Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Research fellowships, for work at the Atkins Institution, Soledad, Cuba, went to Carl T. Parsons, of New York, N.Y.; and Vincent G. Dethier, of Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists know what prices they are fetching. Manager Judson keeps his own books, and keeps them to himself...
...Looking like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory that the employer has a right to know how the business is going), Employe Judson refused pointblank...
Employe Judson regards Lawrence Tibbett's A. G. M. A. as just so many howling Reds. "The American people won't stand for being told that a great artist cannot appear before them because he hasn't a union card." Asked whether a young, unknown artist with an independent manager has any chance against the competition of the big chains, Manager Judson replies: "If he's a good artist and has a good manager, God himself couldn't stop...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...