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...when she thought about it, she remembered those rhythmic shivers as a spontaneous creation - something that just came naturally one night when the band played ragtime. Sometimes the shimmy was born to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner. But always it all began when Gilda was still Maryanna Michalska, a 14-year-old Polish immigrant, belting out sentimental ballads in John Letzka's saloon in Cudahy...
...Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray), oldtime U. S. shimmy shaker, who fortnight ago divorced her third husband, told Manhattan reporters she would soon join an expedition to study tribal dances in Asia, Africa, Iran and India
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...
...Marja (Mariana) Michalska, named Gilda Gray by Sophie Tucker, was born in Krakow, Poland, and early came to the U. S. with her laborer father. She married a bartender and left him to earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
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