The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville by Anthony Slide

By Anthony Slide

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville offers a special list of what was America's preeminent type of renowned leisure from the overdue 1800s during the early Thirties. It comprises entries not just at the entertainers themselves, but in addition on those that labored backstage, the theatres, genres, and historic phrases. Entries on person vaudevillians comprise biographical details, samplings of exercises and, frequently, statement via the performers. Many former vaudevillians have been interviewed for the publication, together with Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. the place applicable, entries additionally comprise bibliographies. the amount concludes with a advisor to vaudeville assets and a normal bibliography.

Aside from its reference price, with its greater than entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the recognized and the forgotten. some of the vaudevillians right here, together with Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are everyday names at the present time, because of their carrying on with careers on reveal. even as, and given equivalent insurance, are forgotten acts: mythical lady impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay along with her billing as "The i do not Care Girl," male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a bunch of "freak" acts.

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