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Cross-dressing in the Met. Policemen don women’s clothes to catch the Whitechapel murderer. Charles West (far right) leads the search in Jack the Ripper, 1974

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In the expensive realm of musical comedy, it’s impossible to predict what will take off and what will crash and…

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