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tain to curtain. Mjzzi Hajos is the star, and the feature of the evening is a Hungarian dance called' the "Hazazaa," which she does with C'has. Meakins. The "Hazazaa" is considerable dance. It makes the tango and the maxixe Ioqk like ' a chilly day in an old people's home. The bottom layer of theatrical muck has been touched in the pro- -o- duction of "The House of Bondage" at the Longacre Theater. In its pre sentation of a girl who is lured into an evil, life, seeks in vain to escape, and finally revenges herself in a pathological manner upon her be trayer, the play is sordid, ghastly and depressing. It does not seem as though there can be enough morbid humanity among Broadway's theater-goers to keep it alive. -o- AMERICA'S BEST SOCIETY DANCER INVENTS A "DECENT" TANGO-THE "INNOVATION" In the "Denatured" Tango, Invented by Vernon Castle for Mrs. Fish, New York's Society Leader, Part ners Never Get Within Touching Distance of Each Other. "Can the tango be made decent?'r asked Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who doesn't believe it is. decent as danced today. "Well, it can be denatured, any way!" answered the highest authority in America,. Vernon Castle, who, with Mrs. Castle, is the undisputed origi nator of the new society dances. And forthwith Vernon Castle in vented the denatured tango, especial ly for Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, leader of New York's ultra-smart set. He has just danced it before an assembly of eighty select. members of New York's Four Hundred, who were guests at; Mrs. Fish's last hig dinner-dance. They were so pleased with it that they promise to make the denatured tango the society dance of the sea son. Mrs:. Fish herself nmed the' new dance the "Innovation." Vernon Castle and his. wife have, posed in their new dance especially for readers of The Day Book in order that they, may know how to dance this "syncopated compromise" at the' Increasing number 'of functions, where the true tango is banned!: ' - "The non-tactile tango" Castle nicknames his innovation. Which in dicates that the dancers never tduch each other. The man carries his '. hands in his pockets, his partner has' hers on her hips; and through all the measures as danced for Mrs. Fish the Castles were constantly two feet apart! Fearjng the dance in this formj wouldn't be popular with the younger set this season, Mr. and Mrs. Castle posed for The Day Book a modified variety of denatured tango, which, is non-tactile, but still does not preserve ' the cold distance apart of 24 inches. . 'The dance is executed to tango ' music, and many of the true tango steps are used. But as a whole .the " denatured tango resembles, In pos ture and grace, the oldtime minuet. . o o SUITS HIM , , Sufferer I have the toothache, and I want something to cure it. Friend Now, you don't need any medicine. I had the toothache yes-., terday, and went home, and my lov ing wife kissed the pain away. Why don't you try the same? Sufferer I think I will. Is your wife at home now? The average man at rest, it has been calculated, takes into his lungs tabout 50 cubic inches of air per min ute;, in walking, iuo cubic inches; in cliinbing, 140 htriding at a trot, 200; and in long distance running, 350.i