DEATH-BLOW TO JAZZ
LONDON TEACHERS RETURN TO TANGO BIG DRIVE BEING LAUNCHED LONDON, Wednesday. A secret conference of London’s leading teachers of dancing has given the death-blow to jazz. Everywhere there are signs of its growing unpopularity and jazz instructors are facing the grim truth that dancing of that type is dying. The great Hammersmith Palais de Dance, known as “London’s Ball Room,” has been closed down and converted into an ice rink. Restaurant proprietors are cutting down their dances and substituting cabaret turns. Speakers at the teachers’ conference said that the owners of dance-halls who had the courage to revive the waltz, the polka and the lancers would make a fortune. Finally the instructors decided to return to the tango. Special bands are now being engaged for a great “tango drive” throughout England.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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134DEATH-BLOW TO JAZZ Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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