People: Virtuosos

Life was dealing pretty severely with the glamor girls—and vice versa.

Overworked Singer Lily Rons checked in at a Manhattan hospital for a good rest and thorough checkup.

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...

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