VIENNA LESS GAY.
LONDON, July '23. The Austrian Government has forbidden Veinna to waltz, polka, and onestep to the tunes of military marches, on the grounds that to do so is an insult to their fine associations. A writer in the News-Chronicle says: “Dancers have never been very concerned about the solemn associations of their dance tunes. The steps fiom which all modern dances derive were first performed in sixteenth-century France to flie notes of tlie 1 salms of David. One hundred years later Cromwell’s armies, not put off by their frivolous associations, marched to battle to them. “All the best songs of the last war went to the trenches from the dance floor. Even ‘Rule Britannia’ became like ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning.’ in pantomime. ‘Tipperary’ began as a fox-trot.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9
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131VIENNA LESS GAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9
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