vaudevillist

The profits of theatrical work then allured him; but, incapable of the slow and steady application required for stage arrangement, he was forced to associate with himself a vaudevillist, du Bruel, who took his ideas, worked them over, and reduced them into those productive little pieces, full of wit, which are written expressly for actors and actresses.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

This is the first time that anyone has made a Paris gamin real; he is not too generous, nor too intemperate, nor too much of a vaudevillist.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

After all, incredible as this story seems, M. Villemessant's vaudevillist is but a type of a great class of men who deceive themselves by devices which in others they would pronounce monstrosities of silliness, and who hug their delusions with a gravity none the less profound from their own half consciousness of the sham.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

Then our good vaudevillist would hurry back, deposit his umbrella, unroll his muffler, shed his overcoat, throw his lucky louis on the cloth -- and lose it!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

He tells us that a certain Paris vaudevillist was persuaded that if a man unexpectedly found a piece of money when destitute, it would bring him good luck.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

This is the first time that anyone has made a Paris gamin real; he is not too generous, nor too intemperate, nor too much of a vaudevillist.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

The fact is, that from the time of the Restoration we shall scarcely meet with a single writer, from the philosopher to the vaudevillist, and from the professor to the song-maker, who did not wish to act as a torch on the path of humanity.

George Sand; Some Aspects of her Life and Writings 1910

The fact is, that from the time of the Restoration we shall scarcely meet with a single writer, from the philosopher to the vaudevillist, and from the professor to the song-maker, who did not wish to act as a torch on the path of humanity.

George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

Sardou, the intrepid vaudevillist, playing Punch and Judy with history.

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

The fact is, that from the time of the Restoration we shall scarcely meet with a single writer, from the philosopher to the vaudevillist, and from the professor to the song-maker, who did not wish to act as a torch on the path of humanity.

George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Ren�� Doumic 1898