The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
A STATELY WALTZ.
With Which Professor Oslar Duenweg
 Hopes to Drive Out the Twostcp.

Hopes to DriVe Uot tme AWVssePs New York Sun.
 From Terre Haute. in Hoosierdon. to Portland, Me, the dancing masters have gathered at the Hotel Majestic to shake a foot and show the newest wrinkles in Terpsichore's art, for the American Society of Professor Of Danc- ing Ia holding its annual convention.
 Out of Indiana, where the centre of population, the Bard of Alamo, Booth Tarkington and the ice-Presidef1t have their habitat, Oskar Duenweg lightly trips with a new waltz. which. ne hopes, may become popular even on the Bowery. which nightly rends Terpsi- chores robe in q way that is low and coarse, and grievously offensive to the masters. MT. Duenweg's offering Is no more to be compared to the foolish, frivolous waltz than is MT. Duenweg to such a parasite of the noble art as sweats in shirt sleeves to the music of a tin pan piano. His waltz Is as state ly and dignihed as himself, and is called "The Credo." "1n Latin" said Mir. Duen- veg, "Credo means I believe. Could title be more appropriate? Hardly, for believe in my new composition. Just as the waltz is the queen of dances, so may my Credo become the fairest jewel in the queens crown" In In- diana, says the master, dancing Is not a mere IlI1le-hll all cASuSC AOA spooning to music. It is vehicle for the expression of deep emotion. It is as stately as Fairbanks. strenous as Roosevelt
 The Credo is Indiana expressed in two-four time This waltz" said Mir. Duenweg. lis not for the lazy or the listless. It insists on the reverse, movement which seems to have fallen into sad disuse. It combines all the fx, fp haauttfnI poem. It Is like rhapsody of Liszt, a sonata of Beethoven. It Is ethical and ethetic. If one compares the or dinary waltz to Paradise Lost the CrSlo may be considered Paradise re- gained"
 Uncle Dave Bowen approves of the Credo and has great hopes for it. Un- cle Dave comes from Ogdenburg. N. Y. He directed a band that played be- fore King Edward. travelling as Baron Renfrew, some fcrty years ago, who skips lightly under the weight of 7S years. and who has been a teacher of fine footwork for seven and fifty of them, passes on their inscriptions with n shake of his hoary head. Art 1t is believed owes much to the Sage of Ogdenburg.
 "The waltz. the index of our art must. can and will be revived, When ever I see that joy of ignoramuses called the two-step. I shudder. It makes me sorrowful and thoughtful. The execution of it requires no tech nique. no poetic feeling. not the slight est talent. mere child can two-step It is perky and jumpy and like noth- ing SO much as a Jumping jack work ing horizontally. It Is a curse and bane, a wart on the face of art. a mon strosity, an anomaly, everything that Is low and lost. For the good of the nation 1t should be uprooted, then. maybe. the people will get back to the old time dances, the light and graceful mazurkas, the dignihed and stately minuet-the aristocrat of dances-the glissades and the polkas. Literature reviles the two step. Allen Dodsworth, now dead and gone, the authority on dancing. just named 1t the ignoramus waltz"
 There are others. Professor Prut- | ting, who halls from Hartford, brings ''The Colombian a new waltz that sparkles with patriotism. It is de- | scribed by the proud professor as con | sisting of slide and forward waltz | movements. turning to and from part ners." Manhattan offers one notable | contribution to the collection of ternis- chorean jewels. Professor Newburrar brings forward '"The Roosevelt" an. other waltz especially adapted for the | youhs nAAN oSiic' It COhslsls pr rapid | ity gently toned by grace. Copies will be addressed to Oyster Bay. Mir. New burger is evolving a dip movement composition which he thinks of calling The Plunger."
 All the glory Is not grabbed by the trousered poets. From Providence. R I. glides Mrs. Spink Altamont with de. licious compositions. Mrs Eleanor Finn ('For Heavens sake" said Uncle Bowen, "don5t spell her name with 'y',''l a famous votary brings an of fering of Cleveland art. Bridgeport sends Bonita V. SIocum, and He1en Curtis Way brings a messa9e ot great joy from Hartford