Word: vaudevillian
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...Stick with Satchmo." As Davis recounts it in Yes I Can, he acquired his hard-driving habits almost from the cradle. His vaudevillian father took him into his act when he was three, saw him a headliner before his ninth birthday. The hours young Sammy kept were not those recommended by Dr. Spock, but in a way he was luckier than many of his Negro contemporaries. He never dropped out of school because he never dropped in, avoided the ghetto life by staying on the road. He was eight years old before he heard the word "nigger," did not really...
Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...
BABES IN THE WOOD. Rick Besoyan's vaudevillian version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is more akin to Minsky than Shakespeare. The humor is broad, the music is gay, the mood is light. The groundlings would have loved...
Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...
...Dancing. Novelist Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of a show-biz Narcissus grown...