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Fragments on Arico Wild

Fragments on female impersonator Arico Wild (1894-1966).

We learn of her from the Sobels’ Pictorial History of Vaudeville, which labeled her “sensational”.

In his 1953 book Vaudeville From the Honky Tonks to the Palace, Joe Laurie Jr. says she danced with the Fokine Ballet, and was still performing as of that writing.

Online one can find newspaper references to Wild’s performances all over the country from 1928 through 1948.

To learn more about vaudeville, please see No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.