Show THE CRANE DANCE where alio got their idea toy a specialty there is a dance nailed the crans dance which is popular at tho vaudeville houses at lincoln park there is a real brauo which does a crane bauco and those who have seen its feats say the bird does it much better than do the featherless two legged animals no purely imitative dancing could fail to gain by being an exact copy of the performance of the long necked spindle legged sand hill crane its steps are not only grotesque but they aro of a kind to make the gravest onlooker lose his dignity and laugh like a delighted boy at the circus this lincoln park bird at the outset of his dance is the personification of dignity when in tha days of his freedom he tripped it on his native baad hills for the sole benefit of his mate bo did so only in the springtime but now in his lowly captive state he dances in and out of season if tha keeper who feeds him will but wave his arma and take an awkward step or two to give him encouragement the crane begins its dance by shoving one long leg with its claw attachment straight out in front of his body then he lowers it and draws it back slowly until it is within an inch or two of the ground then thero is a double shuffle and the other leg ia pointed to the front then tho canoa begins in earnest the wings are stretched and beat the air in perfect time to the movement of the feet be they going fast or slow there is tho semblance of a clog then the sinuous foot and body movement of the girl and in a moment the whirl of tha dancing dervish to be succeeded as a finale by a sort of wild all hands round in which every feather of the bird is alive as it enters into the joy of the dance with an utter abandon the act of stopping is like the halt of tho german soldier sudden stiff and instant then the crane marches away fco a corner with a still stately tread but with an eye which appears to reveal embarrassment barras chicago times herald |