Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1926 — Page 11

JUNE 25, 1926

WOMEN VERSUS , WOMEN BATTLE ON IN SEATTLE ‘Dance Hall Girls’ Oppose Order of Mrs. Landes. NBA Service SEATTLE, Wash., June 23.—Mayor Bertha Knight Landes’ New England conscience and the free-and-easy ways of the West are locked in a bitter battle here, only a few days after the city’s new woman mayor took office. Three hundred and forty “women scorned” are on the new mayor’s trail, breathing revenge. They are professional dance hall entertainers. Landes wants to abolish them. Not Nice “It’s not a nice system,” is the mayor's explanation. “ ‘Nice?’ ” retorts Miss Billie Keyes, girls’ leader, in bitter sarcasm. “Say, if we dared to dance like the highbrows in Mrs. Landes’ society set, we’d land in jail pronto. And if we dared to dress like some of the women Mrs. Landes associates with, we’d be barred from the floor.” Most Are Married I”. Seattle, as in most Pacific coast cities, professional dancers make Jlgood livings at dance halls. They are closely supervised by “city mothers.” From 7t30 until midnight they are not allowed to leaVe the halls. Liquor and drunken men are rigorously excluded. At midnight each girl Is planed by the “city mother” on duty at the hall, into a taxicab, the door is locked and she is taken home, at the hairs expense. More than 80 per cent of Seattle’s dancers are married; most of

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Mrs. Landes wants to destroy their jobs—but what makes them madder still is the manner in which she refers to them as “dance hall girls.” Her constant characterization of them this way, they 6ay, has hurt their reputations. “What does Mrs. Landes expect

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