Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 87

THE SUNDAY The Old- Fashioned Dances BY W. E. HILL. Copyright, 1026, Chicago Tribune: A bathing chorus step in the dear old days. In an evening dress this same pose meant that she wanted to go bye-bye at bedtime. An early tango in the days when the dansant was the newest thing out. An early turkey trot to the strains of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” The conservative element of the period thought the turkey trot pretty immoral The wallflower. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—AUGUST 2, 1925. The barn dance, which took up a lot of floor space in the doing. In the old days the girl who found herself a wallflower at a dance could do nothing but stay in the background and pray to heaven that the ground would open and swallow her and her shame. But in 1925 a wallflower has a much better time. She borrows a cigarette. Who would have the old days back! The high kicker, who did the long-skirted dance in the early musical show.- She wore enough skirts to outfit half a dozen 1925 chorus ladies. at the climax of the act. Once upon a time every lady vaudeville performer who was anybody at all got to- ether a few yards of mosquito netting, some glass beads and a property head of John the aptist and staged a Salome dance. (This is the Princess Hotsey Totsey and her company, ) made. The toe dancer with the glittering smile, who toe danced down a step ladder in the ballroom scene. “Almost as good as the Castles!” was the cry in 1914, or thercabout, when the exhibi- tion dancers waltzed round and round to the fune of “Nights of Gladness.” For Old England’s sake. This is one of those merry folk dances done with almost too much gusto, in connection with pageants and educational powwows. The costumes were home- AN eS8