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...fledgling actors' union, walked off their stages 41 years ago, spearheaded by Marie Dressier and Ethel Barrymore, and paraded through a blacked-out Broadway. Their demand: the right to bargain collectively with their producers. The producers capitulated after 30 days, during which New Yorkers consoled themselves with flicks, pickup vaudeville and impromptu sidewalk skirmishes. Last week, once again, Broadway theaters were deserted, and Shubert Alley was so dark that one could not tell a producer from a philanthropist. At the end of an artistically and financially dreary season, New York's commercial theater was shut down...
...learned to play from their father, a onetime high school music teacher and now a regular member of the seven-man band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums, all of them in stereophonic sound, which is ideally suited to the Dukes' brawling style. Are they ever tempted to play...
...Since steel production runs several weeks behind orders, the steel industry's current low production. rate reflects a low point in orders reached in April. On an unadjusted basis, the rate of industry-wide orders has already started to turn up (see chart). U.S. Steel has noted the pickup in orders which, says Roger Blough. "are coming through in good shape." Most steelmen expect a real order pickup in August. By then many industries will have to replenish inventories...
...Playing his first cricket match on a pickup Oxford team, Army's former All America Halfback Pete Dawkins cracked out a "boundary," the equivalent of a home run, moved Oxford's Captain Alan Smith to murmur, "Jolly good, oh, say, jolly good." But Rhodes Scholar Dawkins, who startled the British last year by mastering rugby, shrugged off his feat: "It would take me 80 years to become a good cricket player...
...Department reported that housing starts, which have been dragging, rose in April slightly more than seasonally to reach an annual rate of 1,135,000, though they are still 18% below 1959 so far this year. The Government hopes that an easing in mortgage money will bring a further pickup. Auto production last week was scheduled to reach 150,338 units, the highest since February; sales were still booming along, led by the compact cars. Next month Ford will make the eighth boost in production of its compact Falcon, stepping it up 10%. That will bring the Falcon...