Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sometime ago Equity President Frank Gillmore declared that members signing non-Equity contracts after June 5 would be suspended. Many a player paid no attention, signed such a contract. Among them was Tully Marshall, long-faced character actor...
Last week, to provide a test case, Equity sued Actor Marshall and his employers. Warner Brothers, for $1,000,000 damages. Actor Marshall was a model Equity member from 1913 until suspended last June for signing his non-Equity contract. Equity charged that he had violated the agreement of June 5, asked for temporary restraining orders and, later, permanent injunctions to prevent Actor Marshall from working with Warner Brothers without Equity sanction. The damages were asked for an interview, reputedly prepared by Actor Marshall and the Warner Brothers, in which the actor denounced Equity, shook the morale of its members...
Marshal. "Accidentally" shot by the host whose wife he has seduced, an actor reveals the attempted jealousy murder. The wife, to save the husband, denies her love though her actor is apparently dying...
...Guardsman. To catch his actress-wife in an infidelity, an actor-husband masquerades as a Russian guardsman, woos her in disguise. Later she says she recognized he was acting, acted herself. The question...
Still Life. After many moral pretenses, the actor finally drinks the champagne a richer lover has given the actress...