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Lifebuoy Soap Dancers, Wheeler School of Dance
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Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne Hebblethwaite, Jacqualine Lorig, Ruth Holt, Jean Deneen, Jane Buellesbach, and Ruthmary Mahoney of the Wheeler Conservatory School of Dancing, perform for the Capital Times Charm School.
May 25, 1933
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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