The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-20
DANCE-W|LD PARIS
APPROVES OF TANGO
Partisan Young Men Model
After Athletes of United
States.
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Women Order Afternoon
Gowns to Permit Dan
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By Ia RACONTEUSE.

PARIS, Oct 21--With the reju
venatin of France has come back to
us our old Ioe Of dancing. I admit
some of these dances would severely
shock former generations, but never
mind that, as long as we are once more
our old gay selves instead of a ma
ton of blase, phlegmatic old men and
women.
few short yeras ago you had to
go to Bal Ballier to see people cult
waiting the art of Terpsichore, and we
used to laugh at the common people
who danced to the music of the mill
tary bands in the public squares on
Bastille day, but now everything has
changed. Our young men who tried to
initiate the English in even their most
stupid mannerisms, who walked
through the streets with loose knees,
sucking the heads of their canes, or
carefully carrying them upside down
whose talk had shrunk into an irri-
tating, insipid. unintelligible drawl,
and who considered all forms Of
amusement and gaiety as being far
below their dignity, have once more
become our dear old vivacious boyish
garcons.
Praises Americans.
While | am talking about this, let
me say, that | feel sure that to a GER
tain extent we must in the first place
thank you Americans for starting our
young men off again on the right
track. The young men who come
over here from America every year
come here intent upon amusing them
selves, and they do so in the most
charming manner. You see them
everywhere in Bal Tabarin, at Bal
IL oil i,f
caberets and dance halls, and every
where they are the gayest among
the gay.
They are as athletic looking as the
best of the English; their complexion
is as healthy, but there is nothing
blase about them, and they were the
first ones, | think, to teach our young
men that you need not be ashamed of
your youthful impulses; that it is pos
sible to act like a human being in
stead of a soulless automaton, even
if talking the English tongue, and
that there is nothing more certain to
win the female heart than the uncon- |
scious charm of the young man who |
is absolutely natural and does not try |
to make himself interesting by stiff |
fling his instincts and pretend to be
prematurely and foolishly old.
Dance Crazy. /
What | started to say was this
Paris is once more Paris qui danse,"
and we are sure to go on dancing all
winter and more. While in former
days we danced, if at all, then GER
tainly only in the evening, we now
begin almost Immediately after din |
ner And when we now order new
afternoon gown from our mOdlste, we
are most careful in emphasizing that |
it must be made to dance in
Now you must not think we are
only dancing tango. which is really
a little passe already. No, we have
many new dances; the typical French
"tre-moutarde," which we are sure
you will soon be dancing everywhere
from Boston to San Francisco, for
Americans here are delighted with it;
then we have taken up the fiery fan
dango" of Spanish-South American
parentage;; quite a few dances hith-
erto unknown here, of the Basque
peasants, which are quaint and which
require all your agility and strength,
and, last, but not least, the "kolo-
meta" a Polish dance, somewhat re-
semhling the maZurka, which we owe
to the presence of the Russian ballet
among us.
While there may be said to be a
certain SanSuouS element IN all the
other dances, there is certainly moth
ing the kolometa to ruffle even the
most susceptible mimosalike mind,
for in this dance. which is great
favorite here at present you do not
even touch your fair or strong part
ner's hand 1t is really the soul of
flirting set to music, the lady dancing
with her hands on her hips, floating
across the floor like a will othe-wisp,
enticing her partner to follow her with
outstretched arms which are never
allowed to reach her.