Now, that tent show plays my bones like a marimba.

The family moved to Los Angeles, where as a young man he performed in a tent show.

There's a small traveling tent show, sort of a peanut carnival, been working its way slowly across state up here.

The tent show was there, in the middle of it; he'd caught up with it at last.

He was going to take me down to see that tent show tonight.

We are a long way here from a revivalist tent show.

Moving pictures did not slow down tent shows but instead improved business.

This however, ended up playing a large role in the demise of tent shows.

He began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats.

They continued touring the country through the 1940s, doing tent shows and sketch comedy.