The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-31

got the order to go to London. to teach
| the children of the Duke of York and
their young companions
| The lessons took place at the old
| Buckingham Palace in a kind of salon
room on the second floor, some distance
back; l know l. had to 60 through half
| a dozen corridors to reach It. Very short
| ly I had four or five other classes-about
i forty children OF the aristocracy--held
| regularly at the homes Of this or that
!, one of them. Here, again, they would
rever allow me to teach the children
| to reverse in Waiting. Often ! asked
| why: but never got real answer ex-
| cept that 1t is bad FIRM In truth, 1t
Is only British stubbornness
Had a Row in Buckingham Palace.
well, after had been giving lessons
10 the little royalties about five weeks
had a row; yes, in buckingham Palace!
There was young fellow of the name
| of Il think Argyle). who used to come to
| look on. He. too, was great on not re-
versing and against all things American.
including the American accent. He
claimed that 1 lad It, and would not
argue with him. Then he began to mock
me. When l would say dance he would
say 'dawnce,' and when l said can't he
would say 'cawn't' After a little Of this
I turned to the pianist and asked: Is
there a parrot in the room? The young
Argyle went of muttering about "a beast
ly brute And a word about 1t was
brought to me the next day. had had
almost enough of the thing already, so
my answer was to take the first boat
for Paris.
I'm few days Lord Dufferin, the then
Ambassador. came and said to me: You
have insuited English royalty an
swered I am sorry, because they were
very nice to me- He said, Here is a
! diamond pin from the Prince of Wales
CHere 1t is. with large "A in brilliants)
With that he asked me to go back again
and go on with the lessons. But / an
swered that the London climate made
me droopy and refused, with many re-
grets. He said: You are the first man
ever knew of to refuse to go to the
court Of England said: Put me down
in history
Then you resumed your society class
in PARISH
Went Back to Paris.
Yes, when left the Opera my first
pupils were mostly professionals, as you
may imagined had Cleo de Merode. Mile.
Muria, Guerrero. all of whom know more
about step dancing than they did before.
Then came half dozen Paris dancing
masters and mistresses, to learn the
Boston. the Newport. the Washington,
and other American society dances, to
teach them in their classes. At the same
time l got some young Americans from
the colony and as many English, now
that 1t was known had taught the royal
children Such thing counts with the |
English in Paris, assure you. Then l |
began to get the French and others Of
Partisan society"
And what Americans?''
.ssT still haua fha oI,ftdrav 80 NE.. ~.
Dusen Reed and Mrs. wilkinson's nieces,
l have taught the Comtesse Boni de
Castellane (who was Miss Anna Could, |
Miss Perkins, the children of Rodman |
Wanamaker. and the beautiful Miss Ter |
ry. daughter of the late Antonio Terry. |
who married Miss Sybil Sanderson At |
the same time was giving lessons to the |
Comtesse de Castelane l had another cell |
ebrated American girl for pupiI-tha |
Duchess of Marlborough, when she was |
staying in Paris before she married Bv-
cry now and then she still runs over
to Paris to pay visit to her father. in |
MS apartment just above here, on the
Avenue CT the Champs Elysees.
Il gave the young King of Spain les
sons last summer, at st. Sebastian, teach
ing him all the American society dances
as well as the gavotte, the pavane and
the minuet. He knew nothing. But he
speaking English beautifully, while the
Queen-Mothar is tho most charming wo-
man ever met
And now, what is this Boston?'' I
asked. "One hears about 1t everywhere
and the new Larousse dictionary gives /
the verb to boston, 'bostonner.'"
The Boston as danced in Partisan So |
ciety' said Mr. Lopp, els not the Boston |
Dip danced sometimes in America. Years |
to
of and Joined a minstrel company A. |
San Diego. where left the company. I |
opened dancing class. and it was there |
wrote the Boston as 1t is now danced |
In Paris. The original idea l had re- |
ceived from friend of mine a dancing
master Of Boston. Russ Walker. He !
mad written the Boston Dip which at
tanned popularity In certain circles. not
t .he pest Ihey took long dip during
TWO measures. in which the dancers al
most touched the floor, then waltzed and
repeated the dip ad libitum. / saw ~
had considerable possibilities: but a.
would nave to be materially changed IN |
nj II Tor a dance of society. First I
mace the step much longer Then. in
stead of having them dance II round 7
made them dance it forward and bacL "
In those early days you hardly real
lzed. l suppose that you were evolving
a quite new type of dancer"
New Type of Dance.
No And 1t is a new type of dance.
The Boston as we now dance IT in Paris
may be described as a waltz that is
danced forward and backward, in turning
very httle-in other words a-pendulum-like
movement which. when il is exaggerated.
becomes vulgar This is one of the aris-
tocratie characteristics of the Boston,
that 1t acts like a touchsome of refine
ment. Those who exaggerate It betray
their innate vulgarify Yet when danced
properly it is a movement as natural, as
unfatiguing and as innocent as walking.
would compare 1t with a waltz in this /