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The program calls Ray Beveridge "The American Venus." But is she? No one knows; and how did the program secure the information? When any young woman in New York wants to size up to that piece of marble without arms, she must show something besides her face, which Miss Beveridge isn't doing in the "posing act" she now appears in as an added starter at the American. This is Ray's second attempt. The first try was uptown in a sketch where she stood upon a pedestal without her shoes and stockings on, but otherwise fully covered up. After a few poses at the American, Ray again removes her shoes and stockings, and at one moment she did shockingly expose her right arm, but other than that—and her face—and an ugly wig, nobody has any line on Ray's angles and curves.
"The American Venus."; Brengk's
Bare Bronze Beauties";
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Variety 13:2 (12/19/1908)