Word: vaudevillian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goads a clerk to seek dubious paths to sudden wealth. He forces his way into Long Island society, only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel...
Sued for Separation. Jack Rose, prominent vaudevillian, by his wife, Janette Lawson Rose, former Follies girl. She charges that he beat her, and once in a Chicago restaurant tore the dress from her back. In explaining the suit, Mr. Rose said: "I am a very homely man, and women take no interest...
Many, many years ago an opera called Cavalleria Rusticana was composed. It proved, as a vaudevillian would say, an immediate wow. Its Intermezzo, written as a time-filler to cover the distribution and consumption of oranges between the acts, has been scored for every known combination of instruments, including flute and banjo, hand-organ, and the voice of John McCormack...
...smallest ham. Those who are now guiding his destinies are already filling him up with stagy tricks, turning him into the poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins a prize and recognition with his drawing just as the snow mounts higher and higher around his ragged clothes...
Greenwich Village Follies. A spirited, sumptuous display of color and talent with a good deal of extraordinary dancing to paprika it?two mirthful comic acrobats, the Mandells, Daphne Pollard, the laugh-provoking vaudevillian of the piece, some lavishly-staged song numbers, good voices, splendid direction, noteworthy speed. Not quite as laughable in its high spots as the Music...