Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-30 | Page 3 | Sally Rand Influence Felt

SKETCHES 5 SALT BALI LT LAKE s Sally Rand Influence Felt Salt Lake Girls Learn Fan Dance for Fun of It Local Instructor Asserts I w I Have Sally Rand and her famous Ian fan dance exerted any influence in dancing dane dane- Ing with ing with special reference to Salt Lake City I According to Mrs Mr Mary H. H Woodward Wood Iward ward for many mony years year teacher of or the theart theart theart art she and it have Not says says' Mrs Woodward enough to tomake tomake tomake make it publicly appreciable but sufficiently suf to make it felt fell at the dance studios Sally and her fan dance have invaded invaded in In- Salt Lake City at least enough to help us ke keep p going during the worst season in the history of local studios said Mrs Woodward We have a lot lotof lotof lotof of girls who want to learn leam the fan and scarf scar dances not dances not for public d display play in most instances but just for their own diversion O Of course there are some who want to learn the famous dances for tor stage stale and night club entertainment continued Mrs Woodward But the great majority of o girls who are taught the dance Sally made famous at a Century of Progress at Chicago just learn for tor the fun of it it IL Other dance studio owners and terpsichorean teachers agree that the current season has been the worst in local dance history story as far as 83 business Is concerned They ascribe the dullness dull ness to two things two things the depression and the failure of new dances to make their appearance and become lar Tango waltzes and fox box trots are arc popular x pular in many of the larger cities but iut thus far Salt Lakers Laker have failed ailed to o respond to their lure said Mrs Woodward Tango steps are inserted now and then in some Spanish waltzes but DUt that is about asfar as far as we have progressed hereabouts The Woodward Dance studio made famous by the late ProCessor William H. H Woodward has been largely responsible responsible re reo re- re for the stage successes of many dancers some dancers some of or them stars oi ot vaudeville and musical comedy Gatty Catty Jones Salt Lake City man who is still sUIl headlining in vaudeville learned his first dance steps at th old Woodward academy In later years such stars as the Hayes Sisters and Wynn now on Broad Broad- ii IJ j. j f i z f j 3 r 4 s fra t t v tl h r. r f J 0 q t a 1 I 1 t j. j I. I rt 1 i I. I s I It t v 4 y J 1 r 7 h I li y j d f 4 II t i Mrs Mary H. H Woodward way in revues gat got their first inkling o of stepping from the Wood Woodwards wards So did Al AI Shone vaudeville luminary and many others But nowadays says sas Mrs Woodward Woodward Wood Wood- ward the pupils desiring to to learn stage dancing are few and far be be- tween Vaudeville Ion long dormant Is 15 however beginning to stage a a comeback comeback comeback come come- back things may soon be looking up at the dance studios Fanchon Marco ideas made places for quite a few Salt Lake City girls They too have taken le less and less Some have gone to the movies All these markets for many months quiet promise better things in the near hear ear future The local dance studios hope so o. o They do not care much for the fan Ian dance It is admittedly graceful graceful but