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Show JUSTICE MB STlliKlS First of Restraining Orders Signed by Supreme Court Judge in New York. NRiV YORK, Aug. ST.-Suprome Court JustK-e Peter A. Homlrick tonigiu sii;, llie first roatralnlng order In a st-rlas of Injunction suits brotiftht bv niembars 0 the rrodui.-iiiR Managers' Pniipetive an sociatlon HKainst the Actors' liquitv us" sociation to prevent the latter orsunlza. tion as a hotly and its members imllvlilu ally from interfering in uny vvav with tli i,,ening of the twenty-five theaters closed oy tlie actors' strike. The order contains nine specific para graphs, which are believed to cover ever possible stumbling block the actors have used or could use as a means of Interfering In-terfering with the productions. Following the signing of the restraining restrain-ing order. Grant Stewart, secretary of 1'in Equity, issued a statement asserting that Justice Hendrick's order was not has,-,! un the merits of the controversy inn merely upon affidavits signed by tlie producing pro-ducing managers. Representatives of both the produclnc managers and the Equity association lichi a conference tonight with Samuel Gom-pers, Gom-pers, president of the American Toleration Tolera-tion of Labor, in an effort to settlo th, ; actors' strike. Mr. Gompers declined to ! make any immediate statement regnrd-ing regnrd-ing the conference. The Actors' Fidelity league, sponsored ' by George M. Cohan, held a meetins in-night in-night for the purpose of officially Installing In-stalling Mr. Cohan as president. 'After he had been wildly cheered several minutes. min-utes. Mr. Cohan announced that he had resigned from tiie Producing Manuners' association and would give all his time t,o the Fidelity. |