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Introduction The Collections 19th Century Roots The Vaudeville Industry Targeting an audience Controlling the Circuits The Building Blocks Vaudeville and Broadway Prologs for the Picture Palaces The Acts Music Dance Comedy Circus Techniques Topical Vaudeville Credits & Acknowledgements Free Public Programs Bibliography The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts > Vaudeville Nation Controlling the Circuits Martin Beck Beck at desk with unidentified woman, vaudeville booking agent Pat Casey and Will Passport, the European representative for the Orpheum circuit, ca. 1912.  Portrait of E. F. Albee, 1919. Billy Rose Theatre Collection Illustration by Fred Morgan of the Albee Theater in downtown Brooklyn, for the N. Y. Evening Graphic, 1925

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