By the 1890s the vaudeville world was composed of empires and smaller fiefdoms in which performers were pawn in the moguls’ fight to monopolize and the independent’s struggle to survive. The United Booking Office, the booking arm of the huge Keith-Albee (later Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain) determined if, where, when and for how much a vaudeville act…Continue Reading White Rats: A Vaudeville Revolt by Frank Cullen