While theatre manners come in for criticism we receive from far afield an unexpected commendation on those of Shanghai bal] rooms, A writer in the London '"Evening Standard" reports that "a wave of Puritanism is passing over Paris: the Government is proposing legislation to deal with plays and other shows that menace ublic morality, and the Dancing asters' Association is waging war against the most recent corybantic exercises'—and he goes on:—
In this camnesion, I was amused to hear from a friend, just returned—frore Shanghai, that in China the deportment of dancers is now strictly regulated by a corps of young gentlemen with wands.
When a couple "appear to mistake a dance for a honeymoon," the M.O. tape them gently on the shoulders to recall them to a sense of propriety. If they have to be thus reminded "more than three times they are removed from the ballroom under escort.
For business reasons, not from prudery, the present writer is no frequenter of Shanghai dancing rooms and would be glad to hear from those more experienced when ther and where this M.C. is to be found. It all sounds rather nice and as if General Ho Feng-lin need really not be so chary serving out licences.
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