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"Greatest release in the world from worries, tension, an inferiority complex, is to do something rhythmically ... to put fun in your life — try dancing!"
athryn, I'm a nervous man. I'm a worrier. Half the people who work for me — and that includes some of the biggest, highest-paid stars in the business — are the same way. I took up dancing only a year ago — and I've learned to relax. I wish that everyone in my studio would dance for at least one hour a day."
I remember smiling a little at this remark from one of the top executives of a big movie studio, because, after all, that was hardly news to me. "I'm so glad," I said, sincerely, "because I know how many people feel the same way."
But what he said next was news. "But do they, Kathryn," he continued, "do they take it up and keep at it faithfully? Is dancing as accepted a form of good medicine as reading, or listening to music — or indulging regularly in outdoor sports?
This producer didn't think so. He felt that dancing as a wonderful pastime, and as a great therapeutic method, has still to be sold to the public in mass. And, in a way, I agree with him — because, aside from the fact that dancing is our business, I would like to see more people dance for many good reasons.
In Hollywood I recognized, slightly more than in any other town in the United States, that the pace is fast, the time to relax short. This producer told me that he used to go daily to the Turkish baths and sweat away his worries. Now he turns on a record player in his home, dances with his wife or his young daughters — anyone who drops in of an evening. It makes him feel wonderful.
Rhythm in any shape or form is a wonderful, exciting, stimulating — and still calming — thing! Because I happened to have married a man who made his way in life via a ballroom floor, I have been dancing solidly for almost a quarter of a century. I dance professionally on our CBS-TV show, "The Arthur Murray Party," on Sunday nights from 9:30 to 10 EDT., in our various studios to instruct teachers and encourage students, in charity shows — and I still dance at home, in the arms of my husband. Figure that one out!
Ballroom dancing has a basically sexual attraction — you want to dunce with someone of the opposite sex. It doesn't have to go further than that, but underneath there is a magnetism that comes from sex. You don't even need to be partnered by the most attractive person of the opposite sex. If he's just merely personally acceptable to you, you like to move in rhythm with him. (continued on pace 68>
"Dancing is the nicest when you're dancing with the one you love." The Arthur Murrays have danced away 28 happy years.
Lloyd Nolan is among the many stars who find dancing a good escape from cares. It also has a basic sexual attraction.
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