Peking, Sept. 13, While the government ay Nane ing has issued a mandate forbidding western-style dancing in the capital, Peking's "night life" has been stimulated by the addition of a number of Chiness cabarets, in which Chinese girl partners are vailable at fixed fees for each dance.
At the same time, Chinese politi-ians who flocked to Peking bunting ior jobs in the new government are finding recreation in the foreign= style hotels, all of which maintain ince orchestres and hold. dance every afternoon and evening during the cooler months. Chinese men und women are rapidly becoming in the majority at the hotels, as the foreign population of Peking dew lines.
The section of Nanking officials in cancelling all permits for dab halls or dancing in hotels, apparent. ly has not impressed the municipal authorities in Peking, ax permits are being freely granted Zor a num-bor of new all-Chinese cabarets, and no attempt is being made to inter-{ere with those already in existence, The mandate issued a, Nanking, forbidding western-style dancing, reads as follows:
"Nanking is the national capital ere all evils tending to degradation must be and suppressed, Dancing is an evil and no: a healthy recreation. The practice of dancing by men and women through the night is detriniental to public health and public morality. Oficials are hereby instructed to take prompt steps to prohibit ani suppress such activities."
The northern ecaiition also claims that Peking is the national capital of China, but its officials apparent ly do not hold the same ideas toward dancing. Many of the highest officials in the ney government are frequent visitors to Zorvign hotels, where they dance and foreign worner Ginner parties are more emumon at Poking dances than elsewhere in China.
For a number of years, Peking was satisfied with two "nights clubs," in which Russian girls acted as partners. These cabarets had heir ups and downs, bu; managed to keep going. To-day they are profiting by the renewal activity.
But the latest riy: purely Chinese which there are now are owned and operate vy Chinese, with Chinese dancing partners, and their patrons are sly Chinese. Managers who learned in Shanghai a Sing-song girls in Poking, who had two bad years before the city again became a sott of capital, are determined to lo: stern dancing: ard qualify as dancing partners, Severaj of them already have abandoned the old-style ivathods for ation are a little nervous, however, about what may happen "wher and if General Chang Yinwu, the "farmy-boy mayor" from Shansi, takes up his post a5 mayor General Chang: left th: direct an army. He is a strict Puritan, and he disappro: Grinking, and publ If he returns to the post of mayor, he may act as Nanking has don* end cancel dance hall permits United Press,
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