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THE "KINKAJOU" DANCE.

SHOULDER-SHRUGGING IN A NEW STUNT.

New York: While the love of jazz music and dancing has not lessened in the United States the vogue of the more involved dances such as the Charleston and Black Bottom is waning.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927.

HUGE DEALS IN FRANCS.

HANKERS ACQUITTED ON FRAUD CHARGE.

Enormous deals in francs were mentioned in a case at the Old Bailey last month."

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Simon Epstein, 40 Nathan Epstein, 33, banker: and It was never possible, with any were found not guilty on a charge Henry James Glynn, 32, broker, degree of success, for two persons of conspiring together and with to dance either the Charleston or Samson Suwalsky to defraud the the Black Bottom together. Their Jewish Colonial Trust, Limited. intricacies simply afforded an op- of large sums of money. The trial portunity for the display of agility had lasted a fernight. that fitted the stage better than the

ball-room,

M: Roland Oliver, K.C., pro-

At the very outset the vogue of seeuting, said that the case arose these dances received a serious aet-out of the conviction of Surwalsky back when dancing floors collapsed for fraud.

as partners attempted to xccute Glynn, giving evidence, said that

steps in unison.

he was a director of a liraited com-

Now a serious effort is being pany which traded as foreign ex- made to popularise the "Kinkajou' change brokers at

1926.

Broad-street

- dance that has received the en-House, E. C. He (Glynn) speca-- dorsement of the recent Convention lated in hundreds of millions. of Dancing Masters in New York. of francs in the first six months of

It is neither so disjoisted in music nor in its steps as the dances which were so popular a year ago. The "Kinkajou" starts with 1 struta modification of a jazz walk or swaying glide with a lift ing of the shoulders. Its seconde was movement is a grinding of the heel with the leg stretched forward and the toe swinging to right and left with the heel as a pivot.

This is easier to the dancer than the Charleston, even if more de- structive to a polished dancing floor, '

While "Kinkajou" contests pro mise to replace the Charleston and Black Botton competitions, it is doubtful whether the new dance will become and more popular than its predecessors.

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one bank representing 344 million In June 1926 he had deals with trancs, and the following month his same bank speculations with the amounted to 188 million francs, probably the largest speculator on the foreign exchange market in London.

Suwalsky asked him if he would put through exchange speculations foreign currencies. He replied that and carry "open" positions in he saw no objection provided there was "cover."

He agreed that there was an un- written rule not to allow officials of a bank to speculate, but a broker winked at. was obliged to do it. It

Was

Mr. Norman Birkett, KC, for Glynn, observed that it might be said that Glynn had not kept proper accounts of his transactions with Suwalsky, but it should be remem- bered that hundreds of deals, some- times in millions, were done daily, in the City of London by word of mouth over the telephone.

Sir Henry Maddocks, K.C., for the Epsteins said that, they had done an enormous business and no one had ever thrown a stone at them. In one year their turnover with the Jewish Colonial Trust was £1,100,000.

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