The Infamous Cherry Sisters - The Worst Act in Vaudeville

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training. But they possessed a burning desire to take to the stage and show the world what they could do--and what they could do was awful. Their unique act was "so bad it was good." When the sisters took the stage, they were met with rotten fruit and vegetables, festering meat, dead cats… Riots often broke out after (and sometimes during) their concerts, but they carried on, changing attitudes--and laws--along the way.
This book follows the five women through their forty-year career in vaudeville theaters across the U.S. Proud, fearless and fiercely independent in a time when women were treated as second-class citizens, the Cherry Sisters insisted that their voices be heard.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

¿1.¿The Cherry Sisters Opera Company

¿2.¿Down on the Farm

¿3.¿Riot in Dubuque

¿4.¿Live, with (or without) a Net

¿5.¿Four Freaks from Iowa

¿6.¿And Then There Were Three

¿7.¿Riot at the Armory

¿8.¿The Cherry Sisters vs. the Des Moines Leader

¿9.¿The Cherry Sisters Held to Ransom

10.¿On the Comeback Trail

11.¿Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

12.¿Effie for Mayor!

13.¿On the Comeback Trail (Again)

14.¿The End

15.¿Aftermath

Appendix 1: The Cherry Sisters in Concert

Appendix 2: A Cherry Sisters Timeline

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Darryl W. Bullock is a writer based in Bristol, England. He is the author of several books and posts weekly on his popular obscure music blog, www.worldsworstrecords.co.uk.

Product details

• Authors: Darryl W. Bullock
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2019
• EAN: 9781476675565
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7556-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Individual actors & performers, Theatre Studies, Vaudeville, Individual actors and performers