Word: gaminish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
Leggy, almond-eyed Valerie Bettis, 28, discovered as a gaminish youngster that "when I was dancing, I knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
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