Vaudeville, a collection of disparate acts (comedians, jugglers, and dancers) marketed mainly to a family audience, emerged in the 1880s and quickly became a national industry controlled by a few businessmen, with chains of theaters extending across...
Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including concert saloons, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque,...
Weiss, Anthony Forward 12-02-2005 For a limited time only, vaudeville is back. The movement brought America such acts as the Marx Brothers, Harry Houdini and "talkologist" Julius Tannen; featured the talents of Sophie Tucker, Duke Ellington, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, the saxophone-playing "Siamese...
Jill Schensul The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-02-1991 FOR OPENERS, VAUDEVILLE By Jill Schensul Date: 11-02-1991, Saturday Section: LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star Column: WHAT'S HOT Big doings at the Williams Center tonight. Opening tonight...
Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese _ Yiddish, actually _ for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating _ "The New York City Museum of Complaint" _ that were...
Peggy Gilbert, a noted saxophonist who helped female jazz musicians gain acceptance over a decades-long career of leading all-women ensembles, has died. She was 102.A Los Angeles resident, she died Feb. 12 of complications of hip surgery Monday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in...
