Descendants of Polish and Irish families, Bubbles started her career at Chicago's Rialto Theatre and studied dance and used the Mambo Music and Voodoo and Mambo Dance for some of her SIZZILING acts and was known as Shari Darlene. Bubbles did not wear pasties during her act and was totally tan. Harold Minsky hailed her as "American's Most Exciting Body" and actually named her Bubbles himself.

   Bubbles was said to have performed some of the best rhythmic dancing seen on the strip circuit. Her muscular undulations were

spectacular and left amazed audience as well as herself exhausted. She explained her performances as never having to wear pasties and was an exotic dancer, who specialized in a sizzling strip version of the mambo and said "I don't feel embarrassed in the nude," .... It's art as far as I'm concerned–just so long as you don't have to associate with men." Unlike so many show girls, Bubbles had no illusions of theatrical success. She enjoyed exotic dancing and said: "I'm probably the only girl in the business who hasn't any dramatic ambitions. Most girls want to be actresses. Not me. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing now." Bubbles was voted one of the Ten Best Undressed Women of America" by newspaperman Damon Runyon, Jr.

   While performing in Cuba, attendance was said to be low where she was performing so Bubbles as a publicity stunt, decided to walk down a main thoroughfare dressed only in black panties, no top and a transparent raincoat which shocked many and got her alot of press attention thus she would be billed as billed as "The Dancer That Shocked Havana." She was arrested of course, and received a whopping $200 fine for indecent exposure and inciting a riot.