Mr. Griffin. Do you think Jada was in cahoots with your competitors in any way?
Mrs. Powell. No; I think he was getting ready to let her go anyway, because she had been there quite awhile.
Mr. Griffin. What made you think that?
Mrs. Powell. Because she had been there quite awhile and wasn’t drawing much business. At first she drew a lot of business, but she was there for a long time and weren’t doing much business.
Mr. Griffin. You think that is the reason that she took this extra license in the middle of her act, because she hadn’t been drawing much business?
Mrs. Powell. I don’t know. She really had been doing it—she came from New Orleans, and the first night she did her act, she was awful.
Mr. Griffin. What did she do?
Mrs. Powell. She was pulling up her strings, and they did things like that in New Orleans, and the girls don’t work like that, so Jack had her to clean her act up about three times so he wouldn’t get in any trouble. But she loved publicity and would love to have been taken to jail for it.
Believe me, I love and adore her. I think she has everything on the ball. She is flashy and she is what a stripper should be if they are going to be one, but she would do anything, just anything, and she went out with every reporter in town to get her name in the paper, from sports writers on up. And Jack got the word, or somebody that she was going to get arrested, because when she gets in town, she wants everybody to know she is in town, and if she has to go to jail to do it. She is smart, because she is clever. Because people come to see her for curiosity. I don’t think that was it. He just happened to notice her doing it, and I don’t really know. I think they had a little trouble or something, and an argument. They argued a lot too.
Mr. Griffin. You said that she was pulling her pants down?