A NEW EPIDEMIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 13

A NEW EPIDEMIC.

The Dance Fever Claims Many Victims.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY. November 25. Dancing is, of course, a very old social amusement and people have been enthusiastic about it from time immemorial. But no one in Australia has ever before seen anything like the craze for dancing that lias now taken hold of Sydney. During the last two years a large number of additional dance floors have been put down in the city, but the number is still hopelessly inadequate. Of course, with the help of the Broadcasting Commission thousands of people dance here every night in their UWU homes, and there are large irmntMHi rf cafes and restaurants at Avhich music is supplied for the people who like to combine dancing with eating and drinking; bit Saturday evening is the special session of the week devoted in a publicsense to dancing, and the information available about Saturday evenings may provide a measure of the remarkable popularity that dancing has achieved here. At the Trocadero and Romano's, two of our most fashionable dancing clubs, the floor is reserved on .Saturdays for a