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But when Manager Salmaggi's Baritone Interrante, as president of G.O.A.A.A., showed up for the hearing last week, he sang a softer tune. Dropping his charges that Associated Actors & Artistes had been '"scheming" with the Guild, Baritone Interrante agreed to a face-saving compromise by which the two unions would be merged under the name of the newer and more successful one. The Guild agreed to lower its dues from $25 a year (for voting members) to a sliding scale of from $12 to $100 a year, depending on income, so that G.O.A.A.A. members could all remain in the union. Having thus accomplished exactly what it had planned to, but with a minimum of friction, it remained for the Guild, as a legally constituted labor union with a new membership of small-fry artists, to divest itself of the appearance of being a club of big names. As if aware of this. Baritone Bonelli at once announced a drive to unionize even the mighty Metropolitan. But he added: "I hope I'll never see the day when Guild members will have to go on strike."