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Some facts to add to Tony page
In 1846, at fourteen, Tony Pastor got a job at Barnum's museum. He brought his tumbling, riding, and mimicry skills to performances. He became a beloved entertainer of the North during the Civil War.

He was a second generation American. He was the son of an Italian fruit seller, barber, and violinist in the orchestra of William Mitchell's Olympic Theatre. According to one source he was a "white-face" comedian. He focused on pushing his own innovations rather than do saloon concerts, which was happening at the time.

- Traveled in circuses in the 1850's.

- By the 1860's became the leading pioneer of vaudeville which spanned forty years.

- Circus comic burlesque and blackface

From the 1880s to the 1990's Vaudeville was wildly popular. Pastor reportedly gave it respectability (an ambience of)

He opened his own playhouse without vulgarity. He didn't sell any liquor in his theatre, and required a level of decency in his performances which would encourage ladies to attend. He also wanted to capture the mass audience. He wanted to make vaudeville a family friendly entertainment to the middle class. He helped distance vaudeville playhouses from the theatre barrooms that most of the successful variety men of the 1870's and the 1880's were doing.

Bibliography for Tony Pastor page
Field, Armond. Tony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville, London, McFarland & Company, 2007.

Kattwinkel, Susan. “Introduction.” Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage, London, Greenwood P, 1998, pp. 1-9.

Lattari, Katie. American Vaudeville, Mammoth, 2016.

Lewis, Robert M. From Traveling Show to Vaudville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830 - 1910, Maryland, John Hopkins U P, 2007.

Marks, Edward B and Abbott J. Liebling. They All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee, The Viking P, 1934.

McLean, Albert F. American Vaudeville as Ritual. University of Kentucky Press, 1965.

Monod, David. “Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville.” The Soul of Pleasure: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment, Cornell U P, London, 2016, pp. 171-205.

Pastor, Tony. Tony Pastor's Book of Six Hundred Comic Songs and Speeches: Being an Entire Collection of the Humorous Songs, Stump Speeches, Burlesque Orations And funny Dialogues, as Sung and Given, New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867.

Snyder, Robert W. The Voice of the City: Vaudville and Popular Culture in New York. Oxford U P, 1989.

Zellers, Parker. Tony Pastor: Dean of the Vaudeville Stage. Michigan, Eastern U P, 1971.

Feedback on spring 2019 bibliography
Asbenn, this is a fantastic list of sources! I think you'll find a lot of good material in these books and articles. Overall, your citations are accurate in terms of MLA style. However, you should insert a period (not a comma) after the author(s) as well as after the title of the book/article. See: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_page_books.html Also, please double-check whether or not you need a space between "U" and "P" in the publishers' names -- i.e., should you write "Oxford UP" or Oxford U P"? These seem like small details, but when you attend to these details, it makes you look more polished and professional. Finally, I am fairly certain we no longer have to include the publisher's city in a citation unless the book was published before 1900 (again, please double-check the handbook); if I'm correct, then you will need to eliminate all instances of "London," "New York," etc. in your final citations. I look forward to seeing your work on this project unfold! Amy E Hughes (talk) 14:10, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Feedback on preliminary bibliography
Hi, Asbenn -- this is a good start and in general you have a decent grasp on MLA style. There are a few details to attend to, however. For example, for any publications you've retrieved from a database, you not only need to include the db's name (e.g. JSTOR) but also the URL and the access date. For more info about these conventions, see the MLA Handbook or https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_electronic_sources.html. Also, university presses are abbreviated with "P" and "U," i.e. Princeton UP. You are missing the full name for the Jortner collection -- please double-check the handbook about how to list edited collections in your Works Cited list (I believe you include the names of all editors, if there's more than one, though you don't have to include the names of all contributors. I look forward to seeing how your article develops. Amy E Hughes (talk) 17:01, 28 October 2018 (UTC)