DANCING CRAZE.
— ♦- . "We are so busy that we hardly know how to get all tho lessons in during a day," said a teacher of dancing to a London pressman on February 26th. "We begin at 10 a.m. and sometimes do not finish untU 11 p.m. Everyone is Jazz mad, but there are . signs that tho old-fashionod waltz is going to be popular again." "Strictly speaking, the term 'Jatt' is applicable only to the music, "Mr P. ' J. S. Richardson, editor of the '"Dancing Times," said. "One teacher of dancing has VJ assistants, irho are kept going all the day at 7s 6d for halfhour lessons. Dancing revivals always follow big wars. It wne towards the end of tho Napoleonic "Wars that waltzing was introduced to London. The waltz was then thought to be most indecent and improper 1"
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 10
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DANCING CRAZE.
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 10
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