MARATHEN DANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 7

MARATHEN DANCE.

Undeterred by the dance recent y givj:ii at a public hall in Bruol-.]>n, when fcixteen coupler enLfred a waltzing endurance contuse, r,nd o:,iy desisted when they ftil u\ tic ll.;-r from sheer fatigue, the New Yoik, police seemed tu hive pe? milted a similar perforrnar c? in the same neighbourhood recently. It was called a "Mauthon Dance," the winner being tie pair who were the fresnest afLr an hour's ceaseless dancing. Eleven couples started, and at tha end of fifty-six minutes only four were cotsciuus. May Smith danced so strenuously that she ft H, cut her nose, and spilt her lip. She rose, and_in_ sisting on ccnui.uihg >.ne cuiittst, with the blood streaming down her face. A few minutes later, however, sha collapsed, and was ssiit home in a carriage. Four others were hurried into cabs. Alice Dunn an 1 Janes Mnvrissey won the contest by waltzing sixty-one times rcund the floor— a distance of more than fuur miles. More than two hundred spectators witri?ss.;d the contest, and there wa-i much bet;ing, as only one solitary policeman was present.