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Title: Continuous Vaudeville

Author: Will M. Cressy

Illustrator: Hal Merrit

Release Date: March 14, 2009 [EBook #28327]

Language: English

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CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE

[Illustration: CONTINUOUS
VAUDEVILLE

BY
WILL M. CRESSY]

CONTINUOUS
VAUDEVILLE

BY
WILL M. CRESSY

_With Illustrations by_
_HAL MERRITT_

[Illustration]

BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

Copyright, 1914, by Richard G. Badger

All Rights Reserved

THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON, U. S. A.

INTRODUCTION

When you go into a Continuous Vaudeville Theater you expect to see and
hear a little of everything. You see a lot of poor acts, a few good ones
and two or three _real_ good ones. In seeking a suitable title for this
book it struck us that that description would fit it exactly; so we will
christen it--

CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE OLD STAGE DOOR TENDER 13

IT'S HARD TO MAKE THE OLD FOLKS BELIEVE IT 22

UNION LABOR 28

MARTIN LEHMAN GOES TO NEW YORK 30

SOME HOTEL WHYS 43

IT ISN'T THE COAT THAT MAKES THE MAN 45

ONE-NIGHT-STAND ORCHESTRAS 48

"HEART INTEREST" 57

TOMMIE RYAN'S HORSE 60

VAUDEVILLE VS. THE LEGITIMATE 70

A SOCIAL SESSION