Word: filmdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Equity's campaign was spirited. More and more Hollywood automobiles carried blue Equity emblems. In Hollywood's American Legion arena, where filmdom sees weekly boxing bouts, 3,000 of the Equity faithful met. Cried one: "Let there be sound and fury, pickets and turmoil! This is a labor fight." Cried another, pompously: "We are not laborers, but artists. Let there be no uproar." Then arose an American Federation of Labor delegate. "Remember," he said, "until you joined labor in the 1919 strike you were gypsies. You had no dignity...
...studios, producers were irked by a scarcity of minor players, the lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...
...only occasion upon which Mr. Hays' "heart touch" seemed forced is when photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...
Hollywood seems firmly determined to break what Somerset Maugham declares to be our eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be amused". Comedies, such as "Let's Get Married", now at the Metropolitan, are steadily playing a more frequent part in the repertoires of the more able actors and actresses that filmdom boasts...