DOING HER BIT FOR NATURE.
Sally Rand, described by American critic Douglas Churchill as "the exponent of what the well-dressed woman does not wear," does a peacock dance in the picture "Murder on Sunset Avenue" that was not too popular with the Hays Office. Miss Rand deplores that sensationalism has been attached to her "art"; she considers her dance really exemplifies the poetry of rhythm, and as she always does when she dances on the stage, the provocative young lady precedes her main solo dance with a ballet "to get the audience in the proper frame of mind" for what comes after. Miss Rand says: "Producers know what I do, and when they hire me it's up to them. I don't, believe the people who come to see me are interested in the opinion of the Hays Office, and certainly I'm not." Which is candid criticism of America's big "censor-shot."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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150DOING HER BIT FOR NATURE. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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