The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-15
SHUTTLE STEP IS SHOCKING
 ST. LOUIS

St. Louis, Mo.-'Perhaps entire { naKedness would not be so suggestive because more repulSive."
 s This is how Rev. Father P. J. O'Rourke, pastor of St Marks Cath olic church, sums up his survey of the modern dancing frock, as worn in exclusive clubs and hotels of st. Louis.
 Upright and -demure maidens (?)" , declared Rev. Father O'Rourke, in a bitter written trade against the modern dance in which he announces the closing of St. Marks parochia1 hall indefinitely to all public danc- ing, dance these things and while so dancing are as near naked as they can we'll be-"
 Following the failure of an attempt ed t.blue law in the State Legislature, normal crusaders are centering their activities on a drastic drive on mod ! Louis dance halls, clubs and hotels. . The drive is expected to spread from St Louis to the remainder of the state and there has been talk of introduc- ing regulatory measures, especially as to the style of dress for dancing, in the Legislature
 Followers of fTTerpsichore, have been thrown into consternation. The shf- fife ,toddle, camel walk and others of their ilk seem doomed to fade into the past
 One Hall Closes x. DaRcing masters themselves have
 
 a1legedly Immoral and indecent dances. Besides St Mak's Hall, one i public dance hall has voluntarily closed it's doors until public tastes and manners improve' according to the announcement of the manage ! ment.
 5s Dancing masters of the city re- 1 gently met and unanimously went on record as fayoring municipal regula Hio of all public dancing. They urg- i ed passage of a bill now pending ge- i fore the Board of Aldermen to license and regulate dance halls. but favored dances for charities in the licensing
 Church orzanizations, c1ergymen and social welfare societies have ' Joined forces in the crusade. All are ! bitterly condemning the present day steps. E. V. P. Schneiderhe1m, member of the atholic Federation, and i the "Committee of Fifty" which has the dancing places, declared: t'Danc- ! ing in some of the halls is so un- | speakably low that it is indescriba- ! ble.''
 'tShufIe'' Simply Awful.
 The wrath of the crusaders is cen tired principally on the "shufle," " :, which has been characterized a strictly St Louis perversion of the 1, dancing art, originated by no one ! knows whom
 This is a ffat-footed, short-step- 1 ping, sideways movement accompan- jed by various shruggy, shimmery, body and shoulders not unlike the [ Egyptian style but not so graceful. Its enemies declare the shuffle'' to be | shockingy sensuous' and the
 Rev. Father O'Rourlze, in his de- nunciation of the so-called evil. de- clared the 'elite of society" at a
 certain club. engaged in ~the most 7,ao e-rf imaginable. Married danes as we'll as budding damse1s were among the revelers'' he declared. '"They were assured by the management they could go the 1imit-there was no re- lstraiIt.1
 "Never. in the worlds history has l there been so mrch of vulgarity. in decency and immortality braoenly Haunted in public view in the mod ern so-ca11ed dance exhibits he said. NO pure-minded man or woman could possibly lend himself or herself to such forsn of recreation and amuse- ment. We dare to go farther and say lf that no pure-minded person can look II upon such dances as we have at pres ent without being guilty of mortal sin
 -The unhappy, cities of the plains
 were destroyed by t1re and birthstone l from heaven because of the wicked i ness of their inhabitants Now it may be questioned if those peoples were Enore immoral, more goddess. more ksensua1 than the people of today. 'fNo morality in such an atInos- kphere can exist A lilly does not bloom in a desert
 s'Thare will be no more public dances in the St Marks Hall until . l radical change has taken place in the | form of popular dancing" he con-
 tinued.
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