. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after . 5 E2S ^ ^ i i. * 14 t Tfr \ *< j tea \, i 1 &$Hf: -a * S ■« Z O I—I « PL, 3 HH en ^ =3 - 1 §z £ H a HOW MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE REACHED 385 he decided that, with their cooperation, he might, bythus going to the fountainhead, effect an improvementthrough the introduction, by the Castles, of better andmore decorous new dances. Bok could see no reason whythe people should not dance, if they wanted to, so longas they kept within the bounds of decency. He found the Castles willing and eager to cooperate,not
. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after . 5 E2S ^ ^ i i. * 14 t Tfr \ *< j tea \, i 1 &$Hf: -a * S ■« Z O I—I « PL, 3 HH en ^ =3 - 1 §z £ H a HOW MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE REACHED 385 he decided that, with their cooperation, he might, bythus going to the fountainhead, effect an improvementthrough the introduction, by the Castles, of better andmore decorous new dances. Bok could see no reason whythe people should not dance, if they wanted to, so longas they kept within the bounds of decency. He found the Castles willing and eager to cooperate,not only because of the publicity it would mean for them,but because they were themselves not in favor of the newmode. They had little sympathy for the eliminationof the graceful dance by the introduction of what theycalled the shuffle or the bunny-hug, turkey-trot, and other ungraceful and unworthy was decided that the Castles should, through Boksmagazine and their own public exhibitions, revive thegavotte, the polka, and finally the waltz. They wouldevolve these into new forms an
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