New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

general stage director and author of
Happy Days; W. r. Rubin, counsel
.or the labor organizations; Joseph
weber, pres ident of the American Fed
eratlon of Musicians, and Hugh Frayne,
state organizer for the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor
me board of directors of the Actors
rideiity League pet yesterday to frame
aodltlonal clauses of the "model con-
tract Being drawn up in the interest
OF harmony between actor and manager.
inese clauses will be read tonight at
Fidelity mass meeting at the Biltmore
when Mr.. Cohan will presd
Shannlng Pollock, chairman of the
.ewiy formed dramatic group of the
authors League OF America. sent out
a call yesterday for a meeting of the
BODY at the Astor Hotel next Tuesday
afternoon. Means of assisting strike
settlement will be discussed
Mr.. Olllingham, managing director
OF the Hippodrome, resigned Yesterday.
put it: ''''''
Charles B. Dillingham; has struck.
He walked out and is no longer man
ager. When he found chat the. en-
pioyes did not believe that the United
states Realty and Improvement Com
panN was the owner and operator of
the Hlppodrome and that the men had
been called out because he was a mem
Der Of the Producing Managers Asso-
e'atron, ne immediately sent in his
resignation"
Marie Dressler. who called out the
chorus at the Hippodrome. confirmed
the view of the situation taken bv Mr..
Dillingham;. She said she was passing
the Hlppodromc, and happened to see
Mr. Dlllingham named as manager in
the advertising She happened also. she
SAID, to recollect he was a member of
the managers association; so she
called the strike right off.
The Actors Equity Association took
in $4,000. of which $1,000 was profit,
at its ball at the Hotel Astor, it was
announced at meeting Of the asso-
citation at the Lexington Theatre An
other announcement from the same
source was that the teamsters' union
was ready to stand by the actors in
any step that the association thought
necessary.
Charles c. Shay, head of the stage
hands and musicians union, said he
believed the State Industrial Commits
sion would intervene in the strike, and
tina It 1t did so the actors need have
no ear OF injustice.
Differences of Opinion on Money
John Emerson explained that the
idea OF having actors share directly in
the profits Of production was not ad-
vanclNg rapidly because Of differences
OF opinion among the actors.
All OF the speakers announced with
enthusiasm that the strike was "prac-
tcally won,' and many referred
scathingly to George NJ. Cohan's
Fidelity League. Wilton Lackaye,
however, pleaded for clemency to any
penltents from the Fidelity League
who might seek membership in the
Actors Equity Association.
The first rehearsal for "The Eouitv
Revue, the association $ musical show.
which viii open on Monday night at
the Second Avenue Theatre, was held
yesterday. Ethel Barrymore announced
yesterday she called off rehearsals in a
Charies Frohman, Inc. show. in which
she was to have appeared, telling Alf
hayman. trohman manager, that she
would not rehearse until the strike was
settled
Herbert s. Goldstein. rabbi Of the In
stltutional Synagogue. suggested yes
eerday to the Producing Managers As
soclation, the Fidelity League and the
Actors Equity Association. that the
matters in dispute between actors and
managers be submitted to a board of
arbitration composed of clergyman of
the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
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