Word: fortunia
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...With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted one nightclub owner...
Education for the Dance. Reminisced Fortunia in her best throaty pidgin: "At school I learn only classic ballet, but one month with Chicago black boys I learn beaucoup tricks, much swing, rumba. They teach me so good I have enough to dance at Folies...
...spotlight caught the show's two star nudes: blonde Parisienne Nicole Roy, café-au-lait Haitian Fortunia...
Beauteous 18-year-old Fortunia burned up the stage in a sizzle of tropical dancing. Daughter of a Haitian father and a blonde Polish mother, Fortunia was brought up in Poland, thrown into a Nazi concentration camp during the war, liberated by Negro G.I.s...
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