AN UNFAVORABLE CRITIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 30 September 1913, Page 5

AN UNFAVORABLE CRITIC.

| Mr i Filson Young, in the Saturday Review, states His opinion that the | worst said against the “Tango” is justified, if not on the score of impropriety, certainly on the score of ugliI ness. “The other night,” he writes, , “J. saw an old lady of distinguished lineage and high station, and strictly I conventional views, sitting in a ball1100m and regarding with an expression (if fond and doting pride her honorable daughter, a sylph-like and relined young woman, tightly clasped in the embrace of a man and whirling about in various attitudes any one of which, Ia ad they jointly assumed it in the middle of a Loudon street, would have rendered them liable, to arrest on a charge of misdemeanor. That is a simple historical fact which should be placed on record, not because it is isolated, but because it is typical. And' my chief reflection, as I observed various graceful and good-looking people performing these antics on tne ballroom floor, was that if they coulcf see what they themselves looked Ijlce, especially from behind, they would in- ' stantly and for ever abstain from the 1 Tango, and all kindred dances. These dances have been the regular attraction in various Montmartre cafes for several years ; and women of the world I who have wished to see that kind of i life have had tobe warned, when they : wore taken to such places, that they 1 must 1)8 prepared for a very different i standard of propriety from that to : which they were accustomed. • It I certainly never occurred to me when 1 have looked at such performances that I should see them translated to 1 a’fashionable London ballroom, with peeresses and ambassadors, and dukes and princes, looking on an applaud--1 nig. And even if 1 had been prepar- | ed to see the younger and gayer married women so performing, with the countenance of their husbands and ! their friends, I certainly never exj peeled to see the mothers and chaporions of unmarried girls wreathed in smiles at the sight of their charge,? similarly occupied,”