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• Das Kabarett; Jahrbuch. ([Düsseldorf] Kabarett-Künstler,), by Dusseldorf Kabarett-Künstler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Théâtre. ([France : s.n., 183-?-184-?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• From dance hall to white slavery : the world's greatest tragedy / ([Chicago] : C.C. Thompson Co., c1912), by John Dillon and H. W. Tragedies of the white slaves Lytle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les demi-cabots ; le café-concert, le cirque, le forains. (Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, 1896), by Georges d' Esparbès and Georges Montorgueil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dramatic & musical law : being a digest of the law relating to theatres and music halls and containing chapters on theatrical contracts, theatrical, music & dancing & excise licences dramatic and musical copyright, &c. : with an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament relating thereto and the regulations of the London County Council and the Lord Chamberlain / (London : "The Era" Pub. Office, 1910), by Albert A. Strong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schall und Rauch. (Berlin : Reprinted by Buchverlag der Morgen, 1985) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From theatre to music hall, (London, S. Swift & co., 1912), by W. R. Titterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nuits à Paris / (Paris : E. Dentu, 1889), by Rodolphe Darzens and Adolphe Willette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Raphaël et Gambrinus, ou, L'art dans la brasserie / (Paris : L. Westhausser, 1886), by John Grand-Carteret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les coulisses du café-concert: Yvette Guimbarde [i. e. Yvette Guilbert] (Paris, M. Blasson, 1893), by pseud Cahin-Caha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Cythères parisiennes; histoire anecdotique des bals de Paris. Avec 24 eaux-fortes et un frontispice de Félicien Rops et Émile Thérond. (Paris, E. Dentu, 1864), by Alfred Delvau (page images at HathiTrust)
• No cover charge; a backward look at the night clubs. (New York, Dial Press, 1956), by Robert Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal dance halls. ([Chicago : Press of Barnard & Miller], 1914), by Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Reference Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Beverages menu from the Kabarett Fledermaus]. ([Vienna : Kabarett Fledermaus, 1907]), by Kabarett Fledermaus, Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, and Wiener Werkstätte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music hall! [electronic resource] : one night only, Tuesday, January 26, 1869, grand inaugural entertainment .. ([London, Ont.? : s.n., 1869?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art à la taverne de Paris ... / (Paris : Imprimé par G. Richard, pour H. Chailly, 1906), by Adolphe Clovis Augier and Raoul Gineste (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chansons et chansonniers / (Paris : C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [1890]), by Henri Avenal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harry Lauder : at home and on tour / (London : Greening & Co., 1907), by Harry Lauder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Danton Walker's guide to New York nitelife / (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958), by Danton Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glimpses of the new Coney Island : America's most popular pleasure resort; reproduced from best and latest photographs. (New York : Published by Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 268-270 Canal Street, c.1904), by Isaac H. Blanchard Co and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taxi-dance hall : a sociological study in commercialized recreation and city life /, by Paul Goalby Cressey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les coulisses du café-concert : Yvette Guimbarde / (Paris : M. Blasson, 1893), by Cahin-Caha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cabaret Fledermaus. ([Vienna, Austria] : Wiener Werkstätte, [1907]), by Roda Roda, Carl Leopold Hollitzer, Frank Wedekind, Moriz Jung, Carl Otto Czeschka, and Kabarett Fledermaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les chansonniers et les cabarets artistiques / (Paris : E. Dentu, [1895]), by Horace Valbel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des théâtres de Paris: les Variétés amusantes, 1778-1789--1793-1798--1803-1804--1815. (Paris, H. Daragon, 1908), by L.-Henry Lecomte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The public dance halls of Chicago. (Chicago : The Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, 1917), by Louise de Koven Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de Mlle Flore, actrice des variétés : avec notes et notice / (Paris : Société Parisienne d' Édition, 1903), by Flore Corvée (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The "halls." (London, T. F. Unwin, [1899]), by G. F. Scotson-Clark and George Gamble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pierrot playlets : cackle for concert parties / (London ; New York : Samuel French, 1920), by Herbert C. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• F. F. Proctor, (New York, R. R. Smith, 1943), by William Moulton Marston and John Henry Feller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artisten-lexikon ; biographische notizen über kunstreiter. (Düsseldorf : E. Lintz, 1895), by Hermann Waldemar Otto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les chansonniers et les cabarets artistiques / (Paris : E. Dentu, [1895?]), by Horace Valbel and Alfred Le Petit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monologhi, duetti e scene da Caffé-concerti. (Napoli : Luigi Chiurazzi e figli, 1899), by F. Contursi, Vincenzo Valente, G. Cerimele, and G. Mery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years of a Londoner's life, (New York. Dodd, Mead, & co., 1916), by Henry George Hibbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of a Londoner's life, (London, G. Richards ltd., 1916), by Henry George Hibbert and Scotland) Riverside Press (Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Public Dance Halls of Chicago, by Louise de Koven Bowen (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [electronic resource] : Tuesday, February 11th, The Trocadero Vaudevilles .. ([London, Ont.? : s.n., 1896?]), by Ont.) Grand Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les saltimbanques : leur vie, leurs moeurs / (Paris : Michel Lévy, 1875), by Gaston Escudier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beeton's book of burlesques : containing five burlesques specially written for performance in the Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room / (London : S. O. Beeton, 1865), by William Brough and F. C. Burnand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Code of fair competition for the burlesque theatrical industry as approved on March 20, 1934. (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conrad and Medora : or, Harlequin corsair, and the little fairy at the bottom of the sea : a new Christmas burlesque and pantomime / (London : T. H. Lacy, 1856), by William Brough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Writing for Vaudeville, With Nine Complete Examples of Various Vaudeville Forms, by Brett Page (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Variety shows and how to produce them, (Chicago, Beckley-Cardy company, [c1941]), by Neil Trimble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théâtre. ([France : s.n., 183-?-184-?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Michigan theatre, Ann Arbor. ([n.p., W.S. Butterfield Theatres, 1928?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Declarationen : vaudeville / (Kjøbenhavn : Gyldendal, 1884), by Christian Richardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the spotlight, personal experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American stage. (East Aurora, N.Y., The Roycrofters, [c1917]), by Elbert Hubbard and John Thomas Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marriage question : a monologue / (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., c1910), by Francis R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the arts; informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets, (New York, Boni and Liveright, [c1921]), by Marsden Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management, (New York, Gotham Press, Inc., [c1918]), by Edward Renton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing for vaudeville, with nine complete examples of various vaudeville forms (Springfield, Mass, The Home Correspondence School, [c1915]), by Brett Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaudeville; the book by Caroline Caffin, the pictures by Marius de Zayas. (New York M. Kennerley, 1914), by Caroline Caffin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poesia del vaudeville in tre atti : II carnovale di Venezia /, by Girolamo Canestrari and Giovanni Libretto for (work): Consolini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaudeville; the book (New York, M. Kennerley, 1914), by Caroline Caffin and Marius de Zayas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Top-liners for stunt nights and vod-vil; some of this and some of that, (Boston, Walter H. Baker Co., 1924), by Arthur LeRoy Kaser (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of variety-vaudeville in Seattle from the beginning to 1914 / (Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1944), by Eugene C. Elliott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ... Annual benefit / ([New York : National Vaudeville Artists, Inc.]), by inc National Vaudeville Artists (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un vaudevilliste, (Paris, Charlieu et Huillery, [1863]), by Claude Louis Marie Rochefort-Lucay (page images at HathiTrust)
• War in heaven, (New York, Coward-McCann, [c1938]), by Philip Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the arts; (New York, Boni and Liveright, [c1921]), by Marsden Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humorous homespun dialogues : original homespun dialogues for older ones / (Chicago : T. S. Denison & Co., c1913), by Willis N. Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Variété : Beiträge zur Psychologie des Pöbles / (Wien : Deutsch-Österreichischer Verlag, 1919), by Richard Guttmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [electronic resource] : Tuesday, February 11th, The Trocadero Vaudevilles .. ([London, Ont.? : s.n., 1896?]), by Ont.) Grand Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel dramatique, ou, Détails essentiels sur deux cent quarante opéras comiques / (Bordeaux, Chez L'auteur, 1817), by J. B. Colson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean-Joseph Vadé (1719-1757) und das vaudeville ... (Greifswald, J. Abel, 1911), by Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Is it raining? : a vaudeville sketch / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1904), by Harry L. Newton and Aaron Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Give the women a chance : a suffragette monologue / (New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1914), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• When Lucindy goes to town ; a monologue / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1913), by Mary Moncure Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer madness : a vaudeville sketch, in one act / (New York : The De Witt Publishing House, 1898), by Charles Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street faker : a laughing prescription concocted / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1917), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papa's bulldog : a vaudeville sketch in one act / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1899), by W. C. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Irishman and the coon : a vaudeville act / (Philadelphia : The Penn Pub. Co., 1922), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cold finish : a vaudeville sketch / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1905), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country justice : a farcical trial / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1906), by Thomas S. Denison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh, dese women! : a Dutch monologue / (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., ©1902), by Harry L. Newton and Aaron Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little red mare : a farce in one act / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, ©1908), by O. E. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Funny folks I've met : a humorous monologue or lecture / (New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1904), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oyster stew : a rapid-fire talking act / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1904), by Harry L. Newton and Aaron Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cohen's divorce : a vaudeville sketch in one act for "straight" and Jew comedy / (Boston : Walter H. Baker, c1911), by George Rosener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matrimony before and after : a descriptive monologue / (New York : Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, c1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'article 213, ou, Le mari doit protection : comédie-vaudeville en un acte / ([Paris? : s.n., 1846?]), by Adolphe d' Ennery, Gustave Lemoine, and France) Théâtre du gymnase-dramatique (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaudeville trails thru the West, "by one who knows," copyrighted ... ([Chicago], c1919), by Herbert Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaudeville and motion picture shows : A study of theaters in Portland, Oregon / (Portland, Or.] : Reed College, 1914), by William Trufant Foster and Reed College (Portland, Or.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joshing the janitor : a humorous sketch in one act ; for two male characters / (Boston : Walter H. Baker, 1919), by Chester A. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A gay old man am I : a musical monologue / (New York : Fitzgerald Publishing Corp., c1875), by Alfred B. Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Lady Vaudeville and her White rats, (New York : Pub. under the auspices of the Board of Directors of the White Rats of America, 1909), by George Fuller Golden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean-Joseph Vadé (1719-1757) und des vaudeville. (Greifswald : [s.n.], 1911), by Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vaudeville doubles / (Boston : Walter H. Baker Company, 1923), by Arthur LeRoy Kaser (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Year vaudeville, San Quentin, California : New Year's Day, 1923 /, by California State Prison at San Quentin and printer San Quentin Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• F. F. Proctor, (New York, R. R. Smith, 1943), by William Moulton Marston and John Henry Feller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osgar und Adolf, or, Comic vaudeville stunts : confessions of two famous jokers : also "Rollo and his father" and other side-splitting sketches / (Chicago : Laird & Lee, c1908), by F. W. Schaefer and F. W. Diana's diary Schaefer, illust. by Carl Hurlbut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Year book. (Chicago,), by Vaudeville Managers' Protective Organization (page images at HathiTrust)
• State Theater, Raleigh, N.C. : season 1923-1924. ([Raleigh, N.C. : State Theater?, 1923?]), by N.C.) State Theater (Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wehman Bros.' Vaudeville Jokes No. 1. (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.