New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

mont In describing them, "ir broad daylight
about alf-past two m the afternoon. Dancing
began a. once There was a positive craze
for the vslse deux temps. About FIVE o'clock
there was a pause in the dancing, and the
company descended the flight Of steps lead
ing to the gardens. There, under the shade
Of the trees. and among the strawberries. were
charmingly appointed little tables. at which
the guests seated themselves haphazard. or IN
select little parties. and prolonged the delight
fu emotions Of waltz and gsiop IA converse
tions animated by champagne.
By ls4l the gaIop was no longer danced
save al the Carnival Ball. and the polka, COM
inc from Bohemia by way " Vienna and
Baden. swept the waltz into The background
lust a.. the two-step superseded tho waltz. as
the ore-step superseded the two-step and the
fox-trot the one-step in our own day Wrote
Nuillier:
THE introduction Of the polka brought
about an extraordinary revolution IN dancing
II created yertable mania among the mid
die and lower classes terpsichorean epidemic
which no one escaped. Society resisted for a
time But the fame Of this dance became 20
widespread. and rs popularity 50 immense,
tina, ~ last a duchess opened the doors Of
her reception room 20 admit r. and there
upon the polka rcigned supreme In the
high places OF the earth. Books. feuiletons,
novels poems. plays. music, AL dealt with
the polka From Orleans downward and
throughout the South. a frenzy Of enthusiasm
reicned Every town was attacked by polka
mania. Lyons. Marsees and Toulon were the
most imprisoned; at Bordeaux the polka was
danced in the theaters. the streets and even IN
the shops The Folly Of the Dance shook her
bells increasingly from dark 10 dawn
The Cancan and such public dancing gar
dens As the Champ Eiysees. the Bal Mabille,
the Chaumiere and the Rancagh had appeared
IN 1893. Al the Ranesgh Nine Recamier and
Nine. Tallien Our Lady Of Thermidor' pa
raded clothed in the Athenian fashon-that
is to say, in gowns OF gauze, slit down the
sides from nip to ankle as 20 show good
deal Of the person and two gold rings encir-
cling the thighs
Gavarni. the artist whose sketches Of dane
crs were famous. wrote of the Chsumere:
The Chaumicre is a big garden where
young folks 20 Of a Sunday to enjoy sacred
music after Vespers Under starry gas jets
this sacred music will presently excite the wild
cancan that is continually setting the authori-
ties and the dancers at odds.
The cancan or Castilian cachucha. as danced
on the floors Of these gardens by the general
public. was thus described:
"As the music strikes up. the student falls
accidentally into positlon-left foot forward
head 10 one side, back curved. right arm
round his partner. She her left hand on his
shoulder. clings TO him like an amaranth to a
pain tree. With the right hand she pulls for
ward a fold Of her dress, while her scarf,
drawn tightly around her figure, defines IT'S
contours with provocative eNaetness. The
other passes and repssses languIdly, as II mel
sncholy and exhausted but a cunning bound
now and then and febrie culver testify TO
the keenness Of her sensations and the volup-
tuousncss Of her movements"
The galop a. danced at the opera masked
hall. was "infernal.p IL was danced, gesticu.
lated. yelled by -four thousand dancers, accom-
named by the report Of firearms the wild ring
inc Of BELLS and the breaking Of chairs
But in France in 1925 another period OF re-