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		<title>King of Queens: Karyl Norman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Creole Fashion Plate:


In the annals of vaudeville, one name stands alone: Karyl Norman. He, along with Francis Renault, and Julian Eltinge, were the reigning kings, or queens, if you will, of female impersonation. But while much has been written about Eltinge and other interpreters of drag, such as Bert Savoy, Tom Martelle, Jean Malin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Vitality!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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For a rip-roaring, high-flying dose of energy and good cheer, and some arcane Vaudevillian homages, listen to this feisty old patter song, &#8220;Vitality&#8221; by the brilliant Ivor Novello, below. Sung by the indisputably vivacious British comedienne, Cicely Courtneidge (above, courtesy of LIFE.)

From the hit show Gay&#8217;s the Word. I&#8217;ll say!
Click the red arrow, on/off, here:Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fabulous Draper Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days with everyone and his grandmother holding up the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep and Martha Stewart as the great arbiters of literature, acting and design, respectively, it pays to hark back to another time when three unusual ladies, all named Draper, also excelled in these fields. Muriel, Ruth and Dorothy Draper defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea With Zeffirelli</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, arriving home after a late trip back from a marvelous Thanksgiving dinner with friends, I found I couldn&#8217;t sleep. It must have been the pecan pie. So I watched the film Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, about the final days of the opera diva Maria Callas. It&#8217;s a movie that deserves a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Deceiver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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On a quiet Sunday morning in March of 1998 in New York City, Broadway&#8217;s elegant but somewhat faded Empire Theatre, weighing 7.4 million pounds, was floated on tracks from its location on 42nd Street near Seventh Avenue to its new home, closer to Eighth. The Beaux Arts landmark, designed by architect Thomas A. Lamb in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeletons in the Closet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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The Beard
Of all the fairy tales compiled by author Charles Perrault in his Mother Goose rhymes in 1697, it is â€œBluebeardâ€ that has lingered most gruesomely in our collective imagination. Three centuries later, the grisly tale of serial spousal murder continues to haunt and mystify new generations. And no wonder: this glimpse into a world [...]]]></description>
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