National vaudeville artists fund (1929)

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Our ^rcsuicufs ^JM^cssugc By FRED STONE PresiJen/, National V audeville Artists’ Association HIS evening’s events in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, are significant of the transition which has come over the profession of the theatre and of the great American public which makes that profession honorable, permanent and profitable to its members. Proud to be President of the National Vaudeville Artists’ Association, I am yet more proud of the manner in which all of my fellow citizens, in every walk of life, recognize and encourage the long struggle which we have made to earn and command the respect of the public in our private as well as in our public lives. As a veteran of Vaudeville, as well as of other branches of the theatrical profession, I am deeply and permanently impressed by the attitude of so many other members of our calling towards the fraternal, foresighted and wise principles which have animated the National Vaudeville Artists towards members of every branch of the theatre, as well as towards its own people. During the past week there was a nation-wide celebration of the Actors’ National Jubilee. Tonight we witness, and participate in, its proper culmination in the greatest show city in the world. This audience is representative of every class and quality of the theatre-loving public of the United States. The program is illuminated with the names of artists of opera, drama, musical comedy, the films, the radio, the phonograph and Vaudeville. During my own long career on the Vaudeville stage, I have never known so general and so generous a co-operation between all the people of our profession. The owners and managers, the employees and attaches, the artists and executives of every kind and degree, are now as one in peace and fraternity, in mutual respect and co-operation, not only for the service of the public, but in the promotion of better conditions of the artists who serve that public. The response of the American public to these conditions is evident tonight as it has been throughout the past week of the Actcrs’ National Jubilee in every city and town of Canada and the United States where there is a theatre. I look upon this as another annual recognition of the ceaseless service which the people of the theatre are always giving to every worthy public cause of patriotism or charity. This occasion is another demonstration of approval for the tried system of wise and generous philanthropy for which the N. V. A. has won the praise and commendation of all the best authorities in humanitarian service. Year by year the various elements of our profession are becoming more closely related. In Vaudeville now, all the components of modern stage entertainment are associated. And our public is the entire American public. It is not surprising, perhaps, that the artists of every branch of the theatre are here joined with us in this one and only annual drive for the benefit of one another.