New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Stage Strike
Closes Two
More Houses
Continued from PAGE I

..pses in this set forth tina. contracts
.s,ll be "inviolable."
n also indorsed plan for perma-
x.s. board Of arbitration - settle
s.,u.es between managers and actors.
rms board would consist OF two actors.
..ro managers and an umpire, to be
..lscte BY the others.
+, the preamble Of the constitution
n is stated:
aWe are an organization that pur-
...s. never to strike. We are found
= on cooperation and fidelity"
Alan Dinehart told the gathering
.hss the committee aprc.nted On Fri
;r s.v 70 visit George NJ Cohan had in
ssrmeo Gar Mr.. Cohan they did not want to
a;sruss the business of the Actors
r;delity League with him until he had
.as;gned as q member of the Producing
Na,arers' Association.
@Wr' Cohan told us that he would
m. only resign, but would start the
nsv society off with 100000. We told
him we could not accept such q gift,
Int tha. the early expenses of the or
sanitation would be met by the men,
hers Of the executive committee who
Nave agreed to contribute sI00 each"
Resides electing Mr.. Cohan to be
,res,dent srese officers were elected:
V;ce-uresiGent, Louis Mann; secretary,
Alan Dinehart; treasurer, Willie Col
iier: board Of directors. David War
field. Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Hol-
brook Blnn, Lowell Sherman. Arthur
Ashley, Fay Banter, Marjorie Wood,
Lenore Ulrich. Frederic Carr. Janet
Beecher. Zelda Sears. Jose Rubin,
GLADYS Hanson. ". H. Gilmore, VIII
=. Sl-i-
sreau. George Barnunl. George Mac
Fsrland, John Halliday and Julia Dean.
Janet Beecher made a brief talk in
which she eulogi2ed Mr.. Cohan.
~ want you to know that the man
YOU have elected to be our president
Is one Of the finest, truest, and noblest
who ever walked on this EARTH" she
said. "I never met him until recently,
but I'd always known that he was what
We have found him to be-
kilograms were read from Laura
Hope Crews, Otis Skinner, Mrs. Fiske
and Billie Burke, the wife Of Florenz
Ziegfeld. jr.. & member OF the Mana
gers Association.
May Face Contempt Charge
Justice Peter A. Hendrick, in Part I,
Special Tern OF the Supreme Court,
Indicated yesterday that certain strike
leaders may be brought into his court
10 answer a contempt charge Justice
Hendrlck was angered by newspaper
account Of speech made by Charles
Shay at the meeting of the Actors
Equity Association at the Lexington
Avenue Theatre Friday afternoon. Mr.
Shay is president Of the stage hands
union. Counsel for striking actors and
managers were there TO argue a motion
to vacate the temporary injunctions
restraining Equity leaders from calling
certain companies TO strike.
Justice Hendr.cK read into the record
from newspaper clipping these re-
marks attributed 10 Mr Shay:
"The Judges of this city and state
make promises which afterward they
do no, keep. had better beware how
far they so IN this particular strike
we have OF.
Mr.. Shay was in the courtroom, but
was rot called to the bar.
~ an asking if you repudiate any
one VINO makes statement tending
to intimidate the judge of this court"
Mr.. Turner chen repudiated the re-
marks attributed to Shay, saying he
was entirely out Of sympathy with
such statements.
Justice Hcndrick said he wished to
hear from counsel what they thought of
the remarks He said he regarded the
statement as contemptuous, and added
he would not be swayed from the
course he had mapped out by threats.
Attorneys Martin W Littleton and
Justus Sheffield, representing some of
the actor defendants in the injunction
proceedings, expressed themselves as
strongly opposed 10 the statement at
tributed to Mr.. Shay.
DO you approve OF the remarks of
Shay Justice Hendrick then asked
Paul Turner, the counsel of record for
the Actors Equity Association, What
have you 10 say about one Of your
Clients making such g statement?"
Court Quizzes Lawyer
Mr.. Turner did not reply at once and
Justice Hendrick demanded:
"Mr. Turner, do you approve or dis
approve of these remarks? l ask you
as an officer of this court, what have
you to say about the action Of one Of
your members? Do you repudate these
remarks 80
Mr.. Turner replied he would feel hu-
inflated II such remarks were attributed
to him.
That was not my question" retorted
Justice Hendrick What l want to
know is what you think about the pro-
pretty of speakers at your meeting max
ing such remarks"
Justice Hendrick indicated that ne
would decide on the motion to vacate
the injunctions Monday.
At one point during the proceedings
while Mr. Littleton was contending
.hat court of equity had no right to
interfere between employer and en-
pioye and that the court had no right
TO act as arbter in the actors strike,
justice Hendrick interrupted to say:
Keep quiet, Mr.. Littleton! Sit
Mr. Littleton continued Then JUS