New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-25
RHYTHM OF DANCE
CURES BAD NERVES
Physician Says the Craze
Threatens to Bankrupt
SanatOriumS.
CUTS DOCTOR BILLS,
COLONY CLUB HEARS
About 800 Women Watch Films
Show Proper Way to
Execute New Steps.

Take II dip. take a dip. Try tangoine,
tho nerve cure Refreshes mind and body
Fine to drive away headaches and doc
tors bills
Not only theatres but sanatoriums are
threatened with bankruptcy on account
Of the dance craze. according to DR.. Fred
erick Peterson, who told large audience
at the Colony club yesterday afternoon
that the tango and maxixe we're curing
that most common American complaint
nerves.
Everybody should dance" he said. ct
IS good for the nerves. The man or wom-
an who has spent the evening dancing
sleeps better and eats better next morn
ing than one who has been shut I'D in
a stuffy theatre for hours.
II have noticed marked decrease in
the number of nervous cases among the
people who are dancing this year. It is
because the new dances appeal TO older
people. as We'll as TO the young, that its
benefits have been so noticeable | sup
pose. The business man and the woman
who have nothing 10 do but sit at home
and grow fat-these are the ones VINO
need the exercise.
Dancing is particularly good for the
nerves because of the soothing effect OF
the rhythm"
Miss Rachel Crothers assured the audi
ence that standardizins" the new dances
didn't mean taking away all the fun from
them by putting them into stereotvped
forms.
Dancers can still invent as many new
figures as they wish" she said. "All we
are trying to do is TO show them the
best way 20 do the few fundamental
steps. There is more pleasure. rather
than less. to be gained from doing things
In the most beautiful way possible"
Moving pictures illustrating the proper
way to dance the tango, maxixe pro
nounced "max-ese," the programme saicO.
the hesitation and the half-and-half were
shown, TO the accompaniment OF music
The pictures were posed for last week by
Baron de Meyer and Miss Alice Earl and
by Mrs. Edward Roscoe Mathews and
Quentin Tod. Right and wrong positions
and ways of moving the feet and arms
were shown
About three hundred women were pres
ent many OF them members of the
Parents League, an association OF moth
ers and fathers whose object il is 10
simplify life for the more fortunate chill
dren. IL is said that this league had in
tended 10 bar the new dances from their
parties this year, but after seeing the
innocuous method of the standardized
new dances they decided to lift the ban.
Among those present were Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie
Mrs. Charles Il. Alexander Mrs. Morris
Is. Jesup. Mrs. Walter Damrosch. Mrs
Oliver Hartman. Mrs F.. II. Hartman
Mrs. Edward X. Hewitt, Mrs. +. Y. Dan
ziel. Miss Elsie de Wolfe. Miss Diana Del
Monte and Miss May Calender.
The films will be sent throuchout the
country by the All Star Feature Film
Conf any. encouraged by Miss Elizabeth
Marbury and other members of the COM
mittee Interested in seeing the proper
methods OF dancing introduced Stcreop-
ticon slides OF the proper dance steps have
been prepared for use in public schools
and lecture halls where motion Mot
ures cannot be installed. The new dances
will also be taught nj the Bedford Re
formatory. on the advice OF Miss Katha-
rine h. Davis, Commiss loncr OF Correction
and formerly head Of that institution.
Miss Davis believes that hcaithful recreo-
ton is part of tho programme for The
reformation Of girls.