The Theatre: Bird Fancier

Eight times a day weekdays, ten times on Sundays and holidays for the past two months, Rosita Royce has confronted sightseers at the White Way Casino of the New York World's Fair. They ogled her while she strip-teased to the point where her costume consisted mainly of seven doves or alternately of a cockatoo called "Silly Billy" and a macaw named "Red." One day last week she was asked to give an eleventh performance. She indignantly refused. Said she: "The doves are worn out. I care more for their health than for my own."

So Miss Royce was fired and replaced by...

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