Paramount Hotel

So they were like, "Okay, we wanna bring Aija in to New York to audition for the producer and for the director of Hairspray." So this is my second chance, you know what I'm saying? I go there, and they want me to stay to audition the next day.

So they put us up in a Paramount Hotel in New York City.

The very next day we go and we audition.

And on the way back from that audition, we're on the Jersey Turnpike, and they call my mom while we're on the Jersey Turnpike, and they say, "Aija got the part." So that was a little backstory.

She was obsessed with fame.

She ended up a cigarette girl at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in the basement of the Paramount Hotel on West 46th Street.

many years later she would brag to new friends that she was the featured star of the club

if she was obsessed with looking young