DANCING IN EUROPE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 4

DANCING IN EUROPE

VERY FEW NEW STEPS MISS O’CONNOR RETURNS ist six months Miss Margaret O’Connor, the Auckland dancing teacher, lias been touring the Continent of Europe and England watching the newest steps and passing examinations at dancing conferences. She was amused by the quaint night clubs in Paris. In one of them the waiters always jazz up to the table with one’s food and artists sketch the patrons between dances. Aliss O’Connor visited Toulon, Nice, Milan, Venice, Lake Como, Lucerne, Heidelburg, Berlin, Brussels, Paris and London. She states that there is nothing very new in dance steps, either in England or on the 'Continent. People seemed to be perfecting style more than anything else. The skater’s waltz and the six-eight (a one step) are the only two new dances, though the French ballroom tango was becoming more popular. All the night clubs in London provide good cabaret turns, most of them by the leading London stage stars. Jack Hylton’s Band was playing at the Kit Cat Club, where Leslie Henson, the famous comedian, entertained patrons occasionally. Manuel Hyman, who had the orchestra at the Duneding Exhibition Cabaret, is playing for the talkies at Elstree.