DANCE CRAZE IN PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6

DANCE CRAZE IN PARIS.

•rns LATEST STEV DANCES MCM THE STATES. I'uris, liko Loudon, is nover froo from crazcs; in fact, when it does get olio it lakes it far more badly than London ever does, lis, abandon is infinitely greater. I'hc golden age of roller skating is now drawing to an end, and tho new thing is the -dance. No sooner was it scon that there was a prospect of a craze than the idea was seized bv entertainment providers and twisted and adapted in a dozen different ways. One of them is to open a great salon, where from five o'clock till seven lea is dispensed, accompanied by the lioslon, the One and Two Steps, Turkey-trotting, and the execution of that manoeuvre known in America'as "The Grisly Bear Ifup." This is The Dnnsanl—which doesn't, .moan that the teacup or tho hot-water 1 ' jug is manipulated in the courso of the dance, but in the intervals everything English or American is danced with tho greatest villi. The Tango is perhaps the greatest development. As Londoners have already discovered, it, looks easy, but is really very difficult." The trouble here is that, while it is absolutely necessary to find n good master; there arc only tlireo such peo'plo in the whole city, and these, if they survive the rusli of business, will make a fortune. They aro a family; mother plays tho piano and father ni'id dauqhter teach the step. There are many people in Paris who look with seVere eyes at this latest craze. Holler skating may have been an exercise, but this has not even that saving grace. These critics arc even moro severe now that a'theatre formerly given up io the most serious plays is turned into a "The Dansant," followed 'by a "Diner Dansiuii," succeeded in its turn by' "a suoer" (still "Dansaut").—"Daily News,"