Word: burlesquey
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...wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring his cop act in. Delmar's Revels ran only 16 weeks-and part of the time it existed only because Lahr, thirsting to be noticed...
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