Archive for the 'Dance' Category

State of the art Sound System 1927

The New Orthophonic Victrola Record Player
THINK of having America’s greatest dance-organizations at your beck and call! Orchestras that would cost a small fortune to engage for a single evening! Through the new Orthophonic Victrola and the amazing new Orthophonic Victor Records, you can bring these selfsame orchestras right into your home. Exactly as you would [...]

Passing of the Jazz Age 1927

JAZZ – THE GOOD NEWS FROM ROME
LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD should welcome, and do, the good news from the Vatican that the jazz age is passing, and that the flood of immorality which lapped every shore is receding. Civilization is returning to normalcy, custom is becoming sane, Governments are checking orgiastic vices, religion everywhere is [...]

Dance Etiquette – 1921

Dancing is an art. More than that, it is a healthful art. In its graceful movements, cadenced rhythms, and expressive charms are evident the same beautiful emotions that are so eloquently expressed in music, sculpture, painting. And it is through these expressions of emotion, through this silent poetry of the body that dancing becomes a [...]

Social Dancing in Boston in 1924

THE modern social dance is of distinctly recent growth. It is as yet in an embryonic state. Eventually it will yield to one or the other of the two forces that have molded and controlled all dancing from Adam’s time, first the effect on the dancer and second the effect on the audience.
As a general [...]

The Charleston in 1925

For the benefit of those optimistic persons who feel themselves capable of learning to dance by correspondence course, the following information is given:
Oscar Duryea, American authority on modern dances, describes how it is actually performed. The position at the start is as follows: Man’s left foot behind the right, left toe at the heel of [...]