The Washington herald., 1919-02-09
"Shimmy" in Court
Too Much for Judge;
Outside, !" He Roars

Oscar odd Mcintyre, who Ax-points
every morning on the editorial page
has decided to razz that most erotic
of all terpsichorean products, the in
7 famous "shimry." For the benefit
of his readers. Mcintyre calls it the
Shimi,' Dut it's the same Infamous
| "shimmy."
In McIntyre's New York letter last
| Thursday was a "shimmy" dancer
story that's worth reprinting. We're
giving it here for the benefit of those
who missed it in The Herald last
| Thursday:
The "Shimi SILVER" as the Shimmy-
She-Wah-Wah dance became known
| on Broadway, threatened for n 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 Hundred
were all there and the grand DANES,
| fully caparisoned, looked on from the
boxes through their lorgnettes.
Three society women danced the
''Shimi Shiver" and the next day the
morning journals proclaimed it's fix
ture in the world of terpsichore. But
| IL developed that the ''Shmi' was
only danced in jest. The Ritz bars it
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 the 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 dancing the
"Shimi." He went to court about it,
and the magistrate. an inquiring gent,
asked to be shown the exact wiggles
CT the "Shimi."
Nothing daunted, as Old Cap Collier
used to say, the young man danced
for Hizonner, after emerging like a
chrysalis from the purple overcoat.
First a gentle ague seemed to seize
his members. Then it was as though
some fever born in hot pestilential
jungle had him utterly
The very room throbbed to the ar
dor of his wriggl,ngs, 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
Hcourt let him go until his tonguee
lolled, when it brought the judicial
gavel down with a bang
80 they are only throwing peo-
l'ple out for a thing like that? Men
have been assassinated for less and
their memories held In execration af-
terward. I am only 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 Shimi dancer
before the natural man in me takes
my official dignity by the throat
! And the "shi!ni' dancer fed to his
beloved Broadway-and now all the
dance places have signs up reading:
"Shimi and Jazz Dances Not Per-
mitted."
Jascha Heifetz, one of the worlds
greatest violinists will give his
only recital in Washington this sea-
son at the National Theater. Feb
ruary 13 at 4.30 under the man
agement of Mrs. wilson-Greene.
| Jascha Heifetz is one of the most
remarkable geniuses the world has
ever known.
i John Mccormack, the great Irish
tenor, will give his postponed con-
cert on ext-Friday afternoon, Feb
ruary IA, at 4.30 in Polls Thea
ter. McCormsck's concert was
scheduled for January 10th and ow-
ing to a severe cold il was neces-
sary to postpone it.