and if you are unhappy or ner- vous the food does little good. But thod, serve chard or other greens curing yourself of the "blues the
with the cheese wine sauce. if a meal is enjoyed, some beauty experts say that this is as good as plies both nourishment and
facial."
If you are restricted on
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green
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order, for which purpose many people Ill-fitting hats can cause just as rely on Pinkettes. These dainty laxa- tive pills aid digestion, activate the much misery as ill-fitting shoes.
liver pel cons pation, and taken Never buy a hat unless you occasionally when needed, help to need it. There are cheaper ways
am regularity of the daily habit. tes correct iliousness and sick they clear the complexion, the breath, relieve piles. Equal- or men and women. They are obtainable at all-chemists.
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