LIGHT FANTASTIC OPPOSED IN WALES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 9

LIGHT FANTASTIC OPPOSED IN WALES

“Dancing Has Same Effect as Drink”

MAGISTRATE ON DANGER OF WALKING HOME [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 8 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 4. Following the action of Signor Mussolini in clo.-rng Italian dancing-halls, there is an agitation in Wales regarding the morality of dancing. The Rev. T. Evans, Baptist minister at Newport-, Pembrokeshire, says that dancing is neither healthy nor harmless. It ex- 1 cites and intoxicates and causes undue blood pressure. A girl waltzing for fifteen minutes in a crowded ballroom is similar m condition to one drinking champagne. Mr. Lleufer Thomas, Magistrate at Pontypridd, advocates the closing of dancing-halls at 10.30 p.m. on the ground that the reputation of Welsh women is being thrown away for the sake of th» sensuous glamour of dancing and the seductive dalliance of the dangerous walk home. BOBBED HAIR AND JAZZ. NOT WANTED IN BAVARIA. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) BERLIN, Fob. 4. The Bavarian peasants have passed a resolution that they do not want the bobbed-haired tourist and Jazzers in Alpine resorts, and are determined to duck them under tne village pump. The decision has alarmed th e hotels and travel bureaus. Officials point out that it will seriously Jeopardise the tourist trade.