Word: ex-showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Discovered running a vegetable juice stand at Palm Springs, Calif, were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the late Manhattan gangster Dutch Schultz's lawyer who turned State's evidence on James J. Hines and the Schultz gang, and his redheaded, ex-showgirl wife, Hope Dare. Said Dixie: "All I want is to be left alone. Hope and I want a chance to live...
Today's most prominent serious-minded U. S. dancer is a slim, dark-haired woman named Martha Graham, who 15 years ago left a job with the Greenwich Village Follies to try her foot at higher-browed steps. Ex-Showgirl Graham's first serious show was given in 1926 in Manhattan's 48th Street Theatre, backed by $11.25 which she had saved. A deficit of more than that would have sent her back to the Follies. The box office made a profit ($2) and Martha went...
...Ex-Showgirl Lois Andrew Jessel, 16, four-month wife of thrice-married Stagester George Jessel, 42, planned a family of five or six children: "We won't have our first for a year, not until we get to know each other really. We're in love, deeply in love, but we need to get acquainted...