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SCREEN WRITERS GUILD, INC.
1655 NO. CHEROKEE AVE., HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA AFFILIATED WITH AUTHORS' LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.
OFFICERS & EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE SCREEN WRITERS' GUILD: PRESIDENT, EMMET LAVERY; 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT, MARY McCALL, JR.; 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT, HOWARD ESTABROOK; 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT, HUGO BUTLER; SECRETARY, F. HUGH HERBERT; TREASURER, HAROLD BUCHMAN. EXECUTIVE BOARD: MELVILLE BAKER, HAROLD BUCHMAN, HUGO BUTLER, JAMES M. CAIN, LESTER COLE, PHILIP DUNNE, HOWARD ESTABROOK, F. HUGH HERBERT, TALBOT JENNINGS, RING LARDNER, JR., RANALD MacDOUGALL, MARY McCALL, JR., GEORGE SEATON, LEO TOWNSEND. ALTERNATES: MAURICE RAPF, GORDON KAHN, ISOBEL LENNART, VALENTINE DAVIES, HENRY MYERS, DAVID HERTZ. COUNSEL, MORRIS E. COHN. ASSISTANT SECRETARY, ALICE PENNEMAN.
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HIS issue of The Screen Writer begins the third year of the magazine's publication. The format is new; the policies and objectives remain unchanged.
In the June, 1945, first issue of The Screen Writer this editorial statement was made:
This magazine can develop in either of two directions. It can become the personal organ of a small clique consisting of the particular Guild members whom the Executive Board happened to appoint as its editorial staff. If that happens, it will only be a question of time until it withers and dies an unlamented death. Or it can become the actual voice of the Screen Writers' Guild, in which case it will assume an ever-increasing stature, not only in Hollywood but among people with a serious interest in motion pictures all over the world.
Our magazine has not withered and died. Undoubtedly errors of judgment have been made, since the editors are humanly fallible and not professionals in the editing and publishing business. In spite of editorial shortcomings The Screen Writer has grown. It continues to grow in prestige and value. We believe it has become truly the voice of the Screen Writers' Guild. We believe it is assuming an ever-increasing stature in the motion picture industry and among people all over the world who know the actual and potential importance of
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