New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Will ''Stick to the End"
With Musicians, Actors
and Stage Hands, Says
p, Leader Charles C.. Shay
Printers Donate $3.50
Chorus Girls to Demand
$3.50 Week on Road.
With Pullman Bertlls

Motion picture operators, stage
hands and theatre musicians through
out the United States. numbering be-
tween 100000 and 100000. will "stick
by the striking actors to the end"
Charles c. Shay, president of the In
ternational Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees, announced last night.
Mr. Shays statement followed con-
ference in which he, Joseph N. Weber,
Musicians. and officers of the Actors
Equity Association took part
Asked whether his assertion might
be construed as a declaration of in
tentlon to call out motion picture
operators mere or bring about walk
out of stage hands and musicians in
additional New York theatres tonight,
Mr.. Shay declined to commit himself.
Francis Wilson. president of the
Actors Equity. addressed a meeting
of Typographical Union No. yester-
day in Saengerbund Hall. Brooklyn. At
the conclusion OF his speech the union
voted $3.50 to aid the actors in their
strike.
1t was announced last night that fifty
jitneys will transport patrons of the
actors performance at the Lexington
Theatre from Times Square free of
charge.
Strike Good as Won, Says Gilmore
The curtaled list Of local dramatic
and musical attractions, Frank Gill
more, secretary of the Equity, said
probably Will be further abbreviated
tonight More stage hands and musi-
slams, he predicted, will refuse to serve
ut this evenings performance at several
theatres now advertising business as
usual unless the Producing Managers
Association reconsiders its refusal to
treat with the actors organization.
Our strike is as good as won," he
said.
Members of the international Ali
ance of Theatrical Stage Employees met
yesterday at their headquarters, 10
West Fortieth Street, to consider ex-
tending their strike to other theatres
controlled by the Producing Managers
Association. The strike order now af
fects sixteen playhouses. Another
meeting will be held to-day
Actors Prepare for Parade
The striking actors spent yesterday
preparing for their parade through the
city to-day and for the premiere per-
formance tonight of a benefit at the
Lexington Theatre. The theatre mana
gers met at the offices Of Cohan e.
Harris, 226 West Forty-second Street,
discussed the strike situation, but re-
fused to reveal the details of their
deliberations
The Union of Chorus Girls and Cho-
rus Men, through its president, Marie
Dressler, made known the demands to
be presented to the Producing Mana
gers Association.
"The chorus people," said Miss
Dressler. have Joined the actors in
their demand for an eght-perform-
ance week with pro rata payment for
all performances in excess Of that
number. The minimum salary for
$35 on the road"
The chorus folk agreed to rehearse for
four weeks without pay, but demand
half pay for the next two weeks re-
hearsing and full pay thereafter
whether the play has opened or not
Demand Pullman Cars
They demand two weeks pay if a
play is taken off after four weeks
rehearsals. They are firm also in their
determination to compel the managers
to provide them with Pullman accom-
modations while on tour Not more
than one chorus girl or man to a berth
is another proviso.
The Equity announced that all
chorus girls taking part in TIE actors
benefit production at the eLexington
Theatre will be paid $40 each Tor the
weeks work and be furnished with
shoes and stockings while working.
Miss Dressler will be in charge Of
the chorus
=. NO theatrlcal manager ever gave the
New York theatregoer as much for
ms money, say the actors. as thew will
oHer at the Lexington Theatre for a
week beginning tonight for regular
olo-time prlces,' which means 81 for
we Dest seats. Silvio Helm will lead
the orchestra of striking musicians
Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. ". C.
Fieids, Barney Bernard, Ed Wynn, Ed
die Cantor, Eddie Foy and his "l;t+1.
Equities" Blanche Ring, Doris Rankin
Fiorlne Arnold and dozen other not
anle strikers will appear in varietv
bill. - variety
1Uo Performers in Spectacle
Brandon lyman and hundred or
more members of the actors orcan;za-
.'on Will appear in "spectacle" writ
Ien py HasSard Short and Percival
Knight and entitled Equity"
Between 5000 and 1000 strik;no
stage folA are expected to march in
lhe STRIKING actors parade this after
noon. De Wolf Hopper is to be in the
Vanguard, and the Barrymores. the
is' 1rews and scores of other theatrical
nghts are scheduled to tramp the
I1orty,odd blocks of the route, from
broadway and Sixty-third Street to
MADISON Square. The paraders will
gather at Broadway and Sixty-third
Street at 1880 p. M. and march south
on Broadway to Columbus Circle.
gown Eighth Avenue to Fifty-seventh
street, across TO Broadway and down
mat thoroughfarc to Madison Square.
MAJOR Reginald Barlow, u. S. A..
VIII Lead the paraders at the head of
actors who served in the army and
navy during the war. Members of the
councIi OF the Equity will follow and
then Will come members of the the
atrical companies which struck and
closed theatres. marching as units with
banners inscribed with the names Of
their productions. The civilian actors
division. led by William Kelly; Equity
women war workers. the pickets diyi-
sion, led BY Miss Pearl Sindela. of
the striking Chin Chow company. and
the British actors division, headed by
Captain Everett Rutterfeld will fol
low In turn.