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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10278, 13 May 1919, Page 3

“We are so busy we Hardly know how to get all the lessons in during a day,” said a teacher of dancing to a London pressman on February 26 -h. “We begin at 10 a.ih. and sometimes do not finish until 11 p.m. Everyone is Jazz mad, but there are signs that the old-fashioned wa'.tz is going to bo popular again. Strictly speaking, the term ‘Jazz' is applicable only to the music,” Mr P. J. S. Richardson, cduor of the ’’Dancing Times” said. One teacher of dancing has 19 assistants, who are kept going all the day at 7s 6d f'4r half-fipuir. lessons. Dancing revivals always follow big wars, it was towards the end of the Napoleonic wars- that waltzing was introduced to London. The waltz was then thought to bo.most-indecent and improper P The bridge clubs are more prosperous and crowded with women than they Were before the Armistice (says a London paper). Many of the players arc voluntary workers at canteens and other war enterprises who arc feeling the lack of definite duty and are filling in time with “a rubber or two,” which usually develops into an all-af-ternoon and evening session at 5a bridge.* ~ ,