The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 POWER TRUST IN SS The Manager’s Corner F : Page Four |Weisbord’s Busy Four AGED FARMER TO Unionists to Leninism HOLD UP A BANK Farmers Organizations Say Others Tempted DETROIT, Feb. 7.—Driven to ban- itry by the failure of his potato crop the police after he ich of the Peninsu- é bank on January 11 with a mail order pistol, John McGregor, white-haired sixty-two-year-old farm- er, was placed on two year’s probation ge Edward J. Jeffries in the ration into his past g the truth when i up the bank to y off the mort- noney to gage on a run-down, stumpy plot of the bottoms of the Little egon river, into which he had gs of $1,000, the court, after much dickering with the police, decided to be lenient with the old man. police scouted the nitely proved. speration. ant’s. rugged conten- ines of honesty and good ks the appearance ctf nd predatory aggressive- istie of the bandit,” mmendation of the pro- story, but i with which he ars can’t fail g those who observed > must have been » desperate mom- some powerful act entirely con- | impulses of his life”, izations s are holding nple of the which the by the of Wall Street. it that the failure can wipe out the f a farmer, and that e being rum at a loss fixing of the middle- is case state of de farmers are money-lust They are poin’ of a single cro; lifetime savi most farms * due to the pri men. San Francisco Party Finds Fertile Ground For School and Speakers Worker Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO) Feb. 7—With new party headquarters in the center of the city, a Sunday night forum, and a la college going full blast, the Workers party is putting a dent in the trade union situation of San Francisco. The Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, the United Garment Workers, and the Millinery Workers all invite left wing speakers to ad- dress their business meetings once a month) The party conducts weekly study classes and keeps the soap boxes busy all year around. The “skid road”, as the employment bureau streets are called here, is. nightly the scene of ene of two méetings where theories of class struggle and class conscious- ness are hammered into large audien- ces. Quantities of literature are passed out. Speakers find the favor- ite topics to be current issues, such #s news from Soviet Russia and the Mexico and China crises. te | } | | (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo, Feb. 7.—Albert Weisbord of Passaic strike Tame was in Denver for four days. On Wednesday evening he spoke to a large mass meeting in Pueblo. Thursday evening he spoke to a crowd of workers in Globeville, the Packingtown of Denver, who attend- ed an entertainment under the au-) spices of the Young Workers’ League, y evening he gave a very in- ve talk on the “Youth Move- at the Denver Lyceum to oung Workers’ League members and their friends. Saturday evening he spoke td a strictly membership meéting. | Sunday morning he made a few brief remarks to the Young Pioneers) and also attended the Passaic* Relief} Conference at Waiters’ Hall, at which he urged. the conference to do all it can to aid the strikers still out in Passaic. | Sunday afternoon he spoke at the) open forum in Grace Church. . His’ subject there was: “Passaic and Its! Lessons.” Many questions were! asked which he answered and some very emphatically. Sunday night the’ Workers Party arranged a Lenin memorial meeting in Denver Lyceum. Witnam Dietrich acted as chairman ard made a few brief remarks about Lenin and the; Communist movement. The interna- tional was sung by the Jewish Sing- ing Society. The principal speech of the evening’ was made by Weisbord, who spoke on “Leninism.” He also made some very hard remarks about the U. S. using soldiers and warships to keep the oppressed nations down, such as Nicaragua, Mexico and China. Monday morning he spoke to the Ministerial Association of Denver. The opinion of the members of the! Workers Party and trade unionists of Denver is that Weisbord has done & world of good while in Denver. ment” Course in “Problems Of the Communist Movement,” Tuesdays The course in “Problems of the Communist Movement,” to be given at the Workers School, Tuesday nights, at 8 P. M., beginning Feb. is necessary for everyone who w s to play _an important part in leading the American workers to their eman- cipation. William W. Winstone, who will give this course, is general sec- refary of the New York district of the Workers Party and is intimately acquainted with the problems facing the Communist both internationally and nationally. Cleveland tio Have Sunday Class to Study Communism A class in Communism will be held at the Freiheit Hall, 3514 East 116th | street, Cleveland, beginning Sunday, Feb, 18 at 10.80 a. m. sharp. The in- structor will be Comrade J. Brahtin, | and the class is open to all Party and | Y. W. L. members and sympathizers. Classes are free. Another class will be started in the near future in an- | other section of the city. Breaks World Record. BERLIN, Feb. 7—Erich Rade- | macher, crack German swimmer to- day broke his own world record for two hundred metres by three seconds. Rademacher finished the distance in | two minutes, 27.4 seconds. | - CHICAGO WORKERS ARRANGING GREAT CARNIVAL BAZAAR FOR DEFENSE, FREIHEIT, DAILY WORKER | CHICAG members of workers’ fraternal societies, unions, ete., are actively engaged | —-Workers of all languages, readers of working-class papers, | in helping the great Workers’ Carnival Bazaar to be held here February 25,/ 26 and 27. Many organizations will run booths of their own, collecting the goods for the display themselves. Most of thes¢ are set x goals or quotas of a certain number of hundreds of dol- lars’ worth of. arti mong them are the Workme k and Death Benefit branches, the local’ Interna- 4S SA eee cea A BOOK FOR THI ‘Jim Connelly a of 191 Inire KISH WORKER the Lrivh Misting: retion by 'T. O'Flaberty.-By G. Schuller. P 10 cent Jim Connolly was the military leader of the Easter Week rebellion in Ireland which out when the British empire seing thre one of the n t serious criges that faced it du t ld war, Con- nolly, the onal Marxtst, Joined his small army of workers with the nationalist secret soctety known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood and raised the stand- ard of an Irish republic, Connolly was one of the first revolutionists in the international socialist move- ment to appreciate the value of the nationalist question in the workers’ cele against imperialism, He ik in the full sense of ‘Thia tittle pamphlet by | the first: serious at- tempt to give Connolly his rightful place in the revolutionary history of this period. it was first pub- lished as an article in the offiesal organ of the Communist Interna- tional, It skould be distributed in large quantities among the Irish workers in the United States. Con- nolly is a magic name with every Irish worker who has a spark of the divine fire of revoit in his system. it can also be read with interest by every xadieal worker who wants to soak ‘up on the stratesy und of revolution. Comrade es that ponneny. He was, He fell be: was fore a Leninist. a British squad in 1916, one year before the Russian workers. and peasants buried the Czar and Caar- m and began to build a Soviet Republic on the ruins. | | quarters at 19 S. Lincoln St. to col-| | to help in these collections, | store). ; ae | tional Labor Defense and its branch- the Young Workers’ League,! Workmen’s Circle branches 519, 667, Freiheit Branch, United Workers! Co-operative Ass’n,, Progressive! jakers’ Group, Progressive Millinery Workers’ Group, various language groups of the Workers Party, the, Freiheit Youth Club, the Young! Pioneers, with a children’s corner, and) the Independent Workmen’s Circle 96,) which has set a goal of $500 worth, of stuff, | Volunteers Busy. | Every afternoon voluntecr solici-| ters go out from the bazaar head-) lect articles, get advertisementsete,! A cail has been issued to all workers, Three stations have been estab- lished to which collected goods are to be brought™—- 19 S, Lincoln St., 8209 W. Roosevelt Rd. (Freiheit ot-) fice), and 2720 W. Division St. (book) Every Sunday morning 5) cial mobilizations of volunteers will take place at the last two above ad- dresses. Split Proceeds, The bazaar is ran for the benefit of The DAILY WO. and the! Daily Freiheit, with 80% of the pro-| ceeds to be given to the International Labor Defense. ‘This explains why the secretary of the bazaar commit-| tee has said: “It is a poor friend of! the working class movement who will! not do his share toward making the baznar a, grand success. Subseribe for The DAILY WORKER. MUSCLE SHOALS Farmers Want It For Producing Nitrates WASHINGTON sional investigation of the Feb. 7.—-Congres- hydro- electric power “trust” was urged by | congressmen, who suspected that propaganda for power “grabs” was |finaneed by these interests. A flood of telegrams, from differ- ‘ent cities but having the same phras-! ing, giving evidence that they were} written by one hand, has deluged con- | gress during the past few days, em- phasizing the need of electrical ener- gy as the prime necessity for settling Muscle Shoals. Hand of Insull? Representative James’ (R) of Mich- igan, a member of the Joint Congres- sional Committee on Muscle Shoals, | declared his suspicion that the “pow- | er trust” was back of most of the| telegrams emphasizing electrical pow- er. An investigation of this propa- ganda was urged by Rep./ James. Power interests have lined up their forces, bankers and officials of trade bodies, behind bids for Muscle Sho that make power production their prime object. Farmers Want Nitrates. However, farmers’ orga! tions are fighting this drive with a demand that Muscle Shoals be for production of a fe: prove the farmers’ pl farmers are today ¢ Chile nitrate out. James is of the opin might be to the eountry to investigate “higher-ups” war department connected water-power projects. His that an engineer in the solicited funds from offici zer to im- American grip of the ‘ht. the monopoly, they s point nm that it s interests in the with tatement Electrical Bond & Share Co. of New! York, for a survey of the Tennessee iver, has caused a stir. Labor Unity Exposes Lewis’ Election Steal; Opposes Court Action CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Several impor- tant articles feature the current num-} ber of Labor Unity, the new left wing paper published at 376 W., Monroe Street, Chicago. Among the most important articles is one revealing, that the railwaymen are fighting mad at the three cent compromises put over on them ‘against their demands for substantial wage raises, An article by George Papcun, a coal miner of Pennsylvania, exposes in detail the methods used by John L. | Lewis in stealing the election in the U. M. W. of A. and packing the miners’ convention. It is set off by an excellent cartoon, The movement in Minnesota for a labor party is told of and an editorial urges all trade union progressives to set up committees locally and gener- |ally for the formation of a labor} the party. Joseph Zack exposes 'frame-up by the trade union bureau- crats against the New York Furriers’ | Union on the charge of “bribing the police.” An article of primary importance is given by W. Z. Foster warning against the new tendency in the trade unions’ internal disputes of workers tuking their cases to the capitalist | courts as a means of ousting the bu- | reaueracy, An excellent article on American imperialism’s conquest’ of Central America is given, as well as one on the machinists’ elections, the A. F. of L. executive council meeting, articles on science and many other features which make Labor Unity well worth the dollar a year asked for a subscrip- tion. Then there are poems, a call to shoe workers, lively editorials and humor, and’ sport columns feature each issue. ‘Architectural Tron and Bronze Workers Will Have Meeting Tonight An important méeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union will be held Tuesday evening, February 8th, 1927, at 7 East 15th Street, New York City, at 8. P. M. sharp. A well-known speaker will briefly address the meeting on a certain im- portant topic. Various important re- ports will be given. Plans for the coming organization drive will be ciscussed and acted upon. It is of great importance that ev- ery member should be present at | | this meeting without fail. ‘New Evidence Showing Innocence of Hoffman, Serving Twenty Years NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Mrs. Agnes Hoffman, missing former wife of Harold Hoffman, convicted slayer of Mrs. Maude Bauer, found murdered in Staten Island two years ago, is being sought by counsel for Hoffman today to appear as a witness at a new trial the prisoner has been granted, ‘ Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. ls} 1 primarily | ing “The Open Court” by Cla: ra Stevens, “is a switchboard where the connections are made that result in our character- istic acts. ear, is the transmitter. upper brain. known as association, a second ‘exchange,’ ' connects with a cell of a third group called motor-cells. One of the sense-organs, perhaps the eye or the The ‘ ries the impression to ‘central’ —a set of nerve-cells in the Connection is made with a cell of another set wire’ is the nerve which car- This, in turn, And then the impulse passes into the spinal cord and discharges into the nerves and museles of the body, resulting in action,” “THE VITAL POINT IS,”. says Miss Stevens, “WHAT CON- NECTIONS ARE MADE ON THAT SWITCHBOARD.” In order to secure the proper response to any given im- soldier whose natural instinct trained to defy it. When the board” has been made several longer necessary .. ward even to danger.” In order to insure its domi every effort to see to it, that made with the “switchboard.” pression, Miss Stevens points out that drill is necessary. The is to run from danger is thus connection from the ‘“switch- times, “the soldier’s will is no . his trained nerve-cells carry him for- nation, the ruling class makes the “proper” connections are Day after day the capitalist press DRILLS the workers against organization, against re- volt, and for meek submission to exploitation and oppression. As far as the relation between the two classes in society is concerned, this is the major function of the capitalist press. It and train the ‘switchboard of class viewpoint, that he thinks 's the task of The DAILY WORKER to so transform the brain” that on every oc- casion the worker makes the proper connections from his own and acts at all times as wv mil- itant worker, and that these reactions, whether it be to a wage cut, or acall to aid in an imperialist war, be always an expression of working class resistance to capitalist exploita- tion —RBERT MILLER. STRUGGLE FOR FREE SPEECH AS SEEN BY AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Following an interview between John Larkin Hughes, Newark attorney for the American’ Civil Liberties Union, and Chief of Police McRell: of New- j ark, the Workers Party was permitted to hold a Lenin memorial ‘meeting in | the hocus-pocus of melodrama. The | PLOT T0 OBT AIN “THE SWITCHBOARD OF THE BRAIN.” | “In every one’s brain,” says the Literary Digest, review- A GREAT THIRD ACT | “Her Crime,” drama in three acts by M. J. Olgin, directed by Maurice | Schwartz, at the Yiddish Art Theatre. | Yiddish “Hammer,” had ‘an idea when |he sat down to write “Her Crime.” | He wanted to show the clash between | bourgeois ideology and, proletarian ideology, with decayed aristocracy as a foil for both. It was an excellent idea, It might have made a great | play. As an idea Dr, Olgin was able | to handle it deftly; his mind runs with speed and accuracy. It was at | kneading this idea into a play that he falls short, The play remains an |uncardone mass of dough, soggy in | spots, Yet it is redeemed to a great | extent by scattered intellectual. plums | and a superb third act, If only for | the third act, see “Her Crime.” Neither Lydia, the general’s daugh-| | ter, turned Bolshevik spy, nor Mat- | vey, her lover, nor Prince Kurbsky lever come to life, They remain to |the end jars into which Dr. Olgin | packs, his ideas—swift, stinging, well- | turned ideas—each jar conveniently | labeled. As in “Shop,” the love ele- | ment is old, stale, melodramatic. The | usual sentimental heroine, the usual |noble lover, the usual third-man in | the offing, a villain with the correct | Broadway dash of abnormal sex: All | this comes to a head in a bedroom |scene in Act Il. Lydia, offering to | sell her body to save her Red lover | from the prince’s soldiers, is prac- | tically stripped, whipped, chased }around the room, bitten, strangled, | and all but raped. | prince with his sword, Tableau. | Then came the superb third act. | Earlier in the play there were hints | of what the third act might be; the scene when the police chief, lawyer, | priest, merchant, peasants of the \dgn appear before the invading prince; a speech here and there by Matvey, or Masha, the friend of Ly- | dia, speeches that jerked the audience |up, but remained detached, floating jon the surface. In the third act Olgin abandoned that city on Jan, 28, Party members had tried unsuccessfully for two weeks | third act has little plot, no physical |to get a permit. They charge that city hall authorities put them off. Police broke up a Workers Party meeting in Newark on Jan. 16, it is alleged. The meeting was on the} Amalgamated Clothing Workers left and right wing internal fight. No! disorder occurred and no reason was | given for interference. Mr. Hughes} reminded the Chief of Police of cor-j respondence between the legal depart- | ment of the City of Newark and the | American Civil Liberties Union in ee | which the former committed the city} |to a policy Of non-interference with peaceful meetings: * * *. University Bars I, W. W. The University of Washington |closed its doors against Edward Dela- ney, I. W. W. organizer, who was | sceduled to speak on the campus on |Jan. 18 against the criminal syndical- |ism laws, according to the Industrial | Worker of Seattle. When Delaney ar- rived the doors of the hall were locked and it was announced the meeting |was called off. The talk had been | sponsored by the Social Science Club. * * * | New Hampshire and Evolution. | New Hampshire was the sixth state | to introduce an anti-eyolution bill in | the legislature during January. The bill proposed by Representative Ros- coe Crane would declare unlawful the teaching of any “philosophy which} deals with religious belief, and espe- | cially the evolutionary theory.” The! penalty is a month’s loss of salary for the first offense and dismissal of the teacher for the second. Other states with evolution bills are Mis- souri, Arkansas, Alabama, North Dakota and Minnesota. A West Vir- ginia measure was defeated. | + ete University Paper Retracts. The Exponent, student newspaper of Purdue University, Dafayette, Ind., has retracted in an editorial of Jan. 21 the charge made in an editorial of Nov. 16 that the American Civil Lib- erties Union is “the official organ in |this country of the Third Interna- tional, of Russia primarily, but world- | wide in scope.” | singing of strike songs and games, | A veal party. But there was more | than that. The children were brought together in order to teach them the class struggle. These are mostly the children of textile strikers who are fighting a tremendous battle to build a union, The children must know of their parents’ struggle. Teach Class Struggle. Last summer at Victory Play- | ground, where many hundreds of chil-' /dven attended every day, there were’ |daily mass meetings to teach the children. the class struggle and the need for them to participate in it.’ Every one knows the vital part the! children played in the strike .. . picketing, rooting out seabs, enliven- ing the mass meetings with songs, encouraging their parents, Dread School Propaganda. Now, since the children have gone back to school, there is a danger that) they will forget the lessons of last summer, In the*school, they hear Get Union Literature. Literature from the American Civil Liberties Union attacking. anti-evolu- tion laws has been sent to key-men in the Mississippi state legislature in an effort to combat the anti-evolution bill introduced last week. The Union has also offered its help to professors at the University of Missouri, who have been urged to fight the measure for the sake of academic freedom. * * * Klan Mobs Terrify Negroes. A fiery cross Was burned in front of the home of Jesse Burrell, school director of Carney, Iowa, last week because he appointed a colored teach- er to take the place of a white teacher in his district. Negroes in Miami, Fla., have been intimidated by two public parades and demonstrations by the Ku Klux Klan. Three Negro bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to attend the closing banquet of the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand for Law Enforcement when it was learned that they would be “Jim Crowed” to a segregated table at the Willard Hotel in Wash- ington, D. C. The home of a Negro in Denver, Colo., has been twice rid- dled with bullets and damaged by bombs from white neighbors who re- sented his moving into the district. five white men in Shreveport, La., kidnapped a Negro baggage carrier and flogged him in the woods with leather straps and sticks, Although he knows the names of his assail- ents, he is afraid to reveal them. No’ reason for the assault is known, I. W. W. Faces Deportation. ee The Seattle immigration station is housing Andrew Stinson, an I. W. W. charged with illegal entry into the United States, despite the fact that he proved legal entry and has applied for first papers, the Seattle Indus- tual Worker reports. Stinson is be- ing held for deportation because he is a member of the I, W; W., the weekly charges. He was arrested wh'.¢ hunting for a job. The Wash- ington branch of the General Labor Defunse is handling his case. —— es Malling his cases PASSAIC WORKINGWOMEN'S COUNCIL PARTIES FOR CHILDREN COMBAT SCHOOL PROPAGANDA On Saturday afternoon, at 152 Eighth St, Passai ii 1 ; Council No, 8 held a party for the children . DP ch gg: Smee dred children attended. There were eats,—cake, cocoa, peanuts. There were pics ic. stoesaaa of the neighborhood. Four hun- bosses’ propaganda. About how won- derful this country is, how everything is the best in the world. How the workers who strike are only trouble makers who should be put down im- mediately, Not a word about the poverty of the children’s homes, about child la. bor, about labor unions, about imper- jalist wars. In“short, not a word of vital truth, Combat Lies, Realizing that their own children may be lead to believe the untruths| taught in the schools, and may even be turned against the struggle of, their parents, the Workingwomen’s Councils, with the active cooperation of the local pioneers, are going to hold meetings and parties for the'| children in all localities. This com- ing Saturday there will be one in Wallington. The next week in Gar- field. And so on through the ‘#«e action to mention. Gone are the evil prince, the ominous sofa, the beauti- ful lady smiling though her heart’ | must break. Instead, you have a one- legged Red soldier, a one-armed Red soldier, a working girl, a man with whiskers, a student, peasants, Red of- ficers. They sit down in comradely fashion to discuss Lydia, her life, her psychology, her crime. Lydia is ac- cused of violating revolutionary dis- cipline. By killing the prince for | personal reasons she éndangered the lives of thousands of local comrades. They argue,. these revolutionists, back and forth. They defend Lydia. They analyze her mind. They scorch | bourgeois virtue, love, sentimentality, | individualism. The new order and the old are at grips. The scene | comes to life. ~The lines sting. Time and. again the audience bursts into | applause, first the Communists, then |the more conservative elements at a | flashing retort from Lydia. Here 1s | something new, moving, real.~ Here is drama. The simple speech of the | one-legged soldier who flares against | Lydias squeamish individualism, the simple action of Lydia in throwing \her party card on the table; these | are more stirring, more tense than | all the hair pulling, undressing, stab- | bing, shrieking of Act. II. Do it | again, Dr. Olgin. Write us another |play. We believe you can write a great plot. Only—begin with the | third act. Spare us the bedroom. It | reeks of camphor. | The acting was fine; the make-ups, especially of the village characters and the Red tribunal, among the finest I’ve ever seen. Why doesn’t the Yiddish Art Theatre bring it; scenery up to the same level ?—HAR- BOR ALLEN. Vaudeville Scribe to | Organize Unorganized | The “organize - the - unorganized” | spirit has hit vaudeville writers. Bd- xar Allan Wolf, veteran writer of | vaudeville sketches and author of the | gypsy play in which Nazimova is now rooting for a “League of Vaudevili: f = i THEA, W. 45h St. Eva, KLAW MATINEES THURS. & SAQy “SINNER” With Allan Dinchart & Clatborne Fonter Went 45th St. “Puen, Wed. Pets and ‘Thu, ae Sat. Mata, WINTHROP AMES’ =. OF PEN- ZANCE ‘PLYMOUTH hen. Sat. Even i—KARAMAZOV LE ETTORE tas Masvistcntiensinatsa ces Not : vh Neighborhood Playhouse 466 Grand St Drydock 7516 Fivery Kye, (Except Mon.) Mat. Sat. | “PINWHEEL” wards Faragoh Sane DY! oe UK Keb, | Mossaiye J. Olgin, editor of the She stabs the; Bye Bye Bonnie "VALTER WOOLF Makes an ideal hero in the romantic musical play, “Countess Maritza,” now in its sixth month at the Forty- fourth Street Theatre. uniform type of: contract from the | managers, to standardize arrange- ments for advance royalties, and» to | provide security to authors for the | collection of royalties, He also urges |the use of more one-act plays in vaudeville programs. | | Broadway gossipers who “know the | dope” have slated Paul Green’s “In | Abraham’s Bosom” for the next | Pulitzer Prize — unless somebody |eomes along with a new play to | change the minds of the awarding | committee. Green’s play is a study | cf simple Negroes in the South and | the bitter, unsuccessful struggle of | one of them to lead his people out of ‘ignorance and peonage. Though de- \ficient in technique, tiresome and | repetitious in spots the play has fer- vor and passion and something to say. It comes as near as anything produced in New York this season to being a workers’ play. Radicals ought | to see it—at the Provincetown Play- house. | |. “Spread-Eagle,” a melodrama deal- | ing with the Mexican American ruc- tion, has been bought by Jed Harris, |who produced “Broadway,” to be | staged at once, The effort of Amer- |icans to hang on to their Mexican | cil concessions forms the basis of the |plot. The authors are George S. | Brooks and Walter B, Lister, the lat- | ter city editor of the Brooklyn Times, | No indication is given whether the | Mexican characters in the play are human beings or the perennial “treacherous greasers” of melo- drama. BROADWAY GOSSIP “Off-Key” opens tonight at the Bel- |mont Theatre. Another opening is “Sally” at the Greenwich Village. |This afternoon “Spellbound” will be- gin a series of special matinees at the | Klaw. | The vaudeville program at Moss’ | Broadway this week is headed by: Long Tack Sam; Dave Harris & Co. |and Moss & Frye. The screen fea- ‘ture “Held By The Law,” has Ralph Lewis, Marguerite de la Motte and Johnnie Walker in the cast. ‘ The cast for “What Anne Brought Home,” Larry E. Johnson’s new come- dy which Earl Carroll will present at Wallack’s Theatre, the latter part. of this month, will include: William Hanley, Mayo Methot, Ed Poland, Marion Stevenson, Lenore Sorsby, Peggy Shannon, Erman — Seavy, George Earle and Cecil Secrest. Robert Craik, who played. Francois Villon-in “The Vagabond King,” has joined the cast of “The Desert Song” at the Casino, playirig the: role of Captain Fontaine. ee John MacMahon has. acquired the American rights of “Mediterranee,” a play by Paul Haurigot, recently pro-~ duced the Theatre Michodiere, Paris, and. will present it in New York fol- lowing a spring try-out. 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