Fact #58591
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The Iowa Supreme Court upholds a Polk County District Court decision against Vaudeville act The Cherry Sisters, a singing and dancing trio, who had brought a libel suit against The Des Moines Leader newspaper for printing an adverse review of their show. [The Cherry Sisters are widely regarded as the worst act ever to have played on Broadway. Their show Something Good, Something Sad, was so apallingly bad that it triggered a perverse public hysteria and played to sold-out houses for ten weeks.
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