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Actors' Strike May Close N . Y. Theaters In June; Anil VI ith Big CifS Expecting Hulf a Million Visitor-. Dur ing Democratic National Convention That Would lie Calamity for Town tt? Suy Nothing of Visitors i?> noBKRT t. sm \t,i, Cooyrisht. It2l, ?j( The Advanc* New York, March 6. ? A theater strike in New York on June 1, just as the city is getting ready to receive the hosts of Demo crats at their national presidential convention, seemed inevitable today as the producing managers gathered to consider the terms of the Actors' Equity Association, organized under affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. the police already have prom ised to close up the New York saloons by June 1. If the union actors succeed in closing up t good part of the theaters by that time, the delegates and vis itors will be threatened with having" to devote all of their time to the convention and to politics which wasn't the idea at all in voting to hold the con vention here. Some of the mn ringers who Insist they will not be dictated to further by the actors' union, say they will turn their houses over to the films. They regard this as, a very sinister threat, for New York and Chicago are almost the last strongholds of the actors who want to appear "In person." If these two cities should stop production there would be a dearth of work for the actors as a | whole and a great rush for the Jobs ! that might be open at Hollywood. 1 "The Road" does not ofTer the op-' port unit lea for the legitimate that it once did. Hlgtr ~costs of -produce . tion and higher costs of transporta tion. to say nothing of the inroads made by' the popularity of the "mov ies. ' have reduced road troupes to a minimum. Other managers are threatening to ?>ai k ' n their houses and keep y them that way until the actors "come to their senses and place their work upon the plane of nrt once more rather than to degrade It by union hours and union conditions." David Helasco is the head and shoul ders of this die-hard group. It was his recent statement of intentions ? w4ileh-4?aS-brou-iiltt iJiti tlieat i leal sit uation to a crisis. Mr. Delasco Is urging his fellow managers to close down prior to June 1 and have it out with the equity right away. The "closed shop" Mr. Helasco thinks,, would put the theater on a par wit!: the factory. When that happens he says he is throuuh for he doesn t know a darned thing about running a factory. William A. Itrady takes a phllo-1 Fophlc view of the situation. He sayn he Is going to give a production for; the Democrats In June even If he has to act in it himself. "I've ?ot a wife who would take part, too." says Mr. Brady. "She if Miss Grace George. And I have a daughter quite well known to the , stage and the screen. Miss Alice Brady. She also could take a part. And the public may not know It. but 1 have a son who Is dying for a chance on the stage, wanting to fol low in the old man's footsteps. He could also take part. An all-star, all-Brady cast. How about that?" I The all-family show would not b<? a novelty In the theatrical ranks by any means. The four Cohans long held the boards In vaudeville and la-' ter In musical comedy production. Fred Stone and his wife and his | daughter are now in one production and there are two other Stone chll-j dren who are crying to get into the! "stepping." The actors are taking their pro posed strike very seriously and they are encouraged by the fart that at least some of the producing manag ers arc going to give In to their de mands. The Shuberts. the Selwyn's and A1 Wood are counted upon to play In with the Equity even if they' do have to withdraw from the pro ducing managers' association. Hut Helasco lias a powerful fol lowing. (JeorgM Cohan, one of the busiest producers, who was forced to return to the stage himself during the actors' strike of five years ago and still is there, says he Is ready to agree to closed theaters rather than a closed shop in the theaters. Sam H. Harris, of the "Music Hox," or "Rain" and many other successes is allied with Mr. Delasco. Tlorenz Zlegfeld, of the Follies, also has a "IN whom;" No this isn't Lindsay Warren at nil. It's Van Huron Martin of Ply mouth, who is also ? candidate ? for Congress from this district. It wai the editor's recollection that Mr. Warren had written promising 10 send this newspaper a cut of him self. and so when a cut came, with out stopping to prove it. he took it for granted that it was Mr. Warren ind so labeled it be f orb turning i? >ver to the printers. When the news Item of yesterday calling for a cut of Mr. Warren came from the editor's tanctum to the composing room, the printers fished the brand new cut >ut of the morgue and ran It ac ?ordingly. . Now the printers, with hat printshop philosophy that has never failed their trade from Benja nin Franklin until now. argue that >oth men are good looking, so why ihould either worry. They also ar .aie that they ran the cut and the story on the sport page, and they foelievje . both candidates are good sports. Anyway, meet Mr. Martin, today. mind which runs along with that of the "old master." And Al Kiiang er is grouped with the, die-hards. So whether the actors win out or not in their June 1 demonstrations it looks as If they were going to start \ heavy row among the managers u nd perhaps invoke a theater war which may prove disastrous to all in terests in the end. The managers had been planning 10 make June and the Democratic Convention period the greatest in theatrical history. Many special productions had been planned. Sud denly things have come to a stand still. To the country at large an actors' strike in the good old sum mer linn is nothing to worry about. To New York with an expected 500, 000 visitors on Its hands, the situa tion is serious in the extreme. | Extra Special TKC'O IUCKWIIEAT and PANCAKE 1'IXH'H, Per |>kd. ? 8c ('Aulillower, Lettuce, Tomatoes, .{? Celery, Cale, Spinach, Cabbage, Etc. I li Plionr* 2.>6 and 396 | Morgan & Parker I . . THE OLP HOME TOWN BY STANLEY [MOID WV*T ISHM AftEA*/*' I # It's a Barracks Now This old Mexican church at Cordoba Is serving as a barracks. Troop? of Obl-egon's army are quartered, there. Snipers are posted behind the cornices. Another sits right over the main entrance. If the rebels put in their appearance, they'll be pretty much up against It. FIKE COMMISSIONERS MEET AT PINEHURST Raleigh. March 6. ? 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