Show ONCE OVER Hail the Return of By H. I. Phillips vaudeville came back TWO-A-DAY to the American amusement And this time It wasn't so hard to convince the audience that there was p time when they put movies on just to chase the customers out with a clear indication that the real entertainment was The movies drove the audiences out of the vaudeville They may now have driven them With a lot of help from Video is responsible in two it has really revived the versatility once found in the It has shown the tremendous video audience a place to go where It can see an occasional act without a BALLET PRELUDE I see Vaudeville reminds us of It's so The old time variety show had Us but the performer had to be not merely It wasn't enough to be well groomed and Charm but the had to have good a style of their and genuine ability pins fortitude and have them all In the tough days when nobody got a pot of gold for a night's e The act had to be not Just to hard-boiled to come soap-powder advertising agency boy or video The having taken the trouble to travel through a blizzard and paid in to see your gwan und make me And the- didn't live who could offset a chilly reaction at the Palace by whistling applause or motioning for the audience to come up with warmer see Nobody ever saw a vaudeville performer try to over a little bigger by pronouncing a pulling a tear-jerker about his love for the kiddies and thanking all Americans everywhere for letting him Into their That was away back when people looked for benedictions from the church and settled for good fun from the There was a recognized barrier between the performers and the audience and you were never supposed to have taker any stranger into your family circle just because you applauded his A comedian could be great and still not be your living-room pal and your fireside see The vaudeville lads and tan-ales were an resolute rugged and Independent willing to stake their on your Judgment without closer sentimental ties if not all-out They professed no Immense satisfaction that audience bad permitted them to appear on the Some of the greatest comedians ever known to the never gave a darn whether they came Into your home or or cared especially whether your kiddies ate their e With Judy Garland as the top the Palace show seemed to put vaudeville back into the The opening night build-up and the frenzied emphasis on the presence of notables could be taken with a grain of Most of the were those who would rather die niss an occasion which promises personal publicity and another The audiences train now on will tell the and cur fins Is that this time vaudeville is back for quite a The country is video conscious and when you're video conscious you're vaudeville |