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...trade union, most of whose members enjoy substantial salaries and agreeable working conditions, is as much a professional fraternity as a union. Such a group is the American Guild of Musical Artists, formed last year as a result of a golfing conversation between Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Baritone Frank Chapman, the personable, amiable husband of Contralto Gladys Swarthout (TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard...
...Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also the singers of periodic opera in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the G.O.A.A.A. made little headway whereas the Guild, soon after its organization, appeared able to do better. On such grounds the Guild demanded G.O.A.A.A.'s charter. Last week came a show-down before the Associated Actors & Artistes of America, the rejuvenated "one big union" of the U. S. entertainment field (TIME...
Upon charges by the Guild that the older union had failed to unionize the opera field, the A.A.A.A. announced a hearing in the Manhattan headquarters of Actors Equity Association. Furious, aware that the skids were already greased for their union, the Grand Opera Artists' high command, led by a Hippodrome baritonfe named Giuseppe Interrante, held a mas|; meeting in Steinway Hall. Star speaker was not a worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected...
...when Manager Salmaggi's Baritone Interrante, as president of G.O.A.A.A., showed up for the hearing last week, he sang a softer tune. Dropping his charges that Associated Actors & Artistes had been '"scheming" with the Guild, Baritone Interrante agreed to a face-saving compromise by which the two unions would be merged under the name of the newer and more successful one. The Guild agreed to lower its dues from $25 a year (for voting members) to a sliding scale of from $12 to $100 a year, depending on income, so that G.O.A.A.A. members could all remain...
...hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last May but sat among the extras and left by the side door. He wears black hats turned up all the way around like a rabbi's, occasionally a beret...