Originally posted in 2009. The most famous female impersonator of the vaudeville era, Julian Eltinge was a point of cultural reference as late as the early 1960s when Lenny Bruce dropped his name in a stand-up routine. Two quotes give a sense about how this sort of act divided the audience: W.C. Fields famously said "women went […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AM on May 14, 2013