Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Stone, still recuperating from his airplane crash of last August, visited the Hollywood ranch of his good friend and theatrical understudy, Funnyman Will Rogers. To show his physical fitness he rode a bicycle, danced a jig, told watching reporters that in November he would return to Broadway for a new show, Ripples. Playing with him in her first appearance will be Paula Stone, his 17-year-old daughter. Dorothy Stone, his 19-year-old, hurried to Manhattan last week to replace Ruby Keeler Jolson, ill, in Show Girl (TIME...
Lenore Ulric, actress, heard last week in Hollywood that Sidney Blackmer, her leading man last winter in the Belasco production Mima, had announced that he and she got married on May 23 at her Harmon, N. Y., home. Emphatically she declined to confirm the marriage, refused to talk about it. Gilda Gray, mentioned by Actor Blackmer as a witness, drawled to newspaper men: "I cannot recall any such wedding...
...protective Equity contracts and rules, the producers flatly refused. The actors then compromised, demanded 80% Equity companies (including principals, minor parts, extras, chorus). The producers again demurred, but said they were willing to employ Equity actors under Equity contracts without attempting to break their allegiance to the union. Since Hollywood Equity membership is growing, the producers pointed out, this would soon result in majority Equity casts...
...nebulous, noisy demands that Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) has made for two months in its attempt to impose the Equity closed shop on Hollywood cinemacting (TIME, July 8 et seq.) were last week crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time...
Last week in Hollywood's American Legion stadium, President Gillmore disclosed these negotiations to a host of 4,000 actors. Loudly they approved Equity's 80% demand. A ballot was taken, the results to be sent to the producers. With a credo thus determined, Equity was prepared to continue its campaign with more sanity, unanimity...