A female impersonator, 65 dogs — and murder!
By Craven Lovelace
Free Press Columnist
November, 24 2010 4:30 pm
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The gun had been lying there in the desert for some days when the oil worker found it. At first, he figured he'd keep it — but a few days later, he decided he'd better alert the police. Good thing he did, too, because that gun had put a fatal bullet in a man not long before.
From the 1930s through the 1950s, female impersonator Rae Bourbon prospered. He played sold-out houses with his so-called "pansy shows," like "Boys Will Be Girls" and "Don't Call Me Madam," in nightclubs on both the east and west coasts, and even in Salt Lake City and Cripple Creek, Colo.