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Mary Brett Lorson & the Soubrettes
Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay by A. Erdman
by, Jill Swenson
October 9, 2012

Before Lady Gaga, before Madonna, Cher, Lucy. Even before Mae West. In fact, Mae West started out in the shadows of the original cyclonic comedienne, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947). Andy Eerdman unearths the lost legacy of  one of the most famous women in her day in this compelling history, Queen of Vaudeville, just released by Cornell University Press. Raised in a typical New England mill town, Miss… [Read More]

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