Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patiently he served a seven-year apprenticeship in Morris' Guild of English Craftsmen. When one of Morris' disciples set up a model community for artisans in an ancient English village, Arthur moved there with his family...
...commercial manufacturers expropriated the designs of the Guild's hand-tooled products, mass-produced them cheaply. William Morris and the older Guildsmen died; the younger ones lost heart. Soon the model community died too. Arthur Cullen slunk back to the East End. World War I and the Depression did the rest...
Producing honors easily went to the Theater Guild, whose two smashes, Othello and Jacobowsky, flank last season's smash-of-the-age Oklahoma! Highest acting honors were almost solidly male. In a dead heat for first place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus...
...American Guild of Organists, 6,000 strong and "absolutely nonsectarian," met in Manhattan last week. During the meeting outstanding members played in various churches and auditoriums, and the meeting as a whole learnedly considered its common instrument - one which offers perhaps more potential trouble than any other in existence...
Although swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that jobless entertainers would soon number 15,000. No one expected Washington to lose much sleep over this; the War Manpower Commission has been trying for months to force such nonessential workers into war plants...