Street, frst women's club in Great Britain, founded in 1683 by a group lof titied Ladies, is being wound up. [For 50 years no man was allowed inside it, and when Queen Alexandra, then Princess of Wales, was lunching there and the Prince called for her, leven he had to wait on the mat. It is said that he suggested that a club so respectable ought to be called after his wife. So the name, originally the Ladies' Club, was changed, to the:
In the days when it was founded ino woman dared stay in a hotel alone fand' would searcely lunch alone in. public, so the club was specially meant for country ladies who wished to come to London but could not get Jan escort. No woman who had not Jbeen presented at Court could be Jelected, Once it was so fashionable lunch at the Alexandra, that mem~ bers literally scrambled for tables. ISix. years ago to check the fall in Jmembership a tea-room for men was Much about the dances in store for the autumn and winter was disclosed (or should T have said "released"?) ata conference of 600 dancing teachers in Baker Street. this week The star turn of the afternoon was a demonstration of the "pause" oF "over." dri appearance it is like the pendulum of a clock, but here are the pointed directions for executing Step, diagonally back with Tr. eight toot} with hodp turning slightly [ort and Hover...S. (slow). Meplace the bE to side ahd sightly forward And since this {s the newest thing, there is no harm in saying that much the same variant of a walls "was common in Edwardian days, Other variations are borrowed at|b least In name from skling—the telemark, the falleaway, the outside the natural weave, the slide fouther, Precise directions for the position of hands and head accom= pany each figure. With all the work there will be In mastering them, who will call Society brainless?
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