Light theatrical piece

Usage examples of vaudeville.

Before long, Materia was playing for local ceilidhs and traveling vaudeville troupes.

Here is pictured a type of Greek work which survives in American vaudeville, where every line may be two-thirds spoken and one-third sung, the entire rendering, musical and elocutionary, depending upon the improvising power and sure instinct of the performer.

Valley Theater, the only stage in the Antelope Valley providing the finest in kinematograph and vaudeville entertainment.

Mario had not so much club feet as more like block feet: not only flat but perfectly square, good for kicking knob-fumbled doors open with but too short to be conventionally employed as feet: together with the lordosis in his lower spine, they force Mario to move in the sort of lurchy half-stumble of a vaudeville inebriate, body tilted way forward as if into a wind, right on the edge of pitching face-first onto the ground, which as a child he did fairly often, whether given a bit of a shove from behind by his older brother Orin or no.

But Materia still had the vaudeville and the picture shows and she was happy as long as she could play.

He remembered rollicking down the hill to Strait Street, well past midnight, singing old vaudeville songs.

Then the mayor introduced the toast of vaudeville, that famous monologuist and comedian, the darling of the Irish, Billy Brady.

Mexico, Brazil, and Poland overdubbed in cheap, sleazy attempts to revive vaudeville, and taped coverage of such stellar live sports events as Demolition Derby, and Bobtail truck races.

Only a remnant is left of the old vaudeville circuits Verey and Lanty knew.

He says Henry by this time is checking out the bill down at his vaudeville house or packing up the film from the movie palace and putting it on the trolley where it will go on the beltline to Buffalo to be replaced by a new film.

In 1919, as their hopes dwindled of making themselves secure for life through Deliverance, and since their Chautauqua tours as well as Hollywood experience had inured them to exhibiting themselves to make a living, far from turning down a vaudeville contract, they sought it.

The Webers doubted that a deaf-blind woman could interest a vaudeville audience, which was rowdier and more intent on entertainment than the education-bent, sober folk who formed the Chautauqua constituency.

The social pressures that attended the vaudeville tour Helen found to be lighter than those of the Chautauqua circuit.

Sabine, assisted by Mariotte and Gasselin, invented various little vaudeville schemes to ascertain the dishes which Madame de Rochefide served to Calyste.

Clem and Jody, two oldtime vaudeville hoofers, cope out as Russian agents whose sole function is to represent the U.