Word: stripper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standbys were there-Dinah Shore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Perry Como. The newest TV face turned out to be one of the oldest in show business: Ed Wynn, 71. In the preview, at least, he was involved in an embarrassingly corny act, plugging his own forthcoming dramatic series alongside a stripper, each of whose removable scanties carried an announcement for some NBC attraction...
...Paris opened with a ballyhooed two-hour revue featuring Stripper Britton and starring Shouter Betty Hutton. Boniface Walters (who ran Manhattan's Latin Quarter for years) paid $22,500 a week just for Singer Hutton. For such a blue chip outlay, he needed two full houses every week night and three on weekends, with every one of the 1,000 seats returning as much as $30. The first week he grossed $70,000 and lost $10,000. Says he: "If I'd paid Hutton a normal salary, I could have made $10,000 instead...
...Onetime stripper and sometime Littérateur Gypsy Rose Lee took a brief critical look at the sorry modern state of her old profession: "There's a great sameness to it all now. The routines of the young girls all look the same. The wardrobes look the same-they all look like they've been sewn by one seamstress. Good burlesque must be for both men and women. You can't appeal to only one element, and the presence of women makes for a much better audience-they make men laugh more...
Between drafty exposures at an airy London nightspot, Minnesota-born Stripper Lili St. Cyr cited another visitor to Britain, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, as an unchic example of how not to dress when not in professional dishabille. Strange as it seems, Lili deplored Marilyn's strains at the seams: "I do wish that she would dress better. I don't think it's nice to show too much. It's embarrassing for one's escort...
...face." Crazy. With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted...