The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York : Gotham press, inc.
Volume:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Leaf #:
000304
Language:
English
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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the artist, manager or booker who is "on the level" in business and in all other dealings who is really "fit." Remember then, that the artist's life, his very existence, is one of art, imagination, uncer- tainty, disappointments, laughter and happiness mingled with tears and sorrows, and that he is a cross between the bohemian and the cosmopo- lite. It should be the aim of a manager to take intelligent notice of these characteristics, and in his business dealings with artists bear and for- bear in a wise and just manner. It is an old saw and a true one, that "you can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar." Bear in mind that though the theatre be beautiful, its stage perfectly equipped and lighted, the staff efficient and courteous, it is the artist who gives the show—it is to the actor that one must look for the actual entertainment. Though each manager may have his own and perhaps peculiar idea of just what his atti- tude toward the actor should be, and just what rules and regulations should govern the latter, the important points with respect to the business side of the engagements are, or should be, invariably covered by signed contracts. If both will observe to the letter the stipulations of the contract, and the manager meet in an 300