Tirza's Wine Bath: How a Coney Island Burlesque Enigma Came to Light
So much more is known about Leona Duval and her Coney Island burlesque act “Tirza’s Wine Bath” since her lawyers sent that “cease and desist letter” to Coney Island USA back in 2001. The blonde, statuesque terpsichorean devised the act in the mid 1930s, plucking the name from Greek mythology: “Thyrzha” was the handmaiden to […]