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Fast fox-trot and tango were won by a red-cheeked Scot with a pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow. With his sister Alice he jogged and pranced through the fast fox-trot (he calls it the Quick-step). Swifter than that of 1929, it has more jigs, zigzags, nickers, turns and quarter-turns. One turn, for its peculiar twist, he calls the Lock & Key. Music 54 bars to the minute supplies the rhythms...
Vastly different was the McEwans' slow tango. Executed by Scots, it is a French adaptation from the Argentine and is, according to its creator, "a ver-r-r-a d-r-r-r-aggy dance." Because of its polyglot source it was named The International Tango. Lazy in tempo?32 bars to the minute?its slowness is compensated by twists and spins...
...phono-graph?and most of all?the radio. With their ears (and legs) attuned to change, the Dancing Masters this year have noted that radio is plugging mostly languorous waltzes and slow exotic tango-tunes. Thus no one was surprised when President Sheehy manifestoed: "It is a return of grace and dignity to the ballroom that is on its way. . . . The popularity of soft, crooning melodies and the return to favor of the long skirt have paved the way for the waltz. Furthermore, the middle-aged and elderly are tired of being ignored as in the passing era of jerky...
...best dancing teams resettle seen is that of Renarto and Rita They do a Walt which although acrobatic has all the gentle rhythm and smoothness so often lacking in that dance when modernized. They also have tango which Rita says is the same as that done is Rudolph Valen tine in the "Four Horseman" Having failed to see the former movie king in this picture , one can not make a deunite comparison, but the odds would seem to be on Renarto and Rita...
Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...