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...Norwalk, Conn., the annual exhibition is put on by the Silvermine Guild of Artists, a 16-year-old organization whose 310 members include Columnist Westbrook Pegler as well as John Steuart Curry, Novelist Ursula Parrott as well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more...
...rival unions are the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 502) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 132). Armed like any workers with the tools of their trade, words, the screenwriters went to war before election. John Lee Mahin, president of Screen Playwrights Inc. advertised in Hollywood's Variety: "Any charge or implication that Screen Playwrights is a company union or in any way producer controlled is a lie. . . ." On another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman...
Next day, 342 eligible writers employed at Hollywood's 14 active studios solemnly cast their votes. Screen Writers Guild got 271 votes, a thumping majority at every studio. Result of the bickering: President Nichols promptly offered to "bury the hatchet," form a unified organization; President Mahin retorted that "the fight has just begun," promised to take it to the courts...
...invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these restraints, WQXR has turned into a sound moneymaker, has already grossed some...
...listen, have long bewailed opera's dramatic knocks and squeaks. Now and then zealous directors, and intrepid groups of operatic artists, have decided to do something about them. Most prominent of these groups in recent seasons have been England's Glyndebourne Opera, and the Salzburg Opera Guild...