The sun., 1918-09-04
WAR KICKS WIGGLES
OUT OF ALL DANCES
Trench Glide and Victory
Waltz Will Be Popular
Steps Of Season.
PROFESSOR HEARS EDICT
Forguet Of Poughkeepsie Ex-
plains How Public Should
Act, but Will It?

The poise and self confidence OF Prof.
Leon Foguet. of ,Poughkeepsie. as he
rose yesterday at the opening session OF
the twenty-seventh annual convention of
the American Society of Professors of
Dancing at the Hotel Majestic. were
justification absolute OF the prediction
made by his dotins mother thirty-seven
years ago. when she asserted he would
make his permanent mark.
Mrs. Fogarty's other twelve boys were
dark like their father but her thirteenth
hence Leo, the logic was irresistible
had her own roseate aureole of waving
curls and her chin and mouth.
You watch out for him and mark
my words" she said to the admiring
neighbors. Where he plants his foot.
1t stays"
How II All Happened.
And time fulfilled the woman's live
lest aspirations Five years ago when
the dancing craze smote Poughkeepsie
Leos Persian Palace of the Terpsi-
chorean Arrivals a going concern within
forty-eight hours after he had dropped
In on the president of the bank.
When he rose in his place at the open
ing session OF the twenty-seventh annual
convention of the American Society OF
Professors of Dancing at the Hotel Ma
jestic yesterday. Prof. Louis II. Chalif
or Odessa and West Fifty-seventh street
was in the chair. Prof. w. f. Vezay of
Milwaukee had made futile effort to
gain recognition. but Prof. Challf had
waved him down.
The chair" he said recognized Prof.
Leon Foguet OF Poughkeepsie. Prof
Foguet you may proceed"
AS an orator Prof. Foguet of Pough-
keepsie owns TO certain s!owness in get
ting into action. but once into his stride
he Is a confagration in himself. SO
with all the elaboration in the world he
began to read from a sheaf OF notes:
DILUTED jazz and elimination of the
suggestive shrugs and smrks of the
Barbary coast--you gentlemen will
recognize the speaker I may or may not
be quoting from his language are to be
the keynotes of the dancing in the
haunts of the upper classes during the
winter OF 191S-1919. He Is to lead the
fight for the elimination of the banai
and to convince the polite world that
this association Of the exponents of the
saltatory art are behind the men In the
trenches and heart and soul in this war.
object OF Art.
THE stateliness which Is to charac-
terize all ballroom dancing during the
Ncoming winter. according 20 this gent
whose language all you gents will recog-
nize right off the bat. is due to the pres
ent military uplifting OF the nations,
which tends TO IA purified form OF art.
THE dances-listen to this-which are
still In vogue and will remain so for the
winter are namely the one step and fox
trot, but projected on a more sombre
background. Two OF the new dances
will be the trench glide and the victory
waltz. The first is variation of the
fox trot and there is a zig Tag movement
suggestive Of the trenches accompanied
with the clicking of heels. The other
Prof. Leon Foguet OF Poughkeepsie
paused to gulp a great drink OF water
but what I'm coming to is this. We
can cit in here and dictate that the
trench trot sith a zig gag movement
suggestive of the trenches and a military
clicking of the heels will be all the go,
but we know that the go will be what
ever the public goes to. Mr.. Chairman.
l move we adjourn"