Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance

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