Show Jazzing A Demoralizing p 1 5 2 2 1 P J a aeS v fes es eS Replies Christensen Christense ITS n e of II jazz jazz music music find dancing ore are subjects o of 4 a mu marked cd f ERf nCe o of spin pinion opinion between bet two o o exponents of dancing Mrs t Castle and end L L. P. P Christensen of this city Mrs Ails frs Castlo ex- ex f tw r on her bt over o the tho ma mad music and terpsichorean tumult of the ety Air l Christensen Chritensen pronounces s it insufferable IIo lie dis- dis JUS f with l th the sentiments expressed by Mrs Irs Castle Castlo in an article ap- ap recently mith in London and published b by bj Tho The Herald Following Follow p r e lewS dir r ba ti the I Dances Attract Sol Sol- gers tiers From Streets Avers Ayers Mrs MI Cas Castle e ei i CASTLE CASTLED D in America many thou- thou Iti JI W Wf borne hOme American soldiers who ct f young J c cl be Idling about the thed t l dancing tha tho their leave s 's J plat Sir send end d P pastime In ln lh th the W We 0 dancing that about aI J 3 a 3 craze craT cr r 11 old can 11 young youn- or neither Welcher i ie tf if vs lis' J L bear hear a bit of ot we ice rhen a 3 Into nto mis- mis Invariably In get set ill on short on a tt red d Joung e. e happy frame of ot mind and td rd in to be t walking about with 1 fast I. I i to do and dancing dancing- Is 13 a n. very ery us r recreation df 1 rolls coming over o from Amer- Amer boat most extraordinary dlf- dlf It the f J flu a rough sea lea and a crowd- crowd boys bos not suppress I P. P our or delre lre to dance Rejoice With Uh to form Corm R a Jazz band neT l K several other women In tho the all aU Joined In All tho the men irl J we lie Ifta from the Abe middle west and I did an aa or of them but we had a time n scheme Jn In London If It proper properly tP ou ht to bo be a great reat success s. s nUi e another aDother fine fino opportunity for lor fort t and American soldiers to and end If respectable girls 1 it will bo be all the bettor bottor I that t we O might Invite well well- BIT n i women onen of or the tha theatre to help 1 n gU t have an Elsie Elslo JanIs night ia 11 s Ethel Lo e Levey night and I It 1 t 11 pleased to dance whenever cr I p Too Dance lUre co to doubt that tho the moral erd cf- cf d r.-on r. our young oung soldiers who are if r c a few days das In London would I can promise you ou that feri not be an American boy of or London at night If Ie he hem here m T was iras a 3 dance danco on at Covent ia leLL The British Tommies TommIe who are ares s keen on dancing would catch j ner too I ti bind band nd 1 Is I believe ej w I In la London and to most most Brit Brit- i. i Closer acquaintance will ill iii ties converts con It Is 18 the tho Ideal i for fer a tig popular dance for tor sol sol- solla la I I r Music l Is Grotesque New Measures l Degrading ding Says Salt Laker nv fly I. 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L p. p If Ie Jazz music and Jazz dancing are aro elevating ele as Mrs Vernon Castle says Bays why then nothing positively nothing Is demoralizing From such re a aview rt viewpoint viewpoint view view- point a drunken man I Is a noble spectacle spec spec- 1 a n. district Js is a Q sacred thoroughfare and lounge lizards and confidence men are desirable persons persona That Jazz music and Jazz dancing are ro Infectious to some persons I admit admit ad nd- mit but so Is Influenza smallpox and man many other poisons v What hat Is la jazz music The fact Is there Is la no distinctively dIstinctive Jazz music though ragtime easily lends Itself to Jazzing Jazzing- but there thero Is a Q Jazz style stylo Squawking n and el Braying What hat then Is tho the Jazz Jazz- style In the first place a n grotesque instrumentation j tion Is s necessary and must Include a a. a clarinet trombone and drums Tho The I clarinetist must bite the reed so ISO that I It will cry and squawk The Tho trombonist I must must bellow bello and bray and slip sUp I around as ns Ir if he wore were drunk drums Tho The trap- trap drummer must do everything In addition addition addi addi- tion to playing the tho fool tool In fact tact all who pIa play In a jazz band must distort themselves to look like almost everything everything every every- thing thinS except a man A player Is also a welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come adjunct to a Jazz band provided pro ho he will fake talce execute numerous runs and make a few squeaks and bum notes Quality of ot tone and musIcIanshIp musicianship musicianship musician musIcIan- ship are not desirable In a jazz band What hat Is Js Jazz dancing It Is 13 a sort of ot welding together of ot the tho danco dance and the tho snake charmer dance with stick slap-stick effects thrown In JI Reveal enl Men liens Nature As a man so Is he and his doings are an expression of the Inner man The law of ot necessity causes oYer ovary every man to be bo more or less proficient in something that ho he ma may earn carn a living living liv liv- ing InS bu but t this his Is rarely a true Index of ot the Inner man Man Ian exhibits his re refinement ro- ro or coarseness In tho the Innumerable Innumerable able abl things thinS's that go to make up his pleasures Ills taste Is hero exposed The Jazz devotee Is a a. coarse personality personality person person- sure suro enough I do not believe however that there thero are as many coarse folk tolk as outward appearances seem to Indicate I think that a n blind foll following of that which Is said to be fashionable Is more often the cause of the popular acclaim of ot things and especially of ot than a I liking for tor It In New York Jazzing Is In vogue ogue In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cabarets from Churchill's to but not at tho the Majestic hotel and other high class places that ladles ladies and gentlemen frequent |