Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-02
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Plans for the winter season arc get
< ting we'll under way, and society viii!
have very full program for the
months to como. Many changes In
many things will take place in the
affairs of fashionable folk, and more
than one group OF people has been
discussing the attitude OF the mother
and the chaperon toward the new
dances. and gossip Is rife with talk
OF which way the tide will turn
Dancing is such beautiful, wonder
full thing that one wonders how it
could ever lave como to such a state
OF affairs. Whether you admit Il or
not. we have como to the fork in the
road. and one must definitely so one
way or the other. for there is no mid
die ground upon which to shrug and
mind your own business" with
happy disregard for the standards of
your neighbor. even IL that "neig lbor"
happens to be the pretty girls of the
younger set and their dancing part
ners. Dancing masters claim that the
handwriting upon the wall has already
doomed the dances OF the past several
months TO destruction. So far that
destruction" seems merely TO be con-
fined to public dance halls and balls,
whereas the dancing goes madly on
and quite unrestricted at private func-
tions in the most exclusive OF enter
tainments
The circus Is winsome place-big
tent, sawdust, blaring lights and ALI
for ii is there that you find again
after many years the heart of a child
that lies hidden beneath the exterior
OF, men and women who throng our
streets. Society was out in force 70.
the. circus last week. True, the painted
faces of tie girls in the reserved seats
fairly outshonc those of the girls that
cifcled the great ring in wonderful
trappings of the East. but there Is a
charm and thrill that lift tho whole
program up TO a higher plane than you
might ever imagine, for they are won
derful people, those men and women
OF the circus. one hears many things
The talk in the crowd turned to the
dancing and to the great comparison
OF that given by the circus people and
that you may find in society. In the
midst OF tie great. dazzling program
the entire show was stopped and the
greatest assembiage OF sensational
performers in the world stepped aside
that the thousands present mi ht enjoy
only the exquisite dancing OF n fairy
mower of a girl on the tight wire 1t
was the most eNquisitely subtle and
beautiful performance, the very poetry
of motion, without a suggestion or
touch of the SO called modern dances
and she was only n circus girl, prob
ably born and reared among the peo-
pie with whom she was associated in
her work. The burlesQue OF the circus
dance was left to clowns and the wild
animals OF the jungle. Society sat and
appiauded tAis little butterfly girl and
her aeau;ifu. dancing. The season adj
vaaces- and mothers and chaperons
have ;he decision IN t,er own hands.
for % De :roTaed down b. the chap
t-2.s = more than even the mos, pop
@!s- Et-! may da-e to7 winter. One
5e5s-s ). ;ae ii::le circus E!-i dane
- Ike -ooabean on her slender
;aFtzd II ,ae air nigh; not bring
some suggestion .. change TO The
dancers II our own brilliant bathrooms.
Hear, and soul are such D.ec;ous
i-easue TO be sQuandered for Dead Sea
fruit that IS only ashes. after all is
SAID and done. Today We stand AT tAe
FORK in the road.
Monday music lovers will be on, IN
large numbers TO attend the concer,
10 be given at Sis o'clock in III. CIV
Auditorium by the worlds creates,
quartet-Fraaces Aida, Carolina Lag
zari, Arthur Hackett and Guiseppe do
Luca. a brilliant, and fashionable
audience will I'LL the Auditorium for
me event and it will be one Of the
first big musical functions Of the Ia,s
fail season. Several informal dances
will be given. the guests going later
TO. the Auditorium for the concert.
BRENT WITT.