“If a musical takes off enough clothes in summer, it usually runs through winter”

Life magazine (a New York City humor magazine) in 1921 gave an interesting maxim for musical comedy:
 
“If a musical show takes off enough clothes in the summer it usually runs through the winter.”
 
 
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6 October 1921, Life magazine, “Life Lines,” pg. 6, col. 3:
If a musical show takes off enough clothes in the summer it usually runs through the winter.
 
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20,000 Quips & Quotes
By Evan Esar
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books
1995, ©1968
Pg. 732:
If a musical comedy takes off enough clothes in the summer, it usually runs through the winter.