Taxi dancers and Sholes

Mon., July 3, 1933 - Mother washed clothes today.  I picked peas and shelled them.  Mom canned 7 pints of peas.  Otto Graef was here this p.m. to fix the well pump.  It broke last nite just when Mom was going to get a drink.  I went to bed at 9:00.
Tues., July 4, 1933 - Ironed some dresses this a.m.  I took Mom out to Ola's at 9:00.  She surely looked spiffy in her white hat, white slippers and blue and white voile dress.  They went to a community picnic at Hiller's.  Annie stayed at Frink's because Leeroy has the whooping cough.  Howard came about 12:30.  We took my suitcases to Wayne first.  From Wayne I drove to Laurel, Belden, Sholes, near Randolph, and then to Pierce.  Howard drove from Pierce to Norfolk.  We went to the Granada, Nancy Carroll in "Child of Manhattan."  After the show we had supper at Trano's.  Then out to King's Park for the fireworks.  We waited until 11:00 for them & then they only lasted about 15 minutes.  On the way back to Wayne we stopped at home a few minutes.  I had to tell Mom that League was tomorrow night instead of Thursday nite.
Wed., July 5, 1933 - Everybody at school today looked sleepy.  Alma and I went home to Winside on the train.  I & Alma went to League at Maas' with myself driving the "bug."  We got there and home again without any trouble.  Got home about 1:00 & will have to get up early so Mom can take us to school in the morning.

First, here's our movie plot, courtesy of wikipedia:

     Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle (Nancy Carroll) attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill (John Boles), and when she becomes pregnant, they get married to avoid a scandal. When the baby dies at birth, Madeleine runs away to Mexico, to give Paul the divorce she thinks he wants. There, she meets "Panama Canal" Kelly (cowboy star Buck Jones), an old friend who proposed to her before he went west. Undeterred by her recent past, he asks her again to get married, and she eventually agrees. When Paul discovers where she is, he shows up just as the couple is about to be wed. When Panama overhears Madeleine confess her love to Paul, he bows out of the picture.

I had to look up what a taxi driver was.  Wikipedia was happy to oblige, even though it was a bit redundant in its explanation:  A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a partner dance. Taxi dancers are hired to dance with their customers on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during early 20th-century America, male patrons would buy dance tickets for ten cents each. When a patron presented a ticket to a chosen taxi dancer, she would dance with him for the length of a single song. The taxi dancers would earn a commission on every dance ticket earned. Though taxi dancing has for the most part disappeared in the United States, it is still practiced in some other countries.  The term "taxi dancer" comes from the fact that, as with a taxi-cab driver, the dancer's pay is proportional to the time he or she spends dancing with the customer. Patrons in a taxi-dance hall typically purchased dance tickets for ten cents each, which gave rise to the term "dime-a-dance girl". Other names for a taxi dancer are "dance hostess", "taxi" (in Argentina), and "nickel hopper" because out of that dime they typically earned five cents.

Back to Grandma's post -- isn't it lovely that she made a point of writing about Grandma Anna's outfit and how nice she looked?  What a sweet daughter.

Speaking of Sholes, I remember when I was in high school, a bunch of us kids were driving around on a weekend night with nothing in particular to do.  How Sholes came up in the conversation, I have no idea whatsoever.  But, as some of us had never been there, we made a point to drive to Sholes, take the two-minute, 1:00 a.m. driving tour and then leave.  All so we could say we'd been there.  Fun times.