Vaudeville Wars

Prologue PART ONE: ORIGINS OF THE KEITH CIRCUIT, 1883-1892 Farm Boy to Circus Grifter On the Bowery 'Well, Sam, I'd Rather You Would' 'The Die Was Cast, I Was to Be a Showman' 'Cleanliness, Comfort, and Courtesy' PART TWO: ORIGINS OF THE ORPHEUM CIRCUIT, 1887-1900 San Francisco's Orpheum Walter's Comeback PART THREE: UPSTAGING TONY PASTOR, 1893-1894 The Dean of Vaudeville The Battle at Union Square PART FOUR: EXPANSION, 1894-1900 Quadruple Circuit Martin Beck and The Great Orpheum Circuit PART FIVE: CONSOLIDATIONH AND REVOLT, 1900-1901 Association of Vaudeville Managers The White Rats Strike PART SIX: VAUDEVILLE BATTLES, 1902-1909 Strong-arm Tactics The Combine and Ubo Morris Challenges the Ubo The Blacklist PART SEVEN: VAUDEVILLIANS VS. THE COMBINE, 1910-1911 The Vaudeville Machine Grievances Broadway Sime and the British Lion PART EIGHT: ALBEE TAKES CONYTOL, 1912-1919 How Albee Stole the Palace Albee's Company Union Mountford Strikes Back PART NINE: OMINOUS WARNINGS, 1920-1926 The Small-Time King The Orpheum Responds PART TEN: THE DEMISE OF THE BIG-TIME, 1926-1930 What Is Wrong with Vaudeville? Kennedy's Takeover The Curtain Descends