vaudeville in English

noun
1
a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance.
Their march will take them to the old Town Hall, which has been replaced by ‘The Palace,’ a saloon that features vaudeville acts and dancing girls.

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1. We're doing a vaudeville, not a dictionary.

2. All That Savannah JazzFrom Brass bands, Vaudeville, …

3. He had had a piece rejected at the Vaudeville.

4. After leaving the Navy, Benny returned to vaudeville.

5. The room was decorated with pictures of vaudeville celebrities.

6. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in 18

7. The standard length of a vaudeville act was 12 minutes.

8. Which is why in the vaudeville days they sometimes used a hook.

9. You could have set Greenwich Mean Time by the great vaudeville comedians.

10. In 190 he broke out of vaudeville and set his sights on Broadway.

11. Do you know the names of any other stars from that vaudeville era?

12. In 19 Eubie teamed with an ambitious young entrepreneur, Noble Sissle, for vaudeville appearances.

13. Vaudeville shows presented short plays , singers , comedians who made people laugh and other acts.

14. Tell her you're abdul abdullah who used to be a mind reader in vaudeville.

15. What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of Thatcherism Undone.

16. Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure - Kindle edition by Freeland, David

17. He made his first public appearance in Vaudeville in 1907 at New York's Clinton Music Hall, then became a member of the Gus Edwards Gang, later touring vaudeville with Lila Lee as the team Cantor …

18. Buskers are popping up in Monument Plaza to bring one night of Vaudeville to Downtown Sugarhouse

19. The music-hall and vaudeville were transitional as really was all nineteenth-century popular culture.

20. After its closing on Dec. 190 it soon reopened as the Empire, a vaudeville and movie house.

21. All That Savannah JazzFrom Brass bands, Vaudeville, to Rhythm and Blues [Elmore, Charles J.] on Amazon.com

22. After starting out in vaudeville shows, Burns rose to fame with his wife in radio and television programs.

23. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure.

24. A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs.

25. From minstral shows and vaudeville, to night clubs, musical theater, and movie musicals, tap dance has held a featured role.

26. The history of Blackface is long and complex, and deeply ingrained in our culture – in vaudeville and minstrel shows and in movies

27. Since the decline of the vaudeville era, acrobatic dance has undergone a multi-faceted evolution to arrive at its present-day form.

28. Absinthe is a refreshing, irresistibly intoxicating blend of circus, burlesque and vaudeville, remixed and reimagined to delight savvy, seen-it-all modern audiences.

29. Absinthe is a refreshing, irresistibly intoxicating blend of circus, burlesque and vaudeville, remixed and reimagined to delight savvy, seen-it-all modern audiences

30. The earliest version of the genre was heavily tied to the local medicine show and vaudeville traditions, lasting well into the late '30s.

31. For several years young Bill Basie (as he was then known) toured the vaudeville circuit as soloist and accompanist to blues singers.

32. He wrote Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days (1931), A Pictorial History of Burlesque (1956), and A Pictorial History of Vaudeville (1961).

33. To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: This cabaret performance was Conceptualized as a homage to vaudeville.

34. He was adopted in infancy by millionaire Reed Albee, the son of a famous vaudeville producer who introduced Edward to the theater at an early age.

35. Target girl is a term sometimes used in circus and vaudeville to denote a female assistant in "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archery or sharpshooting.

36. The secretary recruits vaudeville acts, in opposition to a gloomy group of businessmen called the “Bluenoses” who have a financial interest in prolonging the Depression

37. For reasons that may ultimately defy analysis, the biggest stars in vaudeville -- and consequently, the highest paid ones -- were the female singing singles, or singing Comediennes

38. As David Freeland notes in his book Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville, "While Automats were hailed by the thrifty populace as being 'waiter-free' and — …

39. 54 of 63 55 of 63 Bumbershoots in the '70s couldn't get enough of vaudeville performers, like Lynn Terry, pictured pointing a "ray gun." (Bumbershoot, 1975)

40. In 1914, acrobat Lulu Coates formed the Crackerjacks, a popular vaudeville troupe that included acrobatic dance in their performance repertoire up until the group disbanded in 1952.

41. Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was being sketched out.

42. Designed by architect Eugene De Rosa for Benjamin S. Moss, it opened as B.S. Moss's Colony Theatre on Christmas Day 1924 as a venue for vaudeville shows and motion pictures.

43. Refreshing and irrepressibly raunchy, AbsinthE is an intoxicating cocktail of jaw-dropping adult circus, burlesque and vaudeville, remixed and reimagined to tease, please and delight even cynical, seen-it …

44. Mr. Anderson, a former magazine publisher, took over the TED conference from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman, a graphic designer who presided over the stage like a vaudeville showman.

45. Examples of boff in a Sentence Noun an old joke dating from the days of vaudeville that's still good for a boff the emcee told some good Boffs that kept the ceremony from becoming too serious

46. The phrase "Jim Crow" was drawn from a stock character in "minstrel" (vaudeville) shows of the time, in which a white singer and actor would put on black makeup to look like a black man.

47. Proceedings Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland, Vol, UNTER DEM SOWJETSTERNG POPOFF, Love And Freindship: And Other Early WorksJane Austen, Le prisonnier d'une femme comdie-vaudeville en un acte [FACSIMILE]Eugne, 1810-1903 Cormon

48. ‘It forgets the fact that millions of Bosoms are thrust in people's faces every single day in the tabloid papers.’ ‘But if, as one would assume the picture came from some kind of vaudeville stage-show, that would explain the bare Bosoms, but what was the significance …

49. Chauvinism (n.) 1840, "exaggerated, blind nationalism; patriotism degenerated into a vice," from French Chauvinisme (1839), from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, who idolized Napoleon and the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' popular 1831 vaudeville "La Cocarde Tricolore."

50. The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance (which is represented by SAG-AFTRA).However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or through-storyline (vaudeville, cabarets, circuses) may be