The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
Fashionable London Seeking
 NeW Sensation Dance Hall
By LADY MARY

London, November 15.-Likc most great cities, London has habit of shifting the fancy of it's followers of fashion from one strange locality to another
 At one time everybody who danced went in the direction of the Tottenham Court road in order to seek the latest semipublic place in which to respond to the appeal of famous jag bands Under ordinary conditions the Tottenham Court road is the sort of place that the dweller in Mayfair or Belgravia has only heard about but with the opening of certain enliVening dancing resorts this rather ln- savory purlieu became the palce to which up-to-date people would repair after din- ner or after tue theatre.
 Londoners now have found a new spot where they can obtain an equal amount of entertainment anG experience once more certain sensation of novelty. Nowadays the smart thing to do is to fair forth to Hammersmitn. a big district of western London, which las hitherto been consid- cred cn the outskirts of civilization A couple of years ago, however, Lord How ard 1e Walden. MT. Arnold Bennett, MT. Nigel Piafar and various other distin- guished "hign brows," financed and opene1 a Hamcorsmith theatre called the Lyric, where by dint of clever advertise ment. good acting and unusual plays they managed to secure a most distinguished and fashionable clientele. There is a play running there now called Abraham Lin coin, which has been visited not only by he King ard Queen but by practically every other tilted and distinguished po- tneta-e within thc radius of London.
 Thcreupon some really brainy people noticing that intellect and fashion will wander. determined to sec if a lighter and brighter public ct equal distinction would not also be frivolous in Hammersmith. The result was the opening of place called the "Palais de Danse," which, at the preesnt time, is drawing all Of the London that dances within it's doors It is supposed to be a peoples" dancing palace, but it is SO overrun with the smart crowd that the people don't even get a fooE-in and the West-end dancing re- sorts are being perceptibly deserted in consequence of the westward emigration of their patrons.
 The Palais de Dance was before the war a large sized foler skating rink. It has now been converted into a huge ballroom which ca asly accommodates 15G9 to 20oo dancers. A night or two ago, when I was there, I saw l.rrd and Lady Ribblesdaie (Mrs. John Jacob Astor that was) chape- roning a big crowd of young people who were having the jolliest sort of time, while ill my passage round the floor, l saw NlScounteSs Curzon 1oyouSlY toN- trotting with a tall slim young guards man, end no less a parsonage than MT. Arnold Bennett himself waltzing with Lady victor Paget London fashionable folk dt arly love new sensations and their desire 10 be unusual is perhaps not to be :qualled hy any other social com munitv in the world It is because of this, probably, that this huge ballroom full of a mixed multitude especially appeals to their sense of aumor.
 One of the features of the Palais de Danse is it's group of instructors" of both sexes who, betwen dances. are herd ed into a sort of circular pens on either side of the two orehestras that alternate in playing dance tunes. Should you ar rive IT the Palais de Danse without a partner you can, by buying tickets at six pence each, secure dancing partner whom you may select. according to Xour sex. fir m either one of the enclosures. I know e q number Of the smartest type of London women who will set out for an a trnOon's dancing a the Palais de