What is "vaude"

Usage examples of "vaude".

Below that was a rabble of acts that nobody wanted very much, which played for rotten pay in the worst vaude houses.

The old vaude jokes were sometimes cruel, but they were fairly funny and they were lightning-rods for the ill-will of audiences like ours, who had a plentiful supply of ill-will.

In the vaude houses we knew about the League of Nations and the changing procession of American Presidents because these things provided the jokes of people like Charlie.

Of course you look at them hard, but not domineering-hard like vaude hypnotists.

But I was a real waif, and sometimes when a Coogan picture was showing in the vaude houses where Willard and I appeared, I was humiliated by how far I fell short of the Coogan ideal.

Later, when I was with Willard on the vaude circuit, we had three days in a town where there was a Turkish bath, and I spent a dollar and a half on one.

Therefore I did not know what to make of it when he seized me one afternoon in the wings of the vaude house, and accused me violently of sexual unfaithfulness to him.

I knew there were vaude houses or variety shows of some kind in England, and I thought I could get a job there.

I think they were worse than those in the vaude houses I had known, because those at least were in constant use and had a frowsy life to them.