The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-19
ACTORS CLOSE
3 MORE HOUSES
Also Another Roof, Making
Total Of 16 Theatres Dark
ened by Strike.
PARADE AND BENEFIT
Managers Mark Time-Are
Said to Be Awaiting Ar
rival Of GOmpers.

The family feud on Broadway re-
suited last night in the closing of three
more houses and one roof garden, due
to the stage hands pitching in and
helping their neighbors, the actors
This brought the total of offerings
which have dropped out OF New York's
life since the actors strike began up
to sixteen regular productions and two
roof garden revels. The entertain
ments at which the stage hands
walked out into the night last evening,
carrying the show with them, were:
Astor, East Is West; Selwyn,
THE Challenge; Forty-eight Street
Theatre, Those Who Walk in Dark
ness" and the two periods of jollity
on the ziegfeld Roof. The Astor, hav-
Ing struck shoal water on tho FIRST
night Of the strike, had been hauled
on and set going on last Saturday, but
the scene shifters quit before the au-
dience assembled last night and the
play foundered once more Those
Who Walk in Darkness" had been
playing with a crippled cast since the
premiere Of the strike, but the me-
chanical staff last night made the cast
take the title literally. Holbrook Blinn
haG resumed with THE Challenge"
last week with patched up cast,
though in doubts as to where he stood
as either actor or manager. doubts
which the stage hands settled for him
last night.
The theatres remaining open now
number seven, with four of these
granted amnesty by the Actors Equity
Association because their producers
aren't members of the Producing Man
ayers Association and have used Equity
contracts. The four are:
Liberty. Scandals of 1919; Fulton,
John Ferguson; Casino. "A Lonely
Romeo" and Henry Millers, La La
Lucille Other houses which are oper-
atins with manned casts are: Booth,
THE Bettel Ole; Playhouse, AT 9:45,' 4;
and Winter Garden, assorted vaudeville
and Monte Cristo. Jr." Prospects are
that these may have the stage hands
walking off with the snow In the near
future, possibly tonight.
Vaudeville Yet Unscathed.
No action was taken by the stage
hands and musicians unions yesterday
in involving the vaudeville and burlesque
houses in the theatrical brawl and this
variety of entertainment was presented
last night in all its customary glory.
The Producing Managers Association.
while doing nothing yesterday that they
let escape into public view. were said 10
be waiting with great interest for the
advent here of Samuel Gompers. who is
due on Friday from Europe.
The possibility Is mooted that Mr.
Gompers may be the savior OF the situa-
ton. being the first to bring both sides
together, because he has enjoyed the
friendship and cigars of all concerned
While his interest in the labor side Is
obvious, II was said that he also has
enjoyed in the past the esteem OF David
Belasco Morris Gest and George NJ
Cohan, who play leading parts in the
managerial version OF this drama
Meanwhile, IN order not TO overlook other
bets in case the Gompers possibility
should fail, a committee OF prominent
playwrights headed by George " Ho-
bart will meet at the Hotel Astor to-
day and seek to still the waters and
preserve royalties generally.
The most spectacular elements in yes
terday's developments were contributed
by parade of players and the opening
of their series OF benefits at the Lexing-
ton Theatre last night, with 3,10O per-
sons jamming this house to see a bill of
fourteen high class numbers and receipts
of about $4,000, leaving possible net
proceeds of $500 to swell the strike
fund. The managers decided to con-
tribute their bit to this party in the
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