Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 1-5

3. Patronizing, 1890–1901

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   Pages 7-41

4. Precious Brits, 1904–1912

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 43-72

5. Growing Pains, 1910–1913

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 73-121

6. Suffer the Women, 1910–1914

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 123-165

7. War and Peace, 1914–1918

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 167-218

8. Parting, 1921–1934

   • Leigh Woods

   Pages 219-237

9. Afterthoughts

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   Pages 239-246

10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-307

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This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.

• stage
• theatre
• Vaudeville

'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture

LEIGH WOODS is Professor of Theatre and Drama and Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.

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