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Two years ago, when Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and 114 other highly paid opera stars and concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller U. S. opera companies. Last week, A. G. M. A. bagged a real prize: an agreement recognizing the union as sole bargaining agent for the artists at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. This killing left only two important U. S. opera companies for A. G. M. A. to shoot at: the Chicago City, and San Francisco.

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