DANCING-PAST AND PRESENT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I noticed in the ‘ Star 1 last week two advertisements, both having the announcement : ‘‘ The Committee reserve the right to refuse admission to anyone without question.” In to-night’s ‘Star’ appears the following: “ Persons without shoes cannot be admitted.”- There must have been a great change in Dunedin dancers within the last twenty years. I have danced with young ladies in several halls in Dunedin who have come in 'to a dance when out for a message, and they have danced with their hats and boots on, and to-day they are good citizens of Dunedin. As for the young men dancers of twenty years ago, they (in my opinion) were better dancers than the dancers of the present time. In those days there was no bar to admission, and Shoes were not an essential. I thrnk some of the dancers of the present time are overstepping the mark. What I would like to know is : Are the dancers of to-day any better (in character or as dancers) than those, of a score of years ago ? And I will give them the electric light, spring floors, and Bo nil to boot (or shoes).—l am, etc May 5. J C ' H *
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Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 4
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205DANCING-PAST AND PRESENT. Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 4
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