THE FOX-TROT IN AUCKLAND.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 4 July 1919, Page 4

THE FOX-TROT IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland seems to have fallen a victim to the fox-tro'ttinji craze very very- badly, and one hears of fox-trot-ting parties.and dances being givOTi in many ‘directions. Undoubtedly the swing of the pendulum from the strain and stress of the war time is carrying people far into the direction of anything that- promises gaiety and movement, and amongst the keenest devotees of the new craze are soldiers and sailors, some even outvying the girls, themselves in their enthusiasm for foxtrotting and two-stepping. At “Careen” (Auckland) it might almost .be said that everybody lives for the evening’, when fox-trotting begins every night after dinner, even before it is over. The moment the orchestra, which has been playing all dinner-time, changes into the fox-trot. 11 iv-Iv-K-Katie. Beautiful Katie,” first two and then another two steal awjiy to the further end of the dining-room where dances are hold, and, regardless of dessert, coffee, or anything else, give themselves up to the extraordinary fascination of the music and dance till in a little while practically the whole roomful is fox-trotting. Girls in their pretty, .fresh dinner frocks, naval and military officers, civilian men of all ages, all are swept into the throng. The fox trot, the modern version of the enchantment of the Pied Piper, reigns supreme.