The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-06

II YOU have an engagement with a
dancing teacher to-day to wrestle with
the intricacies OF the turkey trot or
srizzly bear think twice before you sepa-
rate yourself from the money sor lessons.
Or. better still. drop the trot and bear
and similar steps and tell your teacher to
lead you through something nearer the
measured steps OF your dignted ances-
tors.
For on the word OF so eminent an
authority as Anna Pavlowa. who got into
town yesterday afternoon after a tour OF
the country from oc, an to ocean arl from
pines to palms. the turkey trot. the
grizzly bear and all the other barnyard
and geological dances that now grip the
country are headed so rapidly toward the
discard that. so says Nine. PavlOwa, they
will have disappeared even by next sea-
son.
What happened to nadaine's 5000. 900
worth OF ankles during her tour Is pretty
we'll known. But the accident to her
right. or salary. foot was but part
OF series Of mishaps. She had to wade
through water In far Western floods to
keep engagements. A railroad bridge in
California sQuashed Into the Caliente
River a moment after nadame's p.cial
had been cautiously drawn across IT,
stretch OF track disappeared into quick
sand ahead of her tran as she was t'avel-
ling east TO Reno.
Floods seemed to follow her In Cali
fornia. on her opening night in San
Francisco she could not ring up the cur
tain until almost 10 80 o'clock ut night
because OF Hood delays. At Reno, owing
to that quicksand AFFAIR. she could not
begin her performances until IL O'Clock
Z. NJ But, as madame tells you with
pardonable pride, those dear Divorces
and things and stun waited for her.
That 100000 Foot All Right.
when her car eased itself into the
station from Atlantic City yesterday, how
ever Nine. Pavlowa still had enough
energy left to sail into the trots and hugs
the minute she had been shown into her
suite In the Hotel McAlpin. Yes. Yes. yes
dear America may believe the foot OF
the 100000 insurance quite well again,
quite.
81 laugh" she said. and wriggled the
one time crippled foot refectivSiy. Even
after IL Was we'll wondered sometimes
II II was quite well until I danced not
long ago In Baltimore All. the poor.
poor left foot lady say to me after the
performance. ! saw you had to do so
many difficult things tonight with the
right foot SO as TO save the injured one
And then I knew everything was all right
| because II was the right foot that really
had been injured"
Reaction is as important reason as
any offered by Nine. Pavlowa for her con
viction that the roughhouse dance. sans
| the grace that madame would Ike to BE.
! here, IL doomed, and doomed very soon
| The success that has greeted her gavottes
which she says have been encored more
| than any OF her other efforts throughout
the country, is another indication that tn,
| American bathrooms OF next season vii
welcome the more stately dances OF grand
| mothers day.
| "Ah, the way I saw them dance th'
| turkey trot" she cried. Boom. boom
boom, and everybody jumps up and strug
giles around the floor as II they wer,
working hard for money. And the dance
music Is bad. In older days they danced
| to better music, dance tunes that wer'
written especially for the dance. Nov
there Is no grace, the soft movements ar
lacking. The older dances were more
plastic. more refined.
you in big city like this persaps d.
not realize the Importance OF the small
party In private houses OF small towns a
a social incentive. And the house part.