The French Club's dinner dance last Saturday was such a success that the Committee has decided to run a series of these special Saturday night dances, together with a floor show, until further. notice. This news ought to give an excellent fillip to the opening winter season. The idea is that the Club's orchestra will play light music from 830 p.m. and dance music from 9 pum. till closing time. The floor show will begin at 10 p.m.
The usual full course dinner will be served, but in addition, there will be a special short course dinner at 'a reduced price from 830-10.30 p.m. while a cold buffet will be available fat any time, The cocktail bar in the foyer entrance to the ballroom is an innovation which has received popular benediction. director introduced it to his clients. IN spread rapidly from London to the provinees. Young ladies In select seminaries are taught to dance It; only, as "Oi" is considered vulgar, they are told to shout "Ah." It has crossed the Channel, Frenchmen are amazed. Is this the renowned English phlegm? One French critic (they: have their highbrows even in France) describes it "as "a sort of. childish jig, in which the couples clap their hands and utter "crazy. ries, no Goubt to persuade themselves' that they are "very happy." But his countrymen cannot resist its charm, America has fallen for it, though Eddie Cantor calls it a '"freak, because it was not made in Americ: But that from our' standpoint, and without offence, is its merit. ' Too Jong we have' depended on transatlantic inventions, Big Apples, shimmies, Charlestons, negro wiggles and coal-black mammies, The Lambeth Walk is genuinely English, a spontaneous growth of London pave. ments, autochthonously rhythmical—I beg your pardon; this is not a treatise for the Encyclopedia, of course. But itis nice to think that we still have some Teal native art. 'The King and Queen have done a great deed' Feeognizing it.
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