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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: SHERIDAN GIBNEY; 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE SEATON; 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT, F. HUGH HERBERT; 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT, DWIGHT TAYLOR; SECRETARY, ARTHUR SHEEKMAN; TREASURER, HARRY TUGEND. EXECUTIVE BOARD: ROBERT ARDREY, ART ARTHUR, CLAUDE BINYON, CHARLES BRACKETT, FRANK CAVETT, OLIVE COOPER, VALENTINE DAVIES, RICHARD ENGLISH, EVERETT FREEMAN, PAUL GANGELIN, ALBERT HACKETT, ARTHUR KOBER, MILTON KRIMS, ERNEST PASCAL, LEONARD SPIGELGASS. COUNSEL, MORRIS E. COHN. EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY, ALICE PENNEMAN.
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D I T O R I A
THE recent membership meeting was called to consider a resolution duly signed by fifty active members of the Guild. This resolution was a direct censure of the Executive Board. Its first section would have rescinded the specific course of action which the Board had chosen as a means of carrying out the will of the membership, i.e., the contract with Judge Thurman Arnold. The second part would have seriously restricted the future actions of the Board as the governing body of the Guild.
That the entire resolution was defeated by a clear majority in a democratic vote of the membership is naturally a source of gratification to the present Board. But an examination of the vote is rather disturbing. A total of 236 votes were cast against the resolution and 164 in favor of it. Of the 164 members who voted to reprimand the Board, only 24 were present at the meeting.
The problem of proxies is a vexing one and a completely satisfactory solution is not simple. But it is somewhat disheartening to realize that 140 members were willing to vote by proxy to condemn the Board's action without taking the trouble to attend the meeting and hear both sides of the issue. Added emphasis is given to this by the fact that subsequent interviews have made it clear that many of those who gave their proxies in support of this resolution did so on the basis of erroneous and incomplete information.
The Executive Board meets regularly at 1655 No. Cherokee Avenue, not on Mt.. Olympus. A careful scrutiny of its actions by the membership is both democratic and healthy. But it is difficult to find any justification for the large number of members who were willing to censure its actions without any real understanding of the issues involved.
. . . VALENTINE DAVIES.
The Screen Writer, April, 194