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Buys an eight-by-twelve fourbit room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Unhokey Okie | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

When Wine, Women and, Song opened on Broadway last September at a $1.65 top, critics belted it as the shoddiest kind of fourbit burlesque. Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss slapped it with a court summons charging indecency. Business immediately boomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bumped Off | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

burlesque with a red carpet down. Recently locked out of Manhattan's fourbit theaters, the bad girl of show business has been set up, with diamonds in her hair, at the aristocratic Music Box. The chorus is beautiful and abundant; the costumes are glamorous and scanty. Bouncing Bobby Clark is there for laughs, and Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee is there for lure. Tropical Georgia Sothern is there for the really intense customers, and fat, shameless Carrie Finnell for the really incorrigible ones. Star and Garter is a riot of off-color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Banner Week | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...worry, and Terry was a lonely widower. The lawyer soon married his beauteous client. They made a formidable pair. During her divorce suit she had made everybody nervous by fingering a pearl-handled revolver in her handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Mad Memories | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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