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Show Pomerance Says: This Could Happen To You It's, about time for someone to start raising their voices about the way the younger generation dances. Some of the positions our youthful terpsichoreans assume, make a French love story look as dull as an entry in a prison inmate's diary. Any night a J. Jones' palace of dreams could be entitled "Rhapsody "Rhap-sody in Woo." The male half of the struggle shoves his puss into his date's hair, and clutches her. The date closes her eyes, digs her nails into the nape of his neck, throws back her head and the struggle begins. The basic step used in all dancing is the combination of a hop, a blind stagger and a 20 yard dash. This, of course, is modified according ac-cording to fit the tempo and mood of the music. If the music is slow every one gets dreamy-eyed and drags about like a floor-full of undulating snails. If, however, the music is of fast tempo, there are various ways of dancing. There is the kangaroo sprint or hopping type. This cannot be described, but it can be seen any night at the Rainbow when East High is not holding its own dance. Then there is the sideward slide step. The purpose of this is to fl cover a lot of territory and fellow dancer's feet, and it rates only next to garlic when it comes to losing friends. A dancing problem that disappeared with the gum shortage is the difficulty that came when the girl's hair and the fellow's wad of gum met and became inseparable. But it's all over now, because beggars beg-gars can't be chewers. To further Pan American relations and because it's a wonderful way to exercise, we have imported many South American dances namely the tango, rhumba, conga, samba and Calypso Joe's blind staggers. During a recent survey taken at some of the town's more populated jump and jug joints it was found that when a rhumba, etc., is being played, of the total number of dancers in the place, five per cent of them danced, 90 per cent of them tried to dance, three per cent sat on the sidelines, and two per cent came out from underneath their tables and looked bleary-eyed. The single person who has probably done more to cement relations rela-tions between the Americas than any one else is that lovely and vivacious wench, Miss Senorita Carmen "Veranda. Many songs are more suitable to dance to than others. The following songs are very good: "The Moon Got in My Eyes" or "Boy, Was I High That Night!" "Shoo, Shoo Baby" or "The Song of the Infant Blacksmith." From the good old South Americans we have that lovely song, "Besame Mucho" it's the Spanish version of that good old U. S. "Baby, Knock Me a Kiss." And to conclude we couplet: "To trip the current light fantastics, Be proficient in Spanish, soft talk and gymnastics." - 'i |