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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEH1. UTAH . "PRAISE ALLAH!" for the "BIG APPLE" LTLEY 70U'D never believe it, but it I all started in the House of Peace. And it has caused more excitement, noise and general pandemonium in the giddy social whirl than anything since Gilda Gray and the thousands who imitated her shimmy. That's the "Big Apple " An unDy WILLIAM C. W1. Waiting to Be Sewn Historic Hoaxe Wild Urge of Youth Finite Its Outlet in This Hectic Modern Adaptation of the Old Virginia Reel to "Swing"' Music ... . SCirn By I I - ...V.- v. . - ', L S...SI i...-r- September Morn DO YOU rei.e:: Ur - i al ' P e:r!er :i .',! Leys lis ef t!.c:r c:ri r. ...n e tt'O ri'i tnrp )t 3 f.Ut !t w.is w:.:er? of s:and:r.g in a prol tu.lfd "September Morn" and. it was considered "high.y in. propei" in those days, it became fie mort famous picture in America tamed, exhausting thing that rethanks to a press ascr.t named leases ail the wild urge of youth out o, in a rriOuern, nervous ae. To say Harry Reicher.bach, who was head Cnmstock. the a taken it and has that Anthony country by job, of the Anti-Vicsociety of New itorm is like saying Shirley Temple York. It carr.e about in this way: l.as charm; you've get to add: "And then some!" The original pamt.ng had been reand A few months ago no one had ever jected for a brewer's calendar heard of this dunce. Yet today you'll was hung in the window of a New ' I ' find the ' Big Apple" m plates of York art shop which ofiercd f But fcuch widely divergent character as of it for ten cents. rr-- V " ? ' If. . few people were interested ervjgh Chicago's "b!.'i(k and tan" belt and I A ) ; I m0 New York's Rockefeller Center; alto buy these copies until Heithen-:baimost any cross-roadSaturday nirht came along and saw the posdance hall and Hollywood's Brown ! sibilities in it. He needed S45 to pay - -Derby. his room rent and the art shop The "Big Apple" is riot a fruit promised to pay it if ne could t'mnk growers' promotion gag, although of an idea for disposing of the 1miO perhaps nothing has publicized the conies in its stoc k tipple so widely since the phrase, Play ieichcnbach had a Inige "An apple a day keeps the doctor of the picture put m the w.r.dow and away," was coined. It was named then, pretending to be an outraged lor the negro night club where it cit.zen, phoned Comstock about it. in club originatedthe Big Apple He persuaded others to do the same " Columbia, S. C. In other days thp t j :. thing and they all declared that the building had been a synagogue picture was undermining the morodd of an Peace called the House als of the youth of the city. Down enough birthplace fur this frantic to the shop marched the virtuous frolic of the feet. s Anthony. He found a group of You've (jot to Be Athletic, (hired by Reichenbach) loitering around in front of the shop Negroes invented it, young coland making leering remarks about lege students saw it and introduced the picture. it at their parties, and from there .Si . 7 it spread to the four points of the Convinced that "September Morn" yt. was indeed a menace to the youth of compass faster than the latest Mae , SOO if N. At Keanu-ystudents threatened a strike J., High School the West joke. city, Comstock immediately apCm. G. Mankey refused to lift his ban on the "Big Apple." Here Let's visit a party where the "Big Principal to the courts to stop the sale pealed a two for who don't are students the give rule, dancing of the hang Kearney The result was Apple" is in progress. It may be their favorite reproductions. new ".swing" craze. bl a fraternity dance in one of the just what Reichenbach had hoped large state universities, at a fine from the leader, all the couples who daring variations of it the Bunny for. In fact, the picture became seashore hotel, at a swanky coun- have not and by this time fallen by the Hug, the Grizzly Bear, the Gotham something of a national issue try club or at a honky-tonbefore the excitement over it died joint in wayside duck their heads and stag- Gobble and the Lovers' Walk. Harlem. The rigorous routine is And then! "Alexander's Ragtime down 7.000,000 copies had been sold ger into the center crying "Wahoo!" the same. What does all this represent? A Band!" The storm broke. This at $1.00 each! The band leader is the boss here, to the savage and primitive? was a brand-nereturn of kind music. and he can drive his slaves to Is civilization degenerating? PerThe Magic Stone Stimulating. Hot. Ragrhythm as hard as any slave driv- haps. But is not "swing" music Exciting. time! Dancing came out into the er in an ancient galley. He throws itself '"'AN the Ethiopian change his a technical refinement open. The restaurants sacrificed a them waving their arms and kicking of themerely his elemental skin, or the leopard rhythm few tables for floor space on which primitive, their feet into the old familiar of the tom-tom? Only spots?" sophisticated to who dance. Orchestra directors "Charleston," and with another call overtones have been added. Most About 30 years ago a great many he plunges them into the newer and folks would rather believe that the had led sweet, stringed dinner-musi- c evidently believed that the people to numbers sway suddenly began "Suzi-Q." wilder "Swing high" sets "Big Apple" is a good thing for their of that question could be half first in of new the hips rhythm jazz! the circle shuttling in a clockwise modern civilization, tor civilized answered "yes" and, for a time, South From came the America low" shifts it into direction; "swing be there is a wild we belief threatened to give Tulsa, the same time that the this reverse. Couples "cut the apple" thoughin the may meekest among us, and Tango, about the largest negro population urge Okla., It was end "heel the apple" at the call. the dance gives that urge safe phys- Turkey Trot made its bow. of any city in the United States. of it a and has good change pace Survival of the Fittest. ical expression. It came about when J. Burr Gib- lived until this day. After this preliminary workout a reporter for the Tulsa DemProbably the "Big Apple" is no bons, Vernon and Irene Castle, the fathe leader calls upon individual cou- - wilder for us than the V.r iinia Reel wrote a news story announcocrat, mous dance team, were the idol of the discovery of a negro having ing youth in those days. Early in 1913 an oil lease near Sapulpa who had they bowled the country over with succeeded in a white man their grace and invention; they out of himselfmaking According to the made a graceful, more pleasant the transformation resulted Thou- story, thing of the Turkey Trot. the negro drank from a because sands flocked to see them in Louis mineral on his lease At spring Martin's Cafe de l'Opera. first, white spots beian to anpear Castle Killed in 1918. on his body. Then they gradually d The Castles probably did more spread until he was as s ' as of man than T.- other Caucasian dancers any hX any professional if to increase the popularity of public origin. 41 t When this story was widely redancing. Their most important contribution was the invention of the printed in other papers, an avFox Trot, which is the basis of alanche of mail descended upon the most dancing today. Originally, it Democrat. It almost swamped the consisted of eight running steps and Tulsa post office. It came from turn; later it slowed down to four negroes all over the United States slow and four quick steps. who wanted to know more about All through the World war the this magic spring, what were the chances for finding employment in craze for the Fox Trot continued Vernon Castle was killed in 1918. Tulsa so they could bathe in it and but not before the changes in dancenjoy its wonder-workinpowers, ing which he had helped to bring etc. Of course, they were doomed to about had become well established The sold.er boys danced it with their disappointment but it was a long wives and sweethearts before they time before the last inquirer was went overseas and after they came convinced that there was no such back. spring and before the last echoes It was upon their return that the of the reporter's hoax died away. mad period we call the Jazz age began. Youth was finding a new freeThe Hoaxer Hoaxed dom. The speakeasy had become PHINEAS T. BARNUM one "TO a national institution. The cry was for more and faster and "hotter" day came a letter from a man in Vermont saying that he had a senmusic. And some weird and abortive dance steps found their ways sational attraction for his American Museum on Broadway. to the public fancy. It was a cherry-colorecat which he would Enter the Rhumba. sell for $20;) but the terms were Probably we might have expected and immediate acballroom dancing to wane in popuof the offer. ceptance larity during the dark years of the Always eager to obtain some new depression; but the opposite was the wonder, Barnum promptly sent on actuai case. The explanation may Even the kids are doing it! Marilyn Lou Olsen (left) and Marlene be found in the fact that dancing the $'200 When the "wonder" arMarie Baumheier in Chicago's famed College Inn of the Hotel .Sherman provided an escape from gloom and rived, he discovered that it was only an ordinary large block cat. Atre shown taking a fling. Maybe they'll bring a "Big Apple" for teacher! in the added leisure which mosl ttached to its neck was a card which people had to endure. "1 forgot to tell you that the pies to "shine." Each couple, at a was for our grandfathers and grandHie Rhumba came in during the read: cherries up here are black ones." rod from him, takes a turn in the mothers. Some tourists probabU depression. At first Barnum was furious at center of the circle while the others The waltz, sweet, graceful and picked it up in the West Indies and Then he saw the hu to one knee, clap proper, was the popular dance of started the country on the way to a the deception thcnkfully drop in rhythm and cheer the "shiners" two generations ago. Rut a faint new craze. It will never become mor of the situation and decided to it to his own advantage on." Couple after couple demonHe glimmer of light heralding the dawn as popular as the Fox Trot or wait? turn strates the progress or the retro- oi a new ago was tne taster, jerk.oi because displayed the animal in his museum it is too difficult, but it ma variation called the Boston. The remain beside the Tango as a and gave wide publicity to his acgress of the modern dance dependof a "genuine cherry-coloredare-devil- s of the ing entirely upon danced it. point "stunt" number for the more ac- quisition cat from Vermont." view. There are dozens of variaKaftime Revolutionizes Dancing. dancers. complished If a customer, upon seemo tK The Spnivsh-Americations, among them the Camel Walk, war. the Most important of the recent innoanimai, Peekin' and Posin', the Flea Hop, horseless carriage, the phonograph complained that he had is "swing" music, which (. been deceived and demanded his the Bunny Jump, the Sugar Foot and other innovations speeded up vations more than a rehash of old money back, the showm.m exend (probably most violent of life, and the dance kept pace w.th hardly time Jazz. With it came the liveh plained that he had When one the one-stethe am ell) the Liridy Hop. bought and later the two-steShag, a dance which is the most ini mal in good faith and that, further couple has performed everything it Things were perking up. fundamental of the Bil more, it reaiiv was the mior of kmws or exhausted every last Came 1!)10, and the American portant cherries, only they were Vermont ounce of strength, another is called dance suddenly became a craze. Apple. But in America more than any DiacK cticrncs The Turkey Trot had been invented. Usually, however, upon. visitors to the museum were so deThe music gets faster and faster, A guy could now dance a lot closer where elfe fame is a fickle ere a and who knows, perhaps nex lighted to see how the master the wails of the trumpet and clari- to his gal than the waltz, ever per- ture. hoaxer had been hoaxed that they net grfw more and more weird, and mitted. The sanctimonious lifted year the Big Apple will have bee; and eve did not complain Instead they were the m ns of the saxophone lower worried eyebrows, but the young forgotten and some maoder dance will fin inspiration inclined to consider it a good joke and bluer. It builds up to an exfolks kept right on with their jerky the country. on themselves that they had been citing penk, and then nt a signal new step and even invented more Wcv.rm Newtwpf r Union. taken in by Barnum's claim to ownership of a "cherry-colore- d cat." ir f , v,3 coil e r e ii 111 t: ! ;. fi inn & &0 AMI zK Mm 'j$miJ$ '-- GSf W HA lilt ; -4 r- repro-ductio- WuUvt'il i h s t if ;vlL Vf 'PI 1 A f : W; . rai'.a-mull'in- k ,Sr$ white-skinne- F . J g d cash-in-advmi- I Fatt simplicity. V'OW, we ask you, isn't this the wno sews oi us ... K i. win uri.i i Ulan 0r layout supreme for Young YtriaiuiiD .;ii and of this charming ,.jble. mi As America, Miss Modern Mother Meticulous? 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