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  2. American Vaudeville Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum was founded by Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly. [1] The museum posted historic content online and published Vaudeville Times magazine quarterly from 1998 to 2008 [2] [3] Its virtual museum included a bibliography of sources and an index of vaudevillians. [4] The museum was founded in 1986. [5]

  3. Vaudeville - Wikipedia

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    Vaudeville (/ ˈ v ɔː d (ə) v ɪ l, ˈ v oʊ-/; [1] French: ⓘ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. [2] A Vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs ...

  4. Palace Theatre (Columbus, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    It opened in 1926 as the Keith-Albee Palace and featured live vaudeville along with silent feature films, an orchestra and "Miss Buckeye", a Style 260 3/16 Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ. [ 2 ] The dressing room tower in the backstage area was designed as a small hotel, complete with a "front desk", where performers picked up their room ...

  5. Great Southern Hotel & Theatre - Wikipedia

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    In the 1910s and 1920s the theater, now called the Southern, featured first run silent films and live vaudeville. From the 1930s on, the Southern was a popular home for second-run double features. In the 1970s the theater briefly returned to first run fare as the Towne Cinema, showing black exploitation movies.

  6. Liberty Theater (Astoria, Oregon) - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Theater is a historic vaudeville theater and cinema in Astoria, Oregon, United States. The whole commercial building of which the theater is the major occupant is also known as the Astor Building , especially in the context of historic preservation .

  7. List of museums in Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of museums in Columbus, Ohio and non-profit and university art galleries.. The city's first museum was the Walcutt Museum, opened July 1851. At its opening, the museum had about six wax figures and a few paintings.

  8. These are the most fascinating L.A. museums you've ... - AOL

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    Barba, a celebrated tattoo artist and industry pioneer who runs a second tattoo location in Costa Mesa, said she bought the Long Beach space 20 years ago because "I was really hurt by the idea ...

  9. Benjamin Franklin Keith - Wikipedia

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    Later that year, Keith expanded the museum to include a 123 seat theater. [5] The theater hosted a variety of events, but vaudeville was the most popular and eventually replaced the museum. [7] The theatre was one of the early adopters of the continuous variety show which ran from 10:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night, every day.