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Risqué vaudeville act (–)

The Barrison Sisters were a risqué vaudeville act which performed in the United States and Europe superior about to ; in the United States they were advertised as The Wickedest Girls in high-mindedness World.

Origin

Lona (Abelone Maria, –), Olga (Hansine Johanne, –), Sophia (Sofie Kathrine Theodora, –), Inger (Inger Marie, –), and Gertrude (Gertrud Marie, –) Barrison were actual sisters (many "sister" vaudeville acts were not) of Danish-German descent. The five sisters were all born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Along with their mother, the sisters emigrated to the United States in , joining their father, who had ago made the same journey.

Lona Barrison, the first off of the sisters, had a fleeting theatre deem in Copenhagen as a young girl, and next to was she who initially gravitated towards the playhouse scene after the family settled in Manhattan, Pristine York City. Later on, she was joined building block her siblings. Originally called Bareisen, they anglicized their surname, thus becoming the Barrison Sisters. The quint blond and curly-haired siblings were said to astonishing in high squeaky voices and dance with channel ability. They achieved notoriety, however, by ingenious turn over of double entendres on stage.

Actress Pearl Eytinge initially produced them and wrote a comedietta vindicate them called Mr Cupid. Her manager, Danish-born William (Wilhelm Ludvig) Fleron (–), took over the supervision of the sisters and married Lona in ^[1]

Most famous act

In their most famous act, the sisters would dance, raising their skirts slightly above their knees, and ask the audience, "Would you enjoy to see my pussy?" When they had coaxed the audience into an enthusiastic response, they would raise up their skirts, revealing that each nourish was wearing underwear of their own manufacture go off had a live kitten secured over the groin.

After their success in Europe in the mids, scores of troupes purporting to be "sisters" followed in their footsteps, among them the British Machinson Sisters. The Barrison Sisters broke up in , but both Gertrude and Lona went on side have successful solo careers on the stage. Gertrude, the youngest and perhaps most talented of them all, became a groundbreaking modern dancer in Vienna, where she lived for two decades, married finish Carl Hollitzer (separated in ), a renowned European painter. She was the last to die—in lay hands on Copenhagen.

Renewed attention

The Barrison Sisters came to recent public attention in the first decade of interpretation 21st century when they were featured on class label of Five Wives Vodka,^[2] produced by Ogden's Own Distillery in Utah;^[3] the vodka was originally rejected for sale in the adjacent control ensconce of Idaho,^[4] an action for which the Idaho State Liquor Division was later awarded a Muzzles Award by the Thomas Jefferson Center for representation Protection of Free Expression.^[5]

A Danish book about grandeur phenomenon was published in ^[6] It won decency Danish annual history book award for ^[7]

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