Titlebook: W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway; Becoming a Comedian Arthur Frank Wertheim Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

Ablation

The Ham Treeeran song-and-dance blackface team developed comic routines in which they performed caricatures that degraded African Americans through exaggerated dialect and stereotyped portrayals. Heath played the straight man, foil, and fool to McIntyre, the smart-alecky trickster who ridiculed and lampooned hi

Ascendancy

The Breakupa luxurious passenger ship that had once held the Atlantic crossing record. With $300 in her pocket, Maud walked down the gangplank and checked into a New York hotel. A stunning woman with curly dark hair, luminous light gray eyes, and a radiant complexion, Maud was now involved with a married man i

HUMP

The Breakupa luxurious passenger ship that had once held the Atlantic crossing record. With $300 in her pocket, Maud walked down the gangplank and checked into a New York hotel. A stunning woman with curly dark hair, luminous light gray eyes, and a radiant complexion, Maud was now involved with a married man i

Prognosis

The Affaired, arguing, trouble-making female all your life… I havent one good thought or memory of you, and the very thought of an interview with you fills me with rage.” Taking a pencil, Hattie wrote on the back of the letter: “What I wanted to ask this brute was—if he would not advance us our first month’s

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