For the next four years, the theater showed a weekly profit of $20,000 after payola.

Billy's attempt, however, to present classy burlesque at the Park Theater on Columbus Circle failed miserably.

The most infamous raid, according to the book and film The Night They Raided Minsky's, was said to have occurred in April 1925. By this time it was permissible for women in shows staged by Ziegfeld, George White,

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