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...discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much of a date; I didn't have anything to talk about." Moles & Flophouse...
Continuing the interview, Margo describes her innocent school days in a convent. The next scene shows where she really spent them-in a reformatory, where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will...
...smaller towns than Phoenix† where everyone knows everyone else, the establishment of houses of prostitution is almost impossible; in cities larger than Phoenix the slums usually are segregated; in Phoenix the 'redlight' district is in the midst of reputable groceries and other business establishments...
...practice of prostitution has been technically licensed by the police for a period .of many years. The women from the 'redlight' district are arraigned before the Magistrates Court once a month and invariably plead guilty. Those charged with being inmates of a house of prostitution pay a fine of $25, those charged with operating a house of prostitution pay $50. The city derives a revenue from this source of approximately $20,000 a year...
...city surgeon states that there is a deplorable amount of venereal disease in the city and that numerous high-school students have contracted disease in the 'redlight' district, usually following a period of drinking in the neighboring taverns. He states, however, that disease contracted from the prostitutes is not nearly so frequent as from the 'pickups' who frequent the night clubs and dance halls where liquor is sold...