Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

by Leigh Woods (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $108.31

  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.