The Birdland Jazzista Social Club

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The last link may not have been good. Here is a working link. Mother of the late young Jazzista performer, Victor McElheny

The Press Democrat, September 9, 1920. [Photo and text calling saying jazz makes one crazy. Also calls for a return to the old, healthy dancesthe waltz, the ...polka, the tango and the maxixe, all of which were considered dangerous to morality when they first appeared. Compare jazz craze to the waltz craze of 1814 (especially at the Congress of Vienna).] The Jazz One of Direct Causes of Marital Discord and Divorce. By DUQUE, Summer Palace, Paris, France. Does a jazzing woman make a good wife or a jazzing man make a good husband? No! to both questions. I look upon the jazz as one of the direct causes of the increasing tendency toward divorce and ruined marital happiness. No man or woman is normal after dancing to the music of a jazz orchestra for more than half an hour. Not one temperament in a thousand can stand an afternoon of jazz and remain sane. Jazz music produces a fevered disorder of the brain leading to bad temper, slackness, lassitude and bad health. These are the reasons the dancing craze in Europe is near its end. Husbands don’t take their wives to dance because they find it inevitably means a raggedy temperament afterward. Mothers forbid their daughters to jazz because it leads to irresponsible actions. The only hope for the dance is to abolish the jazz and bring back the old, healthy dancesthe waltz, the polka, the tango and the maxixe. These were beautiful dances because the music they were danced to was beautiful. No one-step danced to jazz music can be anything but hideous.

When can I go out and see everyone? Will it be 2021?

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