Boomps, Yips

England last year gave the world the Lambeth Walk. This summer England expects every man and woman to do a dance to a corny waltz tune whose words run:

Hands, knees, and BOOMPS-A-DAISY! I like a bustle that bends. Hands, knees, and BOOMPS-A-DAISY! What is a BOOMP between friends?

Annette Mills, a British song writer of some popularity, made up Boomps-a-Daisy, donned a gown with a bustle and, with a partner, began demonstrating the dance a month ago. It was featured in London dance halls, in provincial ice shows. This week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy was launched in the U. S. on a television program in Manhattan last fortnight, is to be tried out at Manhattan hotels in mid-July.

>Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus:

Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting "Yip."

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