Tap-dance Girl Would Not Stop

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 2

Tap-dance Girl Would Not Stop

DEFIED MOTHER. UPSET NEIGHBOURS AND HID BROTHER’S CLOTHES Stated by her mother to have tapdanced in her bedroom directly she got up in the morning and in the ovonings until 11 o’clock, a 15-year-old girl appeared recently at Higligate (England). Juvenile Court. The girl, her widowed mother declared, was beyond her control. Neighbours complained about the noise she made; the landlord had threatened to

give the family notice to quit. The girl’s tap-dancing annoyed the family, and they could not sleep, it disturbed the people upstairs. Her daughter never asked for anything at home, but simply demanded it. If it was not there at the moment she flew into a temper. “If sho cannot find anything of hers she accuses u» of taking it,’’ said the mother. “She destroys our things and hides her brother's clothing when she can’t find her own things.’’ On one occasion a man came to the door and threatened to hit the girl because she had been fighting with his daughter. When her mother told tbe girl that she was going to take her to a juvenile court she replied: “Now w r e are going to see some fun.’’ The girl told the magistrate she could not get on with her stepbrother, and they stated that arrangements would b« made for her to live elsewhere.