"Here is Bayard Dillingham of Honolulu, star “feminine” player in the Hasty Pudding show at Harvard University. The "lady" is holding an aching foot just released from a high-heeled size 6 slipper instead of the 9½ shoe to which it is more accustomed.'' (1938). #womanless #boyswillbegirls #drag
J.B. Darby played "Loria,'' a lovely visitor from Venus in Princeton Triangle's "The Man From Earth'' (1922), a proudly #womanless musical set mostly on Mars. #drag #boyswillbegirls
K. Buckley and M.C. Hasell as "Grace'' and "Mrs. Selwyn'' in a promotional photo for "The Sword of Damocles,'' a French romantic farce, presented as the proudly #womanless Sophomore Show in 1903 at Columbia University. #drag #boyswillbegirls
An unidentified but happy couple in "Kilroy Is Here'' (1947), the first #womanless musical staged by the University of Pittsburgh's Cap and Gown Club since 1941. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Happy New Year! New AI colorization and restoration of a stunning #womanless show image from 1928. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Zaftig Erwin Hufnagle rehearses a "love scene'' from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Snap Your Fingers'' (1940). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Eddie Trembath, dressed to kill for Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's #womanless "Head Over Heels'' (1941). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Some AI colorized and enhanced images from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Head Over Heels'' (1941). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Gowned as "Princess Adella'' for "The Khan of Kathan,'' the proudly #womanless 1905 Columbia Varsity Show, H.C. Atwater (1885-1962) became an engineer and builder responsible for many homes and churches. A widower, he was survived by two children and five grandchildren. #boyswillbegirls #drag
"Princess Adella is described as 'Huntington C. Atwater, height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 150 pounds, chest measurement 38 inches,' '' the New York Times reported in reviewing the #womanless 1905 Columbia Varsity Show. "On the stage he was a dainty damsel in lace and chiffon who sang in high soprano."
Homer Gensley, who had a solo dance to "By Heck,'' smiles and shows off his legs with fellow "chorus girls'' Ronald Fath (left) and Robert Lalk in photo published 4/23/41 in the Racine #WI Journal Times. #womanless #drag #genderbender #boyswillbegirls
Scantily clad specialty dancer Homer Lee Gensley graced ads for Wisconsin Haresfoot Club's 1941 #womanless musical. He died in 1953 from a severe type of polio, survived by a wife and three children. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Earth men land on an all-female Venus in Columbia University's #womanless 1903 Varsity Show. Written by Edgar Allan Woolf, who later collaborated on the screenplay for "The Wizard Of Oz'' (1939). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Unidentified performers in Columbia University's #womanless 1953 Varsity Show. According to Barbara Kauder's Barnard Bulletin review that mainly praised the costumes, the musical revolved around "a department store crisis involving a surplus of falsies.'' AI colorized. #drag #boyswillbegirls
1909 cartoon from The Gargoyle, humor magazine at the University of Michigan. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
Unidentified performer poses in costume to promote Georgia Tech's 1924 #womanless musical "The Seventh Veil.'' #drag #boyswillbegirls
Atlanta Journal, 1921. Hundreds of college boys a year competed for the opportunity to be given six weeks of rigorous feminization training during the Roaring Twenties. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
"Oots'' discusses men with their other "girls'' in Georgia Tech's 1921 #womanless comedy. #drag #boyswillbegirls
“You never can get over the awkward feeling that comes from putting your arm around a boy, or holding his dainty little paw,'' claimed hunky Carl Boone, seen here in a torrid "love'' scene with "Oots'' Oosterhardt. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
O.J. "Oots" Oosterhardt makes "herself'' pretty for "The Private Secretary,'' 1921 #womanless comedy presented by Georgia Tech's Marionettes. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Just in case anyone got the wrong about his dressing in girlish frills for Princeton Triangle's 1938 #womanless musical, little Jimmy Walsh mugs and flexes to demonstrate his masculinity in this much-published photo. #drag #boyswillbegirls
"Fleurette' camping it up' with "her'' villainous parents (Chuck Limberg as "mom'') in a publicity photo for Princeton Triangle's "Once Over Lightly'' (1938). #womanless #boyswillbegirls
Jimmie Walsh, center for Princeton's 150-pound football team, was petite enough to play the roller-skating "Fleurette'' in Princeton Triangle's proudly #womanless "Once Over Lightly'' (1938). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Sadly unidentified West Point cadet is "dragging to a hop'' (reads yearbook caption) in a spectacularly low-cut strapless gown for a proudly #womanless "Hundredth Night Show'' at West Point in the 1950s. #boyswillbegirls
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 1933: " 'Miss' Russell Connolly, the stage beauty playing the lead in the Pitt Cap and Gown show this week, as she appeared in Mayor Herron's office to invite him and the City Council to the show at the Nixon Theatre." #drag #womanless #boyswillbegirls
Dick Curvink smolders as "Senorita Mercedes'' in Michigan Union Opera's proudly #womanless "Merrie-Go-Round'' (1929). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Like several other #womanless troupes, the Michigan Union Opera suspended shows for the duration of World War II. But the Army musical "Nips in the Bud'' was performed on campus in 1943. #drag #boyswillbegirls
