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Stripper Georgia Sothern, who had been warned by the cops to slow down (TIME, March 8), ground to a halt at Manhattan's Club Samoa. Police who came back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops] claimed I did grinds-grinds is when a girl stands still and rolls her hips all around. I didn't do grinds. . . . What I do is a takeoff on the old-style bumps. ... A burlesque on burlesque, see? Strictly for the laughs and no panting...
...strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
Divorced. By Ann Sothern, 38, cinema's blowzy, blousy "Maisie": second husband Robert Sterling, 31, B-picture kid-brother type; after four years, seven months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...Georgia Sothern, grand old (32, she says) lady of the U.S. striptease business, spiced up the hot spell by paying a surprise call on her husband at a Springfield, 111. hotel room. As surprised as Husband Harry Finkelstein was his companion of the moment, Sally Rand, grand old (43, she says) lady of the fandanglers. Finkelstein was just treating her for heat exhaustion, protested Miss Rand, but Mrs. Finkelstein had them both arrested for disorderly conduct. Miss Rand's valedictory to the press as the police closed in: "I have nothing to hide...
Ecdysiast Georgia Sothern managed to stay out of the hospital, but just barely. She reported for work at Boston's famed, faded Old Howard with a bunged-up brow, a bruised caboose, and a shocking tale. On the street the night before, said she, three strange men "appeared out of nowhere" and gave her a working-over. "So you would go to a nightclub?" cried one, and belted her in the forehead. (She had not been to any nightclubs, said red-haired Miss Sothern.) The other two walloped her on the crown, booted her from behind, chucked her into...