3 edition of Automatic vaudeville found in the catalog.
Automatic vaudeville
John Lahr
Published
1985
by Methuen in London
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | John Lahr. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PN1583 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | x,241p. : |
| Number of Pages | 241 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL15031722M |
| ISBN 10 | 0413559602 |
vaudeville (vôd´vĬl), originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar to the English music hall, American vaudeville was a live entertainment consisting of unrelated songs, dances, acrobatic and magic acts, and humorous skits and sketches by a variety of performers and acts, each on stage for. From to , vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly dominated American popular culture. Writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. chronicles vaudeville's far-reaching impact in No Applause—Just Throw Money. He explores the many ways in which Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Genre/Form: Drama Plays (Performed Works) Scripts (Documents) Additional Physical Format: Online version: Lahr, John, Automatic vaudeville. New York: Knopf, From tovaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly dominated American popular culture.
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Robots of vaudeville: the "automatic" and mechanical minstrels of the s A Variety ad for Byron Monzello's Mechanical Minstrels Vaudeville's so-called "automatic" or "mechanical" minstrels were dummy acts.
The minstrel part of the dummies' act—the singing and joke telling—was provided by phonograph recordings. Operating as The Automatic Vaudeville Company, the arcade featured a variety of amusements including penny-operated peeps, phonographs with individual listening devices, stationary bicycles, punching bags and a basement shooting gallery.
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