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Foreign News: Marathon Dance

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Professor Albert Moeil of Berlin, who says that marathon dancing is a form of ” mass hysteria,” anim-adverts thus: “Such mass hysteria occurs periodically. The present dance marathon is comparable to the dance mania in the middle ages which was followed by flagellantism— monks and others whipping themselves as penitents.”

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