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...torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles...
Last month Burlesqueen Ann Corio made her debut as a legitimate actress at the Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string...
...Philadelphia, Magistrate Elias Myers demanded proof that a burlesqueen's dress was too flimsy. The proof: a detective folded the costume, squeezed it into a match...