Monday, May 12, 2008

Garbless Dancing Man Gives Police The Slip

1920

'Varsity Set Resent His Nimble Capers on Campus.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. — A garbless gent, who may be an interpretative dancer, proved also that he was as fleet as a fawn and as nimble as a chamois when the police sought to break up his antics near the University of Minnesota campus. He is still tripping the light fantastic toe somewhere at large.

Complaint that the dress-discarding man was capering about the neighborhood was first received by the police when three calls came in quick succession from residents of the cultured district.

A police squad, prudently provided with a blanket to wrap about the nymph, dashed to the scene in a touring car. They were unable to find him.

But shortly afterward two prudish policemen, left on watch, were shocked to see a human form that apparently hadn't attended any of the recent bargain sales dash across the street and disappear in the night.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 5.

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