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Revue   /rɪvjˈu/   Listen
Revue

noun
1.
A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians.  Synonym: review.






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"Revue" Quotes from Famous Books



... the respect which we always give to foreign phenomena and usually withold from phenomena British. The last elected member is M. Francis Charmes. His sole title to be an Academician is that he directs La Revue des Deux Mondes, which pays good prices to Academic contributors. And this is, of course, a very good title. Even his official "welcomer," M. Henry Houssaye, did not assert that M. Charmes had ever written anything ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... for these dresses have the stimulating quality of a healthy and vigorous imagination, as well as a vivid decorative value. They are exceedingly smart, of course, or else they would never do for a Broadway revue, but they are also alive, while those of Mr. Melton were invariably sickly. Curiously enough, the name of the new costume designer has a special interest for Chicago. She is Doris Dane, who participated in The Girl Up-stairs at the Globe. Miss Dane's stage ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... him," added the marquise, a ring of sympathy in her voice. "Poor boy, he is working so hard now that he is editor of La Revue Normande. ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith

... I was in the big revue at the Shaftesbury Theatre, in London, that was called "Three Cheers." It was one of the gay shows that London liked because it gave some relief from the war and made the Zeppelin raids that the Huns were beginning to make so often now a little easier to bear. And it was a great place for the men ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... De Sujets Anecdotiques, Historiques, Litteraires et Scientifiques, tires pour La Plupart D'Auteurs Modernes. Par F. Seron, Homme de lettres, l'un des redacteurs du Journal Francaise; Les Monde des enfans, Revue Encyclopedique de la jeunesse de 1844 a 1848, etc.; Professeur de Langue et ...
— Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 • Various

... for him. A fine, starched cloth with large monograms was spread on the table, on which stood a silver coffee-pot, containing fragrant, steaming coffee, a sugar bowl and cream pitcher to match, fresh rolls and various kinds of biscuits. Beside them lay the last number of the "Revue des deux Mondes," newspapers and his mail. Nekhludoff was about to open the letters, when a middle-aged woman, with a lace head-gear over her unevenly parted hair, glided into the room. This was Agrippina Petrovna, servant of his mother, who died ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy



Words linked to "Revue" :   follies, variety, variety show



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