KAN DANCER’S PROTEST

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 118, 5 December 1938, Page 1

KAN DANCER’S PROTEST

OBJECTION TO CAMERA (J UILTY OF ASSA ULT HOLLYWOOD, Nov. L—A case which attracted nation-wide attention ended when a jury found Sally Rand, the lan dancer, guilty of assaulting two admirers, who took candid camera studies while slm was performing, in a local theatre. Miss Rand confessed that she wanted baldheaded men lor jurors, but she got nine gre.vliaired women, and three cm ha missed men. She also wanted to! demonstrate her art in court, hut. the judge pointed out that she was not charged with wearing a costume oi talcum powder. Miss Rand protested by wearing more clothes than anyone, else in court. A. Stanford and his friend, Hazel Drain, gp.ve evidence that .Miss Hand jumped, off the stage, clad in a leather lan, clawed Stanfords shirt, and scratched his neck, and hit Miss Drain’s arm.

Miss Rand retorted that all she had ever bitten was a beef steak, well done. She added that she could not scratch because, she wore her nails short in order to avoid damaging the equipment in the bubble dance. She said she merely chased the couple up an aisle until she secured the camera. “Kxliil;it A” wii.s Miss Drain’s white sweater, hearing lipstick marks. Ibis, it was alleged, was proof oi a. bite. Mliss .Rand is also facing suits, involving £250, for biting, and the- same for scratching, and £IOO lor humiliation.