What is "vaudevillian"

Usage examples of "vaudevillian".

The director, Iain Cuthbertson, cast the veteran vaudevillian Max Wall in the lead.

I thought it was a good little tune but it was too vaudevillian, so I had to get some cod lines to take the sting out of it, and put the tongue very firmly in cheek.

He twirled a makebelieve handlebar mustache like a Vaudevillian villain.

JOLLY ROGER FOLLIES were, a play, a musical, operetta or evening of vaudevillian antics.

Lake, another vaudevillian and inmate of the rooming house, had seen Slimjim Lee enter the house at around midnight, and had assumed he was calling on Perley Essington.

The old black man today, for example, who tap-danced while juggling cigarettes-still dignified, clearly once a vaudevillian, dressed in a purple suit with a green shirt and a yellow tie, his mouth fixed in a half-remembered stage smile.

We meet pioneer aviators and forgotten vaudevillians, glimpse Teddy Roosevelt and Al Jolson, marvel at the faces and places of earlier days.

Finney shows us the beer boys in a wonderful, touching authentic scene, where Si has joined a bunch of third-tier vaudevillians after hours on their apartment house stoop.

Up till now the vaudevillians had been white, doing their minstrel shows and piccaninny turns in blackface, but now that there was a colored migration to the Sydney coalfield, genuine colored artists started coming up from the States.

The turnover from his parents to his fellow vaudevillians was never easy, and the added pressure today made it worse.