Word: showfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most urgent news Editor Landry brought to Variety's showfolk readers last week was that war had completely stalled Europe's $3,000,000-a-year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka...
...collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...
...Labor Day deadline, A. A. A. A. convened in the balconied grand ballroom of Broadway's Hotel Astor, where Equity was born. Tallulah Bankhead in pink pajamas, Francis Lederer in an open shirt, Katharine Cornell in a white turban, 5,000 equally perturbed showfolk mobilized in the historic chamber to hear their marching orders. Thoroughly enjoying his big moment and appreciative audience, Actor Gillmore intoned: "You have come here prepared for a message of war. Instead I bring you a message of peace...
...spectacular, that "Lightnin' has struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home. There would be no show that night. Broadway's showfolk had gone out on strike...
...Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...