Jitterbug Arrives In

Polynesia

POLYNESIANS on a certain small Pacific island are learning to jitter bug; and, as they have an experi enced teacher, they are making rapid progress. He is Sgt. Nicholas John Mar coni, from Philadelphia, who once enter tained in USO clubs in various parts of the United States.

In his South Sea island, Marconi found weekly dances in the villages, and naturally he went along to one. The girls there saw him jitterbug, for the first time, and they stood around him, giggling their astonishment. Then they began following his movements, and soon everyone was trying to jitterbug.

Marconi says the natives pick up dances more quickly than American girls.

They eagerly taught him some of their own South Sea dances, brought him gifts, and recently presented him with a horse.