"Gotta get a gimmick": The burlesque career of Millie De Leon

From: Journal of American Culture | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

You can pull all the stops out

Till they call the cops out

Grind your behind till you're banned

But ya gotta get a gimmick

If you wanna get a hand ....

"You Gotta Get a Gimmick" (Sondheim)

Although Stephen Sondheim's lyrics were sung by a fictitious burlesque performer of the late 1920s in the musical Gypsy, they may have just as easily come from the mouth of Millie De Leon several decades earlier. De Leon, billed as "The Girl in Blue," would have been more accurately billed as "The Gimmick Girl." Arrested numerous times from 1903 to 1915, Mlle. De Leon was a master of stirring public ...

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