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Show THEATER STATUS SMILED Striking Actors Claim, However, That a "Victory Is in Sight." NEW YORK, Aug. 31 While it was impossible to learn authoritatively tonight to-night whether the Producing Managers' Protective association intonded to recognize rec-ognize the Actor's Equity association in the offer of a new form of actor's contract announced last night, it was strongly hinted that the managers were planning an attempt to open the strikebound strike-bound theaters' with players furnished exclusively by rival Actors' Fidelity league. Officials of the Equity were claiming, victory as "in sight" as a result of the managers' new contract. The new contract granted virtually all of the Equity 's demands, save tha't for unequivocal recognition of the Equity. All day today directors of the Fidelity Fidel-ity were in conference. Frank Gillmore, secretary of the Equity association, made public tonight a letter from Samuel Untermver, warn- i tt ir ttio .i,.t,.i. 1,. 1.- .i. . tivtwia in.iL lit: UC11C1"3 IIICIU wrong in disclaiming anv thought of insisting in-sisting upon the ''closed shop.'' "Unless "Un-less they win a i( closed shop." he declared de-clared it would be but a short iiu:o until un-til the managers, by discrimination against Equity members, would have wrecked the organization. . An important development is expected expect-ed tomorrow night, when members of the Motion Picture Players7 association associa-tion will hold a meeting to discuss , plans for aiding the striking actors. I i BOSTON. Au?. 31. William' A I Pago, representing the Producing Man agers' association, and Jlenrv W. lavage, lav-age, came here from Xew York tonight to try to prevent a strike called for tomorrow by members of the Actors Equity association, who arc plaving in Six Boston theaters. They said that if members of the as sociation persisted in carrying out their strike threat, suits would he riled against each individual. MUvVYAUMvlSft, Aug. "I. The actors-strike actors-strike spread to Milwaukee todav where the stage hands and musicians' walked out, refusing to work for the Ji$oi-Te C Tyier production of "Tillie." v' |