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China la blamed by Japan for spoiling the hope of lasting peace in the Far East. There can be no pence, says General Dolhara, inter viewed in Shanghai, unless China

to regard Japan as hor

WHAT IS THIS ACTORS' EQUITY?

By GODFREY TEARLE

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS Man by Juliet Lowell

* The Call Of The Wild To an Automobile Sales Corporn-

ceases enemy and the agitation/HAT exactly does the word "closed shop" principle, to pre- tion.

against Tokyo comes to and end.

Wo

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“Equity". mean to the aver vent any artist from performing on suggest that China is not to age playgoor sitting in the stalls the stage In either country who Is blame If, indeed, the prospect of watching Miss the glamorous not a member of one or other Dace in Asia is in any way blight young musical comedy star, "put: body. ed. We suggest that China has ting over the big song and dance In fact, any American artist who good cause for looking upon Japan

comes to this country and appears as a potential enemy and that there hit in her latest show? in good reason why Chinese people A few years ago the mention in a play hogo is expected to be should feel resentment against the people for whom General Dolhara of "Equity" in connection with come a temporary paying member theatrical matters referred simply of British Equity, and the same good speaks, Had Japan wanted neighbour in China she would have to the activities of a powerful stage applies to a British artist acting refrained three years ago from trade union In America. But some in the United States. following to a costly, conclusion the time ago "Equity" crossed the What, I shall be asked, has Manchuria project; but since she Atlantic, and gradually its name Equity done for the 4,000 actors served her own interests there, at

same expense to China, she has only has been more and more frequently and actresses who are now enrolled herself to blame if rancour remains quoted in all places and publications as its members? Well, it has over the oplode. Now, if Japan whore news of the London stage is persunded producing managemonts desires to regain the trust of China, to be found.

—and I am glad to say that moat

It must surely be her place to show genuine interest in her neighbour's The term British Equity may of the responsible managements welfare, apart altogether from what have conveyed very little indeed to needed little persuading to give she may get out of it. Un- the average playgoer hitherto; but artists a fair and square dead, both fortunately, whatever Japan does

to win back China's friendship, it--without dwelling here on any in-as regards salary and rehearsal is probable she will be auspected of dividun! controversy in which it conditions. furthering some selfish end. She has been or is engaged—It is, be-

has lost the confidence of the Chin-coming clear that the playgoing Perhaps most important of all, ese people. Germany might have public as a whole may and its at it has given actors and actresses asked for a sign of friendship and tention Increasingly directed "be-security of employment by fuslat- trust from France while she re

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· Is I

A Friend In Need.

met you at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago back in 10007 You were there, sirn't you? Well, you was you remember the fue impression I make on you and

Hongkong Telegraph day, link Alaska with Argentina out-of-the-way places, without any weeks for plays which ran for a cause I ain't got a job and you a

TUESDAY, FLO. 19, 1935.

big sales manager, how about giving me Chicago?

Your friend I think, Herbert E......(algnod).

tained Alance-Lorraine. But shehind the scenes" of the theatres ing-in cases where such precau- could not honestly have expected which entertain it.

tion seems to be desirable-that no complete forgiveness. Neither can

management shall undertake a new Japan,

As in the United States, stage production without first of all de- LINKING THE AMERICA'S trade unionism in this country positing or producing ovidence of

While we keep our attention found its beginnings in those bad the existence of a sum of money To a Corset Company. their attendance at the eral fixed on more spectacular things, old days when the bogus manager sufficient to guarantee every per-si

one of the greatest public worke was a rampant evil of the theatrical former at least two weeks' salary. projects ever devleed by human bo- profession. Case after case was There were far too many cases ings la slowly coming nearer to coming to light of touring com- previously of companies rehearsing completion. This is the great motor highway which will, some nics which had been stranded in without any payment for several

provide a smooth, means; of artists who had re-fow nighta only—and for which roadway for tourists all the way up hearsed without pay for a month therefore the performers received and down the two American con- tinents. It will be 16,000 miles or more finding themselves in re-leas than a week's salary for, any, long, when completed. Of this mote provincial lodginga salaryless, five weeks' hard work. length, some 8,000 miles will be without even the money to pay

These badly needed reforms NOT SO SIMPLE · north of the Panama Canal; and it their landladies and their. fares achieved, the problem has been how

is note-worthy that all but about home. These and other evils- As in England, so in the 1,800 miles of this North American such

to ensure their maintenance. Wo that women are daily exposed to the serious underpay are not suggesting that the firmly United States, there is consider-section is now paasable for auto- able diversity of opinion as to mobiles. Nearly half of the routement of the rank and file of the established and reputable manage-

from Fairbanks, Alasku, to the profession and the tendency to usements will go back on their word, many post offices in Great Britain," the best methods of dealing with United States is in service. Mean- the stage as a dumping ground for

-Memorandam of the National unemployment relief. It is not while, to the south, autos can pro-entirely unqualified amateurs with But unfortunately there. are Association of Women Civil Ser- a difficult task to devise means without difficulty, and more than a

ceed from Texas to Mexico City fixed conviction that they could other managements-some of them vants.

Even when poets and worship- ciations feared themselves (so not inspired such confidence, and

wild roses and dewy woodland shop"-that is to say, employment flowers, and invite them to the of 100 per cent. Equity companies dance, it is rare to see the for future West End stage pro-austerity of those sweat, cold faces

да

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Love's Labour Lort "We should like also to point out

annoyances of this kind [the intru. sion of undesirable persons] in

which would provide work for third of the route from Texas to Bei-the early formed stage asso.emphemeral-whose records have pers of beauty enter on tiptoe in the jobless, but many of the steadily, this tremendous highway many of us considered) incapable only by insisting upon a "closed Spring, pelt them gracefully with

solutions along these lines aro found to have reactions which would be undesirable from the

is

Panama open. So, slowly but

takes shape: and not the least of abolishing. striking thing about it is the fact. that it is coming into being for a of the famous highways of the old different set of reasons than any days.

OLD ROADS OF ROME

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the British stage by unprincipled to challenge any management which those virginal spectacles that are To prevent the exploitation of ductions can we be in a position relax, or a warmer bean dart from theatrical, managers at the experise attempts to revert to the conditions the despair of so many. of its workers, an extremely strong of the bad old days. Directly non- organisation was needed which Equity members begin to creep.

The old ronds were strictly would unite all actors and actresses into West End shows disintegration utilitarian, with a strong military within its ranks; and, as a direct becomes a real danger.

led the Roman empire together beneficial result, tinge. Those far-flung roads that

raise--the

were laid out, first and foremost, standard of the entertainment

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Ugg Elected

this column a few weeks ago, Miss

As wo predicted exclusively in

Ugg, the Eskimo novelist, hag, amid great literary excitement,

been elected International Organi- Ring Secretary of the P.EN. Club.

a Wests Vex (Greenland)

' (Potter's Bar)

108 votes

to

purely economic point of view. The subsistence-homestead plan is a case in point. Its aim is to get more people back on the land, in which respect it bears some resemblance to one of the features of Mr. Lloyd George's suggested New Deal. Washing- ton despatches indicate that the to provide easy passage for the being put before the public which We are now therefore chiming Government may develop this Roman legions. Their secondary keeps the theatre alive. And so, that in every contract given to al poll: plan on an elaborate scale dur-purpose was to promote the flow of in May 1930, the British Actors actors and actresses for

commerce. No one travelled along ing the present year, and it is them for pleasure; any Roman who Equity Association came into being. End production, a clause should be Mr. Utah Berr Jun)

inserted giving him or her the Mr. Bhadahalla (Tierra del Fuego) suggested that nearly a billion through forest,

had suggested that road be built It was modelled on a similar but right to refuse to act with non-

Percy Bysshe Shakey

There is a mystery about this mountain,

and earlier association formed in the Equity members. We do not want dollars may be used to put some-desert simply to enable idle folk to United States and known as the the playgoing pubile to think that Mr. P. B. Shelley, a wild-looking. thing like a million families on travel to places where necessity did Actors Equity Association

old gentleman who apparently aro threatening them. We of wo ten-acre plots of land. The not call them would have been look-America, which has been working think that we have done good work rushed in at the last moment with an introduction from Miss Ethel ed upon as insane. So it has been in conjunction with the Managers' ao far, which will be a benefit to central point of the scheme is with nearly all the international Association for the mutual benefit the profession as a whole and there- Mannin, claiming to be one of the that each family would be in-highwaya siace. But this Fan of employer and employed. The fore to audiences themselves; we greatest lyrical English poets. Ho stalled in a comfortable house different. It is not to be a military into an agreement with the Ameri- ensure that that good work should since disappeared. A P.E.N. Club American highway la something British body has, in fact, entered are now simply asking the right to gained one vote, his own, and has |and equipped with a horse or a road,

cow and enough seed for a year's It any sense of the word. (can association to enforce the go on,

not coming into being because ful as of the demands of commerce. Use

the

motor truck i to imagine it supplanting the is, it is hard steamship on the long haul from is being built, in other words, as a South America to New York. It luxury tribute to the leisure and mobility which enable modern man to wander to far places for his private edification. In that sense it is a symbol of a new order of human existence. The greatest

planting. Figuring four persons to a family, Government experts point out that in this way they would take 4,000,000 people off the relief rolls and make them self-supporting. The money spent, furthermore, would not be a dead loss, since much of it would be laid out in the form

of loans, to be repaid in 15 or road ever built, It will exist simply 20 years with a smull addition to give people a chance to broaden their horizons. Nowadays the

of interest. Viewed from this tourist comes, sets and conquers; angle, the idea is all to the good, all without

atruggle. Nor is there much doubt that

the individuals settled on these local industries. What sort of plots of ground would have a impetus would creation of a better time of it than they have million part-time, amall-town been having on relief. It is the workers give to the decentralisa- secondary implications of thetion of industry? What would plan that make. ono pause. it do to wage rates? Would it America is now engaged in annot put a new, unknown factor enormous programme to reduce of incalculable potentialities into farm production and raise farm the nation's great industrial prices. How would creation of

equation? The subsistence-

a million new farmers affect homestead plan might easily this? It is argued,. to be sure, lead to decisions of the most

that these people would produce far-reaching Importance deci for their own use only, and not sions which would be taken, not for the market; but even this because of any carefully planned would take a million potential attempt to revise the country's customers out of the market and, Industrial and economical set-up, to that extent, would reduce the but simply as incidents in a cam- demand for farm producta.paign to solve the relief prob- Then there is the industrial fem. This is just a sample of angle. A leading feature of the way in which the strugglo the plan in that the homesteaders to cope with this rellef problem would not be full-time farmers may have undreamed-of con- they would supplement their sequences on the whole fabric of earnings by part-time work in

country's national life.

# STORAGE

“Now, you're going to have to spend about a half hour wishing this spinach, ma'am.'

official sold coldly yesterday:

"We had never heard of this Mr. Kelly, or Shelley, until he suddenly appeared, claiming to have written a poem called 'Adonais...Enquiries show that this poem is unknown. He became very abusive, and hit | Mrs. Struggles and Miss Boddity

with an inkstand.".

Miss Mannin confessed shyly: I did not know Mr. Shelley, or Kelly, or his work, but he had such nico oyes."

Miss Ugg merely took another enormous mouthful of "The Life of Joseph Chamberlain" (Vol. IIL), choked slightly, grinned, and went on busily chewing.

Who is Shelley!

5-Minute Uplift Dept. From a Mayfair hairdresser's circular:

"If the cars are visible, that, of course, unfortunately disposes of the whole coiffure."

The great thing is not to

scared.

be

As the post William Ernest Henley so finely said,

"And yet the menace of the care Finds, and shall find, me

afraid

Henley was not speaking lightly. People with large or cauliflower ears wore constantly menacing: him by waggling or flapping them, For this reason he grew a large black beard, in no spirit of licence or frivolity, but in what Cariyla called "grim fire-eyed Defiance." It was, so to speak, Henley's "challenge" to Life. He played the game.". In a 'world full of ears of 'overy - shape and size Henley's example should inspire us. all as we trudge, or bicycle,, along Life's pathway towards our goal, or geol,