The New York herald., 1921-12-18
TERRACE GARDEN
BALL GRAND AFFAIR
That Is, 1t Was Until Young
Harry Moss's Megaphone
Started Something.
NO STEPS WERE TABOO
1900 Were There and Most of
Them Showed Just How
Not to Dance.

Not to Dance.
Everything was just grand at the
fourth annual dance review novelty ball
IN Terrace Garden yesterday in the small
hours until young Harry Moss an
nounced through megaphone:
Five couples, representative dancers
OF New York. will now demonstrate the
style of dancing they do not do the i'm
proper fox trot."
Ihen-but at this point the mere Eng
iish language breaks down. French only
can climb to the pinnacle of expression
needed to explain in dim, dull man
ner what happened. Therefore: Oooo!
La! La!
Returning to our inadequate mother
tongue and taking things chronology
ically, Harry lowered the megaphone and
turned TO the musicians. crouched over
their instruments, pale but breathless
Start something. Charlie" COM
manded Harry. addressing Charlie
FISHER. leader of this. the fourth. jazz
orchestra of the evening. Parenthet-
ically. the men of the three orchestras
preceding had already been distributed
by shutters and ambulances among the
leading hospitals of the CITY, Reports
received yesterday from Bellevue, Poly
clinic. tse Broad Street. Metropolitan,
Manhattan State, Neurological, Presby-
terian, Volunteer, st. Lukes and Gouver-
neur indicate fully a third of the players
Will recover after few months of rest,
and, indeed, may become musicians
again II they restrict themselves to the
harpsichord But what has all this got
to do with what followed when Harry
said start something. Charlie2s" Moth
ing.
They Started Something,
The musicians started something. So
did the five couples, representative
dancers of New York. In fact they
| started everything. Right here, how
ever, fully half the audience which had
been listening to Charlie Fisher and
company and viewing the five couples
representative dancers of New York,
ceased TO be an audience or an assem-
| Dlage, and with wild whoop also
started something. Harry Moss, who
| survived said later that what they
started when they plunged onto the
| dance floor consisted of the camel walk.
the college rock, the scandal, the Chicago
and the college walk, complicated by the
shimmy. 1t may be so. There were
some couples doing things that looked
like the wolf wiggle, the Sheik, the none
step. the st. Vitus and the loop.
1t certainly looked to the judges and
| the remainder of the spectators that
nothing short of the reserves from the
East Fifty-frst. East Sixty-seventh,
East Thirty-fifth and West Forty-sev-
| enth street police stations, assisted by
such fire apparatus as could be brought
forth by a borough call, with q little
help from the League of Nations. could
stop what had been started But Harry
rose to the occasion.
! He lifted one hand The music stopped
So did everything else. Blushing deeply
even as far as the lobes of the ears and
the shoulder blades, the audience has
tened off the floor. Harry announced
sternly that the educational program of
how not to dance was strictly limited to
the five representative couples, who, lit
! tie as they knew of that style of dancing,
required no assistance. They didn't. 1t
was marvellous, simply marvellous, the
way those dancers, without any practice
! at all, went through the worst intri-
cacies of the catch as catch can terp-
| sichorean art.
And when they had finished they
showed how the fox trot should have
been trotted. But they were tired and
| liltiT style WIS somewhat TaSEeQ. Incn
ZaZa and Adele. n vaudeville team,
which sat in judgment with the only
six gentlemen present in hard boiled
shirts, also attempted TO demonstrate
| how to and how not 10 dance. The
! judges, Mr.. Moss averred, decided that
the proper style won.
1900 and All Danced.
That was only small fraction, how
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novelty ball, for there were / 500 people
at the ball, and fully 1897 of them
knew how 20 dance. The Paris decree
concerning ankle skirts was not gener.
| ally observed; in fact, you could have
checked your imagination at the door
and never missed 1t. All styles of cos
tunes were worn. Ono young man even
appeared In full dress, with a plain
white silk waistcoat. stiff bosom white
shirt, plain white tie, etandup collar.
white kid gloves and patent leather
| dancing oxfords. He was severely
| looked upon, but nobody made any COM
ments.
Before the sun had risen on Sunday
| the one-step championship of the city of
New York had been threshed out in a
desperate. gripping encounter In which
quarter was neither given nor taken. In
| the final round of that grim battle Harry
Lewis tall and lanky. and Gertie Smith,
blonde and black clad, danced down
| Mac Kuchner. short and stocky. and
Marge Kenney. brunette and also black
| clad.
Then, too. Walter Jazzbo Gallagher
did interesting things with his feet. Ed
die Frankel buclsed and winged. Charlie
| Stewart expressed himself pedially Mr.
and Mrs. James J. Birmingham OF Eng
land danced, Major Jack Allen, boss Of
tho animal kingdom in the movies. APP
peared Charlie Burns and Artie Heller.
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