New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-08-05
Shimmy Toddles Away.

The far-famed toddle and Shimmy
have virtually left the home Of dance.
The stage no longer boasts its shimmy
artists who rival an animal bothered
by feas in the hot weather, nor does
the dance hall boasts its itoddlers who,
n ade a shoe store,sssWith persons try
ing on their new shoes and jumping
up and down on their toes to see if
they fit, look like a morgue. The
shimmy and toddle have few admirers
left now, after enjoying a very pros
porous past season.
Old admirers of dancing have very
good authority when they say that the
new dances require no skill or art but
are simply a form of walking around,
the dance hall. The appearances Of
some of the dancers on the floor
would Indicate that that is mos
certainly true. Gone are the catchy
| r-otes of the polka, the round glide
| and others of past years when it
| really required some art and, skill up
| on the part Of the dancers to Inter
pref the dance in reality. Some
would say that the dances of today.
leaving OUT the toddle and shimmy.
| are simply form of walking exer-
| else where the girl walks backward,
the boy forward, then a turn, and so
Oh until time for applause, when the
| same thing is continued until the roll
on the drum announces the dance
| plumber finished The Chicago and
| College Rock will vary this somewhat
and add to the repertoire of the in
ierpreters' of terpsichore. ;.
Tho College Boya
| College boys are not generally cred
| tied with any great desires for re-
| forms or changes which would make
! them rank with the more elite, but,
| nevertheless, there has been noticed
| a tendency on their part to get away
| from the courser forms of the dance
and get something which they would
not. object to dancing under the wary
eyes of mother or father or even some
we'll versed chaperons. And SO it is
learned that the college boy, no, not
only in New Britain. but IN general,
are the ones who are leading the way
back to the old time, or Ulysses S.
u Grant, period of ballroom behaviour
This statement is in accord with some
made by dancing masters from all
over the tountry who are holding
their annual convention this week at
the Hotel Aston in New York Men
and women from Newark, New Or
leans, Moose Jaw and Manhattan
Chicago. Minneapolis and St Poul
Waterbury and other way stations
have agreed that it was because I'M
dergrads, home for holidays, are in
favor Of a little more dignity and
decorum in their dances that the
teachers have decided to support this
reform movement
The Dignity Trot.
The dance that seems to have met
with approval at the convention, ac-
cording to experts, il the walk
around fox-trot, introduced by Mrs
Edna R. Passapae OF Newark. Mrs
Helen r. Sweeney of Boston fame and
a recognized authority on dane. :
has introduced a fcx-trot of the sd. ms
type which she calls the culture trot
The name walk-around describes TIE
new dance perfectly. It's stroll
with lot of dignity and a refined
turn at intervals. It is danced in the
position for partners that all grand
mothers heartily approved and wht
knew nothing of the free "catch- as
catch can holds that came in will
the advent of jazz. This is how: Yol
II stand facing your partner ewes fro