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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Callers on District Attorney Dewey last week were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, underworld lawyer whose "squealing" testimony won the Hines case for Dewey, and Hope Dare, the redheaded showgirl, long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day, denied helping Dewey try to find Lepke, complained: "Everybody is looking for Lepke and finding me! I want to go away with Hope to some small town and write fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is quite a girl. A tank-town showgirl from Denver, but no blowzer, she is frank, fresh, full-blown, natural, vibrantly on the up & up. Maisie lets the cinemaudience know early that life has braced her for a right uppercut and a left to the jaw, so being stranded in Big Horn, Wyo. with only 15? during rodeo week puts no undue strain on her morale. She takes a stand behind the counter of a shooting gallery, goes gunning for a big, silent ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery has just been off on the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Wigwam Party | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan, 23-year-old Frieda Mierse, onetime Follies showgirl, onetime "Miss New York" (1927) discussed the problems of her married life with 51-year-old Comedian Ed Wynn. Highlights: She is recuperating from one of "all sorts of breakdowns" she says she has suffered since she married Wynn 14 months ago; she is forced to hire a $20-a-night gigolo to take her out because "everybody's afraid to dance with me on account of my husband." Explained Miss Mierse: "Ed's elderly and I'm young. It's making a wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smooke Scoop | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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