Jaimie
Biermann
explored
the
dances
popular
with the youth
in
Hemingway's
teen
years.
Clarence
Hemingway
adamantly
opposed
his
children
learning
to
dance
or
attending
dances.
However,
his
opposition
was
no
match
for
Grace
Hall
Hemingway's
love
of
music
and
the
arts,
the
Oak
Park
school’s
sponsorship
of
dance
lessons,
and
the
relentless
wave
of
popular
culture.
Scholars
believe
Clarence
Hemingway
opposed
dancing
due
to
his
strict
religious
upbringing.
The Chicago
Tribune likely
more
than
confirmed
his
convictions
about
the
dangers
of
dance, with
articles
recounting
dancing
masters’
attempts
to
bring
“grace
and
dignity”
back
after
ragtime
and
the
cake
walk
“destroyed”
the
decorum
(September
16,
1900:
p.
29).
Articles
about
dancing
over
the
next
decade
became
increasingly
frantic,
as
they
detailed
the
horrors
of
dance
establishments.
Dances
featuring
the
grizzly
bear,
in
particular,
were
described
as
orgies.
The
Tribune targeted
one
dance
hall
as
a
“grizzly
bear”
den
of
iniquity:
“The
lid
was
off,
the
“grizzly”
on,
and
saturnalia
held
sway.” The
article
claimed
that
the
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