Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ACTIVITY CALORIES Lying still ...... 1 Fox trotting .... 4.78 Walking slowly.. 2.6 Stone masonry.. 5.53 Light gymnastics 2.9 Heavy gymnastics 6.7 House painting 3.3 sawing wood...6.8 Walking rapidly 3.8 Housekeeping .. 3.31 Charles polka-ing ............ 7.56 Waltzing ............ 3.99 Foil fencing ........8.25 Shimmying ...... 4.02 Sabre fencing.,.. 8.69 Washing clothes 4.21 Running ............ 9.7 Black bottoming 4.68 Mazourka-ing ..10.87 Schottishing ...... 4.76 Wrestling...
...extravagant ugliness of contemporary returns to the jungle in modes of dancing must welcome an honest attempt to recover the genuine line of advance by reverting to forms far less aboriginal and admittedly graceful. It is not the barn dances that are wanted at present, but the waltz, polka, quadrille, gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background...
...Holka Polka. Continental operettas are presupposed to have good music. Sometimes they are favored with good voices. It was the peculiar perversity of this production to reverse the natural expectation. The brilliant voice of Orville Harrold is called upon to sing a score of rather ordinary quality. Assisting him was his daughter, Patti Harrold, of somewhat slighter voice and slighter figure. When these were not warbling, there were few bright spots, of which the humor...
About a century later, after 1830, the vein of the songs begins to change. Dancing and the musical theatre performance usher in a new type of frivolous song composition. Each year brings its quota of new "marches", "quicksteps", "variations", "gallops", "quadrilles", "polkas", "schottisches", and "mazurkas". Then, as dancing and the musical theatricals begin to show their influence, are found such titles as "The Harvard Quadrille, to the ladies of the Harvard sociables" and "The Hollis Hall Polka". Finally comes "rag time" in the early 1900's and even in this the University is by no means left...
Perhaps the polka, in ceding to the fox trot, has taken with it some of the charm of earlier days. Perhaps the bustle, the soft candle light, and the champagne punch, in fleeing before the straight gown, electrics, and lemonade, have also removed some of the grace that went with the quadrille. Or can it be that the efficiency of nowadays, as exhibited in the change from the graceful bow of invitation to the brazen cut-in, has enabled the present generation to get the same amount of enjoyment out of the dance in less time...