What was vaudeville?
a.
a small village park at the end of the trolley line
b.
a very sensationalistic newspaper
c.
a show that featured a wide variety of short acts
d.
one of the early forms of moving pictures

Vaudeville was a show that featured a wide variety of short acts

. Option C is correct.

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment originated in France at the end of the 18th century. A vaudeville was a comedy which lacks psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a sort of dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets.

This genre was really popular in Canada and the United States from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.

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