The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-07
MT. j. E. Miles, Just Returned from "Cdstle House
 Tells Dolly About the Latest Midsummer Dances
Rx DOLLY DALRYMPLE

By DOLLY DALRyMPLE
 I had a nice little chat about the bgeeziest sort of things yesterday with MT ]. F. Miles, who has recently re- turned from most successful visit to New York. where he taught with Chalif and the Castles of Castle House" if you please.
 As if that were not enough
 But
 Besides all that. Mir Niles was the "hgh muck-a-muckf at the American National Association of Dancing Teach ers' at Cleveland earlier in the season, where he had five of his original dances accepted by that august organization
 Mr. Miles comes back to Birmingham, wLcre he occupies the same position in the dancing world that MT. Castle does in New York and that M. Duque pronounced just like any plain, old every day Eng fish duke) does in gay Paree, only to find his home town still as dance mad as when he left it three months ago; just as dance mad as New York. where every thing is dancing from the sauciest little chorus girls to Hhe biggest. fattest, red dest move on park policeman who can chuck his beat long enough to run down to Coney and join the gay, merry throng.
 MT. Miles has brought back the two very newest dances that have been seen in New York and Paris. They are the ''Lulu-Fado' and the 'Ta- tao'
 Some names-eh?
 But they are dead easy once you get them.
 You pronounce the front part of the ''Lulu-Fado" just as you would any other old Lulu bird, and the Pa and the Do" are just the same the "Fa" and the "Do'' in the good old vocal exercise we've warbled these many years:
 Do. ray, mi, ia, sol la, si, do.
 It has the Spanish movement and changes rhythm three times.
 MT. Miles demonstrated it wonderfully to me, and if 1 had any "Terpsichorean" ten perament whatever l would have learned it readily.
 Dear mel
 l simply can't dance.
 Maybe
 I'm too old and stiff and rusty and out of date, but I'll just let somebody else
 
 Because
 can't, simply can't. learnl
 M. Duque of Paris is the papa of the Lulu-Fado."
 One day he just got tired of the Maxixe and all it's little sisters and it's cousins and it's aunts.
 And
 Presto!
 ( Change!
 < The quickness of the hand tthey are feet in this instance) deceives the eye and leaves the spectator in wonder
 And new dance is born.
 The willy Frenchman puzzled his brain for new steps and a new name and at last he hit upon Lulu-Fado,
 As for the Ta-tao.
 Now, then, everybody get busy and call it something.
 I'll give prize to the one who pro nounces it just right the first shot out of the box.
 Yes; it's Chinese, if that will help you any, and it's true to It's own dear name, but until you've guessed it, I'm not going to tell you about it-just now!
 MT. Miles was all enthusiasm about the delightful summer he has had in the N metropolis. ,v All of his plans were perfected for trir abroad-sailing on August l-but alas war, grim visaged prosaic old wardrobe out Sounds like the measles or the small pox doesn't it? and the best laid plans of mice and men are upseti
 He was going straight to Paris. where he and MT. and Mrs. Vernon Castle were to open Castle House" for the purpose of teaching the American dances-during August and September.
 Now then
 What do you think of that?
 Three nice little Americans-one oi them from Birmingham--teachng the nimble footed Parsiennes to do our dances?
 We'll
 That's precisely what the Castles and MT Miles were going to do
 But why?' I asked. "I always thought the French people the most apt in the world when it comes to dancing"
 They don't dance like Americans Mir Miles said, stoutlv defending 'Thes dance wonderfully, but when I tell you that in the early season dozens of Amer ican dancing teachers went over to Paris to learn the new dances, they found them dancing our dances, and only two ol three new things were available Miss Chadbourns, who is dancing al the Gas cade Garden at the Biltmore, New York brought back the Lulu Fado, the Brazilian polka, and some summer tangos. These we taught at Castle house to a number of the most eminent dancers in New York. Adelaide and Hughes. Jean Saw. yer, and the team which will open tho Broadway Rose Garden this week. among the number, and also those who are en gagged at the very newest place, .Braw Yer's,' on the roof of the beautiful new ItEztrand' theatre" N Tell me how you became associated with the Castles.' I asked.
 Tt was through Mrs. Evelyn Hubbell who has charge of Castle House." sait Mr Miles, "and Miss Elizabeth Marbury the Castles right hand nPan so to speak taught Mrs. Hubbell her first steps fl dancing six years ago, and she has beer anxious ever since for me to come to New York and teach. During the winter sh, wrote to me about coming to Castl House this summer, but I was to be as sociated with Chalif, and so it was diff ficult for me to give definite answer After I got to New York, however, I ar