ABSTRACT
Theatre impresario Harold Minsky once stated that neither the topless bathing suits of the 1960s, nor the new European “film imports” with all their nudity, could undermine his successful revival of the American Burlesque show. In an interview for Variety printed under the page-wide headline, “Topless No Threat to Strip,” Minsky averred that “femmes on the bump-and-grind circuit do not merely expose themselves. There is drama and interest in what they do, how they do it.”2
