The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-15
OPENING OF CLASSES
 AT SCHOOL OF DANCING

The chtldrenS classes closed Nesleluay
 for the summer at the Miles School of Dancing with a programme illustrating their accomplishments in the terpsichor- can art presented before an audience that 1 filled almost every available seat The classes for grown-ups will continue ! throughout the summer and many of the
 older students were in the assembly of 1 delighted observers yesterday afternoon | It was a representative assembly, the mothers and as many of the fathers Of
 these youthful dancers weer able to be there during the afternoon indicating the
 number of people in fashionable circles
 who are followers of the strange, mad fad.
 The exercises began with grand prom enade a fine means of showing who's who' among the younger dancers and surely none there ever saw such fas- cinating bevy of little people. Some there | were whose little white -stoclSinged legs have just been todding out of the nur- sery for little while; and all curled and l sweet with the softest of lace frocks
 and the rosiest of pink ribbons the future
 society maids of Birmingham-the patron 1 esses of the dansant and other philan- l thropic entertainments of tomorrow | danced a measure with dignity and self l possession worthy of their own pretty mothers. And the coming Birmingham men, "all pink and white and neat in
 
 trousers leading their miniature lady friends about with the courtliness of a club devotee, contributed their share to
 the mock dignity of the occasion
 Such gowns as the little women did
 wear Margaret Laird, the beautiful lit
 tie girl who led the dance with Richard
 Brown. Jr., was in pink, her frock made
 entirely of shadow lace and yelled with
 charmeuse "a broad, pink satin sash
 caught quite low and heading the little
 frill of lace that formed her 'stick-out'
 skirt: and her pink socks, held up with
 fluffy pink ribbons. There was a wee lady
 with fuzzy yellow hair. She was all in
 white except a single light bow which was : tucked into the heading of her full skirt,
 and she was very like soft, white, cud- dly little kitten. Another wee lady whose
 diminutive stature and exceedingly full
 white. frock made of her a capital powder , puff of the animated sort. And another in the Liliputian group suggested grown up young person of the period, in scant cream lace gown and pink girdle. also a pink bandeau about her hair And there were the little "slim princesses," whc have grown bit too fast, and are out | witting the awkward age" by their danc- ing And so a series of types they made, and everyone was profoundly interested Everyone naturally looked forward tc the dancing of Ms. J. E. Miles and Miss Ruth Keiser, who have appeared together on previous occasions, and their place was near the beginning of the programme for the Gavotte Directoire. It is a most beautiful dance, and certainly with these two. whose every motion Is grace itself there have been few terpsichoreon exhibi- tions capable of giving so much pleasure ! Mir. Miles work is always everything that could be asked, and this young pupil of | his is art and elegance even to her finger / tips and to the toe of her little white shoes, which she pointed so charmingly yesterday afternoon. Miss Keiser' dancing suggested the truth of an assertion made to me by MT. Harry Miles-that next year will see great increase in the number of | those entering the aesthetic dancing classea for surely none who saw failed to see the wisdom of making the body first graceful and supple before giving 1t the | intricate movements peculiar to the mod ern dances. Miss Janice Joy was on the programme for charming number and Miss Ruth Keiser. Miss Elizabeth Fox and Miss Louise Fox gave 6 new dance Three Fair Maids," which was received with a gratifying evidence of interest This programme as well the one to fol | low 1t this evening afford a fine instance of the beautiful dancing in our city and il has been said by visitors to Birmingham that nowhere in the south Is the ballroom dancing so finished and so graceful.