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Iarity. Performers at the local music halls and theatres found themselves easily earn ing double and even quadruple salaries, and New York artists, tempted by the large gains of their lucky brothers in London, ocked across the ocean every summer to chase the nimble English shillings by singing American songs, playing American banjos and doing Yankee stunts of all degrees of merit, good and bad. Ten years later the fashion was adopted on this side of the At lantic. For a time the social clubs monopolized the custom, but gradually it crept into drawing rooms, and a dinner, an afternoon tea, a chil dren's party, or an evening reception without Talent of some sort to help the host or the hostess out, was as unusual as the reverse had hitherto been. But a difficulty arose. People occasionallv appeared at these functions who wereutterly out of place, and who brought confusion and dismay upon host and guests alike. The necessity for a middle-man was apparent; one who should be responsible not only for the char acter of the work to be done, but also for the safe payment of the fee, which under the old plan had sometimes failed. In this way the local amusement bureau was inaugurated.
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