Vaudeville died a long, slow death during the 1930s, especially after the Palace Theatre in New York switched to an all-movie format on November 16, 1932. So I was surprised to come across this 1949 photo of the Orpheum Theatre, on L.A.’s Broadway holding a gala inaugural premiere of a vaudeville show of “8 big acts.” Maybe it was just a novelty show with a limited run? It makes me wonder how successful it was. Perhaps by the late 1940s there was some nostalgia for the vaudeville years.