Behind the Burly Q

00:55:18 It really got good when the war started.

00:56:59 I had an act. I told a story.

00:58:27 And that's why she had the clam, because I would have sued her.

01:00:20 "What a miraculous feat. Our World's Fair's fold-out."

01:02:32 The first day of rehearsal, this woman slogs onto the lot...

01:04:08 I could see the men masturbating and knew that I was part of that

01:06:03 If you were a good-talking woman

01:07:49 So I made all the changes.

01:09:34 One time, it broke...

01:11:11 They had to stay together.

01:12:50 She was everybody's maid.

01:14:34 Every place it played, they'd pencil little notes in.

01:16:19 and the boobs and bumping and grinding

01:18:02 Did you hear that? In curlers?

01:19:59 And she was the top-paid lady of burlesque.

01:21:50 Gave me a good excuse to drink a bottle of scotch that night.

01:23:37 I guess I went into shock

01:25:23 And this mobster that we knew came in and said

01:26:58 I was put in the paddy wagon, and I was taken down to the tombs.

01:28:52 The theaters couldn't stay open.

01:30:39 And if it weren't for this background that he had in burlesque

01:32:32 and they did even better than that. They learned to survive.

01:34:06 "Take it off, take it off,"

01:36:08 It's your duty to be beautiful