Roxana Sand (also known as Roxanne Carmine, née Golda Glickman)
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An erotic dance is a dance that provides erotic entertainment and whose objective is the stimulation of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions in viewers. Erotic dance is one of several major dance categories based on purpose, such as ceremonia ...
[ and ]fan dancer
In the West, a fan dance (i.e., a dance performed with fans) may be an erotic dance performance, traditionally by a woman, but not exclusively. Beyond eroticism it is a form of musical interpretation. The performer, sometimes entirely nude ...
[ whose performance at ]Minsky's Burlesque
Minsky's Burlesque refers to the brand of American burlesque presented by four sons of Louis and Ethel Minsky: Abraham 'Abe' Bennett Minsky (1880–1949), Michael William 'Billy' Minsky (1887–1932), Herbert Kay Minsky (1891–1959), and Morton M ...
, in August 1936, resulted in a crackdown on burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. shows in New York City
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. She was one of five dancers who performed strip-tease acts, which led to the conviction of Sam Krauss, manager of the
Gotham Theatre, East 125th Street (Manhattan)
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, for giving an indecent performance. The theatre was owned by Abe Minsky. Minsky's was soon closed along with other burlesque venues by protests from citizen's groups and the reform administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
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She was one of fourteen defense witnesses in the court proceeding in which Krauss was found guilty. Two of her fellow dancers, Muriel Lord and Jewel Southern, gave testimony which attested that each was ''properly clothed'' while performing. Sand chased a newspaper photographer up three flights of stairs at the New York City courthouse at the conclusion of the trial, because he had taken her photo. She stopped her pursuit only after someone hurled a used flashbulb at her feet, which exploded with a loud boom.
Married to boxer
Sand was the ex-wife of boxer King Levinsky
King Levinsky (10 September 1910 – 30 September 1991), also known as Kingfish Levinsky, was an American heavyweight boxer who fought during the 1930s. He was born Harris Kraków and was a member of the Kraków fish-selling family of Maxwell St ...
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American female erotic dancers
American erotic dancers
Possibly living people
Year of birth missing