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Arthur Fox (1907 - 1970) was a strip show producer and nightclub owner.
Fox was the youngest of seven children: two of whom did not survive into adulthood. He won a governor's bursary to the Manchester Grammar School, and later studied for the College of Preceptors but ended up becoming Manchester's King of Glamour and Strip.
Before the war ended, Fox was producing revues, variety bills and plays. He had contracts with Marty Wilde, Wee Willie Harris and Terry Dene and he toured the entire country with a colourful stage version of the BBC's Six Five special.
By 1947, he was touring striptease shows across England. Shows such as Striptease Spectacular with Fraulein Von Manuela and Striptease Peep-show with Pauline Penny. [1] In March 1959 he opened his own Revue Bar in George Street, Manchester. The club was known for its international talent, including American burlesque acts such as April March, The First Lady of Burlesque, Ricki Covette, The World's Tallest Glamazon, and Virginia “Ding Dong” Bell. He also ran the Glamour Cinema Club, which was next door to his George Street Revuebar.
His autobiography came out in 1962. It was published under two different titles: Striptease with the Lid Off and Striptease Business: the latter with four extra accompanying images. The publishing company Empso Ltd has the same business address as the Revue Bar. Striptease with the Lid Off was serialised in Manchester's Evening Chronicle, with the first instalment appearing on 19 July 1962.
In 1963, Fox stood for Parliament in the Colne Valley by-election as an independent candidate. He used two of his striptease stars in his campaign before the Home Office banned the tactic. He polled 266 votes and lost his deposit. [2] [ page needed ]
Fox married his secretary, Madelaine, on 1 June 1940. She died in a collision involving a six-ton lorry in 1954. [3] [ page needed ] [4]
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Velma Fern Worden, better known by the stage name April March, is an exotic dancer and prominent star of American burlesque. Billed as April March, The First Lady of Burlesque, she was a headline act in burlesque from 1952 to 1978. During her more than thirty-year career, she gained popularity throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe for her classy and sophisticated striptease. March was one of the innovators of the elegant strip tease.
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Three Sisters Tavern, sometimes abridged as Three Sisters and nicknamed "Six Tits", was a gay bar and strip club in Portland, Oregon, United States. The bar was founded in 1964 and began catering to Portland's gay community in 1997 following the deaths of the original owners. The business evolved into a strip club featuring an all-male revue. Also frequented by women, sometimes for bachelorette parties, Three Sisters was considered a hub of Portland's nightlife before closing in 2004.
The Mutual Burlesque Association, also called the Mutual Wheel or the MBA, was an American burlesque circuit active from 1922 until 1931. Controlled by Isidore Herk, it quickly replaced its parent company and competitor, the Columbia Amusement Company, as the preeminent burlesque circuit during the Roaring Twenties. Comedians Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Harry Steppe, Joe Penner, Billy Gilbert, Rags Ragland, and Billy Hagan, as well as stripteasers Ann Corio, Hinda Wausau, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Carrie Finnell, performed in Mutual shows. Mae West appeared in Mutual shows from 1922 to 1925. Mutual collapsed during the Great Depression.
