London, Feb. 8.
The scheme of the Ministry of] Labour for a settlement in the British Actors' Equity and the Drury Lane Theatre dispute is almost complete.
Tt will be presented before a full conference of Equity and theatre managers next week.
'The dispute between the actors' trade union, British Equity. and the management of the Drury Lane Thea. tre involves the "closed shop" clause, which requires artists to work only with members of Equity or with organizations of artists of which it approves.
The dispute, which spread to over twenty theatres, has thrown the theatrical'world of London into tur-It started when British Equity insted on the "closed shop" clause in contracts between Drury Lane and players in Ivor Novello's forthcoming Production "Glamorous Nights"
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