...Opera House. He accordingly introduced "this new movement in the fine arts" in New York by exhibiting, "living men and women in almost the same state in...Garden of Eden on the first morning of creation." Dr. Collyer had not misinterpreted the public taste, even in that era which occasionally thought nothing...

...when operators of small theaters, taverns, saloons, hotels, and other drinking houses began to show men and women "in almost the same state in which Gabriel saw them in the Garden of Eden." The public was advised that these spectacles, called "leg shows," offered little that would offend...