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i The BillboardJ IK? ENTERTAINER AND ALLIED INTERESTS. WHITE RATS IN CHICAGO SEEK UNION SUPPORT FOR A STRIKE FitzPatrick Stirs the Kettle and Gets Scalded Using Same Tactics That Got Them in Bad in East Managers Minding Own Busi ness and MtUtttf No Fuss K quietly and allowing event Dice) tenor of their way. id the Sherman Hotel, the temporary executlvf i White Rats, are Qui I* •mac Mountford ami ill kind*, are putting or nlghi i lobby, the proposed —t artist, when Flupatrlck reached ihta part o( hli >, broke up the show by in- claiming: "You big ■tiff, u set off fighting tor Vaudeville made me and Tm I UP ANT STRIKE YOU HAVE ANY- .THINQ TO DO WITH." The money must Indeed come eaay to the clique. II they can aland silent!? up under ■och evident truths without ao much as «. come-back. No doubt Hountford Is thanking hla stars he was In New York, thereby probably escaping a elmllar verbal bombardment. The lateit reports today are that no strike Is anticipated, although the agitators are striving to keep things going as a sort of pretense. •Things are doing" continually around the Sherman, and from ihe viewpoint of vaudevmiana the biggest "thlnas" since the beginning of the trouble. FIRE DESTROYS GRAND 0. H. AND LYRIC THEATER IN PITTSBURG Both Playhouses Operated By Harry Davis Enterprises Loss Placed at Over $300,000 Is Covered By Insurance Plans Already Being Hade To Reconstruct the Building VITAL CHANGES RUMORED ABOUT TO OCCUR IN FILM INDUSTRY It Is Said Griffith Has Organ- ized Super Features, Inc. Fichteuburg's Reported Sign ing of Stars Causes Comment Fairbanks Hay Get Backing From Kessel and Bauman New York. Jan. a 7.—The dim com- mies of the East are In a maze msolldatlon, readjustment, and the 's Who in the Motion Picture In- ■y has to be revised every day In t not to have the appearnni is been brought over In the With Douglas Fairbanks still hanging Are after breaking his contract wi " Triangle-Fine Arts, and all sorts of Griffith will devote his entire time to direction of unusual feature Alma which will provide a whole evening's Kertalnment. and which will be pi t the market by this new concern. An attempt to get Id touch with Mr. Griffith yesterday tailed, and « tentative of The Billboard wai told that he was not In the city, al- though It Is known tnat he waa here at Mr. Griffith "has something its sleeve" Is further ban by the fact that Frank Wood, manager of the productioi der Griffith at the Triangle-Fine Arts studio, has arrived In New York, and there la a rumor that Alan Dwan be Triangle's new director-gen - During the past three weeks Broad- PRODUCERS OF FILMS TESTIFY MORE TAX WILL KILL INDUSTRY Brady Says He Is Too Wise To Buy Picture Stock panded in Disastrous Way Fifty-Four Companies ladled in Tear, It Is Said New York. Jan. 27.—If the te«H- many Riven by prominent motion pic- ture producers before the legislative Investigating Committee, .which has been in session at the Murray Hill Hotel this week, la to be credited the motion picture industry is in a dis- astrous condition, and the Imposition of any further tax upon the Industry to the biut- i conduct the investigation. This Issue of The Billboard is 39,500 Copies