vaudeville theater

His eye was drawn to cheap entertainments — circuses, vaudeville theater, auctions and — inevitably — Coney Island.

There’s an old joke that dates back to vaudeville theater in the 19th century that comedians love putting their own spin on.

Main Street in Shawnee, an old coal town that once boasted an opera house, a vaudeville theater, dozens of stores and plenty of taverns, is now one abandoned building after another.

“It’s easy to see the House of Commons as a sort of vaudeville theater and ask, ‘Why does this matter?’” said Tony Travers, a professor of politics at the London School of Economics.

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.