Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the American Newspaper Guild strikes a paper, it usually has to suspend publication. But when Guildsmen struck Publisher Dave Stern's New Dealing Philadelphia Record and Camden (NJ.) Courier-Post, a handful of loyal executives volunteered to put out all three papers. This week the 33-day-old strike was still on, but Stern's papers had not missed an edition. Said Record Editor Harry Saylor: "It was tough at first but it's getting to be pretty easy to do. Any newspaper in the country could...
...Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, with Joan Fontaine...
...Fatal Weakness (produced by the Theatre Guild) finds the George Kelly who has so often gone after women with a whip (Craig's Wife, Behold the Bridegroom) merely thwacking them with a hairbrush-and almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing...
...Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Burlesque, with June Havoc, Bert Lahr, Tony Ross...
...frequently strikes cinemagnates, Goldwyn snatched up the phone, called Palm Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story was one which appealed to able Director...