#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

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

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

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