Locked in the vaults of the Hispanic Society in Manhattan is a large (quarto) volume of 432 thin leaves of exquisitely finished vellum with double columns, 22 lines to the page.
That peremptory statement is the introduction to one of the year's most intriguing books, a $4 quarto-sized paperback that, mainly by word of mouth, has become an underground .
In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard .