A VULGAR DANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 15 June 1926, Page 5

A VULGAR DANCE

LADY WALPOLE AND SILLY

GIRLS

COMPLAINTS OF TORN STOCK INGS .

London’s dance hostesses are setting their, faces against the Charleston, the’ ' ugly and ridiculous “dance” which has „ recently been introduced into West End;'' ballrooms, says the Daily Mail of Ist May. / This “dance,” which already has been banned at some hotels, consists of ” a series of ungraceful kicks, shuffles, • and wriggles not only unpleasant to see’ - but also a source of inconvenience to* couples who are not performing them. . Lady Walpole, an enthusiastic dart-" / cer, said to a Daily Mail reporter that a couple doing the Charleston were like ;, “two Christy minstrels on the beach.” She added: “The dance is vulgar apd /, absolutely absurd, and should be banned in London ballrooms. It is danced 1 by silly girls who want to make fools of •; themselves and to be conspicuous.' Women should not stoop to that kind of / ' thing and make themselves ridiculous. “When doing the Charleston, women get into crooked postures which make their figures very graceless. They jpiut their feet into awkward positions which spoil their shoes and hurt their toes. . “Really it is not a dance—just an exhibition of toe work.”

Many women dancers have had their evenings spoilts because a dancer in kicking bis or her legs about in the Charleston has torn their stockings.