vaudeville 的定义
- theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.Compare variety.
- a theatrical piece of light or amusing character, interspersed with songs and dances.
- a satirical cabaret song.
vaudeville 近义词
entertainment
更多vaudeville例句
- The facts show Robinson to have been a force for positive change, Grant says, pointing to evidence such as the barrier-breaking in vaudeville.
- Robinson’s vaudeville triumphs included performing at New York’s Palace Theatre — the summit of vaudeville prestige and the venue where, the story goes, he debuted his signature stair dance in 1918.
- His father spent years shuttling between jail cells and mental institutions, and his mother, a onetime vaudeville dancer named Aileen Davenport, abandoned him as a baby.
- The odd (though beautiful) pair here is Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were a hit on the vaudeville circuit.
- Vaudeville was dead, Houdini was dead—he was off the radar.
- His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.
- Joe created at Engel Stadium the intersection between vaudeville and baseball.
- Every election is a variation on the old vaudeville joke, "compared to what?"
- For a long time he wrote vaudeville sketches over the name of Cursy.
- No; only if you had told me that you wanted to come to the Vaudeville to-night I could have got this box for you as well as he.
- In 1835 the marquise defended vaudeville entertainments against Lady Dudley, who said she could not endure them.
- He came back warily, forgetting his English accent, which he had laboriously imitated in admiration of a certain vaudeville hero.
- The Doctor thought this a capital idea for a vaudeville, but poor enough in real life, and doubted my success.