The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-07

ranged to teach with Mr. and Mrs. Castle, as well as MT. Chalif.'
 Tell me what you think of the Cas- ties the elongated Vernon and the ador- able Irene, with her hair bobbed shorty l asked. Wonder why she did it?
 Mir. Castle is the most lovable man l ever met said Mir Miles, "and Mrs. Cas- tie is charming. They have tremendous following in New York, and are very popular everywhere as you know.
 What will be the fashion in dances the coming season." l asked.
 "Canters will be all the rage next win ter-they are now" said MT. Miles. The tango the maxixe and the hesitation are still danced, but when waltz is played by the orchestra. ninety-rine and nine tenths of the dancers will do the canter, while the others will do the hesitation. It Is remarkable the ignorance of many so- called dancing teachers on the subject of the simplest dances. In Cleveland at the national association 99-per cent of the teachers didn't know tango when they saw it. They had an idea that it was a rough house effect, and that's what they were dancing. We taught 300 teach CTS there over 400 at Castle House dur ing the summer, and more than 5OO al Chalifs, so you see dancing is hardly on the wane'
 
 ing dances" said Mir. Miles. Smoothness. grace and rhythm must be studied, and the canters especially require this. me carster is merely a different version or the lame duck, you might say. ironed out and smoothed down to beautiful ex- treme. Absolutely no dips are used py the expert dancers everything being or a glassv smoothness. A simplified tango is used now a great deal to waltz tempo by the more expert dancers which is very graceful l want to say that the Lulu Fado is strictly a summer dance 1t IS not at all strenuous, and it IS very beau- tiful At Castle House we had 400 dancers on the floor at one time in the Lulu-Fado, and it was one of the prettiest sights l ever saw
 .TelI meabout the Ta-tao?" I requested.
 ..The Ta-tao is strictly an exhibition dance,, said Mir. Miles 'M. LeForte, president of the Parisian Academy oi Dancing, which is the most exclusive or ganization in Paris, and, by the way, have the honor of being q member of It, Is responsible for it. He found an old Chinese manuscript among the archives of Paris, and he routed it out and studied it. The dance is supposed to be 2O00 years old. M. LeForte's wife wrote the music for the Ta-tao. and it was brought to this country by McClenne of Edinburg and London who is also member of the Parisian Academy of Dancing He was appointed official demonstrator of the Ta-tao in Edinburg, London and New York. I met him at the National associa- tion in Cleveland
 What is the most popular dance of the midsummer season?" I inquired ''The One step is still the most popu- lar dance of all, said MT. Miles, enthu. siastically. "The 'one-step- -canter is the very latest in the Broadway dansants The orchestra plays three or four 'one. steps to anything else The fox trot,' as they call 1t on Broadway; La Trouville is what we call it at Castle house, is an. other new dance."
 MT. Miles then demonstrated this latest dance in tn enost graceful manner Here it is
 Four slow steps, then eight fast steps doubling the time and making eight steps then the maxixe two-step, and the Maxixe single are introduced
 Have made 1t clear?
 | Can you do it before your mirror l And
 Then appear at the Country club this evening before hundreds of spectators anc execute it?
 l ing lessons through the mail." especially when l don't know a breath about it?) Mr. Miles told me about his appearance several times with Miss Rosa Coates whom Birmingham remembers with great pleasure when she appeared with MT Skinner in "Kismet here last season, do ing the wonderful Oriental Dance.' twhich attracted 70 lmuch attention.