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 #:
000311
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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doing—not for a month or so, but over a period of years. Having made a thorough investigation of all these matters, it is best to write that office which on the surface seems best equipped to handle the proposed bookings, and to make an appoint- ment for an interview with the executive head thereof. Only a personal interview can assure the builder or manager that he is safeguarding the future of his theatre. Money spent on these preliminaries is by no means wasted. Indeed, unless such safeguards are taken, the sums spent on building and equipment are quite likely to become a losing investment. The practice of booking offices, as a general proposition, is to issue to the theatre, a "fran- chise" contract for its particular city, wherein the office agrees during the term of the fran- chise, not to book any other theatre in that city. On the part of the proprietor, or manager, he agrees to use exclusively such acts or attrac- tions as are furnished by the office with which he contracts for bookings. The franchise in some instances carries a bonding clause, wherein the proprietor or man- ager is required to indemnify the booking office against loss in connection with issuance of con- tracts in the name of the theatre, and also 307