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Show LA DANSE DT7 GATEAU. London Daily Telegraph. The "cake-walk" is catching on in Paris at a great rate. It is undergoing the process of Frenchlflcatlon by the younger M. de Soria, professor of dancing danc-ing at the Conservatoire, who has had help and hints from the professional "cake-walkers," now at the Nouveau Cirque. It promises to be the rage during dur-ing the winter, and many people are now practicing the five figures, beginning begin-ning with that in which the dancers start off hand in hand, and ending with their separation and resumption of the walk Independently. M. de Soria Ills has already written a short treatise, giving a general description of the "cake-walk," with accompanying illustrations illus-trations of the figures. Mme. Jeanne Granier and Mile. Eve Lavilliere are supposed to be the pioneers of the new dance In Paris. They saw it in London last season, and returned to the boulevards boule-vards delighted with it. They astonished aston-ished their friends by their imitations of the "danse du gateau" of the American Amer-ican darkies. |