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Johnny Noiπ May 2018
D                                    u                      bbed starting a                          s an underage exoti cooch
                    ******
dance                 as was common
follies                          'little egypt' shows      dancer      
*******                    
could be found in any                       town across America         arrested at 14 for stripping &
                 released by the judge f                         or being "t
           oo beautiful"   thriving city or town              
                   thus providing her                                well-known moniker            
usually on                     the outskirts
                                                  near circus & carnival  
she was always referred to as
& known thereafter as the girl
who was too beautiful   grounds                                                          ­      e                        "Girl                  
she kept               near open fields
her popularity                                        
              ­                                                                 ­      just kept growing
  Who
later moving
                                 to the bigger                                   burlesque venues in cities & resort towns
         across America                       i  s t                    oo Be
            au                                 tif                                                         ul"
During her career,                    Barbara                  La Marr became known as t
he                               pre-eminent                                  vamp
               ­                         of the 1920s,
                              but privately           she                      partied and drank
heavily;                                                 she once remarked to the
pres                                               s that she only
                                                                ­              slept                         two nevertheless         she kept acting                                           hours
                         a night. In 1924, her                                              health
         began
                    to falter                                           after
                                     a series of crash diets
                                             for comeback
       roles further
      affected                      by  cooch
her        ­                                      lifestyle, led to her death
                                             from                     pulmonary
                    tuberculosis                              an­d nephriti
                                                        ­                                 s at age 29. spotted in Juvenile court by a female                  who introduced her to the
editor who then shot
          photos        
           risque                  ­     of the young                   teen &              ran r
going back t her nightlife now as both a dancer & writer her wild & loose limbed style of movemen
                   compared to               the Great            Isadora                 isque photos
even on her knees
in a two-page        cooc
                     "Life is too short to                              waste on sleep" - BLM
; multiple times,                
ga
****** alcoholic star                                   ng i       *****
dragged
                           out b   prescription    pills
writing screenplays           ehind the she                  never
                                      ­                      stopped beii    ng beautiful
                         nightclub cuz she lost abet                  multiple times in                  
a dr
leaving               lipstic       k kisses on the    
        hardwood floor          don't go home til               the joint closes down
                                  that's when it happened mostly                                unken blackout           h               where everyone &      no       no one looks familiar
in that Barbara                    
drugged & *****                                          (not her
                     real name) was born femme t fatale villainess to the Three Muskateers
married@17 her husband   she was a cooch-dancer   aty      
promptly          
                dropped dead                                         born
        oe    Douglas        Fairbanks   in             f pneumonia         in 189    6
that would make all ttt          this start                happening             in 1910
1896-1926

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