Tell her you're abdul abdullah who used to be a mind reader in vaudeville.

告诉她你是阿布·阿度拉，常常在杂技团表演读心术。

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He attributed this to the accident of their first public appearance together in vaudeville: "the audience laughed at her questions instead of my answers," he later explained.

他认为这纯属偶然，起因于他俩在对口轻喜剧中第一次公开亮相。后来他解释道：“观众是听了她的提问而并非听了我的回答而发笑的。”

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Target girl is a term sometimes used in circus and vaudeville to denote a female assistant in "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archery or sharpshooting.

标靶女郎是有时用于马戏团和杂耍的一个词语，指的是在飞刀，射箭或飞镖之类“飞刺”节目中的女助手。

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Like many performers of his time, he started in vaudeville in the early nineteen hundreds.

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While in school, Benny got a job as a violin player with the Barrison Theater, the local vaudeville house.

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Vaudeville was the most popular form of show business in the United States in the early nineteen hundreds.

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The films, shown in vaudeville theaters, used toy ships in bathtubs and cigar smoke for special-effect re-creations.

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His success was accompanied, and made possible, by a fiercely competitive spirit, combined with a penny-pinching nature a remnant of his struggle just to survive as a child and in vaudeville.

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" As for the title track, it was first recorded in 1928 by vaudeville clarinetist Ted Lewis with lyrics she calls "a feminine statement, in a weird way.

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