Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight weeks Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) has attempted to impose its closed shop on Hollywood cinemactors (TIME, July...
Last week Equity's campaign was spirited. More and more Hollywood automobiles carried blue Equity emblems. In Hollywood's American Legion arena, where filmdom sees weekly boxing bouts, 3,000 of the Equity faithful met. Cried one: "Let there be sound and fury, pickets and turmoil! This is a labor fight." Cried another, pompously: "We are not laborers, but artists. Let there be no uproar." Then arose an American Federation of Labor delegate. "Remember," he said, "until you joined labor in the 1919 strike you were gypsies. You had no dignity...
Married. Mrs. Lotta Rupp (Cinemactress Lottie Pickford); to one Russell O. Gillard, Los Angeles undertaker; in Hollywood. It was Mrs. Rupp's third marriage. After her first divorce (1920) she proclaimed she would not marry again "even if the man had golden wings and a diamond halo...
Married. Anita Stewart, cinemactress, to George Converse, Manhattan businessman; in Hollywood. Sound films recorded the ceremony...
Producers ignore Equity. They feel that Hollywood's night labor and freakish habits are elements in a new industry which Equity cannot be expected to understand, which have been justified by that industry's prosperity. Director Lionel Barrymore likened Equity's campaign to a major operation on a child...