A vaudeville sister act, the Brox Sisters
A Vaudeville Glossary • Music in The Little Shadows • Vaudeville circuit map • Playbills • Behind the curtain
All these artistes, these theatres and managers, are amalgams of hundreds of vaudeville performers, both well-known and forgotten. To read more about vaudeville, start with Trav S.D.’s No Applause, Just Throw Money. If you’re hooked, find Frank Cullen’s massive encyclopedia, Vaudeville Old & New.
Some of the most useful vaudeville accounts and references:
Choice Vocal Duets with Piano Accompaniment by the Best Composers, Anonymous, Oliver Ditson & Co, 1885
Continuous Vaudeville, Will M. Cressy, Gutenberg, 2009
Curtain Time, Ruth Walker Harvey, Houghton Mifflin, 1949
Diary Kid, John Patrick Teahan, Oberon Press, 1999
The Face of Battle, John Keegan, Pimlico, 2004
Fallen Empires: lost theatres of Edmonton, 1881-1914, John Orrell, ed. Diane Bessai & W. Orrell, Newest Press, 2007
The Fourth Way : a record of talks and answers to questions based on the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, Knopf, 1959
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville : Theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910, Robert Lewis, Johns Hopkins, 2003
Gurdjieff, the Key Concepts, Sophia Wellbeloved, Routledge, 2002
A History of the Great War, Vols. 1-4, John Buchan, Lochar Publishing, 1991 (reprint)
I Married Adventure, Osa Johnson, Kodansha USA, 1997
Making American Culture : a social history, 1900-1920, Patricia Bradley, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Man on the Flying Trapeze: the Life and Times of W.C. Fields, Simon Louvish, W W Norton, 1999
The Modern Singing Master : essays in honor of Cornelius L. Reid, Ariel Bybee & James Ford, editors, Scarecrow Press, 2005
No Applause, Just Throw Money, Trav S.D., Faber & Faber, 2005
Particular pleasures; being a personal record of some varied arts and many different artists, J.B. Priestley, Stein and Day, 1975
Personal Pleasures, Rose Macaulay, Ecco, 1991
The Queerness of Celia, Amélie Rives, Frederick Stokes, 1926
Routledge’s XXth Century Humorous Reciter, Ernest Pertwee, ed., Routledge & Sons, 1911
The Singer’s Ego : finding balance between music and life, Lynn Eustis, GIA Publications, 2005
Some Vaudeville Monologues, Harry L. Newton, T.S. Denison, 1917
Towards a Poor Theatre, Jerzy Grotowski, Routledge, 2002
Trouping in the Oregon Country; a history of fronier theatre, Alice Henson Ernst, Oregon Historical Society, 1961
Vaudeville Humor, Ed Lowry, Southern Illinois University, 2002
Vaudeville, Old and New: an Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, Frank Cullen, Routledge, 2006
Vaudeville Wars, Arthur Wertheim, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, Grove, 1994
Who Are You, Monsieur Gurdjieff?, René Zuber, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980
Writing for Vaudeville, Brett Page, Echo Books, 2005 (reprint)
A Vaudeville Glossary • Music in The Little Shadows • Vaudeville circuit map • Playbills • Behind the curtain