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Show LIKE THE OLD-TIME DANCES Legionnaires Enjoy Steps Popular With South at the Big National Convention. Abas the jazz I Welcome the waltz, the stntelv minuet, the Virginia reel, Ss&i ' the sedate schot-tlsche. schot-tlsche. Many thousands thou-sands of American Legionnaires have voiced their verdict. ver-dict. Which is tha verdict spoken by the American association as-sociation as well. The thousands o f Legionnaires expressed their approval of the m n r a moderate. likewise modest dances when Bloor Schleppey, former marine and a Legionnaire, Le-gionnaire, down New Orleans way, announced an-nounced the old dances would prevail and be featured at the big national American Legion convention. Mr. Schleppey, who fitted out Spanish Fort park as a second Nice for entertainment entertain-ment of the Legion members, prepared his programs with all the care and caution any Beau Brummel of 50 years ago would exercise. Said he: "The waltz and the minuet and the Virginia reel breathe of the spirit of the - old South. And they are the dances of beauty, of real sentiment, of soothing strains. I have noticed that the dancing masters of the nation seek to do away with the atrocious Jazz dancing of the present. And I have heard that the country is prepared pre-pared to welcome the waltz back as Its principal terpslchorean pleasure. So I decided that the American Legion dancers would receive my announcement announce-ment enthusiastically. They did. They approached the fact that it would be of typical Southern atmosphere to dance the old dances that were so popular with the belles and beaux of the South." , Mr. Schleppey also devised a magnificent magni-ficent nightly fireworks and battle scene display for the entertainment of convention guests. |