THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S "RECALLS THE FLAMBOYANT DAYS WHEN BURLESQUE FLOURISHED ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE" - PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY (and the audience consisted of the neighborhoodniks - with their salami lunches and changes of socks-and the Uptown Crowd, whose regulars included Robert Benchley, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, e.e. cummings, and the "collitch kids" from NYU). "WAS WRITTEN FOR THOSE WHO'VE NEVER SEEN A BURLESQUE SHOW AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS FOR-MEN-ONLY ENTERTAINMENT WAS LIKE. EVERYTHING IS HERE'-SATURDAY REVIEW (those Risqué, Frisqué Minsky models, 13 Luscious Peaches on an Illuminated Runway of Joy; those hoary, hilarious comedy bits, like "Desire Under The El," and "Antony and Cleopatra, or, Shakespeare Shimmies In His Grave"; that sensational Full-Cast, Five-Star Grand Finale, complete from Soubs to Nuts, acted out before your very eyes). "MIXES FACT AND FICTION IN A BEGUILING, ROWDY, HOW THE MIN SKYS TRANSMUTED FROM DEVOUR THE [MINSKYS] TRANSMUTED FROM DEVOUT RABBIS TO PURVEYORS OF THE STRIP TEASE" - N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE (starring Billy Minsky, the Bantam Barnum of Burlesque, who masterminded the whole shebang, and a cast of thousands - including Leon Trotsky, who just happened to be around; a sad-eyed no-goodnik called Appetizing, who definitely wasn't; Bagel, the Dog; and of course Mlle. Fifi, direct from Paris, France — by way of Philadelphia - who drove men wild)! THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S NOW AN EXCITING NEW FILM A TANDEM PRODUCTION starring JASON ROBARDS BRITT EKLAND NORMAN WISDOM and BERT LAHR as Professor Spats Released thru UNITED ARTISTS, A Transamerica Corporation From 1968 - in good vintage condition with some wear to cover.