Vol. II, No. 1 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, Inc., A. F. of L. January, 1948

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L\ \\"Hr;"CE TlllflETT New York 18 President 276 West 43rd Street 1\ioRMA" COHDON Telephone: LOngacre 5-7508, 9, 10 1st Vice-President • JULIUS HUEHN 2nd Vice-President L B. KOHNHLUl\f EnwAHD HAHRIS 6331 Hollvwood Boulevard 3rd Vice-President Tf'lpphow:: Hillside S121

CON HAD THIBAUT 4th Vice-President SUI; Franscisco .lAseHA HEIFETZ THEODOHE HALE 5th V ice-President 216 Pine Street Telephone: Sutter OK;;:; ELIZABETH HOEPPEL Recording Secretary FllEDERICK J AGEL Philadelphia Treasurer G. GILBEHT MASON 207 Walnut Place HYMAN R. FAINE Telephone: Lombard 1187 Executive Secretary • BELMONT KINDLEH Assistant to Executive Secretary Chicago 1 BEN MEYEHS REHNARD W. ZUEBEIlT 188 W. Randolph Street Financial Secretary Telephone: State 0855 • • JAFFE & JAFFE BELMONT KINDLEH Counsel Editor

AGMA - A UNITED UNION Expansion Expected During New Year Do you remember being a youngster? Do you recall those are not yet satisfied. A good deal remain un accomplished, and years in which you required frequent assistance, and anxiously we don't propose to rest on our well earned laurels. anticipated the day when you could be called 'grown-up'? Membership Participation Needed Your union too, has emerged from a period of youthful devel­ In order to expand further, AGMA requires the unwavering opment to a point where, with its first Annual Convention support of each member. The coming year will be a critical about to open, it may claim to have reached maturity. one in many respe2!s, and without this support, we cannot guarantee success. Merely to pay quarterly dues is insuffi­ AGMA Organized Artists cient, because the same procedure could be followed in a AGMA came upon the musical scene eleven years ago with social club. We need your participation and advise, the benefit but a handful of devoted artists who nevertheless, were de­ of your experience. The essence of trade union democracy termined to improve conditions in their profession. The ideas lies in a mutual responsibility between the union's members they advocated were potent and obviously long overdue, and and its officers. Otherwise democracy can become a con­ consequently they were joined by an increasing number of venient word used to cover a multitude of sins. similarly minded artists. There were many trying experiences, AGMA has unahiding confidence in the intelligence and in­ and discouraging moments, but organizational efforts con­ tegrity of its members. We have come a long way together. tinued. Today AGMA includes in its ranks thousands of It is with a realization of not only what has been accomplished performers, many of whom are outstanding in their field. But hut also of what we may expect in the future that we greet if we may be permitted a somewhat selfish consideration, we them as our first Annual Convention opens. AGMA's National Officers

LA WRENCE TIBBETT NORMAN CORDON JULIUS HUEHN EDWARD HARRIS Preside"t 1st Vice-President 2nd Vice-President 3rd Vice-President

CONRAD THIBAULT JASCHA HEIFETZ ELIZABETH HOEPPEL : 4th Vice-President 5th Vice-Presitlent Recording Secretary Treasurer OUR FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION AGMA's First Constitutional Conven­ established by the Committee which re­ tion will be held at the Hotel Lincoln BUFFET SUPPER ceived some suggestions from the mem­ in New York City on Jan. 8th, 9th, and bership, nominating petitions were pre­ 10th, 1948. Sixty-eight delegates elected An informal buffet supper for pared and distributed, local elections by their local membership and fortified Convention delegates will take held, and delegates were chosen by their with credentials provided by the na­ place at the Hotel Lincoln, 44th local merilbership. Since then, meetings tional office will gather at the most im­ Street and Eighth Avenue on Wed­ have been held nationally, at which time portant event in AGMA history_ nesday, January 7, at 6 P.M. the current Convention was discussed, Some Convention Background This will present an excellent and suggestions offered by members to opportunity not only for the New their delegates on points to be brought Our present Constitution, while hav­ York delegates to act in the ca­ before the Convention. ing served a valuable purpose in guiding pacity of hosts, but also will enable Referendum Planned your union during the past eleven years, AGMA members from various sec­ nevertheless required revisionjn view of tions of the country to meet socially.: The Convention agenda will be de­ AGMA's organizational development arid and get acquainted. voted to a complete discussion of our anticipated expansion. Our Board of present Constitution, and the changes to Governors last May consequently passed be made and then voted upon by the a resolution approving the holding of delegates, the basis for representation, delegates. Copies of the new Constitu­ a Constitutional Convention, and this ac­ and the Constitutional changes to be tion subsequently will be sent to the tion was affirmed at a membership meet­ introduced before the delegates at the national membership in the form of a ing which took place the same month. Convention. We must mention at this referendum, and each AGMA member President Lawrence Tibbett then ap­ point our indebtedness to the Committee, will have an opportunity to vote for its pointed a Constitutional Committee particularly to those members who fre­ adoption. Thereafter, instead of the which was representative of all categories quently attended meetings, and without former Annual Meeting, it is contem­ of AGMA's membership, and whose re­ whose participation the holding of the plated that an Annual Convention will sponsibility it became to plan the or­ Convention would have been' rendered be held, so that events may be brought ganizational details of the Convention more difficult. to the membership's attention in a more such as the nomination and election of In accordance with the procedure complete and organized manner. 2 AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, INC. Pre-Convention Summary of Cash Receipts and Disbursements November 1,1946 - September 30, 1947 Meeting RECEIPTS A pre-Convention membership meet­ Initiation Fees $ 6,987..50 ing was held at the Hotel Lincoln on Dues: December 7th, at which Norman Cor­ Active members $16,0.50,72 Associate Members 1,713.00 don, AGMA's first vice-president was Chorus Members 6,703.46 Chairman. One encouraging aspect of Ballet Members 3,522.56 the afternoon was that each category Junior Members 2,884..57 of AGMA's membership was represented 30,874.31 to a highly proportionate degree. Working Permits 3,021.0.5 Assessments 2,014.2.5 Union Solidarity Urged Management Basic Agreement Fees 75.00 Sale of Office Equipment 95.00 Hyman Faine, our Executive Sec­ TOTAL RECEIPTS $43,067.11 retary, opened with a few well chosen DISBURSEMENTS and forthright remarks about member­ Office Salaries $19,786.95 ship inactivity. He stressed the fact that Printing & Mimeographing 1,394.99 unfavorable economic conditions and Agmazine 403.07 general anti-labor sentiment during the Stationery & Office Supplies .541.35 Rent 2,.368.50 coming year would make it imperative Telephone & Telegraph 1,678.14 for every AGMA member to support his Postage 1,434..57 union in every possible circumstance. Light, Water & Towel Supply 24.5.60 Frank Chapman, Artistic Director of 73.26 Insurance the Gala Artists Christmas Party, of­ Miscellaneous Expenses 774.77 Bank Charges 10.96 fered a lively report on the progress be­ Dues & Subscriptions 12.50 ing made "with the Party during the Auditing Fees 400.00 final home stretch. Legal Fees 4,312..50 Disbursements - Legal 218.21 Members Offer Suggestions Arbitration Fees .50.00 Public Relations 450.00 The major portion of the meeting was Checking Performances 162.03 occupied with a discussion by the mem­ Meeting Expenses 62.5.09 bers present of suggestions which their 144.3.5 Audition Expenses delegates would bring before the Con­ Traveling Expenses 648.08 Delegates Expenses 309..56 vention in January. Many members par­ Chicago Office Expenses 649.42 ticipated, and the consensus of opinion Los Angeles Office Expenses 1,864.70 was that the afternoon had resulted in Office Expenses 894.67 one of the most satisfying and rep­ Per Capita Tax to 4A's 779.49 N.Y. State Unemployment Insurance 414.44 resentative AGMA meetings in a long Federal Old Age Benefit Tax 164.38 while. Alterations & Moving Expenses 1,136.01 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS $41,947.59 Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of September 30, 1947 Met Pension Plan ASSETS Cash in Banks: Concert Set Bankers Trust Co., New York, N. Y. Security Deposit Account $22,450.50 $> Final arrangements have been com­ :Vlanufacturers Trust Co., New York, N. Y. pleted for the administration of the Regular Account 13,692.38 pension plan at the Claims Adjustment Account 1,923.08 House. First National Bank of Los Angeles Security Deposit Account 55.78 Each of the unions whose members TOTAL CASH IN BANKS $38,121.74 are employed at the 'Met' has agreed to participate in a gala concert on Feb­ Custodian Acct.-Bankers Trust Co., New York, N. Y. ruary 15 at the Opera House. What­ U.S. Government Bonds $15,000.00 New York City Bondo 20,000.00 35,000.00 ever proceeds are realized from the oc­ Petty Cash Fund-New York, N. Y. 100.00 casion will be matched by the manage­ Security Deposits: ment of the 'Met,' and the total amount Rent-New York, N. Y. $ 4.50.00 will be used to start a pension fund Rent-Concert-December 28, 1947 500.00 950.00 for the benefit of all the employees Furniture and Fixtures (Nominal Value) 1.00 concerned. TOTAL ASSETS $74,172.74 The AGMA office will provide you (Continued on page .5) with further information in the near future. 3 AGMA's National Staff

HYMAN R. F'AINE BELMONT KINDLER BERNARD W. ZUEBERT National E'xecutive Secretary Assistant to Bxecutitw Secretary Financial Secretary

CONVENTION TIMETABLE Board Elections Thursday - January 8, 1948 Balloting is now being held to fill FIRST SESSION: 9:45 A.IVI.-12:45 P.M. nine vacancies which have occurred on 1. Call of Convention to order. Agma's Board of Governors. Each suc­ 2. Greetill!I of Chairman. cessful candidate will hold oflice for 3. Appnint;nent of Convention Secretary. three years. 4. Appointment of Sergeant-at-Arms. DAN(:ERS 5. Roll Call. (vote for two names only) 6. Appointment of Tellers (3). Alexis Dolinoff 7. Report of Constitutional Convention Committee. Katherine Dunham S. Discussion of Artiele I, n, HI (Section 1) of presellt Constitution. Albia Kavan SECOND SESSION: 2:15 P.M.--6:00 P.M. Elissa Minet 1. Roll CalL Maria Tallehief 2. Discussion of Artide III (Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5) and Article IV of VOCALISTS present COJ1stitution. (vote for four names only) THIRD SESSION :8:30 P.IVL-ll :00 P.M. T odd Duncan 1. Rolt Call. Lvdia Edwards 2. Discussion of Artide V of present Constitutioll. JViack Harrell Friday - January 9~ 1948 Alice Howland FIRST SESSION: 9:45 A.M.·-12:45 P.M. Arthur Kent 1. Roll Call. Dorothy Kirsten 2. Discussion of Artides VI, VII, IX, X and XI of Constitution. Felix Knight SECOND SESSION: 2:15 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Mobley Lushanva 1. Roll Call. Astril Varnay . 2. Discussion of Artide VIII of Constitution, and set up of local l\;larek Windheim administration. INSTRUMENTALISTS THIRD SESSION: 8:30--11 :00 P.M. (vote for three names only) 1. Roll Call. Lucy Brown 2. Discussion of Artides XII, XIII, XIV, XV and XVI of Constitution. Arnold Eidus Saturday - January 10, 1948 Zino Francescatti FIRST SESSION: 9:45 A.M.--12:45 P.M. Muriel Kerr 1. Roll Call. Fredell Lack 2. Discussion of Articles I, II, III and IV of By-laws. Ray Lev SECOND SESSION: 2:15 P.M.--6:00 P.M. Pierre Luboshutz 1. Roll Call. All active members whose dues are 2. Discussion of Articles V, VI and VII of By-laws. paid to Feb. 1, 1948, have already reo THIRD SESSION: 8:30--11:00 P.M. ceived ballots. Mail your ballot to the 1. Roll Call. AGMA office so that it is received not 2. Discussion of Articles VIII, IX, X, XI, XIII of By-laws. later than noon on Saturday, Jan. 10, 3. Closing Remarks of Chairman. 1948, or else drop it in the ballot box 4. Adjournment of Constitutional Convention. at the Capital Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11, 1948. (Continued from page 4) Signing AContract?

LIABILITIES Notes Payable: Consult AGMA Screen Actors Guild $ 5,000.00 Lawrence Tibbett 1,200.00 $ 6,200.00 There have been a number of in­ Taxes Pavablf': stances where an artist has signed a Withholding Tax $ 284.40 contract without being certain of its New York State Unemployment Insurance 95.38 provisions, and then come to the AGMA 74.61 454.39 Federal Old Age Benefit office for advice. Claim Adjustments Payable 1,923.08 Security Deposit Payable 57,450.50 We suggest that if you have any ques­ TOTAL LIABILITIES $66,027.97 tions relating to your employment, that EXCESS OF ASSETS OVER LIABILITIES $ 8.144.77 you communicate with us before at­ taching the all important John Hancock onto paper.

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, INC. Budget CORRECTION for the 12 Month Period In our NovemberAGMAZINE, Ben­ jamin Altieri was listed as the Artistic October 1, 1947 - September 30, 1948 Director of the Philadelphia ANTICIPATED RECEIPTS Opera Co. This was an error. We are informed that Francesco Pelosi is the Initiation Fees $ 9,500.00 General Director of that company, and Dues: Active !lIembers $20,000.00 that his name should have appeared in­ Associate Members 2,000.00 stead. Chorus Members 8,500.00 AGMA members are assured then, Ballet Members 4,500.00 Junior Members 3,250.00 that if they wish information or an op­ 38,250.00 portunity to sing, Mr. Pelosi will be glad Working Permits 3.500.00 to hear from you. - Assessments 250.00 Management Basic Fees 100.00 Miscellaneous Receipts 100.00 TOTAL ANTICIPATED RECEIPTS $51,700.00 OM.ISSION

ANTICIPATED DISBURSEMENTS In the recent listing of Opera Com­ panies which had signed Basic Agree­ Office Salaries $22.500.00 ments with AGMA, the Charles Wagner Printing & Mimeographing 1,400.00 Agmazine 900.00 Co. was omitted. Stationery & Office Supplies 600.00 Since we neyer practice discrimina­ Rent 2,700.00 tioll, we hope Mr. Wagner will over­ Telephone & Telegraph 1,800.00 Postage 1,500.00 looku our unintentional oversight, and Light, Water & Towel Supply 250.00 not accuse us of neglecting him. Insurance 50.00 Miscellaneous Expenses 750.00 Bank Charges 10.00 Subscriptions 10.00 HONORABLE WITHDRAWALS Auditing 400.00 Legal Fees 2,700.00 Members who become inactive in Disbursements-Legal 200.00 Arbitration Fees 250.00 AGMA's field may apply for an Honor­ Checking Performances 175.00 able Withdrawal. Meeting Expenses 600.00 An honorable withdrawal suspends Audition Expenses 150.00 the payment of dues during a period of Traveling Expenses 750.00 Delegates Expenses 300.00 inactivity, provided the member remains Chicago Office Expenses 700.00 inactive for a year or more. If the mem­ Los Angeles Office Expenses 2,000.00 ber resumes work in AGMA's jurisdic­ San Francisco Office Expenses 950.00 tion before the expiration of one year, Per Capita Tax to 4A's 800.00 N.Y. State Unemployment Insurance 470.00 the dues are payable as though the with­ Federal Old Age Benefit Taxes 185.00 drawal had not been granted. If the TOTAL ANTICIPATED DISBURSEMENTS $43,100.00 member returns to work after the expira­ tion of one year, it is only necessary to (Continued on page 8). pay the current dues at that time. Honorable withdrawals are granted only to members in good standing. 5 Delegates Elected XMAS PARTY A HIT Agma's first Artists Christmas Party A total of sixty-eight delegates was Ray Lev took place at the Metropolitan Luboshutz and Nemenoff elected by mail ballot to the First An­ Oper~ Eugene List nual Constitutional Convention. As pro­ House on Sunday, December 28, before posed by the Constitutional Committee, a packed house, including hundreds of J ames Malton happy music lovers who occupied stand­ which has met rt1gularly for several ing room for the performance. The Suzy Morris months, AGMA national membership was divided into seven geographic areas, proceeds, which we are safe in saying were substantial, will become part of Patrice Munsel and the delegates chosen from each our Maintenance and Welfare fund. Lodovico Oliviero specific area are as foll@ws: President Lawrence Tibbett opened James Pease Boston the festivities by greeting the audience, Claudia Pinza Luigi Vellucci and explaining the special nature of Leonore Portnov Bidu Sayao Chicago the occasion. Deems Taylor. Master of ~ Ceremonies, then made· com­ Leopold Simoneau Ilma Bayle hil~self fortable over a 'mike,' and kept things Marina Svetlova Mara Davedova bubling along with witty comments and Gladys Swarthout Jack Eschert appropriate introductions of artists. F erruccio T agliavini Evelyn Siegling Kurt Adler, of the Metropolitan lead Pia Tassinari Arthur Silhan an AGMA chorus of 150 voices in Lawrence Tibbett Joseph Tessmer Handel's "Halleluj ah Chorus," Boris Roman Totenberg Los Angeles Romanoff directed the Metropolitan bal­ Evelyn A. Adams let in a number from the first act of Thelma V otipka Francis Barnes "Aida," and , of the Col­ Jess Walters Mary Daniels legiate Chorale, concluded the evening John Radic by conducting a large chorus in three Frederic White Edward Ravell Christmas Carols. Whittemore and Lowe Hilda Romain The artists who generously contri­ Accompaniments for the entire pro­ New Orleans buted their time and talent despite dif­ ficult weather conditions are as follows: gram were provided by a two piano team Arthur P. Winteler Licia Albanese composed of Wilfred Pelletier and Karl New York Lorenzo Alvary Kritz, Acknowledgements are grateful­ Josephine Antoine! ly extended to Steinway and Sons, who Erno Balogh furnished the two pianos used during Richard Bonelli Salvatore Baccaloni Mario Berini the evening, and also to G. Schirmer, Ruthanna Boris Inc., who donated the choral music. Lucy Brown Carol Brice Frank Chapman Jonathan Brice Last, but assuredlv not least. our Eugene Conley Eugene Conley warmest greetings to' Frank Chapman, Desire De Frere Norman Cordon the indefatigueable Artistic Director of Frank D'Elia Jean Dickenson the Concert Committee. He worked on Lydia Edwards Giuseppe de Luca a labor of love for many weeks, and en­ William Fantasia Carroll Glenn joyed the enthusiastic assistance of the Frank Finn Winifred Heidt other Committee members, Erno Balogh, William Fisher Jerome Hines Norman Cordon, Frank Forest, Herbert Stella Gentile Frederick Jagel Graf, and May Savage. Herbert Graf Dorothy Kirsten Since success is contagious, AGMA Eloi GrimaI'd Felix Knight now will make its Christmas Partv an Edward lVI. Harris Charles Kullman annual event, and if at all possible, a Lloyd M. Harris Paula Lenchner bigger and better one, with each suc­ Winifred Heidt BrendA Lewis cessive year. J ascha Heifetz Rosella Hightower Tilda Morse Richard Wentworth Elisabeth Hoeppel James Pease Frederick White William Horne Ellen Repp Philadelphia Edith E. House Gertrude Ribla Julius Huehn Wynema McKinley Fox Leopold Sachse Warren Holland Frederick J agel Maria Savage Dorothy Kirsten Harold G. McCann May Savage Jessie Walker Maurice Kostroff Margaret Speaks Robert Ladoff Georgia Standing San Francisco Ray Lev Galliano Daneluz Anthony Marlowe Lawrence Tibbett Paul Guenter Elissa Minet Rudy Trautman Benjamin A. Martin Olivia Monona Astrid Varnay Edwin J. Vannucci 6 REHEARSAL SCENES FROM THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

Suz), Morris and Lawrence Tibbett Deems Taylor, Wilfred Pelletier, (;iuseppe de I.lIt'a and Patri('e MnnseI

Bidu Sa~-ao, (;Iad,-s Swarthout, Suzy Morris, and I~awrence Tibbett Giuseppe de Luca ami Leonard Warren

Wilfred Pelletier, Frank Chapman, Deems Taylor Leonard Warren, Frank Chapman, and Winifred Heidt 7 ATT~WTION! ! New Members With each subsequent issue of AGMA­ ZINE, we will publish the names of POST-CONVENTION artists who have joined AGMA. The following have recently become mem­ A·NNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING bers. Welcome! "'Tili Adoli Hear Reports By Dalisay Aldaba Billie Allen PRESIDENT LAWRENCE TIBBETT Aida Alvarez Cecil Anderson TREASURER FREDERICK JAGEl Candido Antomattei EXEC SEC'Y HYMAN R. FAINE Anne Barney Melvin IVL Bartell Mary Alice Beatley Sunday, January 11, 1948, 1 p. m. Sharp Gem Bolling James H. Brown HOTEL CAPITOL Juanita Brumnel 51st STREET AND EIGHTH A Margaret Buketoff Constance H. B. Case Kate Case Nina Crimi James Donald Curtis (Continued irom page ;) I Yola De Cuir George B. Ellsworth A.C.M.A. Relief Fund Maria Farra Statement of Receipts and Disbursements Ellen Faull for the Eleven Months November 1, 194:6- SeptemiJer 30, 1947 Claire Field Andrew Gainey Cash in Bankers Trust Co.-November L 1946 $22,157.14 Dorothy Graham Add: . Glenn Harvey Receipts: Eloise Hill Theatre Authority Inc. $6 .237.50 Clara Hubbard Overage in Theatre Authority West Coast Fund 546.66 Janet Hayes Repayment of T.A. Loans 500.00 Curtiss T. James Fines 311.74 Edward Johnson TOTAL RECEIPTS $ 7,595.90 Robert Karlin Deduct: Verna Kerr Disbursements: Andrew King Loans to Memhers $ 1,075.00 Actors Fund of America 20.00 Karl Klauser, Jr. TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS 1,095.00 Jerome H. Kreeger Excess of Receipts Over Disbursements 6,500.90 Ruth J. Krug Balance-Cash in Bankers Trust Co.-Sept. 30, 1947 $28,658.04 Anaxiniliano Lancyey Robert J. Lawthers A. C. M. A. Relief Fund Dallas Long Statement of Assets Lack of space prevents the listing of As of September 30, 1947 the remaining artists who joined AGMA. Their names will appear in the next Cash in Bank-Bankers Trnst Co. $28,658.04 AGMAZINE.

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