VOCABULARY
This entertainment style used short acts like singing, dancing, and comedy.
What is a Vaudeville
This was the famous act Tirza performed.
What is the Wine Bath routine?
She was most famous for performing as this type of performer.
What is a male impersonator?
Tirza redesigning her fountain suggests she was this type of person.
Independent / Innovative / Determined
Coney Island was known for challenging traditional ideas about this.
Gender / Class / Identity
This term describes blending masculine and feminine traits.
What is Androgyny?
She joined this type of union to maintain her equipment.
What is the plumbers union?
She worked closely with this vaudeville theater manager.
Who is Tony Pastor?
Wesner performing as a male impersonator challenged this social idea.
What are gender roles?
Audiences coming to see “different” performers suggests society was doing this.
Becoming more curious / Changing / Experimenting socially
These are society’s expectations for how men and women should act.
What are Gender Roles?
She became licensed to do this job to transport her equipment.
What is truck driving / licensed trucker?
She caused scandal when she did this with Josie Mansfield.
What is eloping to Paris?
Vaudeville helped performers who were “different” by doing this.
Giving them stage space / public visibility / careers
New laws shutting down acts shows society was struggling with this.
Accepting social change / Controlling morality
These are social limits placed on people because of identity.
What are Cultural Barriers?
She physically changed her fountain using this tool.
What is a sledgehammer?
She performed both these types of stage roles.
What are male and female roles?
Both women show this idea about Coney Island.
It allowed social experimentation / identity expression / nontraditional success
Both Tirza and Wesner show how entertainment can influence this.
Social attitudes / Culture / Acceptance
This performance style often used humor, exaggeration, and dance.
What is Burlesque?
This event helped make her act nationally known.
What is the 1940 World’s Fair?
Her peak popularity happened during this decade.
What are the 1880s?
Why might Coney Island attract performers who didn’t fit social norms?
(Open inference — must justify)
Which woman better represents breaking cultural barriers — and why?
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