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A pictorial history of burlesque

Title
A pictorial history of burlesque / Bernard Sobel.
Author
Sobel, Bernard.
Publication
New York : Putnam, [1956]

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Description
194 pages : illustrations, portraits; 26 cm
Subject
  • Burlesque (Theater) > United States
  • Theater > United States > History
  • Burlesque (Theater)
  • Theater
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Contents
As it was in the beginning -- Lydia Thompson and her British blondes -- The origins of American burlesque -- Michael Leavitt and his Rentz-Santley shows -- The complete show -- Sam T. Jack -- a foot in each camp -- Honky-tonk -- The school for comics -- The wheels -- The nineties -- A manager's lot -- The Golden Era- 1900-1910 -- Striptease -- Books and music -- Burlesque stars on broadway -- Minsky -- Decline and fall.
LCCN
56010246
OCLC
  • ocm00265486
  • 265486
  • SCSB-119514
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library