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

by Arthur Frank Wertheim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230611362
• ISBN13: 9780230611368
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"