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them to run art columns.  A committee will be formed by the Museum Association to work with Equity's Museum Committee.  For Equity, Messrs. Schnakenberg, Maril, Jules, Rosenfeld, Walker and several others.  Some of the Museum people were Adelyn Breeskin, Director of the Baltimore Museum, Rene d'Harnancourt of the Museum of Modern Art, Edward King, Dr. of the Walters Collection, Val Clear, Dir. of Akron Museum, Charles Sawyer, Dr. Yale Dept. of Fine Arts, Bartlett Hayes, Dir. of the Addison Gallery, Grace McCann Morley, Dir. of San Francisco Museum, Richard Bach of the Metropolitan Museum.

Also during the past few months, Leon Kroll, Hudson Walker, Ernest Fiene, William Hayter and I have been field workers in many of the large cities outside New York.  On every occasion we have met with artists of the vicinity and spread the word of Equity and its important work.  We have covered the ground from Chicago to Los Angeles to New Orleans and north and south of these points.

You have read in the news-letter about the Franco-American competition to be sponsored by the Hall Company of Kansas City.  We note that the approval of the artists themselves was sufficiently important to the success of the venture for them to obtain Equity's opinion.  It was fully pointed out to the Hall Company representative that artists are completely fed up with being told how valuable publicity is