1.   But things changed when he met Martin Beck, a vaudeville booking agent who signed him to perform with his Orpheum circuit vaudeville act.

2.   He knew the routine as if it was his vaudeville act.

3.   He incorporates the film into his vaudeville act, interacting with Gertie, who eats, drinks, plays and even cries.

4.   It makes many current cooking shows look like vaudeville acts.

5.   Like a polished vaudeville act, she, her father and Karl have perfected pickpocket routines, which they put into practice at airline, railroad and bus terminals.

6.   Maybe he can hang on as a vaudeville act, fighting a string of McNeeleys and play-acting the biting routine to the delight of a jaunty crowd.

7.   Once there, though, he discovers the theory running aground on reality, finding only broken-down vaudeville acts -- with one exception.

8.   Parts of the concert had the feel of a contemporary vaudeville act in which Patinkin carried on like an intellectual Al Jolson.

9.   Sad to say, overzealous adults got into the act again Monday, turning a show of support into a vaudeville act.

10.   Smith joined her vaudeville act, playing the piano at times and other times playing master of ceremonies.