Word: guilded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Montgomery in The Petrified Forest...
Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
Having acted in two pictures himself, Marre is also an ex-agent. He is sure that "Hollywood actors are no more Communists than they are fleas and any writers who are Reds get nowhere." He attended all meetings of the Guild that were said to be Communist-instigated, and affirms that none of the accusations are true...
Marre worked for eighteen months in the celluloid capital, and at present is directing the Harvard Theater Workshop Production of "Henry IV." He asserts that he knows no Communists in the Guild, and adds that if there are any, they don't wield an erg of influence. "There are a few ineffectual left-wing liberals, with whose opinions most of Harvard would agree," says Marre, adding. "They do their best...