Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination against Negro hostesses in Boston canteens was discussed by ex-president Guild of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at a meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club of the A. Y. D. (American Youth for Democracy) last Friday at 8 o'clock...
President Guild told how the Buddies-Bay State Club, the famous canteen on Boston Common, had at first opposed the admission under any conditions of Negro hostesses, and later had admitted them only with discriminatory regulations. Therefore, the NAACP is sponsoring a new canteen, the United Nations Canteen for all races and creeds, which will be opened by January in Back...
...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
Othello (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theater Guild) gave Broadway its first powerful drama in months, its first Negro Othello in history. Playing the noble, credulous Moor was Paul Robeson, who played him 13 years ago in London, a year ago in Cambridge (Mass.) and Princeton (TIME...
...Dodd gets $50 a day for regular hours, extra for overtime. As his movie job is only intermittent and his parish salary is $175 a month, Dodd feels he can pocket the extra cash. He is one of the few clergymen who holds a card in the Screen Actors Guild...