Editing Barrison Sisters (section)

==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 like to see my [[pussy]]?" When they had coaxed the audience into an enthusiastic response, they would raise up their skirts, revealing that each sister was wearing underwear of their own manufacture that had a live [[kitten]] secured over the crotch.

After their success in Europe in the mid-1890s, scores of troupes purporting to be "sisters" followed in their footsteps, among them the British [[Machinson Sisters]]. The Barrison Sisters broke up in 1897, but both [[Gertrude Barrison|Gertrude]] and Lona went on to 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 to [[Carl Hollitzer]] (separated in 1910), a renowned Austrian painter. She was the last to die—in 1946 in Copenhagen.