LONDON BALLROOMS BAN CHARLESTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 3

LONDON BALLROOMS BAN CHARLESTON.

A VULGAR DANCE. LONDON, May 29. Efforts to get the Charleston introduced into London ballrooms seem destined to failure, for tlie principal London hostesses have set. their faces against it, and do not hesitate to declare it ugly and ridiculous. The dance has already been banned in most of the best:, holeis. it is described by one London newspaper as consisting of a series of ungraceful kicks, shuttles ami wriggles, not only unplelisant to see but also a source of inconvenience to couples who really want to dance.

Lady Walpole, who is one of the most enthusiastic dancers of the upper set, and who frequently gives private dances, described the dancers of the Charleston as “two Christy minstrels strutting on the beach.” “The dance is vulgar,” she added, “and absurd, and should be banned in London ballrooms. It is danced by silly girls who want to make fools of themselves and to he conspicuous. Women should not stoop to that kind of thing and make themselves ridiculous.

“When doing the Charleston, women get into crooked positions which make their figures very ungraceful. They put tlieir feet into awkward positions which spoil their shoes and hurt their toes. Really it is not a dance—just an exhibition of toe work."