Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually get a larger quantity of big-time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists know what prices they are fetching. Manager Judson keeps his own books, and keeps them to himself...
Dance Director LeRoy Prinz complained bitterly to the Screen Actors' Guild that Producer Earl Carroll, who fortnight ago opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast (TIME, Jan. 9), was violating the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Said he: "Carroll is trying to corner all the legs in Hollywood-the legs that we have trained...
Music by Ruby Newman, introductions by Heywood Broun '10, "schnozzle" by Durante, songs by Ethel Merman, and satire at the expense of Harvard will be part of the bill of fare at the first annual Gridiron Show and Ball of the Boston Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Statler, Thursday evening, January...
Heywood Broun 10, nationally known columnist and president of the American Newspaper Guild will be master of ceremonies. Governor Saltonstall, Governor Murphy of New Hampshire, and Mayor Tobin of Boston are a few of the political figures who have made their reservations...
Kentwood was the idea of nine manufacturers* who teamed up in Depression to form the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild and promote the prestige of Guild-stamped furniture. First plans were drawn by a designer named David Laing Evans, a pipe-smoking, spare-time student of astronomy. Designer Evans submitted ideas that were basically classical. Thereafter the designers for all nine Guildsmen collaborated in streamlining the classics. The pooling of their efforts was an unheard-of procedure in their individualistic industry...