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ture was even placed over a feature article in the Greek press.
He had a run of a week at a small theatre on South Halsted
street where there were many Greeks.
In all Takiss participated in sixteen dance marathons. In
eight of them, he collected prize money, and was the winner
of a thousand dollar super-marathon, in which, only finalists
from other marathons were permitted to enter, and in which,
there were no rest periods. He had money now, five thousand
dollars. He could and did return to Greece. But the strain
of the marathons had ruined his lungs and he had tubercolosis.
Tubercular resorts had been developed in his native Grecian
mountains, and when he returned, it was necessary for him to
become a patient in one of them, and the money he had earned
was paid out while he lived there with his lungs rotting away
on him.
