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...Faine, national executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, objected to Papp's pessimism on getting federal aid, and predicted that Congress will establish a Federal Advisory Council on the Arts...
Calling the Congo crisis "one part one part Alice in Wonderland, part Heart of Darkness," David '55 last night discussed and interpretation of the Congo story. Halberstam, a Times correspondent, recently won the New Newspaper Guild Front-Page Award for his Congo reporting...
...rule-encrusted town singers' guild rejects the newcomer Walther, and offers his new love Eva as prize to the Master she thinks best. The guild realizes Walther's rare artistry only when it is led to it by the commanding stature of the poet and cobbler Hans Sachs. Although the production, through occasional clownish acting, burlesqued this setting too much, it did capture well the drama's union of art's fantasy with life's conventionality...
...length Williams play, Battle of Angels, opened in Boston. For a third-act climax, a zealous stagehand had overstocked his smudge pots to simulate a stage fire, and smoke billowed out over the footlights to choke the audience-but it hardly mattered; they were already burned up. The Theatre Guild, which had produced Battle, shot off an unprecedented letter of apology to its subscribers and closed the play. In the next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers. He worked as a restaurant cashier, usher in Manhattan's Strand...
Brokers are forbidden to deal in stocks unregistered with SEC. But in one instance, Partner James Gilligan (who retired last April) deposited 4,700 unregistered shares of Guild Films Co. stock out of the block of 63,000 he had purchased into the account of Reilly, then head of the Floor Transactions Committee. "Upon learning of the purchase," SEC said, "Reilly immediately sold the stock at a profit of approximately $2,300." Six months later, Reilly's committee refused to punish Gilligan for dealing in the stock...