Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never-never land of Zilania is the scene for Sweethearts; a disguised princess (Gladys Baxter), the heroine given the Sweetheart waltz to sing; an heir presumptive (Charles Massinger), the hero ("Every Lover must Meet His Fate"). Both careful performers, they did well with tunes that are still fresh and crinkling...
Taps. Nowadays a dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors...
Chicago convention of Midwestern Dance Masters told about and demonstrated two graceful midwestern dances, the "Sorority Sway" and "Sea Gull Waltz"; also a choppy one called the "Chug...
...society is white-haired, mustachioed Rudolf W. Vizay of Manhattan. For 46 years Dance Master Vizay has taught dancing to the cadets at the U. S. Military Academy. While others taught them to be soldiers, he has taught them the gentlemanly graces of the square dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes...
...instruction period begins with marching. Follows a rehearsal of the bow. Then comes the regular dancing, fox trot, waltz and one-step. The cadets do not dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...