Show A V i tI V Vy D' D f h r ij t y J t Vie for r s in a 1 Freak D A nce Cra Cra e Ooh 0 f I ly w y iI 1 F of Devotees rr x Y t. t ti r f J 1 l SY SYI J at Home HO X j w ayt i r I t Y Terpsichore e r a r p pr W r z r 7 an and Abroad Strive to toI r y y 5 Y I Outdo Each E ac ch Other in s r w Scantiness o of Costume L Lerr Weird err Syncopation M 4 Ma 4 an and Endur Endurance r nce i 1 N Contests Ly of y y k J t 4 4 t r i 4 f r y r d t i 1 Y I 4 d OJ I 8 f t I J I I hi Around and around the J u. u clock they go go while the H burbles burbles' and ald Jy y v ti r VS trombone i J groans roans and blar blares sand and the 5 S I L s saxophone x phone sputters rs and andys ys r y 1 l. l 9 stutters an accompaniment ani y i f ment merit to the marathon xi L S dancers who were started 1 4 J s on their jazzing way last I I j February over in id England 5 with a puny little seven seven- r hour record And novel Well the craze craze spread r I and it it its it's s hard to tell who Zoology 00 o gy p la y g its part jn Ln i in n t the he da dance n ce I craze Birds Birds' insects sects and beasts f furnish inspiration an and l lJ L J the butterfly dance of Z l ik iso is one o o of the th char charming hits of a P Paris rh r theatre 0 is ON nN N WITH the d dunce dance t Let joy jo be unrefined r us Parody the Parody Man rewrites it A Arid And d the long dist distance nce d dancers ap apparently j echo the sentiment in inthe the first line of the classic couplet Down in Texas Miss Ma Magdalene dalene Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams Iiams set o one e marathon dancing rec record rd at at five sixty five hours hours' anc and thirty minutes f S She stopped then she says only beca because se t he ha her family began to oe be be disagreeable about b ut it Since inc then othe others s have havo pushed p. p the the record up up up- by many more hours hours- hours and they are still jazzing away for the thel thelong thelong l long ng distance honors Professional dancers dancers' join the swelling e chorus s. s On liOn with the dance Oh Oh- yes but off with almo almost t everything else Or if you must drag around a yard or so of a cumbersome fabric drape it negligently Lk t over over your arm or blouse it about your your feet or something 1 4 Pe Perhaps the second line of the immortal immor immor- t tal I Iong song ong refers to the dan dances es' es themselves which are declared to be worse worse than F those danced before decadent Romans Y by their still more decadent slaves Y It se seems a long distance from the endurance endurance en en- dura durance l e steppers one of today back to the dancers of King Amens Amen's reign But if deductions of learned men are correct those early Egyptians perr performed pet per r formed fanned long ceremonial dances dances too Still stin it is hard to believe that Plato w would have characterized our 1923 cont contortions con con- t a as he did the Egyptian ballets ballet fr of long ago They symbolized he thought 1 R the harmonious movements movement of the stars 5 5 Marathon dancing began of all places in Engla Engl England p d. d A young couple couple of Ashington Ashing- Ashing t ton n started the f folly on February 19 with 19 with U a s seven hour rec record rd And now v many times tunes that wouldn't startle anybody English magistrates aghast at the development into a craze of what was probably in inthe the first place merely a d dare re ha have ve ve emphatically refused to permit any n root more me 3 dance endurance conto cont contests j and poli police e. e m ms m's in inthis in inK K flit this s 's co country trY trY- seem to be e making spas spas' spas efforts to ton prevent enthusiasts from ind indulging in pastime pastime-ex- ex this popular pastime ex except in Ch Chicago c go where w word rd has gone forth that any one one desiring desiring to dance himself himself himself him him- self or hers herself lf to death will b be permitted to too do do doso so with blessing of f the municipal municipal government There are compensations compensation in everything every every every- thing Anyway E E. Glasser r and MyrtIe Myrtle Myrtle Myr Myr- tle tIe Smi Smith h o of Baltimore ore think so They met for the first time on a dancing dancing dancing ing floor became p partners rs in a stop non-stop trot fox-trot contest liked each others other's step and nd decided to become partners become p partners for life And there are drawbacks At the same cOI contest t st in in the s same me ballroom one of the dancers became violently insane and had to be overpowered and carried from the the- floor Then too you really sh shouldn't do It if it youre you're thin enough v no Miss of New York I. I lost last eight eight pounds during h her hr r thirty six effort not to mention mention men men- mep- mep tion wearing out two pairs of shoes and stockings A And d now heres here's New York and New Jersey chasing the poor po poor r dears off the floors floors' of f their dance halIs halls compelling them to continue the race in their wax- wax floored vans moving moving and and- to glide from State to State as as homeless as the dove clove ove the first time Noah shooed it away from the ark Greek philosophers used use used to teach dancing dancing ing to youths for the beneficial c off on both body and mind What sort o of 1 In n n. n effe effect t would they expect from irom the dj jazz dances of today 1 ay t i t a Jut Just wriggling like Just like so many snakes many snakes said o one e spectator at t a a public dance ante nce in inN N New ew York the other day and when they dont don't wriggle they jerk Nev Never r mind theres there's always a terrific outcry about it whenever a nation begins begins be be- gins to glide and reverse or generally generall to o agitate its ifs feet Reme Remember ber the tango and the turkey trot just before the war Th They y came it was thundered from almost ev ry pr ss and pulpit in n the country I 1 I from th the lowest di dives s on the Barbary Coast Coastin in San Fr Franeisco and the worst dance halls haUs in Argentine Nobody did them but the denizens of the underworld Yet you couldn't be p peacefully waiting for your homing street car in the wee small h hours urs of the morn without having having having hav hav- ing some fanatic rush up to you and inquire inquire inquire in- in quire anxiously Do you know whether you take two steps steps and and a glide and a hop or two or-two two glides glide and a dip in the hesitation 1 And if you'll remember you missed your car while hile you demonstrated on on the dark and chilly sidewalk yo your r latest pet steps steps steps-oh oh yes you did They said the same hard words about the waltz before that and and the polka before before before be be be- fore that and whatever was people danced before that and th they'll say say it about what whatever whatever-it-is ver-it-is ver people dance dance- next year and the year after that So will we we O OVER VER in France they show the b he Missing Missing Miss ing Link dance with participants costumed like monkeys going through antics supposed to o depict the life of our semi-human semi anc ancestors but said to be actually more like conduct in a violent ward of f z u t lunatic asyl asylum mAnd m. m And they do the Danse Dause which means just what it sounds as if it it did and ends in the lady lady lady-in in the case being being be be- ing strangled to death by the g gentleman I nn an an end nd which doesn't seem quite appropriate appropriate does it I In spite of that would that would you believe it Paris Pans is quite shocked by our American to eye e lip lip to lip to-lip business This death strangle grip This park corset ing Oh la la But look Theres There's their own Mile IlIe the girl with the most tantalizing hair in Paris and she's dancing right there in the Palace Show and all an she's got on is ten thou thousand and dollars dollars' worth of white osprey feathers and you dont don't get much mitch o of that birds bird's plumage for a nickel either f. Copyright i 1023 s s by Il I j N n f A AA A 1 y f a r. r Jack Butler a World War veteran veteran vet vet- eran and Miss Ruth 1 started thereal the ma at on the dance floor in New York Cit City but the pra practice tice was as soo soon F t a stopped stopped there and New Jersey took took si similar action so that the a dancers had t to otake take t rat Q to moving t m r vans and went dancing out out of r. r these St States te 1 Speaking of feathers Vcr Vera Olcott an f g t u V American dancer covered herself with 1 them recently on a first rii rill night ht at a theatre theatre theatre thea thea- tre in that city where all good Americans T- T Ti 1 S are arc said to go wh when n and the they're rc dead dead and and before if possible E. E Continuing the the of 01 study o zoology another another an an- other lovel lovely dancer at the Palace js is garbed as a butterfly the wings forming forming form form- ing quit quite the most moist important g part of the costume If you cant can't look like a bird or if abug bug the motto seems to be Find something nobody else has seen and look like it I Miss Nina Payne thought of a lobster and di didn't t I. make such a looking bad ono Y at that 7 5 t Ruth St. St Denis Denis whose dances dances' of of the Le er Cem IU l will hold the thelong long distance i g gric ric record rd 1 i East Tire Ure again gain being eing shown in in s N New w York alT arrays Ys herself hersel in one F l f fas as' as as The The feature of this cost costume n e s seems seems ems to be the wealth f f of material that is used below what fashion hounds call the normal waist waist- line Ministers' Ministers sons are always expected to go to the dogs i if there are any handy but heres here's a priests priest's daughter dancing in a costume likely to turn the hair Bair of any orthodox member of her leI ler fathers father's congregation Miss Olga dough daugh d daughter ugh ter of a priest of the Greek Orthodox Church in New York dances in Better Times in in what in-what what looks like a pair of J harem and a dress yoke and a g pair of cuffs a aIt It doesn't sound as if she were overdressed over over- J 11 dr dressed d its it's true j J DEAR dear deaT Probably bly in the first century t there ere were were critics t s with t the e I f. f s same same me tale of woe about Salome And m from all that can be heard about that 1 lad lady they may have had some grounds j jIn In spite of critics the dance survives And in spite of the dance as might be ba f f r sa said d marathoners survive even though tho tJ rj j the they have to be fed by attendants who wh rK d pursue them about the he floor with a a spoonful of soup or press a handful of t f q F peanuts s or or a buttered bun into their reaching fi fingers gers If the craze goes on some- some someone one may map invent a a stepping one-stepping table that will t j keep pace with the endur endurance nce contestant contest contest- 4 ant ant so so t that at a full meal may be partaken during the long w weary weary ary hours while nj s shoe o after shoe goes coes in into o the discard an and j feet wear through the soles of countless p i silken socks Maybe some s some day in that other familiar period called the sweet sweet and by-and- by we may learn the difference between be be tween what is new and what is lasting what is is arresting ing and what is is ful ful in the art of Terpsichore Until thenOn thenOn then thenOn then then- y On with the Cancel dancel l r 4 1 |