Behind the Burly Q

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by Leslie Zemeckis

  “ethnic” Jewish” Prof Janet Davis interview with author

  “ruddy” Prof Janet Davis

  “all over the garden” New York Times April 22, 1915

  “it shouldn’t matter” Prof Janet Davis interview

  “all together” Prof Janet interview

  “You have a square neck” Prof Janet interview

  “once the neck gets use” Prof Janet interview with author

  “terrified” “fascinated” Prof Janet interview

  “when signaled” Prof Janet Davis interview

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  “The Minsky’s at best” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “The climate of that community” Morton Minsky

  “exotic dancing venus” Charleston Gazette, Tuesday Dec 30, 1975

  “I can still move every part” Charleston Gazette, Tues. Dec 30, 1975

  “Theatres at that time were going broke” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “grinding” - “requisite bumps” “old days” “hootch number” Sobel, a pictorial history of burlesque

  “filler in for the strip numbers” Sobel, a pictorial history of burlesque

  “an immigrant thing to being...” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “it wasn’t what you took off” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “he made over a million” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “Find these sweet little girls” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “He had clubs all over the country” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “quaint” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “everyone in Vegas in the ’50s” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “wonderful man” Rita Grable interview with author

  “Sir” “I do thirteen” April March interview with author

  “a lot of work” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “would have Dardy” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “Harold would stand” Dardy Minksy interview with author

  “we ran into three people” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “made the sisters” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “if we had a few more Harold Minsky’s” Dardy Minksy interview with author

  CHAPTER NINE

  “They didn’t think highly” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “Women would strip” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “vaudeville became burlesque” Nat Bodian interview with author

  “theatres could be the grungiest.” Rachel Shteir interview with auth

  A lot of people were of the opinion that you were a hooker.” Carmela Rickman, interview with author

  “a Frigidare or a car” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “its completely vanished” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “slow, medium and ending fast” Sequin interview with auth

  “pulled out of chorus and made” Joan Arline interview with author and all other quotes from this section

  “One time one of my pasties flew off” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “They got tape on the inside” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “I wanted to be on the stage” Joni Taylor interview with author – and the rest of her quotes in this section

  “weren’t gonna leave” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “And its because of her” Kitty West interview with author and the rest of her quotes in this section

  “the world’s loveliest feminine form” Girl Show, Al Stencil

  “as all young girls did.” April March interview with author and the rest of her quotes in this section

  April was class” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “I thought the money sounded” Taffy O’Neil interview with author and the rest of her quotes in this section

  “there was no such thing” La Savona interview with author

  “her real name was Ada” Tee Tee Red interview with author and the rest of her quotes in this section

  “Memories, Love Zorita” Note in author’s collection

  “I had some fun times with Zorita” April March interview with author

  “Zorita came through” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “most all came from” Dixie Evans interview with author

  CHAPTER TEN

  “The comics were the main” Joan Arline interview with author - and the rest of her quotes from this section

  “you could see the sweat” Alan Alda interview with author and the rest of his quotes

  “Too bad about Molly . . . (through) make you an exception?” Aug. Uncensored Magazine

  “best school for the comedians” pg 204 Burleycue, by Sobel

  “burlesque people are different” Chris Costello interview with author

  “Top banana” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “bring on the girls” Harry Lloyd interview with author and all his here

  “comics would rehearse” H.M. Alexander, Strip Tease

  Harry Lloyd interview with author and all his quotes here.

  “They all had a different style” Lee Stuart interview with author

  “They took old comedy skits” Alan Alda interview with author

  “Jess Mack was a straight man” Harry Lloyd interview with author

  “burlesque Was just a way to pay” Morton Minsky pg 128

  “Johnny Carson did” Rita Grable interview with author

  “He loved the burlesque” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “People would laugh” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Straight: Hello there bud” Harry Lloyd interview with author

  “the humor was great” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “professional dumb guy” Jack O’Brian Prescott Evening News Sept 9, 1946

  “I still credit everything” Aug. Uncensored Magazine

  “He started as a dramatic actor” Lady Midnight interview with author

  “stock comedians” Dee Ann Johnston interview with author

  “the comics in burlesque were mean” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  CHAPTER 11

  “they usually sang” Ann Corio’s book This was Burlesque

  “it was my kind of trash” Lee Stuart interview with author (and rest of quotes in chapter

  “the role of the straight man” Alan Alda interview with author and rest of quotes in chapter

  “he never got credit” Chris Costello interview with author

  “had a whiskey tenor” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  CHAPTER 12

  “I lived in a coccon” Alan Alda interview with author and rest of quotes in chapter

  CHAPTER 13

  “By change he happened” Chris Costello interview with author and all rest in this chapter

  CHAPTER 14

  “Chorus girls” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  “Backstage was always” Alexandra the great interview with author

  “Shows had to go fast” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “I remember once” Lily Ann Rose email to author in 2013.

  “Sammy Price” Joan Arline interview with author.

  “There was a smell in the” Alan Alda interview with author

  “we all decided” Joni Taylor interview with author

  “They will fight backstage” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “they’d put itchin’ powder” Tempest Storm interview with author

  “You met wonderful people” Sequin interview with author

  “greatest feuds” Morton Minsky’s Minsky’s Burlesque pg 154

  “all girls between shows” Dixie Evans interview with auth

  “between shows we’d go” Lady midnight interview with auth

  “One time after too many drinks” Maria Bradley interview with auth

  “I’d stay in my dr
essing room” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “I stayed in the dressing room” April March interview with author

  “Many times backstage” Sean Rand interview with author

  CHAPTER 15

  “Use of bed” Boston License and Censor Bureua

  “Never let your nipple show” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “some towns were a little bit” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “In Boston, the watch” Lily Ann Rose interview with author

  “Boston was the strictest” Sequin interview with author

  “The vice squad” Dixie Evans interview with author

  Buffalo,” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  “In Dallas” April March interview with author

  “We had a lot of laws” White Fury interview with author

  “Detroit” Joan Arline interview with author

  “If you touched a curtain” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  “I had to get off the stage” April March interview with author

  “It was to get” Betty Rowland interview with author

  CHAPTER 16

  “A sharp hip” Aug. Uncensored Magazine

  “A bump” – newspaper 1951 during trial of Lili St. Cyr

  “Bumps into the curtain” Alan Alda interview with author

  “I’d come out booming” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “Make love to her audience” Aug. Uncensored Magazine

  “She didn’t believe” Kitty West interview with author

  “Lillian Hunt” Dixie Evans interview with author

  CHAPTER 17

  “I was put in” April March interview with author

  “I was met” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “Harold used to” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “an hour or two” Leroy Griffith interview with author

  “I was routinely arrested” Dixie evans interview with author

  “I went to jail” Kitty West interview with author

  “at Walgreens” Alexandra the great interview with author

  “Clubs would call” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “When it was mop time” Betty Rowland papers in author’s collection

  “absolutely misery” Betty Rowland papers in author’s collection.

  “refused to give her time” Betty Rowland papers in author’s collection.

  “technical advisoer” betty Rowland papers in author’s collection

  “believing you will profit” Papers from Sherry Britton’s scrap books in author’s collection

  “politicians were trying” Blaze Starr interview with author

  “They arrest the whole place” La Savona interview with author

  “Sometimes they just liked” Ricki Covett interview with author.

  “And I kept that” Lily Ann Rose interview with author

  “downright naughty” Uncensored Magazine

  “too far” Uncensored Magazine.

  CHAPTER 18

  “people in that era” Dixie Evans interview with auth

  “The fact that the strippers” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “power to license” 1937 Time Magazine

  “Everyone ran to their agents” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “be came the base” Nat Bodian interview with author

  CHAPTER 19

  “you make” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “the biggest majority” April March interview with author

  “But always owed” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “I learned” Sequin interview with author

  “Good salary” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “The chorus girls would have” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “AGVA didn’t” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “for anything” Joni Taylor interview with author

  “IF you were a good” Val Valentine interview with author

  “Comics in them” Al Baker, Jr. interview with author

  “The burlesque houses” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “every six weeks” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  “I was never stood” Sequin interview with author

  “I signed on for thirty-” Lee Stuart interview with author

  “We got in trouble” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “walking in late” Carole Nelson interview with author

  “I always had to make money to pay” Mike Wallace interview with Lili St. Cyr Behind the Burly Q film

  “half a million dollars” Susan Weiss interview with author

  “She coached” Alexandra the great interview with author

  “I knew there would be a day” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “Experienced” Dee Ann Johnston interview with author

  “Few crossed” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “the house singer or the juvenile” Uncensored Magazine

  CHAPTER 20

  “I married” Joan Arline interview with author and rest of chapter

  “My family” La Savona interview with author

  “Gee anyone can do” Kay Hanna interview with author

  “and I’d getup and I’d sing” Sequin interview with author

  “married life didn’t” Val Valentine interview with author

  “my man’s gonna” Blaze Starr interview with author

  “I married the man” Sean Rand interview with author

  “usually you had” Al Baker, Jr. interview with author

  “I saw a pair” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  “Jimmy Matthews” lady Midnight interview with author

  Vicki/Alexandra/April/Kitty – interview s with author

  “couldn’t handle” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “My last” Tempest storm interview with author

  “One night she accused” Alan Alda inte with author

  “took me” Barry Siegfried interview with author

  “When you start” White Fury interview with author

  “she walked across” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “mother’s bookie” Carmela interview with author

  “all my boyfriends” Cyrse Sciandra

  “babysit” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I wanted a model train” Harry Lloyd interview with author

  “Bud and Lou” Al Baker Jr. interview with author

  Chapter 21

  “What kind” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “I couldn’t sing” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “warbling” Billboard 1944. And “lovely”

  “Betty Grable” Mimi Reed interview with author

  “Mimi and Thareen were” Stewart Edward Allen interview with author

  “they had a contest” Renny von Muchow interview with author and rest of chapter

  CHAPTER 22

  “My whole thing” Al Baker interview with auth

  “I faked” Sequin interview with auth

  “trunk full of” Lily Ann Rose correspondence with author

  “the year of the big flood” Al Baker Jr. Interview with author and all the rest of chapter

  “in those days” Leroy Griffith interview with author

  “we keep the door” Tee Tee Red interview with author and the rest of chapter

  “I wanted to be just” Lily Ann Rose interview with author and the rest of this chapter

  “very nervous.” Sequin interview v with author and rest of chapter

  CHAPTER 23

  “New Orlean as” Kitty West interview with author

  “in theatres” Alexandra the interview with author

  “Agent would book” Sequin interview with author

  “I was booked two” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “come in at noon” Betty Rowland interview with author


  “Burlesque” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “scramble” White Fur interview with author

  “I traveled to” Joan Arline interview with author

  “On tour was pretty” Kitty west interview with author

  “walking down” Alan Alda interview with author

  “You traveled with” Al Baker Jr interview with author

  “The burlesque” Carmela interview with author

  “one time” Beverly Anderson interview with auth

  “Christmas we had to work” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “The performers” Dee Ann Johnston interview with author

  “We carried” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  “it was an adventure” Vicki O’Day iner with author

  “the travel and ours” Harry Lloyd interview with author

  “they had big, beautiful” Mimi Reed interview with author

  CHAPTER 24

  “out front” Dixie Evans interview with author and rest of chapter

  “Candy butchers” Val Valentine interview with author and rest of chapter

  “The candy butchers paid” Dardy Minsky interview with author and rest of chapter

  “The burlesque theatres” Nat Bodian interview with author and rest of chapter

  “either bought the candy” Popular Mechanics Aug. 1927

  “There was an artistry” Rita Grable interview with author

  CHAPTER 25

  “Theatre work” Alexandra the Great interview with author and rest of chapter

  “You just keep” Taffy O’Neil interview with author and rest of chapter

  “I liked theatres” Lady Midnight interview with author

  “You get stage fright” Dixie Evans interview with author and rest of chapter

  “I always had” April March interview with author

  “the Minskys of LA” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “You can’t graduate” Mike Iannucci interview with author and rest of chapter

 

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