Edison Hotel v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

A “semi-interpretative dancer”1 was stripped of Workmen’s Compensation Benefits by the Referee and the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) reversed, resulting in the instant Appeal.

Patricia Bock (Claimant) was employed by the Edison Hotel (Hotel) to entertain the public in what she described in her professional parlance as “semi-interpretative dancing.” On January 13, 1971, while doing her last number, Claimant avers that she slipped on the stage and twisted her right ankle, saving herself from a fall by virtue of an alert grasp of the curtain behind. She…