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French vaudeville female impersonator Robert Bertin wears an ornate gown for his character Anna Thibaud, an opera singer. Photograph by Lyon Bioletto, Archivio GBB/contrasto/Redux Two members of ...

A year later, Tampa’s Orpheum, an open-air downtown vaudeville theater, hosted female impersonator Clyde Larner. Admission was 20 cents for adults. Children received a 50% discount. An ...

Stewart, the Great Female Impersonator, in His Vocal Specialties ... A News article from 1924 said the Pantages vaudeville program at the Melba Ball would showcase the performance and fashions ...

Drag artists were huge in vaudeville, musical comedies ... most beautiful woman on the stage,” he was a superstar female impersonator whose art, work, and life embodied the many conflicting ...

male impersonators and novelty acts are covered as separate categories. Biographies of the performers in each category appear in order of the date they entered vaudeville, an arrangement that ...

(His chosen stage name, he said, rhymed with “melting.”) Female impersonation was a standard act in vaudeville, but Eltinge added the daring touch of singing in musical performances ...

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Julian, born 1891, was a vaudeville and silent film actor praised ... Romare Bearden once mistook her for a man trying to be a female impersonator. Like these pioneers, I have created my own ...