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Gulping deep the Tuesday morning air to cure their Memorial Day hangovers, Hollywood actors and actresses last week reported for work under a new wage scale won for them by the Screen Actors Guild. From now on, minimum day's pay for extras will be $5.50 instead of $3.20. Cinema cowboys will henceforth get $11 instead of $5 a day. With wages for other low-bracket actors up proportionately, the Guild's new scale affects all companies, makes most difference to bargain-hunting independents, who make 240 of Hollywood's 700 feature pictures a year. Costs will...
...Heart of Times Square." There the First Convention of the Legitimate Theatre assembled last week. Sponsored by the American Theatre Council, the meeting was like nothing that ever came out of show business before. Everybody was there. The playwrights were led in by Sidney Howard of the Dramatists' Guild, the actors by Frank Gillmore of Actors' Equity. Marcus Heiman of the League of New York Theatres marshaled the producers and for four days these and hundreds of pressagents, critics, voice teachers, stage hands, scene designers, all sorts of people from both sides of the footlights packed the Astor...
...fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money be raised to start a promotion bureau to bring the Theatre and its customers closer together and, incidentally, to fight legislation unfriendly to the stage...
Being a playwright's playwright and, at 45, a man with a serious social conscience he was persuaded to head the Dramatists'' Guild in 1935. In spite of his close Hollywood connections, he immediately set about revising the standard Guild playwright's contract so that now if a film company is the financial backer of a legitimate show, it must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage...
...been sold down the river," cried the head of Federated Motion Picture Crafts, his hopes of a sympathetic Guild strike crushed. "The working people of this country made these stars. And we will break them...