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...whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John W. Davis in behalf of his client...
...East Side was given point and direction by the late, crusading Lincoln Steffens. Long famed as one of Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir and Edward Arnold were debating something really big-a strike of the Guild which would shut every film studio down tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery...
Every night producers and Guild officers talked until 2 or 3 a. m. While her husband, Franchot Tone, backed up President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen...
...week's end negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting...
...notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal machine. The vote was for a strike against any producer who refused to sign a Guild contract. But no one expected that to happen...