Apropos of dancing there is to be conference in London this week of the International Society of Dancing with 1,200 exponents present from all Jcountries. These it is who decide What sort of dancing is.to be fashionable in the coming year. There is marked tendency towards round dances, away from foxtrot and waltzes, It is a curious thought that before the warsoclety, so much more Jdecorous in some ways, loved romping in the ballroom, while latterly, although old standards of behaviour have gone to the winds, dancing has become so stiff and dull. But a change is coming, marked by the mad popularity of "The Lambeth Walk." Tt'seems that in-origin this is a rear follo dance, springing from the whir sical humour of cockneys. The bu Mess of this. week's conference is to standardize it, to set up a medium, so to speak, Between the correct and the incorrect grotesque.
But shall we ever have an English ballet?" We have at Toast one com~ poser to write the music; our girls, according to the late Mme Pavlova, make the best ballet dancers in the world when properly trained. But For invention of the dances we have look abroad, Choreography. remains essentially a Continental art. Incidentally, the ballet I have. been writing about as "Cinderella" "appears on the programme as ""Cen=
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