Court Sees “Grizzly” Dance

Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terpischorean Illustration and Convinces Judge.

Grizzly Bear Dance sheet music cover

Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the “grizzly bear” in Municipal court here to show Judge C. L. Smith just how it was done. With his arm over the shoulders of a bystander, he swayed rhythmically, from side to side to the strains of the San Francisco tune, and, according to police witnesses, gave a fair imitation of how it was being done in a local dance hall when two girls were arrested for dancing the “grizzly bear.” The judge decided that the dance was disorderly and ordered the two girls to promise to remain away from dance halls in the future and report regularly to the police matron.

Essex County Herald, Island Pond, VT, April 19, 1912

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