New Britain herald., 1915-11-01
(By Marguerite Mooers Marshall in
 Washington POst)

Washington PostO New York, Nov. 1.-The one-step has won its way around the world. Maud Allan brings the news. and confirms our direst suspicious. Un- doubtedly if w. Shakespeare were "All the worlds a ballroom, all the 1 men and women merely dancers" Meanwhile, Miss Allan's testimony is l clear. For two years she has been circumnavigating the globe with her beautiful classic dancing, and on four continents she has picked up the trail of the new social dances. Likewise and most honestly she is shocked by them, this young woman whose terpsi- chorean twinkling of slim white feet touched off a whole battery of shocks and thrills few years ago. The bare foot dancer bushes for ballroom dancing-for some of it. anyway. I found her at the Hotel Seymour, where she is staying for a few days before she sails for her home in Lon- don.
 Friend of Premier Asquith.
 She IS 8 tall, slender, rather grave woman, with ash-blonde hair, sea- colored eyes and most perfect and beautiful repose. She wore a white lace hat and a conventional white frock, and looked as if she might just have left one of the smart teas at which she is so frequently a guest. For Miss Allan is a close friend of Premier Asquith and his wife, and has been made much of by English and continental society. although most of her early life was spent in our own California.
 The renaissance of social dancing has swept over the world,' she said "1t is by no means confined to America, or even to America and Europe. Such dances as the hesita- tion, the one-step, the tango , are to be seen in the bathrooms of India, ! China, the Philippine Islands. In some of its manifestations modern cancing is nothing less than hysteria, ; Q sort of cosmic craze"
 Perhaps at last We know what the 1 "cosmic urge'' is--a fox trot to the music of the spheres. Was Near Mount Everest.
 
 tinued Miss Allan. 1T did the usual continental tour, even going to Spain from Italy. I sailed from Spain to | Bombay and travelled all over India Calcutta, Simla, Delhi and all the 1 other show places. I had two wonder ful weeks near Mount Everest, on the border of Tibet, the highest peak in the world. Besides dancing, I col le ected many beautiful native costumes l and pieces of jewelry.
 "I went to Berma and from there , to Hong Kong, China. Then l sailed to Manila, in the Philippines. I visit ed all the towns of importance in Australia; also Tasmania and New Zealand. Every one was very kind snd the governor general and other dignitaries entertained me, so that I had a chance to observe the social life of the different countries.
 "The influence of the new dances was perceptible everywhere. And never in my life have I seen such dreadful dancing as I gazed at year ! ago in a Manila ballroom, where mem- 1 hers of the best society were doing the turkey trot and the bunny hug. It was not dancing; it was more like l hugging match. And how the young men pulled the girls around!' ] Shocked by Manila Dancing. 1 Miss Allan's eyebrows lifted and a l staccato note crept into her smooth l tcnes "It was the worst dancing I | have even seen," she repeated. II was utterly shocked. My friends laughed at me, but all I could do was l to lean forward and stare. Do you see what he's doing to her now? I'd say.
 Do you see what's happening to that
 other girl?' It was appalling.
 "Of course, in many other places
 there were no such extremes. l think 1 Americans have taken the new dances
 8 little harder than the rest of the
 world. You see, you are mad over ragtime I returned to this country | by way of California, and in Los An
 geles I saw young girls dancing in a fashion that was neither graceful nor
 modest. In Chicago, however, l saw
 two or three modern dances done
 charmingly by an American woman,
 who Is a professional dancer"
 l "On the whole, do you approve Of
 the worlds dancing during the last | 41uo vea % I