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Bigger 10-Page Sports Section Today Wirephotos and Machine Gun Pictures of Football NOVEMBER 1, 1936 Final Nationwide Poll Roosevelt-Landon In News Section Today SECTION ELEVKN THC MCOISTCB AND TUBUNE COMPANY Girls to Rent for a Nickel a Minute I (They Will Dance or Talk) Til 1 -0 a II '5 'iMn -viisr I HV in nil. 1 I Strange Night Lii These Beauties Sometimes Dance 10 Miles in a Single Night is However, the girls are not paid according to the distance they dance. They receive a nickel of the 12 't cents paid for each ticket These pedometers are not worn regularly, but the management uses them occasionally to check which girls are working. That is not a watch the young woman ia wearing on her ankle above her sandalled foot. It Is a pedometer.

It counts every step she makes during an evening of taxi dancing. With the total number of steps counted, it is easy to estimate the distance the girl dances. An extremely popular dance as far as 10 miles In an evening. ft i (Copyright, 1036, Rrllr tnd Trll.unt Syndlcatt) 4 V- u-. yzyy "'1 Broadway's Most Beautiful Girls Work in This Famous Taxi Dance Hall This is the entrance to The Orpheum most famous This makes their pretty feminine companions cost taxi dance ballroom on Broadway.

5 cents a minute. For $1, you may give one of the girls To work here a girl must be beautiful, refined and an 8 tickets and dance or talk with her for 20 minutes, excellent dancer. Men who go there to dance pay 12 Dancing is carefully chaperoned. Men who get cents a ticket. Dances last 2 minutes.

"fresh," or who are drunk are promptly "bounced" from The Orpheum. -'7 A 'fc- pi I These Taxi Dancers Often Wed Millionaires Sons of The Orpheum. Many are known as "clip joints" where girls use all sorts of ruses to separate customers from their money. In some halls, bars are operated. Men are inveigled into buying drinks after every dance.

The girl gets a commission on each drink. The customer gets liquor, but the amber fluid given to the girl is usually ginger ale. Such tactics are not permitted at The Orpheum, which has operated continuously for 18 years and is probably the oldest taxi dance hall In the world. In evening gowns these taxi dancers are waiting for patrons who will pay a nickel-a-mlnute to dance with them. Pictured with them is the manager.

Sons of Park avenue millionaires come often to dance with these beauties of Broadway. Frequently romance develops and a taxi dancer marries into the Social Register. But the dancers are not permitted to leave The Orpheum with patrons. Some of these taxi dancers are married, but they never disclose this secret to dance partners. Not all taxi dance halls have the strict regulations Redheads, Brunets and Blonds, Take Your Choice Hundreds of pretty girls seek jobs at The Orpheum.

Most of these girls work at other Jobs during the The management tries to keep all types of beautiful day. A popular girl can earn from 2.50 to $3.50 an girls on hand to suit customers' tastes. evening at The Orpheum. Though there are more brunets employed, there is Some of these girls are paying their way through always a liberal sprinkling of blonds and redheads avail- college as taxi dancers, able..