The Arizona copper camp., 1919-10-04
The Shimn1y Shuff|es Out;
Dancing Must Be Refined
Is EdiCt OF It's Masters
(By Frederic j. Haskin in Tucson
Citizen.)

the dance, but joy must be refined is
the slogan which is now being care
fully observed throughout New York.
The shimmy is going, if not gone, and
jazz is permitted to hold forth only
during good behavior. All the syn
at the beginning of the season, and
the old familiar Strauss airs are now
in high favor.
Yet, in spite of all these reforms,
dancing is now more popular than it
has been since 1914. Propriety, in.
stead of killing it, has strengthened
its position in society, and by making
the cabaret safe for the debutante, the
cabaret owners have acceded in re,
gaining large percentage of what
they have lost on account of prohibi.
tior.. Everybody is preparing for
big dancing season. The studios of
the dancing masters are crowded with
the New York hotels are remodeling
and enlarging their dance spaces, and
the tailors and retailers of evening
clothes are, as one admits himself,
getting cranky because they have so
much business.
One of the largest hotels here an
nounces that, with only few excep-
tions, it has it's dance rooms booked
for private and club dances for every
evening of the entire season. Part of
the house is now in state of uTt
heayaf from which a new dance room
is to emerge, for such is the demans1
taht the management has decided to
increase it's dancing facilities.
Another large hotel has converted
it's Louise XXVI dining room into an
impromptu ball room by arranging the
tables so that, as soon as The dinner
hour is over, the center of the ROOM
may be cleared, the carpets rolled
back and a smooth, polished floor
placed at the disposal of dancing
guests. BY this means the hotel ex-
poets TO increase its capacity to 15-
600 dancers.
Simultaneous with these reforms
and repairs is a new movement to
stimulate the wear of evening dress
among the dancing population. Dur
ing the past few years, according to a
hotel man, there has been regret
table tendency on the part of both
men and women to attend hotel dances
in business clothes, and this has had
the effect OF cheapening the enter
taininene. While the war was in
progress, especially, men were in
clined to make it as an excuse for es-
Gaping dress suit, so that they have
row gotten odt Of the habit. While
this is to be deplored, in the opinion
of the hotel man, they are willing
to concede this point and permit the
Tuxedo to grace their floors.
Questioned as to the cause of the
sudden new craze for dancing, the
hotel men were unable to give salts
factory answers. How did you know
there was going TO be such demand
for dancing space when you started
making your repairs in Augusta" one,
man was asked, for instance. 1--WE
just figured that another dance wave
vas about due" was the only answer
he would make. Others, however, said
they thought dancing was the newt
able reaction to- the soberness of the
war. To this the visitor facetiously
suggested that the country was sober
er now than it had ever been before,
and to this the hotel man replied that
that, too, was reason. Dancing, their
affirmed seriously, was d substitute
rather than an accompaniment to
booze. One restaurant owner whose
place has become tremendously popu.
lar since he had it remodeled for dane
ing. gives all the credit to the associa-
tion of dancing masters which recent.
ly met in New York.
IniS dSbOCldtion udS Oeeu nOldnlS
meetings regularly from time to time,
but this year is the first time that it
has made distinct and endurable
impression. In fact. heretofore, most
of the public has been ignorant that
this association existed, although it is
very large, having thousands of mem.
1erss all over the country, some of
whom have been teaching dancing 30
to 40 years. 1t was this association
which declared that dancing must be
reformed or die an unpleasant death,
because everywhere municipalities
were taking steps to stop it and thou.
sands of people had become alarmed
and did not know whether they should
dauPe or not In proof of this the as