* McCullah (Mac) St. Johns; Film Publicist, Union Executive

McCullah (Mac) St. Johns, 73, a publicist and union executive who as a national spokesman for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees had a a running disagreement with nearly every major film studio over salaries paid actors and directors compared to craftsmen’s wages. St. Johns worked in films for four decades, joining RKO as a publicist after working as an editor at the Hollywood Reporter and Photoplay magazine. He also worked for Columbia and Paramount Pictures and was an officer in the Publicists Guild until 1989. While with the theatrical union he was credited with forming a drug and alcohol abuse program that served as a model for other plans. For many years he visited prisons, setting up Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery groups for inmates. On Monday at the Motion Picture and Television Country Hospital in Woodland Hills of a chronic heart ailment.