[Ads-l] Antedating of "Stripper"

[Shapiro, Fred]

stripper (OED, 1.b., 1930)

1929 Billboard 28 Sept. 39/3 (ProQuest)

Eddie Kaplin ... has an excellent conception of what a burlesque comic should do ... And this is especially applicable to hsi interpretation and portrayal of a "he man" comic impersonating and burlesquing a featured fem. stripper.

Fred Shapiro

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