... , magicians, dancers, and movies. Across the nation were chains of theaters of every size and grandeur, which circuited these traveling performers or Vaudevillians that dazzled and entertained Americans of every age. Vaudeville was the nation's first form of wide spread mass entertainment in the United States and helped set the patterns that became the backbone for our contemporary mass entertainment such ... more. Vaudeville was more "than an assembly of ragtime pantaloons, topical monologist, eccentric dancers, barrelhouse songbirds, ventriloquist, magicians, tumblers and jugglers, mor...

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