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any matter or thing covered by this agreement, or as to the meaning of

any part thereof, then said dispute or claim shall be arbitrated. The

Manager shall choose one arbitrator and the Actors' Equity Association

the second: ---- shall be the third. These three shall constitute the

Board and the decision of a majority of the arbitrators shall be the

decision of all and shall be binding upon both parties and shall be

final. The Board shall hear the parties and within seven (7) days

shall decide the dispute or claim. The Board shall determine by whom

and in what proportion the cost of arbitration shall be paid, and the

parties hereby constitute said Board their agents and agree that its

decision shall constitute an agreement between them, having the same

binding force as if agreed to by the parties themselves. Further, that

they and each of them will, if required, sign such individual

arbitration agreement as to make said arbitration comply with a legal

arbitration under the laws of the State of New York, and the rules of

Supreme Court thereof, and that judgment upon the award may be entered

in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The oath of the members

of the Board of Arbitration shall not be necessary unless specifically

requested by one of the parties.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have signed this agreement on the day and year

first above written.

---- MANAGER

---- ACTOR

REGULATIONS

_Rehearsals_

A. (1) The Actor, if required, shall give four weeks' rehearsal

without pay (in case of musical comedy, revue or spectacular

production, five weeks), and obligates himself to be ready to rehearse

four (or five) weeks before the date mentioned in Paragraph three on

face of contract hereof; if further rehearsals are required then for

each additional week or part thereof the Manager shall pay the Actor

full compensation, as provided in Paragraph four on face of contract

hereof on Saturday night of each week.

(2) It is agreed that rehearsals shall be continuous from the date of

the first rehearsal to the date of the first public performance of the

play, as stated in Paragraph three on the face hereof.

_Clothes_

B. (1) If the Actor be a man, he shall furnish and pay for such

conventional morning, afternoon and evening clothes as are customarily

worn by civilians of the present day in this country, together with

wigs and footwear necessarily appurtenant thereto. All other wigs,

footwear, costumes, clothes, appurtenances and "properties," including

those peculiar to any trade, occupation or sport, to be furnished by

the Manager.

(2) If the Actor be a woman, all wigs, gowns, hats, footwear and all

"properties" shall be furnished by the Manager.

_Notices_

C. All communications which refer to the company in general shall be

posted upon the call-board. Notice to the Manager must be given to him

personally or to his company or Stage Manager.

_Number of Performances_

D. (1) Eight performances shall constitute a week's work.

(2) A week's compensation shall be paid even if a less number than

eight performances are given, except as herein provided in Paragraph

(3) A sum equal to one-eighth of the weekly compensation shall be paid

for each performance over eight in each week. (This also applies to

understudies.)

(4) It is assumed that Sunday rehearsals and performances will take

place only where it is lawful, and the Actor shall not be required to

perform in the play and part above named on Sunday in any theatre

except those where Sunday performances were customarily given on May

1, 1924.

E. The Actor shall travel with the company by such routes as the

Manager may direct, and the Actor shall not demand compensation for

any performance lost through unavoidable delay in travel which

prevents the giving of performances by the company.

_Rules of Travel and Lost Performances_

F. (1) It is further agreed if the company cannot perform because of

fire, accident, strikes, riot, act of God, the public enemy, or for

any other cause of the same general class which could not be

reasonably anticipated or prevented, or if the Actor cannot perform on

account of illness or any other valid reason, then the Actor shall not

be entitled to any salary (except as otherwise herein specified) for

the time during which said services shall not for such reason or

reasons be rendered. Should any of the foregoing conditions continue

for a period of ten days or more, the Actor may terminate the contract

and the Manager will pay for all services to date and transportation

back to New York City. Should the manager for any of the foregoing

reasons close the company and later on reopen, the Actor shall be

re-engaged upon the same terms herein specified, should the Actor

desire such engagement.

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_Lost Rehearsals_

G. If the Manager is prevented from giving rehearsals because of fire,

accident, riot, strikes, illness of star or prominent member of the

cast, act of God, public enemy or any other cause of the same general

class which could not reasonably be anticipated or prevented, then the

time so lost shall not be counted as part of the four (or five, as the

case may be) weeks' rehearsal period herein provided. After the fourth

week of rehearsal, including any lay-off period on the above account,

the Manager will pay half salaries for two weeks, at the end of which

time the Actor shall be free, unless the Manager wishes to continue

the services of the Actor and pays him full salary therefor.

_Transportation_

H. The Manager agrees to transport the Actor when required to travel,

including transportation from New York City to the point of opening

and back to New York City from the point of closing; also the Actor's

personal baggage up to two hundred pounds weight.

I. The Manager shall reimburse the Actor for all loss or damage to his

property used and/or to be used in connection with the play while they

are wholly or partly in the possession or control or under the

supervision of the Manager or of any of his representatives and also

when such baggage and property has been in any way shipped, forwarded

or stored by the Manager or any of his representatives, but the Actor

shall have no claim if the loss or damage occurs while the baggage or

property is under his own control. Upon payment of said loss or damage

the Manager shall be subrogated to all rights of the Actor therefor.

J. If the company is organized outside of New York City, the name of

such place is herein agreed to be substituted for New York City in

Paragraph H, and elsewhere.

K. The Manager shall not be responsible for any loss occurring to the

personal baggage of the Actor whose duty it is, if he desires to

protect himself against loss, to insure the same.

L. The Actor herein may play in any benefit performance given by or

under the auspices of the Actors' Equity Association.

M. Strikes, within the meaning of Paragraph F hereof, are construed to

mean any strike of any name or nature which shall prevent the Manager

from giving performances in the usual course of his business in any of

his theatre or theatres.

RULES

1. Should the Manager of any production consider the same

"Spectacular" and therefore entitled to five weeks of free rehearsals,

he shall notify the Actors' Equity Association before the beginning of

rehearsals and advise fully as to the nature of the production and

secure its allowance of his claim.

2. Rehearsals begin with the date when the Actor is first called. If

the Manager chooses to start with a reading to the company, or

substantial part thereof, said reading is a part of and begins the

rehearsal period.

3. In case of company rehearsals being held _before the opening of the

play_ at a place different from that of organization, the Manager

shall pay the Actor his reasonable living expenses during said

rehearsals, except that the Manager shall be allowed two days of free

rehearsal in cities within one thousand miles of New York City and one

additional day free for each additional one thousand miles or fraction

thereof.

4. If the Actor shall absent himself from rehearsals for seven days or

more by reason of illness, the Manager may cancel this contract

without payment for service to date. The Association may, in its

discretion, upon appeal by the Manager, reduce this period.

5. Contracts between Manager and Actor shall be deemed to be entered

into between the said parties on the date when the terms of the

contract are agreed upon between the parties, and contracts must be

issued and signed as of that date.

6. If the full rehearsal period to which the Manager is entitled be

not used by him before the date of opening, he may employ the balance

thereof immediately before the New York opening, provided that said

New York opening takes place within six weeks of the original opening

of the play.

7. If the employment under any contract relates to the second or

subsequent season of any play then the period of free rehearsals is

three weeks instead of four, but this provision shall not obtain if 50

per cent or more of the cast were not members of the production the

preceding year.

8. Notices of termination or closing given at or before the end of the

performance on Monday night effective at the end of the Saturday night

following, shall be deemed one week's notice.

9. The essence of this contract is continuous employment and a play

once closed shall not be re-opened during the same season within eight

weeks of the date of previous closing, without the consent of the

Actors' Equity Association. Such consent, if given, shall be upon such

terms and conditions as may be considered just and equitable by such

Association.

10. Should the Manager require the Actor "to purchase" his clothes

from a special tailor or shall require exclusive or unique designs or

unusually expensive clothes, then the Manager shall pay for such

clothes, anything to the contrary in Clause B of the Standard Run of

the Play Contract notwithstanding.

11. The Actor shall be responsible for transporting his own baggage to

and from the station or theatre in New York City. The Manager will pay

the cost of or reimburse the Actor for such transportation anywhere on

Manhattan Island.

12. Should the Citizens' Jury provided for in New York decide

adversely to the continuance of a production because salacious or

against public morals the Actor shall forthwith terminate his

employment without notice, payment or penalty.

13. Should the production in which the Actor is engaged be complained

of as being in violation of any statute, ordinance or law of the

United States, any state or any municipality in any state and should a

claim or charge be made against the Actor on account of his being

engaged in such production, either civil or criminal, the Manager

shall defend the Actor at his own expense, or shall pay any and all

reasonable charges laid out or incurred by the Actor in his defense,

and the Manager agrees to indemnify the Actor against any loss or

damage which he may suffer on account of being engaged in any such

production.

This rule shall not apply to any case or any set of conditions where

its enforcement would be illegal or against public policy.

14. The Manager shall have the right to lay off his company the week

before Christmas and Holy Week. Should such lay off take place the

Manager shall not during said lay off period be entitled to the

services of the company except for a run-through rehearsal on the day

of re-opening, and except further that additional rehearsals may be

allowed by the Actors' Equity Association in case of illness of the

star or prominent member of the company or change of cast.

15. If in any production the star or featured member of the cast shall

be ill and a lay off shall take place on that account, Actors

receiving less than $100.00 weekly (but no others) shall be paid by

the Manager an amount equal to their board and lodging for the first

week. If said lay off continues beyond one week, half salaries shall

be paid to the entire company for each day the Actors are retained up

to and including two further weeks. From and after the beginning of

the fourth week the Manager shall either pay full salaries to all

members of the company or may abandon the production.

16. When understudies are employed or there is a change in the cast,

announcement shall be made to this effect, either by a slip in the

program, or by announcement from the stage at the rise of the curtain,

or by conspicuously posting a notice to that effect a reasonable time

before the rise of the curtain, at the box office.

17. In case after the opening of the play and after at least two

weeks' employment, the Manager shall desire a lay off for the purpose

of re-writing or making changes in the cast where the contracts of

such individual actors permits him to take such action as to them or

any other reason deemed sufficient by him, he may apply to the Actors'

Equity Association for the right to do so. If the Association agrees

to such lay off it may do so upon such terms and conditions as may

seem equitable to it under the circumstances.

18. Musical comedies, revues or spectacular plays shall immediately

after a New York run be allowed one day's lay off before the opening

in either Boston or Chicago. This does not apply to premieres, i.e.,

original openings in those cities.

19. Should either party give the other any notice permitted under this

contract which terminates the same at any future date and should the

Actor have or secure a new engagement he shall be permitted to attend

the rehearsals under the new engagement as may be necessary and as do

not conflict with his performances under his then existing contract.

20. Should the Actor deem that he has any claim against the Manager

under his contract he shall present the same to the Actors' Equity

Association or to the Manager or both within two months after the time

when such claim has arisen, unless he shall give to the Board of

Arbitration good and sufficient reason for any delay after such period

of two months.

21. The actual salary of the Actor agreed upon shall be stated in the

contract and a lesser or fictitious salary shall not be stated in the

contract.

22. Sunday performances referred to in "Regulations" under Subdivision

4 of Paragraph D are regular dramatic and musical productions and do

not include vaudeville, recitals, concerts and the like.

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FORM 1B

CHORUS EQUITY MINIMUM CONTRACT

Standard Form as agreed upon by the

_Managers Protective Association, Inc._

_Chorus Equity Association_

(Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor)

110 West 47th Street, New York City

LOS ANGELES OFFICE 6412 Hollywood Blvd.

SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE Theodore Hale, 369 Pine St.

CHICAGO OFFICE 1032 Capitol Bldg.

KANSAS CITY OFFICE Gayety Theatre Bldg.

AGREEMENT made this ---- day of ----, 192-, between ---- (hereinafter

called "Manager") and ---- (hereinafter called "Chorus").

The regulations on the other side hereto are a part hereof, as though

printed herein at length. To insure in this contract a sufficient

degree of flexibility to meet the contingencies and necessities of

theatre production as the same may arise, separately printed "Rules

Governing Chorus Equity Minimum Contract, Standard Form," are also

made a part hereof as though printed herein at length.

_Agreement of Employment_

1. The Manager engages the Chorus to render services in ----, (Here

insert present title of play.) and the Chorus hereby accepts such

engagement upon the terms herein set forth.

_Opening Date_

2. The date of the first public performance shall be the ---- day of

----, 19--, or not later than fourteen days thereafter.

Employment hereunder shall begin on the date of the beginning of

rehearsals and shall continue until terminated by notice given as

herein provided and not otherwise.

_Compensation_

3. The Manager agrees to pay the Chorus the sum of ---- Dollars ($----)

each week, in New York City, and ---- Dollars ($----) each week

outside of New York City, on Saturday thereof, from and after the date

named in paragraph "2" and until this agreement is duly terminated.

The minimum salary of this contract shall be the sum of Thirty ($30)

Dollars weekly in New York City; outside of New York City the minimum

salary shall be the sum of Thirty-five ($35) Dollars, unless the

production shall be designated by the Chorus Equity Association of

America, as a Number 2 attraction, in which case the road salary shall

be Thirty ($30) Dollars.

_Regulations On Reverse Side_

Regulations covering rehearsals, notice of termination before and

during rehearsals, lost rehearsals, individual termination, closing of

play and season, clothes, number of performances, lost performances,

transportation, lay-off, method of giving notice and other matters are

set forth in the "Regulations" on the reverse side of this page and in

"Rules Governing Chorus Equity Minimum Contract Standard Form," and as

hereinbefore provided are a part hereof.

_Duties of the Chorus_

4. The Chorus agrees to be prompt at rehearsals, to pay strict regard

to makeup and dress, to perform his services in a competent and

painstaking manner, to abide by all reasonable rules and regulations

of the Manager, and, except as otherwise herein provided, to render

services exclusively to the Manager from the date of beginning of

rehearsals, and shall not render services to any other person, firm or

corporation without the consent of the Manager.

5. (a) The Chorus's employment hereunder is conditional upon the

membership of the companies of the Manager being in accordance with

the Chorus Equity Association rules, set forth in the agreement

between the Chorus Equity Association and the Managers' Protective

Association, dated May 12, 1924, and the Chorus shall not be required

to work hereunder in violation if any such company fail to be in

accordance with any such rules, or should the Manager fail to comply

with any of the provisions of Paragraph "Seventh" of said agreement,

or Paragraph "Eighth" of the Managers' Protective Association-Actors'

Equity Association basic agreement, dated May 12, 1924, as modified

and incorporated into said Chorus Equity Association M.P.A. basic

agreement, the Chorus shall at his option, provided the Chorus Equity

Association consents, be released from this agreement and the Manager

agrees to pay to him and he may recover from the Manager all sums due

to date of said release, plus his return fare, as provided in the

transportation clause, plus, as liquidated damages, a sum equal to two

weeks' salary. Any claim under this paragraph must be made by the

Chorus through and with the consent of the Chorus Equity Association

and any dispute regarding the same shall be arbitrated under the

provisions of this agreement.

(b) This agreement is dependent upon and subject to all the terms and

conditions of said agreement with Managers' Protective Association,

dated May 12, 1924.

_Arbitration_

6. In event that any dispute shall arise between the parties as to any

matter or thing covered by this agreement, or as to the meaning of any

part thereof, then said dispute or claim shall be arbitrated. The

Manager shall choose one arbitrator, and the Chorus Equity Association

the second. ---- shall be the third. These three shall constitute the