Evening journal., 1922-08-25
FLAPPERDANCES
TO GO BY BOARD
Miss Walz, Philadelphia Po-
licewoman, favors Union
izing Dancing Teachers
SHOULD PASS STATE
QUIZ, SHE ASSERTS

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-Dancins
teachers are becoming irritated tC
the point OF taking concerted action
against the hire a band and hire a
hall" outfit who know little or moth
ting about steps, but pose as instruc-
tors, according TO sentiment express
ed yesterday at the Hotel Commo-
dore, which Is headquarters for the
dancing associations convention now
in progress. In other words, It was
suggested that the real teachers form
a union.
Miss Marguerite Walz OF Philadel-
phia offered the suggestion OF orga-
mixing for protection. She was one
of the speakers at luncheon given
Jointly by the International Asso-
citation and the American National
Association OF Masters OF Dancing.
q think" she declared that we
teachers should form a union. ask
each State TO grant license TO teach
after the applicant has passed an ex-
animation before a board specially
selected for the purpose.
What do we have to compete
against7 Why, men and women who
take couple OF lessons and then go
right out and attempt TO teach a
couple of hundred people. They hire
band and rent a hall and announce
that they are ready for business. and
they take in lot OF money that by
rights belongs to us. II they had TO
stand the test for vulgarity before
being allowed 10 teach there wouldn't
be many OF them left. 1t takes years
OF training to know how TO teach
beautiful movements.
So she said, let's see that an
expert IS appointed by each State
TO pass on all dancing teachers abil-
fly to instruct. And when you have
time come over to Philadelphia and
see the $4,000 children dancing in
the streets. And you see no vul-
garity either. It's been my exper-
tence that vulgarity is s5 per cent
ignorance and 8 per cent. vicious
ness
Fenton Bott OF Dayton, Ohio, who
presided with Frank II. Norman of
Montreal. said that the Catholic |
church had cooperated with the |
movement 10 reform dancing. other |
speakers were. Mark p. Campbell, of |
the Musical Industries Chamber OF
Commerce, William C. Jacobus of
Utica, and Peter Christensen OF Salt
Lake City.
p The teachers In convention have
ordered a complete renaissance OF
dances, and it was I
Philadelphia woman who designed
the latest steps. To Miss Margue-
rite Wall. the city's only police |
woman. goes the credit for the first |
real effort made by the dance ex-
perts throughout the country TO re-
form the dance. It will be an old
fashioned dance modernized and will I
be as easy for old couples as for
young.
T. Camoufaged by the names col
ege Trot" and American Tango"
he new dances will be simplicity
tself Their adoption by the conven-
ION marks the reirtroduction of the F.:
ango in q simplified form. It will
e danced TO much slower music
ban required now by the Scandal
Walk and Will be more graceful.
sobbing up and down. dipping. ex-
IEgerated swaying have been elimi-
aated entirely and in their place has
lsen substituted smoothness and
rhvthm-
The new old dances are but the
leaders 10 a more marked change
which according TO the prediction
OF the dancing instructors, will in
ciude the revival Of the lancers, the
schottische. the polka and other by
gone dances.