New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Actors Strike
Shuts Another
Theatre Here
''She's a Good Fellow Cast
Walks Out When Dilling.
ham Stands by Managers;
Two Actors Are Arrested

Broadway's first Saturday night since
the actors strike either closed or Grip
Piled half Of Manhattan's dramatic and
musical productions found both the
Actors Equity and the Producing Man
ayers associations standing pat,
though neither side put forth claims of
victory. The squabb'e began to take a
more acrimonious turn yesterday and
last night as performers picketing
stage entrances came into contact with
managers and their adherents Tony
Hughes and Sidney Jard;n. actors,
were arrested in front Of the Winter
Garden by private detectives on
charges of picketing
The actors increased their score of
dark playhouses from nine to ten when
the cast Of "She's a Good Fellow"
3. Dillingham; production. walked
out from the Globe Theatre just before
the matinee. No attempt had been
show, because there was doubt as to
the attitude of Mr.. Dillingham;, When
Mr.. Dillingham;, who had beer out of
town, reached his Office yesterday
morning he fund on his desk a de-
mand from the Equity that he make
known his position.
Dillingham; Defies Equity
He replied that the Equity "by it's
threat to close my theatre and force
actors to break their contracts with me
against their will compels me to take
stand and join my fellow managers in
protesting against any such arbitrary
and illegal methods"
The Equity lost no time in hitting
back. When the members of the
"She's a Good Fellow" cast began to
arrive they found Jeff De Angels at
the stage door. Most of the principals
obeyed without question his ipstruc-
tions to strike. Among them we're Jo-
seph Santley, Ivy Sawyer, James c.
Marlowe, Scott Welsh and the Duncan
Sisters.
Meanwhile pickets had been busy at
the Shubert Theatre, where a morn
ing rehearsal of the "Passing Show of
1919" a production due to open at the
Winter Garden in the fall, was sched-
uled. They persuaded twenty chorus
girls to quit the company and escorted
them, amid cheers from the bystanders,
to strike headquarters, 100 West Forty
fifth Street, where they were enrolled
in the chorus workers branch of the
Equity.
Rehearsal of the second road com
pany Of "a Prince There Was" also
had to be abandoned because of
walkout.
Audiences Are Depleted
At the Forty-fourth Street Theatre
and the Winter Garden. where the Shu-
bert Gaieties of 1919" and Monte
Cristo, Jr.," respectively, are the bills,
no pretence was made that the regular
performance would be presented.
Ticket holders who did not care to wit
ness the makeshift offerings were given
their money back. Only handful saw
the matinees in either house.
At the Cohan & Harris Theatre
stage director, and seven men and
women elevated from the chorus con-
tinued to-day in "The Royal Vaga-
bond" the nine principal roles whose
original portrayers struck.
"Those who have stuck by US will
be taken care of as long as Cohan G.
Harris have their health,' said Sam II.
Harris.
Before the matinee Mr.. Cohan stood
while at the stage door observing the
activities of several women pickcts.
THE men are afraid to come them
selves" he commented, 80 they send
the women"
"voice in Dark" Silent
The producers of "A Voice in the
Dark" announced they hoped to be
able to reopen to morrow night. Among
the strikers they must replace 10 do
so are William B. Mack, William Boyd,
Stewart Wilson, Anne Sutherland,
Florine Arnold and Frank Monroe.
Attempts will likewise be made, it
was stated, to reopen Listen, Lester"
at the Knicke rbockcr tomorrow night
and East Is West" at the Astor to-
morrow or Tuesday. The manageme is
of "Thc Crimson Alibi," at the Broad
hurst, and ooh. What Grill" at the
Shubert, expect to resume late this
week.
Sophie Tucker denied that she had
taken a strikers place in the "Gaieties"
cast at the Forty-fourth Street Thea
ire. The report that she had done so
was caused by an announcement Of the
| Shuberts to that effect. Miss Tucker
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