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announce the American cake walk. Each is faultless in the matter of gloves aud pumps, and each carries a baton. The crowd on the floor pairs into couples, and the masters of ceremonies direct the counles to form an end let-* circle of promenaders until the music w resumed. When the strains of the plantation melody are heard again there are probably a couple of thousand dancers on fhc tloor.And now what a scene! The cake-walk consists of three movements. lu man takes the lady's hand, the disengaged hand raised m a lirifi vutfy The shoulder, they mark time to the musSo iA the fashion of the cake-iwifcf., \Theh **tmes the cake-walk proper, fuIWhfcn the bcilv is arched and the limbsthrown otft\w*ni us much abandon as pos be dancers waltz a few bars, movements are repeated a^_________ In the centre of the room, oneat each end of a narrow atrip on which the dancers must not encroach, stand the masters of ceremonies. They arc delightful; they out-attitudinise Sousa himself. “One-td’o. one-two. one two,” his Grace, with right leg extended, head thrown back, delicately beats time with his baton and lus white-gloved hand until it is time for the second movement. Then with a sudden swing of the body ar.d a magnificent sweep with his baton, he directs the dancers forward. and beats again until the opening of the waltz movement gives him auother opportunity for a change of pose.TUio ia n von- nroilt; of ibinrina One-
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Orange Leader
Orange, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Oct 10, 1903
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