New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Actors Tactics Praised

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Actors Tactics Praised
Many managers admit the Equity
picked a strategic time to call the
strike. month ago, they say, it
would not have hit them so hard. bu.
now advance royalties haze been paid
IN numerous instances. sums have been
lent to actors rchearsing. and ther~
nave been heavy expenses in building
The cheering throne that milled be
fore strike headquarters, choking West
Forty-tifth Street. east of Broadway,
to frafhc, heard just as angry charac-
terlzations Of the managers from ac-
tors and representatives Of other labor
organizations, who spoke from the steD
OF the Nttlc restaurant where The
strike committee holds forth. There
We're other speeches at the meeting
inside, which was not open to the pub
lie.
Equity officers declared James e.
Holland president Of the New Yorl,
State Federation of Labor. had told
them union stage hands and mu icians
would be called Oh strike tomorrow,
II the trouble We're not settled before
then.
f. G. Lemaster secretary and treas
urer Of The international Alliance Of
Federated Stage Employees, when his at-
tention Was called TO this, said 'he
State Federation of Labor he'd no
power to call a sympathetic strike Ne
explained all it could do would be to
reques- such action and that decision
would rest with the executive commit
tee OF the stage hands organization.
Grant Stewart, CORES sponding score
tarY Of the Ecui .y. said kilograms had
been received from actors in Chicago
and from legitimate actors working in
California motion picture studios
pledging their support. The wire from
Chicago. he said, was signed nv Grant
Mitchell and Tom Wise, and purported
to represent the sentiment of the casts
there OF ~ Prince There Vas "Cp
in Mabcl's Room" "Cappv Rchs,'
Scandals and the Richard Carrie com
lany now playing there. The signers
Of the California message were Will
lam Courtleigh, H. B. Warmer, George
Fawcett, Vincent Serrano, Nil on SillS,
Bert Lytel Alberr~ Parker. Earle
Brown, Edward Connolly and William
BuYrcss.
Holbrook Blirn, star and part owner
of The Challenge" playing at the Sell
wvn Theatre, res .gncd from the Actors
Equity yesterday. He reiterated what
he had said in d statement Friday
night, that his contract with the Sci
wyns and Eugene Walter. author OF the
play. We're all that kent him in the cast.
lie wished the Equity "godspeed and
good luck" in its struggle.
1t was also announced last night that
William Collier had resigned from the
Equity. Another descrter was Allan
Dinohart. who plays a leading role in
The Challenge
William A. Brady. in the course of
an address 70 the east of "Chu Chin
Chow" which opened at the Century
Friday night despite the strike, chal-
lengcd Francis Wilson, president of the
Equity, 10 meet him in debate at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
"Chu Chin Chow" Cast Guarded
Fearful lest the arguments Of pickets
might dissuade members OF the cast
from appearing, the management Of
"Chu Chin Chow took the entire com
pany to dinner last evening on the
Century Roof
George NJ. Cohan was host to "The
Royal Vagabond' company including
musicians, electrians and stage hands,
at the Knickerbockcr.
Members OF the cast of "Lightnin'
spent the evening in other amusements.
They chartered a large bus and rode
up and down through the White Light
district, shouting aud cheering for the
Actors Equity On the sides OF the
bus were SIGNS proclalming "Lightnin'
Has Struck
The Producing Managers Association.
at It's meeting yesterday afternoon.
adopted resolutions pledging itself 10
give financial aid to all loyal actors
who We're forced out OF work by the
strike. 1t also reiterated its former
statement that it had never refuse
to live up to unexpired Equity con-