Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 15 | Actors' Equity Group May Call Big Film Strike

Actors Actors' Act rs' rs E Equity ity Group May Call Big Film Strike HOLLYWOOD Cal Will the motion pl picture turo industry be bo tI tied d up tip up by the 10 most st serious strike in its Ita history That Is tho the qu question sUon which Is is on oil every Up lip In the film village today With the Actor Adou Equity association and tho film producers producer s battling f for t supremacy th the possibility of f all of tho the giant studio being lulng forced to tosh sh shut l down is gi greater cater than many realize At present neither of at the warring war war- I ring factions is making much head I way Equity's demand i is that only its own own members ra b bo bc permitted permitted per per- to work in pictures And this is ono one demand which the tho producer producer pro pro- ducer ducra refuse even to consider Equity itself IK JR helpless ss' ss inasmuch as its strength tics lies mostly in the New York member actors who have boon buOn n brought hero her by talking films Consequently Equity Equity's st stand nd of ot not permitting any of its Us members to work in any picture employing on 1 non Equity players i is merely re resulting rc- rc suiting in th the stage folk tolk losing what ground they the had gained d in Hollywood Producers are forgetting forgetting forget forget- ting the stage folk tolk and casting their pictures with motion picture players And they arc e All themore the thc moro more willing to lo do this In in view of or ortho tho the fact tact that many many actors have havo proved d themselves just as good if not b better tt r than their stage brothers brothers brothers' broth broth- ers era ers ers' f for r talking films How However ver Equity Is holding n a strong club over the tho cinema ex e. ox- ox If It through its Its' affiliation with willi tho American Federation n of Labor L bor it can can theatre op op- orators to walk walkout out tho the film lIm producers producers producers' pro pro- will vIli have to come to terms or Close los all alt of ot their theil theatres and subsequently their lo WASHES FOR CITRUS S FRUITS FR ITS I REDUCE DECAY LOSSES Various disinfectant washes s nave have be been n tested by the tho bureau of ot plant Industry try with a vl view to developing developing- practicable methods for eliminating an estimated lots loss of or orore more ore annually In the decay de ay of citrus fruits while being shipped M from froni California hayS flays Popular 1 Me Mechanics h magazine The Tho he tried Include in include In- In clude elude borax sodium bicarbonate and some somo of ot the tho strong Tr Treatment Treat Trat- at- at mont ment with sodium m bicarbonate Is Ia re reported reported re- re e ported to have he h e produced excellent eo results