¹ Some major sources for this paper are: Gilbert, Douglas. American Vaudeville; Its Life and Times. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1940Google Scholar; Green, Abel and Laurie, Joe Jr., Show Biz from Vaude to Video. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1951Google Scholar; Laurie, Joe Jr., Vaudeville from the Honky-Tonks to the Palace. New York: Henry Holt, 1953Google Scholar; and Sheean, Vincent. The Amazing Oscar Hammerstein. London: Weidenfeld and Lincoln, 1956.Google Scholar

² Sheean, , p. 27Google Scholar

³ Ibid., pp. 33–34.

⁴ Ibid., p. 11.

⁵ 1904, p. 5.

⁶ “Hammerstein's Victoria,” The New York Times, 27 06 1899, p. 6.Google Scholar

⁷ “Hammerstein's Paradise Roof ‘Parsifalia,’” The New York Times, 27 06 1899, p. 6.Google Scholar

⁸ Green, and Laurie, , pp. 18–19.Google Scholar

⁹ Ibid., p. 18.

¹⁰ Ibid., pp. 20–22.

¹¹ Laurie, , p. 385.Google Scholar

¹² “William Hammerstein Arrested for Violating the Properties,” The New York Times, 21 02 1913, p. 5.Google Scholar

¹³ “Art Dealers Seek to Restrain William Hammerstein from Reproducing ‘September Morn’ in Living Picture Form,” The New York Times, 25 05 1913, p. 4.Google Scholar

¹⁴ “Hammerstein Amusement Company Gives $100,000.00 Mortgage to E. F. Albee on Property at Broadway and 42nd Street Corner Occuped by the Victoria and Republic Theatres,” The New York Times, 3 05 1911, p. 3.Google Scholar

¹⁵ “William Hammerstein Dies in Sanitarium,” The New York Times, 11 06 1914, p. 11.Google Scholar

¹⁶ “William Hammerstein's Pallbearers,” The New York Times, 12 06 1914, p. 13.Google Scholar