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 #:
000185
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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An accurate inventory should be made of all properties at the beginning of each season, writ- ten up in triplicate, one copy retained by the property-man, one filed with the manager, and one with the accounting officer or department of the proprietor of the theatre. At the end of the season, or once annually if the theatre runs the year around, this should be carefully checked, and all shortages accounted for by manager's memo authorizing discarding, junk- ing, sale or other disposal. Inasmuch as the property-man is held responsible for all of this material, it follows that he should be furnished with adequately secure premises in which to store it. If a property is hopelessly wrecked, or has outlived its usefulness, the matter should be called to the attention of the manager, who, upon personally verifying the condition, should issue a memo in triplicate authorizing the prop- erty-man to make a certain specified disposal of it, and one copy of this memo should be at- tached to each of the original inventories. When during the season a property is pur- chased, a similar memo thereof should be made and filed with each of the inventories. Thus a clear and checkable record is maintained with a minimum of effort, and the system will save the loss, in one way or another, of 181