The Washington herald., 1919-02-07

New York, Feb. s.-The "shimi
Shiver," as the Shimmy- She-w ah-
Wah dance became known on
Broadway threatened for a time to
become popular. 1t bloomed for
one night at the great Victory Ball
at the Ritz, where the bellies of
New York costumed for a charity
fund. The leaders of the Four Hun
dred were all there and the grand
DANES, fully caparisoned, looked on
from the boxes through their lorg-
nettes.
Three society women danced the
''Shimi Shiver" and the next day
the morning journals proclaimed its
fixture in the world of terpsichore.
But it developed that the "Shimi"
was only danced in jest. The Ritz
bars il at afternoon teas and so do
such tea dansants as the Gotham,
Sherry's, Waldorf and the Club de
Montmartre.
The %Shimi" is popular with those
young men who effect the velour
hat, purple green overcoat, wrist
watch and lavender spats and with
young women who wear short
skirts. lace hose and white shoes
and kalsomine their face in the
manner OF the mime.
The death of the "Shimi'' dance
came officially tho other night when
a young blade from the drab side
of that arm of the sea, mistakenly
called the East River, was tossed
out of the Moulin Rouge for dane
ing the ''Shimi." He went TO court
about II and the magistrate, an in
QuirinS gent, asked to be shown the
exact wiggles of tho "Shimi.'
Nothing daunted, as Old Cap Col
lier used to say, the young man
danced for Hizzoner. after emerg-
ing like a chrysalis from the pur-
pie overcoat. First n gentle ague
seemed to seize his members. Then
1t was as though some fever born
in hot pestilential jungle had him
utterly.
The very room throbbed to the ar
dor OF his wriEglings, and present.
ly, as his bodily fury grew more
abandoned, it was noticed that his
face became as one dreaming and
his eyes half closed themselves.
The court let him go until his
tongue lOlled. when it brought the
judicial gavel down with a bang.
80 they are only throwing people
out for thing like that? Men have
been assassinated for less and their
memories held in eNecration after
ward. I am only a simple magis-
trate and the law has not clothed
this forum with full jurisdiction in
capital cases. But I sigh now for
one hour of restaurant-keeping and
the opportunities of floor managers.
Get out of here, you Shmi dancer
before the natural man in me takes
my official dignity by the throat"
And the "shimi" dancer fled to
his beloved Broadway-and now all
the dance places have signs up.
reading: "Shimi and Jazz Dances
Not Permitted"
At a New York kennel club the
other day, they compiled a list of
the favOritc names for different
breeds of dogs and it developed that
the old names bestowed when most
of US were boys have become passe
No self-respeCtinE dog owner calls
dog Rover. Spot or Towser. For
the poodle Snow ball is the popu-
lar cognomen. For the Chow
the owner goes to his native land
and calls it Ching. The Boston has
for its patrOnymic such titles as
Some Boy Dandy Lad and the
like. The Russian wolfhounds are
royalty named as His Majesty
Tex H." and SO on ad nauseam.
A new lingerie comedy has struck
Broadway. 1t is known by the title
of Up in Mabers Room" All the
humors of marital suspicion, the
PeepinE Tom vuIgaritics of the bed
room. the teeterinE suspense of i'm
minent intimate disclosures are eX-
plotted to make uD its effects. The
play is a hit. The Chemise and it's
pursuit proves the flimsiest excuse
for situations that would not be
tolerated anywhere but Broadway.
Frankly the show is vulgar. By
the same token it will run for a
year on the Great White Way. Mr..
BeIasCos Tiger! Tiger" a free love
drama. is the next big hit.