Gypsy: Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church, and a trio of inventive strip-teasers. Etching, 14x181/4 inches oblong, full margins. Signed by Hirschfeld and numbered 83/100 in pencil, lower margin. "Gypsy was another of those story ideas that failed to immediately strike one as a sound idea for a Broadway musical. But it worked, and worked beautifully. I didn't even think about it as a musical, really, so well integrated were the songs into the story. It was also a case of the transformation of a huge musical comedy star, Ethel Merman, into a dramatic character role." HOL/127
