GREYMOUTH DANCES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1930, Page 3

GREYMOUTH DANCES.

[TO THE EDITOE.] • Sir,— May I add my impressions to those so originally displayed by D. O. Tage in youi’ issue of 9th inst. I would like to limit my ideas to dances held in the Town Hall as such, functions seem to compare more favourably with better dances as held in our big cities. As a very recent arrival from one of our gayest cities, I am perhaps, naturally struck by some of your dancing traditions, I go to one of your most fashionable balls, and after.a few dances discover about £l5 worth of eyes gazing at. me from aloft. Have your readers ever watched monkeys in a zoo? The simile {js exact. I have even seen dancers fed by peanuts. To support this custom, $ I am told the bob-lean-overs pay for the supper. D. O. Tage, you talk-of men wearing gloves in Greymouth! Give us a few hanging chains and trapezes, D. 0. Tage, and we would be known far and wide as the finest collection ever Viewed by man. I, for one, dance in my own party, for my own enjoyment, not for the laughter and scandal of those above. \ I regret to say I have seen a very dirty habit and one showing little recnnnf tn mir fair maidens. Whv is

specc LU our I<UL uicuncuo. nuj w smoking allowed on the dance flopr? I know it takes ten minutes to scrtStble upstairs and outside for a smoke, but still the filthy habit as at present should never be allowed. The Totyn Hall is badly enough ventilated ,$s it is, and the back country custom of a herd of lads congregating at the entrance smoking between dances can never encourage any but the roujgh element to our dances. If a cabaret dance cannot be instituted in Town Hall, then I would prohibit smoking on the floor. . . I am told there is a standard “price” for tickets. My impression of that price is both sides of the hall filled with girl solos. Girls, I understand your side of the picture. I have seen wallflowers at New Zealand’s best balls and I have learnt their feelings. You go to the dances on your own because your girl friend does likewise. To one man at least this sight is horrid. It is here your M.C., that most unselfish of men, has his field. Let him teach the young bucks, those fellows of so much self-confidence, the unselfish side >of life. ; j Lastly, Sir, none could help but be impressed by the dressing of the girls. The dressing cannot be anything but admired. The average Greymouth girl dresses much better than her Auckland or Wellington cousin, but t even so, the over-dressing complex they all undoubtedly possess, is pathetic. One cannot help noticing that eager desire to dress as well as the more fortunately situated. While in no manner deploring, the splendid trait of good dressing, I do- think this rivalry, so easily cultivated in such a small place as Greymouth, should be curbed. Yours etc., NOT A COASTER. 1