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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 7 December 1934, Page 29

ey perfecting the sensational tap and ballroom dances he introduces in RKO Radio’s new musical comedy. "The Gay Divorce,’ Fred Astaire is said to have danced a total of 386 miles in three weeks, .The figures were obtained from a pedometer, an instrument which records each step. The total is believed to be conservative, because Astaire covered much distance by gliding, whereas the pedometer records steps oniy. Astaire is the dancing idol of two continents, and was the man who introduced the "Carioca" with Ginger Rogers. They introduce a new ballroom creation in this — film called "The Sontinental,"’ which is ex- © pected to prove even more popular than ; the Latin dance,