vaudeville theater
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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.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2020
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
The Queen Theater was originally built in the 1800s, converted to a vaudeville theater in the 1920s and was a movie house before closing in 1959.
From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2017
The grand structure was once home to a bustling department store, restaurant, post office, and vaudeville theater.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2016
He had made Gideon a national character, a headliner, a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of the vaudeville theater, and all in six short months.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Poe, Edgar Allan
