Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-10
DANCING MASTERS
DEFEND The TANGO
WILL HOLD MEETING TO PRO.
TEST AGAINST ACTION OF RIO.
MAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.
Bancing Masters Even Theaten Suits
for Damage Against Certain Pre-
Iates of the Church.

Paris, Feb. 9.-Defenders of the
tango are planning a rally in Paris
to return the fire Of adiectves with
which they have been denounced
The occasion will be the annual meet
| ing of the International Academy of
|'Dancing Masters, which has been
called for April 1918 and the return
| fire will be in the form of polite reso-
lutions of protest, if successful with
this measure to induce the Catholic
Church to remove the official bans
OH the new dances, the Academy pro-
poses to compromise by inventing a
new dance based on the tango move
ment, ito which no exception could
possibly be TAKEN" and to call it the
True Tango"
There is no evidence that the cler
gy will be moved with by any resolu-
tons of the dancing masters, or &C.
cept any compromise based on the
Tango movement.
The pastoral letter of Cardinal
Basilo Pomili, vicar general of Rome,
has been taken in many quarters as
a straightaway papal ban, and the
emphatic way in which Cardinal Am
cite, the Archbishop of Paris has
characterized the new dance as a
sin has left little room for compro-
I .e, 1srD of f>f hn
"wigly dances" The result of the
stand taken by the Church has been
viewed SO seriously by the dancing
masters as unwarranted interference
that test suits for damage against
some OF the clergy are pending, and
if successful they doubtless wVuYI
be followed by many such cases.
The stand which the Acadamy is
taking in defense of the presen. creze
will be amusing to those OF good
memory who recall that three years
ago this same organization set IFS
stamp of disapproval on the whole
lot of imported dances by character"
ling them as "epleptic evolutions
hostile to society,"" But times have
changed and the dancing master W D
doesn't Tango has no place in Paris
today.
In furtherance of the plan to send
commercial students from France u
the United States, Albert Legrand,
president Of the Friendly Association
of Former students of the School of
Higher Commercial Studies, is in
communication with President A.
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Univer-
sity seeking his endorsement of the
scheme. United States Ambassador
Myron T.Herrick, APresident Schonin-
ger of the American Chamber of Com
merce, James Hazen Hyde, and other
Americans, as we'll as French bus1-
ness men believe that the inter
change of ideas which would follow
the visit of the students would fac
iliate trade between the two coun-
tries.
The school Of Higher Commercial
Students was founded thirty years
ago by the chamber of Commerce OF
Paris which realized the necessity of
higher commercial education. 1t has
about 800 students. Those attaining
certain percentage in studies re-
ceive diploma signed by the Minis
ter of Commerce and Industry. The
admission requirements are stringent
Each graduate is given a number at
graduation to indicate the rank in
his studies. 1t is planned to select
as the first exchange student the one
having the lowest number, He will
be provided with sufficient funds for
a stay in the United States of about
year. The commercial course which
now is being taught in Harvard, max
ing frequent reports to the CONNER
cial school here. If the experiment
is a success efforts will be made to
increase the number Of exchange
students.
The conception of an international
city beautiful which has been drawn
by Henrick c. Anderson of Newport,
r. J., is bringing forth many articles,
letters and public addresses in
France in support of such a scheme
President iPoincaire has written An
derson in sympathetic support Of his
| ideas; the Prince of Monaco has de-
| clared that the plans embody asp1ra'
tons which he himself has had FOL
| thirty years, and Leon Bourgeois ras
similarly said: what Mr.. Anderson
| is doing is really making frame
work for my own ideas"
| Among others who have given sup
port to the project are: M. Dubost
the president of the Senate; NJ. Des
chanel, the president of the CHAMBER
of Deputies; DR.. Charles Richet,