Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance
- Author: Stalter-Pace, Sunny
Book
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Contents
- Table of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Learning How to Copy, 1883-1906
- Chapter 1: A Ballet Girl in San Francisco
- Chapter 2: Teaming Up with Max Hoffmann
- Chapter 3: A Woman Stage Manager
- Part II: Solo Imitations, 1906-1909
- Chapter 4: Imitative Caricatures
- Chapter 5: Women's Rivalry and Copyright
- Chapter 6: A Vision of Salome
- Part III: Producing Revues, 1910-1914
- Chapter 7: Gertrude Hoffmann's Review
- Chapter 8: Pirating the Ballets Russes
- Chapter 9: Mainstream Modernism
- Chapter 10: All-American Artist
- Part IV: New Directions, 1914-1923
- Chapter 11: Grecian Dance, Pantomime, and Silent Film
- Chapter 12: Snake Acts and Other Wartime Spectacles
- Chapter 13: Just Drifting
- Chapter 14: From Advanced Vaudeville to Cabaret
- Part V: Offstage, 1923-1966
- Chapter 15: The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls, At Home and Abroad
- Chapter 16: Modern Dance and Floor Shows
- Chapter 17: Remembering
- Conclusion
- Biography
- Notes
- Index