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Page Six st DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, So MEMES NOV#sIBER 26, 1927 District Organizers Of Workers Communist Party and Addresses the Workers ablished the iet organ- the territories wishing ould write anizer of ind them- parts of the coun- organization is not write directly 43 East 125th St. t dis’ Cause- om, chuset d, Maine, V mt, New | "District Two: Wm. W. Weinstone. | 168 | St., New York Ci for. N City, Yonkers, New ssex counties). | Benjamir ia for laware, and, on and Three: H Philadel Con Mary | James | 1, Ohio, | Weisbord, 1967 | Mich., Lower ) is, Ind. District Bedacht, 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill., for No’ Louis, Mo., Tlli- Tallentire, 210 | , for Minne- District Ten: H. Oehler, Room 1, 207 East 14th St., Kansas City, Mo., | for Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, | New Mexi A. Fislerman, Box } or Washington, 1212 | Market St., California. MARRIAGE X ADE GIRARD, Kan., Nov. year-old ool girl was united *eompanionate rriage here today with a 2¢ i school boy, before | Josephine Hal- | a Unitari $ jJeman-Julius, daughter of E. Halde- man-Julius, publisher of this city, oledged her “love and faith” to Aub- rey Clay Rossiter. z Rosenthal will be the soloist Capitol Theatre’s symphonic |}. rt tomorrow morning at 11:30. Harriet Eells, mezzo-soprano, ap- pears in song recital this evening at Town Hall. Karl Kraeuter, violinist, will give his recital Monday evening at the En- gineering Auditorium. ® © The New Plays = 5,” a comedy trom the hist, “by tay Wied, Monday night at the Civic Repertory The- | atre. The cast is headed by Paul Leyssac, Margaret Love, Ruth Wilton, Donald Cameron, Egon Brecher, Josephine Hutchinson and Alma Kruger. 1} “THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS,” by Sean 0’C: y, at the Hudson Theatre Monday evening. The personnel of the Irish Players | | includes Arthur clair, Sara All- | good, Maire O'Neill, Sidney Mor- | gan, Shielah Richards and Kath- | leen Drago. | “HARRY DELMAR’S REV-| ELS,” a revue, will open at the Shubert Theatre Monday night, with Winnie Lightner, Frank Fay, Bert Lahr, Hugh Cameron, Jeanne Hackett and Carl Shaw featured. The music is by Billy Rose, Bal- lard MacDonald, Jimmy Monaco, Jesse Greer and Lester Lee, and the book by William K. Wells. “THE CENTURIES,” Era Jo Basshe’s play of New York East Side life, will open at the New Playwrights’ Theatre Tuesday night. “STORM CENTER,” a farce by | Jessie Hein Ernst and Max Simon, will open at the Klaw Theatrc Tuesday. The cast includes Russell! Mack, Maude Eburne, Betty Lawr- ence and Dorothy Tierney. “GOLDEN DAWN,” a musical play, will open the new Hammer- stein’s Theatre Wednesday night. Louise Hunter, formerly 2f the Metropolitan, Robert Chisholm, Olin Howard, Marguerita Sylva, Paul Gregory and Nydia d’Arnell are the principals. Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd lwwrote the libretto and Emmerich | Kalman and Herbert Stothart the music. “ELECTRA,” by Sophocles, with | Margaret Anglin ng the chief | | role will open Thursday night at! |< the Gallo Theatre. Other principal! players include: Clarence Der-| |! went, Ralph Roeder, Howard Phil Marga and Scott, Harvey lips, Dorothy Anglin, Elwyn McLaren. “FAL ANG Coward, will be pres Actors’ Theatre with Fay Bainte: as star and Estelle Winwood fea- Ian jfirst stanza of hi | that the audience settled b |seats reassured that here was Gilbert | jand Sulli top bent of their | | sword | linden: | English {this are hig! |not true. |van_ professed | were told that they First Performance of “Mikado”, FTER Gilbert and / Sullivan’s “Princess Ida” had been produced in London, it was rumored that the! brettist and composer would don the topsy-turvydom of their p: operettas for erent and perhaps al style that the ese ope: irmed. were working on a “Japan- ” the rumor seemed con- The usual first-night Savoy crowd was present for the premier of “The | fikado” on March 14, 1885. Sulli- van’s overture suggested that the manner was indeed changed and “it was not until Pish-Tush had sung the song to the effect | that the Mikado had decreed ‘That all who flirted, leered or winked |(Unless connubially linked) Should forthwith be beheaded, in their the n delicious fanta do” through an hanging in the floor one day Al his stud This started the of the strar oms and manners of the flower} The pre the time of a co Knightsbridge spread attention and ct This iosity. |also influenced the libre’ in choos- jing Japan as the locale of the new opera. Sullivan delighted the first-night spectators with his use of the old English tune, “For he’s a gentleman of the Lord High only truly Japan was the entran ado, this being a song. It has been off Though G surpri the lines th song and gutter trance of the M: able that in pursuing their turvy world, they purposely adopted the popular melody, while t? words are foolish rather ‘than offen- sive. “The Mikado” had 672 performan- ces in London, the longest run of any of the Savoy operas and has been revived innumerable times. In Amer- ica it was first produced in July, 1885, in New York, but the court stopped the performance. Gilbert and Sulli- van and their manager, D’O Carte, | brought out the opera “officially” in the Fifth Avenue Theatre on August 19, 1885, with a London cast and J. C, Duff followed soon afterward with | his pirated version, It is interesting that Richard Mans- | | field sang Ko-Ko in Stetson’s pro-|design the settings and costumes. NEW YORK SYMPHONY The New York Symphony Orches- | tra, with Fritz Busch conducting, wil! | repeat at Mecca Auditorium this Sun- day afternoon the program of Friday. Yehudi Menuhin will again be heard in Beethoven’s Concerto in D for violin with orchestra. The other num- ber is Symphony in E minor by Adolf Busch. Harold Samuel will be the soloist in Carnegie Hall Thursday afternoon. The program: Symphony No. 38 in D, Mozart; Concerto in D minor, Bach; Juventus (Symphonie Poem), De Sabata. Next Saturday afternoon Walter Damrosch will conduct the Young People’s Concert in Carnegie Hall. Emilio de Gorgorza will be the solo- ist. The program includes: Overture, “Ooriolanus,” Beethoven; Anacreon, A. E. M. Gretry; Symphonic Poem, “The Spinning Wheel of Omphale,” Saint-Saens; The Call of the Plains, Goldmark; Large al Factotum, Ros- sini; Finale from Symphony in D minor, Cesar Franck. At the Sunday afternoon concert in Mecca Auditorium on December 4, Emilio de Gogorza will be the solo- ist. PHILHARMONIC The membership Philharmonic Soe f the ake pl of concert the y for the benefit Orchestra Penson Fund will evening, De- ember 1§ > Hall, under he direct lem Mengelb and Ernest Sche! ling, and in coope tion with Pro-M ca, A new work vy Ernest Schelling will have its pre- niere on thi ion and composi- by Heinrich Kaminski and Zol- n Kodaly will be performed for the ‘irst time in America. This week’s programs will include two soloists, Heinrich Schlusnus baritone, and Yolanda Mero, pianist ynd_ the t performance by the oe: ions fi “os at the 49th Street ‘heatre ) “hilharmonic of Bruckner’s Nintt symphony. Mr. Schlusnus will sin; »morrow afternogn at the Brooklyn aban- | a work of entirely dif- | convention- ; So when it was announced | Gilbert got the idea for “The Mika- | MARGARET ANGLIN. | | | | i] | | Will play the title role in “Elec- tra,” which will be given for ten per- |formances at the Gallo Theatre be- | ginning next Thursday night. ion of “The Mikado” in the Hollis in Boston, joining the its opening there. in New one 110° weeks, only purpesst this with 121 mes’ present pro- tion in the | le Theatre is the 1 offering of Gilbert and Sulli- n opera company. Pursuing his pol- »f completely restudying the op- f the cere f his cast none ep! s who acted Katisha with ayminor company in New England several years ago. “THE LOVE NEST” NEXT ACTOR-MANAGERS PLAY The Actor-Managers, which re- |cently produced the Dunsany play | “Tf,” at the Little Theatre, announce their next offering, Robert Sher- wood’s dramatization of Ring Lard- |ner’s story “The Love Nest.” The | organization will present this play | at the Comedy Theatre, opening about December 22. Rehearsals are now go- |ing on. Agnes Morgan is staging the production and Aline Bernstein will The noted Polish pianist will. give his only local recital this season at Carnegie Hall Monday night. } Academy of Music. Mr. Mengelberg’s program consists of Dunn’s Overture on Negro Themes, D’Indy’s symphonic variations “Istar,” Wagner’s Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Scene of “Walkure,” and the Second Symphony of Beethoven. Next Thursday evening and Fri- day afternoon at Carnegie Hall Yo- landa Mero is the soloist. The pro- ‘am: Symphony No. 9; (first time —- "Dh Ge EE AES EES OS See SE A | ON THE SCREEN | eee EEE TE A OAS THE DASHING GAUCHO Fast Fairbanks Entertains ai at Liberty Theatre Gymnastic, Colorful HEN you see unbounding + vitality, romantic gymnastics that make you forget the weary day’s labor that is still settled in your bones, vivid color and cos- tume and gorge- ous scenery, you can almost for- give anything— even miracles. It’s all astound- ing, yet fascinat- ing hokum and typically. Fair- banks. Not the Fairbanks of the “Thief of Bag- ty, stand brainless entertainment even, but we like our religion left out. It’s bad enough to have it confront us on other occasions, By and large, there is so much good in so much bad of it, that we repeat, we can almost forget the 2 oo mpi: Douglas Fairbanks always makes us much younger again. Makes us ro- mantically, foolishly young—and per- |haps this is a more inoffensive drunk | than any other we can get. If you can forgive him the religious hooey, |; you are sure to like the rest of it— and there’s a preceding pumber of Argentine dances on the program that are so well done, you will get {more than you bargained for.—W. C./} dad” but Fair- banks neverthe- Dotigias | less is a fast mov- lla | Fairbanks ing evening’s en- tertainment. Our hero goes to the Argentine this ime. ¥ —-a Latin-A i | Serene eee “hes ae miere at the Embassy Theatre Tues- | climbs trees in a fashion to confound | cay See Thi ee vee ono | the fundamentalists and loves his|%t°!S famous novel, Anna Karenina, women to confound all femininity.| “5 directed by Edmund Goulding, | Never was there such a cowboy—and from an adaptation by Frances Mar- who the devil cares, He loves his| ion. The supporting cast includes George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy, girl and he takes her with him where- i ever he goes, house and all. He leads Brandon Hurst and Philippe de Lacy. an army of other dashing heroes like himself. He jumps over walls, he climbs trees, jumps on a horse back- wards and rides in the wake of a stampeding herd of cattle to save a city. Here’s all the impossibility of a paperback novel you read when a boy and here’s even the kick you got out of it then—if you are willing to “Love,” co-starring John Gilbert | and Greta Garbo, will have its pre- | “The Wizard,” a mystery picture from the play “Balaoo” by Gaston Léroux, will come to the Roxy The- atre today. Edmund Lowe, Leila Hyams, Norman Trevor, Barry Nor- ton,’ Gustav Van Seyffertitz and George Kotsonaros, are in the cast. |___ ANOTHER HAMPDEN SUCCESS! : — |, ‘ THRILLING STORY, SUPERB PLAY, HUS: STICALLY RECEIVED.” | i WALTER ae seg an ENEMY | HAMPDEN 2" oy tHe PEOPLE Eves. at 8:30 sharp. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 sharp: B'way at 62 St. Columbus vl HAMPDEN’S THEATRE The Theatre Guild Presents = PORE. * A FOLK PLAY BY ‘DUROSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD REPUBLIC THEA., West 42nd St. Matinees Wed. and S THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO, in BERNARD SHAW’S COMEDY THE Doctor’s Dilemma GUILD THEATRE Ay Mats. Thu LBERT MILI Presents MAX REINHARDT’S Incomparable production of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Acted under the personal supervision of Professor Reinhardt by the companies from the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, and the Josefstadt Theatre, Vienna. With symphony orchestra, corps de ballet, and the specially designed scenery and cos- tumes and lighting effects. Evenings 8:00. Mats. Fri. & Sat. 2: | ). Prices Evs. $5 to $1. Mats, $2 to $1. | | | Jaek Holt’s latest starring vehicle will be seen commencing Monday at | the Broadway Theatre. “The Tig: i | j | forget all reason and leave your logic at home. This is no play to go to; with any seriousness, There’s a little leading lady in this picture worth seeing. A Mexican gi named Lupe Velez. We bring this talented bit of charm to your atten-| tion since she is destined for cinema stardom unless the producers have like Hearst gone rabidly anti-Mexi- can, There is further good support in| the cast—including Mary Pickford) ; tho she is not mentioned on the pro-| gram, There are faults in this picture at/ the Liberty Theatre. This is no per- fect movie—not even perfect hokum. These we can overlook. But why | there should have been a strong re-| ligious baek-bone to the plot and holy atmosphere to the story is hard to| “Abie’s Irish Rose” is now in re- forgive. It isn’t a credit to Fairbanks|hearsal. Paul McAllister, Charles who has in the past avoided this clap-| Rogers, Nancy Carroll and Jda Kram- trap—nor is it anything but a hind-jer head the cast of the Anne Nichols’ rance to good entertainment. We can | story. is its title and George B. Seitz ted the duction. Dorothy Re- vier is the leading lady. Harold Shu- | mato wrote this tale of Gypsy life. tle of “The Prince of | th Stteet Cinema will | |present the pictorial biography of | Lord Byron’s life, for its first show- | ing in America. It will start today | and will be shown for one week. Under the Lovers,” the ! “The Thirteenth Hour,” a mystery film, will be shown at the Capitol Theatre beginning today. Lionel Barrymore and Jacqueline Gadson | play the chief roles. ALOLACE HLL, CeMUISl, Wil Pray at Town Hall, Wednesday afternoon, playing sonatas by Handel, and Jhanin’s ¥ at. i All Performances Except Mon, & Thurs. Winthrop Ames “Mikado”. | Gilbert & Sullivan Beethoven and works by Schuman, LN a Soe a ani ROnANTEnne 4 Mon. nly—*] LA | Lalo, Debussy, Saint-Saens and) pnurs. Eve. “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” | Glazounow. | BOOTH 45 St. W. of B'way Eves, 8:40] Nicolai Mednikoff, the Russian| ||, , Matinees Wed. & Sat, at 2:40| pianist, will appear in recital at Car- ts iced ESCAPE. negie Hall, Wednesday evening. John Galsworthy’s | New Play with Leslle Howard | Rosita Renard, pianist, will give a recital at Steinway Hall, Tuesday evening. The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buszell ?nd Year Karin Dayas, pianist, will present My THEA., 45 St.V | a program of unfamiliar modern IMPERIAL yanines if af ig wed music at Steinway Hall, Monday| Mats. Thurs. and Saty 2:20. | evening. | DAVENPORT THEATRE ae . 138 j Charles Premmar, tenor, will give | Evenings Pee aunt een, Paty a secon recital at Steinway Hall, Phone Madison Sq. 2051 Wednesday evening. ped with BUTLER DAVENPORT | and an Excellent Cast. | Frank Gittleson, violinist, will give | a recital this afternoon at the Guil Theatre. Wm. Fox presents the Motion Picture, Ss U N R I S E Directed by F. W. MURNAU | By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonie Movietone Accompaniment | Times Sq. The», 424 St, W. of B way | Guy Maier and Leo Pattison, the duo-pianists, will give their only New York recital this season in Carnegie | Hall on January 27. MUSIC AND CONCERTS | Hy PHILHARMONIC MENGELBERG, ‘conauctor Carnegie Hall, Dec. 1, 8:20; Dec. 2, 2:30 N.Y. Symphony Under the PRITEZ BUSCH Direction of MECCA AUDITORIUM, § Mecea box office open 11 a pees! at Al Orrow Soloist: YOLANDA MERO, Pianist | Sor, Tia BRUCKNER—WAGNEI | SOLOIST” YEHUDI MENUHIN ADOLF BUSCH: Symphony tn © minor, | Carnegie Hall, Sun. Aft, Dee. 4.0¢ 3:00 /0D. 38; MERTHOVEN, ‘Concerto in | se EL DINDY: MAMLER [for Violin, with Orenestee Arthur Judson, Mgr. ‘Musical Art Quartet obsen, Paul Bernard, Marie |wowNn WAL hss Mon, Roxanoff, Louis Kaufman | 2nd and Last CELLO RE ® (Steinway) | Tickets at Symphony ores, -- W. 57th si Haul, 1 Steinway | | ¥ Piano) | + 28, Bua | cag YOURY | Dee. 4, Jan, by Phil. Wagner: Carios,de Vega and Carola Goya will give a program of Spanish at Hampden’s Theatre this inday night. Marco Basini’s con- rt orchestra will furnish the music and B Weller, harpist, will be he assisting artist. a Jeanette Vreeland, will ve her Tall. Friday evening. soprano, song recital at Carnegie |vecital in Town Hall on the evening ylof December 6. The Musical Forum of New York Concert Mgt. Dan’l May. Mason & Hamlin P The Most Exciting Play in Town! CHAMBERLAIN BROWN offers FRANCES STARR “comety” IMMORAL ISABELLA? ‘ive RITZ THEATRE itiec:s'ito? Cea 285, 2d MONTH! Matinees WED. & SAT. at 2:. UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDER by J. FRANK DAVIS 42nd STREET, WEST OF B’WAY LYRIC THEATRE ges, 8:30, Mats.. Wed. & Sat. Buy your tickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th Street and help The DAILY WORKER and this theatre. Limited Engagement ‘ From November 22 to December 4 The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE production of THE BEL? now playing at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE 133 MacDougal Street. Performance every evening (except Monday) including Sunday at | 8:40, Matinees Thanksgiving and Saturday at 2:40. Telephone Spring 83638. The first modern Labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prompertty in the Ford factories. BWAY = MONDAY. First New York, Srowing ‘The NATION THEATRE 41¢ Sexi anae \ tinees Wed. and AH: WOODS pre dude . Thea, 65 W. 35th. By. GARRICK mats’ Thurs. & ‘Sat. BASIL SYDNEY and MARY BLL) , with Garrick Players in the Moderg TAMING of TAMING of the i TOWN HALL Wed. Att, N: Cello Recital HORACE BRITT Concert Mgt. Dan’! Mayer, Inc, Steinway Piano. KURT SCHINDLER, Mus. Dir. Second of the Sunday Evening s of Music at the SUNDAY, a i SAKOFF Program Soloixts: MARIA KURENKO, Soprano IVAN DNEPROF, Tenor talk by Kurt Schindler on the operas of Rimsky-Korsakoff, unfamiliar to the American Public. Tickets at Box Office Maria Kurenko uses the Chickering at 8:30 Introduct Carnegie Hall, Fri, Eve., Dee, » at 8) JBANETTE OPRANO Piano. Knabe is the officiai. piano of the = ——— (Vreeland: RICHARD HAGEMAN at the Plane § Mason & Hamlin Plana Harold, Morris, pianist, will give his DRA FULTON Bway, 46 st Evs. 8, Mats.Thurs.&Sai WALLS :-:. with MUNP WISENFREND Th..W.58 8} John Golden pins esatsae te re el “And So to Bed,” will be moved aianeey to the Sam H: Harris The- atre. Thea, W.44 St.Evs.8.30 ERLANGER’S wats, ‘thurs, & Sat THE MERRY MALONES 41 with GEORGE COHAN Henry Miller's Shea, 4842 | Grant Mitchel in Geo, M POobaL American Faree THE BABY CYCLONE “The New Moon,” the Schwab wl Mande) operetta, went inte rehcarsal yesterday. Edgar MacGregor is di- rectine the book. “Brass Buttons,” a new play, will be the attraction at the Bronx Opera House for the week beginning Mon- dav a ; | LS ews BOT om a ON eres armor