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250,000 persons per evening could be
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lishments of the gay British capital.
At present, the high figure is put
at 350.000 of both sexes between the
ages of 15 and 65, and going strong.
In Paris, the dancing craze has
reached such height that on a cer
tain day, last week, by governmental
decree and with less than 24 hours'
notice, all "dancings, balls and cours
de danse" were ordered closed until
further information ostensibly to
economize the coal consumed by their
electric, lighting. Acceptance of this
explanation throws the unexpected
dazzling light on the Importance of
the dancing craze in Paris. Theaters,
music halls, cafes, department stores,
hotels and shop windows were per
mitted to continue, as negligible In
comparison with the dancing lights.
"Turn the lights lower!" laughed
the dancing public, as if no coal short
age could stop them. Thus, homo
geneous masses have their hunches.
What government shall stop the stars
in their courses?
Exactly. To stop the rhythmia
malebolge of Tango comes to the
same thing. Here Is wisdom revealed
to the youthful while hidden from
the prudent. Where the kaiser in his
day of power was powerless and the
archbishop of New York and the
duchess of Norfolk Bpoke in their
haste, your Paris correspondent will
explain.
"Sun Spots Regulate IJan.-lnR."
The Tango will last grandly until
1924. But, note it is -the tar.go of as
tronomers, our tango, the tango type.
These dances of dignity and rhythm,
of attitude and gesture, the negation
of romp and whirling, are under the
protection of the sun In one of its
great periods.
It is the sun's fault. Everybody
knows that sun spots regulate dan
cing. You imagine that it is fox trot
because you dance, when In reality
you dance because it is the fox trot.
Which comes to this there Is a time
to dance and a time to tire of dancing
and a time to dance something else.
The sun's period of 11 years (as all
can count on their Angers), its maxi
mums of 113 years and grand maxi
mum of once a century correspond
very perfectly to the waltz (1812). the
gallop (1824) schottlsche. the ma
zourka (1838). the polka (1845), the
quadrille (1852). the lancers (1861),
the concan (1869). the pas de quatre
(1882), the Boston (1898). the cake
walk (1902) and the tango (1913). An
astronomer could even point out the
grand minimum of nothing-doing af
ter 1870. and the 33-year maximums
which gave the type dances of ma
zourka, quadrille and Boston.
But do not go, now, and think you
know It all; because while anyone
can calculate that the present dan-elna-
craze must last until 1924 (1913
plus 11 years), the grand Joggle of
once-a-century leaves the same prob
ability, of tango type to persist, re
vive and dominate through the next
hundred years as the minuet enjoytd
throughout the 18th century and the
waltz throughout the itn.
Dances Are Reviewed.
You'll say we pulsate with the sun.
You're right. Minuet waltz tango
Rezlna Badet called the Boston "a
waltz for pale persons." When she
first saw the tango she called It
Boston for paler persons." Even the
Judicious get this epoch stun: in de
tached parts; and It was months (In
1913) before Marthe Urbaln called the
tango type "the minuet of the 20th
century."
Exactly 100 years ago. you see
there was this same grand recrudes
cence of fhe dance, along with the
sun's centennial swell-up.
The waltz came floating on the
grand magnetic wave.
Trm armies of Napoleon found the
peasants of Thuringia dancing a new
dance. It was so gay and audacious,
so heart-melting and fascinating in
air. step and tempo, that the victo
rious and seasoned grande armee
(1810-1813), not perceiving the disas
ter ahead of them,- all but stopped
fighting to dance It!
celve. which rose on the edge of our
world war. which the world war
could not down, but only interrupt;
which must continue.)
But let us return to the waltz. 100
years ago. Nothing had been seen
like it. It was danced by couples.
The man took his partner by the
waist, while she clung to his shoul
der. The other arms were held out
stretched, hand clasping hand. And
round and round the couples whirled
round and round to music of a
new lilt which brought tears to the
eyes, a measure at once languorous
and agitated, soothing and exciting,
sentimental -dia bo Ileal.
Around 1812 they brought the waltz
to Paris. Debucourt called it "the
folly of the day." Simultaneously in
Paris they waltzed In 1800 public
balls. You might think it the tango!
Young; folks eating ices at Bagatelle
would jump up every ten minutes to
waltz on the lawn. They waltzed
everywhere, in public, in private, in
classes, in "dancings." with coaches
at $5 per hour, before breakfast, after
lunch "from countesses to queens,"
as Byron wrote, who saw it "and
maids and valets waltzed behind the
scenes!"
Id the midst of it arose a great pro
test similar to that of the good and
thoughtful kaiser, in 1913, against
the tango. I beg Napoleon's pardon:
but these parallels are world stuff,
and we've got to use them. At that
moment two famous society leaders
Mme. de Genlls and Mme. de Stael
proclaimed themselves respectively
against and for. The Countess de
Genlls had Immense vogue by her
genius as a writer and her earlier
position as governess In the royal
family. At the moment Napoleon
was paying her 86000 per year to
write him weekly letters on litera
ture and morals.. Napoleon requested
Genlls to give earnest meditation to
the tango pardon, waltz and write
something strong against it.
Mme. de Stael was for. Todav she
would be in favor of infighting jazz
one-step. And all three were right and
would be right today, like the tender
kaiBer. As Washington Lapp said to
the duke or Alva: "Its a touchstone
of refinement." Lord Byron said of
the waltz: "Well. I suppose it doesn't
matter, if they really love one an
other." And Mr. Pussyfoot Johnston
revived the stab tor the maxixe.
When, in 1913, I saw Alexander Kahn.
at present of the Chicago opera ad
ministration, dance the tango with
Marthe L'rbain of the Paris opera, in
Kahn's offices of the Rue Tronchet.
to the music of a piano. I received
impression of gracious movements, no
ble attitudes, a subtler, suppler min
uet. But when I saw paid attractions
at the first maxixe cabaret, it seemed
like wrestling at the Neullly fair.
with "every grip permitted. '
The world war came. It intervened
and passed.
The dance craze continues exactly
as after the Napoleonic smash-up. And
there is this to say in favor of the
dances the way In which elderly city
men in London and us poor old Vleux
Marcheurs in Paris are welcomed to
the latest trot or tango by all these
trim and joyous girls whom the cen
sorious might imagine the exclusive
partners of slim lieutenants and
sarges who can get as close to them
as their shadows, or even a little
closer.
They give the old boys a chance
It's an enormous testimonial to their
honesty.
Another thing. These dancing pa
aces are a school of manners. Even
more In London than in Paris they
give a vista o fsocial "Paradise Re
gained" for men and women but lately
released from a sense of servitude.
In London it Is very notable.
Enter one of the greatest halls.
where hundreds of couples dance as
one pair with a single heart. Over a
shimmering floor they skim to the
ebb and flow of the very laughter of
music.
Thoughtless thinkers call it jazz
All sorts and conditions are present
but you will not be able to "place"
them socially. You will scarcely be
able to distinguish a really middle
class pair from a couple recruited In
ciass or mechanical brain work
ersor even from partners who toll
and moll with their hands, doing day
mW uay (so a honestly that
many others blush and want to get
busy beside them) the ond. wnrir nf
civilization. Just that!
Two of the -best dancers we saw
(It was an old dancehall In a suburb)
tned out to be a farm laborer and a
servant girl, manifestly very much In
love with one another; and I can see
them now. walking back to the seats,
still a little uplifted by the magic of
the music that had ceased. The Hon.
Richard made a poem about them for
the Sunday Chronicle:
"He who was slave to a plow walked
like a king In his land:
She that drudged In the house leaned
on his arm a queen.
Joy brought them to their own; the
joyless years have been.
Many and sweet were their hopes, as
the buds she held in her hand."
School of manners, all right. Every
body has 'manners for the. occasion A
great many have actually fonnrt
manner. Just as military genius came
to light in humble clerks and me
chanical men of the bitter trenches,
so In these halls of many lights so
cial genius blossoms among those who
were formerly trodden under.
Decorum touched with joyousness
la the keynote.
Except, except I notice this par
ticularly in central Paris the sweet,
sad rhythmic spell, the continuous
non-stop charm, the sentimental self
forgetUilness, the dog star orbit
malebolge of tango proper.
Come to the most famous concern
of the rue Caumartin, the Cadet Rous
selle Dancing (new word), where they
have gala nights with distribution of
cotillon accessories, and every even
ing nan. and every afternoon the
tango tea.
There are literally hundreds such In
every quarter of Paris. Tango teas
proper, snug, comparatively small.
Pink-lit and crowded of afternoons,
with scarcely room for three couples
at a time. Not these.
Nor pompous restaurants of snobs.
My gosh! had Dante put this crowd
In his eweet-soarow. fixed-eye merry-go-round,
each ould have called out
as they passed: "Look, see, It's me!"
Nor these.
The tango malebolge la unmistak
able in larger purely dancing halls.
whose emptier afternoons. Dart
classes, are called tango teas for all
the mass of true addicts who can't
wait till evening and whom the new
"weekly rest day" of Prance recruits
every afternoon of the week, with a
new leaven.
Tap-tap, tap-tap-tap, tap, tap-tap-
tap.
They are doing "Don Padllla." or
the "Parra" or the "Crlollo." Eyes
fixed, stepping delicately, as in a mud
of sentiment, slow, dignified, con
tinuous, untiring in an effortless
promenade, back, forth, i, out. self
hypnotized, enraptured by monoton
ous charm, tap-tap. tap-tap-tap, tap.
tap-tap-tap. step the couples, as if
stepping consciously ten billion steps
across tne nallway of Nirvana.
I know this couple. She is a flower-
faced widow of the war, and he a
salesman at Printemps. She has
$90,000 including the insurance. They
met at the perfumery counter.
Rumors of new arrivals tinkle of
mixed drinks.
The bar (flowers, white enamel and
gilding) is now crowded in the
shadow not by rude men. for the
dainty girls monopolize its high
chairs. More lights. A crush. Rattle
of teacups, chocolate, cake, fizz
drinks. Fox trot. "Where the Black
Eyed Susans Grow." It's 6 P. M.
The razzle Is on. the malebolge
speeds up. I ask Zelli, the manager.
"Oh. fox trots for this tea crowd." he
says. "They're for the nifty tunes.
That's "Peaches Down in Georgia.'
Now we'll give them 'Just a Baby's
Prayer at Twilight,' "
Between 5 P. M. and 8 P. M.. up
and down that astonishing side street
of the boulevard, the street which
was dead and now liveth I refer to
the rue Caumartin it Is a scandal
of private limousines. Get caught in
that crush, and your taxi may not
get untangled for an hour. Waiting '
autoe and equipages with sassy
horses line both sides of the narrow
way. won't budge, and pressure from
both ends gets tied Into a knot,
about the middle. Three tango pal
aces, six dancing teas and restau
rants, three fox trot hotels.
At 10 P. M., they forget to go to
the theater. On messy dining tables,
while paid couples wiggle. "Musn't
Disappoint the Movie!" innocent Ivory
cubes dotted with black roll silently
and fair lips murmur (with an ac
cent): "Shoots a hundred. Whuf!
Nines! Slow death!"
Those who want to dance a little
seek the big halls.
GOTHAM OPERA BESIEGED BY
MAD SCRAMBLE FOR SEATS
Heavy Patronage at Metropolitan Forces Many to Attend Concerts in
Order to Satisfy Craving for High-Class Music.
N'
BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
EW YORK, Dec. 27. Never with
in the history of Metropolitan
opera in New York has there
been such a mad rush for seats. The
complaints from those who want only
admission are as severe as those of
the would-be patrons of the best
seats in the house.
For years the direction of the great
Broadway house has been working to
create the sort of following for grand
opera which exists in the Latin cities
and with a swoop the results are far
beyond realization.
Who are these patrons is a ques
tion which would open up long dis
cussions upon the conditions of the
country. They belong to the same
class of people with more money to
spend than they know what to do
with, and that Metropolitan opera Is
the most extravagant luxury of the
present day Is the reason that It is
so eagerly sought for among those
who. having long been deprived of the
buying power for such things, let
loose the purse strings and their de
sires. The Metropolitan Is not filled to Its
utmost capacity at the expense of the
orchestral or chamber music concerts,
or even recitals, in the event the at
traction is sufficiently strong to have
a following. On the contrary, many
people who have been unable to se
cure seats for the opera have tried to
appease their musical appetites by
going to the concerts instead, conse
auently there is every reason for
those who fear for what the future
holds for musical conditions to settle
down to the enjoyment of things as
they are and not concern themselves
about what the future will bring.
In a like degree the teachers are
r.,
(Exactly like tho tango, you per- so busy tho.t they are In an over
worked, over-tired condition. From
all parts of this country and from
many countries in Europe students
are flocking to New York, and many
of those who planned Immediate re
turn to their European posts have
thought better.o themselves and have
decided finally to locate here perma
nently. There la still the old glamour
in the minds of many, still the idea
that art life will be resumed there
like it was before the war. but what
an uVnatural point of view for people
who read the historic events of the
day.
The art world, like the financial,
has shifted to America, and those who
will seek it far afield will lose out
in every detail that will build for
future success.
The American public asks nothing
but to know something about the peo
ple in the public eye, for which rea
son the crowds flock to hear those
whose names have come to mean
something to them.
There never was a public of the
present magnitude in this country,
and there has never been such sup
port offered the best attractions as
today. Caruso is still the great mag
net at the Metropolitan, but he is not
the only one, and he does not monop
olize things as he did in an older day.
The drawing power is beginning to
fall upon the ensemble, the opera, the
thing itself for Itself, upon opera as
an outlet for those who want to spend
their money that way, and In many
other directions, and this is a much
healthier condition than it was when
the public had nothing to find at the
opera house except the idolatry of a
matinee hero.
So slowly that It is almost imper
ceptible, the American is gaining
ground, not only in opera, but with
the public, and perhaps the suc
cess of our artists at the Metropolitan
may be due to the fact that primarily
the public has awakened from Its
lethargy toward its own people.
The case of Mabel Garrison is one
of the most significant examples that
can be offered because she gained the
right to demonstrate her powers, and
that is everything for one who can
make good. "I want to go because
Mabel Garrison is going to sing." was
the remark of a young girl who had
just come to New York to study, and
already it meant something to her to
hear this, brilliantly gifted young
American singer whose name had
reached the four corners of tLls coun
try. To a public which includes throngs
of students eager to see and hear and
benefit from the pure, beautiful sing
ing of a sweet-minded, high-principled
American girl, the success of
Mabel Oarnson is one of the greatest
and most important happenings in the
musical events of a long number of
years. That the concert stage offers
so very much more money than the
opera is the cause of many young
artists accepting the wider offer, as
In the case of Sophie Braslau, who
has gained a tremendous following in
concert. No newcomer will usurp her
place vocally at the Metropolitan, be
cause even her concert appearances
of the week past proved her a vocal
ist of the rarest equipment. Such
singing, indeed, in a contralto being
almost unknown.
Not until an artist of Miss Braslau's
power is presented' .in such parts as
Amerls. Delilah. Carmen and others
of that caliber could she arrive at a
position in opera that she holds in
concert, and by the time she has trav
eled, from coast to coast a few seasons
In concert making the sensations
which she has already created this
season, she will have a far finer fol
lowing than if she had remained at
the opera to do "try-out" roles.
Vacation Wholly Unknown.
Birmingham Age-Herald
"So you enjoyed your vacation?"
"I certainly did. In fact I had the
time of my young life."
"Good! Here comes a man I don'l
want you to meet. He would spoil
your disposition."
"Why?"
"He has worked for the same firm
for 25 years and it is his proud boast
that he has never missed a day."
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