Omnibus
Season 5 Episode 17 - The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday
6.0 ?
1952
Talk
The program has two segments: (1) "The Big Wheel" (a survey of the age of burlesque, featuring examples of acts of the period), and (2) "The Message" (showing of a 1956 UK film drama on the moral and ethical aspects of war).
Episodes in Season 5
1
The American Musical Comedy
2
Androcles and the Lion
3
The Last Day of Manolete
4
My Heart's in the Highlands
5
Let There Be Farce
6
Moliere's School for Wives
7
Plays of the Irish Renaissance
8
The Blue Hotel
55 min
9
A Man Without a Country
10
The Fine Art of Murder
11
The Christmas Tie
12
Madeline Visits Omnibus
13
The Art of Choreography
14
Oedipus, the King
15
Introduction to Modern Music
16
Lee at Gettysburg
17
The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday
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18
The Theatre Breaks Loose
19
The Trial of Captain Kidd
20
How the F-100 Got Its Tail
21
The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden
22
