Marion Roberts
Marion "Kiki" Roberts (née Strasmick) (born 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American dancer and showgirl. She was better known as the girlfriend and moll of American gangster Legs Diamond. Early life Roberts dreamed of being a celebrity from a very young age and she placed eighth in a children's beauty pageant. She won a contract to participate at the Ziegfeld Follies as a "Ziegfeld girl", but as she was too young to sign that contract, she could not participate at that time. At age 16, however, searching for bigger fame, Roberts and her mom moved to New York, New York. She began working for Texas Guinan at Guinan's nightclub, the Moritz. Finally, at the age of 17, she was able to sign on as a Ziegfeld girl. Legs Diamond Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn ...
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Allentown Lyric Theater
Allentown may refer to several places in the United States and topics related to them: *Allentown, California, now called Toadtown, California *Allentown, Georgia, a town in Wilkinson County *Allentown, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Tazewell County *Allentown, New Jersey Allentown is a borough, located in western Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, bordering nearby Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 1,828,
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