Sentence examples for variety stage from inspiring English sources

Evie Fisher, aka Echo Endor, and her "boy" Narcissus are grand stars of the pre-second world war variety stage.

A good place to start is American Variety Stage, 1870-1920, a multimedia anthology from the Library of Congress (memory.loc.gov /ammem/vshtml/vshome.html).html

This is a discovery: I had never heard of her, but Vesta Tilley described her as "the greatest artist we ever had on the variety stage".

Like Chaplin, he started out on the variety stage, doing acrobatics and comedy acts – very far from being a leading man.

The variety stage clearly held an audience's attention without the use of such stable theatrical elements as plot, characterization, and even dialogue.

Although the hobo character was already familiar on the era's variety stage, and even though Fields's tricks were similarly well known, by age 23 he was in demand at the Hippodrome in London and the Folies-Bergère in Paris.

Blum also creates taxonomies of a more scientific, if still idiosyncratic, variety, staging a dead fox along a painted line on the road, or individual salamanders against vast floral tablecloths.

"Vulgar, yes, but there is nothing crude about me," was his guiding maxim, as he flounced around variety stages, clubs, pierheads and pantomimes, doing a dozen changes a show, sometimes with stylish but over-the-top dresses which cost £5,000 each.

With eight shows a week, the more variety on stage the better.

After Doogie, Harris took on a variety of stage and screen roles, sometimes playing distinctly shifty characters.

The juxtaposition of these frenzied homages beside the actual veterans' more modest reminiscences, overlaid with a variety of stage tableaus, does neither half of "Gunga Din" any favors.