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...pamphlet issued by the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America, Inc. revealed that sales of rights on plays to cinema between 1926 and 1939 totaled...
Jeremiah (by Stefan Zweig; produced by The Theatre Guild). Biblical narratives have a way of being made into "plays" and coming out Biblical narratives. Jeremiah illustrates the jinx. When Zweig wrote it, as an Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage...
Only Jeremiah himself (Kent Smith) emerges with any dignity and strength-and he not as a person but as a kind of booming voice. Unfortunately, at the Guild Theatre, as in Zion of old, it is a voice crying in the wilderness...
...actually get a larger quantity of big-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...
Dance Director LeRoy Prinz complained bitterly to the Screen Actors' Guild that Producer Earl Carroll, who fortnight ago opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast (TIME, Jan. 9), was violating the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Said he: "Carroll is trying to corner all the legs in Hollywood-the legs that we have trained...