Word: vaudevillian
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...Allen was the biggest bringdown, with his cheerleader antics and vaudevillian approach. As usual he played some very trashy trumpeting, but when he restrained himself, he turned out a few choruses that were very moving...
Songwriter, actor, dancer, vaudevillian. playwright, Cohan was never equaled-even by Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
Holidaying on Broadway from his Pacific Coast success, he and his picture dissolve back to the time when he was a Broadway hoofer, and Broadway begins. But its star, who is constitutionally unable to play the simple, naive vaudevillian the original role called for, substitutes the life-&-times of George Raft. They are unco dull...
Unlike other arts, ballet dancing never gets deep into psychological whys & wherefores. Ballet seldom expresses tragic ideas or describes serious situations. Its dancers are graceful athletes; its subjects usually fairy tales, quaint boy-&-girl situations, gentle vaudevillian satires. Some rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...
Sonny. Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. some 19 years ago on the present site of the Brooklyn Telephone Company building. His mother, née Nell Carter, was a small-time Kansas City vaudevillian when she met up with dancing Joe Yule shortly before World War I, married...