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THE MAGAZINE OF FOLK AND SQUARE DANCING 25c

B A B Y B R O T H E R - - S E E PAGE 7

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USE THE

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See our extensive stock

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2028 Mt. Diablo St.

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CelluloidBadges

Our drawings oryour own.All sizes.

Order your 'club badges now and havethem for the next festival

STAR ENGRAVING COMPANY177 Minna St. San Francisco 5, Calif.

Telephone DOuglas 2-1727

MADELYNNE GREENE'SFOLK DANCE CENTER451 Kearny St. San Francisco

BEGINNERS

Thurs. 8:30 P.M. to 10:30 P.M.'

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TAuthentic copies of Swedish, Italian, Czech,Schuhplattler and others from $17.50 up.

Also original models with full gay petticoatsand panties for the dancer, $15.50 up.

Separate Skirts, $7.50 upPeasant Blouses, $2.50 up .

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May be purchased also at—

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IVY NOOK SIFT SHOP305 Columbus Ave., S. F. GA 1-2187

VIRGIL MORTONpioneer leader and teacher of Californiafolk dancing . . . for your club or groupwrite to

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LET'S .DANCE!

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C O N T E N T S F O RN O V E M B E R , 1950

V O L . 7 N O . I I

The Magazine of Folk and Square Dancing

BABY BROTHER by Iris Munson 7TELL IT TO DANNY by Dan McDonald 4THE RECORD FINDER by Ed Kremers 9FOLKS IN FOCUS 10FOLK DANCES FROM NEAR AND FAR 12SQUARELY SPEAKING by Guy Merrill 15FEDERATION CALENDAR OF EVENTS 3FRESNOTES by Lillian Bowman 5CHATTER FROM THE SOUTH by Marilyn Busch 6CALLER OF THE MONTH, Ralph Page 16CALL OF THE MONTH 17NATIONAL PROMENADE by Mildred R. Buhler 17AROUND THE SQUARE SET by Peg Allmond 18THE DANCER'S BOOKSHELF by Lucile Czarnowski 19

ROBERT DOUGLAS LAMONT, EditorDAVID BLUE, Art Director

WAYNE WILLS, Roving Editor

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Mildred R. Buhler, Square Dancing Ed Kremers, RecordsMarjorie Lewis, Southern Calif.Grace Ferryman, Folk CraftMarjorie Posner, Folk FoodLucile Czarnowski, BooksVlargaret Jory, Folk WorldLawton Harris, Physical Education

Marjorie Posner, CostumesHarold Pearson and

Charles Rich, EventsGeorge Posner, PhotographyMadelynne Greene, Dance Tech-

nique

EXECUTIVE STAFFBusiness Mgr., Margaret Lament Promotion Mgr., Walter SrotheCirculation Mgr., Ed Kremers Advtg. Mgr., Robert D. Lament.Publications Committee: Wayne Wills, chairman; Robert D. Lament and

Mildred R. Buhler.

OFFICESADVERTISING—Please address all inquiries to Robert D. Lamont, Na-

tional Press, 273 Broadway, Millbrae, Calif., Phone OXford 7-2605.

EDITORIAL—Route I, Box 319, Guerneville, Calif, Phone Guerneville8Y5. Southern Calif. Branch—470 S. Swall Drive, Beverly Hills,Calif, Phone CRestview 6-2619.

CIRCULATION—262 O'Farrell St., San Francisco 2, Calif., Room 301.Phone SUtter 1-7294 or SUtter 1-8334.

PUBLICATION—273 Broadway, Millbrae, Calif Phone OXford 7-2605.

BUSINESS—Route I, Box 319, Guerneville, Calif Phone Guerneville8Y5.

PROMOTION—390 Liberty St., San Francisco 14, Calif Phone VAIen-cia 4-5017.

Subscription price: $2.50 per year.Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Millbrae, Cali-fornia, December 7, 1948, under Act of March 3, 1879.

COVER AND CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED 1950 BY THE FOLK DANCEFEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA.

CALIFORN/A FEDERATIONCALENDAR OF EVENTS

NOVEMBER 5 The Salinas Free Lancers will be hosts to theFolk Dance Federation of California at a Festival to be held atthe main hangar of the Salinas Airport where approximately20,000 square feet of floor space is available. Time: 1:30 to5:30 p.m.

Arrangements have been made for an evening party from 7:30to 10:30 p.m. at the Salinas National Guard Armory with theSoledad Village Mixers and the Chular Paisanos as hosts. ARegional council will be held at 12 noon, with the FederationCouncil Meeting planned for 12:30 p.m.

DECEMBER 4 SAN JOSE. Civic Auditorium. Time: 1:30 to5:30 p.m. Evening Party to be announced.

JANUARY 4 SACRAMENTO

FEBRUARY^ OAKLAND

SOUTHNOVEMBER 4 LONG BEACH. Saturday evening the Silverado

Folk Dancers are your hosts to a festival being held in the LongBeach Municipal Auditorium located in the center of RainbowPier—foot of American Avenue near Ocean Boulevard.

DECEMBER 10 SANTA MONICA. Christmas Festival

REGIONAL FESTIVALSNORTH

NOVEMBER 18 EUREKA. The Eureka Recreation Departmentare hosts to the Federation for a Saturday evening of dancing.The setting is the large Municipal Auditorium in Eureka.Time: 8 to 12 midnight.

DECEMBER 17 EUREKA

SOUTHSANTA BARBARA Last Friday of each month at McKinley

High School. Time: 8 to 11 p.m. Sponsored by the Santa Bar-bara Folk Dance Groups.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTE January^

JUNIOR REGIONAL FESTIVALSNORTH

DECEMBER 10 OAKLAND. The Junior Section Festival willbe held in the Oakland Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, 1:30to 5:30 p.m. This is a wonderful setting for the Juniors to holdtheir Christmas Festival and all Juniors are invited to come andenjoy the dancing and exhibitions.

SOUTH

NOVEMBER 17-18-19 BAKERSFIELD. Sponsored by CircleEight Club. Henry "Buzz" Glass of Oakland is the instructor.Place—East Bakersfield High School Cafeteria. Five sessions foryour enjoyment. Friday, 17th, 8 p.m. intermediate and ad-vanced; Saturday, 18th, 9 a.m. intermediate and advanced; 1:30p.m. instructors and advanced dancers; 8 p.m. beginners' ses-sion; Sunday, 19th, 1 p.m. intermediate and advanced.

Items to be included in the Folk Dance Calendar of Events must beforwarded by the fifth of the month prior to publication to Hal Pearson,1636 Oak View Avenue, Berkeley 7, California.

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MAN-AGEMENT AND CIRCULATION requiredby the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, asamended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, andJuly 2, 1946, of Let's Dance! Magazine, pub-lished monthly at Millbrae, California, forNovember, 1950.

1. The names and addresses of the pub-lisher, editor, managing editor and businessmanager are:

Publisher—The Folk Dance Federation ofCalifornia, 262 O'Farrell St., San Francisco 2,Calif.

Editor—Robert Douglas Lamont, Route 1,Box 319, Guerneville, California.

Managing Editor—Robert Douglas Lamont.Business Manager — Margaret Lamont,

Route 1, Box 319, Guerneville, California.2. Let's Dance! is owned by the Folk Dance

Federation of California, a non-profit, unin-corporated organization whose officers are:George Murton, president, Northern Section,F. D. F. C., 731 Fulton St., Redwood City,Calif.; Francis Larkin, secretary., N. S., 2815Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, Calif.; HaroldG. Comstock, president, Southern Section, F.

D. F. C., 1853 Arvin Drive, Glendale, Calif.;Betty Hicks, secretary, S. C., P. O. Box 728,Wilmington, Calif.

3. There are no known bondholders, mort-gagees or other security holders owning 1 percent or more of the total amount of bonds,mortgages or other securities.

ROBERT D. LAMONT, Editor.Sworn to and subscribed before me this

10th day of October, 1950.P. E. Guidotti, Notary Public,

Guerneville, Calif.My commission expires Sept. 13, 1952.

NOVEMBER, I960

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TELL IT TO DANNBy DAN MCDONALD

More area councils are being formed eachmonth and are proving to be highly successfulin their endeavor to show the way to cooperatein the art of real fun for all.

The by-laws of "THE SAN FRANCISCOCOUNCIL OF FOLK DANCE GROUPS" pre-pared by ROSEMAR1E FARRELL, ANNACARLSON and FRANK KEARNEY is a master-piece of coverage. I particularly like SectionsA and H of Article II defining PURPOSES:

"A. To unite the groups in the San FranciscoArea to promote and improve all Folk DanceActivities."

"H. To remain non-political and non-com-mercial."

I'm quite sure a copy may be had by writingthe secretary-treasurer, MURIELE PABST, send-ing a self-addressed 3c stamped large envelopeto 132 OLIVER ST., DALY CITY, SAN FRAN-CISCO 25, CALIF., or chairman, BILL SOR-ENSEN, 93 CASTRO ST., S. F. 14.

THE VAGABONDS of Burlingame-San Mateodo get around; this time STRAWBERRY LODGEup LAKE TAHOE WAY, where plans are allset for a three-day deal, Feb. I, 2, 3. You cando the same by writing to our old friendSHIRLEY- SMITH at KYBURZ, Calif., and shewill welcome you, too, I, 2, 3. DR. and MRS.HOWARD TRELEAVEN, the VAGABONDSpresident, with GRANT and IRENE SWEET

• were recent visitors.Goin1 south? Wanna dance? See PAUL

ERFER, FOLK ARTS BAZAAR, 625 SHATTOPLACE, LOS ANGELES 5, or call for info DUn-kirk 8-5265 or check in with BOB OSGOOD,that Sets in Order man, 462 NO. ROBERTSONBLVD., L. A. 48—phone CRestview 5-5538.

FRAN LARKIN, corresponding secretary forthe FOLK DANCE FEDERATION OF CALI-FORNIA, is planning a tour of the country andMexico with her caller-husband, MATT. They'resure to have fun and bring back loads ofmaterial. FRAN will keep in touch with FED-ERATION affairs, enroute, as she has arrangedwith Uncle Sam to forward all correspondencefrom P. O, BOX 3678, Rincon Annex, S. F. 5.

We sure got our dates mixed in October—CHANG'S HOBBY SHOW, CALLERS QUAR-TERLY MASTER INSTITUTE and FEDERATIONFESTIVAL all on the 22nd.

THE ISLAND TURNERS of ALAMEDA meeton the second and fourth Saturday nights eachmonth at 949 THAUWAY—BOB and NANCYMURDOCK are the Instructors. MARVIN W.GOULD, 848 THAUWAY, is the correspondentwith ROBERT E. SMITH as secretary, but itdidn't thau way he lives.

THE NAPA REGIONAL COUNCIL met onOctober I, at the Naval and Marine TrainingCenter, preceding the SUNNYSIDE FOLKDANCERS' REGIONAL FESTIVAL.

Representatives from most of the memberclubs were present, with Chairman SUE LEM-MON presiding.

JACK NELSON, newly-elected president ofand acting representative of the SILVERADOFOLK^ DANCERS OF NAPA, was appointedpublicity chairman, and is to contact the localnewspapers in the various towns comprising

the NAPA REGIONAL COUNCIL, with thepossibility of obtaining space for a column tobe devoted to folk dance news and what'sgoing on in the folk dance world. It was thegeneral belief that this will stimulate interestfor folk dancers and potential folk dancers, aswell as benefit business houses that carry folkdance supplies.

Our President, GEORGE MURTON, is stillup north, VANCOUVER, PORTLAND, SEAT-TLE, etc., and we hope he finds plenty of timeaway from his work-a-day to dance with thosevery nice people.

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOLK ARTS underdirection of GRACE PERRYMAN gave a de-lightful recital of international folk dances en-titled "This Dancing World" at SALINASSept. 23rd, sponsored by the FOLK DANCECLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY and SALI-NAS EVENING SCHOOL. The program ofnine dances was unique in that it gave a briefhistory of the origin of each dance.

LET'S DANCE! was requested three at atime from far away DAYTON, OHIO. "Pleaseenter our subscriptions to LET'S DANCE!.Enjoy the magazine very much. REV. JAMESHURLEY, MR. GEO. B1ERSACK and MRS.ROBERT SEIZER." Thank you very much! Weattended to it at once.

"THE SILVERADO FOLK DANCERS ofNAPA wish to express their appreciation andthanks to everyone who helped make their re-cent 'Back to School' Festival the success thatit was.

"The evening session held on the tenniscourts was unanimously acclaimed as the placeto dance on a warm summer evening, insteadof a hot stuffy hall. Very truly yours, LOELLAH. MULLER, publicity chairman, SILVERADOFOLK DANCERS."

SHINDIGGERS FOLK & SQUARE DANCEGROUP meet first and third Saturdays, 8 toII p.m., HORACE MANN SCHOOL AUDI-TORIUM, 51st and Ygnacio Sts., Oakland, saysJEAN O'NEAL, their secretary.

On September 24, CHARLES BASSETTMC'd at the VINTAGE FESTIVAL at SONO-MA. This is an old California Folk Festival andis another step to bring folklore and folkdancing in line. 1 hope to report further.

On Sunday, October I, CHARLES B. MC'dat BOONEVILLE in Mendocino County. Thepurposes include:

A. The celebration of the closing of thevacation season.

B. A get-together of all the MENDOCINOCOUNTY CLUBS.

C. An effort to get the citizens of BOONE-VILLE to form a group of their own.

"BUZZ" KILBORN and wife, LUCILLE, ofSAN RAFAEL are now with the MARINSQUARE STEPPERS, which meets at KENT-FIELD Saturday nights. (DANNY'S their uncle.)

Latest acquisition to the MILL VALLEY FOLKDANCERS is JIM MOORE and his MRS., lateof SEATTLE. There they had been MC'inget al, JIM says the enthusiasm is even higherin WASHINGTON than down here, but ther*

LET'S DANCE!

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are less "advanced" groups and more interestin simple dancing.

School's open again with many new enrolleesn the folk dance classes under our wonderfulmified school system of adult education. Thisnay affect attendance at some of the regular

Jubs for awhile, but they will all benefit inthe long run, knowing that more and more peo-ple are learning the art of friendly fun, byholding hands with their neighbors in an end-less ring of true fellowship proven down throughthe ages to be found in FOLK DANCING.

And now let's hear from the first council totake advantage of the new colyum plan. Takeit away Lillian . . .

FRESNOTESBy Lillian Bowman

Fall activities hold the spotlight around thispart of the Valley, Every night except Sundaythe adult education department holds classesin just about every school. Some dancers goto school six evenings a week!

EVELYN and JACK LEYDEN just returnedfrom a month's motoring trip into Mexico.They attended many of the dance programs andbrought back a wealth of color slides of thedancers . . . also some beautiful costumes.

Mr. HOLLIE NUNSACKER, one of our lead-ing folk dance teachers, presented a thirty-minute program of folk dancing at the FresnoCounty District Fair. This was conducted underthe adult education department and hundredsof spectators enjoyed it. Dancers included theWALLY BARCUSES, TOM NORTHRUPS, BOBBOWMANS, GERTRUDE BIEHLE andTHOMAS HUNTER.

The LEMOORE FOLK DANCE GROUP helda festival Sept. 30, preceding the big "LemoOreDay Celebration." Dancers from all the val-ley towns attended and food, as usual, wastops. Thanks went, particularly, to Mr. andMrs. LOUIS SKATKI and Mr. and Mrs. CHAS.HARRINGTON.

There's a new group of dancers up at BigCreelc, way back in the Sierras. For the fiftymembers, dancing is their only recreation andthey make the most of it. Everyone, by the way,is welcome. Their instructor is LAYERNE WIL-LIAMS (Miss)'; Pres., CLARENCE WILSON;Sec., DOROTHY WATHER; Treas., • BETTYKEENLAND. What's their name? THE BURRCUTTERS. Cute?

The CLODHOPPERS were recently hosts atthe Roeding Park Pavilion to an "all-countydance," which was a thumping success.

And, speaking of successes, thanks to allfor making the Raisin Harvest Festival so out-standing! Now back to DANNY.

To Me? Nothing to say except how aboutyou other councils taking a hint ... oh yes ...and HAPPY DANCING! ... of course.

FOLK

WE'RE OFF!The "Club Fund" package has been

mailed to all clubs and the program

is under way. If you haven't received

your copy of the magazine and order

book send a hurry-up call to Ed

Kremers, Circulation Manager, 262

O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, 2,

California.

Edited by MARJORIE POSNER

If you want to start a good argument justmention CURRY to cooks and gourmets!There are all sorts of theories about how itshould Be cooked, served and eaten; fromwhat brand of curry powder should be usedto what goes with it as accompaniment.

This month I'm going to stick my neck outand give you a. recipe for LAMB CURRY thatcomes from Australia and that we think isdelicious:

LAMB CURRY (AUSTRALIA)2 Its. lamb stew (shoulder)1 tblsp. fat1 onion, sliced thin\. salt2 cups boiling water1 tblsp. curry powder1 tblsp. flourdash pepper1 diced appleTrim fat from meat and cut in 1% inch

cubes. Brown in fat with onion. Add salt, cur-ry powder, flour and pepper. Mix welL Addapple and water. Simmer slowly, covered, un-til tender (about 1% hours). Serves 6.. Withit serve plenty.of hot rice cooked as follows:

RICEWash rice well and add water to about 1

inch above_ level of rice. Cover and cook slow-ly until rice is as dry as you like it. Saltmay be. added before or after cooking.

CHUTNEY just naturally goes with CUR-RY so here is a recipe for it that is not toodifficult to make and adds a nice flavor:

CHUTNEY3 onions chopped very fine4 Ibs. tomatoes, chopped1 Ib. apples, peeled, cored and chopped1 pt cider vinegar2 tblsp. salt1 clove garlic2 cups sugar1 cup raisins1 teasp. each cinnamon, cloves, mustard

Vz teasp. each pepper.and allspiceCook all- together until thick and clear.

Seal at once in sterilized jars. This may becut down to a small amount if you just wantto try it.

A good dessert with the CURRY is a piemade with both apples and plums. Use theHOT-WATER PASTRY recipe in the Augustissue of Let's Dance! and make pie as fol-lows: .

.PLUM-APPLE PIELine pie-pan (a deep one preferably) with

pastry. Sprinkle pastry with flour first, thensugar (to keep from getting soggy). Put inabout 4 cups peeled, sliced apples. Sprinkleapples with mixture of 1 cup sugar, 1 tblsp.flour, 1 teasp. nutmeg. Over this place alayer of plums (canned ones may be usedif well-drained). Dot with butter. Coyer withmore pastry, flute edges, pierce with forkfor steam to escape, and brush with undilutedcanned milk. Bake in a hot oven (425,degrees)about one-half hour.

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CHATTER fit*** tfo SOUTHBY MARILYN BUSCH

Hi! Here's the news, but first, here's ourpresident, Harold Comstock:

The first meeting of the new leaders groupwas held at the Folk Arts Bazaar on September16th. About sixty leaders and teachers werepresent at this very successful meeting.

This group has been formed to supplementthe regular council meetings and to act moreor less as a steering committee for the affairsof the Southern Section. Being -comprised as itis of leaders and teachers, the problems of theFederation are much closer to them than to theelected delegates, many of whom are not in-terested enough to attend council meetings.

At this first meeting a general discussion onthe following subjects was carried on:

1. The beginner problem at festivals.2. Number of dances on a festival pro-

gram.3. Type of dances on a festival program.4. Advisory committee's job.5. Standardization of dances for festivals.6. Choosing an M.C. for a festival.7. Cliques.8. Regional leaders' group meetings.9. Appointing a standardization chairman.

10. Pictures for newspapers.11. Squares separately at festivals.12. Badges.Our future meetings will have an agenda of

one or two major points to be investigatedthoroughly and the necessary steps taken tocorrect the fault. This will be followed by ashort discussion to arrange the agenda for thenext meeting.

I wish to extend through this column a cor-dial invitation to any of the leaders or teach-ers, whether or not they belong to the Federa-tion, to be present and to take part in theseleaders' meetings. For it is in this mannerthat we shall be able to promote our folkdancing and all of the attendant benefits forthe people who do not as yet realize what folk

dancing is and what it can do for them.By the time this goes to press we will have

had our second meeting,and expect to makea great deal of progress. If you wish to attendthese sessions please send me your mailingaddress. Notice of these meetings will be sentto those registered as desiring to attend.

Cordially,Harold Comstock.

The KAPER CUTTERS of Pasadena spon-sored the Folk Dance Festival at the LosAngeles County Fair, Pomona, on Sunday,September 24. It was held on the Inner Fieldof the race track on the fair grounds. Did thedancers compete with the horses? No, nothorses, merely with a parade of 25 bands,thousands of drum majorettes, females bal-ancing on flag poles, stunting automobiledrivers, acrobats on tight ropes, etc. Was theFestival a success? It Was lots of fun. Friendsin the grandstand said the dancers made avery colorful background and their beautifulcostumes blended into interesting rhythmicpatterns.

After the Festival, dancers from Santa Bar-bara, Glendale, Pasadena, Temple City,Pomona and South Pasadena met at De Laye'sFrench restaurant for dinner and an eveningof dancing. Dr. and Mrs. RUFUS KNIGHTand Miss ELMA McFARLAND were hosts.

The Kaper Kutters, by the way, have an-nounced their new schedule of dances. Thefirst, third and fifth Thursdays at Longfel-low school, 1065 E. Washington St., Pasa-dena, 8 to 10:30. This is an intermediategroup, taught by ELMA McFARLAND. DR.RUFUS KNIGHT is president.

BILL BARNHART (Stanford SummerGraduate, 1950), former leader and organizerof the Village Hoedowners of Stanford Vil-lage, member of the Stanford Hoedowners, isback home in Hollywood. Bill is attending

' a television, training school and dancing asmany nights as possible.

MARGARET LLOYD (Margi to herfriends) is now finishing her recreation majoiat Los Angeles State. She was a member o:Changs International Folk Dancers and th(folk dancers at Palo Alto.

Both Margi and Bill are a welcome addi-tion to our southland dancers. In exchange,FRED SCHNEIDER, IDC and Pasadena Co-Op, has gone north to the San Francisco area.Fred does a wicked schulplattle, with extraflourishes, learned from the Bavarian-Troy-lian Zither Club, of which he is also a mem-ber.

Welcome back "The Nathans.""It's wonderful to be back home again, and

on with folk dancing."So says Salcha who has been absent for five

months visiting gay Paree.Ben rushed to meet her in New York by

plane and there they spent six weeks visitingthe folk dancers and the night life of thatgreat city.

Salcha reports the only flaw in the trip wasthe new folk dance she missed and the foodthat enlarged her waistline.

Please send all material for this column toMarilyn Busch, 1126 Florence Street, Bur-bank. Items should reach her by the first ofthe month before desired publication.

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The Story of the Growth of the Southern Sectionof the Folk Dance Federation of California

ANYONE WANTING to folk dancein Southern California today, anyindividual or club wanting a teach-

er or caller, finds much of the workdone for him. A folk dance directory,compiled each year by the Southern Sec-tion Director of Extension, containsevery type of group •— beginners, ad-vanced, square and ethnic—plus a listof competent leaders and callers; teach-ers' institutes are available where all.may learn new dances to carry back totheir groups so that all clubs can par-ticipate in the popular monthly festivalswhich are held in Los Angeles and sur-rounding cities.

A group wishing to host a festivalmay refer to the festival suggestions putout by the Festival Advisory Committeeand confer with members of the com-mittee at any time—-free of charge.

And when information about recordsis needed, clubs and individuals can re-fer to the extensive record list publishedby the Southern Section for the entireFederation. In addition, for those whowant to know more about folk dancing,a brochure is available which gives acomplete picture of the aims and pur-poses of the Folk Dance. Federation ofCalifornia.

This organized activity for the bene-fit of those interested in folk dancing isa far cry from the scattered efforts of

By IRIS MUNSON

the'summer of 1945; then only a fewgroups were functioning throughout theentire Southern California area andthese were working independently—•sometimes not even aware of one an-other's existence.

Then, on January 5, 1946, a meetingwas called by Katherine Jett, presidentof the Westwood Co-op Dance Club.She had, she explained to the seven clubrepresentatives who attended, contactedWalter Grothe of the Folk Dance Fed-eration of California in San Franciscoand received his promise of support inthe establishment of a Southern Sectionof the Federation. The idea was en-thusiastically accepted and a temporarysteering committee was elected on thespot.

BY THE TIME of the second steeringcommittee meeting in March thenumber of groups represented had

grown to eleven: Los Angeles Recrea-tional Co-op, Hollywood Folk DanceCenter, Hollywood Peasants, WestwoodCo-op Folk Dancers, West Los AngelesPlayground, Silverlake Dance Group,LaVerne College, Pasadena Folk DanceCo-op, East Los Angeles Folk DanceCo-op, Jarabe Club, and Whittier FolkDance Fellowship.

At this meeting, held at the time of thefirst Southern Section Festival March

10, Walter Grothe, then vice-presidentof the Folk Dance Federation of Cali-fornia, and Henry Koopman, historian,were present to offer encouragementand advice. The final action of the steer-ing committee was to adopt both thename and by-laws of the North with theintention that they act as two sectionsof one organization.

The first festival in Southern Cali-fornia was to be sponsored by West-wood. The date was set for February 3,1946, but, as occasionally happens inSouthern California, it rained. Disap-pointed dancers were forced to postponethe festival until March 10th. Althougha far cry from the festivals of 1950 withhundreds of costumed dancers, thosewho attended that first festival knew itwas a taste of things to come. Thus BabyBrother came into being.

The Southern Section had its firstopportunity to dance with the NorthAvhen the first Annual Statewide Festi-val was held at Ojai on May 11, 1946.Folk dancers from all over the State con-verged on the town. Traffic was diverted,the main street roped off for dancing,and the entire community festively deco-rated. Five hundred dancers and 3000spectators took part in the six hours ofcontinuous dancing and, by the end ofthe festival, the North and South had

The grand march at the Santa Barbara Festival in 1948, symbolical ofprogress made since. (John Chesluk photo.)

Southern Section President Harold Corns-rock makes a point at one ofSouth's democratic council meetings. (Pfiofo by Ed Labac.)

NOVEMBER, 1950

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Folk and squares are equally popular among Federation dancers in'the south. (Left) The Swedish Sandy Dancers exhibit the Dahl Dans at the recentSanta Monica Festival. (Right) Marjorie Stout, popular S.C. caller, puts the folks through a fast square at September's Whittier Folk Dance Fellow-

ship get-together. (Photos by Ed Labac, Los Angeles.)

become one Federation in spirit and inpurpose.

Since then the Southern Section hascontinued to grow both in numbers andin area under the leadership of threepresidents: Allen Pelton, serving thefirst year, followed by Virginia Ander-son, who continued in office throughoutthe second and third years, and HaroldComstock, who holds the reins atpresent.

Throughout the four and a half yearsof the Federation's existence its memberclubs have included a considerable num-ber of square dance groups. But themajority of square dance clubs havefelt a need "for associations of their ownand today there are seven in SouthernCalifornia: The Associated Square.Dancers, comprised of groups in thegeneral Los Angeles area; The CowCounties Hoedown Association, in theSan Bernardino, Redlands, Yucaipaarea; The Tri-Counties Square DanceAssociation (Santa Barbara, Ventura,San Luis Obispo counties); The SanDiego County Square Dance Associa-tion, comprised of groups in San Diegoproper; The South Coast Association ofSquare Dance Clubs, comprised ofgroups located in and around LongBeach; The Western Square DanceAssociation of the San Gabriel Valley;and the Northern San Diego CountySquare Dance Association, in the Vista,Oceanside area. Each of these associa-tions holds a "jamboree" or "round-up"(the terminology varies with the asso-ciation) for its member clubs at inter-vals of every 2 or 3 months.

EXCELLENT CALLERS have multi-plied in number as rapidly as havethe clubs and dancers. Courses of

lessons in square calling are continuallybeing presented by many of the more

prominent callers. Most of the callers oflongest experience are products ofPappy Shaw's summer classes in' Colo-rado Springs, and square dancing wasgiven an added impetus when two of thesquare dance Associations and the FolkDance Federation joined together tosponsor a four-day institute in the fallof 1948 by Pappy -Shaw and his Chey-enne Mountain Dancer's.

The division between Internationaland American folk dancing (Europeandances and American squares androunds) caused some misunderstandingfor a time — particularly when a fewshort-sighted leaders tried to brand alldances with a European origin as "for-eign" and promote "squares" as theonly dances Americans should do.

This attitude is now losing ground rap-idly as more and more average dancersare learning that American squares stemfrom dances .brought over to the U. S.from Europe; that many of their"rounds" are European dances with newnames and a few minor changes insteps; and as an increasing number ofcallers such as Bob Osgood, editor ofSets in Order, and Herb Greggerson,famous Texas caller and teacher, arepassing around the word that folks who

TH/S MONTH'S COVEROne of 1950's most interesting events was

the recently completed tour of Scandinavia by

a group of University of Washington students

—folk dancers under the leadership of Gordon

Tracie (shown on the cover with Jordis Dahl).

They introduced many of our folk and square

dances and, in return, brought back a wealth of

valuable, authentic folk material. Watch for

the story in the near future.

like the International dances are no dif-ferent from the square dance enthusiasts—that they are, in short, doctors, law-yers, Army officers, students, housewivesand teachers who are having fun.

By the same token the Internationalfolk dancers are paying an increasingamount of attention to American forms.Hardly a festival goes by that does notinclude several tips of squares and atsuch gathering points for Internationaldancers as Stockton's famous FolkDance Camp at the College of thePacific, leading callers are findingclasses in calling and square dancinggaining in popularity.

This growing friendliness betweenthe "folk" and "square" dancer couldsome day result in a unified effort thatwould be the biggest recreational danceorganization in the U. S. But, even ifthe present program continues, onething is certain: The Southern Sectionof the Folk Dance Federation of Cali-fornia, while still "baby brother" incomparison to its Northern counterpart,is now a leading recreational and cul-tural factor in Southern California-—•proof, once again, that folk dancing fillsa vital need in today's ofttimes grimworld.

(If you are interested in joining orforming a folk dance club in SouthernCalifornia please write to Harold G.Comstock, President, Southern Section,Folk Dance Federation of California,1853 Arvin Drive, Glendale, California.He will be glad to give you any help youneed.—ED.)

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WHAT'S NEW & WHERE TO BUYby Ed Kremers

(The following are personal opinions ofthe Record Editor—-not official Federationrulings!)OLD-TIMER COMPANY

Apparently the Old-Timer people havefound more success with their squaredance records than with their "old-timecouple dance" records—-at least, theirrecent releases have heen almost entirelyin the square dance field. Here are afew received since our report in the Juneissue of Let's Dance!: No. 8019 InsideArch, Outside Under (Saturday NightBreakdown) /Saguaro Whirl (ChineseBreakdown), called hy Joe Boykin,played by Roy Sexton; the figures areinteresting, but the recording of thehigher notes is a bit shrieky. No. 8024Sides Divide (Soldier's Joy) / HalfSashay (Sally Goodwin), called byButch Nelson, played by Forrest Delk;I like this one because the calling isclear and exciting.

No. 8028 Soldier's Joy/MississippiSawyer, and No. 8030 San AntonioRose/Hot Time in the Old Town To-night, are without calls. The playing byForrest Delk's "Gully Jumpers" is livelyand good. No 8029 Draggin' the Bowis an instrumental novelty, probablyusable as a "party" stunt record; thereverse is Wednesday Night Waltz,: afairly good general old-time waltz piece;both by Forest Delk.

Old-Timer is also entering the 45r.p.m. field; to date, they have releasedten numbers in the new speed (the rec-ord numbers are the same as for thesame piece on the regular 78 r.p.m., butpreceded by an "S"): S-8014 ArizonaDouble Star/Catch All Eight, S-8015Take a Peek/Four Leaf Clover, S-8018Corners of the World/Arkansas Trav-eler, S-8020 El Rancho Grande / OhSusana, S-8025 San Antonio Rose/HotTime (all are squares with calls); thefive records discussed in detail aboveare also available on 45 r.p.m.HOMER, BETTY,AND BERNIE HOWELL

"We recently received a copy of a rec-ord labelled "HH Howell 101-102";

(Continued on Page Nineteen) •

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One of the most colorful groups in Hie Salinas area is the Fre« Lancers, shown here just before exhibiting the Mazur at a recent festival. Front Row(L to R) Floralene Cutler, Maxine Hall, Faye Heffrin (the group's leader), Demaris Parsons, Elsie Massa, Ethel Irvine, Lillian Hosegood, LucileBirch. Back Row (L to R) Ray Cutler, Leonard Sampson, Nelson Hall, Harry Heffrin, Eldon Parsons, John Massa, John Irvine, Roland Hosegood and

James Birch.

Placid D. Lazaro and his wife, Juliana, demon-strate the "La Carinosa" at the PhilippineNational Celebration at Stockton's Memorial

Civic Auditorium.

Celebrating their acceptance as a member of the Federation, members of the To-Tingers of FortBragg ( a new group) were doubly proud because they were able to dance in their own club

house—154 Pudding Creek Road. Visitors welcome any Tuesday or Saturday night.

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Carlos Rosas (center, facing Grace Ferryman)

was guest of honor at the second annual Inter-

Racial. Festival Sept. 30 at the Veterans' Memo-

rial Building, Oakland. Other well-known folk-

dance leaders who attended included Walter

Grothe, Grace Gonick, Bish Bischoff, Millie Yon

Konsky, Bill Castner, Len Murphy, Madelynne

Greene and Wayne and Clarice Wills. The

Festival was directed by Harvey Lebrun, foun-

der of the East Bay Merry-Mixers, who now

proudly reports five inter-racial groups in the

Bay Area. (Photo by Phil Maron, Oakland.)

Now that school is well under way, the Santa Rosa Jr. Merry Mixers arebusier than ever. The group includes (Sitting, L to R) Beverly Hahn,Rosalyn Hahn, Patricia Powers, Carolyn Williams (Instructor), MadalynHahn, Joan De Long, Johanne Robinson, Helen English, Shirley Crepazziand (Standing, L to R) John Rowe, Leonard Powers, Bob Phillips, LeroyKaten, Al Crevelli, Allen Da Long, Milton Elm and MervTn Armstrong.

Up to 300 guests have attended one of the "baby festivals" held fre-quently by Napa's Silverado Folk Dancers. Among the most activemembers of this club are (L to R) Louella Muller, Dick and Betty Boy-cott (co-chairmen), Pearl Guthrie, Jessie Lunceford, Marian Hoffman,Jennie Poison, Bessie Young, Yida Lowe, Emily Didier and Betty Hamp-

ton. (Back row) Frank Shaw, Cliff Lowe and Conn! Lynn.

\f that folk dancers like to kick up their heels lies in this picture ofthe Can-Can group of the Hayward Hey-Makers. Left to right the"girls" (front row) Rudy Suefch, Harry Lynch, John Mcllhany and JohnHayes; (back row) Tommy Bullock, Rino Sclippa, Sam Rank and Bob Hurd.

(Photo by Art Neuman, Oakland.)

If smiles mean anything, these members of the Pioneer Square and RoundDancers (YWCA, S.F.) are more than happy with their club. (Left to R)Ed Kremers (caller), Dorothy Wartick, Allen Wright, Barbara Selig, Jim

Williams and Virginia Dawe, secretary at the Y.W.

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ZAS/AL/ GORALE(Zah-shya-lee Goo-rah-ley)

Folk Dance Federation of California Dance Descriptions Vol. VIRESEARCH COMMITTEE:Mildred R. Buhler, Chair-man; Lawton Harris, Miri-am Lidster, Adrienne Mur-ton, Heidi Schmidt, Anne- - -marie Steinbiss, DorothyTamburini, Lucy Cheney,Vernon Kellogg.

A Polish dance introduced at Folk Dance Camp, Stockton, California, by Vyts Beliajus. It is asinging game from the mountainous district of Polish Galicia. There"are many figures, but most areoptional, since it is up to the leader to choose the desired figures or create his own. The chorus, how-ever, is not replaceable and it begins the dance regardless of what the following figures are. Thesefigures as described by Vyts Beliajus were chosen from the many authentic steps used.

MUSIC:

FORMATION:

STEPS:

Record: Folkraft F-1090 K—Zasiali GoralePiano: See Dance and Be Merry, Vol. II. by Vyts BeliajusGroups of three, a man with two women or one woman with two men (thesingle person in the center), holding joined inside hands at shoulder height,elbows bent. The two outside people have their free hands on their hips.The groups may be facing forward in a column of threes down the center ofroom or facing counterclockwise in a circle.

Step-swing*, Run*, Stamp

12

Music 3/4 and 2/4

MEASURESA 3/4

1-8

9-16

B 2/41-3

'• 45-78

9-16

A 3/41-16

B 2/41-3

4 .5-7

89-16

PATTERN

CHORUS.a. Beginning on the R foot, step R, swing L across R (cts. 1, 2, 3). Step

on L, swing R across L (cts. 1, 2, 3). Repeat 3 more times while pro-gressing fwd. (8 step swings altogether) in line of direction. Onthe swing there is a slight lift on the supporting foot made by risingup on the toes on Ct. 2 and returning heel to floor on Ct. 3.

b. Beginning on R, take 8 fwd step swings while moving bwd to originalplace. • •-

I. Runsa. Beginning R, take 6 running steps fwd.

Stamp 3 times in place (R, L, R) .b. Beginning L, take 6 running steps bwd.

Stamp 3 times in place (L, R, L) .Repeat action of Fig. I, meas. 1-8.

CHORUSRepeat

II. Archesa. M and his L hand W raise joined hands (M L, W R) to form an arch.

W on his R, beginning R, takes 6 running steps going under the arch,around the M and back to place. M and L hand W follow R hand Wturning inward simultaneously and under their own joined hands.All stamp in place 3 times (R, L, R) .

b. Beginning L, repeat action of Fig. II, meas. 1-3, but with W on M Lgoing under arch formed by M and W on his R.All stamp in place 3 times (L, R, L) .Repeat action of Fig. II, meas. 1-8.

Note: Throughout Fig. II trio keeps inside hands joined.LET'S DANCE!

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ZAS/AU GORALE (Continued)Music 3/4 and 2/4

MEASURESA 3/4

1-16

B 2/4

1-3

45-7

9-16

A 3/41-16

B 2/4

1-3

45-7

O 89-16

A 3/41-16

B 2/4

1-3

45-7

49-16

A 3/41-16

B 2/4

1-3

45-7

9-16

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PATTERN

CHORUSRepeat

III. Clap and Elbow SwingAll release hands for this figure.

a. M and W on his R clap own hands, hook R elbows and beginning Rrun around each other back to place with 6 small steps. L hand Wstands in place.All stamp in place 3 times. (R, L, R).

b. M repeats action of Fig. Ill, meas. 1-4, but with W on his L and hook-ing L elbows. R hand W stands in place.All stamp in place 3 times (L, R, L).Repeat action of Fig. Ill, meas. 1-8, except that M hooks L elbowswith W on R and R elbows with W on L.

CHORUS.Repeat

IV. GreetingAll release hands

a. W on M R takes 3 running steps (R, L, R) to cross in front of M toface W on his L. Both W nod to each other and W on R runs bwd.(L, R, L) to place.All stamp in place 3 times (R, L, R).

b. Repeat action of Fig. IV, meas. 1-3, with L hand W, beginning with Lfoot, crossing to greet R hand W and returning to place.All stamp in place 3 times (L, R, L).Repeat action of Fig. IV, meas. 1-8.

CHORUS.Repeat

V. Figure EightAll release hands and place on hips.

a. Beginning R, M takes 6 running steps going in front of W on his R,around her and back to place. W stand in place.All stamp in place 3 times (R, L, R).

b. Repeat action of Fig. V, meas. 1-3, with M going around L hand Wand beginning L.All stamp in place 3 times (L, R, L).Repeat action of Fig. V, meas 1-8.

CHORUSRepeat

VI. TwirlInside hands are joined and raised high

a. M twirls both W inwardly under raised arms 3 times, W taking 6running steps.All stamp 3 times (R, L, R)

b. Repeat action of Fig. VI, meas. 1-3, beginning L and with W turningoutwardly on twirls.All stamp 3 times in place (L, R, L)

Repeat action of Fig. VT, meas. 1-8.

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SQUDRELU S«IH6By Guy Merrill

ED. NOTE: It is our hope from time to time to have guest writers

who Like to express their points of view about the present folk and

square dance trend throughout the country. This month our guest writers

are the Merrills of Palm Springs, Calif., who recently completed a six-

month cross-country dance trek, and below are some of their observa-

tions and personal points of view.—M. B..

We are the Merrills of Palm Springs.We are caller and orchestra for ourClub —- the Wagonwheelers. Muirettaand Don form the orchestra and Guy isthe caller. Yep, we're old timers and foryears we dreamed that one day old-timedancing might get a shot in the arm.Sure enough it happened and how!

Last April we took off for a six-monthtour of the entire country, and wethought you might like to hear some-thing about it.

All in all, the dance fraternity is com-posed of extremely nice people from oneend of the country to the other. Weeternally detest these itemized trave-logues wherein the parties concernedare heaped with such extravagant com-pliments. We undoubtedly were a painin the neck to some of the people wevisited and in turn we met a fewstinkers.

Who gives a whoop how many states,or how many miles? We danced 9,000feet up. We danced at 253 feet downbelow sea-level. We danced on the coastof Maine near the Canadian border, inthe Appalachian Mountain country, inN. Y. C.,'N. Y. State, the Ozarks, theCatskills, the Rockies and in many ofthe small towns as well as the largecities.

We learned that a contra dance donein its own environment is a joy; how-ever^ take the same dance, present itsomewhere else, and it fast loses itscharm. The same thing applies to mostof the other sectional dances. The sing-^ng games are out of this world when

done by the people who do them regu-larly and understand them. They arepretty poor specimens when done froma book by someone who has never ex-perienced the true zest and flavor of thesinging game in its own environment.The Appalachian Circle dances are asauthentic as it is possible to find in thiscountry. Take them away from theirown environment and immediately wenotice a let-down. Much as we love ourown Western styles, we were entirelycarried away with the various styles wefound.

The people welcomed us with openarms, they made us feel thoroughly athome. We made a firm resolution be-fore we left home that in no case wouldwe bore others with "How we do it outour way." We went to dance their wayand to enjoy ourselves, not to expa-tiate upon our ways. The Eastern peo-ple, however, had other ideas. Withthree exceptions, they demanded thatwe do Western dances for them. In twocases no "foreign" dances were wel-comed from any source. In the othercase, no "square" dances were welcome.Some of our finest remembrances are ofthese people; they were just lovely, theydance their own way and more power tothem.

We met ever so many of the out-standing leaders in all phases of musicand dancing. We were impressed by thenumber of capable young callers andleaders who are certain to be heardfrom.

(Photo by Riley, Jonesport, Maine.)

We noticed a. decided difference inthe music, East and West. The Eastgenerally uses strathspeys, jigs, doublejigs, hornpipes, reels, etc. In speakingof the East, I am referring to that partof the country east of Colorado, Texas,and Oklahome, roughly. Our Westernstyled music can be heard very fre-quently in the East, but in spots.

Undoubtedly there are far more peo-ple doing square dancing in the Eastthan in the West. Percentagewise, wehave more dances than the East. Wehave many decided advantages out here.They are too numerous to detail. Itwould do us no harm to realize that wehave these advantages over the East.We have met and solved many prob-lems that still confront the Easterner.

We must remember that we are in-deed fortunate that the West is the melt-ing pot of people from all other states.We have inherited the styles of thedances from all parts of the countrywhile the rest of the country carried onin substantially the same old way. Onour trip it was plainly evident that old-time dancing has made the greatest

. progress where the fusing of ideas fromthe great original sources has beenpresented. Where the original singlestyle has predominated, not too manypeople have been attracted. Perhaps thisis just another way of saying that ourWestern dances and styles have mademore progress than any other styling.Club dancing has not made its debut inthe East. Each locality is presenting its

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CALLER of the MonthBORN into a Scotch Irish family, mostly

Irish, he says, with a host of ancestorswho were Irish minstrels, a grandfather

who was an Irish dancing master, an unclewho was a caller, and a father who was a fid-dler, 47-year-old Ralph Page of Keene, NewHampshire (whose family came to this coun-try in 1620!) was a natural to become thetop authority in the field of the New Eng-land Country dance.

Ralph claims to have been dancing 45 .years, and he started calling about 19 yearsago. He was playing the fiddle in an or-chestra, and one night the caller claimed hehad laryngitis, pressing Ralph in as a sub-stitute. With that beginning he has climbedto the top as a New England caller, whichis a field quite different from that of ourwestern caller.

Co-author of The Country Dance Book,which should be included in your folk dancelibrary, editor of the magazine The NorthernJunket, a recording artist under the FolkDancer label, Ralph was selected from theeastern leaders as the one who would bemost capable of "selling" the dances of NewEngland to the West. He made his first tripto California this past summer to b& one ofour guest teachers at our Stockton PolkDance Camp, and he brought the New Eng-land dances to us with a staunch determina-tion that we were going to do them properlyand like them.

There's no doubt in the minds of the manyeager students who crowded his classes thathis mission. was a success. We love thosedances and it is our sincere hope that we canintroduce them to our groups in a mannerthat will meet with Ralph's approval whenhe. returns next year. From the late reportsreceived, the contras are being taught by

quite a number of teachers, and we areeagerly awaiting the time when a sufficientnumber of people will do them well enoughso that they can be regularly included onour festival and jamboree programs.

Ralph has a very busy schedule runningmany dances, most of his activity being con-fined to New Hampshire—with occasionalvisits to Massachusetts. A bachelor most ofhis life, he was married about five years agoto a New Yorker who now assists him withhis many dance~2ctivities. He claims hisfavorite contra is the "Chorus Jig," which isNovember's Call of- the Month-—-given ex-actly as he called it in the Folk DancerAlbum—which, by the way, will start youoff properly in your contras, if your calleris hesitant about attempting that particularfield. .

BY MILDRED R. BUHLER

localized styiings as "old-time dancing,"Meantime millions of Americans are

very well disposed indeed towards danc-ing. We have enjoyed the benefits of agigantic publicity campaign through thepress, radio, television and the movies,yet we find ourselves without a uni-form method of dancing to present tothe willing public. Each section presentsits version as "square dancing."

The American people want an un-complicated system of dancing, a sys-tem that will permit one person to dancewith another and enjoy it. A state ofabsolute anarchy exists at present, witha substantial number of "willful" menand women diligently at work, eachblithely going his own way.

In spite of these facts we have with usa tremendous number of extremely ablemen and women who have managed tokeep the dance picture within reason-able bounds so far. The time is veryshort, however. We must have a nationalorganization, and soon. We must set upa clear-cut policy. We are dealing witha segment of American culture. There

is a type of integrity that is an essen-tial as a facet of character in an activitysuch as ours. We must make it plainthat there is no room for people entirelylacking in this feature. The boys andgirls who are in this business for the"fast" dollar should be pretty wellknown to you by now- If square dancingdoes a nose dive, these boys and girlswill be found exactly twenty-four hourslater in some other "racket" after an-other "fast" dollar.

The American people want SquareDancing. Millions of them are receptive-at present. A large part of our countryis virgin territory. First, we, as dancersmust make up our minds as to a numberof things. Are we going to present"modern" S.D.? Are we going to pre-sent "traditional" S.D.? We have notstrayed very far from traditional danc-ing as yet, but the time is short and Weknow it.

To serve its members best an organi- 'zation must first of all be a "show-case.!'It must be capable of presenting thebest of everything to its members. It

must have high aims and it must ever-lastingly stick to them. We have beenprivileged to "grow up" with S.D. andhave taken no end of satisfaction infact that the movement has been somarkably clean and decent. It is a posi-tive miracle that the S.D. movement hasarrived at its present place so free of in-decencies.. It goes without saying thatwe all owe an enormous debt to all ofthose—dancers, callers and teachers—who have put their heart and soul intothis movement and who are still work-ing to keep it at a high level.

Everything changes—so will S.D. Ifwe are going to do "modern" S.D.,why not? If we are going to do tradi-tional S. D., why not? The least we cando is to label our product.

The American people today, we feel,do not want contra dances, AppalachianCircle dances, singing games, westerndances, Texas dances or any other sec-tional style in particular. They Want thefusion of these styles. They want whatthey themselves call "square dancing."The nearest fulfillment of this style is ourown "western" style. This is meant todesignate the styles of the entire West,not forgetting the Texas region, withoutwhom, we would all be in a sorry fix.

HAPPY ENDINGSBY MILDRED R. BUHLER

Everybody in the center stand,Shake the opposite lady with your right

hand,Howdy do, .how are you,How are you?I'm .all thru,So are you!

Ladies to the center and form a star,Gents walk off and leave them thar.

Ladies to the center and stand therewishin',

Gents run off and all go fishin'.# * *

Ladies to their seats and gents all f oiler,Now thank the fiddler and kiss the

caller.

Promenade around the hall,Promenade and don't you fall,Promenade right off the floor,That's all there is, there ain't no more.

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NATIONAL

PROMENADE

BY MILDRED R. BUHLER

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Fourth AnnualFestival Held!The 4th Annual Square Dance Festival of

the Oklahoma State Federation of SquareDance Clubs was held in the Oklahoma CityMunicipal Auditorium on Sept 30. The eventwas an all-day affair with dance clinics in theafternoon, and the big public dance in theevening.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA. Square Dancing onFair Program!

Square dancing will play a major part in theArizona State Fair Nov. 3-12. Under the lead-ership of Joe Boykin, square dancing will befeatured every night in the ghost town, whichwill be a replica of an old western town. Hun-dreds of dancers from all over Arizona andmany out-of-staters are expected to partici-pate in this gigantic affair. Admission to thefair grounds will also admit you to the squaredancing.

Roundup FeaturesLEWISTON, IDAHO.Square Dancing!

Two thousand people attended the big streetdance, featuring a square dance exhibition byan Elks Lodge Square Dance team from Mos-cow, at the Lewiston Roundup on September 1.

SEATTLE, WASH. Greggerson Makes North-western Tour!

Herb Greggerson, the roving square danceteacher and leader from El Paso, Texas, com-pleted a tour to the Pacific Northwest lastmonth. While in Seattle he gave a four-dayinstitute at the Y.M.C.A.

AMARILLO, TEXAS. Square Dance Contest!Under the leadership of H. Grady Wilson,

the fifth Annual National Square Dance Con-test will be held in Amarillo Nov. 2, 3, 4. Fourdivisions are listed: Adult-Professional, Adult-Amateur, Young Peoples Contest, and LadyCallers' Contest. The latter is a new addition.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. Fall Festival toBe Held!

The Fall Festival, sponsored by the NewJersey Square Dance Callers Teachers' Asso-ciation, will be held at the Portuguese Hall,55 Prospect St., Newark, N. J., Nov. 5, from3 to 10 p.m. Special features will be exhibi-tion teams of both American square dancingand international folk dancing.

YAKIMA, WASH. Benefit for HumaneSociety!

Square dance enthusiasts for miles aroundwere invited to a big square dance roundup atSkateland Park, given as a benefit for theYakima County Humane Society, to raisefunds for the completion of their new shelter.

BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. Square Dancers Par-ticipate in County Fair!

Kern County square dancers made a majorcontribution to the Kern County Fair re-

CALL of the Month

BY RALPH PAGE

1st, 3rd, and every other couple are active.

Go down the outside, now back to your place

(Active couples turn outward, ladies to R and gents to L and walk down theoutside of the set 8 steps then return to places. If the sets are lined up closetogether, it is very pretty to have the M and W of adjacent sets join hands asthey go down the outside and back)

Now down the center with your own, now you bring her back the same wayhome

(Active couples join hands with own partners and walk down the center ofthe set 8 steps, drop hands, turn inwardly and joining hands again returnalmost to place, stopping beside the couple who was originally just belowthem. Couple one stops at couple two, three stops at four, etc.)

You cast off and turn "contry" corners —

(Active couples now drop joined hands and place outside arms (ML, WR)about inactive couples' waists. (The men are working together in this castoff, and the ladies are ivorking together. The inactive people also place theirarms about the waists of the active people.) They turn outwardly, activecouples walking forward, and inactive couples backward, to finish with allfacing the center of the set; the active couples now are below the inactivecouples. To turn "contry" corners, active couples meet in the center, join Rhands (forearms upright) and then turn clockwise. W then advances to theM above (one nearest the caller) and joins L hands with him and turns oncearound CCW, while M advances to the W below (one farthest from thecaller), joins L hands with her and turns once CCW. Partners again meetin the center, join hands and turn one-half CW, then W advances to the Mbelow (farthest from caller) and M to the W above (nearest caller) and theyjoin L hands and turn once CCW. At the end of this turn active couples willbe facing each other diagonally across set, M facing down, W up.)

Now balance partner and swing partner —

(Active couples advance to oivn partners, balance and swing (New EnglandStyle.)

Now over to place and down the outside again.(Active couples advance over to the space between the inactive couples theyhave been working with, W to W side, M to M side and again go down theoutside.)

cently. For five nights running, major groupsin the area, including the B-Squares, theWagon Wheelers, the Stardusters Club, theCircles and Squares, the River Reelers, andthe Circle Eight Club, presented exhibitionsand led the general dancing for the benefit oflocal square dance enthusiasts. The nightlyprograms were presented under the supervi-sion of the Kern County Recreation and Cul-tural Commission. Callers Bernice Bradden,Ken Updegraff, Harry Carr, Jack Redstone,Lee Cook, Jack Dennis, Louis Leon, HowardKinzel and Frank Celle were on hand to leadthe dancing.

WILTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. New EnglandFestival!

The Fifth Annual Monadnock RegionSquare Dance Festival was held at the high

school auditorium here Sat., Oct. 7. Thisaffair, which was sponsored by the MonadnockRegion Association, was directed by RalphPage and included exhibitions by the region'sfinest dance groups.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Top Callers At FairAgain!

Square Dancing was a feature of the LosAngeles County Fair held at Pomona Sept.15-Oct. 1. On each Friday and Saturday nighta huge dance floor was set aside for use ofthe dancers to swing their partners. CallersFenton Jones, Ray Shaw, Ted Roland, JackHohiesal, Ed Gilmore, Carl Myles, Jim York,Jim Munyon, "Del Holly, Bob Osgood, RalphMaxheimer and Wayne Donhoff were featured.

Keeno!

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THE BUZZ STEPPERS AND COMMU-NITY PROMENADERS were hosts to theSquare Dance Callers Association of NorthernCalifornia at a moonlight SQUARE DANCEJAMBOREE held on the tennis courts of theNap a Junior College recently. Decorationsconverted the courts into a barnyard by theuse of bales of hay, harnesses, saddles andcornstalks, with a simulated barn for theorchestra. Sound was SUPER and the courtswere treated with talc to insure good, smoothdancing surface. The R. B. ETTES_of_ElCerrito put on a novelty square exhibition.Members of the exhibition group were allgirls, in breath-taking costumes. They madetheir entrance riding wooden horses. Thegroup was trained by RUSS BLANCHARDand the calling -was done by DOROTHYADAMS. Dorothy is new in the calling fieldand turned in an excellent job on the exhibi-tion.

New address of the SANDY TEPFERS—510 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona. Theywill be glad to hear from you. On their wayback to the West from New York City, wherethey visited with relatives, the Tepfers stoppedoff at El Paso, Texas, and'danced with-theGreggersons and had a wonderful time.

JOHN S. HUMMER of Tucson, Arizona,visited in San Francisco recently—called anddanced with the Edgewood Folk Dance Groupand visited the Gate Swingers.

PHIL BEGGS of Corona, California, whodoes professional calling in San Bernardino,came through the Bay Area recently. Hevisited with the Gate Swingers, and dancedand called at the Marin Junior College Satur-day night party. The dancers enjoyed hiscalling very much. We hope he will put us onhis itinerary on his way back to the Southland.Phil is taking a square dance vacation, hittingall interested cities and groups on the coast.

ART AND METHA GIBBS of Portland,Oregon, danced with the Gate Swingers re-cently. They are Square Dancers par excel-lence.

Pouplar DAN ALLEN is the new treasurerof the Callers' Association. He is taking overPaul Hungerford's duties for the rest of theyear. Paul found school activities and busi-ness demands too heavy and had to resign.

Nice exhibition—-original figures-—turnedin by the GATE SWINGERS with BILLCASTLE directing and calling, at the SonomaFestival. He cleverly wove the names of theeight couples into patter and as each couplesashayed down the square he introduced them(in his patter) to the audience. Excellenttiming and a novel idea.

That popular caller, EDITH THOMPSON,represented the Folk Dance Federation at theInternational Square Dance Festival in Chi-cago in October. Report will be made inpicture issue of L. D., of course!

JOHN GROOT AND BARLEY LATSONfrom the WHITTIER CO-OPERATIVEFOLK DANCERS of Southern California paida dancing visit to San Francisco recently. TheGate Swingers enjoyed their visit.

The MONTEREY BAY REGION CAL1?ERS' ASSOCIATION sponsored the IndianSummer Square Dance for the Square DanceCallers' Association of Northern California atWatsonville in October. The scene of the Jam-boree was the Civic Auditorium and themusic was furnished by BIG JIM DeNOONand his Dance Gang. This is the same or-ganization that produced the music for theState Festival at Monterey—'nuf sed! Won-derful! BABE RUSSELL and CHET DAVISof King City, BOB REID and ACE SMITHof Salinas, HARRY COLLUM and THERONWRIGHT of Hollister, CARL POPE and JIMFONTANA of Watsonville were the area call-ers on the program and the visiting callers in-cluded MILDRED BUHLER, ED KREMERS,BILL CASTNER and PEG ALLMOND.ACE SMITH, JIM FONTANA and JIMLARSEN and their hard working committeesdeserve a vote of thanks. We hope they holdanother jamboree before too long.

Clever programs at the WALNUT CREEKAREA FESTIVAL. Art work was done byDIANA DORAN, daughter of the caller, CAR-MEN DORAN. Host clubs for the festivalwere ACALANES, CIRCLE FOUR, DO-CE-

- DO AND WALNUT WHIRLERS. Squareswere included in the afternoon dancing, butat night they held two dances—one for folkin the Girls' Gym and a SQUARE DANCEJAMBOREE in the Boys' Gym (both in theACALANES HIGH SCHOOL). BEV ANDVIRGINIA WILDER had charge of the JAM-BOREE and turned in a bang-up job. TheOAKLAND SQUARENADERS gave a beau-tiful exhibition. INTERESTING NOTE ONCALLERS — there were FIVE WOMENCALLERS on the evening program!

CALLERS CLASSES scheduled — BILLCASTNER, Berkeley, JACK McKAY, SanFrancisco, BARRY BINNS, South San Fran-cisco, MILDRED BUHLER, Redwood City.Here's plenty of opportunity to learn to call!

There was "SOMETHING NEW" about thesquare dance exhibition at the Regional Festi-val at San Mateo on Oct. I, which was spon-sored by the Peninsula Folk Dance Counciland the San Mateo Rec. Dept. MILDREDBUHLER assembled 96 dancers from severalclubs for one mass exhibition, having four dif-ferent callers take turns at the mike,' Thegroups represented were the Belmont Clod-hoppers, the '49ers and the Saints and Spin-ners of South San Francisco, the RedwoodCity Star Promenaders, the Sequoia Y.M.C.A.Group, and the Redwood City Docey-DoeClub. The callers were'VERA HOLLEUF-FER, BARRY BINNS, EDITH THOMPSONand MILDRED BUHLER.

Send items of interest about your SquareDance activity, callers or events coming up toPEG ALLMOND, 342 Funston Avenue, SanFrancisco. .—

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BOOKSHELF:ILE CZARNOWSKI, EDITOR

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL DANCES.By Francisco, Reyes Tolentino. Chi-cago, Silver Burdett Company; 1946.371 pp. $4:00.Despite the fact that this book has

been in our bookstores for four years,many folk dancers have not as yet be-come acquainted with it. With the ap-pearance of recordings of the music forsome of the dances described in itspages, it should increasingly find a placein folk dancers' libraries.

The Philippine dances show an inter-esting blend of Oriental and Occidentalinfluences and give evidence of the dif-ferent levels of culture found in thePhilippines before this last war. Theyare excellent examples of the often re-peated statement that the folk dance re-flects the culture, characteristics andenvironment of the people from whomthey are derived.

Philippine National Dances representsyears of research by Mrs. Tolentino andher associates. Remote regions in theIslands were visited and many people •were interviewed to collect some of thismaterial. As students were trained inthe techniques of collecting the dances,songs, musical instruments and cos-tumes, the country proved to be veryrich in these and other folk lore mate-rials.

It was originally planned to publishseveral volumes of the folk dances andthe editor of this column had the privi-lege of seeing the manuscripts of threeof them. The war interrupted theseplans. The manuscript of the presentvolume was sent to the United Statesjust prior to the Japanese invasion ofthe Philippines and escaped the sad fateof the other manuscripts and all of theother collected materials, which weredestroyed by the Japanese. This givesadded value to what has been preservedof the beautiful and varied dances ofthe Philippine people.

The book contains fifty-four carefullydescribed dances, with their musical ac-companiment. Diagrams and interestingbackground notes are included in thedescriptions. It is profusely illustratedwith pictures of dancers performing thedances from different regions of thecountry, thus showing the many types

of costumes in their native settings.Definitions of dancing terms and a veryadequate description of> fundamentaldance steps and fundamental positionsof arms and feet in the Philippine danceare included. A classified index adds tothe completeness and usefulness of thisbook.

LUCILE K. CZARNOWSKI.

THE RECORD FINDER(Continued from Page Nine)

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Columbia has reissued an old favoriteformerly on Vocalion, Gronland Rhein-lander Schottische/PiZoiV Waltz (Styr-man's Valsen), played by Ted Johnsonand his Scandinavian Orchestra; thenew number is 12435-F.MISCELLANEOUS

Many folk dancers will recall the two"Oliver" records produced under thesupervision of your Record Editor sev-eral years ago, at a time when it wasimpossible to secure from the majorrecord companies the needed records, towhich we had originally learned someof our favorite Italian dances. Thepieces concerned were the Italian Quad-rille, coupled with Italian Danza, onrecord 202, and. the Sicilian and Nea-politan Tarantellas, coupled together, onrecord 201. By the time the initial press-ings of these two records had been sold,the major companies were furnishingtheir records in fairly reliable fashion,so it was decided not to re-press thelocal records right away. However,many dancers had, by then, learnedtheir Italian dances from the local re-cordings, and were accustomed to them•—-particularly appreciating the presenceof "introductions" on each side; thesedancers continued to request the rec-ords month after month. In view of this,new pressings of these two records havebeen issued, now on plastic. Due to atechnicality, the label-name has beenintentionally changed to "Olive," butotherwise the records are identical tothose originally issued.

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