New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
TURKEY TROT A Ia MODE
SHOWN At DELMON|CO'S
Fifth Avenue Also Learns WHATS
What About the" "Grlzzly
Bear"
BUNNY HUG" NO MYSTERY
Must Break Away from Indeco-
rous Holds When Ordered
! by Police-Ethics of
Terrace Garden.

Az last Fifth avenue, or that section OF
our town which 1t drains knows all about
the turkey trot." the grizzly bear" the
bunny hug" the "Gaby glide. the
"shiver'' and letting" those round dances
Of the "other half" and their variations
which II has been timidly trying TO adopt.
Probably no other annual meeting OF the
Committee on Amusements and Vacation
Resources Of Working Girls has ever been
So we'll attended as that held yesterday
afternoon in the ballroom at Delmonicos,
where these dances were demonstrated
with an attention 10 detail that left little
10 the Imagination.
Ample provision, II was thought had
been made for much larger gathering
than was expected. but all the little gilt
chairs. five rows deep. which from three
sides faced the centre Of the waxed floor,
had been pre-empted some time before the
elevators had stopped hoisting additional
groups Of extensively clad women into the
arena Soon a solid line Of standees
adorned the walls behind the last row Of
seats and a congested knot had gathered in
the doorway. The importation of more
chairs only half relieved the crowding.
Men were most emphatically in the minor
ity.
With as much patience as possible this
audience listened 10 the report of Mrs.
Charles Henry Israels, chairman of the
committee. who presided. concerning the
activities of her organization in the las,
year: to the report of the committee S
treasurer and to that of its vacation bu-
resu. These reports of becoming brew
ity. once disposed Of Mrs. Israels made a
few Introductory remarks as TO the con-
ference on the standards of public dane
ing" which comprised the other three
quarters Of the programme There fol-
lowed an address by James G. Wallace. jr..
chief of the Bureau Of Licenses. and then
the dancing.
Two couples, professionals. were on hand
for this-Mr. and Mrs. Oscar F. Duryea'
who teach dancing. and AL Jolson and Miss
Gable, from the Winter Garden. The more
extreme forms of the entertainment fell tc
the lot of the married pair, which outranked
the other in years also Mrs. Israels hand
somely recommended Mr. and Mrs. Duryea
to the audience as taking their profes
sion seriously"
Where the Police step IN.
Mr.. Duryea explained first the dancing
hold officially allowed at Terrace Garden
where recently he had watched policemen
enforce the prohibition against all other
holds. II consisted OF the conventional ex-
tension straight out OF the woman's right
and the mans left arm and the clasp OF
hands. while the man pressed his right
hand to the small of his partners back
and she rested her left hand on his right
arm. The dancers turned round toward al
sides of the room. so that every one coulC
renew the lesson she had learned as a cir
IN dancing school.
Then, with this hold, Mr. and Mrs Dur.
yea danced the original Boston" a hop.
ping variation of the waltz, which they
easily demonstrated to be too strenuous &c
remain popular long in that form. They
showed why the chicken hop" merely
this form of the Boston in double quick
time, was doomed to unpopularity for the
same reason. But the Long Boston," the
present form of the Boston" the dancing
of which evoked applause they showed had
retained the grace of its immediate an.
cestor.
This same substitution of the stately step
for the hop has taken place in the case of
the turkey trot." and for the same reason
The dancers showed. however. that in the
case of the turkey there had come with
the step tendency to fold the extended
arms up and In. which brought the part
ners closer together, the man getting q
frmer grip on the girls torso and the girl
extending her left hand from her partners
arm 10 his shoulder and beyond But in
both the Boston" and the turkey trot''
as they are now danced In we'll chaperoned
gatherings very much the same swaying 10
and fro is seen. To the lay mind the two
dances resemble one another closely
The divergence comes with the further
development of the turkey trot" in The
cheaper dance halls. The partners. accord
ing to the Duryea version hug each other
shamelessly and exaggerate at the same
time the swaying of the bodies while they