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Audiences responded as Gypsy hoped they would. She overheard a woman breathlessly telling her friend after seeing the show, “Mabel, I have just seen without a doubt the dirtiest, filthiest show I’ve ever seen in all my life. Don’t miss it.” In the newspaper PM, Louis Kronenberger described Star and Garter as “a leg and laugh show with plenty of good filthy fun.”
“Cigarette butts and empty coffee containers and old newspapers were all kicked together with dirty frayed satin shoes under the make up shelf. Gnats swarmed around a half empty container of beer resting on the edge of a filthy sink that was filled with laundry left overnight to soak. Sticky red lip rouge smudges encircled the top of the container. Under each lip-rouge smudge, penciled in with eyebrow pencil, was an initial. The mirrors were broken. Their jagged edges reached out like claws. Shreds of net and bits of rhinestone and beads hung by thin strings on nails behind mirrors.”
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