Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-16
WINIFRED BLACKS
w SPECIAL ARTICLE
"THE RETURN OF THE WALTZ
Copyright. 1919. BY Newspaper Feature sesvics

1.-THE RETURN OF THE WALTZ"
'aTum, ii, tum, tum-ti, tum, ii tum."
The waltz is coming back.
The dreamy, delicious, delightful.
romantic, sentimental, old-fa shioned,
mid Victorian waltz-dear mellow
glad I am to hear it!
They used to make an awful fuss
about waltzes, did Grandmother and
Great-aunt Sue. They said Waiting
| was immoral, they said it was indecent
they said it was immodest, they said
| they didn't see how any man could ever
| think of marrying a girl who would
waltz the way the girls waltzed at
! that particular time.
And the girls went right on Waiting
| and the men waltzed with them, We,
| and married them, too, and they were
as happy and just as good as Grand
mother or Great-aunt Sue ever dared
to be.
1 hope they'll bring back some of the
old-fashioned waltz melodies-there's
The Blue Danube" what a darling
that is-you can't hear it and keep
your feet still to save your life.
How He Could Waltz
Well do / remember THE Blue Dan
| ube'' and the way it sounded when
I stood under the lilacs at the front
gate and waited for my sister to come
out-so we could start to the party.
The moon rose over the river and all
the little waves ripped and danced, and
seemed to be keeping time and the lilac
bush, throbbed and waved to the tune
and all the world was flooded with
silver and life was full of song and my
feet fairly ached to waltz.
Dear me, how crazy l was about
him-the young fellow who took me to
that party. He was visiting from the
| south and he had manners" and he
wasn't ashamed of liking poetry and
he knew how to ask for a roosevelt.
if anyone had told me that | would
ever live and be happy without him
for one hour
Let's see, what was his name? No,
not Charley-Charley was my broth
er's blond friend from New York. Not
Tom-Tom never could waltz at all.
Not Joe-oh, well, what difference
does it make? He probably forgot my
name years ago.
But, how he could dance-and those
old waltzes-how full Of sentiment they
were! Once / sat on the porch of a
EtlilltE ItSbII III Inv sputu anu ilt
trees were hung with moss and the
cape jasmine was in bloom and the
colored people in the kitchen had fin
ished singing "Massa's in the cold, cold
ground" and Swing low. sweet cha
riot" and a rich. deep contralto started
the "Mocking Bird:
I'm dreaming now of Halle, sweet
Halle, dear Halle.
She's sleeping in the valley
And the elderly woman who sat there
with me in the early starlight gave a
deep and tremulous sigh.
oh" she said. They used to play
that in waltz time when I was a girl.
We waltzed to it Mt my wedding" And
her deep eyes were full Of sudden tears
Real WaItzes
Tn glad we're going to have some
waltzes again, real waltzes. not these
things that you walk. 1t took a dancer
to waltz-anybody can walk. To waltz
you must have the rhythm and the time
and the swing of it in your very blood.
foolish, sentimental, ridiculous words
to some of the new waltzes and I hope
the girls and the boys will learn them
and sing them as they whirl.
come back. my Wild Irish Rose
we're looking for you, Eileen Alanna"
yes. We'll ever welcome you, Sweet
Alice if you leave Ben Bolt at home
and get a modern partner with a little
more pep than Ben. Let's have some
roses and ~violets in the new songs and
the new waltzes-I believe the girls
will all love them-jazz or no jazz, pepI
or no pep. For after all. girls are
girls and boys are boys, and down
under all the jazz and all the pep and
all the rouge and all the brilliantine.
the same old human heart.
beating warm and true from one gen
to the other.