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continued to win applause were Ernest Hogan and his Memphis Students, Rice and Prevost, the quaint comedy acrobats; Four Bard Brothers, fine gymnasts, and Will R. Rogers, lasso expert. Barney Fagan and Henrietta Byron scored heavily in their splendidly costumed act, and Alliene's monkey, Hayes and Healey, the Great Valmont and the Taylor Sisters rounded out a splendid programme.
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Willie Hammerstein suffered from a disease of the kidneys, and died in New York on June 10, 1914. He was aged 38. He had made the Victoria his own. His brother, Arthur, took over management but was unable to recapture the spirit. The theater soon had to be closed. The Victoria Theatre was pulled down
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Carmencita ... returned to New York last week, and was warmly greeted by large audiences. For those who are fond of Spanish dancing her turn proved as attractive as ever, and she seems to have lost none of the suppleness and grace that characterized her performances in the old days... Holdovers who
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to the Olympia roof garden. The sisters put on a terrible act where they sang sentimental, dialect or patriotic songs. One of them played the piano and another banged a drum. Willie knew how bad they were. He provided a net that protected them when the audience, as expected, started throwing produce
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Other types of human curiosity were "Shekla, Court Magician to the Shah of Persia" and "Madamoiselle Fatima, Escaped Harem Dancer: ... She has a distinctive Turkish personality and dances with original movements all her own, accompanied by her two Eunuch Servants." Hammerstein also put on novelties
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Willie was talented at finding, booking, and promoting variety acts, plays, and musicals. Willie mounted popular low-brow vaudeville shows at low prices. He promoted new performers and established celebrities of all types, physical freaks, illusionists, and risqué exotic dancers. The highly varied
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Willie Hammerstein ran the only vaudeville theater in Times Square, and had no other theatres. He was able to develop shows uniquely fitted to his local audience. The crowd at the Victoria like the rather jaded and cynical atmosphere, the stage slang and black humor. Acts could afford to include
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Willie Hammerstein became known for his "freak acts". Typically these featured people who had scandalized the public and gained notoriety. Members of love triangles involving murders or suicides were popular, if one of their members was free to appear and give the public the titillating details.
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Hammerstein was unusual in making a sharp separation between his work in the theater, which he loved, and his home life. He would not pose for a photograph, and told his press agents not to use his name in publicity. Hammerstein married Alice Nimmo in 1893, and they had two sons,
205:, the theater impresario, and his first wife, née Rose Blau. He started work as a press agent, then built a vaudeville theatre on 110th Street, Manhattan, called Little Coney Island. He also managed burlesque shows. Willie Hammerstein managed his father's 178:, Manhattan, presenting very popular vaudeville shows with a wide variety of acts. He was known for "freak acts", where celebrities or people notorious for scandals appeared on stage. Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre became the most successful in New York. 409:
and Reginald. They lived at 315 Central Park West. His wife died in 1910 and he married her sister, Annie Nimmo. He never took part in Broadway night life, and he did not want his two sons to get involved in theater. However, his son
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played eleven one-week engagements in 1912 and 1913, a good fit with the audience through her suggestion of notoriety. Hammerstein often booked acts from Europe, who sometimes made up half the show. He introduced the dancers
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Hammerstein made the Victoria the most popular venue for vaudeville in New York. The Victoria was a grand building, and played some high-quality acts. As of 1905 the theater owners who booked through the
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more sexual innuendo than in other houses. To keep costs and prices down, a typical Hammerstein bill would feature a few well-paid stars and a large number of lower-priced novelty acts.
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thought it was the greatest of the vaudeville houses. Hammerstein asked performers back many times if he liked them, as with the British comedian
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Oscar Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1898 and his Olympia theater, which Willie was managing, was sold at auction, but he simultaneously built the
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was featured at the Victoria, billed as "The Composer of a Hundred Hits", and performed a number of his songs including
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to perform in the Victoria for afternoon matinees and in the Paradise Roof Garden in the evenings. The young
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circuit booking office gave Hammerstein a monopoly on big-time vaudeville in Times Square.
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seemed likely to become dominant in the vaudeville industry. They included Hammerstein,
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had opened at Broadway and W. 47th Street on April 11, 1914, just to the north of
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Willie's father was much more interested in grand opera, and in 1906 opened the
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and garbage at the stage. The word spread, and the sisters became a big draw.
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Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America
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became the most famous lyricist and musical comedy writer of the era.
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When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
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Evelyn Nesbit was a chorus girl and artist's model who had married
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was built in its place, the first movie palace in Times Square.
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The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
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programs drew large, boisterous, and often noisy audiences.
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Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2004).
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and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb /
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A review in the 311:Performers enjoyed playing the Victoria. 1999:American people of German-Jewish descent 882: 798: 746: 734: 722: 686: 655: 631: 614: 348: 291: 232: 185: 1994:American theatre managers and producers 486: 484: 1976: 1546:Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center 1030: 1696:Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998) 1004: 929: 799:Bergreen, Laurence (March 22, 1996). 554: 510: 2009:19th-century American businesspeople 978:"Wm. Hammerstein Dies in Sanatorium" 481: 399: 759:Cullen, Hackman & McNeilly 2004 675:Cullen, Hackman & McNeilly 2004 644:Cullen, Hackman & McNeilly 2004 584:Cullen, Hackman & McNeilly 2004 228: 13: 2004:Hammerstein family (show business) 1909:The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / 1617:New York State Council on the Arts 889:. University of California Press. 14: 2030: 1418:-American Theatre Society (1972) 861:. University of Oklahoma Press. 783:Rialto Theatre, Cinema Treasures 771:Strand Theatre, Cinema Treasures 388:. 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Index

New York City
Victoria Theatre
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein I
Arthur Hammerstein
Stella Hammerstein
James Hammerstein
Elaine Hammerstein
Victoria Theatre
Times Square

Paradise Roof Garden
New York City
Oscar Hammerstein
Olympia Theater
Cherry Sisters
Victoria Theatre

William Morris Agency
Frederick Freeman Proctor
Timothy Sullivan
Percy G. Williams
Keith
Albee
Manhattan Opera House
Shubert family
Arthur

The New York Times
Buster Keaton

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