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1913 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 22 June 1/2 His latest London exploit was when he took Miss Levey, the revue star, for a ride in his machine.

1919 B. Tarkington Let. 30 Mar. in On Plays (1959) 10 What is really most valuable in it is the revelation, by an intimate, of the modern ‘Revue’ girl.

1933 M. Allingham Sweet Danger xvi. 197 She washed and changed with the speed of a revue star.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 174 The attempt to attract the smart, sophisticated section of the post-War public into patronizing the revue theatres.

1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties 141 Those most precious of all items to the revue writer, the ‘front-cloth numbers’, which can be played without props or scenery.

1963 New Yorker 15 June 7 Ronny Graham's revue-eyed view of life..sometimes gets bug-eyed.

1975 Listener 9 Jan. 57/1 With all the resources of splendid new theatres..we..[are] dragging up old revue skits.

1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 374/1 In those early weeks Prima was able to hone the off-kilter revue dynamic that became famous.

2003 C. R. Ronai & R. Cross in D. Harper & H. M. Lawson Cultural Study Wk. 122 Nina, a White revue dancer, also states, ‘I'll never go nude. I just can't.’