The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-17
CAN CAN HAS
 RETURNED TO.
 TEASE AGAIN
Said to Be Like a Strip Tease with the
 Clothes On''
By WESTON BARCLAY

NEW YORK, Aug. 17-We offer a Parisienne can-can dancer who doesn't want to be dramatic act ress, woesnt want to marry a rich American, doesn't want to conquer Hollywood and doesn't mind saying so-in horrible English. 1 She is Mile. Andree Rapo, direct from the F'ollies, Bergere, of Paris Of her speciality, she said:-
 'The can-can-it is the dance that makes the jobs. It makes you excite. It is like the strip tease with the clothes on. It is the tease dance. It makes you feel so-o sol' | The encyclopedia says of the can cam
 "A dance, something of the na- ture of the quadrille, but accom- panied by violent leaps, and indeco- rous contortions of the body, or iginated by the demimonde of Paris, and resembling the old Bacchic dances
 Your father will remember hear ing about it when Queen Victoria banned it from England. He will called that it was a roistering thing in which birls tossed themselves around, showing lace panties above the tops of their long, black stock ings.
 Mile. Rapo is billed at the Inter national Casino, that extravagant music hall venture which is to blos- som under the Wrigley sign in Times Square as the girl who is in these United States to make us can-c can conscious.
 Mile. Rapo is captain of the can-can troupe. It is pronounced, on the authority of Mile. Rapo, as if you held tight your nose and said "kah-kah." The encyclopedia was right about the violent leaps, but the cortortions of the body are not, our authority assures us, de- corous. They are just excite"
 Literally, can-can means gossip, like Winchell," sflle Rapo says and the encyclopedia adds that there was a considerable controversy at one time in the Academy about its pronunciation.
 Mile Rapo thinks the original the amateur can-can might have been popular with the demimonde in Paris, bus the modern, the pro fessional, originated with her dear mentor, Pierre Sandrini, producer of the International Casinos show
 A Sherry Flip
 And about it resembling the old Bacchic dances, well:
 "One day, before I do the can can,' says Mile. T take a sherry i flip, and then I dance and the sherry it, how you say, come back?'
 Mile. Rapo hopes we like her can can. Tn England, all the men liked it, and in France all the men and dll OliC WOllCll lONCu AU.
 But even, if we don't like her can-can, her trip will not have been in vain. She's really here for a more important reason, a reason tres intime.
 It seems there is a man. He has black hair and blue eyes. Old? Ha nt1Ixy % pinlO ic fol l11 He has given her pretty little watch and bracelet, diamond, and nice things. He wants that they should make the marriage. Separation Will Tell
 Alors, she will find out by the separation if she loves him enough He is romantic, tres. And if all makes well with the love, she shall have two children, one boy and one girl.
 And she and the romantic French man and the one boy and the one girl shall live in the country, and she shall cook him chicken, with garlic, yes?
 Hollywood? No. She would like for see, but for the cinema, no It is trop tarde. She's already 24 And maybe the marriage with the rich American? Non, non The American are very sympathetic, but non. She will not make the mar lriage. The drama? Also non Perhaps if she does not make the marriage in France she could be the little comedienne. But not the actress, for if you are the actress you are born the actress and you die SO