#vaudeville

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#before #bill #book #buffalo #enough

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done. ↗

— Goodman Ace

#call #clever #contraction #derived #done

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. ↗

— James Broughton

#dance #drama #everything #i #loved

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me. ↗

— Anna Held

#i do #like #likes #me #vaudeville

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#become #bit #broadway #broadway musicals #get