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...tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied by the tramp, the Irishman and the Jew remained about the same. But as additional burlesque houses opened all over town, desperate competition was expressed in the increasing nudity of the dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month the New Gotham Theatre in Harlem reached the inevitable when four of its strippers were said to have revealed themselves for an electric moment with nothing on at all. The more acute among the 50,000 fans who weekly drift from one New York burlesque house to another felt that official wrath could...
Nine Wellesley girls also took advantage of the G.O.P. offer to go to Gotham...
Still, she didn't come all the way up here from Gotham just to meet the Harvard boys; after all her native city is much nearer Yale students and Princeton...
...hundred and fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed...
...started something that will be difficult, if not impossible, to stop. I should like to regard the addition of the reproductions of American paintings [TIME, Dec. 24] as a handsome seasonal gift. . . . The reproductions can, however, be considerably improved. Certainly, Marsh's New Gotham Burlesque was not done justice...