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Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...
Asked last week whether he would endorse the Film Arts Guild (Manhattan organization for encouraging artistic films). Theodore Dreiser, novelist, said: ''The influence of the movies on the American public has been greater than any other force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which...
When an honest young Hamburger seeks to enter the Hamburg Guild of Journeymen Carpenters, he faces harsh Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire...
...Theatre Guild has made mistakes in selecting plays, but as long as Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, the busiest and perhaps the best Manhattan mimes, have anything to do with it, it will possess an element of perfection. These two made their reputation with the Guild, and they married each other after meeting during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes...
...Among his works was the revival of medieval guilds: the Guild of St. Luke, for physicians; St. Apollonia (tortured by having her teeth broken out), for dentists; St. Genesius, for stenographers, secretaries; St. Zita, for domestics; St. Agnes, for high school girls; St. Imelda, for factory girls; the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, for telephone operators...