Cummings, Alma (b. 1890)
Cummings, Alma (b. 1890)
American dancer. Born Alma Stappenback, 1890, in San Antonio, Texas.
Dance instructor who danced for 27 hours in the 1st US dance marathon, winning the competition and setting new world record at the Audubon Ballroom, NY (1923).
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