Vaudeville Managers Protective Organization - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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- L Q H l I the manager in any way and the monetary loss sustained by him, did not stop the performer for a moment from breaking his word and contract with impunity. lYith the new contracts this will not be possible, for the contracts will be fully equitable and the interests of the manager as well as the performer will be fully protected in every way. The manager will have the same protection as the performer, and with this end in view, the Vaudeville Managers Protective Organization have decided when the new contracts are put in force, to select a committee of arbitration, composed of three members who shall meet as often as is necessary to take up. matters which come before them and settle disputes between the performers and the managers. They shall also be given power to meet a committee of equal size from the performers organ- ization, the two bodies to select another person to sit with them and the decisions of this body to be binding to the manager and performers alike. , T The importance of this can be readily seen and it is the only solution to the constant arguments and petty bickerings which crop up each week and which are always followed by recrimina- tions on both sides. ' Under present conditions it has been possible for some hot- headed actor to wreck a program at any time by withdrawing from it and taking as many acts as they could with them, their demands in many instances being allowed by the management rather than suffer the monetary loss that would result from a closed theatre or disappointed patrons. This sort of thing has worked a hardship not only on the manager, but 3150 011 the other acts. on the program, for they have lost salary in many cases which they could not afford to lose. And it is to overcome just this condition that the Organiza- tion aims at. It does not wish to inflict an uncalled for injury or penalty on any performer and it does in turn wish to be p1'0- tected from the performers and-their advisers. Some Of the actions of performers have bordered on the criminal to a marked degree and these malcontents have not only injured thC1T1SC1VCS, 15

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