OCR Text |
Show OLD TIME DANCES DRIVE OUT JAZZ PARIS, July 15. Tho minuet, the gaot. the mazurka, and other old favorite dances are coming back along with tho waltz and the polka and the "shimmy" and similar freaka ha e got to go along with Jazz rnuale. In the .opinion of olose observers of tendencies of the times. French dancing masters already have started a movement to revive the old picturesque dances, dating from the 17th century which, they say, are the only qneg that go gracefully with the old stle3 in women's dreas i which are coming back Into favor Jazz also is likely to Buffer from Increasing restrictions exercised by pleasure seekers. Although thoro Is nearly 37.000,000,000 francs In paper money in Franco, it is showing Itself with less and less liberality in places where people enjoy themselves, and ja., said the manager of one of these Mabllshments, "doesn't go -with anything any-thing but "fizz." The municipal council, moreover. has givon notlc'e that the Jazz kings ! from Dixieland must abdicate after next New Tear's day They will be permitted to make only 10 per cent of tho noise In Parisian pleasure re-t sorts, where since the armistice they have had a practical monopoly. This action, requiring orcheitraa to be nine-tenths nine-tenths French, Is a conceso:on to French musicians, three thousand of whom are out of employment. Includ ing some of the prire winners of the IBts National Conservatory of Music. iffiKf oo HBf |