BETTY HOWARD
Packed Havana Theaters
1956
[REF:
Cabaret Quarterly, Special Resort Number, Volume Five,
poss 1956, pp52-54]
BETTY HOWARD
her bumps to the bongo packed Havana theatres [theaters]
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[caption] Typical of strippers who have discovered that
Cubans fancy
American version of bumps and grinds is lovely Betty
Howard who bounced
to howling houses at Havana's Compoamar and Marti
theaters.
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Havana's reaction to American strippers like Betty Howard
would come as
no surprise to Harold Minsky. Impresario Minsky, who
should know
if anyone does, once pegged her as one of the top ten
exotics in the
business.
Living up to such praise can be pretty rough on a
stripper. When
you're billed as the best you gotta produce and that's just
what the
intense gyrations of Miss Howard are calculated to do.
She's
crowd pleaser and if the response of wide-eyed audiences at
the
Compoamar and Marti theaters in Havana are any indication,
Minsky knew
what he was talking about.
Says Betty about all this, "I like it."
This attitude is one of the things that's made her a
top-runger in the
doffing for dollars department. She's nuts about her
work.
There's nothing, but nothing, she'd rather be doing than
peeling her
way to the buff before the eager and enthusiastic gaze of an
elated
male audience. The cry, "Take it off," is music to her
ears. Just a little encouragement of this king and the
dainty
garments go flying as thick and fast as the law allows.
But nobody cares how fast the wrapping comes off if the
package beneath
isn't a prize. And here's the second reason why she's
at the top
of the heap. The Howard package in the pelt is a
pretty imposing
bundle. The five feet five and a half of her curves in
and out
nicely to the tune of 40-25-37. And that's a very
intriguing
melody.
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[caption] More bounce
to
ounce is supplied by Betty in torrid routine which has her
dispensing
with costume of ostrich feathers. Famed impresario,
Harold
Minsky, recently named her among world's top ten exotic
performers.
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