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:In San Francisco , we had advertised that we were going to put on the Can-can . Mabel Santley did this number and when the music came to the dum-de-dum, she raised her foot just about twelve inches; whereupon the entire audience hollored {Link without Title} "Whooooo!" It set them crazy.Sobel, Bernard (1956). ''A Pictorial History of Burlesque'', 45-6. Quoted in Toll 138. The company was a success, and by 1871, at least eleven rival troupes of female minstrels had sprung up, one of which did away with blackface altogether. This movement would eventually give rise to the " Girlie Show ". NOTES REFERENCES
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