Vaudeville Managers Protective Organization - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SQUARE DEAUNG COURTEOUS TREATMENT DO YOU KNOW that SUCCESS of any ACT or TH EATRICAL depends largely upon the A Ability and Skill of its STAGE DIRECTOR? MINIMIZE your chances of FAILURE by having ACT or PRODUCTION STAGED by a man who KNOWS HOW. HAMILTON COLEMAN MASTER OF STAGE CRAFT Hamilton Coleman Theatrical Producing Company,Inc. 71 W. Randolph St., Chicago - Phone Central 5539 RELIABILITY HONESTY gi S. Rah Hal 30713 Stffflf' DHHI' JIIIITIIIIQ-.w Lfuis Inari Imssifs ME LO OORE'S audeville Successes A dlstlnct mcomxgoarable feature in Ilwntrcs lNlUkL'll lui' IIN- xxg-W.,-,, audevllle IVIZIINIIQCIN' Assvciqurirm 'QM th G In Preparation O ef oo ' 99 . ali: GUISM - Fmt Coeds Summer Girls err ' v , y amcunsts' Bashful Bath:-rs' ll

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fl' H 1 A+ ,su PHOTQ BY HORNBY 8: FRIEBERG, CHICAGO. Booking Managefs, Daily Meeting,

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Western Vaudeville Managers' Association Its scope and its attainments I-IE foremost booking otlices of the world is the proud claim of the XYestern Yaudeville Managers' Association of Chicago. which is not an idle boast. when one stops to con- sider that in the past ten years this office under the able leadership of the foremost men of the Vaudeville world has grown from a humble beginning till now it books more than three hundred theatres in the middle and far Vlfest and has grown from small quarters on the third floor of the Majestic Theater building to the sole occupant of three entire lloors in the same structure, the handsomest office building in the second city of the United States. Its founders and directors not only control its destinies but they also control the destinies of all vaudeville, for it is affiliated with the powerful United Booking Qffices of America in New York, The Great Grpheum Circuit, The Kohl 8 Castle Co. the big Gus Sun circuit and the Interstate Circuit.. From its head- quarters in Chicago, its interests reach out over the entire country from the Atlantic in the East to the Pacific on the Wfest, from Canada on the North and Southxvard to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican line.. In no section of this country of ours is this office without its representatives and its theatres. It furnishes attractions for over three hundred theatres, who give high class Vaudeville programs, located not only in Chicago but in the Whole West and South, it provides attrac- tions for innumerable Fairs and Parks and outdoor entertain- ments, its Fair, Band Club, Park and Lyceum department en- joying facilities impossible for any other booking organization for the bringing together of artists and promoters. This huge amusement mart, where one can secure anything from the most elaborate circus intact, a bill of all star acts .as big as one can wish for in a theatre, club, lodge, park or private home, to the lesser acts as are fitted to the requirements is in a pre-eminent position, in a field which has many imitators and 21