| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judgment. But no female impersonator was as famous, successful, or highly-regarded as Julian Eltinge. Eltinge, born William Dalton just outside Boston, started playing female characters & imitating women with his mother's encouragement as a child while his father shuttled his family around the Americas in search of a mining fortune that never materialized. The future drag star returned to Boston in his late teens where he quickly rose through the ranks of semi-amateur all-male musicals, then moved on to vaudeville, & eventually starred in hugely successful musical comedies such as The Fascinating Widow (1910) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 16, 2024) |
| Subject |
Eltinge, Julian, 1883-1941.
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Female impersonators -- United States -- Biography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197696361 |
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0197696368 |
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