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In European Cities, Condemned as Un*» graceful and Improper and No * Dance at All.4. LONDON, Aug. 10.—Germany has condemned the cake walk as rowdy, Improper, and ungraceful. Paris has vetoed it with the label of bad form. And London is becoming tired of it also.*A popular dancing master, whose pupils grace the polished floors of suburban public r halls, admits that the cake walk no longer holds a place inhis curriculum.‘ “They used to like it, and some of my young women became quite proficient For a little while I engaged a colored woman to come toimy class once a week to show how it should really be done. But after a While the craze began to dwindle.“My pupils realize that the cake walk was not suited to the decorum of modern ballrooms.'*Ballet Dancer Condemns It\ mEven, more sarcastic on the point was Mme. Cavalazzi, the famous bat-a mlet mistress, whose stately, performances at the Empire are so well remembered by Londoners.“The cake walk a dance!” said madame, throwing up her hands in horror. “Spare me from the thought of it. It is not a dance, it is not a walk, it is not a th'irig of grace, above all, it Is not art. M ,5“For the negroes1 it* may be a good amusement. To them it is natural, the dance of the ‘ p£bple, just as the czardas is the dan£e of Hungary. But for Europeans—iti cahnot be thought of. .It is not a dailce/’_* - |»m:i
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Mon, Aug 10, 1903

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