If the fight in London between! British Equity, the actors' trade union, Jand the theatrical managers develops along the same lines as the struggle between Equity and the managers: jin New York, the English theatrical World is in' for a stirring time. The fight in the United States was 2 particularly severe one for, the "closed shop," and led to a large number of strikes when actors merely walked out of a show and so closed, Jmany a theatre. Considerable bitterness was imported into the struggle by the formation of _different managerial combinations brought! together for the purpose of fighting! the actors who were out to secure the remedy of abuses under which the profession had laboured for a very Tong time past. That they were, determined and well organized evidenced by the fact that on rheic the well known Tim Frawley brough* to Shanghai, was the frst to walk out. That was at the Gaiety in New. York, afier_ which the Shubert, the Playhouse, Forty-fourth Street, Lyric, Broadhurst, Astor, Princess, Republic, Selwyn, Cohan and Harris and the Knickerbocker shut down. in rapid succession proving that the oft-repeated claims of Equity to possess control of its members was amply Justified, The struggle went on for considerable time, and the story of the fight, which is well told in book entitled "The Revolt of the Actors," ending in complete success for the artists. The tales of how the actors combined to give performances for the purpose" of raising strike funds and the dramatic: negotiations which went on between the warring Parties makes exceptionally fine Feading, and it is to be anticipated if such' a dispute should come in|be London a similar dramatic story will ultimately have to be told." The decision of the British managers to oppose insistence upon the "closed shop" clause is a natural one, but it the actors in London areas well combined as they were in New York, the suggestion to resort to arbitration might yet provide the best way out of the Impasse which seems likely.
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