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New York Interview Profile of Leroy Prinz Warhorse Dancer
New Yorker Jack Stinnett profiles Leroy Prinz Paramount dance director who has interviewed over 5,000 applicants, holds 450 under contract dancing in unit shows, and 100 plus chorus girls. Prinz denounces the dance school racket charging hundreds yearly then demanding over 1000, while recounting his perilous past including service in the Lafayette Escadrille and 14 crashes, and his wanderings through Mexico Yucatan and Nicaragua. He notes Broadway changes and enjoys New York sights after a long absence downtown.
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Jack Stinnett
New York
LeRoy Prinz
Paramount
Prinz
St. Joseph
French Foreign Legion
Algiers
Lafayette Escadrille
United States
94Th
Max Reinhardt
Folies Bergere
Mexico
Chicago
al Capone
Earl Carroll
Ziegfeld
Shuberts
Hollywood
Yucatan
Nicaragua
Broadway
Columbus Circle
59Th
42Nd Street
Aquarium
Central Park Zoo
Grant