Arizona republican., 1917-10-13

which beaded his brow. We stand for
modernity. We have nothing in COM
mon with moldy, old dancing master
methods. We have no use for super
animated professors with long whis-
kers and old fashioned arts.
The young people, the live wires,
are with u.s. Mr. Wilson continued
Folks don't want to go to sleep at a
dance. They want pep and ginger and
something doing. They want the jazz
in short
Its time for the old fogies to quit"
he said, warming to his subject Their
condemnation of the new dances is all
from ignorance. Why, most dancing
masters of the old school didn't have
money enough to go to swell hotels
and buy wine and watch the new styles
of dancing as they came out. So they
stayed in their little dancing schools
! and kept on teaching children how to
make bows and waltz and criticized us
| progressives, and Hello, pail he
| exclaimed as he rushed over to meet
| a new recruit
! The anti-jazzists run more to coats
and quietude. They refuse to believe
that social dancing is to become hilar-
I ious and dominated by music which
contains the maximum of noise and the
minimum of rhythm" They decline
| to sing Hey, Kid!' or "Oh, You
Chicken" while dancing. And they
won't have jazz band in the same
! block with them
AS opposed to the long, striped
trousers and damp shirts worn by the
men at jazz headquarters. the "antis
wear black satin ,knickerbockers, black
stockings. black pumps and conven-
tional shirts which in many cases have
the sleeves cut off above the elbows
The anti dancerettes' display fond
ness for socks, with rainbow tops held
taut by fancy garters. and above tnos,
well the skirts they wear don't en-
tirely cover pink knees.
They devote their time to the Eau
thentic steps" of the fox trot, the one.
step and the new waltz, classic plas
tique and folk dancing. Delegates
from forty states are giving exhibitions
of modern and esthetic dancing. The.
have introduced a new dance called tn
Post Pleasant military one-step. ]
has lot of marking time, tapping witt
the heel and then with the flat of tn
foot, ending with snappy movemen
of the left foot, which seems to hav
taken the fancy of the delegates.
1T may be stated" said Mr.. Chris
Jensen, when asked for an opinion o
the jazz dance, ION the best authorit
that such dancing will never find it
way into New York society-or goo
society anywhere. The dances attend
ed by cultured refined people will b
more decorous and simple if anything
than ever before.
The new steps introduced by tn
national association he continued
will be dainty, quaint and beaut,su
| with perhaps military note here an
there. 1t should be made clear tina
ours is an organization of professor
!. | of the dancing art who have been es
| tablished for years as leaders in the
c respective cities, and does not includ
the common or beer garden variety {
q cabaret artists"
n viii your winters output contai
. the Chinese toddle or trells twist
> he was asked.
g Most certainly not" the professc
= answered emphatically. Can yo
:. imagine an inaugural ball in Wash
= ington comprising Chinese toddles an
. Hawaiian hula wriggles? We shall pi
. out a standardized one-step and walt
. and perhaps few fanciful dances che
. sen from the offerings of our dele
q gates. The fox trot stands for merr
= ment. We need that. too. But merr
* ment is one thing and vulgarity al
other"
% And there you are.