The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1927, Page 6

‘\ | | Page Six THLE DAILY WORKER, Y, DECEMBER 3, 1927 Chevrolet Plant Closes In St. Louis; (By Joe Plotkin) Mo., Dee. 2. The y plant has middle of plant jobs. | y 100 work- the exists g th Many | men have been hit be- smployment. Due to} Southern Illinois e left the ) St. Louis for be had and The are more unemployed have ting a job when the Chev plant opens December 15. How the news of | the opening of the is only a} rumor. H U HOLDS PARTY. International Branch 6 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party cooperative unit, gave ewell party in honor of Comrade Ax um who is going | to Russia, Sunday night, Nov. 27th} at the club room of the Cooperative House. About 45 comrades attended | the affair. A collection was made for the DAILY WORKER. i eae Li A NUCLEUS AFFAIR, CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 2. — A jolly time is promised to every one who will come to the affair given by nuc- Jeus No. 30, Sunday, December 4, 1927 at the Workers Club, 2736 W. Division St., Chicago, Ill. The New Plays “BRASS BUTTONS,” a drama by John Hunter Booth, will open Mon- day night at the Bijou Theatre. rank Shannon and Beryl Mercer head the cast which includes Lee Kohlmar, John T. Dwyer and Edith} ‘MM. Shayne. Lew Cantor is the pro- ducer. CAMILA QUIROGA ‘and the Ar- gentine players from the Odean The- |. atre, Buenos Aires, will open their} two weeks engagement of repertoire | at the Manhattan Opera House Mon-| day night, with “La Fuerza Ciega” (The Silent Force) by Martinez Cuitino. “QUT OF THE SEA,” a drama by Don Marquis, at the Eltinge Theatre | Monday evening. Lyn Harding, Rollo Peters, Beatrix Thomson and 0. P, Heggie are the chief players. “HAPPY, a musical comedy, opens at the Earl Carroll Theatre, Monday night. Book by Vincent Lawrence and McElbert Moore. Music by Frank Grey. Lyries by Earle Crooker and Elbert Moore. Fred Stantley, Madeleine Fairbanks, Perey Helton and Shirley Sherman head the cast. “THE BANSHEE,” by W. D. Hepenstali and Ralph Collinan at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre, Monday night. Among the cast of players are: Marion Kerby, Lillian Walker, Barry Maccollum, and Joseph Bren- nan, “TRIGGER,” Lulu Vollmer’s new play opens Tuesday night at the Little Theatre. Claiborne Foster and Minor Watson head the cast. Jobless | Horde Raised by 3,000 | in | Soviet Union Living Newspaper) “ New mi ge it 1 the out Sevier RUSSIA’S “Living ” whose la dwellers n the ing province tem of weights measures, making a tour of the principal cities in Europe. Recently the group spent a week in Berlin. It w small edi- | | tion only, cons’ | four women, grouped under the title of “Blue Blouses.” In a West End theatre at midnight performances peat to no stage being vacant) it received frantic applause. In Ry y appearance of the “paper” imiplies a troupe of twenty | actors and actresses, who must be at | the same time first-class acrobats, dancers and parodists. There thousand of such troupes, in- {corporating one hundred thousand | players. The small selected com- | pany that chose Germany as its! mping-off place for the rest of the { estern world is known as “Blue | Blouses.” There are Red Blouses and | Green Blouses and blouses of all col- | ors, the uniform being the plain} working man’s garment, fitting as | {closely as a mannequin’s working robe. Marvellously contrived cos- | tumes are slipped over it. These can |be utilized both back and front, and | apparently upside down as well. Much | juse is made of the painted, vividly | \colored cardboard picture frame for | heads to be stuck through, as in the jelder Russian cabaret shows. | New Journalism. Thruout Russia, in every factory, there is a hall which can be utilized ae such performances, and there are few working men, women and chil- dren whd do not avail themselves of this unique method of watching the singing and dancing and demonstrat- | ing of news. The programme changes jroremient ly, and is provided by a cen- | tral bureau in Moscow. Each group’ lof twenty performers is attended by scene painter. At headquarters there jare twenty dramatists—scenario- writers might be a better term— | constantly occupied in arranging th | world’s news in a vivid and assin \ able form, suitable for the simplest reader, These ideal journalists are the suc- jcessors of a group of young students of the technical university who, in jdespair at the shortage of paper in the year 1920, started the practice of reading one newspaper out to a group of hearers from a platform or stage. these current events. When some young artists joined the band, the first programme of monologues, | songs, sketches and song-scenes was complete. It was not till 1923 that the or- ganization was taken in hand by the | ~~ The Beethoven Symphony Orches- Georges Zaslawsky conductor give their next concert in Car- egie Hall, Wednesday evening, De- ber 21, with Ignaz Friedman as the soloist. ‘tra, Ernesto Berumen gives his recital ‘Tuesday evening, December 19. Frederic Baer, baritone, will ap- with the Society of the Friends Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer will ive a joint piano recital at Town , Wednesday afternoon. Myra Hess, pianist, and @aAranyi, violinist, will appear in re- eital Sunday evening, December 18, at the Golden Theatre. The National Music League will give a special concert Tuesday after- noon at Town Hall. Lucilla de Vescovt, lyric soprano, will give her second recital at the ‘John Golden Theatre, Sunday evening, December 11, diviging her program between modern Italian, classical and folk songs. The Stringwood Ensemble, at its | January recital.at Town Hall, will in-| by Taneiew | troduce a new quartet and a new work by Stillman. pianiste, ‘own Hall on y 19. Rita Neve, an will make her debut < the afternoon of Jaz “Wild Geese,” the new film at the Roxy The Tho picture is based on the p winning novel of the same name by ™ ha Ostenso, Bel Bennett, star of “Stella Dallas” hea the cast. Among the other players are Anita Stewart, Eve Southern and} Donald Keith. Austin Conradi the piano and violin tomorrow after- noon at the Guild Theatre. Katherine Bowen, pianist makes her debut at Steinway Hall, Wednesday evening. ‘of Music at Town Hall, December 18./ Yelly | and Frank Gittle- | son will give a recital of sonatas for | | With the Orchestras |\' j NEW YORK SYMPHONY. | Emilie de Gororza will appear soloist with the Orchestra in Mecea Auditorium morrow afternoon. Fritz Busch wiil| present the following program: Sym- “Marriage of Figaro,” Mozart; Largo | al Factotum from “I} Barbiere di Sivi- | glia,” Rossini; Symphonic piece from “The Redemption,” Cesar Franck. | will include three movements from Gustav Holst’s Symphonic Suite “The | “Mercury, the Winged Messenger” jand “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity.” in D minor for piano with orchestra. !This same program will be repeated | at the Sunday afternoon concert in} | Mecca Auditorium December 11. The Holst composition was written !was serving with the Salonika Ex- | peditionary Force. The first presenta- ;|tion of the entire work, which is in | seven movements was by the London Symphony Orchestra at Queen’s Hall in 1920. It is based on the astrologi- cal, rather than the astronomical j significance of the heavenly bodies. PHILHARMONIC. William Mengelberg will conduct | the Philharmonic Orchestra at Car- fed gram will consist of compositions | iby Smetana, D’Indy and Mahler. | Next j aftern |be the soloist with the orchest |the Metropolitan Opera Hous: Thursday night and Friday on, Gitla Gradova, pianist, will At next | | Her Sunday afternoon engelberg j will conduct an al pro- am. | CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | The Cleveland Orchestra, with} | Nikolai Sokoloff conducting, will give | a concert at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday svening. The Women’s Unive xlee Club of New York, of whieh | Gerald Reynolds is director, will as-| sist. The soloists will be Marie Mo: tana, soprano and Nikolai Zan, bari- tone. The program follows: Overture} co The Magic Flute, Mozart; Israel, ng of eight men and | - composer, a stage manager, and a} One or two inventive minds added an | improvised cabaret show parodying | |phony No. 8 in F. Beethoven; Ana-|! jereon, A, E. M. Gretry; Overture to; Next Friday evening the program} | Planet”; “Mars, the Bringer of War,” | Ignaz Friedman will be the soloist. | | He will be heard in Brahms Concerto | during the war while the composer | zie Hall, tomorrow afternoon. Tha, j ler. » “The Play- Plays the leading role in Centuries,” at the New | wrights’ Theatre. State Institute of Journalists and be- came the feature of public life it is |today. These vyarious “Blouses,” whose performances are free, are not subventioned by the state. The trades unions which run the working men’s clubs receive two per cent of their wages for the entertainments they provide, and for the evening’s per- /formance they pay sixty-seven roubles. The players’ salaries are five roubles, or roughly. All of them to- day are actors and actresses by pro- fession, though some only discovered their talents when the. local “Blue Blouses” was first formed. Every performance begins with a | parade, a march-past of the perform- ers explaining their programme, and what constructive and instructive purposes they expect from it. The outstanding merit of the per- formance is its break-neck speed, swift changes of costume and scene, jand the certainty that whatever the | Russian peasant and working man thinks of the news he will never be | bored with his newspaper. The closing of “The Desert Song” | '7. The following Monday it will open in Philadelphia, while Schwab and Mandel’s new| operetta, “The New Moon,” takes the stage of the Im- perial Theatre. A. H. Woods is casting the London company of “The Trial of Mary | Dugan,” which will be presented in \the British capital about Feb. 1. Bayard Veiller, the author, will go over to stage it. the National Theatre continues to} lead the dramatic successes of Broad-| on S AEE EE OE ESOS EE HO { SYLVIA LENT. ww York Symphony | to- | | Will give her violin recital at Town Hall next Thursday night. Bloch; La Procesion del Rocio, Turina; La Damoiselle Elue, Debussy; Intro- duction and March from the Golden Cockerel, Rimsky-Korsakoff. The Or- ; chestra is now observing its tenth an- niversary season. pes ION, Music Sisamame | nedlsal at toa Hall, Data night. program includes the oncerto in 3 Concerto Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; son and numbers -Balakireff-Auer, Sarasate, smack and Paganini: - Ravel, Shura Cherkassky, pianist is giv- ing his only local recital of the seasor t Carnegie Hall next Wednesday night. His program includes: Bach- | Liszt’s, Organ Fantasia and Fugue, G. minor; Schumann’s Carnaval; a group by Chopin; Josef Hofman’s Kaleidos- kop; Medtner’s, Fairy Tale, Op. 34, No. 2; Mana-Zucca’s Sketch and Chasins Rush Hour in Hong Kong. | | { SYLVIA FENINGSTON. | | screen under the title of “Love, | now showing at the Embassy Theatre, | Jobn Gilbert it Seca ev anrmnomvanran aaiemrananrenremvaniancanvemsanvemcacam iy | | ON THE Tolstoy's Famous Novel With Greta Garbo and John Gilbert at the Embassy 'OLSTOY’S novel, “Anna Karenina,” which has been adapted to the ” and is a rare phenom- enon: almost nothing has been lost in the adap- tation. The read- er need not take the word of this critic for that opinion, since Count Ilya Tol- as saying: “The | | great message that my father wanted | to convey in his novel has not in any way been lost in its translation to the screen.” Which should be imprima- tur enough. Just how this came about is a ques- tion hard to settle upon. Perhaps it is entirely due to the brilliantly in- telligent work of that versatile di- rector, Edmund Goulding, whose tech- nical artistry is so exceptional one can hardly refrain from commenting upon it. Or perhaps the lead, played with remarkable characterization by Greta Garbo—and by the way, the finest bit of acting this Swedish star has done for the silver screen—may be responsible. Or the able support of John Gilbert, who makes no at- tempt to detract from the importance of. the lead. Personally, though, I believe it is because Tolstoy’s stories were writ- ten in a manner easily adaptable to the cinema that “Love” is ‘a success- ful adaptation. Credit is due also to the producers, who courageously per- mitted a tragic ending, the suicide of Anna Karenina, after her illicit lover, Count Vronsky, who ran away with her following her banishment by her husband, Karenin, betrays her and secures a pardon for his part in the affair from the grand duke. It must be remembered that Emil Jannings, whose poweriul acting is entirely de- The Musical Art Quartet will give has been definitely set for January |a series of three’ subscription concerts at the Guild Theatre, the first taking place tomorrow evening. There will be. only two numbers on the program: the Cesar Franck Quartet dnd the Mozart Quartet in F. The personnel of the Quartet consists of Sascha Jacobsen, first violin, Paul Bernard, second violin, Marie Roemaet-Rosan- off, viclincello, and Louis Kaufman, viola. January 15 and February 26 are the dates of the remaining con- The production at} certs. Mme. Ernestine Sehumann-Heink at her farewell recital, next Saturday |afternoon in Carnegie Hall, will sing | program composed entirely of re- | {vest numbers. The recital will be th since the beginning of her ‘arewell Tour, October 5, Jascha Heifetz will give his first New York recital in two years at Car- |negie Hall, Wednesday evening, Jan. |4. The violinist is now in Mexico 1 | 1c ity. stoy is reported | SURE | Te | A FOLK | | BY DUBOSE pendent upon the tragic ending for | proper effect, had to threaten to| REPUBLIC break his contract before his produ- | cer wou!d commit the heresy of per-| mitting a tragic ending. But why any producer should cheapen a picture so cleverly done by | titling it “Love”’—-when that title could be applied to any screen drama in general, and certainly not this one in particular—is a mystery. Maybe the box-office, defeated on the ques- tion of the tragic ending, had to have | its compromise. At any rate, one can only regret the fact. | THEA., Matinees in GUILD THEATRE 3, The Theatre Guild Presents ———=——=>—>————. | “PORGY PLAY AND DOROTHY HEYWARD West 42nd: St. THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO, BERNARD SHAW’S COMEDY THE Doctor’s Dilemma EB 8:40 Wed. and 2nd ST. uts. Thurs, and. S | At least one contribution has been |made to the screen by the producers lof “Love,” notwithstanding the fact that the picture is, and is bound to be, a great success. That is, it will help to convince the master minds of Hollywood that, after all, the social | drama is a virgin field, awaiting in- | tensive exploitation, and practically | guaranteeing its success. Provided, of course, the business heads of the/ country do not boycott them as they | | did the picturization of “The Jungle. | GILBERT. MIL “A Midsummer Acted under the personal supe: by the companies from the D the Josefstadt-Theatre, Vien corps de ballet, and the spec tumes and lighting effects. Evenings 8:00. Mats. Fri. &Sat: 2 0. Prices The CENTURY Theatre & Presents MAX REINHARDT’S Incomparable production of WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR Night’s Dream” vision-ef Professor Reinhardt utsches Theater, Berlin, With symp hony orches y designed scenéry and ¢ . $5 to $1. Mats. $3 to $1. wat An P. | =—Screen Notes== Richard Pix is the star of “Shang-| hai Bound,” with Mary Brian in an important role in the Paramount pro- duction at the Broadway Theatre commencing Monday. Luther Reed RITZ THEATRE {2h 5: The Most _Exciting Play Play in Town! CHAMBERLAIN BROWN offers FRANCES STARR “conety” IMMORAL ISABELLA? W. of B’way. ee & SAT. at 2:30. with Julius McVicker ” MONTH! Eves. 8:30. directed the screening. Germany’s latest contribution to motion picture art, “Aftermath” will| open at the Cameo today, sponsored by the Film Arts Guild. The cast is headed by Olga Tschechowa, Jenny | Hasselquist, Hans von Schlettew, Fritz Alberti, and Hubert von Meyer- ink. Erich Waschneck, wrote and directed “Aftermath.” | NAL] ST.W.d BWAY... f and Sat. John Gilbert and marking the screen debut of Jeanne Eagels, arrives at the Capitol Theatre today. Its theme is embodied in a story of newspaper life in Washington, written and directed | by Monta Bell. i BOOTH { | “Man, Woman and Sin,” starring | | | 45 St., W. of B'way Eves, 8:40 Matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Winthrop Ames 9 . H seni" ESCAPE John Galeworthy’s ft New Play with Leslie Howard; The Deseit Song with Robt. Hailiday & Eddie Buxsell end Year : ‘Thee.,W.43 St.E 1.8.30 Henry Miller’s sratinees Thure.¢ Sat IMPERIAL 7224, 45 St.w.ot Bway Grant Mitchel] "Seo, Cohan's | Bvenings 3:30 American Farce | aiats Wea. and'sets?30” |THE) BABY CYCLONE) with MUNE WISmNFREND 58 STRIKE! , 65 W. 8 Thurs. BASIL SYDN®Y and MARY ELLIS with Garrick Players in the Modern TASIING of the SHREW Music and Concerts N. Y. Symphony Under the Direction of FRITZ BUSCH MECCA AUDITORIUM TOMORROW (Sun.) Aft, at 3 Mecca eee office open 11 a.m. tomorrow LOIST: EPIaO de GOGORZA BEETHOVEN, GRETRY, MOZART ROSSINI, CESAR FRANCK Carnegie Hall, Fri. Evg., Dec. 9, 8:30 Mecca Auditorium, Sun. Aft.,Dec, 11, at 3 SOLOIST: LGNAS FRIEDMAN HOLST, Three Movements from “The Planets”; BRAHMS, Concerto’ in D minor. Tickets now at Carnegie Hall Box Of- flee. Mecea tickets at Symphony Of- fice, Steinwny Hall, 118 W. 57th St. George Engles, Mgr. (Steinway Piano) Carnegie Hall, Tues. Evg., Dec, 6, at 8:30 Cleveland | Nikolai Orchestra | Sokoloff CONDUCTOR Program includes Bloch’s Israel Symphony. Seats, box office. Dir'n Geo. Engles, Steinway Piano. December 16 Saturday Aft. at 2:30 CHUMANN- HEIN CARNEGIE HALL Farewell New York Recital Seats Fl, $1.50, $2, $2.50; Boxes $20, $24 (plus tax) at Box Office. Dir. George Engles. Steinway Piano, TOWN HALI ny VE» Dee. Piano Recital HiAnoLD MORRIS re respects than one Harold is exceptional pianist.” . T. Parker, Boston Transcript. Concert Mgt. Dan'l Mayer, Inc. Steinway Piano, GET A NEW READER! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! PHILHARMONIC MENGELBERG, conductor Carnegie Hall, Sun. Aft., Dec. 4, at 3:00 SMETANA—D’INDY—MAHLER Carnegie Hall, Dec. 8, 8:30; Dec. 9, 2:30 Soloist: GITTA GRADOVA, Pianist SMETANA—MOZART—GRIE FRANCK METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Sunday Afternoon, Dee. 11, at 800 ALL-BEEBTHOVEN PROGRAM Arthur Judson, Mer. ee tca Window Cleaners’ phoning the Union, GUILD THEATRE Sunday Night, 9:00 ist of SERIES of THREE RECITALS Musical Art Quartet Sascha Jacobsen, Paul Bernard, Marte | Roemaet-Rosanoff, Louis Kaufman Program: CESAR FRANCK—MOZART TOWN HALL, Tues, Evg., Dec. 13, 8:30 ve KIMBALL SOPRANO Assisted by Musical Art Quartet (Steinwa, 14th St. and ais The DAILY 183 MacDougal Street. Carnegie Hall, Wed. Eve., Dee. 7, at 8:45. PIANO RECITAL by SHURA | CHERKASSKY © | i Loudon Chariton, Mgr. (Steinway Plano) | | TOWN HA UL, Thurs, Eve., Dee. 8, at 8:80 | J Syvia LENT VIOLIN RECITAL Loudon Chariton, Mgr. (Steinway Piano) Wm. Fox presents the Motion Picture SUNRISE Bel ds ona W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment ‘Thea, 42a St. W. of B'way Times Sq. pwite baliy, 2:30-8:30 “See it und Creep.” - DRACU. FULTON B'way, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 “Eva Mali, soprano, will appear in costume recital next Friday evening at Steinway Hall. Hutcheson will give his pianoforte recital at Carnegie Hall, Wednesday evening, December 4. STRIKE!! GANGSTERS--THUGS—SCABS “THE CENTURIES” By Em Jo Basshe New Playwrights Theatre 40 Commerce St. BENEFIT PERFORMANCE for Who are on strike now for 8 weeks Friday, December 2 | TICKETS may be had at rhe thoes box office of the theatre or by Buy your tickets at ‘The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East; /| The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE production of THE BELT now playing at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE | Performance every evening (except Monday) including Sunday at 8:40, Matinee Saturda f The first modern Labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories. ast A CAMEOS: vee Mi Face iio ireacue 7 es STRIKE!!! Protective Union ORCHARD 2277. WORKER and this theatre, -_ H Telephone Spring 8363. y at 2140. nin’s W. 45 St. Royale, Mts, Wed.fat. Mi eeetoere ances pee pt Moa. & Thurs. Winthrop Ames “Mikado” Gilbert & i ammaed So, in ‘Man Eves, Only—“OLAN THE” Thurs. Hye. “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” ERLANGER’S Thea. W.44 St.liva.8.30 Mats, Thurs. & Sat, THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN The, chief pié¢ture to be shown at the 55th Street Cinema, will be “Uft\, \ Backstairs.”