The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1927, Page 4

* ' Page Four THE DAILY WORKEh, NEW YORK, WED. AY, N — i ! ae aay as a STegee oe WALKING ON THE SEA | | B OOK a | r ; : CAPSULES | ‘ JANE. BARRY. WORLD HISTORY IN CAPSULES. i Ibsen’s ‘Olav Liljekrans’ FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION. By H. C. Thome | To Be Set To Music and W. Hamm. (The ABC of History Series, Vol. 1) Vanguard Se | (NE of Ibsen’s wishes is at last to | t THIS volume has its strong points; but the inherent difficulties of writing | come true, seventy-five years after a book of such a nature are so great and are here so inadequately met it was expressed. In 1852 Ibsen | that we must say frankly that we do not see what very useful purpose it wrote a drama, “Olav Liljekrans,” | ean serve. : |which is now forgotten, but of which “Outlines” of this nature can be really valuable he to lat that time he thought highly. He the formulation and clarification~of the © 1 deve lopment | wanted to have it. transformed into and if the bare facts and events--the “raw mate tory’-—are util- lan opera, and approached a contem- | ized simy to illustrate and expl. the main however, the porary composer, inviting him to co- | is made to provide a compendium of world history from the earliest joperate: The composer declined, and o the end of the 18th centur 00-odd p what else can be | Ibsen turned to other plans. But so the ilt but failure from the scientific and literary standpoints? | strong was his desire: to see “Olav | | Liljekrans” on the opera stage that { ig . ’ tovicnl- devel ont are 80 V olently the whole first act is written as an} 1 Seas: BY le ns saeahiee i Aepnadieinaee : {opera libretto. The story is taken | | and me cond to produce a dry and indig Sain ll gible to “tho e very Yr 3 fa whom it is supposed to ¢ |from the period of the Plague, when who nee , ; e say that this “catalog” style 5 in- lonly one or two persons survived in’ 1) «The Centurics tai terest icism is valid f |the desolate Norwegian valleys. The |}. lem Jo Basshe, which opened at book: it \hero‘ himself is a sort of anticipation | Pie” New Playwrights Theatre last one who knows jot Peer Gynt. : ‘ night. ' not of this boo books of which A young Norwegian composer, this is the bunk. The Arne Eggen, has now obtained the | [= : k me f some | consent of Ibsen’s son and of the pub- ! Music Nop F jlisher to set the play to music, and | the white m [pepe berg note ib ann a Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the and useft ae open | Cleveland Orchestra v (in ‘Hammerstein’s ‘Theatre, | this his program a concert in C: evening, Dee | phonic-choral 1 valuable. 9 new | Univers the section « he ecuaneeaetd | playhouse, ‘on Broadway and Fifty- Hie solois elucidation o t was the religio third Street, will open tonight with | soprano, and, N of nationalism on the structure of olden Dawn,” a musical play.) Z ki society; or the sections st of trade and the decline of | Louise . Hunter, formerly of the) Ernesto Berumen aiden f | Metropolitan is the chief player. |heard in recit: \ }. i = Clemence. Dane’s “Granite” was re- parades ev enute As to the historical perspective of the book we are sorry to say that \vived at the American Laboratory Pauline Dan | the introduction gives us the promise of an “objective” a social’ method | Theatre last night. recital at Town Hall, } , that the bulk of the book fails to justify. The sections on the rise and Se noon, December 13. spread of christianity, on the decline of the Roman Empire, on the role of | due to the “mi all christians in 5 infuse into the French forces, or that the Crusades were | | to} | tyeatment of pilgrims” or to the plan of Urban to unite | | The American Theatre Association | | Harold Minjir, former member of icism, on the rise of nationalism are singularly superficial, showing | |will shortly start its second season | /7 little comprehension of the basic social forces at work. For example, | with “Success,” A. A. Milne’s play ||More Contributions +5 when the authors tell us that the development of the Egyptian empire was ; Which’ was produced in’ London ‘four| Ruthenke Dail due to the ambition of the kings, that the defeat of the English in the |years ago, and “John Barleycorn, al uthenpere 3 aily Hundred War was due to the inspiration Joan of Are was able melodrama by Nan Bagby Stephens. | Worker Sustaining Fund f t ny |the Neighborhood Playhouse Com- “ene lofty purty what is this but falling victim to the most vulgar | pany, will succeed Gerald Hamer as} aes Pe! - > : prejudices of popular history? sq ‘ - ‘ Hortensio in the modern version of|C. N. Bjerkan, Rose Lake, Idaho. .4.00 ss ae yaree 3% ‘ my lates: San ae SAAS ih en SURET ie ~~~ | “Taming of the Shrew,” at the Gar-| Roxbury Lettish Club, Ma The worker who wants a sketch of world history from the Marxist vick Theatre. |B. Weisbrot, Coney I Ne \ standpoint will not find it in this uninteresting, ondly, because book; first, becaus its historical method e it is undigestible and is uncertain, lapses Negro Miners, s RVATION WAGES LURING NORTHERN TEXTILE | ‘pienas Bélonirany? | is directing | C. Tamosiunas, Hudson, P. Watson, § \ far too often, best is only a superficial recognition of historical | the rehearsals of Knut Hamsun’s “At/ ©, Paran é- materi ld is still open—but it is strewn with dangers Beware! BOS SES SOUTH; $9 TO FO $15 A WEEK PREVAIL the Gate of the Kingdom.” This is Pas oso —WILL HERBER CG j the first of Knut Hamsun’s plays to/ MI. Dujakowich, Pitts. Pa. .. ee AN GnT Onn EAR ae ects : By HARVEY O'CONNOR. [must tie up a fourth to a third of |e Produced in America in English. P. sete, ——— ete a N : CHAPEL HILL, N. C., (FP) Nov. Ioana SENSE EERE aE Manner as | Monthly art exhibitions have been| J.’ Atazof, Pittsburgh, Pa. EVOLUTION: A journal of Nature. “volution Publishing Corporation, 96 | (Field Organizer for the Natio 29.—What brings profit-hungry mill . ‘inaugurated by the New Playwrights er auith) Ave, N.-Y.- 03 Association for the Advancement of owners from the north to Caro-| The labor supply in both cape ae Theatre in the second floor gallery at | AMSTERDAM @ OES TO BERLIN? Bie e PAS sit a ; ae 4 eal Colored People) nas, Georgia and na in one of |south is fully ample to meet all de-| their playhouse, 40 Commerce Street. | P) No rata Shas ae ee menty PORTE CUS Ess HENS a LOR BOGS: edeaee aS oul 7 he biggest industrial migrations ever;mands, as unemployment so elo- | The current exhibition consists of ey, “ ne oe ARG: ~mendous social fc od by the mighty sweep of imperialism, con- EGRO Workers, Bew seen quently testifies, Newby finds. But} é lo e seat of the International Fede eee : | nine paintings by Adalaide Lawson. | ration of Trade Unions to Berlin from soles ‘tself with d Its decline as an independent political newspapers repot ey SOUcHER Slane. on the whole, the “south has an over-|'the exhibition’ also ineludes “teonty [ie ; a yee .4-~-force causes it to turn to the consolation of fundamentalism. When the |strike of miners in the Pittsbur lat ; whelming advantage in labor costs.”| photographs’ on various New Serko aan a eens te a of | eoel past ot the middle class we aoe eos By aes that £ Pa., coal district, a Soe ie ie | And it advantage which has| themes by Ralph Steiner. ihe ve eg PY Ne — couneil of : was the “backbone of i t d of scientific ideas was viewed |t ¢ racbehen . | res: * . as ae f inion-baiter of | ,; ri 17-20. A gene to replace ith mild interc bordering on indifference. Again vindie ating the ob- | bree Any setting of BB BENE OF lang s as the premier cotton] phe yfusici | I ans Club hi al age, et at i servation of Marx that ‘ gious world is but the of the real bor a t white labor is very un- \textile state in the past three years. i Les as taken] Jan Oudegee ted at the over the entire house for the perfor-|last meeting, will Pre- pe sen. svorld” the gic f 1g class ts abhorr ) ange. | fortun ighi, according to studi : “ . orld” the religion of this ¢ ng cla aioe nea. change ches ag aren aa Other Factors. mance of “Hamlet” at the Davenport] sumably a German will be given this It wants progress to stop at a stage favorab! e 1 sis at the University p moan Theatre, for Friday evening. | po: Thus it came to pass that the foremo tical champion of the petty In such a rvolina. George Newby Jr.,| Other factors in comparative costs LF onl sa teats s William Jennings Br 2 e the outstanding de ne OM pee z nose iy of comparative costs oi are: a , its religious cloak, knowr fundame : 9on to beat, b: rtiern and southern cotton textile i. Power—The south has a com- | A AN " on as the bosses production is probably the most a rg y small advantage in the| ‘ AS ° : vietory, they never fail to thoritative yet made. It’s the cheap ina Piedmont where hydroelec- | y .g bo Widespread and vindictive strives to |two evil things: either t labor. tric power plus cheap coal from West - ae stifle the scientific achievement mind egro and re-emplay the beaten i ¢ anne hie» | Virginia bring rates about 10° per ‘ i ues . of man with the superstitions ages. Fighting against the or to push the Negro down aj Vast reserves of “poor white” | .onf lower than Fall River mills must |BOOTH 45 St. w. of Bway Bye 8040 (| [oor ane) HRC Rees -GRUARproventhy = inexorable march of soc tant past for justification of ‘er the position into w the Southern tenant farmers and mill | pay, ners Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 % i Be teen pest—its egro has helped them to push the | hands are on the auction block today, | Transportation—The south is| "petetats ESCAPE E © R G ¥ 3 Goaded to fury by to which history has condemned i nite labor. There is no such thing |P0s hammered down * northern | yeaver the raw material, but the north | John Colts si: sandler | : a Ke the American petty bourgecisic to save itself by vicious legislation | as. Negro labor being placed o D and 8 ake “nlis nearer the market. On the whole New: Bey, with: Ldalte Howard) Republic ooo. wea ane sie 5 against the teaching of evoluti y form. jin a better position than the white | 5 eee as the power the advantage is with the south on| — ri z A Fe Totally ignorant of the social nees, but slightly familiar with the jlabor in these United States. The | C°™Panies, the chambers of com-|ooa.se goods, but in finer goods New| National ‘ oa Psy he’ of Bway G izati 7 “ h J sree, the state industrial boards, } 7, ; 2vs.8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sat.2:30 Bernard Shaw's Comedy yulgarizations of the natural scie spokesmen of this declining class | most that the Negro can expect is to aoe apart ls ke hz |Enclend products can readily com-| 4 : wie 2 confine their assaults to what they immagine to be Darwinism. |be put on the same level with the ‘ 5 Out in stemtorian voices the | net. so far as transportation costs atte ‘The Tral of Dugan ee DOCTOR'S BILE MMA ; ; quotations on southern labor and in- i} ave PU Fs whites,—and that seldom happens,— |“ A | concerned. a a 2 : | «.,| Viting employers in every part of the} » By Bayard Velller, with Th., W. 52 Peri ee Sea rauae: ee ehall sichie cae ene ot jalmost never happens where white | ‘IN€ ¢ Dee ase 2. Taxes—The south has lower| ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN | Guild fi: 3 is wit avowed purpose of challenging and exposing these pious | and black labor is employed together | Wold to take advantage of chesp|taxes, but in the Carolinas they are PE, 1 frauds, these apostles of ignorance, that the new magazine “Evolution,” on the ‘same job. human flesh. B & — — ng steadily. Unions Coming. New England mill owners have de- Max Reinhardt’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” makes its appearance The first number array of contributors, 59 to $15 a Week Wages. ) large is the untapped labor re- The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buxzel) | If that be true (and there is no| es is ably edited and has enlisted the aid of an able honest and knowing mind in America| among them being David Starr Jordan, Henshaw : | th: y y c ue hen | Serve still on the farms— Pp Eh ater = _ . ; nd Year + Th tri Fe k West Ward, Maynard Shipley, Horace G. Bridges, Harry A. Overstreet and other | Negro stuhe-beerkene ues iceys (eatin tase aa ter ver [cided advantages in lower capital CENTURY < Bicep popularizers of natural science. The magazine is well-balanced and covers ea eal lable costs, in an early start in the in- Mats, Pri jav labor has been “harnessed” accomplishing only one of two pos- dustry, in smaller fixed investment Mats. Wed. and.Sat., 2:30 ,many angles of the question. IMPERIAL PP eninge o80 : one * |sible things: (1.) Hither helping to | at Newby estimates the south in k r i calle es The cover is calculated to infuriate the rabid apostles of funda-|make for themselves a lower piace |can add 8 to 10 million more spindles | 37% eee Taare Seneca AT 5 ANBerformance | Ree 2 8 on excellent ae of a male gorilla and bears the scien- /than the low place they are being |‘ithout exhausting the supply of pos-| Bulletin, Stuart Cramer of the noted W LS | Guibert @ Sullivan 3 aption, “Man’s Blood Cousin—the Gorilla. jused to make for the whites, or (2.) sible orkers. Low wages, ranging|Cramerton, N. C., mills, and others with MUNI WISENFREND = | Opera Co. in 1 ees Helping to make a lower place for|between $9 and $15 a week, long|will admit under pressure that New John Golden “Wen ssat nao |Thurs. Live. spat ve ns « \ Such a magazine certainly deserves broad support from those who per- both themselves and the white work-| Working days of 10 to 12 Hours, plenty | England textiles are by no means ay a | ras et eas ) ive the growing menace of legislation placed upon the statute books by | TS: No, there is a third alternative: |0f child labor from 12 up, the absence|dead or dying, but instead face a|GARRICK mie Thure a''sev’ 2:39 | ERLANGER’S “ Ut He ed A the{ignoramuses of the bible-belt. For the law of biogenesis they would |S°metimes the Negro “strike.|¢f unions, favor the south. future of diminishing yet large im-| RASIL SYDNEY and MARY ELLis ae id substitute the rib story from the first chapter of the bible. For-the achiev breaker g no place for h the other hand New England | Portance in the industry. par ilh ci iaiea ag ela ay es THE MERR yi TAL ONES ments\gf Copernicus, Kant, Newton, Kepler, Einstein, Michaelson they would | °°! 7 may kick him out, vers have the advantage of not; Southern mills, in Newby’s opinion, TAMING f the “a Me f \ H BabstitwtA the story that the earth was created ne the center of the carers | atte” Using him to down’ the whit obliged to maintain expensive jcan expect 15 to 20 years of steady | 0 | Seite Ae maaacaa eaten i Matic s benefit of man, himself made in the image of Jehovah, and st one ¢ for the k, and in having a more | growth, but their differential in costs eae that everything™"lge in the universe, the sun, ran moon the nebula in Orion, | ~*° -breaker,” and that is The fact that | over the north will gradually dmunish the myriads of st§ys that are uns of other and vastly greater solar vos white “workers rs in the north do not gen-/as the labor supply peccw.2s_ ex-| Grant Mitchell”, °° systems than ours, Were sed in ten words in the bible: “He eect his color, and | ¢ esparate villd&es is|hansted. Unions will come, he says, | LA it | Se ~ q Raerthe sun; the nibon alee? does not ¢ equal member ace. fox the Dixte boss | paternalism will disappear. | ITHE BABY CY CLONE ke. ‘ad ee : a ‘ wee itty 3 lm. Poe ir esants tie: Mota Pi That the attack o f become so effective is partly due | cture also to the apostles 0 -e them ihe profes the university your tickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East eee eae in the 1S U N RI s se } * chairs have consistently refre i from drawing the tremendous reyolu- i4 3 4 > WaARKE + comedy . tionary implications froin the achievements of modern science. Them “cee SG help The DAILY. WORKER aiid tlie theatre: °- syeueanmatl, ISABELLA? ai time-servers of the big bourgeoisi y have travel d the road of s i with JULIUS : pe Sq tific investigation only so fe ‘ul to the dominant system of r z RITZ Th, W. 48th St. F “ & Sat, ~ ~ wealth production. hould the Neggo ersuade hir SAAS 5 SNE SESE CENTURIES’ | \\ : : | “ar ee. In pursuing this course tt ve concealed science behind a veil of : TH TE profundity and have created the impression that eiatica less ves earcee aes eat pi] : Buy 1 sephora onptelism,deslirs ii thing so ie and mysterious that no ordinary mortal could ever hope to nba " | | AMth:St. and help The DAILY WORKER and this theatre penetrate its portal Instead of 1 » plain fact at it is much | why a ni d in i by Em Jo Basshe | ut easier to v ind the biogenitie principle t it i believe, for in-| all labor. pear | Stance, the stories of the i ila neeption and the virg ir ey ee ’ i f : i | : “AY 8 THE E producti ee eee stities of the ie _ a “one an n 1 ee ele ae ee Bib we iidevatenaenas ; | The Fall and Rige of the East,Side Masses The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE preduction of | The new m Svolution,” comes into existence for the pois en sie iterates Se eaaur SCA A Beautiful and Thrilling Play i} of striving to o illusions created by the pro rs themselves |the miners’ union. If that 1 rent \ a8 well as those older upheld by the fundamentalists. Every revo- |it is brainless and calamitous tok at % | lutionist should help spread such a magazine. Negro men to be used as ‘ now playing at th | - —H. M. WICKS. breakers” against the unions. > i : aS Scr aly wail atinaciy yin. | A New Playwrights Theatre | proyiNCETOWN PLAYHOUSE 300KS RECEIVED—REVIEWED LATER. Negro labor between two powerful), 40 Commerce Street | a. “Peace or War?” By J. M. Kenworthy, M. P. grinding millstones that would | | trial air dn teodiueaton 133 MacDouga! 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