New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1926, Page 18

NE W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1926. NEW TYPE DANCE HALL 1§ FOUND Volunteer Chaperones Make Ap- - pearance in Chicago Chicago, Sept. 3 (P — Luxurious public ballrooms, entertaining amusement seekers who a de e ago would have viewed a p c dance with elevated brows, have be- come In the last flve years o notable part of Chicago's recreation facitli- ties. The success of sueh ventu are typified he-e in the Trianon Aragon ballrooms and a dozen simi- lar dance palaces is attributed by managers to self-imposed restric. | tions which have remove ma from the prb with its unv-elcome element of p ervision. Managers agree that factor in popularizing da been the chaperone system spol by them with the aid at Juvenile Protective associa group of Chicago women. Voluntary Action An Ttalian fruit dealer complin- ¢d in 1921 that a nelghborhood dance hall kept him awake, and Mrs. Flizabeth Crandall of the prote assoclation suggested that the r agers remedy conditions themselves before the city stepped in. Out of the meeting came the National Ball- room association with Mrs. Crandall as secretary. “What can we do to make our dance halls more respectable?” the managers asked, and a group of women studied the problem and made a report. “Speed up your muslc” was the first suggestion. Within 24 hours every orchestra in the ballroom group had doubled the tempo of its melodies, T toddle, the shimmy and kindred slow synco- pated motions were impossible at the brisk pace tic music set, and the managers found most of the bad dancing eliminated. Tact Replace Bouncers The chaperone system suggested itself as an outgrowth of t} host- ess devices employed during the war in army cmaps. Th echaperones agreed at the outset that their meth- ods must be tactful and not arbi- trary.” The league of chaperones now known as host P ve worked out plans of fance hall government by which chronic offenders are made unwelcome at all the ballrooms. Young people are urged to attend in groups, and thousands do. But strangers may meet young men and women, introduced by the hostess to dance with them for the evening. Some Examples Lately a youth entered a dancée hall with a bulging hip. The chaper- one did rot call police nor the man- ager, but slipped up to the young man and whispered: “Let me take pottle.” He surrendered it apighly. you throwv it a y?" he ask- later. " she answered. “You'll find ced with your wraps. I'm not rohibition officer .I'm just keep- this dan hall straight. Ay irl came to a ballroom Icoholie influence. The chap- erone took her arm and sald quietly. “Come on dear, we'rc going home. The girl accompanied her to a taxi- cab with some misgivings, admitting presently that she feared to go home intoxicated. The hostess sheltered the girl for the night in her own room, phoning her mother that sh would not be home, “You're a good scout,” the erring maid told her. She comes often to the dance hall, and since that night has conducted herse Women of the Juvenilo Prot association call the ballroom clamation “the most Important piece of soctal work ever done in Chlca- £o. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS Saturday—A Millinery Event Seldom as one of the most g as o ! Shirt Cuff Scenario Discarded in Movies | Holywood, ( Sept. 3 UP) — | The shirt cuff sce o gon vn’ shelf where it crowds the dodo bird, hoop sk and mustache A hurriedly lum, jotted on director betweer and scenario for an er times Inspiration c car bhound for the became \ario, Laundries washed away thousands of dollars worth of ideas on the present scale of prices. Today prepar.tion of a story for filming has become a high specializ- ed an expensive process and 1portant of studio work. With this char writer has risen to a commar position in Hollywood. In some in- more def- vhom i CHILD THEATER IS TRAINING SCHO0L Tends o Develop Creative Art in Youth Sept. 3 (P—A juvenile nelt hildren of all tion , I ent to in the in Children’s Civic in arly 1,000 childr Every s hildren’ iined at the Municipal Pi im, leveling the social 1 nd wealth to unite Ch in the common t dership ity council, Develops 1t is financed by ted by M 1 permanent |Drama 1 by the sponsored by the r coated training,” Miss Tles calls the work, for beneath the fun children have, the or zation intended to develop ership, creativeness, initiative, tole and teamwork. Children Plan Programs Most of the programs ar ed by the children, who a the costumes and stage tiings. gins the first week in three afternoons with the third afternoon the production of pro- ared in the two previous are almost entirely of children’s operas, danc ing, short plays, and sketches, encou ofessi hecome from their own Lesson for Mothers Each season the chil granted one night at the T opera, and this year they presented it of their own creation en- “hicago,” depicting the history of the city, But there are lessons for mothers s well. There was a well dressed Amer- fean mother from an exclusive sec- tion talking with a foreign born moth from a less fortunate section. | while ¢ watched their children standing beside cach other on the as cymbal bearers in an abian playlet. Later the American mother turn- ed to a friend: “Why she's so in- teresting — but I Imost was em- barrassed—why she speaks five anguages and T have a terrible time Iwith just my English.” ICED “SALADA” TEA . Cools liKe a breeze. Try it. LOCKERBIE STREET NOW SEEMS DOOMED - Was Made Famous by Riley’s Pogtry Tndianapolls, Ind., Sept. 3 (P) — “Such & dear little street it is nestled away “From the noise of the eity and the | heat of the day.” the Lockerbie street Whitcomb Riley wrote about nine vears ago no longer is 1 v from the noise of the And, ' “The cool sh trees, “With their leaves lifted up to shake hands with the breeze,” have disappeared as the city's res dential line receded leaving Lock bie street within a dilapidated dow town distriet, Now Cheap Boarding Houses To Riley the Lockerbie stree residence of Major and Mrs. Charles L. Holstein home for more than thirty vears. There he wrote } Afterwhile ngs of Childhood and others. And there in 1916 he y died the over to cheap rooming houses, a the oak and coverts of whisper- led. Memorial is Weatherbeaten The Hol memorial and the and other h occupancy d the elements he . old, VO-S structure Riley's batter ging within its ast. Its shabby belie the poet’s words: 1 its wide wandering= ey meet, “With a resting place fairer tha Lockerbie street.” The tourist seeking the Riley home finds Lockerbie only a bloci long, not far from the business dis vement. has beer neglec now is rough and broken. as ained every building s that re- mam a pathetic reminder to those knew Lockerbie strect when y immortalized it in poetry. BOY OF 12 SAVES TWO Atlantic City Sept. 3 (P A 12 year old ro, name un swn, saved irls, aged 4 ond 6, from drowning at the fnlet vesterday T Martha and Jane playing about the :iting the return of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- | ward Courtney of Rochester, Pa., from a yachting trip. e —— zo, and aided |’ City of New Britain, Department of Public Schools Official Notice All public schools of all grades, including kindergarten, ele- mentary grades, junior high schools and senior high school, open Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1926. 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