The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-06
HAWAIIAN HULA
FOR Bathrooms
American Society Of Professors
ofDancing Adopts Dance and
Great Vogue Expected
Next To Midpacific. Military In
fIuence win Be Strongest
Felt Next Winter


According TO advices received hero
in the last mail from the mainland,
Hawpiia famous hulashnla is going TO
be danced in all bathrooms in the states
next winter
For 90 II w6s decreed recently by the
American Society Of Professors Of
Dancing in session in the Hotel Males
tie, IN New York City. OF course Il
q not to be the real barefoot article
with 4 grass mat and garland Of Sow
ers for costume, but sort OF
obIimated Hawaiian dance adapted, by
certain radical and necessary changes
for the ballroom. The immense popu-
lhrity Of Hawaiian music Is response
Bile Tor the evolution Of an Hawaiian
dance for ballroom purposes and a
great vogue Is predicted for II by its
Next 10 the Hawaiiah the military
inflnehee win be strongest felt in the
modern dances for the coming season,
the dancing masters declare. Every.
thing that Is not Hawaiian win be mill.
tary. Thee military stride win be in
|terpohted In the fox trot and even
tAo utatpAJ "uit4 VIII DC uauceu WIN
4 military bearing.
The influence Of fcminism is prob
ably the cause Of the desire Of the
dancing masters that In the modern
dances the man shah be backward,
The debutante Of last season, who
claimed she had walked twenty miles
backward on the dancing floors, viii
peave a sigh Of relief that She can
now 60 forward again with propriety,
nay, even ecIht. t
FOX Trot and Waltz 10 stay
The fox trot viii prevail, IL is as.
serted, and the waltz win not be sup
planted. The vogue of dancing is not
on the decline, the dancing masters
dll insist, and II anything, with more
people who know how to dance, II win
ben more popular form of diversion this
season than ever before.
Vernon Castle was the most talked
/ Of person Of the convention. The
fumor that he was killed when flying
Over the German lines on the western
front wns- not taken seriously by any
Of bis former associates and was not
confirmed By his secretary, Talmage
Thompson.
|HLondon Taps is the name Of the
most popular dance in England row,
according TO Mrs. Evelyn Hubbell, of
New York. II was taken originally
from The Broken D6lI's chorus IN
the new musical comedy 'sSamples, Y
but its London vogue was due, she said.
to Vernon 'Castle, who took Il up, and
now IL Is danced from tea to taps at
night. 1t is a military dance and the
officers spurs make merry little
| Jingle. 1t Is described as pause in
the midst Of q fox trot. The must
clans all stop while the dancers keep
the tempo BY tapping with their feet.
lHVernon,1 Mrs. Hubbell says, = is
dancing II for the men in the trenches
70 the accompaniment Of homemade
| jewsbarps,i
.'lNaIkfng the Dog, = the new dance
which has only been seen in vande-
Vile, was the bone Of contention in a
hot debate. Some Of the dancing
masters favor 1t and others are strong
ly opposed.
Louis H. Chalif, formerly Of the Rus.
sian Imperial ballet, belong TO the pro
gressiye party of dancing masters and
would purge the dance Of all sugges-
uveness. HIS subject was "a Heart
to Heart Talk Against Heart TO Heart
Dancing.v He also demonstrated his
newest dances, including Greek inter,
pretative and esthetic dancing.
\ Adolph Newberger, for thirty-fiye
years a dancing master in New York
and director Of the dances Nh "HiT
Hip Hooray's at the Hippodrome last
year, is the leading advocate Of the
Hawaiian dances which he says, viii
be arranged for the ballroom. 3
4 Some Of the other new dances are
~ Cornell Fads, = Jitney Special, :
l"Angel's Reverie'' and q Corkscrew
Glisse, = all danced by the same teach
Ter; Major Butts Manual Of Arms, !
for the benefit Of the Plattsburgf
rockies, it is presumed, and the 'sTerr,
Haute Fox
4 There are about seventy dancing
i masters attending the convention, an(
they come all the way from the snow
capped mountains of Montana to tn.
'sdrapbdrry boys Of Massachusetts.
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