Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, with Dane Clark, Mary Anderson...
Chet is also the founder and "grand diapason" of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...
...taking some of the spirit of innovation she picked up as one of the founders of the experimental Group Theater and adding to it the sound showmanship she developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...
Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...
...week's end the still-bewildered Guild announced that its strike was still on, against whoever tried to resume publication. Yet national Guild leaders knew that they had suffered a major blow. They had pulled the trigger on Dave Stern, and the gun had backfired...