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...vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen. Sixty years ago this week, Baltimore's New Monumental Theater featured "Divorceland: A fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Grinding to a Halt | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...more or less doing a take-off of myself." "They still admire each other very, very much, and they will always be the best of friends." Such sentiments, expressed as they were by the family lawyer, naturally meant that Gloria Vanderbilt De Cicco Stokowslci Lumet, 39, was off to divorceland once again. After seven years with Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39, the poor little rich girl was reported headed for Juarez for one of those rápido decrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1963 | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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