When sophisticates lost interest, he-ever resourceful-traded his evening suit for a Western hat and chaps and took his Indians to Vaudeville. |
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The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit. |
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Aside from her time in Vaudeville, Trudy taught swimming to deaf children. |
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Among the important factors in the rise of Tin Pan Alley was the rapid growth of vaudeville. |
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They involve a singing frog, a vaudeville show, the impresario who runs it, and the mad scientist who works for him. |
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He shimmies and shakes, and tap-dances like a vaudeville pro across the bar and cabaret stage. |
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This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel. |
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In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers. |
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Father stayed on the vaudeville circuit for a few years after he and mother got married. |
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Christmas would bring back the memory of losing his father, a minor vaudeville star and alcoholic, who died when Charlie was a child. |
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Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention. |
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Drinking songs, in vaudeville performances, were often performed by cross-dressed women. |
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His parents were acrobats in vaudeville, and by the time he was three, Buster was in on the act. |
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He eventually found work with a carnival, and later made his way into vaudeville as a juggler. |
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The dynamic reminds me of the old George Burns and Gracie Allen vaudeville routine about the property implications of marriage. |
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This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour. |
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Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater. |
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Italian theaters and music halls, for example, largely gave way to vaudeville, nickelodeons, organized sports, and radio programming. |
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Kitty becomes, in her mother's eyes, a fallen woman after being flattered into using her singing talent for a career on the vaudeville stage. |
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Groucho, who had taken to wearing a fake greasepaint moustache in vaudeville, refused to grow a real one for the cameras. |
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But when he signed with him in November 1923, he was no obscure vaudeville trouper fresh from the tank towns. |
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Most mandolinists did not play for classical music audiences but rather played in noisy vaudeville acts. |
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It was fertilized by blues, gospel, string-band hoedowns, Appalachian balladry, work songs, and vaudeville hokum. |
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In his online history of vaudeville, John Kenrick describes the typical bill of fare at major houses. |
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Much of the step material in the dances came from popular culture sources such as ballrooms and vaudeville stages. |
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Shown infrequently at first, movies earned a regular place on Ontario vaudeville show bills over the next 10 years. |
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The radio personalities and vaudeville comedians brought their heightened creativity to the medium and it finally gained a wide audience. |
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He was a vaudeville headliner of growing stature when he went into radio. |
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The odd pair here is Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were a hit on the vaudeville circuit. |
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The genial dialogue between Lovelace and her costar, Harry Reems, is like a vaudeville routine. |
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No, but they had the sterling comic timing of the professional funnyman, hard-won in a thousand tank towns on the vaudeville circuit, and that is more than enough. |
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In the old days, bands were playing medicine shows or vaudeville, where you had to capture your audience immediately or you were booted off the stage. |
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There must be some old, ailing, senile politician, vaudeville comedian or sports-man around whose death-bed you could perch like a flock of vultures. |
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Don't be distracted by the tired old vaudeville routine in Europe. |
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Most of this was in vaudeville, where black casts replaced black-faced ones and performed the minstrel show songs and dances to delighted white audiences. |
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The 16-year-old Shakespeare in the Park company moved into new digs this year in a former vaudeville house, the Rex, which had fallen into disrepair. |
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As for her most memorable lines, they are demonstrable reworkings of old vaudeville and burlesque gags that had been kicking around since the dawn of creation. |
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Early film included actors from theater and vaudeville, entertainers from the circus, boxers, dancers, and non-actors caught in actualities or put on screen for staged events. |
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In 1924, Seldes came out with a book called The 7 Lively Arts, a celebration of comic strips, vaudeville, slapstick, musical comedy, and other non-elitist culture. |
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As early as 1913, Billboard, a music industry journal, had begun printing weekly sheet music bestseller charts and surveys of the most popular songs in vaudeville. |
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Even vaudeville theaters ranged in price between ten cents and a dollar in the 1890s, and they attracted thousands of working-class visitors each year. |
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Alas, even the most credulous of children find it pretty hard to suspend disbelief when all your heroes end up looking like vaudeville characters on the turps. |
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Participants got hip to this and more at Tease-O-Rama 2002, the second annual national convention devoted to reviving burlesque, go-go dancing, and vaudeville. |
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Karno selected his new star to join the section of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit. |
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It combines camp, vaudeville, and British music hall with May's guitar virtuosity. |
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In developing the Tramp costume and persona, he was likely inspired by the American vaudeville scene, where tramp characters were common. |
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The Death Of You And Me and Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks could come from Ray Davies'' Kinks catalogue, the former even boasting vaudeville jazz. |
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One of the most popular was Harry Lauder, whose persona as a bekilted Scots vaudeville minstrel was instantly recognized world-wide. |
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They taught the twins to play saxophone and transferred them from the sideshow to vaudeville. |
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Her manager, Dudley Field Malone, was not able to capitalize on her notoriety, so Ederle's career in vaudeville wasn't a huge financial success. |
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Olivier Basselin wrote of the Vaux de Vire, the origin of literary vaudeville. |
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Meierjohann has created a muscular, masculine production where vaudeville meets Shakespeare meets noirish thriller. |
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The three-member touring company was founded in 1987 by Brown, who wanted to bring vaudeville back to the stage. |
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At times the first half hour feels almost amateurish, while peripheral characters verge towards vaudeville hamminess. |
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Evidently, the joke's on all the hipsters and music snobs who've long dismissed Leon Redbone's retro jazz and Tin Pan Alley vaudeville schtick. |
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The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act. |
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President Calvin Coolidge, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, and vaudeville stars such as Phil Baker, Ben Bernie, Eddie Cantor and Oscar Levant appeared in the firm's pictures. |
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The adoption of their songs as TV sports themes and stadium supports for U2 and Springsteen showed their rollicking, vaudeville art rock had crossover potential. |
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