Jewish housewives in the New York area will be able to prepare their gefulte fish in peace for the Passover holiday, which begins Friday evening. The strike of the retail fish dealers has been called off for the three-day festival, at least.
Fish dealers from all over the city were down at Peek Slip early yesterday morning, purchasing their supply of whitefish, pike, perch and carp from the wholesale firms at Fulton Fish Market. The retailers arrived at their decision to accept the terms of the agreement with wholesalers arranged by intermediaries after a long and stormy meeting at Astoria Mansion, 62 East Fourth street, on Tuesday night. The meeting broke up after midnight, when it was voted to consent to the three-day price scale and to the signing of a petition demanding of the federal government the right to collective bargaining. This right was forbidden by a court order in 1926.
The meeting reached its dramatic climax when Stanley Osserman, counsel for the wholesalers, walked out amid cries of “Bad loser!” All of the wholesalers’ demands, however, were agreed upon.
The compromise rate scale sets the prices of the various types of fish at from two to fifteen cents less than the previous prices. It is expected that these rates will come down lower after the holiday season.
‘MEN IN WHITE’ ABROAD
“Men in White,” the drama by Sidney Kingsley which the Group Theatre and Sidney Harmon and James R. Ullman are presenting at the Broadhurst Theatre in its seventh successful month in New York, recently opened with great success in Budapest.
“Men in White” is also at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. On April 2 the play will open at Ford’s Theatre in Baltimore and during the same week it will have a production at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland.
Gilbert Miller is soon to introduce the play in London.
REFUGEE MUSICIANS REHEARSE
Refugee German and Austrian singers and players (stringed instruments) are invited to join the “German Refugee Singers.” Free rehearsals are held on Mondays and Fridays from 7:30 to 9 P.M. at the home of M. Arnold, 22 West Eighty-third street.
ROSS MAKES FILM DEBUT
“Melody in Spring,” the Paramount musical-romance, brings to the screen for the first time, Lanny Ross, the radio tenor, and comes on Friday to the Paramount Theatre.
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