“Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.”

“Most mandolinists did not play for classical music audiences but rather played in noisy vaudeville acts.”

“Groucho, who had taken to wearing a fake greasepaint moustache in vaudeville, refused to grow a real one for the cameras.”

“Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works.”

“At first these gay playful effusions were called the songs of vau de Vire, till they became known as vaudevilles.”

“The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show-box for vaudevilles and burlesques.”