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  Early LCD | Cherry Bomb
The sisters Effie, Addie, Ella, Jessie and Elizabeth, of Marion, Iowa were by contemporary accounts the worst act in vaudeville.
Slogging through the marshes and municipal auditoriums of the midwest, the sisters were so awful that audience heckling seemed too polite; instead, patrons conveyed their critical consensus by flinging cabbages and overripe tomatoes.
The sisters virtuous ladies whose lips never tasted wine (they once refused to speak to their piano player for a week because he said "damn")suspected that the unruly mob behavior had been instigated by stage managers whose (imagined) advances they'd rebuffed.
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 cherry sisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The girls obliged: “The Cherry Sisters Concert That appeared in the Gazette the other evening was intily a mistake and we take it back The young ladies were refined and modist in every respict And their intertanement was as good as any that has been given in the city by home people.
Since the police had no reason to expect that people would continue to harass the sisters after they had left the theater, the committee decided the police were not negligent in their failure to prevent the egg assault on the ladies’ carriage.
Although the article noted that the fortune the Cherry Sisters made at the height of their career was lost through extensive litigation, the sisters made it clear that they were not appealing to charity.
www.iowacenterforthebook.org /air/2004/info-for-groups/cherry-sisters.htm   (4189 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans
The sisters lived on a farm near Marion, and times were tough after their parents died and their brother, Isaac, ran away.
The sisters made legal history in 1901 after being raked over the coals by the Odebolt Chronicle theater critic, who referred to their "wailings of damned souls." The review was reprinted in the Des Moines Leader, which the Cherry Sisters sued for libel.
The sisters are buried in Linwood Cemetery in Cedar Rapids.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/cherry.html   (273 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / FAIR COMMENT
The five sisters and their brother had been born on a farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lost both their parents while they were still very young.
By the time Hammerstein sent for the Cherry Sisters, they were on their way to becoming famous.
By now the raucous days of the 1890s had mellowed in the sisters’ memory, and they insisted the legend of their being regularly pelted with vegetables was false.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1982/6/1982_6_28.shtml   (1516 words)

  
 Cherry Sisters/Links
Apparently not shaking with merriment, the Cherry Sisters sued for libel.
A brief and balanced account of the Cherry Sisters act and the legal history they made - maybe a little too balanced, and kind of boring - in The Des Moines Register's profile of "Famous Iowans" at http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/iowans/cherry.html.
In its 1977 centennial edition, The Odebolt Chronicle printed a brief account of the Cherry Sisters act, its own review and the court case.
www.sci.edu /classes/ellertsen/cherrysisters.html   (573 words)

  
 Whosoever Magazine
The Cherry Sisters, five real siblings from the rural heartland, were pilloried by critics, booed by theatergoers and bombarded with rotten fruit and vegetables everywhere they toured.
Perhaps, in their own way, the Sisters themselves were even consciously guilty of enabling the public's addiction to junk.
And whenever the Cherry Sisters are mentioned, to this very day, they are the objects of ridicule and scorn.
www.whosoever.net /v10i4/cherry.shtml   (2795 words)

  
 Cherry Bomb
A recent search of the phrase “Cherry Bomb” on Flickr produced renegade photos of me that I had not seen.
We pulled over 200 people on a Monday night, with a whole host of contacts, friends, and semi-celebrities showing up to put their hands together for the return of dragged out glamour.
I’ve known the Switch n’ Play bois since they were just starting out, and I felt proud like a big sister as I watched them tear up the stage and make the ladies swoon.
cherrybombnyc.blogspot.com   (4875 words)

  
 The Sweetback Sisters
We are honored to have had the chance to play on the show and thrilled to have worked with such top-notch performers and staff.
The proverbial cherry on top of the whole night was that the owner of Dangerously Delicious Pies was so chagrined that our show had been cancelled that he brought us a big lemony reconciliation pie.
The club was long on floor space and short on chairs, so people kind of stood in front of the stage and, after a while, the standing naturally morphed into dancing.
www.thesweetbacksisters.com   (3657 words)

  
 3 Sisters Production Show Case Title
The three sisters have only one desire in the world, to go to Moscow and live there.
There is no reason on earth, economic, sentimental, or other, why they should not pack their bags and take the next train to Moscow.
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama, including The Anniversary, a frenetic, behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in a bank; An Unwilling Martyr, a humorous recital of an overburdened man’s chores and obligations; as well as The Wedding, The Bear and The Proposal.
shows.vtheatre.net /3sisters/title.html   (901 words)

  
 UW Press: No More Cherry Blossoms
Although set in different decades of the twentieth century, the playsare all absolutely modern in the human struggles they depict.
Sisters Matsumoto tells of three Japanese American sisters who return to their family farm in Stockton, California, after living in an internment camp during World War II.
The Wind Cries Mary is a gripping drama set in the tumultuous heyday of social upheaval that was San Francisco in 1968, when California's Asian American intellectuals were first finding a political voice.
www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/GOTNOM.html   (318 words)

  
 sourcherryfarm
The Farm’s good friend Irene and her sister Carol joined us for dinner in the orchard on Saturday.
I think most of you already know about Sour Cherry Farm Chicken, our special pattened recipe.
We ended the day with the first of the year’s Ranier cherries.
sourcherryfarm.com   (1578 words)

  
 Natural Bath and Body Products
With Four Sisters Bath and Body you don't have to choose...You can have it all.
Starting in October 2006 when you purchase any Big Sister Gift Set in any fragrance or when you purchase a Cherry Blossom Sassy Sister a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to charity.
It will make you feel as pretty as the pink petals of a cherry blossom.
www.foursistersbathandbody.com   (487 words)

  
 The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen Table tickets - The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen ...
The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen Table tickets - The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen Table information - The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen Table pictures - New Jersey
The Cherry Sisters: True Stories from the Kitchen Table
Grace holds court in her kitchen singing songs, weaving raucous tales of a scarred childhood and waiting for her three sisters to come...
www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/4275   (271 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Five Plays: "Ivanov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard" (Oxford World's ...
Amazon.co.uk: Five Plays: "Ivanov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard" (Oxford World's Classics): Books: A.P. Chekhov,R.F. Hingley,Ronald Hingley
This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
Plays: "Ivanov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard" (Penguin Classics) by A.P. Chekhov
www.amazon.co.uk /Five-Plays-Seagull-Sisters-Classics/dp/0192834126   (411 words)

  
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