Bothwell Browne

[4] Deliberately or not, Browne competed with the better-known female impersonator Julian Eltinge, who had pioneered the art form in early cinema.

[3] Browne's Broadway production Miss Jack opened in September 1911 at the Herald Square Theater, exactly one week before Eltinge's more successful The Fascinating Widow.

Browne's Broadway production Miss Jack opened in September 1911 at the Herald Square Theater, exactly one week before Eltinge's more successful The Fascinating Widow.

This release was parallel to Eltinge's anti-German film Over the Rhine (re-cut into The Isle of Love three years later).

[10][11] In December of the same year, Browne appeared as the headliner at the Palace Theater in New York, the single most sought-after booking in American vaudeville.