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this A girl born of a Russian dancer
Of course the Lasky people aren’t telling around just yet what the story is to be about, but the gossips whisper that it’s to be like this: A girl, born of a Russian dancer mother, and a staid American father, grows up into a beautiful woman.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

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