Antedating of "Striptease"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Google Books contains an issue of Vanity Fair that uses the expression
"strip teaser" instead of "strip tease" in August 1929. Only snippets
are displayed, but there is a snippet showing the date and the word
"strip". Should be verified on paper, I think.

Magazine: Vanity Fair
Date: August 1929 (Visible in snippet)
Page: 51 (Visible in snippet; hard to read)

http://books.google.com/books?id=owQTAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=teaser

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this runway and across the stage the women work laboriously at the
game of shimmy and the "strip teaser." The latter is the routine lure
of the principal women. Occasionally capable and well-shaped dancers
like "Peaches" of Laffin Thru or Anne Corio of Girls in Blue add some
art of execution and even of mock-modest reticence to the business of
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> "Died" is in the original.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> On Apr 11, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>> striptease (OED 1936)
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>> 1931 _Billboard_ 6 June 28 (Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive)  The died-in-the-wool
> Wonder if that's an eggcorn or a simple typo.
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> LH
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>> burlesque fan ... is fed up on the "strip tease racket".
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>> Fred Shapiro
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