WHEREAS, the said Manager is acquainted with the producers of theatrical and motion picture enterprises and with persons desirous of obtaining the employment of theatrical and vaudeville specialties, similar to the one owned by the Act, and
WHEREAS, the said Manager has a wide experience and knowledge of the method of staging and producing specialties and theatrical and motion picture enterprises, and also of the duties of a Manager, and
WHEREAS the said Act is engaged in rendering and producing a certain specialty in various cities and is constantly traveling and requires the services of a person to attend to the making of contracts and the proper advertising, correspondence, transportation, music, billing, program and press matters of the said Act;
NOW therefore, in consideration of the premises and the sum of One Dollar by each of the parties to the other in hand paid and in consideration of the mutual covenants herein expressed, it is agreed as follows:
FIRST: The Act hereby employs and engages the Manager to render his services as personal representative and business manager for the Act for a period of —— or, —— from the date hereof, and the Manager hereby accepts said employment, upon the following terms and conditions.
SECOND: The Manager agrees to attend to all correspondence of the Act and to maintain an office at his own expense, which the Act may use, and to arrange and to attend to the details in connection with the transportation, advertising, billing, program and press matters and to attend to the delivery of the same at such theatres as the Act may be engaged to play, and to make and execute in the name of the Act as its personal representative and Manager any and all contracts in connection with the said Act. Also to advertise and exploit and to procure and advertise reports of the said Act and to otherwise popularize the same in such manner and such times as the Manager deems best.
THIRD: The Act agrees to pay the said Manager for his services as such a weekly salary of $—— during each week that the Act may perform at a salary of $—— per week, and less or more than such compensation in proportion to the salary earned by the Act, and to pay the Manager such sums as he may disburse for other things necessary in managing said Act.
FOURTH: The Act in order to secure the Manager the aforesaid salary hereby assigns the amount of such weekly compensation to the said Manager and hereby authorizes said Manager to draw and execute such assignment in the name of the Act and hereby authorizes the managers of the theatres to deduct said compensation and pay the same to the Manager from the money due the Act.
FIFTH: The Act further agrees that the Manager shall be the sole and exclusive Manager and representative of the Act during the said period and that he shall not be required to devote all his time to or with said Act.
SIXTH: The Manager further agrees at his own expense and when necessary to employ employment agent or agencies in order to procure the best employment for the Act and it is agreed that the Manager is not to receive any compensation for procuring employment through said agents or agencies or otherwise.