Roxana Sand (also known as Roxanne Carmine, née Golda Glickman)King Levinsky at Box Rec
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erotic dancer An erotic dance is a dance that provides erotic entertainment with the objective to erotically stimulate or Sexual arousal, sexually arouse viewers. Erotic dance is one of several major dance categories based on purpose, such as ceremonial danc ...

and fan dancer whose performance at

Minsky's Burlesque Minsky's Burlesque refers to the brand of American burlesque presented by four sons of Louis and Ethel Minsky: Abraham 'Abe' Bennett Minsky (1880–1949), Michael William 'Billy' Minsky (1887–1932), Herbert Kay Minsky (1891–1959), and Morton M ...

, in August 1936, resulted in a crackdown on

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shows in

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. She was one of five dancers who performed strip-tease acts, which led to the conviction of Sam Krauss, manager of the Gotham Theatre, East

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, for giving an indecent performance. The theatre was owned by Abe Minsky. Minsky's was soon closed along with other burlesque venues by protests from citizen's groups and the reform administration of Mayor

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. She was one of fourteen defense witnesses in the court proceeding in which Krauss was found guilty. Two of her fellow dancers, Muriel Lord and Jewel Southern, gave testimony which attested that each was ''properly clothed'' while performing. Sand chased a newspaper photographer up three flights of stairs at the New York City courthouse at the conclusion of the trial, because he had taken her photo. She stopped her pursuit only after someone hurled a used flashbulb at her feet, which exploded with a loud boom.

Married to boxer

Sand was the ex-wife of boxer

King Levinsky King Levinsky (10 September 1910 – 30 September 1991), also known as Kingfish Levinsky, was an American heavyweight boxer who fought during the 1930s. He was born as Harris Kraków and was a member of the Kraków fish-selling family of Maxwel ...

. In September 1934 she asked for a divorce on grounds of cruelty. She had been married to Levinsky for only five weeks.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sand, Roxana American female erotic dancers American erotic dancers Possibly living people Year of birth uncertain