Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-28 | Page 3 | Italy Rules Against Jazz for Poor Folk

Italy Rules Kules Against Jazz for Poor Folk I I I ROME Jan 28 Italy CAP AP Italy has declared war against Jazz dancing of f that variety known as wicked hip lip shaking As a consequence raids on dance halls in all the cities of the kingdom at are e frequent Ten dance places in Vigevano have hae been Jeen raided by special dance anti-dance nail hall police squads and every dancer taken aken Into custody Similar raids have been carried out In Bologna and Leghorn The Th tr trouble uble was started by the discovery that young oung Italian girls many of them In their early teens had caught the Jazz jarz dance fever so badly that scores scores- of more or less questionable dance halls had cropped up to meet the demand for waxed floor spaces Regular dance halls of ot the de variety are not being bothered They are too expensive expensive ex ex- pensive for any but rich natives and tourists