NUDE DANCER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 8

NUDE DANCER

SAVES A CITY FAIR OVERNIGHT SENSATION CLEVELAND (Ohio), July 20. A girl, born at Parkhead, Olasgow, is saving a depression-ridden American city from financial disaster by dancing in the nude. Determined to conquer the effects of a. long depression, Cleveland, onco thriving industrial city of Ohio, decided to hold a great trades exhibition', hut despite ninny attractions, lhe exhibition 'threatened 10 become a colossal flop. Then the organisers remembered that Die Chicago Fair was turned from, failure into financial success by a fan dancer, Sally Rand, who drew thousands of pop-eyed customers to watch her nude show.

Cleveland’s organisers looked round and found Toto Lcvernc. Her speciality is a dance in which she appears in nothing but a stuffed swan's neck. She discards even Dial in Die finale. Toto was an overnight sensation at the exhibition. Attendances jumped 31,000 in a dav.

“I worked hard for Die show,” said Miss' Lcvernc to-«iay. -“.So hard, in fact, that I lost Rilbs. in the last 10 days.

“I feel wicked dancing in the nude. My family don’t Know what to think, but I have taken a broad view of it.

“I find the world wants nudism properly presented.”