FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Friday, March 30, 2012
J. Charles | Friday, March 30, 2012 at 12:00AM 
comic by Steven Weinberg
Rise and shine FIPSters, and welcome to your day! In getting rich news:we're in the midst of Mega Millions Mania, so get your tickets, bitche! Also in rich people news, watch this Donald Trump puppet sing Bohemian Rhapsody and laugh your ass off. In national news, tomorrow's the Supreme Court Vote on ObamaCare. Is anyone betting on this?
ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1955):
It's puritanical Brooklyn History week here at FIPS! Just yesterday, a mid-19th century Paddy warned us that Brooklyn was straying from God by using machines of progress. Today we learn that 1950's Brooklynites didn't want a burlesque show in their borough. And so it goes: Thomas J Phillips was applying for a license to have a burlesque show at the Orpheum Theatre on Fulton Street. He swore it was going to be clean. According to his lawyer: "The show will be presented with no strip acts, no runway -- none of that type of performance." Well the public wasn't buying it. Lawyers from the Broadway Association, who were fighting the license, said, "As far as the public is concerned, there can be no such thing as a clean burlesque." This may be true. But there is such a thing as sucky Burlesque.
[READ THE FULL ARTICLE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES]
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