Saturday, September 9, 2023

real burlesque, as you like it, without any camouflage

Oliver Herford (c1880). Public Domain.

Edmund Wilson, The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975, p. 234-235—

National Winter Garden. Speaking between the acts—someone had said, apropos of some risqué Broadway comedy, that when he wanted to hear “dubble-entenders,” he would rather go to the National Winter Garden. “Because here’s where you get burlesque as you like it, without any camouflage—sincere dubble-entenders.”

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