Behind the Burly Q

Behind the Burly Q Page 39

by Leslie Zemeckis

“there was a costumer” Val Valentine interview with author

  “I had been” Tony Midnight interview with author

  “When they were” Carmela interview with author

  “closed the show” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “she would strip down” Carole Nelson interview with author

  “Oh I can’t take that off” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “for every costume” White Fury interview with author

  “I never wore” Joan Arline interview with author

  “I used pins” Joni Taylor interview with author

  “Mistakes” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “I wore big” Joan Arline interview with author

  “Halfway through the” Sean Rand interview with author

  “We never threw” Joan Arline interview with author

  “Gerty would help” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “One time my pastie” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “In those years” Rita Grable interview with author

  “The girls” Rita Grable

  “built like a brick” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “everything” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Because we didn’t have” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I was 16” Kitty West interview with author

  CHAPTER 37

  “It is the” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Musicians” Joan Arline interview with author

  “The blues” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “You couldn’t use” Carmela interview with author

  “Everyone” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Georgia Sothern had” John Perilli interview with author

  “Having to work” John Perilli interview with author

  “They had problems with me” Dixe Evans interview with author

  “Most bands” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  “They’d bring in their” Dee Ann Johnston interview

  “It didn’t turn out” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “All the drummers” Joan Arline interview with author

  “Oh God” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “walk in tempo” Sequin interview with author

  “Exotic dancers” Steven Weinstein interview with author

  “Amber Halliday” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “1949 or 1950” Steven Weinste interview with author

  “He’d heard of” Steven Weinste interview with author

  “Shoddy” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “That was not for me” Kitty West interview with author

  “burlesque was fading” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  CHAPTER 38

  “In Cinncinati” Kitty West interview with author

  “Gangsters” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “setup” Bernard, Susan Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads

  “Most of the clubs” Lily Ann Rose interview with author

  “I have bought” Sean Rand interview with author

  “okay sounds like a deal” Sean Rand interview with author

  “People can say” Lily Ann Rose interview with author

  “if they ever found” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “As long” Vicki O’Day interview interview with author

  “You didn’t” Alexandra the Great interview interview with author

  “fascinating” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “at the time, dancers” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “I wont call their names” Kitty West interview with author

  “all gentlemen” April March interview with author

  “The mob in Chicago” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “high code of honor” Bernard, Susan Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads

  ‘Actually they were” Val Valentine interview with author

  “scary” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “it wasn’t my fault” April March interview with author

  “Guy came in” Sheila Rae interview with author

  “I worked in Pueblo” Vicki O’Day interview and rest of chapter

  CHAPTER 39

  “dallas in the ’50s” Steven Weinstein interview with author

  “I was taken” Candy Barr in Oui Magazine 1976

  “Candy Barr blew” Steven Weinstein interview and rest of chapter

  “she was very difficult” Steven Weinstein interview

  CHAPTER 40

  “A gyration” Uncensored Aug. 1954

  “To bear down” www.Merriam-Webster.com

  “sold herself” 1954 Miami newspaper

  “a career” Tempest Storm interview with author

  “I don’t smoke. I don’t drink.” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “I got loaded” Sheila Rae interview with author

  “We had big signs” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “We used to get” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “They didn’t want” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “We were out” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  “Look at these shoes” Maria Bradley

  “Mom dragged” Dee Ann Johnston

  “nothing offensive” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “nice to work with” “held audience” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “are all different” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “I had a big giant” Sequin interview with author

  “fell three times” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “One time as a chorus” Joan Arline interview with author

  “he must” Sequin interview with author

  “ringside” Joan Arline interview with author

  “I consider this an act of God” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “the bet booking I get” Uncensored Magazine

  “This is the home port” Sherry Britton interview with author

  “He wasn’t nice” Sean Rand interview with author

  “not a high class place.” Steven Weinstein interview

  “hustle drinks” Billboard 1952

  “I was protected” Alan Alda interview with author

  “easy” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “I was annoyed” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  CHAPTER 41

  “From the front” Al Baker Jr. interview with author

  “When its time” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “They fell” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “So American” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “how did you know that” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Fifth-ranking” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “had asked” Chris Costello interview with author

  “My son” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  “nap when he could.” Taffy O’Neil interview with author

  “I was getting ready” Alexandra the great interview with author and rest of section

  “You couldn’t say” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Its work” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “training ground” Alan Alda interview with author

  CHAPTER 42

  “She tried to” Kelly DiNardo interview with author

  “I heard she had her” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “we were considered” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “A lot of the chorus” Alan Alda interview with author

  “Oh she was” Lily Ann Rose interview with author

  “Oh you don’t dare” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “fought like” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “savage undresser” Collyer, Martin. Burlesque: The Baubles ... Bangles ... Babes.
New York: Lancer, 1964. Print. page 46.

  “The act” Collyer, Martin. Burlesque: The Baubles ... Bangles ... Babes. New York: Lancer, 1964. Print. page 49

  “I like to hear” Collyer, Martin. Burlesque: The Baubles ... Bangles ... Babes. New York: Lancer, 1964. Print, page 50

  “rose was always” Alexandra the Great interview with author through “all kinds of names”

  “She was playing the Grand” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “there were stories” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “She used to like” Alan Alda interview with author

  “flunky Tommy” April March interview with author

  “dumb as an ox” April March interview with author

  “have him perform” April March interview with author

  “He had it under control” Chris Costello interview with author

  “I met my share” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “Margie Hart” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “the reason LaGuardia” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “the police came” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “We called her Maggie” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  “Made by the best” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  “they plucked” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  “maybe ten years” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  “nice girls” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  “she always had us worried” Minsky’s Burlesque page 153

  “To be a feature” Joan Arline interview with author

  “zipper rehearsals” Minsky’s Burlesque page 248

  “strange man” “love of her life” “she worshiped him” Kathleen Ross interview with author

  CHAPTER 43

  “You weren’t allowed” Blaze Starr interview with author

  “somehow this wild” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I picked cotton” Tempest Storm interview with author

  “When Tempest came along” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “We have to change your name” Tempest Storm interview

  “I remember paying” Leroy Griffith interview with author

  “I look after me” Blaze Starr interview with author

  “He said” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “She didn’t like sharing” April March interview with author

  “She was there starting” Mimi Reed interview with author

  “She’s gone now” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “Gypsy was really” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “Gypsy Rose Lee” Spigelgass, Leonard. Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper

  “There goes” Collyer, Martin. Burlesque: The Baubles... Bangles. .. Babes. New York: Lancer, 1964. Print. page 52

  “She was an impossible” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “the boy had swallowed a pin” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “Ann was way above her” Mike Iannnucci interview with author

  “silly, playful” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “We eagerly awaited” Janet Savoy interview with author

  Chapter 44

  “I would like to” The Harvard Crimson, Feb. 25, 1939

  “sex is my hobby” Hanley, Tullah. Love of Art

  “Gobbling” Hanley, Tullah. Love of Art pg 211

  CHAPTER 45

  “How tough” Walt Collins interview with author

  “A lot of friends” Renny von Muchow

  “Girls were beginning” Kitty Wst interview with author

  “divide between” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “I was forty nine” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “every hour” Dixie Evans

  “wiggly lines” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Strippers really don’t have” Dardy Minsky interview

  “the audience changed” Betty Rowland interview with author

  “the unions closed” Val Valentine interview with author

  “It was the girls” Joan Arline interview with author

  “There was no Stinky” Al Baker Jr. Interview

  “The comedians lost their” Mike Iannucci interview with author

  “I was hearing about age” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “I wanted to go out” Kitty West interview with author

  “I wanted to quit” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “I fell to pieces” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I lost a lot of interview est” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “it couldn’t have lasted” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “I thought I was gonna stay” April March interview with author

  “Striptease” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “You were on stage” Blaze Starr interview with author

  “porno came in” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I miss my” Val Valentine interview with author

  “glorified it” Sherry Britton interview with author

  “I think I’m gonna” April March interview with author

  “years ago” Dee Ann Johnston interview with author

  “These films, along” Rachel Shteir interview with author

  “studios assumed” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “Go-go killed burlesque” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “it started to deteriorate” Rita Grable interview with author

  “It started getting” Terry Mixon interview with author

  “What happens” Dardy Minsky interview with author

  “What do you do” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “I was at this” White Fury interview with author

  “very good with” Lady Midnight interview with author

  “Dad left the” Walt Collins interview with author

  “I went to work” Lee Stuart interview with author

  “I worked as a waitress” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “I worked in the” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “an elder” Joan Arline interview with author

  “people would fly” Kitty West interview with author

  “its time for me” Joni Taylor interview with author

  “We didn’t exactly” Lorraine Lee interview with author

  A lot of friends” Renny von Muchow interview with author

  “She lost everything” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “nightmare” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “it was a wonderful” Alexandra the Great interview with author

  “It was the only kind of” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “They were truly” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “I’ve never been” Rita Grable interview with author

  “It was a great life” Alexandra interview with author

  “I don’t think” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “I used to get” Tee Tee Red interview with author

  “great experience” Beverly Anderson interview with author

  “It was a true” Candy Cotton interview with author

  “yeah, I’m still” Tempest Storm interview with author

  “I think when you” Kelly DiNardo interview with author

  “If you need to remove one” Sean Rand interview with author

  “I’m only breaking” Dixie Eveans interview with author

  “Now that we’re” Maria Bradley interview with author

  CHAPTER 46

  “fabulous” Chris Costello interview with author

  “Too long” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “entertainment with” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “I see burlesque” Dixie Evans interview with author

  “with strippers” Kelly DiNardo interv
iew with author

  “They were put” Alan Alda interview with author

  “There were a few” Vicki O’Day interview with author

  “Things that give” Aland Alda interview with author

  “it wasn’t a dirty business” Alan Alda interview with author

  “House singers” Maria Bradley interview with author

  “human way” Alan Alda interview with author

  Letters on page 305 to Sherry Britton now in author’s collection

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