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By 1921, they had achieved the dream of every vaudevillian.

The new vaudevillians, however, challenge the voice of scholarship on this point.

Gore came across as a kind of manic political vaudevillian.

One might call his art vaudevillian; it's a bit loud, but it puts on a good show.

"Give me an example of the word satiate," says one vaudevillian to another.

Many vaudevillians traveled with animals that were included in their routines.

Like old vaudevillians, fashion designers jockey to be the last to show.

They were dressed like vaudevillians, in derbies, and seemed to think nothing of it.

But he is also a vaudevillian, a great communicator.

A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian.

Her father was a local vaudevillian and her mother a homemaker.

"She really has the heart of a vaudevillian."

"He'd see the old vaudevillians who were down on their luck, stop to chat with them and put money in their hands."

His mother was an actress, his father a vaudevillian.

I have respect for skill, for craft, the way the vaudevillians did.

He was a born clown, a vaudevillian, a nonstop talker.

He joined a stock company, apparently traveled for a time with a circus, and became a successful vaudevillian.

The black vaudevillian Bert Williams was one of the early masters.

"There was something of the old song-and-dance vaudevillian in both of them."

Pushed too far, actors can quickly become vaudevillians.

The new vaudevillians seem fascinated by the exploits of their Elizabethan counterparts.

I don't feel I'm in any sense vaudevillian or melodramatic.'

"It was an honor to be a vaudevillian."

The health department was contacted, but rather serendipitously, the inspector who arrived happened to be an old vaudevillian.

So we put out a call on Facebook and Twitter for your favorite vaudevillians!

- they all seem part of an ancient, vaudevillian craft.

Even the term "first run" has a ring of almost vaudevillian antiquity.

The vaudevillian bathos to the moment still has Republicans rolling their eyes.

No, some other appellation is required, something with a more vaudevillian punch.

This political theater is almost vaudevillian at times.

Should I encourage the vaudevillian duo's singing, after all?

He reinvented the theater into a vaudevillian style before there was vaudeville.

It was considered one of the last Vaudevillian forays of this type.

Jones' vaudevillian humor was a bridge to television entertainment.

The evening was padded with far too much chirpy vaudevillian filler.

The vaudevillian nuttiness of their debut set hasn't diminished over the decades.

This is scene stealing of the highest-rated vaudevillian vintage.

Laurel and Hardy were viewed more as vaudevillian comedians.

The comic dialogue is often exasperatingly rendered in vaudevillian broad strokes.

The film has a strong vaudevillian influence.

It concerns a group of youngsters trying to put on a show to prove their vaudevillian parents wrong and make it to Broadway.

- 1914) was an American vaudevillian entertainer whose popularity extended far beyond his country's borders.

Instead, both episodes rely on jokes so cheap and hoary they seem positively vaudevillian.

Mr. Daugherty, in particular, has a flair for low vaudevillian farce.

'They have no appreciation at all of the vaudevillian arts.'

So I loved these vaudevillian whiz kids.

These vaudevillian mannerisms, however, serve only to highlight the thin comic-book nature of the script.

Even at her most spectacularly styled, she keeps a rough-and-tumble, vaudevillian edge.

Saba had a vaudevillian approach, changing the format of the comics several times within each issue.

What he calls his "breakthrough shot" was of a vaudevillian actor in clown pants, Bill Irwin.