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Example sentences for "musical comedy"

  • The jealous ones revenged themselves by criticizing the theatrical manners of the undergraduate, especially upon the last night of a musical comedy.

  • Three months later, she obtained an engagement in a musical comedy company on tour and sent back to Philip the last shred of clothing that she had had through him, with a letter and ten pounds in bank-notes: You must divorce me now.

  • The Quartet showed signs of increasing vitality with the approach of spring, and there was no need to think any more of touring in musical comedy, which was a relief to Sylvia.

  • Minneworra reached New York Sylvia had come to the conclusion that the representatives of the legitimate drama differed only from the chorus of a musical comedy in taking their temperaments and exits more seriously.

  • Make it a point to see and study other dancers, in vaudeville, musical comedy, opera and revue.

  • The same kind of dance does not do for vaudeville, musical comedy, revue and opera.

  • For this reason Miss Gilman's greatest achievement in "The Rounders" was the remarkable success with which she accomplished the formidable task of mixing sentiment into a musical comedy.

  • She has appeared in light opera, in extravaganza, in musical comedy, and in the Shakespearian drama.

  • Artless girlishness, remarkable personal charm, and skill as an imaginative dancer scarcely equalled on the American stage, account for Minnie Ashley's sudden success in musical comedy.

  • As soon as her contract with the Casino expired, Augustin Daly engaged her for his musical comedy company, where she succeeded Violet Lloyd as Mollie Seamore in "The Geisha.

  • She was what they call a specialty dancer in musical comedy," Lydia answered.

  • When these people read, it was a sugar-candy novel, and when they went to the play, it was a musical comedy.

  • At Siegfried Harvey's theatre-party Montague had seen a popular actress in a musical comedy, which was then the most successful play running in New York.

  • The entertainment was another "musical comedy" like the one he had seen a few nights before.

  • Probably many of the actors noted on the census list are musicians, and many of the musicians, actors; the writer of the topical song having himself sung it in vaudeville or musical comedy.

  • Lightness of color seems a requisite for a stage position, unless a dark skin is offset by very great ability, as in the case of Aida Walker, one of the most graceful and charming women in musical comedy.

  • The man, for instance, who asks you if you have been to a theatre lately when you have just deftly foisted upon the company the latest joke you heard in a musical comedy, has reached that stage of the disease when retirement is the only cure.

  • Well, when a stage manager gives an unknown girl a walk on in the chorus of a musical comedy, he looks upon it in the light of a favour.

  • A very well-defined type of London theatrical entertainment is the "musical comedy," a taste for which has spread to America, and is now invading France.

  • Musical comedy" has to be bright, tuneful, inconsequential, and illustrated by charming women in charming costumes.

  • Why do you keep howling against melodrama and musical comedy?

  • When Adrian worked, Doria read Dante and attended performances of the Intellectual Drama; when Adrian relaxed, she cooked dainties in a chafing dish and accompanied him to Musical Comedy.

  • Perhaps if they had proceeded to a musical comedy or a farce or a variety entertainment where Jaffery could have expanded his lungs in laughter, their evening as a whole might have been less dismal.

  • Typical of them was Marie Doro, a Dresden-doll type of girl who made her first stage appearance, as did Billie Burke and Elsie Ferguson, in musical comedy.

  • On this same occasion he was asked, "What seat in the theater do you consider the best to view a drama or a musical comedy from?

  • There isn't anything that can't happen in musical comedy.

  • There was no heavy closeness of greasepaint, no scent of soiled and tawdry costumes which years before had revolted her behind the scenes of a musical comedy.

  • The cylinder was discovered by the boss's brother, a well-known producer of musical comedy--and then immediately lost.

  • As I looked round the room I could not but feel that, for the performance of a musical comedy, Mr Spencer had gathered together a truly curious company.

  • A more dreadful set of people to read a musical comedy to one could not by any possibility imagine.

  • But a musical comedy may be a work of genius.

  • In fact, it's a musical comedy in one act.

  • Another guy wanted to take my money and star me in a musical comedy.

  • I was with a musical comedy at the time, and I met my husband in Racine, Wis.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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