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primitive enough
that one of them
would've died.
I don't know.
- After she had been
in the original pub
and they had made some money
off of displaying the girls,
they invested in
a larger property.
But that was really
kind of small potatoes.
- Mary Hilton,
ever the opportunist,
decided after
some several months
to actually
take them on the road.
- When they decide that
they're going to leave England
of Europe,
they're making appearances
more in sort of theaters
and more established
sorts of places.
- There was a speech
repeated to us daily,
over and over again
like a phonograph record.
It was spoken by
a big, curly-haired woman
who bathed, dressed,
and fed us.
or even smiled.
She just talked.
"Your mother gave you to me.
You are not my children. "
that their mother
didn't want them,
that their mother
had given them up
and that they should be
grateful
for anything
that she gave them.
- Mary was sort of
a controlling, demanding person
and, of course,
wouldn't allow the twins
any freedoms at all.
- We were taught to call her
"Auntie, "
and each of her five husbands
was "Sir. "
- They were afraid of her.
But love her?
No.
- They ran afoul
of an assortment of "Sirs,"
as they were calling them,
usually who were promoters.
And they were simply used
- The woman who cared for them
really drilled into them,
I think, that, you know,
they were going to be
performers;
they're gonna be
exhibitioned.
They're gonna be on the road
to make her money.
There was a lot of brutality
that was involved with it
just to, so-called,
keep them in line.
- Mary would get angry,
tell them that
they were so repellent.
- Her temper was something that
her daughter or her husband
could not control.
And when we displeased her,
she whipped our backs
and shoulders
with the buckle end
of a wide belt.
- They started showing
elsewhere.
- On circuses and sideshows,
they became
very, very big attractions,
any of the money.
- At an early age,
we were taught to recite,
read, and sing.
- They studied
violin and piano,
saxophones, clarinets.
- It was amazing
how much training
was crammed into
our early lives.
In preparation
for our debut in Berlin,
our first appearance
in a theater,
l, Violet,
played The Princess Waltz
2 1 /2 hours
without a mistake.
- They became multitalented
by the time they were
six, seven, and eight.
Wax museums were all over
at that time.
a variety of entertainment
that changed periodically.
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