Blog: BURLESK: As You Like It!
tags: Jai Leta, burlesque, vintage, 1930s, 1937, Press Photo, showgirl, chorus girl, dance costumes, Mayor LaGuardia, New York City, on stage
Vintage press photo dated from July of ‘37, features showgirl Jai Leta posing in her “Miss Variety” costume.. After Mayor LaGuardia’s crackdown on Burlesque in NYC,— promoters scrambled to re-bill all of their shows strictly as “Vaudeville”
tags: Jai Leta, burlesque, vintage, 1930s, 1937, Press Photo, showgirl, chorus girl, dance costumes, Mayor LaGuardia, New York City, on stage