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Presenting the case for the Newspaper Guild, of which he is an officer, Harris stated that the Guild is not trying to dominate the press. The real pressure on the newspapers is exerted by its advertisers and the bankers...
...purpose of the Guild, he said, is to establish a fair balance of power between the publisher and the employee, and to ensure fair wages and hours. He disclaimed any other motives in the Guild's drive to unionize the newspaper industry...
...Ghost of Yankee Doodle (by Sidney Howard; produced by Theatre Guild. Inc.). Though more and more social problem plays invade the Manhattan stage, few are good, none great, for good plays are written by gagmen, poets, wits, fakers but not by ax-grinders. Audiences still like Shaw and Ibsen, not for their lectures on social reform, but for their conceits, paradoxes, taut drama. Last week, in a muddled play that brought a famed U. S. actress out of retirement, this perennial fact was underscored again...
...Renaissance Florence the Antinori family were the leaders of the silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...
...groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel for the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers, tried a new tack by storming that fibre identification is due to Japanese propaganda spread by the International Silk Guild in an attempt to spike rayon sales...