Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding WAAC life dull, she had posed as a stranded showgirl and landed a job in the Casino's chorus. Four days later she had been upped to "Samoan Love Dancer" (the drummer beat a tomtom while she wiggled in a lei) and stripteaser (blue lights followed her around the stage as she teased off a gown borrowed from Mrs. DeCenzie). By Nov. 28 WAAC authorities had discovered where she was and quietly hauled her back to Fort Des Moines. Last week the news leaked and reporters persuaded the Fort's genial commandant, Colonel John A. Hoag...
...Johnston, a garrulous, black-mustachioed, Australian-born opportunist who had served in the Australian Army in World War I, knocked around Europe and the Orient for 20 years, worked for the Tribune's London bureau. He came to the U.S. after the fall of France, married a former showgirl (whom he had met in Paris), and became a U.S. citizen. Johnston had recently returned from the Pacific where he had happened to be the only correspondent on the Lexington, and was able to take pictures of her as she sank in the Coral Sea. His stories of the battle...
Veteran Broadway Producer Lee Schubert, an appellate court decided, has to keep up his $75-a-week payments to Mrs. Evelyn T. Lindley, an ex-showgirl who in 1926 charged that he was her child's father. He denied the charge at the time but agreed to make payments, and figures he has paid her $116,000 so far. She has been married for three years...
...commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl...
Another major upset took place when Mrs. Jack Oakie, onetime Follies showgirl who was judging Afghans, passed over Marion Florsheim's Ch. Rana of Chaman of Royal Irish, who had gone to the finals last year. Thus, when the six group winners padded into the ring for final judging, two favorites were missing. The group finalists included an English sheepdog, an English springer spaniel, an English-bred West Highland white terrier, a silver-grey borzoi (Russian wolfhound), a black poodle, a brown Pomeranian. The two dogs that commanded the fanciers' attention were the Old English sheepdog, Ch. Merriedip...