European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lud Piro drugging at 64 Carol donning was Hii partner for the Lions capital and u was killer Joe who really made u the Young daughters of strutted stylishly through the fast paced Benefit show until it reached a Climax in the sequence on Date when the Slick haired Piro bounced onto the sat Down in a and invited everyone to dance sitting Luci and every other teenager in the place responded with zest and the Audi ence participation was nearly total As killer Joe demonstrated and led them through the Arm and shoulder motions of the the swim the the Hitchhiker and other frug then Piro invited Luci to come up on the stage and dance with they began to do the the instrumental combo stepped up its the Audi ence and killer Joe and Luci got thunderous applause for their ener Getic a dancing master for More than two has been the owner of a successful dance Studlo in new York for Many he desc bed by Hie students and disciples As of the life of the killer Joe came up the hard of a poor italian he took 1 feta  la East Tom toss Iii to prizes at the nov lev built Al Tot Swey b it Toady Iii to Ottoes at the proving ground Lor the classic uttering la ims he won the National Harvest want Good so i had to dance Well otherwise no he saw with a Wink a coast guardsman stationed in new  to the to in world War Frank Piro did his jumping at the famed stage door by Sid new York Bureau canteen every time he was granted lib he Jitter bugged with Broadway Hollywood celebrities such As Shirley Judy Benay Ali Cia Markova and his feverish Lindy exhausted partner after partner and won him the fanciful appellation killer its been his professional name Ever after the and after recovering from malaria contracted on duty in the he hooked on at the palladium ballroom As master of dance later started his own Stu and soon taught the latin dances introduced in the Cha Chacha and of Hen the hip swinging twist became the rage in it opened an Era of no touch dances in which the hips the feet stay in place or almost in and the partners dont touch one Aneth it seems killer Joe and the twist were made for each the rubber boned Piro began doing sensational twists at the Peppermint lounge for my own pleasure and at the night spots favored by the fashionable Young he soon became the Darling of the smart set Ive never Piro never had stir people see u they like  had my find my modest Little walkup in Manhattan for they the names in the huge appointment Book Are not Only the glittering but also men and women from main a dignified business Man who Doest want his Wye Arold a real to Call him and who come in tied up in knots and go out smiling and relaxed its better than a psychiatrists these dances Are Piro that one reason there the teenagers pick up the Steps just like that a snap of the or invent their but the parents have to take most of the dances Are related to the one Way or from the killer Joe wriggled in late 1963 into the which has a Nar rower and differently constructed rear end the arms in the twist swing slightly to each Side in the oppo site direction of the knee in the frug the arms perform the floors Are too too he so you travel you keep the feet in and dance with the its something like the old the Knees the Bottom the wriggle goes up and the hips Are killer Joe warmed up to his subject and demonstrated some of the dances As he spoke take the its a real sexy movement of the hips Ana the the Chicken is copied from the Way a Chicken its tall Feath ers the feet dont Only the torn and the i the make like youre climbing a the twitching catching my my Shoul my at last i find and give the Bug to my the its like Riding a surfboard feet arms As if youre balancing on the the Frog is a sort of jump and shake com the often confused with the is entirely different a moving the Basic step is a Side topside the of the shake and the Jerk come As no Surprise to old fans of Piro expanded his new dancing techniques into several Fol Type dances such As the Hully Gully More a group of touch including the bucking and but definitely not Che Etc to and the mile pronounced sort of the mods created by killer Joe just for Mademoiselle Maga a medium slow Tempo dance for the whole he introduced to new York the novel dance la reportedly named for Honore Bostel a French who slipped and fell in a Paris the dancers thought this was intentional and they tee dropped to the a dance was Hen performed to a paso music associated with la Bostelac consists mostly of group Maneu vers with overhead and Gingersnap the dancers All tall Down in but Piro has them slide slowly Backoo Back Down to the killer Joe has reaped a financial Bonanza from his cavorting on the dance he has produced a series of re cording albums to accommodate discotheque dancing at he has done promotional programs for Tome of the big Industrial and top fashion and will appear to several forthcoming Hollywood from an and from the healthy he charges for at Par the Wall Street journal killer Joe assured of becoming a millionaire before too Piro is married to a former dancing a Lyle Wald and lives in a Manhattan pent House tabbed killer Jee the stars and stripes 13