New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-11
''TROT" AND hug TO GO
Only Socially Correct Dane
ing" Will Be Tolerated.
WOMEN TAKE UP CRUSADE

Working Girls Friends viii
Keep Strictest Kind of an Eye
on Halls This Winter.
| At last we are going to learn what so
ciaIly correct dancing is. The Committed
on Amusement Resources of Working Girls
has set out by means Of classes to de
fine socially correct dancing" and when Il
has been defined the committee will see
| that we do it--or none at all
You cannot escape the committee by
going even to the SWEETEST OF swell ball
rooms, for though It's name says distinct
| ly that II is concerned with working girls
the committees chairman, Mrs. CHARLES
Fl. Israels said yesterday that the gil,
edged places which The wealthy frequent
were to be specially watched this winter
| Private bathrooms, Of course, the COM
mittee can't peep into. much as II would
] like to- but woe to any one who turkey
trots" or bunny hugs" in any fashionable
ballroom! The eye of the investigator
will be upon him.
In order that there may be enough in
| vestigators, which there never has been.
the committee is backing the Bureau Of
| Licenses in its demand for an increase OF
| $4,000 In It's budget. This, along with a
lot OF other things, was decided upon AT
meeting yesterday at the committees
new home No. 81 Madison avenue.
Its Work Underestirated.
.rvuI,,, 49,. 81. p,,,.a, 80 yoanoaa xv a ~ !
such a big increase in its budgets" the
reporter asked Mrs Israels.
That bureau has been neglected" che
| said, because no one has realized how
| important Its work u.s. The one item OF
| having investigators enough in the field
| would be immense " properly attend
| ed to.
"Our committee has some investigators.
We /spent about 5000 last year. But
when the season is in full swing and
countless dance halls going. It requires
something OF a force TO watch them-or
would II It were thoroughly done.
I'VE want to change the law so that
the investigators needn't be on the civil
service list because It is not we'll to
have the same investigators very long
they get TO be recognized. Our investi-
gators are some OF them young men who
are working their way through college.
and glad to earn 81 90 a night by working
for us for a little while
Among it's other winter stunts, Mrs. Is
raers committee will try to secure GER
tain amendments TO the dance hall law.
For one thing. II wants the reins drawn
40, Aal hahr IT hn q
having less than twenty-five bedrooms.
These are, OF course, small hotels, and
Mrs. Israels thinks some Of them need a
lot OF watching. Places listed as dance
halls with more than twenty-five bed
rooms are, OF course. the large hotels.
the regulations OF which are pretty good.
Wants a Blacklist.
Another thing the committee wants is
a universal contract form between dance
halls and the persons renting them, 30
that anybody bad enough 10 be refused
at one dance hall can't 20 and get In at
another. And they want II obligatory
for clubs and societies that give occa-
sional dances TO have license, so that
Commissioner Wallace OF the bureau
can have his eye on them as well as the
proprietors OF dance halls.
Commissioner Wallace Is very nice 10
the committee" Mrs. Israels said. He
investigates our complaints Of dance
halls. and so forth, but he is crippled for
want OF money"
| The classes at which socially correct
dancing is TO be defined are for persons
who work in settlements and recreation
centres. They will pass on what they
learn to the young people who frequent
settlements and recreation centres, and in
time the knowledge may penetrate to
other circles
Other circles are getting some OF II
for themselves. for only the other day a
country club somewhere up the Hudson
asked the committee TO send its teacher
out there at once TO define socially cor
rect dancing for the sheltered young per-
sons who come TO the club.
Substitutes for VuIgarlty.
| The teacher is Oscar Duryea, and the
classes for settlement workers will be
held at No. AZ West 72d street every
Thursday afternoon at half-past four
o'clock, beginning October II. Anybody
who wants to learn disable substitutes
for vulgar dancing" can go by paying.
for classes aren't really limited to set
Element workers
November 20. at meeting OF the Fed