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THE NEWEST DANCE, "HALF-AND-HALF" Vernon Castle, innovator extraor dinary of the ultra in dancing, has solved the pressing problem of the ballroom. He has invented the terpsi- ' chorean novelty of the season, the "Half-and-half." The prevailing problem of the ball room is simply this, that nobody wants' to dance in the ballroom any longer! For, no two couples know how to dance the new dances in the same way. Vernon Castle's new dance, the half-and-half, will correct all this. It is easily danceable in a uniform way, and the couple need not take ( . preliminary practice in private m or der to learn each other's steps. Those who witnessed its first demonstration, at the Castle House in New York, were carried away by its langorous grace. According to them, here's what it is: It's half way between the waltz and the two-step. (Hence the name.) It's really a five-step. It's very much like the one-step. It shows a distant relationship to the non-tactile tango, or innovation; and is just as distantly related to the time tango. . It resem bles the hesitation. And to dance- it, you assume the one-step position; the gentleman ad vances his right foot and holds the step on the first three beats of the music; then he advances his left foot on the fourth beat and his right on the fifth, bringing his left again into the first position, after which the fa miliar turns, whirls and reverses common to most of the new-style dances are indulged in. "Let yourself feel the swing of the music, and you can't help dancing the half-and-half correctly," says Castle. - o o MAY BE THE REASON. It is due to the prevalence of so many kinds of uplift movements that lots of people nowadays seem to be "up in the air." Charleston News. "Half and half," posed for The Day Book by Mr. and Mrs. Castle. i mams vmmumm 1T