vaudeville
杂耍,杂耍场,杂耍剧,杂耍表演
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- : theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.Compare variety.
- : a theatrical piece of light or amusing character, interspersed with songs and dances.
- : a satirical cabaret song.
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The facts show Robinson to have been a force for positive change, Grant says, pointing to evidence such as the barrier-breaking in vaudeville.
Robinson’s vaudeville triumphs included performing at New York’s Palace Theatre — the summit of vaudeville prestige and the venue where, the story goes, he debuted his signature stair dance in 1918.
His father spent years shuttling between jail cells and mental institutions, and his mother, a onetime vaudeville dancer named Aileen Davenport, abandoned him as a baby.
The odd (though beautiful) pair here is Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were a hit on the vaudeville circuit.
Vaudeville was dead, Houdini was dead—he was off the radar.
His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.
Joe created at Engel Stadium the intersection between vaudeville and baseball.
Every election is a variation on the old vaudeville joke, "compared to what?"
For a long time he wrote vaudeville sketches over the name of Cursy.
No; only if you had told me that you wanted to come to the Vaudeville to-night I could have got this box for you as well as he.
In 1835 the marquise defended entertainments against Lady Dudley, who said she could not endure them.