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They Shall Not Die (by John Wexley; produced by the Theatre Guild). Playwright Wexley bases his works (The Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty...
...fear the size of their salary lists would create an unwarranted impression of affluence which in turn would result in a sharp upping of amusement taxes. Last week, the Hays office received protests that Producer Goldwyn's article was a violation of production ethics. The Screen Actors' Guild wired him congratulations...
...discharged for inefficiency at the end of a week. She thinks her visit to "Avelonia" "a pretty good adventure. But the most terrific experience I have ever been through was writing about it." Her first book, I Went to Pit College is the March choice of the Literary Guild...
...contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled at having their snouts kept out of the public trough...
More haggling occurred over the matter of whether reporters were ''professional persons" and therefore exempt from the 40-hr, a week clause. The American Newspaper Guild, formed last autumn, helped evolve a satisfactory compromise by requiring the code to make a survey of editorial hours and wages...