The New York Clipper (July 1919)

July 30, 1919 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 31 LAMBS CLUB IS BATTLEGROUND . (Continued from page 4) WANTED—AMBITIOUS CHORUS GIRLS L. Lawrence Weber, on Monday, an- nounced that Chas. IMHingham had joined jthe managers' organisation. laal±we£K. Mfjgi {Dillingha m was out of^own "Monday and »Bruce Edwards, his "general nT£hager;~ 'stated that three of the membewof the association had called on Mr. Dillingham . to request him to join their forces and he presumed that he had done so. Ed- wards said that his offices have been is- suing their own.form of contract for sev- eral years and that at no time had. they issued the A. E. A. form of contract, ex- cepting once, when a request'.'war .made for 'it,' and it was readily given. He stated that, for .'the present season, the Dillingham form had been issued and that there was no objection by any of, the pe?-^' formers engaged toward accepting it. This'"' contract was issued fo those who appear; ""' . in the Hippodrome show and the various 1 other shows that Dillingham is putting-■ out this season. A number of the independent managers, auch as • Gus Hill, ■ George Nicolai, How- ard Thurston, Boyle Woofolk and Carpen- ter "Weed, are a bit perturbed over the fact that they were not invited into the managers' association. Mr. Hill, in discussing the matter, said: "The managers should all' be together, big and small. We have a situation con- fronting us that should be settled for once and all times. Mountford is trying to stick his nose into the matter and make things as impossible as he can, so why not let all of the managers make a collective stand and down this man in his endeavor to force his way into the Beld." He said that he believed in an equity contract, but not in one that Mountford and his colleagues might see fit to have the managers adopt He also stated that if the actors would start anything with him that he simply would close his shows and wait until the matter blew over, as he would not in any way become in- ■ volved in any labor difficulties with the actor. When asked why the other managers were not invited to join his organization, ' It Lawrence Weber stated that the new association was only for the $2 pro- - ducers and that the other producers could foster their end through the United Man- agers' Protective Association, of which they were members. Harry Wee, who is producing a num- ber of shows this season, stated that he received word from the new producers' organization that they would be glad to co-operate with him in any manner where he -would encounter difficulty with the performers employed by him. He said that this offer had'.been tendered by the managers' organization to any of thhe producers who were not issuing the Actors"'Equity form of contract" Early; last week, prior to;~a'meeting of the managers' association, the Actors^,' . Equity sent a letter to the managers, which is as follows: —* ■ ■ "We write to ask your association to reconsider its former action and to' ap- point a small committee, with power to act, to meet a small committee of ours with like power to settle the present situation. NEW YORK THEATRES . B. T. OBM PALACE Broadwmr * «tb St. Kit Dlllvat SP.HV 23. 60 and TSe. . Iitr; Nlftt JB, SO. T5, 11, *1.B0 XDOTLLE CAVASAOH, KAEIE SOSBSTROIf, ITOHZ 4k KAT.Ti;, HEKBX LEWIB. MfiKAY * AB- dine. oEoaorz price. BTAB* * HEAX.T, BOB- TOCK'S BJDTJTO SCHOOL, CAlfTT.T.A-8 BIB-D8. CITIOTb? Ttwtre. Wnt 42ncT St- K'M- f.L 1 alTOst «t 8.S0. Kit*. Wed. A Sat 2.80 a. h. woods nxsmm .UP IP* MABELSROOM BaWW. W— ' "The situation, as everybody knows, is unsatisfactory. On the one hand, some pf our^Bjerubers are beinj^refuaed equity contracts'and on the other, various of your "members arerdelayingjj>roductions or delaying the signing of contracts in the hope that an adjustment will be made. "Therefore, before we take any ac- tion or make any definite plan of cam- paign, Which must inevitably lead to a bitter struggle and which may result in severing for all time the friendly per- sonal relations existing between man- agers and . actors, .w e earnestly make the request" that this joint committee" promptly find a means of securing con- tinuous cooperation insteed of constant bickering. "The Actors' Equity Association feels that its six years of conduct of the af- fairs of actors'entitles it to your thorough respect -It has tried to demand equity from actor as well as from* manager, and to keep alive that degree Of personal equation : between actor and manager which is necessry to get the best work and the best performance. It wishes these conditions to continue and it be- lieves that they can continue if practical cooperation on an equitable basis is promptly agreed upon. "We understand there is to be a meet- ing of your association on Tuesday next, and we will greatly appreciate a reply shortly after the close thereof." This letter was read to the managers at -their meeting at the Hotel Astor last week, after which they voted to refuse to meet a committee from theA. E. A. L. Lawrence Weber was instructed to answer the overtures of the A. E. A., and sent the following letter to GUlmore: "We cannot consent to appoint a com- mittee to meet a committee of your as- sociation for the following reasons: "First—That in the recent action of your association in bringing into your councils men who have proved in the past neither friends to the actor nor to the manager, men who have only striven in the fostering of bitterness and discord where it did not previously exist,, your as- sociation has made impossible any seri- ous conference between it and the Pro- ducing Managers' Association; "Second—That the Producing Managers' contractual and other relations between actor and manger that will as nearly ap- proximate equity as can be devised, nd in working out these relations stands always ready to consider suggestions from any association or group of actors. This contract follows the contract under which members of your assodatin have been working in the past 'and if there be changes in the future it is our honest intent that these changes shall improve rather than injure the actor's standing." Gillmore, when he received the letter from Weber, said: , _ "This objection of the managers is under- stood to be aimed.at James William Fitis- patrick and Harry Mountford, respectively president and executive secretary of the White Rats, the vaudeville actors' union. "The idea that Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Mountford, for whom I have the highest regard, have anything to do with the Actors' Equity is entirely erroneous. Oar letter was tile third and probably the last In it we asked them to reconsider their for- mer decisions. We told them that the situa- tion as it stands and everybody knows, ia (Confirmed on page 34) who want to be more than Chorus Girls will be encouraged in their ambitions. 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