Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July James M. Cain, specialist in fast-moving novels like "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," took time out from sex and murder and harnessed his vigorous style to a proposal for an American Authors' Authority. Published in the Screen Writer, monthly mouthpiece of the Screen Writers' Guild, the proposal has been the cause of red scares and herrings galore. A glance at Cain's opposition, which includes Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, and a newly formed group of writers headed by the oldest of the old guard, John Erskine and Louis Bromfield, indicates a weak base...
...York court ruling from botching up the writers' works. Cain's ebullience overboiled when he thought of financing these functions by levies on publishers and theatrical and movie producers, and of eventually taxing them enough to provide a minimum yearly salary for writers. But the Screen Writers' Guild, an organization whose "communist leadership" is mythical, recently decided to rewrite the proposal "in better form" and more to the taste of publishers and producers. This should silence those who holler "Petrillo" whenever they hear of the Authority...
American Newspaper Guild, had been trying to find somebody to bargain with in Springfield. Like Bowles's 517 employes, the Guild was sure Bowles was boss. But his three publishing companies had been ordered dissolved by 'the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Bowles swore up & down that that left him just an advertising salesman. Fortnight ago, the NLRB told him to quit kidding and bargain with the Guild...
...battle of the repertory companies, just a minor skirmish last year, is beginning to assume the proportions of a full-scale engagement in the American Theatre. This week the new American Repertory Theatre entered the lists against the established Theatre Incorporated, Theater Guild Repertory, and Old Vie companies with a high-powered, grandly conceived production of the rarely performed Elizabethan chronicle. Henry VIII written partly by Shakespeare and chiefly by his contemporary John Fletcher...
...Screen Guild (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, with Doug Fairbanks Jr., Lionel & Ethel Barrymore...