vaudeville
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He was playing, as they say in vaudeville, to a different "house".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Ground-floor tickets generally cost around a dollar, while cheap seats in the upper balconies were usually just a dime, making vaudeville accessible to rich and poor alike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
For all its verbal vaudeville, though, this holiday pageant occasionally hints at Thomas’s abiding theme, death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
With his country twang and aw-shucks mannerisms belying a keen intellect, Will Rogers was the lasso-roping star of vaudeville and the Broadway stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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