Vaudeville Managers Protective Organization - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Mr. Vaudeville Manager: We are specialists in furnishing film service for vaudeville houses. We book your films in advance to conform with your acts. 1 We buy all the leading indepen- dent makes, so can furnish you the best selected programme. We were the first to furnish the Allardt circuit and the Theilen circuit with independent service. We supply them now and offer them as references. We respectfully solicit your busi- ness forthe season of 1912-1913. The Majestic Film Service Co. y 216 N. Fifth Ave., Cor. Lake St. R. C. Seery, Manager 10

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Vaudeville Managers' Protective Organization Its object and its officers . li.-XLlZlNG the vast need of closer relationship between managers who were receiving their programs from the XVestern Yaudeville Managers' Association each week, a need of more friendly support for each other and in that way being able to work in harmony for the general improvement of the vaudeville and amusement field, The XVestern Vaud eville Managers' Association called together the many managers af- filiated with the organization about two years ago and perfected the Yaudeville Managers' Protective Organization. This marked an epoch in the history of the vaudeville busi- ness. for it was the first time a representative body combined for their mutual welfare and protection. lt is the Hrst time they ever became solidified into an operative body and took upon themselves the safe guarding of each others interests. XYith its objective point, the promotion of closer relationship between the managers and the theatres of the United States and Canada, the uplifting of conditions and the promotion of all that is good in a business way, this organization has Grown with 6 Q v . such rapidity that it is the foremost body of representative man- agers in the country today. Managers who are working toward a common end, the improvement of vaudeville conditions, not only from their own standpoint, but also the standpoint of the patron and the performer. lt is not so very long ago that the vaudeville theatres, were known as the Variety houses and were frowned on by all sell respecting people of the better classes, who not only withheld their patronage but was a powerful factor in keeping others from attendance. The organization of which this is being written has been one of the most powerful influences in changing this condr- ' ' - - -1 tion till now, on the dawn of a new era 111 the Show woilri. when vaudeville will take its rank as the foremost amusement ll