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Show ACTORS' STRIKE GAINS STRENGTH IN NEW YORK NEW YORK. Aug 9 -Nine playhouses play-houses in the Broadway theatrical district dis-trict have been closed, three are presenting pre-senting abbreviated programs while seven have been abie to defy the strike order of the Actors' Equity association as-sociation and give their advertised bills with complete casts This, in ef-fect, ef-fect, was the status today of the latest labor trouble to make an appearance in New York In addition to the the-aters the-aters that are closed, it was estimated that the rehearsals of 30 plays were being hi Id up. Grant Stewart, secretary of the Ac-tors' Ac-tors' Equity association, announced thai he had received telegrams from the actors in Chicago and those employed em-ployed in the motion picture Industry ir. California pledging their support iu the lUht. against the producing managers. oo |