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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise Spanish refugee relief funds, aphrodisiantic Stripper Louise ("Gypsy Rose Lee") Hovick auctioned off two autographed bestsellers: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's This Is My Story, Thomas Mann's Joseph in Egypt. To make them real collector's items she added her own autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Miss Sothern explained that each stripper had a particular style, and that there was a definite art to the game. "After all," she added, "if no skill were required, any one could get up and disrobe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This time the stripper was Helen Jepson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Program Notes | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Married. Louise Hovick (Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee); to Robert Mizzy; in Santa Ana, Calif. They had already been married at sea (TIME, Aug. 23). The second ceremony was to satisfy California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Married. Louise Hovick, 23, famed Burlesque Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee until she turned to the cinema; to Robert Mizzy, 25, wealthy New York dental supply dealer. Unwilling to wait the three days required in California between posting of intention to marry and wedding, they hired a water taxi, went 20 miles out to sea and in the presence of two witnesses were married by the captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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