The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-18
From the Louisville Courier-Journal

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. K MUSICAL comedy which mirrors the MI redlight for the delectation of the \ amusement seeker. and brings to the convenient theatre good deal of the interior of Paris dance halls and Amer can dives which many nice young per sons might not otherwise see, missing of course a certain kind of broadening of their education, has given the modern ballroom several new dances, among them the plain rag" especially popular in negro dance halls of the baser sort, the turkey trot," and the grizzly bear,' the last of whiclt boasts, we believe, a Pacific coast origin. It is said to come from the "Barbary Coast in San Francisco. There is also a so-called Argentine dance in which New York fashonables are re- ceiving instruction, and probably after "Faddma," an Algerian who wiggles fin "The Garden of Allah," has been before the public a while Algeria will come in for honors in the ballroom along with the newer ''Barbary Coast
 A crusade by the pulpit is in progress. One by the press is proposed. The New NCtNf-N gymnastics" will die of their own coarse ness, having nothing artistic or aesthetic to recommend them, and that the waltz survived crusade because it possessed grace and a reason for existence.
 The waltz evoked from Lord Byron, q poem in, which he declared Terpsiscore too long msdeemed maid" yet paid tribute to her grace while condemning her morals, as the following excerpts will show:
 Not decent David, when, before the Ark, His grand pas-seul excited some remark; Not Jove-lorn QuiXote, when his Sancho
 thought,
 The knights fandango frisler than it
 ought;
 Not soft Herodias. when with winning Her nimbe feet danced off another's
 head;
 Not Cleopatra on her galley's deck. Displayed so much of leg or more of neck Tran thou, ambrosial waltz, when first
 the moon
 Beheld thee twirling to Saxon tune "But ve-who never felt a single thought For what our morals are to be or ought; ; Who wisel, wish the charms you view to
 reap.
 say-would you make these beauties quite
 so cheap?
 .'At once loves most endearing thought To press the hand so pressed by none but
 thine;
 To gaze upon an eye which never met Anothers ardent look without regret .'yoluptuous waltz. and dare I thus blas- pheme?
 Thy bard forgot thy praises were his theme.
 Terpsichore, forgivel at every ball My wife now waltzes and my daughters shall"
 Byron admitted that there was much to recommend the waltz to persons of aesthetic tastes. He hailed the new dance as Imperial waltz, imported from the Rhine"
 It would be hard for a poet to write an apostrophic hymn to the grizzly | bear or turkey thot" whose labels tell plainly enough of their origin among d runianly clement with ruffiany nomen- clature and without experience of sym pathy with or understanding of the aes- thetic side of life. Tagging ng'-another name Illuminating the quetsion of the social stratum in which the style of dane ing orignated-is. in it's various manlfes- 1 tations. a modern combination of the Nautch dance of India and the round darce'' uf the modern western world. ! The Nauich dance is survival of she rites of Hindu worship and the modern American. rag is the development WHICH round dancing has reached. logicaliy enough, in the disreputable quarters oi European and American cities. It com hines the element which the English oi Byron's time regarded as immoral In the waltz, with the element that the western world regards as disgusting, unduiators