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This article identifies her birth name as "Dorothy Mason". The 1930 US census lists her as "Dorothy Saunders" and has her born in Ohio, and not in San Francisco, California. In that same census her mother is listed as the widowed "Eleanor Downs". (Source: Richard Arthur Norton in 2019)

Doraldina, Dancer, Dies. Madame Doraldina. San Francisco Girl Won Dance Fame. Famous Star Was Native of San Francisco. The amazing career of a San Francisco girl who rose from manicurist to a dancer of international fame in one year, ended in death in Los Angeles yesterday. She was Madame Doraldina, former wife of Frank Saunders, scenario writer, and known in her childhood here as Dorothy Mason. Madame Doraldina dropped dead at her home. She was 47. In 1917, she quit her job as manicurist at the Palace Hotel, and left for New York. In 1918 she was headlining dance shows in New York. In 1919 she was captivating the theater-going populace of Europe.

Doraldina, Dancer, Dies. Madame Doraldina. San Francisco Girl Won Dance Fame. Famous Star Was Native of San Francisco. The amazing career of a San Francisco girl who rose from manicurist to a dancer of international fame in one year, ended in death in Los Angeles yesterday. She was Madame Doraldina, former wife of Frank Saunders, scenario writer, and known in her childhood here as Dorothy Mason. Madame Doraldina dropped dead at her home. She was 47. In 1917, she quit her job as manicurist at the Palace Hotel, and left for New York City. In 1918 she was headlining dance shows in New York City. In 1919 she was captivating the theater-going populace of Europe.

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