LURE OF THE DANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1923, Page 5

LURE OF THE DANCE.

MORE SUPERVISION WANTED. RETURN OF THE CHAPERON. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. At the annual conference of the British Association of Dancjng Teachers, the President said he wondered how much longer the art of dancing was to be prostituted. Young people were degraded and the country shocked by repeated tragedies due to granting dance licenses to fashionable hotels, restaurants, and glittering wine palaces, with musicians whose lack of taste was only exceeded by those for whom they piped. Social dance functions must be purged of vulgarity introduced ny clubs, wine sellers, and carnival organisers. Legitimate ballroom dancing did not require sucli meretricious aids as balloons, toys, and child-! ish amusements. The so-called subscrip-1 iion dances demanded stricter parental supervision. Inquiry or the return of the chaperon would become a necessity, j Simultaneous with the British dancing teachers' protest comes the announcement that the International Congress in Paris failed to arrive at a simplification of the present methods. The new dances offered" for the study of experts include the Trisco, which many declare adorable. Ano.ther is a Czecho-Siovak dance, which is a compromise of old and modern danc-1 ing, and is assured of success. Others • are the Mississippi, which is a variation' of the one-step originating in Copeniapen, tie modern valse and the Riviera It is certain that the jazz, fox trot, and Java tarnro are utterly out of date. IK. and Jf.Z. Cable.)