About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Ventriloquism, Finnegan's Wake, Frank Lebby Stanton, Dave Stamper, Tin Pan Alley, The Baby Snooks Show, Will it play in Peoria?, Bodabil, One-person show, Palace Theatre, Koster and Bial's Music Hall, Jean Hugard, Yard Dogs Road Show, Hugh Herbert, Chitlin' circuit, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Orpheum Circuit Inc., Orpheum Theatre, Theater Owners Bookers Association, Hippodrome Theatre, Eugenia Clinchard, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Leo Singer, Francis Carlyle, Tuxedo, Strand Theatre, Chalk talk, The Ingenues, Ramona Park, Elizabeth Spencer, Keith-Albee-Orpheum, Omnitriloquist, Concert saloon, Circus Contraption, Hello Nurse, Songwriters On Parade, Crispy Family Carnival, Pustra/Vile-een's Vaudeville. Excerpt: Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades. The origin of the term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the expression voix de ville, or "voice of the city." Another plausible etymology finds origins in the French Vau de Vire, a valley in Normandy noted for its style of satirical songs with topical themes. The term vaudeville, referring specifically to North American v...
