Show FRANCES DANCING DAYS ARE OVER one dances no more sadly says 31 desrats dean of the paria academy of Chore graphy who though getting on for seventy seven still like young sir willoughby has a leg log and one of which many a junior might bo be justifiably proud dancing which ho he has practiced and taught tor for fifty seven years has kept his limbs lithe hla his cheeks rosy and hla his mind fresh hla his enthusiasm for his art Is aa as warm as it waa was when be he was twenty and when after a liberal education he gave up thoughts of the legal or medical profession and preferred to consecrate himself to the cult of terpse terpsichore in his own language which Is as flowery as bis his manners though he has always bad had and still has plenty of pupils he has come to the dragla conclusion that dancing is dying out oh monsieur under the empire how beautifully the women danced and what beautiful women they in a year official balls were given that Is one every three nights he ile dates the downfall of dancing from the introduction into franco france of vt the boston doston which he assumes to have come from america what a calamity waa was there for tho the slipshod two step alep has hall killed the waltz while out of door sports have burled buried it the aristocracy dances no more only the small bourgeois now and then thea sacrifices ces to terpsichore when N the cakewalk cake walk the the kr aquette and the diguette guette ll li wore were mentioned tied to M desrats ho hd swooned and had to bo be revived with scented salts such as early victorian ladles ladies inhaled when emotions overcame them it appears that a prima ballerinas legal right to insist on wearing short skirts called tutus on the stage la is not yet finally recognized mile eva narcys spirited action against the dresses of the paris parts gaite ma m be remembered some three years abo ago when her colleagues of the ballet in london headed beaded by mile genco gence all backed her to a 86 woman sho she won her coee repeatedly peat edly and obtained damages tor for dismissal against the managers who had ventured to order her to wear long skirts but the possibilities of appeal seem not to have been exhausted for the defeated parties are bringing the case into the courts once more this time with a frea fresh ment in II 11 Masse nets new now opera arlane ain renounced the tutu and wore a colored costume the principle of the tutu Is therefore controvert ed and counsel will wui aal the court to decide that since such a prima ballerina as tho the Zam belll gave up the short gauze skirt the judgment in favor of mile sarcy who upheld that the tutu tuta Is a alne sine qua nn tion must bo be reversed exchange |