From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 14, 1914:

“In spite of the fact that the University Student Interests Committee is said to have today announced its intention of disciplining students who attended the ‘Tango Reception’ last night at Ecke’s Hall without authority and that the Board of Administration holds tenaciously to its former line, taking a stand against the Tango, Lawrence J. Dykes, manager for Mr. Wingate and Miss West, the Tango dancers, announced today that the couple would complete their engagement here as advertised…. The ‘Tango Reception’ last night developed into a ‘Tango Inquisition.’ Fourteen members of the University Student Council, the chief of police, the city attorney, half a dozen newspaper folks, as many townspeople and three or four daring University students composed the Court of Inquiry, Investigation Committee, or whatever title might include such an aggregation. And if this was the Tango, it must be said that the new dance survived the ordeal in very good shape. Of course the court has handed down no formal decision declaring the much talked of dance as the model for refined and modest amusement, but it was the consensus of opinion of the onlookers of last night that if the dances given in Lawrence the past winter had been patterned after exhibitions the like of which was given last night, there would not have been the recent aggressive agitation against the newer steps of the dance hall. This naturally leads to the assumption that the tendency to exaggerate and to out-do has been too prevalent in Lawrence this winter. Perhaps the visit of the Tango Artists to Lawrence will result in a movement of back to the saner, modest dances of old before the enthusiasm of youth and the tendency to stretch the limit of propriety brought dancing into disfavor in the minds of the city’s best citizens…. However, there is a general disposition to give the Tango the benefit of the doubt and to declare the exhibition given here last night as pretty, highly aesthetic, morally all right and an exhibition of skill in the execution of some very difficult steps. This is not intended in any sense as a complete vindication of the Tango in all of its forms. It only covers the exhibition given by the St. Louisans last night between the hours of 9 o’clock and 10:30…. There may be forms of the dance that would be highly offensive and the Tango as left to flourish in Lawrence by these people may not be the same as shown by them last night…. Persons opposed to dancing in all of its forms would not see in the Tango any argument to convince them that dancing is entirely proper. To such people the Tango might perhaps be considered a bit more suggestive than the old waltz and two-step. But those who see no harm in the old dances would hardly be expected to condemn the exhibition of last night.”