The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-04
EVERYBODY IS
OVERRIDING It.
New York city Hs. Gone Dancing
Crazy and Keeps II up for
Seven Days Of the
Week.
GO UNTIL BREAKFAST
Advent Of the Turkey Trot a Year
Ago Is Responsible for the
Present Dancing
Craze
GO UNTIL BREAKFAST
by Carlton Ten Eyck, Written for the
Tinted Press I

lby carton Zen Eyck, Written for the
United Press.]
NEW YORK, April 4.--With the
spring all Gotham's fancy has lightly
turned to terpsichore; or in other
words. the whole town has gone.loony
about dancing 1t has been coming
on all winter but within the pas.
week the craze has reached such a
feverish point that it seriously threat
ems to disrupt business and put half
the population in nice, coy, little
padded cells. Everybody's not only
doing it, but OVERRIDING it.
Imagine a dance that beings at
4:30 In the afternoon, proceeds mer-
rily without interruption until 7:30:
stops for dinner to resume at 10 and
lasts until breakfast at O'Clock. This
is not just one day of the week but
every day and night of the seven,
Sunday included.
Wild as it sounds, dancing round
the clock is now the regular daily pro-
gram-for thousands of New Workers
who have nothing to do all day but
sleep, and the tri-weekly amusement
of other thousands who follow the
after-the-ball breakfast with blear-
eyed trip to their downtown offices
for a days work But for other
thousands. including visitors from
the provinces one of these fifteen
hour balls is enough to last month
This terpsichorean madness is by no
means confined to the public cabaret
restaurants, of which so much has
been written lately 1t was only last
! month that Mrs. Anthony j. Drexel,
.jr.. formerly Marjorie Gould, the
beautiful daughter of the George
Goulds, gave dance at the Ritz-Carl-
ton that began at II p. M, halted for
supper at 2 a. m. and whirled and
/ wiggled onward blithesomely until an
"old-fashioned country breakfast
was announced at o'clock. In fact
none of the smart society dances this
! winter has ended before or Z o'clock.
1 But even the pleasure-maddened
appear to have some regard for their
health and beauty rules. One Of these
all-night affairs week. with plenty
of horsebacking in the park, tennis
racauets, polo or golf as resusciators,
would seem to satisfy the elite
One must visit the dozen or more
dancing restaurants of the Broadway
section to find the terpsichorean
'tbug" in full operation Here may be
seen the same ffVes night after night
bobbing and dipping" around the
rectangular dancing space set in the
center Of the array Of tables. Among
them are hundreds of girls from the
choruses OF the Broadway musical
shows. After dancing in restaurants
from 4:30 until $50, they partake OF
a hasty dinner, dash taxi-cabishly to
the stage door, change into about ten
different costumes during the even
ing's performance with dance in
each costume; rush from the theatre
into the waiting arms of their escorts
to be whirled to the nearest cabaret
restaurant to continue the mad pace
until long after daylight i
No one seems TO know how they
stand it. Some OF the girls complain
laughingly of feeling "a little tired
while eating their 8 O'Clock break
i fasts. But they turn out of bed
around 8 in the afternoon apparently
refreshed and Internationally and
eager to repeat yesterdays program