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Title: Chorus Girl Returned Here as Gypsy Rose Lee, a Star [and] Queen of Strippers Dies of Cancer at 56
Description: Photo and obituary articles about Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970), "the queen of burlesque" appearing in the early 1930s as an unknown dancer at "the Cuban Gardens nightclub in Clay County," Missouri, before returning to Kansas City in 1937 (Music Hall) and 1938 (Tower Theater at 12th and Oak Streets) as a star with the Ziegfield Follies. Description of her life and career as a native of Seattle as Rose Louise Hovick and becoming a "vaudeville performer from childhood and a stripper in her teens," also hosting her own television show in the 1960s and writing several novels and an article for Harper's magazine in 1957 entitled "Stranded in Kansas City or a Fate Worse than Vaudeville."
Date: 1970-04-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Stranded in Kansas City or, a Fate Worse than Vaudeville
Description: First of two autobiographical articles from the book by Gypsy Rose Lee, a nationally famous striptease artist recounting her experiences as a burlesque performer at the Missouri Theater at 10th and Missouri Avenues in circa 1930 Kansas City.
Date: 1957-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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