... benefit Mr. Walter Gibbon*. Tho boot. i ...

... and variety theatres, and that Committee warnod tho profession, artists, musicians, and employes that tlie continuation of the privileges given to the picturo theatres would lead to a demand on the part of managers of dramatic and variety theatres for ...

... terminate or revise the 19lo agreement. The Union agreed to arbitration, subject to the managers accepting part 16 of the Variety Theatres agreement, which provided that only members of the Union should bo employed for the positions speci fied in the agreement ...

... The quarrel, if such it can be colled, originated with Mr. Lugg, who many weeks ago started forcing agreements at variety theatres upon touring managers compelling A.A. membership of tho whole of their artists, and in spite of the fact that certain ...

... theatres? It is not my wish to infer that -provincial theatres are not paying, but are they earning in proportion to the variety theatres? If not, 6urely there must be some cause. Local managers complain that they cannot run their properties at a profit or ...

... t heatrc has become well-nigh invulnerable to i germs. The extent of these precautions is loma rkablo. Take a typical variety theatre under my cqntrol. Hem there are thirty-seven men and woiucn regularly engaged every day m cleaning work aiuiie. The air ...

... of their fellow-artists and touring managers throughout the country in the result of their recent action against tho Variety Theatres Controlling Co., who summarily cancelled a date at Portsmouth owing to Mr. ?red Terry's sudden illness, -notwith standing ...

... deplored that the stago artists themsolves do not put up more of a fight. As things aro heading, a visit to a theatre or a variety theatre will be undertaken only by kind permission of the Ameri can film kings. Yours faithfully. E. C. L, 8.E., Mareh 28. 1931 ...

... for pulling variety back on its fqet. The talkie houses .ire feeling acutely a dearth of box-office attractions. The variety theatres aro ready for staging shows, and the right artists exist. 1 urge the artists, however, to get ready with exclusive material ...

... ARTISTS' BLOCKS. To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir,-- I am confident that variety theatres would give the public good entertainment every week they would successfully combat the lure of the films. It is the dearth of really first-class attrac tions that ...

... with effects. Crosstalk couples might cut out gags that got laughs twenty-five years ago. Such things are happening m variety theatres to-day, and the British public is more than tired. Other things worth notice: On entering some kincinas -one can obtain ...

... illustrated by the flourishing state of the kinema trade and the number of kinema patrons. The number of theatres and variety theatres in this country before the imposition of the tax was 700. Since the tax was imposed they have dwindled to less than 300 ...