Word: corio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after more than 20 years' absence, burlesque is grinding away again in Manhattan. This week marks the 40th for a show called This Was Burlesque, starring Ann Corio, durable (circa 50) doyenne of U.S. strippers. And Harold Minsky, whose very name used to mean runways and rhinestones, tassel twirlers, talking women and top bananas, is back in town with a new show for the first time since militantly moral Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banished burlesque and even the word Minsky from theater marquees...
...comics are in full caper. One baggypants warns the guard of a nuthouse not to send any mail to Washington. "Why not?" asks the guard. "He's dead," replies the overripe banana, skittering into the wings. Seltzer bottles spew, leers are leered, strippers strip and strip. Ann Corio re-creates her "parade strip," fragrant in the memories of generations of Harvard graduates who used to attend her frequent symposia at Boston's Old Howard. When hefty Dolores Du Vaughan* undulates out of her costume and starts to give the proscenium arch the business, there are howls of "More...