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WHAT IS THIS ACTORS' EQUITY?

By GODFREY TEARLE

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

THAT exactly does the word "closed shop" principle-4.6., to pre- ceases to regard Japan as her potential enemy and the agitation

"Equity" mean to the aver vont any artist from performing on against Tokyo comes to and end. We suggest that China is not to age playgoer sitting in the stalls the stage in either country who is OUR NEW AND EFFICIENT

biamo If, indeed, the prospect of watching Mias, the glamorous not a member of one or other

young musical comedy star, "put body. "MOBILUBRICATION" Peace in Asia is in any way blight-

ed. We suggest that China has ting over the big song and dance good cause for looking upon Japan

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TUESDAY, FED. 10, 1935.

NOT SO SIMPLE

reason

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS by Juliat Lowali:

The Call Of The Wild

To'an Automobile Bales Corpora- | tion.

Dears Sira:

I am very interested in your wonderful cars, because there could be no better cars for long trips and rough roads, and that is the reason why I would like to beautify it more with a horn that would sound exactly like Tarzan's

there are thousands of people that would just love to hear that sound over and over again, and mostly women, so you see why I want

Very truly yours,

In fact, any American artist who comes to this country and appears as a potential enemy and that there hit in her lateat show?

why Chinese people good

A few years ago the mention in a play here is expected to bo-call to the wild animals, because should feel resentment against the people for whom General Dolhara of "Equity" in connection with como a temporary paying member theatrical matters referred simply of British Equity, and the same speaks. Had wanted

Japan a good neighbour in Chins 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, hap Manchuria project; but since sho served her own Interests there, at Atlantic, and gradually its name Equity done for the 4,000 actors Chine, she has only has been more and more frequently and actresses who are now enrolled some expense herself to blame if raucour remains quoted in all places and publications as its members? Well, it has over the episode. Now, if Japan where nows of the London stage is persuaded producing managements desires to regain the trust of China, to be found.

-and I am glad to say that most

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 ncoded little persuading to give she may get out of it. Un- the average playgoer hitherto; but artists a fair, and square deal, both fortunately, whatever Japan does to win back China's friendship, it without dwelling here on any Inas regarde salary and rehearsal

In which it conditions. Is probable she will be suspected of dividual controversy 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 ese people. Germany might have pubile as a whole may find its at asked for a sign of friendship and tention increasingly directed "be trust from France while she re tained Alsace-Lorraine. But shohind the scenes" of the theatres could not honestly have expected which entertain it. complete forgiveness. Neither can Japan.

LINKING THE AMERICA'S.

This is the great

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As in the United States, stage trade unioniam in this country

Porhaps most important of all, it. has given actors and actresses security of employment by insist jing-in cases where such precau

tion seems to be desirable—that no management shall undertake n new production without first of all do (positing or producing evidence of

sufficient, to guarantee every per.

ono.

A horn like Tarzan's call to the wild animals.

Sir:

A Friend In Need

.IB I met you at the Stavens Hotel, Chicago back in 19007 You were there, airn't you? Well, if impression I make on you and

you was you romember the fine

While we keep our attention found its beginnings in those bad the existence of a sum of money To a Coract Company. fixed on more spectacular things, old days when the bogus manager one of the greatest publie works was a rampant evil of the theatrical former at least two weeks' salary, projects ever devised by human be- profession. Case after case Was There were far too many cases inge is slowly coming nearer to coming to light of touring com- previously of companies rehearsing completion. motor highway which will, some panles which had been stranded in without any payment for several 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 and provide a smooth, up-to-date | means; of artists who had rc-few nights only--and for which big sales manager, how about roadway for tourists all the way up hearsed without pay for a month therefore the performers received giving me Chicago? and down the two American con- or more finding themselves in re- less than a week's salary for, say,

Your friend I think,- tinenta. It will be 15,000 miles

Herbert E......(signed).

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Love's Labour Lost

long, when completed. Of this mote provincial lodgings salaryless, five weeks' hard work, length, some 8,500 miles will be without even the money to pay

These badly needed reforms north of the Panama Canal; and it their landladies and their ares achieved, the problem has been how Ja note-worthy that all but about home. These and other evils-to ensure their maintenance. We that women are daily exposed to "We should he also to paint out As in England, so in the 1,800 miles of this North American Buch 28 the serious underpay are not suggesting that the firmly annoyances of this kind [the intru United States, there is consider-section is now passable for auto-

mobiles. Nearly half of the route ment of the rank and file of the established and reputable manage- sion of undesirable persone), in able diversity of opinion as to From Fairbanks, Alaska, 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. Moan- the stage as a dumping ground for

-Memorandum of the National But unfortunately thera aro Association of Woman Civil Ser unemployment relief. It is not while, to the south, nutos can pro-entirely unqualified amateurs with a difficult task to devise means

ceed from Texas to Mexico City a fixed conviction that they could other managements-some of them vants. without difficulty, and more than à

Even when poets and worship which would provide work for third of the route from Texas to act-the early formed stage asse emphemeral-whose records have

themselves (so not inspired such confidence, and pors of beauty enter on tiptoe in Spring, polt them gracefully with the jobless, but many of the Panama is open. So, slowly but clations feared

and dewy woodland solutions along these lines are steadily, this tremendous highway many of us considered) incapable only by insisting upon a "closed wild roses

takes shape; and not the least of abolishing.

shop"-that is to say, employment flowers, and invita them to the found to have reactions which striking thing about it is the fact

of 100 per cent. Equity companies dance, It la raro to вес the would be undesirable from the that it la coming into being for a

for future West End stage pro-austerity of those sweet, cold faces different set of reasons than any To prevent the exploitation of ductions can we be in a position relax, or a warmer beam dart from

purely economic point of view.of the famous highways of the old the British atage by unprincipled to challenge any management which those virginal spectacles that are

OLD ROADS OF ROME

WHE

Ugg Elected

theatrical managers at the expense 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 needed which|Equity members begin to creep The old roads 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. tinge. Those far-flung roads_thot

"Baby" (Potter's EST)

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The subsistence-homestead plan days. is a case in point. Its aim is to get more people back on the land, in which respect it bears

As we predicted exclusively in some resemblance to one of the

this column a few weeks ago, Miss Ugg, the Eskimo novelist, has, features-of-Mr. Lloyd George's tied the Roman empire togetherty beneficial result, raise the

amid great literary excitement, suggested New Deal. Washing were laid out, first and foremost, standard of the entertainment

We are now therefore claimingaing Secretary of the P.EN. Club. been elected International Organf- ton despatches indicate that the to provide easy passage for the being put before the public which

contract given to Final poll: Government may develop this purpose was to promote the flow of in May 1930, the British Actors' actors and actresses for

Roman legions. Their accondary keeps the theatre alive. And so, that in every

a West Mix Uck (Greenland) plan on an elaborate scale dur-commerce. No one travelled along Equity Association came into being. End production, a clause should be, Okeh Besys (Japan) ing the present year, and it is them for pleasure; any Roman who

Inserted giving him or her the Mr. Shalabella (Terra del Fuego)?

Ferry Bysshe Shelley ************* suggested that nearly a billion through forest, mountain, and earlier, association formed in the Equity members. We do not want

suggested that a road be bullt It was modelled on a similar but right to refuse to act with non- Thero le a mystery about this dollars may be used to put some- desert simply to enable idle folk to United States and known as the the playgains public 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 of we

are threatening them. We old gentleman who apparently 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' so 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-highways since. But this Fan- of employer and employed. The fore to audiences themselves; we greatest lyrical English poets. Ho Amerie highway is something Britishi body has, in fact, entered are now simply asking the right to gained one vots, his own, and has stalled in a comfortable house different. It is not to be a military into nu ngreement with the Ameri- ensure that that good work should i since disappeared. A P.E.N. Club and equipped with a horse or a road, in any sense of the word, Jean cow and enough seed for a year's It is not coming into being because

of the demands of commerce.

had

Usc-

ful as the motor truck is, it is hard to imagine it supplanting the steamship on the long haul from South America to New York. It វ៉ត being built, in other words, us & luxury-a tribute to the leisure and mobility which enable modern man to wander to for places for his private edification. In that sense it is a has a symbol of a new order of human existence. The greatest read ever built, it will exist simply to give people a chance to broaden their horizons, Nowadays the tourist comes, sees and conquers; all without a struggle.

planting. Figuring four persona 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 dend loss, since much of it would be laid out in the form of loans, to be repaid in 15 or 20 years with a small addition of interest. Viewed from this angle, the idea is all to the good. 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 botter time of it than they have million part-time, small-town been having on relief. It is the workers give to the decentralisa secondary implications of the tion of industry? What would plan that make one

pause. it do to wage rates? Would it America is now engaged in an not 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 casily this? It is argued, to be sure, lead to decisions of the most that these people would produce far-reaching importance-deck- 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- domand for farm products.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 struggle 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 a country's national life.

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STORAGE

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"Now, you're going to have to spend about a half hour washing,

this spinach, maʼam.

oficial said 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 Boddily with an inkstand."

Miss Mannin confessed shyly: I did not know Mr. Shelley, or Kelty, or his work, but he had auch nice 07/08."

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

Who is Shelley?

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

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

The great thing is not to be scared. As the poet William'. Ernest Henley so finely said.

"And yet the menace of the cars Finds, and shall find, moun

afraid!”

Henley was not speaking lightly. People with large or cauliflower cars were constantly menacing him by waggling or flapping them. For this reason he grew a large black board, in no spirit of licenco or frivolity, but in what Carlyle colled "grim fire-oyed Dolance" It was, so to speak. Henley's "challenge" to Life. He "played the game." In a world full of ears of every shape and Bizo Henley's example should inspire us all as we trudge, or bicycle, along Life's pathway towards our goal, or gaol,