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Author:

Wertheim, Arthur Frank, 1935-

Title:

Vaudeville wars : how the Keith-Albee and Orpheum circuits controlled the big-time and its performers / Arthur Frank Wertheim.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 332 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Vaudeville--United States--History--19th century.
Vaudeville--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and index.

Contents:

Part One: Origins -- From Farm Boy to Museum Owner -- Keith's Right-Hand Man -- San Francisco's Orpheum -- Part Two: Evolution -- The Great Orpheum Circuit -- Upstaging Tony Pastor -- Gentrifying Keith's Quadruple Circuit -- Part Three: Consolidation and Revolt -- Streamlining the Booking Process -- The White Rats Strike -- Part Four: Vaudeville Battles -- The Combine and the UBO -- Morris Challenges the Combine -- Part Five: Vaudevillians vs. The Combine -- The Vaudeville Machine -- A Host of Grievances -- Broadway Sime and the British Lion -- Part Six: Albee Takes Control -- How Albee Stole the Palace -- Growing Discord -- Mountford Strikes Back -- Part Seven: The Demise of the Big Time -- The Threat of the Big Small Time -- "The Toboggan Slide" -- Kennedy's Takeover -- Epilogue.

Series:

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

ISBN:

9781403968265 (alk. paper)
1403968268 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61115601

LCCN:

2005051451

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)