Vaudeville Wars How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers

Name: Vaudeville Wars How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers
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ISBN: 9781403968265

ISBN-10: 1403968268

ISBN-13: 9781403968265

Edition: 2006

Authors: Arthur Frank Wertheim

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Vaudeville Wars illuminates the exciting and 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. To create their national network of hundreds of vaudeville theaters, B. F. Keith and Edward Albee and the Orpheum's Morris Meyerfeld and Martin Beck, used cutthroat tactics to suppress rival owners and to squash performers' rights and the White Rats union through strikebreaking and blacklisting. After the two circuits merged, Joseph P. Kennedy masterminded its takover through clever stock transactions and then linked the company to RCA to form Radio Keith Orpheum. When the big-time…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 6/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 332
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English




Origins


From Farm Boy to Museum Owner


Keith's Right-Hand Man


San Francisco's Orpheum



Evolution


The Great Orpheum Circuit


Upstaging Tony Pastor


Gentrifying Keith's Quadruple Circuit



Consolidation and Revolt


Streamlining the Booking Process


The White Rats Strike



Vaudeville Battles


The Combine and the UBO


Morris Challenges the Combine



Vaudevillians vs. The Combine


The Vaudeville Machine


A Host of Grievances


Broadway Sime and the British Lion



Albee Takes Control


How Albee Stole the Palace


Growing Discord


Mountford Strikes Back



The Demise of the Big Time


The Threat of the Big Small Time


"The Toboggan Slide"


Kennedy's Takeover


Epilogue