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As a vaudevillian who traveled constantly in non-summer months, Keaton always regarded Muskegon as his home town.
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He never knew his father, a vaudevillian who had been part of a traveling song-and-dance team with Steiger's mother ( who subsequently left show business ).
The Italian marked the first motion picture role for Beban, who had gained acclaim as a Broadway actor and vaudevillian specializing in ethnic caricatures.
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop ( August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984 ) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.
The play focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudevillian team known as " Lewis and Clark " who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act.
Fellow vaudevillian W. C. Fields, who appeared in productions with Williams, described him as " the funniest man I ever saw – and the saddest man I ever knew.
: Only a vaudevillian who has trod its stage can really tell you about it ... only a performer can describe the anxieties, the joys, the anticipation, and the exultation of a week's engagement at the Palace.
about his father Jackie Bright who was an actor and vaudevillian performer.
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He joined a stock company, apparently traveled for a time with a circus, and became a successful vaudevillian.
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Though he reputedly claimed that as a vaudevillian he was " hopelessly average ," it was merely a wisecrack.
Some people credit American, Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillian to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches.
* May 10 – Joe Weber, American vaudevillian ( b. 1867 )
** Will Mastin, American vaudevillian ( d. 1975 )
* January 29 – James Edmonson, American vaudevillian and comedian ( b. 1910 )
* November 7 – Chic Sale, American vaudevillian ( b. 1885 )
* February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian ( b. 1856 )
A Vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian.
* William Dillon, Composer, lyricist, and vaudevillian.
* Arthur C. Sidman Playwright and vaudevillian.
For many years, Rogers regularly supported, and held in-person presentations, at the Craterian Theater, in Medford, Oregon, where she had performed in 1926 as a vaudevillian.
Sixty-four-year-old Bill Frawley, a seasoned vaudevillian and movie character actor with nearly 100 film credits to his name, was a long shot to play Fred Mertz and only came into consideration after he telephoned Ball personally to ask if there was a role for him on her new show.
In 2002, Zeta-Jones continued her momentum and played murderous vaudevillian Velma Kelly in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago.
West was married on April 11, 1911, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank Szatkus, stage name Frank Wallace, a fellow vaudevillian whom she first met in 1909.
* Harriet " Hattie " Fields ( 1879 – 1963 ), vaudevillian, wife of comedian W. C. Fields
The roots of Texaco Star Theatre were in a 1930s radio hit, Ed Wynn, the Fire Chief, featuring the manic " Perfect Fool " in a half hour of vaudevillian routines interspersed with music.
The song Livery Stable Blues by the ODJB in 1917 personified the vaudevillian style that white audiences sought in Jazz: choppy, comedic, almost poking fun at itself.
Pioneering calypsonian / vaudevillian Sam Manning recorded a song entitled " Lignum Vitae " in the 1920s.
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Those who have never traveled the width and length of this land cannot conceive, on the basis of textbook description alone, the overwhelming space and variety of this country held together under one government.
And for a man who traveled around without any change of clothing, a few more stains on his dark suit may very well have gone unnoticed.
The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.
The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.
When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.
These events may have been spurred by the action of Constantina, who had since traveled east to marry Gallus.
Dallas wore this alternate uniform on October 11, 2009 as part of one of the NFL's AFL Legacy Weekends when they traveled to Kansas City to play the Chiefs who were sporting their AFL Dallas Texans ' uniforms.
This led to the rise of mobsters such as the Purple Gang, who regularly traveled across the frozen river and used violence as a means to control the route known as the " Detroit-Windsor Funnel " — parodying the newly built tunnel.
Instead he and his brother Raúl ( who had been given the same name as his late brother ) traveled incognito to New Orleans, Louisiana.
A former English plumber turned evangelist who lived simply and read nothing but the Bible from the time his wife taught him to read, Wigglesworth traveled around the world preaching about Jesus and performing faith healings.
A. Allen were faith healers who traveled with large tents for large open-air crusades.
The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.
The International Brigades () were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
On January 5, 2000, Mihdhar traveled to Kuala Lumpur, where he joined Hazmi, Attash and Yemeni, who were all arriving from Pakistan.
Masahide traveled the land teaching what he knew to all who would listen, and swordsmiths rallied to his cause and ushered in a second renaissance in Japanese sword smithing.
* Moncacht-Apé, a Native American who may have traveled across North America more than a century before Lewis and Clark
The first evidence of modern steel-strung mandolins is from literature regarding popular Italian players who traveled through Europe teaching and giving concerts.
Notable are Signor Leone and G. B. Gervasio, who traveled widely between 1750 and 1810.
Other Europeans who traveled to Khanbaliq during the Yuan Dynasty, such as Giovanni de ' Marignolli and Odoric of Pordenone, said nothing about the wall either.
Salomon Schweigger ( 1551-1622 ) was a German preacher who traveled in the entourage of Jochim von Sinzendorf, Ambassador to Constantinople for Rudolf II in 1577.
Also, William Hammet ( a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke ), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791.
* Mini, a character from the comic book NEW-GEN who traveled back in time and inspired the legend of the monster itself.
On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.
By the mid-1850s, Mount Baker was a well-known feature on the horizon to the explorers and fur traders who traveled in the Puget Sound region.
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