OLD-FASHIONED DANCES
"Will iho -waltz, the polka, and ibc other old dances come into their own again? It is a question which is often discussed {says the Auckland correspondent of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ’), but on which opinion is very divided. Of prominent figures in tho world of onteriainment of Sydney who have expressed in teres ling views on the question tiro majority are of opinion that the popu lar revival of the old-fashioned daiicas, in this city at all events, is only a remote po* sibility. Conspicuous among the minority is Aits* Thirza Rodgers, the New Zealand dancer, who was with Pavlova in Australia, and who has since been winning fresh honors on the Sydney stage She favors strongly the old dances, and says elie is strongly conscious of a loss of dignity if she twirls about to some o f the modern dances, especially tho Charleston. The slump in modern dancing with which London is threatened, wording with which London is threatened, according ing Sydney.
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Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 10
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167OLD-FASHIONED DANCES Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 10
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