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Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union...
...Richard Frey was found not guilty and Martin Halabian got off with a $1 fine, but last week Judge Cutler, in high dudgeon, found Western Union guilty of contempt. Said he: "The company, in its desire to get revenue, has neglected to make rules governing messages of this nature to the courts. It is just as responsible to the libel laws as a newspaper." Deaf to Western Union's plea that as a common carrier it is obliged by law to send messages "without discrimination"* and that in any case it had not published the telegrams, he fined...
Burbank (W) defeated Withington (D), 3-1; Ross (W) defeated Frey (D), 3-2; Peet (W) defeated Loomis (D), 3-0; Kellogg (W) defeated Humstone (D), 3-0; Schumann (D) won by default...
Kelly (L) defeated Whitbeck (D), 3-2; Thorndike (L) defeated Gleason (D), 3-2; Shaw (L) defeated Adams (D), 3-2; Frey (D) lost 3-1; Hunnewell (D) lost...
Boston's Braves came from behind to beat Brooklyn, 9-6, with a three-run spurt in the ninth. The Dodgers collected 15 hits off Frankhouse and Mangum, while the Braves garnered 14 off Benge, Clark and Zachary, Benge and Berger made Boston homers, and Frey contributed one for the Dodgers...