MAX DANCES 69 HOURS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 12

MAX DANCES 69 HOURS.

* . - A FORCIBLE STOPPAGE. , EFFORT TO BREAK RECORD. Almost delirious, Mr. James Alexander, ' i who claims to be an American. psmed | c 5 a dancing floor at the Green Mill, Melj bourne, last week, after he had danced | continuously for 63 hears.. : Mr. Alexander was out to break the i record by keeping on his;. feet for ICQ ; hours. He was. a pitiful sighs after fee j had danced for 50 hours, and It was sur- \ prising that action was not taken earlier * | to make him stop Once he collapsed, and : for a time was partly unconacioas. Doses I of brandy restored him, and even while ; he was lying on the fioor being massaged I he kept up a spasmodic movement with j his feet, thus avoiding disqualification. . Huge crowds attended the endurance test, j Alexander had sis girls acting as dancj ing partners, and throughont the last day \ they were practically carrying him around ; the floor. They wore slings over their | shoulders in which he rested his arms. I On the day on which he was stopped he ! was not dancing, but merely shuffling his * feet in carpet slippers because they bad ; become too swollen for shoes.