vaudeville theater

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Soundies are often referred to as music-video prototypes, which is true but doesn’t fully capture their hybrid charm and how they fuse vaudeville, theater, cinema and the era’s newest novelty, television.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2020

Fleeing both from villains and law enforcement, who suspect him in a murder, Hannay survives skulduggery in a vaudeville theater, a chase atop a speeding train and other cloak-and-dagger stuff.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

But back then, drag was often part of vaudeville theater, and it was not necessarily for or by gay men.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2019

Also in 1911, as a sign of the times, the Alhambra, one of downtown Seattle’s big stock and vaudeville theater venues, converted to showing motion pictures exclusively.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2016

The hero of the one-act play at Hammerstein's Victoria vaudeville theater on that December evening was, it appeared, a wealthy young mine-owner in disguise.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair