Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ose circuit, thingsdidnt hit the right stride till the clock in the steeple strucka dozen or so. Brick Munro originated the cabaret at hisPavilion, and it spread over the country like wildfire. Understand, sport, that was back in the time of theWorlds Fair at Chicago, when Fatima, Little Egypt, andother greasy-lookin egyptian dames on the Midway slippedinto their bead dresses and veils and done the hoochie-koochie, a new-style dance that didnt wear out much shoeleather nor need a waxed floor. Snakey-eyed arabs with black whiskers an
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ose circuit, thingsdidnt hit the right stride till the clock in the steeple strucka dozen or so. Brick Munro originated the cabaret at hisPavilion, and it spread over the country like wildfire. Understand, sport, that was back in the time of theWorlds Fair at Chicago, when Fatima, Little Egypt, andother greasy-lookin egyptian dames on the Midway slippedinto their bead dresses and veils and done the hoochie-koochie, a new-style dance that didnt wear out much shoeleather nor need a waxed floor. Snakey-eyed arabs with black whiskers and yallerteeth made squawky music with wheezyclarinets and honky-tonky tomtoms,helpin the dancers with that weird orientaltwitchin. A complete change in dancin styleswas noticed in this country shortly after,that wiggledy harem movement makin*quite a hit. Then the good old quadrille,Virginia reel, twostep, polka, schottische,and other dances havin hoof action, seemed too tame, theyoung folks sourin on that stone-age stuff. So the old timedances got the 171 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS In the old days they used one caller for the squaredances. Nowdays they got a lota bawlers, watchin to seethat pivoters dance the round dance on the square. Jocky Manwarning bein a hustlin young guy in themtimes, wanted to operate his dump on uptodate lines, so heintroduced the cuban grind, a dance imported by sojersthat done service in tenderloin districts down in Porto Jock put on the grizzly bear, a dance that made abig hit with sailors right off the whalers along the Barbarycoast in Frisco. People flocked to Jocks place to have a parties got fashionable, and they usta visit Jocksto glom the new dances—sometimes takin a whirl at em,just for the fun of the thing. When the orchestra played the Streets of Cairo, thepopular selection at that time, the dancers would sing: She never saw^ the streets of Cairo, On the Midway she had never strayed, She never savyr the hooch
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