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‘Mary Took the Calves to the Dairy Show’ [song title] in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951).at dairy, n.1
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Variety [editorial] 28 Mar. in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951) n.p.: If the big timers occupy so large a quantity of their wakeful moments in doping out schemes against Variety, how is it possible for them to give proper attention to the bills?at big-timer (n.) under big time, n.1
Variety [editorial] 28 Mar. in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951) n.p.: Within the past two weeks three bigtime managers have had to advertise in Variety without having their names in the advertisement.at big-time, adj.
N.-Y. Trib. in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951) n.p.: Miss Tanguay is billed as a ‘bombshell’.at bombshell, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 37: The standard formula of colored acts – the chicken-stealing, crap-shootin’, gin-guzzlin’, razor-totin’, no-account.at no-account, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Angel – show-backer.at angel, n.
(con. 1911) Show Biz from Vaude to Video 61: He changed the name of his show in rehearsal, The Belle of Bald-Headed Row to Miss Nobody From Starland.at bald-headed row (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 99: ‘Coax Me,’ was made famous by Lottie Gilson [...] who sang it alluringly to front-row baldheads on which she reflected the spotlight with a mirror.at baldhead, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 173: Billy Sunday sold God to audiences with a bang-up performance that was strictly b.o.at bang-up, adj.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 572: Took a bath – went into bankruptcy.at take a bath (v.) under bath, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video xix: The intent of the general bawl-out was psychological for morale.at bawl-out, n.1
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 7: Irish characters [...] never spoke without saying ‘begorra’.at begorra!, excl.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 8: Any American actor with a foreign tour under his belt found his stock boosted at home.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 547: The folk song vogue was such that anybody and everybody did ’billy tunes as well as the livelier tempos.at billy, n.5
(con. 1911) Show Biz from Vaude to Video 56: ‘You and your blankety paper,’ he fumed at Variety’s editor.at blankety, adj.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 46: Vaudeville belonged to the pie-throwers and comics who fished for laughs with slightly ‘blue,’ or suggestive material.at blue, adj.3
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Boff – a hit.at boff, n.1
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 547: Mario Lanza’s surprise boffola, The Great Caruso, with its longhair hit parade music, catapulted a wave of middle-and-highbrow music.at boffola, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 47: ‘Drunken dog’ acts brought the house down.at bring the house down (v.) under bring, v.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Brit flick = British film [W&F].at Brit, adj.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Broadied – flopped.at brodie, v.
(con. 1913) Show Biz from Vaude to Video 34: When Gertrude Hoffman’s new shop opened [...] her ad as replete with the new slang of the day, referring to the girls in the show as ‘chickens,’ ‘squabs’ and ‘broilers’.at broiler, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 76: ‘Bumps’ were added to this, also the spinning of the breasts and the rump.at bump, n.1
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 30: When Rogers introduced his new act in 1911, he told his audience: ‘I’ve been getting away with this junk for so long that I thought you would get wise to me sooner or later, so I went and dug up a little new stuff with which to bunk you for a few more years’.at bunk, v.3
(con. 1911) Show Biz from Vaude to Video 61: Variety described it as ‘a burly show of the highest type’. [Ibid.] 75: The great John L. had his own John L. Sullivan Players in 1907. ‘He’s with burly,’ Variety reported, ‘and keeping sober.’.at burley, n.1
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 5: Actors laid them in the aisles with such sparkling chestnuts as ...at chestnut, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 547: His rich basso proved unconvincing when chirping about the wide open spaces.at chirp, v.
(con. 1913) Show Biz from Vaude to Video 71: Variety disclosed that ‘many chiseling vaude managers were giving the road a black eye through sharp practices’.at chisel, v.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Chiz – chiseler; a gyp.at chizzer, n.
Show Biz from Vaude to Video 567: Cincy – Cincinnati.at Cinci, n.
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