The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-22
STAGE HANDS
 QUIT AND BOOTH THEATRE CLOSES
Only One Playhouse Controlled
 by Managers Association \ Is Now Open.
EIGHT ARE CLOSED
 DOWN IN CHICAGO
BiIIposters to Meet Toniqht to Take Action to Aid Equity
 Association,

New York, Aug. 22 - That tho actors strike has'Vaken on tba .sra,& of a war of attrItitl was made ,,,a,,4 fest last night, wlNn a syv1nr,+l +lat., walkout of stage hApds and 0,,,,s, clans from the Booth >theatre 1-.-,.7 The Better Ole was lsinr nrasa,,+' ed, "darkened" that ho(va aad ,as. only one theatre in Manht+on ,,,,.s against the will of the Acto,s. rN Association.
 The sole survivor is the Plahouse, wheEe William A. Brady is producing At 9:45." Five others are running under exemption from the Equity. Nineteen have been closed by the strike.
 From Chicago came word that eight of the city's nine down toN n theatres were closed by a strike of actors, stage hands and musicians.
 The belief is current in New York that burlesque, vaudevik1 and mo- ton picture houses also will close soon unless the managers give in. The Chicago bHll posters union was scheduled to meet tonight to con- slider striking in sympathy with the actors.
 At the Globe Theatre Thurston, the magician, is trying to lure crowds past the box office with feats of leg erdemain and deviation. Near by. At the Central, there is now showing Peek Boo," a brlesque show that formerly appeared op Seventh ave- nue.
 Theda Bara in a motion picture is now hickering across a screen each night at the Forty-fourth Street The atre, where, until the strike was called, Ed Wynn cracked his Jokes and typical Shubert choruc displayed itself At the Lyric in Forty-second street, the striking cast of the comedy drama The Five Million" has been replaced by motion picture, ''Deliv- erance," of which blind Helen Keller is the heroine.
 The 'ubstftute shows have no caugs TOT complaint, but the vast majority of persons in the throngs who seeix amusement along Broadway each night try to crowd their way into the vaudeville and the regular moving picture theatres.
 The Actors Equity Association han eft at the Lexington Avenue Theatre IS playing each performance with inc | $. R. O." sign out
 Roadhouses within a fifty-mue F. dius of Forty-second street and Rro,d way also are profiting by the actors. 1 SlIlke, ana rom the Petit TrianOI O,, Long Island to Tumble Inn up tbe Hudson there are reports of unusual throngs of automobilists.
 Then there is one amusement-ot a sort-that doesn't cost anything That Is listening to the horde of actor.
 orators developed by the strike, who
 from the tonneau of automobiles
 shout anti-manageriaI propaganda
 each night
 The fever for organization that ha. spread from actor to theatare scruf
 woman has at last infected the plav. wrights who banded together yester
 day and applied to Secretary of Stat, Hugo for a charter for the Stag, Writers Protective Association" | About fifty of the best known dra matic authors attended the organiza
 tion meeting yesterday at the Hote Astor, and when it was all over tn, secretary, Owen Davis, announced tha the other officers of the union" wer, Otto Harbach, president, and Sylvic Hein, treasurer.