Lotus Marjorie Corrington AKA Rosita Royce (1913-1954)

Her Childhood - 1920s

• May 1922-- Marjorie entertained 200 people at a springs party given by the La Joie De Vie Club in Lincoln Hotel Ballroom. A May Pole was danced around in addition to large displays of colorful flowers. Pink and yellow trimmed lights added color to the room. Marjorie entertained at intermission with interpretive dances—one was listed as, “she carried a large yellow ballon with the word La Joie De Vie inscribed on it. For an encore, she performed her Tamborine dance in which she handed out favors of “celluloid covered memorandum books to the ladies and cigarets to the men.” This is the earliest mention of a 'balloon dance' or 'bubble dance.'
• November 1922, Miss Donna Gustin presented her company at the Temple Theatre for the Lincoln Woman’s Club. Marjorie Corrington’s act is listed as “Powder Puff.”
• December 1922, Marjorie performed at a Christmas party at the Lincoln Hotel for the Fifty-Fifty Social Club. 60 couples attended the party. Favor dances were presented at the party. Marjorie danced a powder puff dance with five other girls. She emerged from a huge powder box and dance solo.
• February 1923, Marjorie performed in a stage play at the Lincoln High School auditorium for the District No. 1 of the Lincoln Guardians Association.
• More than one hundred girls took part in Donna Gustin’s dance recital at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, 1923. The recital was in three parts—‘A Day in a Garden’, ‘With Spanish Gypsies’, and ‘An Arabian Night’s Entertainment.’ Marjorie performed “The Statue Lotus Flower” in Part I and ‘La Amorada’ in Part II.
• August 1923- Marjorie appeared with the Rialto Symphony Players and performed a song and dancing number with Gladys Conrac in Lincoln, NE.
• October 1923, while attending Nebraska Wesleyan University, Marjorie performed with other students of the ‘expression department’. Her act was listed as “When de Folks is Gone."
• April 1925, Marjorie performs an interpretative dance at the Red Room of the Y.M.C.A. for the Sons of Veterans.
• She first graced the stage 'professionally' when she was 10 years old, traveling with the Portia Mansfield Dancers in the Orpheum Circuit. It was at this time she came up with her bubble dance, later copyrighted by her.

(Marjorie Corrington. 1920)

• May 1925, Marjorie performed an act entitled, “The Princess of it All”, at a musical program held at the Trinity Lutheran church in Lincoln.
• In June 1925, she performed at the Lincoln Theatre along side other dancers. The local advertisement states the movie “Old Home Week” starring Thomas Meighan was shown on screen and on stage was the Lincoln Symphony orchestra and a concert organist.
• March 1926, Marjorie performed for children of the Orthopedic hospital. The program was sponsored by the Civic Department of the Lincoln Woman’s Club. Marjorie was reported to have performed a Hawaiian dance and the Charleston
• April 1926, Marjorie performed a Hawaiian inspired Hula dance with the Flavia Waters company at the Orpheum Theatre. She also performed ‘The Rose Ballet.
• July 1926-- Marjorie performed at the Epworth Lake picnic, staged by the Lincoln Ku Klux Klan. At least 15,000 people attended the picnic, though they boasted they sold 22,000 tickets. She is listed as performing at 3:00pm with the “Waikiki Trio.” Marjorie was 13 years old at the time, being managed by her mother, Bertha.
• May 1927, Flavia Waters Champe and her students entertained guests at a May Party at Flavia's studio. Each student performed an original dance and chose her own music. Majorie’s act was simply listed as ‘Dance.’

In 1932, at 19 years old, Marjorie moved to Chicago to study dance and was discovered by a Balaban and Katz talent scout. She was hired as a permanent chorus member, performing in 6 different theaters in the Chicago metropolis and began touring under the name Rosita Royce. Its reported she chose Rosita out of the “necessity for a name in some solo work as a Spanish dancer and the Royce out of the air when she required two names for vaudeville billing.” She suffered an injury to her toe which stopped her dancing for a year. From Chicago, she ventured to New York.

She replaced Sally Rand as the fan dancer of the 1933 New York World’s Fair after management wouldn’t pay Rand’s salary demand. Royce then went to California and headlined at the Hollywood Cafe for some time. While performing there, Earl Carroll saw her and offered her a role in ‘Vanities’ at the Palm Island Casino in Miami. During this time she created her dove dance and debuted it in Carroll’s show.

Rosita claimed she was the first balloon dancer, before Sally Rand. She even went as far as to copyright her 'bubble dance' though it didn't do much from others creating their own balloon acts. By 1933, Marjorie was performing under the name Rosita Royce.

Rosita's "Dance of the Doves"

The Dove Dance was a strip-tease in which the removal of her garments were by the doves. They would also act as a partial ‘shield’, landing on her body to conceal her nude body. At her first performance of the Dove Dance, the dominant dove led the flock to a chandelier in the house and wouldn’t fly down. Royce had gone through 37 doves until she successfully trained 7 to respond to her commands. Her performance was lit with blue light, adding a ‘mythical’ effect to the act. The names of the doves were as follows; Queenie, who sat on Royce’s head, Angel, Lovie Dovie, Tookie, Beauty, King, and Baby, ‘a perpetual squeaker.’ The doves were picky and would only eat kaffir corn, Alaska peas, and hemp. In the summer of 1936, Royce took her Dove Dance to the outdoor stage of the San Diego International Exposition where she performed 7 shows a night. She then performed at the Los Angeles Orpheum for three weeks in 1936.

Ken Magazine reported one night the dance didn’t go as planned. At one performance, college boys began throwing cracked corn onto the stage during a critical moment of the dance, causing the doves to forget their training and desert Royce mid-performance for a snack.

Rosita would begin her number by entering wearing a see-through costume and her doves. The doves would circle in the air, walk up and down her arms and legs to somehow manage to unhook parts of her costume to reveal her skin which would then be covered by another dove. In the end she would be wearing nothing but doves.

Traveling Burlesque Performer - 1930s

• January 1930, the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages group held an informal banquet of the Nebraska Bottlers’ Association at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln. 84 members attended. Entertainment included a boxing exhibition, an act by the Sigma sisters, and a Spanish dance by Marjorie Corrington. Music was furnished by a 6-piece orchestra.
• In February 1930, the Lincoln Woman’s Club sponsored a production of players of the Fine Arts of Nebraska Wesleyan University. The production included poetry readings, dances, vocal solos, and drama. They performed “The Slave With Two Faces” at the Temple Theater, Lincoln.
• August of 1930, Marjorie entered the ‘Miss Lincoln’ Beauty Contest. She got second place while Bertha Jacobs took the title.
• Marjorie was studying dance with Flavia Waters Champe in Lincoln. In April 1931, Champe’s students gave performance at the Liberty Theatre in Lincoln. The production was divided into specific dance themes like, Songland and Toyland. Cinderella’s Ball included dance from foreign countries. Fairyland included dancers dressed as elves, butterflies, and rosebud fairies. The second half of the show featured modern dances and classical dances. Marjorie performed as a soloist in the Dance of Spain. Lastly, the show was concluded by Flavia Waters Champe, herself, performing as the “chief” in “the dance of the native American.”
• In February 1932, Marjorie performed at the Lincoln Y.M.C.A. during a dinner for contestants of a Checkers Tournament. She performed an ‘Indian Dance.’
• At the end of February 1932, Marjorie danced at a Y.M.C.A. dinner. She presented a ‘novelty dance’ entitled ‘The Peanut Vendor Girl.'
• Club Waldor hosted Marjorie Corrington in March 1932 where she performed a ‘specialty dance.’
• March 1933, Marjorie dances at Paul Sports Club Araby at 15th and Farnam Streets in Omaha, NE.
• November 1, 1933 a five-day Omaha Midwest Clinic Society convention on medical economics came to the Paxton Hotel. Six hundred physicians attend a Tuesday night stage show where Marjorie Corrington (not yet going as Rosita Royce) performed a fan dance along with Martha Randall’s Troupe, The Jungle Rhythm Boys, Goldie Thystrup, Ilene Hoover, and Fred Hertfeld.
• In November 1933, Rosita performed ‘Sally Rand’s Fan Dance’ at Nebraska City’s Booth Theatre.
• She performed at the Rivoli Theatre in Seward, NE in December 1933. She performed her fan dance, once between two movie screenings on a Friday and three performances the next day. She performed at the Chicago Theatre, Chicago, and the Paramount Theatre in New York City.

• 1934 Rosita Royce performed her famous fan dance at the Empress Theatre in Fremont, NE.
• Rosita Royce performed ‘Sally Rand’s Fan Dance’ three times in Holdrege, NE at the Sun Theater in February 1934. The paper briefly states, “For three days only, Sally Rand’s dance, staged by Rosita Royce, at the Sun Theater, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.”
• January 1934- Rosita Royce returned to Omaha to perform her popular fan dance and dove dance at the Paxton hotel. She performed at the Paxton Paradise Supper-Dance.
• In 1934, Rosita was arrested at the World’s Fair by exposition censors due to dancing ‘minus her fig leaf’ (aka in the nude). During her arraignment she offered this excuse, ‘the wind blew it off’ as to why she had appeared in the nude.
• In Summer 1934, Rosita was the featured dancer in the ‘Streets of Paris’ at the Chicago exposition.

The "Bubble Dance" - 1935

(Rosita Royce. Bubble Dance. c. 1935)

Rosita took Sally Rand’s place at the Chicago Century of Progress Fair in 1933. She also announced she had copyrighted the bubble dance before Rand began performing it. The rivalry was marked when Sally bought the only balloon company’s balloon form, while Rosita went and bought the remaining stock of balloons on hand.

On March 27, 1935, Rosita Royce had the ability to sue Sally Rand for plagiarizing her bubble dance but she declined to go after her. Her employer believed Royce to be too shy. Royce stated she thought of the balloon dance when she was 10 years old. She danced with a 6 foot wide balloon with, rumored, nothing else. She performed her balloon and bubble dances at the Columbus Theatre (Columbus, NE) for three days in June 1935.

In March 1936, Rosita performed her bubble dance at Peony Park ballroom in Omaha, NE, where a man threw a lit cigarette at her balloon. It popped and ruined her performance. The balloon cost $6.

1930s Performances

• Rosita performed in ‘Rhapsody in Rhythm’ in Lincoln at the Greater Orpheum Theatre. The cast performed 4 shows a day.
• Advertisement for Rosita Royce at Peony Park ballroom and nightclub; “Gala Floor show featuring Rosita Royce of Earl Carroll’s Vanities doing the same sensational Dove and Balloon Dances that won her international fame.”
• In July 1937, Rosita Royce performed at the Cheyenne Rodeo Show in connection with Cheyenne, Wyoming’s Frontier Days Celebration.
• October 1937 - Royce performed at the Chez Paree in Chicago with her Dove Dance.
• She performed her Dove Dance at the Orpheum Theatre’s New Year’s Eve stage show called “Scandals of 1938” and was received well by Omaha audiences.

•  Advertisement for Rosita Royce, “the sensation of three world fairs” at the Wagon Wheel Night Club in Beatrice. 

• Advertisement for Miss Rosita Royce “The Dance of the Silhouette and ‘Opalescene,’ New Style of Fan Dance.’ In Nebraska City.
• April 1939- Rosita Royce headlined at the Dallas Centennial

Speaking Out

In February 1937, Rosita Royce was invited to speak to the Optimists, a social club, about her experiences in show business as a child. Reverend R.A. Dawson also spoke about Child Labor and the need to pass child labor laws. In 1940, she was the first woman to address the Rhode Island state legislature at the speaker’s stand. She spoke about ‘peace’ with one of her doves, Beauty, perched on her arm. 

The 1939 New York World's Fair

Rosita Royce represented the state of Nebraska at the World’s Fair in 1939. She performed her Dove Dance at the Crystal Palace, whose management required her to perform 10 times a day, and 12 times on Saturdays. She danced and stripped with 7 doves, that would fly and land on her body to “keep her modesty.” Even though she was a hit at the Fair, not long after beginning the gig at the Crystal Palace, Royce complained of poor treatment of her and her birds by management and soon quit the Fair in protest. Reportedly, her doctor told her she would be hospitalized if she worked any harder. Royce also stated her leaving as a protest for the chorus girls, stating, ‘They get only $35 a week, and on this many of them support families. Recently they were docked $5, but this cut was restored. They are afraid to strike, so I took the action for them.” 

According to the New York News, Rosita’s Dove Dance was ranked 1st as the hit performer of the exposition. Another nude dancer at the Fair, Della Carroll, also quit, but for different reasons than Rosita. Della quit because of the ‘stupid nudity ban and unfair censorship of dance costumes’ by the Fair management. She declared the nudity ban was so strict it ‘makes proper presentation of esthetic performances impossible.' The World’s Fair included nude dancers other than Royce—Billy Rose’s Aquacade and Nils T. Granlund’s Congress of Beauty and Sun Worshipers (cast included 110 nude dancers). 

On August 1, 1939 she finally had enough and quit—stating, “I’ve been doing 74 shows a week—10 on weekdays and 12 on Saturdays and Sundays—and it’s killing my doves. One has died already. It was like losing my best friend.” By August 5th, Rosita was admitted to the hospital due to “a serious nervous condition after working 10 performances a day since the exposition’s opening.” 14 out of 21 of her doves were taken under care of a veterinary.

The 1940 New York World's Fair

(Rosita Royce, revue entertainer. Maurice. 1946. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. J. Willis Sayre Photograph Collection)

(Rosita Royce performing the Dance of the Doves at the Great White Way at the New York World's Fair. 1940. New York Public Library Photograph Collection)

Rosita Royce performed at the 1940 New York World’s Fair. Her Dove Dance was originally to be broadcasted by NBC but at rehearsal it was discovered the birds couldn’t handle the heat from the high-powered lights. Rosita Royce appeared in municipal court in September 1940 due to her quitting the White Way Casino at the World’s Fair. Her contract allotted $375 a week for 8 shows a day, except Saturdays. However, management demanded 11 shows daily.

Burlesque Performances - 1940s

• In March 1940, Rosita Royce helped choreograph the male chorus dancers of the ‘Kosmet Klub’, known as ‘pony choruses’, for their annual spring show at the University of Nebraska. She performed her Dove Dance at the Klub’s show, ‘Ski Stealers. The ‘Ski Stealers’ was a satire of the Russian-Finnish situation. ‘Ski’ was to be pronounced as ‘she’, in the Finnish manner. 

• Rosita added a red macaw to her feathered companions in March of 1940. She traveled and performed her dove dance in Washington, Newark, Union City, and Pittsburgh.
• In 1942 she debuted a new bird act featuring brightly colored cockatoos with a costume of feather wings. She also created a new act called ‘Variations on the G-String’ where she impersonated the four leading burlesque dancers of the day—Gypsy Lee, Margie Hart, Ann Corio and Georgia Sothern.
• In 1942, Rosita traveled to Latin American on cultural exchange. She debuted in Havana, Cuba.

Tragic Death of Fiancé

In August 1941, Rosita’s fiancé, William K. Camblin mysteriously drowned on a Sunday night at the Bar Beach in Long Island. According to the newspapers, Camblin swam too far from shore and was not a strong swimmer. They had come to the beach with a friend, Elinore Pape. Once the two women brought him ashore, a fire department inhalator was used for more than an hour, without success. Camblin was 27 years old and had just graduated from engineering college in 1938 and had been employed by an aircraft company in New York. 

Rosita in the 1950s

By 1952 Rosita was living in New York City and performing nightly at the Jones Beach Stadium. She came to New York after performing in Atlanta at a night club. There she developed a ‘semi strip’ version of her “Dance of the Doves” where her bird would pluck at the fastenings of her costume, dropping the garments piece by piece. She wore a velvet gown that had padding in it to help protect her skin from the claws of her doves and metal clasps to make remove easier. It’s in this article that the author states ‘Royce’ was her mother’s maiden name, which is false. She performed at four world’s fairs—Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, and New York. It also states that she purchased a house in North Miami though the next year she gets in trouble for owing her landlord unpaid rent.

Her Death

Rosita Royce died on September 24, 1954 in Miami, Florida. It's rumored she died from cancer but I couldn't find any information to corroborate that claim. A stripper named Doris Dean bought Rosita's trained doves from her mother in 1955. Rosita was listed in the Florida Death Index (1877-1998) as “Rosita M. Royce” so it took a bit of searching to determine her death date. She died in Miami with her mother, apparently penniless.

Videos

Rosita's "Dance of the Doves" in the famous 'Striporama' (1953).

Rosita Royce and her Impression of Ann Corio (c. 1940).

Rosita Royce dancing with 2 Macaws (c. 1940).

Rosita's main rival - Sally Rand's Bubble Dance.

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