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WHAT A PEERESS RECOMMENDS.

STALWART "CHUCKERS OUT."

AMATEUR PLAYERS AND ROYALTIES.

CHARACTERISTIC LETTER.

A

dramatic society desired, to

ona

U.S. STAGE BAN.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928.

PROTEST TO THE HOME

SECRETARY.

ASK FOR

ENGLISH REPLY.

[By The Baroness Furnival.)

London.-Leading London actors, of Shaw's plays. headed by Sir Gerald du Maurier, The problem of the uninvited produce guest is again becoming acute, and They accordingly wrote Mr. Shaw are planning a protest to the Home for terms, and the following reply Secretary. against. the recent ban- jagitating the givers of parties.

After all, It is distinctly trying, was received, relates the "Manning of English artists in America by Actors' Equity. They feel that to say the least, it-as occurred chester Guardian."

"Playwrights often receive let protective and retaliatory measures recently to a well-known Mayfair

The hostessa hundred guests were ters asking them to sutherise per-are necessary.

now scheme - comes into Invited, and three hundred arriv-formances of their 'plays' by

socleties formed to develop appre- force in America, after which an ed1

In this particular instance, too, ciation of dramaile art in their English artist arriving in the Unit- the financial aspect assumed great neighbourhoud. These societies ed States will not be allowed to er importance, owing to the fact are sometimes university, Y.M.C.A. accept a second engagement, even Labour College, or polytechnic if the play for which he has been that the lady in question was dis-

clubs; sometimes branches of Imported" lasts for only three pensing her hospitality from a

drama leagues; sometimes isloated nights, fashionable hotel at so much per ventures calling themselves by any At present, there are at least a head. And the subsequent unex- pected invasion compofled her to title which occurs to them. As a score of American actors and ac -engagements in pay out a considerably higher rule they all make the same mistresses seeking

London. They came over in "Broadway," "Blackbirds," und other plays, and then ked Eng-

amount than she had originally an- ticipated or desired.

take.

Ask Special Consideration.

Refusals were .rendered more "They appeal,, for special con- land so much that they wanted to difficult if not impossible, because sideration on the ground that they stay. No one blames them. When a proportion of the two hundred are personally disinterested and they are clever they are welcom- aninvited guests were brought by actuated solely by public spirit: ed. invited guests.

that they are poor; that all work It is feared, however, that if SUCH DESPERADOES.

connected with' them is unpaid; Actors' Equity makes English ac- This ruse of giving a personal and that, if they make any money, tora return and for years they party, and paying off hospitality they give it away to charities, to have been welcome in the United at. the expense of another indivi-political organisations of one sort Statee the only way of making dual's private banking account, Is or another, or to some public ob- Actors' Equity change its mind is becoming far too prevalent, and ject unconnected with the theatre. to imposa similar conditions here. should certainly be stopped. In- "The result is that the play- deed, one fecis that strong mea-wright is obliged to class them. as sures should be taken to protect "amateurs" and refer them to the poor unsuspecting hostesses from Collection Bureau of the Society auch desperadoes as these!

of Authors, which is, in turn, oblig- ed to make them pay five guineas

U.S. Stars In England, Among the American stara now appearing in English productions are the following:-

Edith Day and Paul Robeson, in "Show Boat."

a performance, and to forbid them Dorothy Dickson and Hartley

to give more than two perform-Power, in "The Man Who Chang- ances consecutively.

To give a big dance in these days entails not only a consider able material expense and outlay, but likewise an enormous amount of forethought on the part of the

"The next day an ordinary com hostess. It is both discouraging mercial speculator, who has no and annoying to have all her plans other purpose than to make money upset and her rooms uncomfort for himself, will receive from the playwright, or from the ably crowded out by self-invited same strangers.

society, without question, an au- A remedy which I would recom-thorisation to perform night after mend hostesses employing with ad-night for a shiling in the pound vantage is that they should en- on the takings when these do not gage the services of three or four exceed' £50., stalwart "chuckers out" to guard the outer entrances and who would be instructed to ask each

"For this the nocieties have guest on arrival to show their in-themselves to thank. If they vitation card. and, failing its pro-would organize themselves as con- duction, would refuse admittance. tinuing bodies building up a Perhaps the persevering "not capital fund by the profits of their wanteds" would respect muscle performances; appoint a reapon- where they blandly ignore hints, Įsible director, pay everybody a liv however bluntly conveyed.

ing wage as soon ay they have the means; and aim at the foun- series of

QUITE SAFE.

Have Themselves to Thank..

I was told a story the other daydation of a permanent of an ultra-modern couple of this performances every season under species which illustrates their in a standing title (Blanktown Play- finite capacity for invading un-ers or something of the kind) in, If possible, a theatre of their own, known territory.

they could at once claim authorisa- tion on professional terms, exactly the commercial speculators do. It is their own thoughtless pro- tests that they are doing nothing more than the

"My dear," said this 1928 girl to a young man of her acquaint- ance, you must come with me to Lady X next week-end!"

"But I do not know Lord and Lady X." he objected "and, be sides, they have nel invited me."

"Don't be so frightfully ante- diluvian 1" she retorted. "AE Z matter of fact, they have not ask ed me either, but that will not keep me away.'

"You see, they are one of those incompatibility of temperament couples, and will probably be suing each other for a divorce any old day. They go their own way, and both issue separate invitations to anybody whom they fancy, asking them down to spend the week-end at their country place.

"Should neither of them recog nise us, it won't matter in the least, since ench will imagine and aaaume the other has invited ns,

amateur dramatic clubs do-that la, acting for he fun of it, and giving away all the money they make to objects un- connected with the theatre, that forces the playwright, as a matter of professional atiquette, to class them with the amateur clubs and make them pay the same fees.

"The remedy Is in their own hands. No sant playwright wants to discriminate against bona-fide attempts to educate the people in dramatle art; on the contrary, he wants to encourage them by every means In his power. Socfettes de voted to this object are entitled to go into the play market as the trustees of a picture gallery go into the picture market, ог a

and as neither will dream of ask-public library into the book mar

ket. But they must constitute ing we shall be quite safe!”

themselves and describe themselves After this reassurance the young man cheerfully accepted the pseudo Accordingly, and not insist on be invitation and the chance offered ing idle amateurs.”

of a few days' free holiday!

· CAREFULLY TIMED.

Another type of uninvited guest showed no sign whatever of bring one is frequently coming across in ing his visit to a close.. Mayfair is the individual who,

At length his patient host, in having ascertained that you are desperation, arranged for an ur entertaining a number of friends gent business summons elsewhere, to dinner that evening at a párti- hoping thus to dislodge the vial- cular dance club or restaurant, tor, but the ruse did not succeed, turns up and breezlly annexes him- for when the situation was ex- self to your party,

plained to Mr. A, the latter Having eaten and drank his graciously protested his ability to full, he proceeds to have a few manage quite nicely. by himself, dances, and then lakes his depar- and further declared it to be a ture, carefully timing it to be just capital opportunity to finish off al before the waiter presents the bill certain manuscript he had on

Then there is the person who | hand.

boards himself out indefinitely on Thus the unfortunate host found nis friends, thus evading the pay himself in the unenviable position ment of rent and taxes and such- of calling his own bluff, and of be- Ike unpleasant reponsibilities, ing obliged to vacate his hearth to This particular type is more dan is too persistent guest. gerous, and also more difficult to

In the end the American was rid ourselves of, since we cannot compelled to instruct his sarvants pleed ignorance of his Identity, to clore up his country house al

together in order to rid himself of

a face is, amel too familar for

us to have a chance of forgetting his apparently permanent board-

Cold a

nimi

ed His Name.”

Ernest Truex, In "Call Me Georges"

Tallulah Bankhead, in "Mud and Treacle."

Joseph Coyne, in "Baby Cyclone."

Emma Haig and Louise Brown, in "The Girl Friend."

James Kirkwood and Claudette Colbert, in "The Barker."

Jack Smith, in “WII o' the Whispers."

Marion Lorne, in "Other Men's Wives."

Peggy O'Neil, in "The Flying Squad."

The whole company in "The Trial of Mary Dugan,"

This much can be said for the Actors Equity point of view-Eng- lish actors who go to New York are often content to take lower wages than Americans would do, because, after a failure, they are straight too ashamed to come home. Americans remaining here seldom take less money than Eng- sh artists. On the contrary, they often demand more.

A scheme for the development of the sauth bank of the Thames from the present County Hall as far as London. Bridge, by building an embankment, shops, etc., was re- cently reported upon by the Im provements Committee at the meet-

ing of the LC.C. The committee stated: "In view of the enormous expenditure which the construction of an embankment from the County Hall to London Bridge would in- volve, such, a scheme must be con- sidered in relation to the capital commitments of the Counell. In respect of improvements alone, the present and prospective commit- menta are large, and, having con- sidered the matter carefully, we do not think it desirable to proceed with the preparation of a scheme such us that suggested to the re-

ference to 118.”

Mra, Edith Halle, Elm Park- gardens, S.W., directed. In her will that her body should be cremated

with my wedding ring and my old cherrywood stick."

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