HIS PECULIARITY.

Observer, Volume XLI, Issue 13, 27 November 1920, Page 18

HIS PECULIARITY.

"You must find that impediment in your speech rather inconvenient at times. Mr. Stutt?" "Oh, no—no; everybody has his little p—pe —peculiarity. St—stammering is in—m —mine. What is yours?" "I don't think I have any." '•Do—do you stir y—your tea with your right hand?" "Why, yes, of course." "Well,' tha,t is your peculiarity; most people v—use a t —teaspoon.".

''Irene," the remarkably musical comedy which J. and N. Tait inquired in America, has surpassed even the most optimistic prophecies regarding its success by running for twelve weeks at .Sydney Criterion. Originally the musical comedy was booked, to open at the Theatre Royal on Derby night, but popular enthusiasm for the piece was so st.V) ig in Sydney that the management decided to continue it at the Criterion for a little while longer.

The days of the Shimmy Shiver and Jazz are numbered, in the opinion of the Dancing Masters of America Association, gathered in conference in Tncav York-, after seeing the dancing of the "Catstep" (says a New York cable message to tlio London papers of September 24th). This is enthusiastically described by an expert' as a imoral land artistic substitute for "wiggly'-' dances, regarded with so much disfavour by the churches. The catstep is weird enough. It is danced to vigorous polonaise music, and is thus put into language by a dancing master: •Dip, rush, run, run, stop, right. left, click, click, stop turn, one, two, then short one." Mrs. John F. Yawger, a prominent women's club worker, told the masters to-day that

music needed as much return as the dance. "Take the wiggle out or the music, and you take the wiggle out of the dance." She said that many masters believe that the oldfashionel waltz will be soon restored to popularity here.