ring the Great Depression, and not long after the Wall Street crash of 1929 it became San Francisco's main burlesque theatre. The theatre's transformation from a higher-class theatre into an American burlesque venue was done by the theatrical producer Warren Irons, who began staging burlesque at the Capitol with the show Bare Facts in June 1930. The resident burlesque company of performers as originally envisioned by Irons contained an all-female cast with a large chorus of 60 young women. The Capitol's burlesque entertainments enjoyed popularity into the late 1930s before closing its doors permanently in 1941. The 1938 show The Capitol Follies included a midnight screening of the anti-cannabis exploitation film Assassin of Youth which warned of the "wild orgies" marijuana consumption could lead to. It was presented alongside multiple strip tease numbers and dancing, comedic, and singing acts. On January 13, 1939 one the Capitol's dancers, Vicky Darrin, made headlines in The San Francisco Examiner after she was arrested for allegedly not wearing a bra during her strip tease number; the dancer claimed that she had worn one but it was made to look like an optical illusion of nudity. The paper reported that it was one of several similar arre