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3. “Brief in Behalf of All Respondents,” FTC vs. VMPA, docket #128, box 69, 45, NARA-CP; Frederic LaDelle, How to Enter Vaudeville: A Complete Illustrated Course of Instruction (Jackson, MI: Frederic LaDelle Co., 1913),
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4. Herbert Lloyd, Vaudeville Trails thru the West: “By the One Who Knows” (San Francisco: San Francisco Publishing and Advertising, 1919), 4; Variety, May 2, 1919, 28, June 27, 1919, 29.
5. Edward Renton, The Vaudeville Theatre, Building, Operation, Management (New York: Gotham Press, 1918), 121–22.