Sally Rand--1942 Fan Dance, Rare Soundie (ONE OF MY FATHER'S 'GUILTY PLEASURES'......)

MY STEP-FATHER ONCE TOLD ME THAT ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES THAT HE HAD, AT 19, WAS WATCHING SALLY RAND, PERFORMING HER FAMOUS 'FAN DANCE'......HE AND I WATCHED 'GYPSY', WITH NATALIE WOOD..AS GYPSY ROSE LEE....AND MEMORIES OF HIS FIRST 'STRIPPER' PERFORMANCE RETURNED......HE ASKED THAT I NOT MENTION ANY OF THIS SORDID STUFF TO MY MOTHER, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT US PHILISTINES, OF COURSE, BACK THEN.....WHEN I VISITED HIM, IN CHICAGO, IN 1967, HE TOOK ME TO A TOPLESS BAR..AFTER WHICH, HE AGAIN ASKED THAT I NOT MENTION THIS TO ANYONE........I RECALLED OUR VACATION IN LAS VEGAS, WHEN I WAS A TEEN, IN 1959.....WHERE WE WATCHED A FOLLIES BERGERE PERFORMANCE, FROM WHICH I WAS EXPELLED FOR 'BEING UNDER AGE'.....