The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06
|COWES WEEKFULL OF bR|LL|ANCE. Royalty Present at Great
 Yachting Events 1 CHANGE IN DANCING Invasion of London by Russian Dancers Is Bringing Many
 Notifications in Various
 Dancing Schools
By PHILLIP EVERETT

| London August 5.-(Special. )-Never
 has Cowes week, by far the most impor-
 tsn yachting feature of the year in Eu-
 rope, been more brilliant than this year. When the week opened on Tuesday last after the preliminary days racing under
 the burgee of the Royal London Yacht | Club, the anchorage was full of gaily
 decorated vessels of practically all natio-
 nalities, many of these having been there continually ever since the great interna- tional naval review at Spithead. l Royalty was also present in greater
 numbers than ever King George and | Queen Mary lived on the royal yacht, l but used the famous old racing cutter
 Britannia for sailing in and about Solont. | The King and Queen of Spain came over
 on their beautiful steamyacht Giralda. and the young Kings three racing yachts, IIispania, Tonia and Giralda ? | were greatly admired.
 l Old Empress Eugenie witnessed the | races from her graceful yacht Thistle, which was anchored close to Prince Hen I ry of Rattenberg's Sheila.
 Americans were present in greater num- bers than ever. oVer-taxing accomoda- l tion ashore to the utmost.
 That 1t Is not Queen AleXandraS S desire to spend the remainder of her days in seclusion at .Sandringham has been quite evident during the last few weeks, for. during all the time that the. king and queen have been absent from London visiting Ireland Wales and Scotland, Queen Alexandra's standard has been l floating over Marlborough House ai,o l the dowager queen herself has been
 much in evidence in London, going to
 Crystal Palace, to Richmond and. to a
 number of picture galleries, hospitals and | stores accompanied by her sister, Emp
 ress Marie of Russia.
 | Considerable comment has been arous- ed by Queen Alexandra's determination
 to show all the attention she can to the
 exiled royal Portuguese family. and 1t Is again hinted that, Manuel is to be per- nIitted to marry one of the Fife princes
 es when all his wild oats were safely
 sown.
 The invasion of Russian dancers In Lon-
 don, and their insstency is not going to be without it's effect over here. The | Chevaler Becchi forsees that it Is going | to have marked effect on English pr- | vate dancing.
 Chevalier Bocchi has been concerned in | the bringing over of several Russian dan l cers and singers, for not only has there
 been demand for them in the halls, but even more so in West-end drawing-rooms And what the Chevalier thinks Is going
 to happen as one of the results is that
 our waltz time is going to change to a
 much quicker movement.
 This iconoclas astic change has. apparan- tly already begun to show Itself,
 1 'sI have seen signs of 1t myself, said the ChevalierA to me today. "I think we are going to say goodbye for time, at any rate, to the dream-waltzing of the present day, and to have instead a more vivacious style.
 ..It is probable that we shall find waltzes divided into two knds-the slow, called the waltz tente; and the quicker
 and sparkling. which will be called, just