Popular Culture Review Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2019 | Page 243

Popular Culture Review 30.1
The Sphinx ( 18 September 1919 ): 160-61 ; “ Massey and Kramer ,” Variety , 28 April 1906 ; “ Emma Carus ,” Variety , 19 September 1908 ; “ Riene Davies ,” Variety , 1 January 1910 ; “ The Passing Show ,” The Times ( Washington ), 4 November 1900 .
19 “ Vaudeville No Refuge ,” New York Herald , 9 October 1921 ; New York Public Library , Billy Rose Theater Collection , MWEZ + n . c . 19,064 , Blanche Ring Scrapbook , clipping : San Francisco Examiner , April 27 , 1911 ; “ Adele Rowland ,” Chicago Daily Tribune , 2 May 1909 ; “ May Robson in New Comedy ,” New York Tribune , 5 September 1905 .
20 David Suisman , Selling Sounds : The Commercial Revolution in American Music ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2009 ); Alec Wilder and James Maher , eds ., American Popular Song : The Great Innovators , 1900 – 1950 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1972 ); Peter van der Merwe , Origins of the Popular Style : The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1989 ).
21 Calculated from data in website . Accessed from http :// vaudevilleamerica . org / performances /
22 Manager Reports , “ 1906 , Blanche Ring , Colonial , New York City ,” Variety , 4:3 ( 19 May 1906 ). Accessed from http :// vaudevilleamerica . org / performance / blanche-ring /
23 Manager Reports , “ 1909 , Blanche Ring , Colonial , New York City ,” Variety , 13:9 ( 2 June 1909 ). Accessed from http :// vaudevilleamerica . org / performance / blanche-ring-2 /
24 New York Public Library , Billy Rose Theater Collection , MWEZ x n . c . 21,061 , Ned Wayburn Scrapbook , clipping : “ She Is a Burlesque Queen ‘ Bouncing ,’” Evening World , 3 November 1911 : Sophie Tucker Scrapbook , clippings : Show World , 29 September 1909 ; Evening Telegram , 12 October 1909 and Vancouver Paper , 4 July 1910 ; Sargent Papers , clipping : “ Campbell Is Shy .”
25 Irving Berlin , “ Words and Music ,” The Green Book Magazine , 14:1 ( July 1915 ): 104-5 .
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