years from the date hereof, but the Employer shall have the privilege of canceling this agreement, and the Employee's employment, on..... or at the end of any quarter thereafter by notifying the Employee, and at the same time paying him an amount equal to his compensation under this agreement during the preceding six months. Agreement for Employment of Manager of One of Chain of Retail Stores-Cash Deposit as Security-Term of Employment as Long as Employment Satisfactory AGREEMENT made this........day of.... WHEREAS, the Employer operates a series of retail stores for the sale of.. and WHEREAS, the Employer desires to employ the Manager as the manager of one of its stores, and the Manager is desirous of entering upon said employment, Now, THEREFORE, it is agreed between the parties, as follows: 1. The Employer agrees to employ the Manager as Manager of the store at.... .or at any other store under the its successors and general management of. assigns, so long as the services of the Manager are satisfactory to the Employer, and the Manager hereby accepts said employment under the terms herein specified, at a salary of $. . . . . per week. 2. The Manager agrees to be personally responsible for all merchandise and money that may be charged to him in any of such stores of which he shall be Manager and for all moneys that are received by him or any of his subordinates. 3. The Manager agrees to and does hereby deposit with the Employer $ as security for the faithful performance by him of all the terms of employment hereby undertaken by him and also as security for the complete and proper accounting by him for all the property or money obtained by him or his subordinates from the Employer or in the course of business on the Employer's behalf. The Manager agrees to be personally responsible for all said merchandise and money that may be charged to him in any of the stores of which he shall be Manager, and all moneys that are received by him or any of his subordinates. 4. Should shortages occur while the Manager is manager of any particular store or stores, such shortages may be deducted by the Employer for the time being from the $. cash security above referred to as soon as any shortage is discovered, and the Manager agrees to pay any amount in excess of $.. the amount of said security, to the Employer, upon demand. 5. It is agreed that the cash security furnished by the Manager shall always amount to $..... or over, and should any amount be deducted on account of shortages, the Manager agrees to provide a sufficient amount to restore the amount of such security to $...... 6. The Employer agrees to pay the Manager at the rate of $.......interest per annum on the amount of said cash security, during the time it is in the Employer's possession. 7. In the event that the Employer should dispose of his business or should permit other parties to become interested therein in any form, then it is agreed that the security held hereunder may be transferred and held for the benefit of such succeeding employers or other interested parties and that this agreement shall inure to their benefit. 8. The Manager hereby admits that the merchandise shown on the annexed statement was in the store No....... in.... at the time of the date of said statement, and that the values thereof are correctly there stated, and that all the figures and computations on said account are correct. 9. The Manager agrees to indemnify and save harmless the Employer, its successors and assigns, from any expense or damage that may be caused to them, or either of them, by any claim made against them or either of them, based on any misconduct of the Manager or any alleged conduct or misconduct on his part. EMPLOYMENT OF ACTORS Contract-Actor and Manager. Williston, Sections 850n., 1015, 1450. Broughton v. Kalich, 185 N. Y. Supp. 318. AGREEMENT made between.. inafter called Manager) and. Actor): as. (here (hereinafter called 1. The Manager engages the Actor to render services in the terms herein set forth, and the ......... upon actor hereby accepts such engagement on the following terms: (Here state the name of the part and of the play in which the actor is to appear; also, if he is to be required to understudy). OPENING DATE. 2. The date of the first public performance shall be about .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 such notice as is herein provided. COMPENSATION 3. The Manager agrees, as compensation for services hereunder, to pay the Actor $.......every week from the date of the first public performance of the play. 4. The Actor, if required, shall give four weeks' rehearsal without pay; if further rehearsals are required, then for each additional week, or part thereof, the Manager shall pay the Actor, on Saturday of that week, at the rate of one-half of the salary mentioned in paragraph 3. Rehearsals shall be considered to be continuous from the date of the first rehearsal to the date of the first public performance of the play as provided in paragraph 2. (If the above play is a musical play or a spectacular production, then, wherever the word "four" appears in this paragraph the word "six" shall be substituted.) 5. This contract may, during rehearsals, be terminated, as follows: NOTICE OF TER - a. At any time during the first ten days' reING REHEARSALS hearsals of the company, by either party, by giving written notice, if this contract be signed and entered into within two months of the date mentioned in paragraph 2; or INDIVIDUAL TER MINATION. TERMINATION BY b. Any time after the first ten days' rehearsals, by the Manager, by paying the Actor a sum equal to two weeks' salary; or c. By the Manager giving written notice and paying to the Actor two weeks' salary, unless the Manager shall have previously notified the Actor that the play will not be produced or that the Actor will not be called for rehearsal: Provided, further, that the Actor has secured another engagement at a salary not less than herein provided, payments under which are to begin not later than the date of the first public performance herein provided. In these events, the Manager shall not pay said sum equal to two weeks' salary, nor shall he do so if, under similar circumstances, the Actor secures an engagement at a lesser salary to be paid prior to the date mentioned in paragraph 2; in that event the Manager shall pay the difference between the sum equal to two weeks' salary and the sum which the Actor would receive for two weeks' work. 6. Either party may terminate this contract at any time on or after the date of the first public performance of the play by giving the other party two weeks' written notice. d. The Actor may cancel the contract by giving written notice and paying to the Manager a sum equal to two weeks' salary. 7. a. If the play runs four weeks or less, the Manager may close the play and company without notice, and terminate the right of the Actor to further compensation: Provided he has paid the Actor for all services rendered from the date of first public performance, and in no event not less. b. If the play shall run more than four weeks, the Manager shall give one week's notice of the closing of the season of the play and company, and thereby terminate the right of the Actor to compensation except for services performed to the date of closing. 8. If the Manager is prevented from giving rehearsals because of fire, accident, riot, illness of star, or prominent member of the cast, act of God, public enemy, or other cause which could not reasonably be anticipated or prevented, then the time so lost shall not be counted as part of the four weeks' rehearsal period herein provided. When said time so lost shall exceed two weeks, the Actor shall be free if he so elects. Producing Managers' Association and Actors' Equity Association. Standard Form of Actor's Contract Williston, Sections 850, 1015, 1450. Manager agree that this contract is entered into independently of any other contract between any Equity member and any producer and of any other contract or contracts, affiliation or understanding of any character whatever other than the agreement dated September 6, 1919, between Producing Managers' Association and Actors' Equity Association. The Manager engages the Actor to render services in * *(Here state the name of the part and of the play in which the Actor is to appear; also, if he is to be required to understudy.) .upon the terms herein forth, and the Actor hereby accepts such engagement on the following terms: OPENING DATE.-2. The date of the first public perform |