Mademoiselle Fifi (dancer)

Mary Elizabeth Dawson, née Elizabeth Buzby and better known as Mademoiselle Fifi (February 7, 1890 – July 21, 1982),[1][2][3] was a dancer whose onstage performance at Winter Garden Theatre on the night of April 20, 1925 was memorialized in The Night They Raided Minsky's.[4]

  1. ^ "She was Minsky's young Fifi". The Spokesman-Review. Cowles Publishing Company. 1975-12-30. p. 22. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  2. ^ "M'lle Fifi Postcard". DigitalCommons@UMaine. University of Maine. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  3. ^ "Dawson, Mary, 1890-1982". Social Networks and Archival Context. University of Virginia. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  4. ^ Striptease: the untold history of the girlie show, Rachel Shteir, Oxford University Press, 2004, pg. 363.