To the Editor of the "Norm-Cinxa Darty News."
Sin,—At the risk of being considered "behind the times," old-fashioned, and the rest of it, yoully think that, on such an sentially national occasion as the above, the Committee who arranged the dancing programme might well have improved on the kind of thing one can get any night ut w dozen places in Sbanghas.
There is nothing wrong with 42s tot, Wut ther i, something diy wrong with approx-ately THuRTeEX fox trots with say two waltzes and a couple of one steps. Tam not suggesting that we should necessarily. resuscitate the polka, velita, barn anes, ete. but T do think that two sets of Lancers would have Jivened "up tha, siderably. At the St. Andrew's Ball, our Scotch friends introduce yeels and *Caledoninns" and they add tremendously: to the pi those present: These a "go with Surely we Englishmen can break away from Carlton and Astor House after-dinner tradi-ion on an occasion like this. A ional, ball attracts both the young people and an older ge eration who want something di ferent from the everlasting TOX trot. Perhaps the Committee will, bear it in mind next sear.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.