The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-09
SUEACTORS'UN
Gotham Producers VIII Bring
} Action Against All Strikers.
@The Great Stage Strike" Still
the Play of the Day.
lSTARS" ACTING As PICKETS
George COhan Attempts Come
.back-E. Walter Tries Actin.
Chorus Girls Should Worry
Both Sides in Deadly Earnest.

Both Sides In Deadly Earnest.
New York. Aug. Both actors and
managers were rehearsing their casts
today for the third act of the Broad
way drama, The Great STAR Strike"
cambridge Colby attorney for the
managers. has been instructed to bring
suit against the Actors Equity associa-
ton and every individual actor who
had violated his contract by striking.
The association announced today that
500 new applications for membership
had been received by the union"
They also expressed jubilation over
the report that thirty rehearsals Of
coming productions had been called
Off. The number OF dark theaters,
however. had decreased from twelve
to nine last night. due to the action
OF the Actors Equity association in
including Lonely Romeo" John
Ferguson" The Greenwich Village
Follies." "39 East" and The Rec
Dawn
stars Acting rs Pickcts.
1t was decided today that the stage
stars have no grudge against those be-
cause their management is not affili-
nted with the producers trust
Pickets at the Ziegfeld Follies at
tracted swarms of chorus girls to the
fire escapes. It took i've pOhceInen
to move the crowd.
one gathering of actors on the
streets resulted in the arrest of eight
performers. giving the strike a regu-
lar labor complexion.
Playwrights and managers doubled
in brass last night, filling parts made
vacant by the strike. Understudies
were given an opportunity of a life
time and in one musical show the
places of seven principals were tilled
by men and women from the chorus
+. H Sothern resigned from the
actors union" announcing he was
mot IN accord with their procedure"
Conan Tries a Comeback"
George NJ. Conan, who served his
apprenticeship knocking EN- out OF
their chairs in every kind of a show
house from Painted Post to Forty
second street, romped back to the
stage in an effort to restore Ihe
Royal Vagapond." a Cohan and Har-
ris production, which was strike bound
last night. Sam Forrest, general stage
director Of the Conan and Harris pro
auctions, tried his ability as jerks
opposite Conan. who appeared as
Marcel. the Barber"
For all his drudgery as slave OF
the system" Cohan's sympathies are
all with the Producing Managers as
soc:ation and against the downtrodden
stars that used the shine.
Eugene Walter as a "Star."
Eugene Walter. who wrote Paid in
Full" Fine Feathers" and Inc
Easiest Way" made his bow to the
public as an actor when he took a
star part in his latest show. Tine
Challenge" In the cast with him was
Edgar Selwyn. whose stage duties
heretofore have been purely mana
gerial.
The shubert company PACED and
obtained AL Jolson as a substitute for
Ed Wynn, the star comedian OF the
"GaIeties of 1919"
In the alley back of the New Am
sterdam theater John Charles Thomas
musical comedy star, whose last ap.
pearance was in "Maytme' walked
musical comedy prince, picketing tbs
''help" of the "Follies of 1919" in ar
effort to enlist them in the strike.
"Nightie Night Still in Bed.
At other stage doors there were
equally prominent stage celebrities OF
a similar mission, and in front OF
few Broadway shows still others
quietly urged the customers to sta!
away from "scab" performances.
''Nightie Night" a new musica
comedy, hasn't been taken out Of 1T
tissue paper yet. This explosion wa
fective have the union labor actor
depleted its cast that the producer
tonight said the opening has beer
postponed indefinitely.
Altho Broadway at large refuses u
take the strike situation any NOR
seriously than It takes the usual vaude
willie act the actors and manager
were in deadly earnest and things lool
bad for the strikers II they lose.
Beauty Is Saved, Anyway.
In an afternoon meeting at tn
Hotel Aston. the producing manager
adopted a resolution placing them
selves on record as not opposed 4
organized labor. This is believed t
have ben dictated by managerial ap
prehension lest the mechanical trade
OF the theaters vote a sympatheti
strike.
As matters stand tonight the pro
ducers and vaudeville managers ar
arrayed against the union with power
full promises. For one thing, tn
faithful" actors are promised tina
forever and ever and ever-Rnd the
some-the grateful producers will pro
vide them with golden engagements.
And the chorus girls should worr!
Very few of them are union folk
and, as the producers are going I
continue their pay regardless of en-
forced idleness. there's no fear tina
beauty will starve-any more tina