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...dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed, box-angled, snake-hipped; 45 degrees to the right is the step, then 45 to the left...
...snake drums of Numidian cavalry. (Page 13, column...
...snake drums of Numidian cavalry...
Ringmasters in long red coats and stovepipe hats; white stallions more graceful than swans; blear-eyed elephants performing feats of incredible sagacity; chariot racers, trapeze artists, ladies in spangles who wear jeopardy like a flower in their hair, sword- swallowers, snake-charmers, clowns in shreds and patches, fat women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth...
...Snake dancing, pottery making, and other relies of the past must go, to be replaced by bathtubs, radios and toothbrushes. The modernized redman, sitting in the newly-opened movie emporium, and watching a Hollywood version of the sun dance can then ask him self whether the white man got the better of him in this trade...