***** The Potato Dance -- Near-finalists Peter Mitchell and Betty Hymanson. The "Potato Dance" came to London last night, at the Lyceum *****. The idea is that you dance with your hands behind our back and a potato pressed forehead to forehead with our partner through successive rhythms. If the potato falls you are disqualified. And the last couple on the floor are the "Potato King and Queen". The honours went last night to Marie Craig, of Enfield, and her brother, Kurt Rosenfield, within ten minutes, thirty-nine couples last their potatoes in ***** effort to keep in stop with changing rhythms while potatoes slipped gradually down their noses. September 8, 1950.