Approved Code No. 348 Registry No. 1748-14 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BURLESQUE THEATRICAL 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 20, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 348 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BURLESQUE THEATRICAL INDUSTRY 

As Approved oil March 20, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING CODE OFF AIR COMPETITION FOR THE BURLESQUE 

THEATRICAL INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for l}pproval of a Code of Fair Competition for the Burlesque Theatrical Industry, and hearings having 

been duly held thereon and the annexed report on said Code, containing findings with respect thereto, having been made and directed to 

the President. 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson1 Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed 

report and do find that said Code complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of said 

Title of said Act; and do hereby order that said Code of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved. 

Approval recommended: 

SoL A. RosENBLATT, 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

March 20, 1934. 

47770°-425-109-34 (257) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

SIR: This is a report on the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Burlesque Theatrical Industry as revised after a public hearing, 

conducted in Washington, D.C., on November 9, 1933, in accordance 

with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

PROVISIONS AS TO WAGES AND HOURS 

Clerical and office employees are to receive a minimum wage of 

fifteen dollars per week; house managers, company managers, house 

treasurers and press representatives not less than twenty-five dollars; 

heads of wardrobe departments not less than thirty-five dollars; 

sewers not less than fifty cents per hour; ticket sellers, porters and 

barkers not less than thirty-five cents per hour and all other employees, 

not otherwise provided for, not less than thirty cents per hour. 

Principals ·who are defined as performers other than chorus members 

shall be paid not less than thirty-five dollars per week. Chorus 

members shall be paid not less than twenty dollars per ,veek in resident 

companies and not less than twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per 

week in road companies, provided that where a higher rate was paid 

on October 1, 1933, such higher rate shall be the minimum. 

All employees, except executives, press representatives, actors and 

cht>rus members are assigned a maximum working week of forty 

hours. A limited week for press representatives was found to be 

impracticable, and data was insufficient to permit setting maximum 

hours for actors and chorus. The Code Authority is directed to 

investigate the working conditions of such performers and report on 

the same within ninety days after the effective date of this Code. 

Payments at the rate of time and one half for time worked in excess 

of forty hours per week is provided for employees in emergencies 

involving protection of life or property. 

All performers are guaranteed extra compensation of one-fourteenth 

of the weekly salary for each extra performance given in a two-a-day 

house, and not less than at the rate of a show and one half for extra 

performances in other than two-a-day houses. 

There are special provisions for skilled employees guaranteeing 

them the benefits which they have obtained through collective 

bargaining. 

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE CODE 

The demand for burlesque theatrical performances varies greatly, 

as the public taste shifts among various types of entertainment. For 

this reason it is impossible to forecast the increase of employment to 

be brought about by the Code as this will depend on the number of 

shows playing. The wage provisions provide for substantial increases 

to employees. 

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Trade practice provisions are expected to remedy the unfair competition that has existed in the past within the Industry. 

Employers are forbidden to attempt to induce the breach of an 

existing contract between a competitor and his employees; to participate in any transaction known in law as a "black list" or a "white 

list", or to lower publicly announced admission prices by rebates or 

other devices ,vhich are unfair to competing employers or deceive 

the public. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said Code 

having found as herein set forth and on the basis of all the proceedings 

in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to· promote the policies and purposes 

of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including removal 

of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce 

which tend to diminish the amount thereof a.nd will provide for the 

general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the 

purpose of cooperative action among the trade groups, by inducing 

and maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision by eliminating unfair 

competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization 

of the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue 

restriction of production (except as may be temporarily required), 

by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products 

through increasing purchasing power by reducing and relieving 

unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than 50,000 employees: and is not classified by me as a major industry. 

(c) The Code as approved complies in all respects with the pertinent 

provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7, and Subsection 

(b) of Section 10 thereof; and that the applicant association is an 

industrial association truly representative of the aforesaid Industry; 

and that said association imposes no inequitable restrictions on 

admission to membership therein. 

(d) The Code is not designed to and will not permit monopolies 

or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The Code is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppress 

small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said Code. 

For these reasons, therefore, I have approved this Code. 

Re spec tf ully, 

HuGH S. JOHNSON, Administrator. 

1\1ARCH 20, 1934 
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CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE BURLESQUE 

THEATRICAL INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act the following provisions are established as a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Burlesque Theatrical Industry, and shall be 

the standards of fair competition for such Industry, and shall be 

binding upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS 

1. The term "Burlesque" as used herein, is defined to be a type of 

musical entertainment known in theatrical parlance as burlesque; 

advertised as such or by other title which conveys to the public such 

entertainment, and is intended to include performances wherein 

burlesque is principally rendered in conjunction with incidental motion or sound picture performances, and all performances or attractions 

usually identified with or typical of burlesque. 

2. The term "Member of the Industry" as used herein, includes, 

but without limitation, any individual, partnership, association, 

corporation or other form of enterprise engaged in the Industry, either 

as an employer or on his or its own behalf. 

3. The term "employer" as used herein, means any employer engaged in the Industry. 

4. The term "employee" as used herein, includes any and all 

persons engaged in the Industry, however compensated, except a 

member of the Industry. 

5. The terms "Act" and "Administrator" as used herein, shall 

mean respectively Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act 

and the Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

ARTICLE II-CLERICAL AND OFFICE EMPLOYEES 

1. No person employed in clerical or office work shall be permitted 

to work in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week or nine (9) hours 

in any twenty-four (24) hour period, and such employees shall be paid 

not less than Fifteen ($15) Dollars per week. 

EXCEPTIONS AS TO HOURS 

2. The hour provisions of this Code shall not apply to persons employed in a managerial or executive capacity ·who earn not less than 

Thirty-five ($35) Dollars per week or to employees in emergencies 

involving protection of life or property, but at least one and one half 

(1 }~) times the normal rate shall be paid for hours worked in emergencies in excess of the maximum hours. 

EMPLOYMENT BY SEVERAL EMPLOYERS 

3. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to work for 

any time which when totaled with that already performed for another 

employer, or employers, in this Industry exceeds the maximum 

permitted herein. (260) 
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ARTICLE III-PERFORMERS 

1. Principals (performers other than chorus mernbers) shall be paid 

not less than Thirty-five ($35) Dollars per week. 

2. Tbe chorus members shall be paid not less than Twenty ($20) 

Dollars per week in stock or resident companies, and not less than 

Twenty-two Dollars and Fifty ($22 .50) Cents per week in road 

companies; provided, however, that wherever on October 1, 1933, 

any theatre paid a rate to chorus members in excess of the minimum 

wages herein provided, said hjgher wages shall be deemed to be and 

are hereby declared to be the minimum scale of wages with respect 

to such theatres. 

3. The producer shall not engage any performer under any agreement which would reduce the net salary below the minimum wage 

through the payment of any fee or commission to any agency (whether 

such fee is paid by the producer or independent contractor or by the 

performer), or by any other form of deduction. 

4. Wherever any company is required to give more than the regular 

number of performances contracted for, ti.ll performers shall be paid 

for said extra performances at a pro rata proportion of the weekly 

salary. Such pro rata proportion shall be not less than one fourteenth 0{4) of the weekly salary in a "two-a-day house " and not 

less than at the rate of a show and a half in other than a two-a-day 

house. 

5. The employer shall furnish to chorus members, without charge, 

all hats, costumes, wigs, shoes, tights, and stockings and other 

necessary stage wardrobe. 

6. The cost of transportation of the actors and chorus, when 

required to travel, including transportation from point of organization and back, including sleeping car accomn10dations, shall be 

paid by the employer. 

7. If individual notice of contract termination is given by the 

employer the actor or chorus me1nber shall be paid in cash the amount 

of the cost of transportation including sleeping car accommodations 

of the actor or chorus member and baggage back to the point of 

organization whether the company returns immediately or not. 

8. Actors and chorus niembers shall be guaranteed two (2) weeks' 

employment and two (2) weeks' advance notice on the road and one 

(1) week's advance notice in stock of dismissal of an individual or 

one (1) week's advance notice of the closing of the company either 

in stock or road show; provided, however, that within the first two 

(2) days' rehearsal an actor or chorus member may be dismissed 

without notice or guarantee. 

9. Chorus members shall be released from work with pay not less 

than one day out of every fourteen (14), and the day the chorus 

member is released from work such chorus member shall not be required 

to rehearse or report to the theatre or perform any service. This 

provision for a free day shall not apply to a traveling company. 

10. By reason of the peculiar nature of this Industry, it is imprac- ticable without further data, to be furnished by the Code Authority, 

to set the maximum hours for actors and chorus. Therefore, the 

Code Authority shall investigate the hours of labor, wages, and working conditions of actors and chorus, and within the period of ninety 

(90) days from the effective date of this Code shall report thereon to 

the Adminjstrator. 
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11. The actors and chorus members shall not be rehearsed for more 

than two (2) weeks without full pay. 

12. No employer shall re-classify employees or duties of occupations 

performed, or engage in any other subterfuge for the purpose of 

defeating the purposes or provisions of the Act or of this Code. 

ARTICLE IV-TREASURERS, COMPANY MANAGERS, PRESS AGENTS, 

AND OTHER EMPLOYEES 

1. House managers, company managers and house treasurers shall 

be paid not less than Twenty-five ($25) Dollars per week for a maximum week of forty (40) hours. Assistant treasurers shall be paid 

not less than Eighteen ($18) Dollars per week for a forty (40) hours 

week. 

2. Press representatives shall be paid not less than Twenty-five 

($25) Dollars per week, hours of labor not being fixed due to nature 

of employment. 

3. Heads of wardrobe departments shall be paid not less than 

Thirty-five ($35) Dollars per week for a maximum week of forty 

(40) hours. Sewers shall be paid not less than Fifty (50¢) Cents per 

hour and shall not be employed for more than forty (40) hours per 

week. 

4. Ticket sellers, porters and barkers shall be paid not less than 

Thirty-five (35¢) Cents per hour for a maximum week of forty (40) 

hours. 

5. All other employees of the employers (not otherwise provided 

for) such as ushers, ticket takers, scrub women, theatre attendants, 

etc., shall be paid not less than Thirty (30¢) Cents per hour for a 

maximum week of forty ( 40) hours. 

ARTICLE V-MusICIANs, THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES AND 

MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OPERATORS 

1. (a) Employees associated with organizations of or performing 

the duties of bill-posters,. carpenters, electrical workers, engineers, 

firemen, motion-picture machine operators, oilers, painters, theatrical stage employees, or other skilled mechanics and artisans, who are 

directly and regularly employed by the employer, shall receive not 

less than the minimum scale and work no longer than the maximum 

number of hours per week (but not more than forty (40) hours), 

which were in force as of the effective date of the Code, as the prevailing scale of wages and maximum number of hours of labor by organizations of any of such employees affiliated with the American Federation 

of Labor with respect to their respective type of work in a particular 

class of theatre or theatres in a particular location in a particular 

community, and such scales and hours of labor with respect to any 

of such employees in such community shall be deemed to be and 

hereby are declared to be, the minimum scale of wages and maximum number of hours with respect to all of such employees in such 

communities in such class of theatre or theatres. 

(b) Where the wage scale of any of said employees is, upon the 

effective date of this Code, based upon employment in excess of 

forty (40) hours per week, then in that event such employees shall 

receive compensation at the same hourly rate of pay as upon the 

effective date of this Code for the forty (40) hour week and for an 
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equitable readjustment shall receive, because of the reduction in hours 

over forty (40) which may have been in force prior to the effective 

date of this Code, additional pay computed at the rate of fifty (50%) 

percent of the hourly scale for all hours in excess of forty-eight (48) 

hours per week which may have been previously worked. 

(c) In the event, however, that (1) no prevailing scale of wages and 

maximum number of hours for such employees exist in such community 

with respect to such employees, or (2) any dispute should arise as to 

what is a minimum scale of wages or the maximum number of hours 

of labor with respect to any of such employees for a particular class 

of theatre or theatres in any particular community then and in either 

of those events such disputes shall be determined as follows: 

(1) If the question at issue arises with an organization of such 

employees affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, then a 

representative appointed by the National President of such affiliated 

organization, together with a representative appointed by the employers, shall examine into the facts and determine the existing minimum scale of wages and maximum number of hours of labor for such 

class of theatre or theatres in such particular locality, and in the 

event they cannot agree upon the same, they shall mutually designate 

an impartial third person who shall be empowered to sit with such 

representatives, review the facts and finally determine such dispute, 

with the proviso, however, that in the event such representatives 

cannot mutually agree upon such third person, then the Administrator 

shall designate such third person; or 

(2) If the question at issue arises with unorganized employees or 

with an organization of such employees not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and if in said community there exist members 

of such affiliated organization directly and regularly employed by any 

employers, then a representative of such unorganized employees, or, 

as the case may be, a representative appointed by the President of 

such unaffiliated organization, or both, together with a representative 

appointed by the National President of such affiliated organization 

above referred to, together with a representative appointed by the 

employers, shall examine into the facts and unanimously determine 

the existing scale of wages and 1naximum number of hours of labor for 

such class of theatre or theatres in such particular community, and in 

the event they cannot unanimously agree upon the same, they shall 

mutually designate an impartial person who shall be empowered to 

sit with such representatives, review the facts, and finally determine 

such dispute, with the proviso, however, that in the event such representatives cn,nnot mutually agree upon such impartial person, then 

the Administrator shall designate such impartial person; or 

(3) If the question at issue arises with unorganized emproyees or 

with an organization of such employees not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and not subject to the foregoing provisions of 

sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of Paragraph (c) hereof, then a representative of such unorganized employees, or, as the case may be, a representatLve of the President of such unaffiliated organization, or both 

together, with a representative appointed by the employers, shall 

examine into the facts and determine the existing minimum scale of 

wages and maximum hours of labor, for such class of theatre or theatres 

in such particular locality, and in the event they cannot agree upon 

the same, they shall mutually designate an impartial person who shall 
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be en1powered to sit with such representatives, review the facts and 

finally determine such dispute, ,,-ith the proviso, however, that in the 

event such representatives cannot mutually agree upon such impartial 

person, then the Administrator shall designate such impartial person. 

(d) Pending the determination of any such dispute, the rate of 

wages then paid by the employers in such theatre or theatres in such 

community, and the ma:\.r-imum number of hours then in force shall 

not be changed so as to decrease wages or increase hours. However, 

if the hours exceed those established by this Code they shall be · decreased to the maximum allowed. 

(e) In order to effectuate the foregoing provisions of Section 1, 

.b.ereof, and pending the determination of any dispute as above specified, the employees herein embraced and provided for agree that they 

shall not strike, and the employers agree that they shall not lock out 

such employees. 

2. In no event shall the duties of any of the employees hereinabove 

specified in Section 1 (a) directly and regularly employed by the 

employers as of the effective date of this Code, be increased so as to 

decrease the number of such employees employed in any theatre or 

theatres in any community, except by mutual consent. 

3. By reason of the professional character of their employment, the 

minimum wage and maximum hours of employment of employees 

performing the duties of musicians shall as heretofore be established 

by prevailing labor agreements, underst;1ndings, or practices. 

4. With respect to disputes arising between employees and employers the parties pledge themselves to attempt to arbitrate all such 

disputes. 

5. Overtime shall be compensated for at the rate of one and one half 

(17~) times the normal rate. 

6. The Administrator after such notice and hearing as he shall 

prescribe may revise or modify any determination of any dispute 

pursuant to Article V, Section 1 hereof. 

ARTICLE VI-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

1. Employers shall not employ any employees under the age of 

eighteen (18) years. 

2. In compliance "rith Section 7 (a) of the Act it is provided: 

(a) That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain 

collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall 

be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of 

labor, or their agents, iu the designation of such representatives or in 

self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of 

collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; 

(b) That no employee and no one seeking employment shall be 

required as a condition of employment to join any company union 

or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization 

of his own choosing; and 

(c) That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of 

labor, minimum rates of pay and other conditions of employment, 

approved or prescribed by the President. 

3. No provisions in this Code shall supersede any State or Federal 

Law which imposes more stringent requirements on employers as to 

age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to safety, health, 
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sanitary or general working conditions, or insurance or fire protection, 

than are imposed by this Code. 

4. All employers shall post complete copies of this Code in conspicuous places accessible to employees. 

5. No employee now employed at a rate in excess of the minimum 

shall be discharged and re-employed at a lower rate for the purpose 

of evading the provi ions of this Code. 

ARTICLE VII-ADMINISTRATION 

1. There shall forthwith be constituted a Code Authority consisting of nine (9) persons to be elected by the members of the Industry 

by a fair method to be approved by the Administrator. 

2. In addition to membership as above provided, there may be 

three (3) members, without vote, to be appointed by the Administrator. 

3. In order that the Code Authority shall at all times be truly 

representative of the Industry and in other respects comply with the 

provisions of the Act, the Administrator may prescribe such hearings 

as he may deem proper; and thereafter if he shall find that the Code 

Authority is not truly representative or does not in other respects 

comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an appropriate 

modification in the method of selection of the Code Authority'. 

4. As and when any question directly or indirectly affecting any 

class of employees engaged in the Burlesque Theatrical Industry is 

to be considered by the Code Authority, one representative of such 

class, appointed by the Administrator, shall sit with and become for 

such purposes a member of the Code Authority with a right to vote. 

5. If the Administrator shall determine that any action of the 

Code Authority or any agency thereof is unfair or unjust or contrary 

to the public interest, the Administrator may require that such 

action be suspended for a period of not to exceed thirty (30) days to 

afford an opportunity for investigation of the merits of such action 

and further consideration by such Code Authority or agency pending final action, which shall be taken only upon approval by the 

Administrator. 

6. Members of the Industry shall be entitled to participate in and 

share the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority and to 

participate in the selection of the members thereof by assenting to 

and complying with the requirements of this Code and sustaining 

their reasonable share of the expenses of its administration. Such 

reasonable share of the expenses shall be determined by the Code 

Authority, subject to review by the Administrator, on the basis of 

volume of business and/or such other factors as may be deemed 

equitable. 

7. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the members of 

the Code Authority partners for any purpose. Nor shall any member 

of the Code Authority be liable in any manner to anyone for any act 

of any other member, officer, agent or employee of the Code Authority. 

Nor shall any member of the Code Authority, exercising reasonable 

diligence in the conduct of his duties hereunder, be liable to anyone 

for any action or omission to act under this Code, except for his own 

willful misfeasance or non-feasance. 
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8. The Code Authority shall have the following further powers and 

duties, the exercise of which shall be reported to the Administrator 

and shall be subject to his right of review, set forth in Section 5 hereof: 

(a) To insure the execution of the provisions of this Code and pro- vide for the compliance of the Industry with the provisions of the 

Act, under such rules and regulations as may be established by the 

Administrator. 

(b) To adopt By-Laws and Rules and Regulations for its procedure 

and for the administration and enforcement of the Code. 

(c) To obtain from the members of the Industry such information 

and reports a.s are required for the administration of the Code and to 

provide for submission by members of such information and reports 

as the Administrator may deen1 necessary for the purposes recited 

in Section 3 (a) of the Act, which information and reports shall be 

submitted by n1embers to such administrative and/or government 

agencies as the Administrator may designate; provided that nothing 

in this Code shall relieve any member of the industry of any existing 

obligations to furnish reports to any government agency. No individ- ual reports shall be disclosed to any other member of the Industry 

or any other party except to such governmental agencies as may be 

directed by the Administrator. (d) To use such trade associations and other agencies as it deems 

proper for the carrying out of any of its activit.ies provided for herein, 

provided that nothing herein shall relieve the Code Authority of its 

duties or responsibilities under this Code and that such trade associa- tions and agencies shall at all times be subject to and comply with the 

provisions hereof. 

(e) To make recomn1endations to the Administrator for the 

coordination of the administration of this Code with such other codes, 

if any, as may be related to the Industry. 

(f) To secure from members of the Industry an equitable and proportionate payment of the reasonable expenses of maintaining the 

Code Authority and its activities. 

(g) To cooperate with the Administrator in regulating the use of 

any N.R.A. insignia solely by those members of the Industry who have 

assented to, and are complying with, this Code. 

(h) To recommend to the Administrator further fair trade practice 

provisions to govern members of the Industry in their relations with 

each other or with other industries and to recommend to the Admin- istrator measures for industrial planning, including stabilization of 

employment. 

(i) Where the operations of the provisions of this Code impose an 

unusual or undue hardship upon any producer or employer such producer or employer may make application for relief to the Administrator or to his duly authorized agent, and the Administrator or his 

agent may, after such public notice and hearing as he may deem 

necessary, grant such exception to or modification of the provisions 

of this Code as he may deem necessary to effectuate the policy of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act. 
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ARTICLE VIII-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. No member of the Industry shall attempt to induce the breach 

of an existing contract between a competitor and his employee; nor 

shall any such member interfere with or obstruct the performance of 

such contractual duties or services. 

2. No member of the Industry shall join or participate with other 

members of the Industry who with such member constitute a substantial number of the members of the Industry or who together 

control a substantial per cent of the business, in any transaction 

known in law as a black list, including any practice or device (such 

as a white list), which accomplishes the purpose of a black list. 

3. No member of the Industry shall (a) lower the admission prices 

publicly announced or advertised by his theatre by giving rebates, in 

the form of lotteries, prizes, reduced script books, coupons, throwaway tickets or by two-for-one admissions, or by other methods or 

devices of similar nature w~ch directly or indirectly lower or tend to 

lower such announced admission prices and which are unfair to competing employers, or which deceive the public. This provision shall 

not be deemed to prohibit members of the Industry from reducing or 

increasing their admission scales as they see fit, provided that such 

admission scales be publicly announced or advertised. 

4. Displaying the name "Burlesque" on any theatre, hall, tent or 

other place of exhibition, shall be prima facie evidence that the employer of the attraction is subject to this Code. 

ARTICLE IX-MODIFICATION 

1. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions 

of subsection (b) of Section 10 of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act from time to time to cancel or modify any order, approval, 

license, rule or regulation issued under Title I of said Act, and Specifically to the right of the President to cancel or modify his approval 

of this Code or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval 

thereof. 

2. This Code, except as to provisions required by the Act, may be 

modified on the basis of experience or changes in circumstances, such 

modification to be based upon application to the Administrator and 

such notice and hearing as he shall specify, and to become effective 

on approval by the Administrator. 

ARTICLE X-MONOPOLIES, ETC. 

No provision of this Code shall be so applied as to permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress or discriminate 

against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE XI-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective on the second Monday after its 

approval by the President. 

Approved Code o. 348. 

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