Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in Paris the Correctional Court fined famed U. S. "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" Joan Warner 50 francs ($3.32) after a witness had testified that he could see what her cache-sexe (G string) was supposed to hide when she did her so-called Slave Dance (TIME, July 22). Unwittingly she confirmed Equity-man Gillmore's point about coolie wages paid to U. S. dancing girls abroad. Protesting her $3.32 fine, Miss Warner cried: "This means that I may have to pay as a fine every penny I make for my performance, in case somebody wants to bring...
...Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade he was a lithe Favorite. Slave. In Les Sylphides he was the sole male dancer, pirouetting classically in white tights and black blouse. In Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice he was an exuberant Broom, bounding about until he ripped his tights open. And, decked with pink blooms in Le Spectre de la Rose, the role...
...highly publicized activities of Western badmen, the multiple killings of John Wesley Hardin have been more or less neglected. A tough, blue-eyed, wavy-haired east Texas moppet who grew up when his State was occupied by Yankee troops and hated carpetbaggers, Hardin killed his first man, an ex-slave, when he was 15. In the next nine years he killed approximately 43 more. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Hardin served 16 before he was pardoned, wrote an autobiography, studied law, practiced in El Paso until he was fatally shot...
...interposed for Miss Warner: "Her dance in Paris is a good deal cleaner than those done in Chicago today. There is propaganda in America against tourists coming to France lest they be contaminated. Let's set them right. May I not ask Miss Warner to do her 'Slave Dance' in this Court...
...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...