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...Geisha Fukuko Miyamoto who slipped away one morning to the cosy town where, gnawed by pangs of remorse, she poisoned herself and died. After a high-powered conference of police, priests and others who had Geisha interests at heart, the strike was settled with recognition of the Geisha Guild, topped off with nights of heroic celebration in Osaka this week...
Power (by Arthur Arent; Living Newspaper, producer). The unemployed authors and actors who draw $23.86 per week from WPA well know from which side of public issues their paychecks come. Now under the direction of Morris Watson, American Newspaper Guild organizer whose dismissal by the Associated Press has been carried to the Supreme Court (TIME, June 29 et ante), the Living Newspaper's first production was a news-dramatization along MARCH OF TIME lines of the Italian seizure of Ethiopia. The State Department firmly put the lid on this show and the Living Newspaper next turned its attention...
...Masque of Kings (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer). Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque...
Last summer Roy Wilson Howard, up-from-the-bottom publisher of the New York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that...
...dailies, the Guild is now organized in 201. But these 201 represent top-flight newspapers and in them the Guild now has 5,300 first-rate newshawks carrying its card. A major Guild milestone was last week's announcement from the World-Telegram. It meant that, having lined up Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News) and William Randolph Hearst (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), the Guild was now doing business with the three most important publishers in the land...