MODERN DANCING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 8 December 1911, Page 3

MODERN DANCING.

The stately measuro of days agone lias developed nowadays into tho wildest sort of rollick, and not often is truo and graceful danciug. seen, in a uioderu lxiiiroom (says an Australian irritcrj. It is an open secret that Lady Dudley sternly discountenanced tho form of dancing which she was called upon to witness at public halls. The kitchen lancers, which is the Australians' method of treating an .old and graceful dance, did not iind favour in h«r eyes, and few who saw her ill a Vice-Kegal scl can forget the dignity of her bearing, and the charm- with which sho invested any measure she took part in. Her example was not followed as closely as it deserved, but this in because Aα is an Englishwoman of conservative tastes and outlook, ami in the Old World the shrine of Terpsichore Is worshipped at by young and old. Rouses of royalty have their own dancing mistresses and masters, and the Kaiser's dancing mistress, Frau Wolden, has acted in this capacity for three generations of royalties ana to practically the whole aristocracy of Berlin. It is Fran Wolden who directs tho danco rehearsals which precede overy Court ball. From theso not even tho Kaiser's sons arc exempted. When anyone, prince or merely youthful guards officer, makes n mistake, she is accustomed to shout out most uncomplimentary remarks, and has been heard to say, "Remember, you are not pla in? football." On ono occasion, ; when the Crown Prince blundered badly during a quadrille, and made the further mistake ot laughing at his instructress, the enraged old lady soundly boxed his cars.