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Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers(Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers(Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)


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This book maps the intriguing story about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits, Keith-Albee in the East and the Orpheum in the West, conspired to control the big time. Despite the battles between the performers and the circuit moguls, the vaudeville wars forged an electrifying entertainment that at its zenith brought joy to millions.

Table of Contents:
Prologue PART ONE: ORIGINS OF THE KEITH CIRCUIT, 1883-1892 Farm Boy to Circus Grifter On the Bowery 'Well, Sam, I'd Rather You Would' 'The Die Was Cast, I Was to Be a Showman' 'Cleanliness, Comfort, and Courtesy' PART TWO: ORIGINS OF THE ORPHEUM CIRCUIT, 1887-1900 San Francisco's Orpheum Walter's Comeback PART THREE: UPSTAGING TONY PASTOR, 1893-1894 The Dean of Vaudeville The Battle at Union Square PART FOUR: EXPANSION, 1894-1900 Quadruple Circuit Martin Beck and The Great Orpheum Circuit PART FIVE: CONSOLIDATIONH AND REVOLT, 1900-1901 Association of Vaudeville Managers The White Rats Strike PART SIX: VAUDEVILLE BATTLES, 1902-1909 Strong-arm Tactics The Combine and Ubo Morris Challenges the Ubo The Blacklist PART SEVEN: VAUDEVILLIANS VS. THE COMBINE, 1910-1911 The Vaudeville Machine Grievances Broadway Sime and the British Lion PART EIGHT: ALBEE TAKES CONYTOL, 1912-1919 How Albee Stole the Palace Albee's Company Union Mountford Strikes Back PART NINE: OMINOUS WARNINGS, 1920-1926 The Small-Time King The Orpheum Responds PART TEN: THE DEMISE OF THE BIG-TIME, 1926-1930 What Is Wrong with Vaudeville? Kennedy's Takeover The Curtain Descends

About the Author :
ARTHUR FRANK WERTHEIM served as the Director of Development Communications at UCLA, USA, from 1984 to 1997 and also as a Visiting Scholar in that University's Department of Film and Television from 1992 to 1995. He has published articles and book reviews in the Journal of American History, The American Historical Review and the Journal of Popular Culture.

Review :

'Vaudeville Wars offers the only thorough account of the vaudeville business from the ground up, centering on the roistering entrepreneurs who, within a generation, lifted their enterprise into America's leading diversion. Wertheim shows both the human side and the voraciousness of the moguls. Unravelling the business-end of show business from the motley fabric that was vaudeville, he demonstrates that when the enterprise faded, only a few of the founders were left to witness their lofty estimate of vaudeville's manic display ensconce itself in the national lore.' - Leigh Woods, author Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety (forthcoming, Palgrave

Macmillan)

'Until Wertheim's Vaudeville Wars, the men who created the institution of vaudeville had remained as inscrutable as official portraits. Wertheim drags away from their ledgers, telephones and mahogany desks the derby-hatted, cigar-smoking barons of vaudeville and places them downstage centre under the spotlight. They emerge as human beings - some venomous, all ambitious and a few nearly decent. Wertheim has provided the most clear, entertaining and reliable history of the business end of vaudeville. Besides being an engrossing read, Vaudeville Wars makes a fine case study fit for any MBA programme.' - Frank Cullen, founder, American Vaudeville Museum, Vaudeville Times Quarterly

'Wertheim gives us what is likely to be the definitive work on the business side of vaudeville for a long time to come, offering countless details available nowhere else, well organized and completely comprehensive... A valuable resource, one long needed.' - American Theatre


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780230611368
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0230611362
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers


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