The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-06
VACATION FUND HOPS
TO BEGIN TOMORROW
Working Girls and Boys Will
BE Taught the New Dances
for 10 Cents.
AT NEW HEADQUARTERS
Teacher Will Demonstrate the
Beauties Of Real Tango
and Its Fellows.

Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the first
Of the weekly hops will take place at
the new vacation headquarters. 3s West
Thirty-ninth street. where there will he
general dancing to which the depositors
and their men friends may be admitted
upon the payment OF 10 cents.
An innovation will be the arst prac-
teal demonstration Of the proper direct
ing Of modern dancing in social centres
and in working girls clubs. The floor
will be under the supervision OF William
Seabury. one Of the teachers In the new
Castle House School, rs East Forty sixth
street. Mr.. Seabury Is only IS years old.
lie believes there Is a larger field Of
usefulness in teaching refined modern
dancing than in any other form Of social
service work.
While one Of the staft instructors in
the Castle House school, which opens it's
doors this week. Mr. Seabury will devote
his evenings to showing working girls and
boys howe to dance the one step, the hest
tation waltz. the tango and the naxixe so
as to eliminate from these dances the
many objectionable features which have
cropped into them more frequently from
ignorance and from lack of proper in
struction than from intent.
Mr.. Seabury holds with Mr.. and Mrs.
Vernon Castle that IN drawing room
dancing there should be no room for ad-
verse criticism. The one step as taught
al Castle House eliminates all hoppings.
all contortions OF the body. all fiouncing
Of the elbows all twisting of the arms and.
above everything else, all fantastic dips.
1t bears no relation Or resemblance to
the once popular turkey trot, bunny hug
or grizzly bear. In II is introduced the
sliding and poetical Castle walk"
The hesitation waltz is a refined and
stately glide measured and modest. The
much misunderstood tango becomes the
graceful evolution OF the eighteenth CEN
fury minuet. There Is In II no strenuous
claspng OF partners, no hdeous gyratons
of the limbs, no abnormal twistings and
no vicious angles. Mr. Castle affirms that
when the tango degenerates into aero
batic display and into salacious sugges-
ton that then 1t il the fault of the
dancers and not Of the dance. The Cas-
tie tango is courtly and artistic and this
is the only tango which will be taught
10y the Castle House instructors.
As for the maxine. this dance Is de-
velopment Of the most attractive kind Of
folk dancing. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Castle
have made a speciality OF this ms won-
derful expression of refined joyousness
and of youthful spontaneity. All these
dances Mr.. Seabury will gradually teach
to those who attend tho Wednesday va
cation hops in the earnest belief that an
endless chain Of influence encoura ging
the right kind Of dancing while discour-
aging the wrong kind will be the result
of the undertaking.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury. with whom
the plan originated, will be present on
Wednesday evening at the vacation
headquarters. She thinks that once this
movement Is set In motion the demand
for Mr.. Castles pupil teachers will exceed
the supply.