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i THE CAPTIVATING CAKE WALK.iIt Has Become Immensely Popular inI London and Paris.! _ij The cake walk is the latest American insfituion to invade Europe. It is the novelty of the season in London, j and the reigning sensation of Paris, j American negroes doing turns at the i music halls in London acquainted the i English with the fascinations of the ! cake walk. Hostesses began hiring | the profesionals to do the cake walk at | their entertainments.Then the heavy-footed Englishmen commenced awkwardly to try the step?. The cake walk became popular; then the rage. London was conquered, and then in a trice the cake walk tiptoed across the channel and captured Paris. Now English and French society have at last one greatbond of sympathy, the American cake walk.I In England the cake walk has proven ) to hostesses, driven almost to desperation for something new with which to interest their blase guests, something which in America might be referred I to as a longPdt want. Dancing men i have been at a premium at London dances fur seasons immemorial. The I cake walk comes to the hostess as a | godsendj The languid society man and the I athletic young fellow who have gone j to halls with downcast spirits, as if doing penance, and who have been as wild and unapproachable as mountain sheep alter they got there, have been j caught in the allurements of the new | dance. It is no longer a matter of j difficulty to secure dancing men when j the cake walk is offered as an induce-| mem.| For that reason the hostess has ; seized on the dance as an inspiration | ami the walk is winning on its own I merits, too.
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Middletown News
Middletown, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 20, 1903
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