MODERN DANCING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1937, Page 8

MODERN DANCING.

" MORAL DETERIORATION."

IMMODESTY EXPLOITED

"Nobody can perform the movements of modern dancing without deteriorating morally, said Dr. Boyd Seott. of Sydney, in a recent address. Modern dance movements, lie said, were immodest and indelicate. He did iu>t want to criticise dancing itself, for it was a natural and beautiful tiling, but he deprecated movements which tended to arouse unseemly emotions. "Dancers may be unaware of what is the basis of them, nevertheless their indelicate nature causes moral harm to men and women who perform them," he declared. "In other spheres, too, there la a growing tendency towards immodesty, I Bee it in books, magazines, films, and plays.. There are some people controlling them who make no bones about indelicacy, who, in fact, have battened On it and commercialised it. "Women who deliberately wear clothes which are immodest, just because they are fashionable, invite judgment on their soula," said Dr. Boyd Scott. "Such clothes have a subtle effect on the wearer. Dresses of the type worn by the demimonde are becoming fashionable. They are immodestly designed, and they recreate in the wearers the ii/felicate impulses that created them."