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...city magistrate reported clinically on its bumps and grinds.* Then some of the cast took the stand. Said famed Strip-Teaser Margie Hart, wearing woolen underwear beneath a purple ensemble: 'T hold the curtain around me, sort of tease-like." Some of her further guarantees of decorum: a G-string, rubberized stockings, three safety pins, a "victory garden" of two strategically placed flowers...
...turned up in their trailer. Has its points as a detective story and its moments of truth as a chronicle of life among strippers, tassel-tossers and the like; also a few amusingly snide remarks. But the show-stuff pretty much follows the party line laid down in The G-String Murders...
Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
Gypsy is still dazzled by the miracle of type. Her first work (last year), The G-String Murders, was a murder-mystery best-seller (24,000 copies). Her second mystery, Mother Finds a Body, due for fall publication, "rolled right through the typewriter by itself." ("I'd no more think of saying that was a swell performance when I come off the stage-but when I finish a piece of writing, I read it over and I say to myself, 'Say, that's a hell of a hunk of writing...
...G-String Murders builds up to a hair-raising climax in which Gypsy herself is almost killed. The murky conclusion, in which the loose ends are matted rather than unraveled, shows the beginner's hand. But Agatha Christie herself could not have contrived the tag line of the book. After it is all solved, a haunting little G-string peddler remarks, "You know, me bein' in the G-string business. I was afraid the cops'd think I done it for the publicity...