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...given in a month or six weeks; if a larger number is received, a proportionately longer time will be needed. Immediately after the decision, the Prize of $500 will be paid to the author of the successful play. This payment will not be in lieu of any royalties. As contract with the author guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance, will be given the successful competitors at the time of the payment of the Prize...
...form will be the minimum dramatic contract adopted by the Authors League of America and the Producing Managers Association. Under it royalties will be five percent on the first $5000 gross weekly receipts, seven and one half percent on the next $2500, and ten percent on anything above...
...Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe the Lowes and fishes...
...beggars, cannot generally look the gift horse in the mouth, and are always eager anyway to observe their donors, wishes. But they could often use gifts better, and their gratitude would be deeper and more frequent, if their benefactors would breathe their wishes instead of hammering them into the contract...
...issue in the coal strike beginning at midnight tonight is chiefly one of wages. The workers demand an increase of 20 percent for contract labor while the operators want a change in the other direction. Each party has stood firmly by its original position, but for two reasons the great responsibility for the strike seems to go to the operators. They have refused to meet the United Mine Workers in a conference, as contracted for in their present wage agreement, and they have obtained and injunction against the Federal Trade Commission restraining it form investigation...