Show SUPERS ENGAGED FOR PRODUCTION OF BEN HUR STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY That It Jt is worth more than C CO O cents a a. a night to walk once across the st stage g-c g of oC the Salt Lake Lako theatre as Roman noman soldiers ol and later to represent palm laden persons on a hillside for tor three minutes was the contention last Jast nl night ht ot of about fifty ft supers engaged for the pro pro- production of ot Ben Hur They vl 1 for or the Important wanted part thc they ex ex- ex to take tako Ir In- Inthe the production of oC These the powerful r religious lous drama demands were presented to Stage Manager T J. J K K Ie Adams at o'clock last night He Ho had cn- cn engaged aged and rehearsed the supers during the forenoon Adams the time put matter up to tho the compan company's manager C C. C F. F Towle Towle s that de tic tic- the strike could bo ho broken He lie declared that 50 O 0 cents was waR tho the supers standard p pay for tor throughout the United States Some comp companies he said oM only pal paid them 26 25 cents less regardless regard regard- of or whether thc they had carried a I spear for tor the late hate Richard Mansfield Mans Mans- field of or merely represented a mob In some melodrama Supers ho raid were vere all the time same only that some arc Wor worse c than others Manager Malinger Towle lost no time and with the aid of ot his stage nr na- na gor gathered gather d to together about forty citizens before th curtain went up on time the first act Salt Lake he said sale last nl night ht has tho the distinction o of being tho the first city In the west to ba have bae e a supers supers' union even even- if its life was short and ond its cause a losing one |