vaudeville• After its closing on Dec. 9,1906, it soon reopened as the Empire, a vaudeville and movie house.• Tillman had current information on the airportvaudeville.• A more fundamentalobjection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs.• The music-hall and vaudeville were transitional as really was all nineteenth-century popular culture.• In 1915, Eubie teamed with an ambitious young entrepreneur, Noble Sissle, for vaudevilleappearances.• You could have set Greenwich Mean Time by the great vaudevillecomedians.• What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of ThatcherismUndone.• Which is why in the vaudeville days they sometimes used a hook.
Originvaudeville
(1700-1800)FrenchOld Frenchvaudevire type of popular song, from vau-de-Vire“valley of Vire”, town in northwest France where such songs were written