vaudeville

• It is all the same to me whether I write “The Party” or “The Lights,” or a vaudeville or a letter to a friend—it is all dull, spiritless, mechanical, and I get annoyed with critics who attach any importance to “The Lights,” for instance. —  Letters of Anton Chekhov
• It was late in the 19th century that the French word "vaudeville" came into use to describe these programs; the British called them music halls. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• "A couple of months later I was asked again and I put together what I would now call a vaudeville-style performance," she says.
• He spoke of this to his manager, and he communicated with the manager of a Broadway vaudeville--they are both in the vaudeville trust--and asked him to engage her, and retain her for the troop when they should start on their annual autumn tour. —  Flamsted quarries
• Yellow papers and vaudeville shows--vaudeville shows on the stage, in the courtroom, on the political platform, in the pulpit of the church--are welcome, and of all the results, one is the most immediate, the disorganization of the brain energies A sound mind is a well-organized mind in which a controlling idea is able to inhibit the opposites and is in no danger of being overrun by any chance intrusion into the mind. —  Psychotherapy

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