Legal Opinion
Louka v. Park Entertainments, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 6, 1936PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
This is an action of tort for libel.
The plaintiff is an actress who, according to her testimony, received her training in Athens, Greece, where she lived and where she played leading parts, including Iphigenia and Blectra. After coming to this country she played in tragedy, drama, melodrama and operetta, but she was unacquainted with burlesque. The defendant was the proprietor of a burlesque theatre in Boston.
There was evidence that tragedy is the highest type of dramatization and that the tragedian is the highest type of *270the actor’s profession; but that burlesque is not art and is not…
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