The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1928, Page 6

¥ 4 7 _ .eouege students, hoboes or any com- Page Pear my THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928 HOSPITAL HELP “| TOLS 12 HOURS. “FOR $30 A MONTH Liable to ‘Biharwe at | Whim of Endowers | (Continued from Page One) and are called 1 required by a register by the h agencie: ital wi hospital Special nuvs Meals. These meal: 30 cents z re usually worth e-pot restaurant. Special nurses are out of work f one-quarter to one-half of the y Nurse: rking for the hospital re- eeive £49 to $90 per month as a rule and ai: ‘provided with living quarters. The buiidings housing the latter are mostly tumble-down houses, used as private residences in their day, and the plumbing is always out of order. Froze in Sleep. In one downtown hospital the boiler used to blow out in the nurses’ home nearly every winter. To become a trained nurse, two years’ hospitai training is required, at the sumptuous galary of $25 a month, graciously called an “allowance.” In some Hos- pitals much less is allowed. Hospitais are always understocked with nurses, worked to the limit. Unenviabie as the nurses’ lot is, that of the untrained workers is far worse. The orderlies, messing around Sick-room conditions unnecessary to describe, never get more than $60 a month living out and $50 a month fixing in. Blood, messy dressings, filthy sores, pus and groans, all are ‘part of the day’s work for them. The ward-maid is his female equivalent, with a “salary of $30 a month. Por- ters are kept mopping and dusting always, usually the corridors for Visitors to see. The housekeeper, his female tyrant, is usually a sour virago whom life seems to have pro- ‘vided with a permanent grudge. The ‘porter get from $30 a month in some ‘institutions to $50 in others. Behind Kitchen Door. Kitchen workers in any hospital are the queerest collection ever beached on any s Scandinavians, Greeks, ‘Hindus, Chinam Englishmen and 7 varieties of Slavs and Latins are found. They havegbeen ocean-tramp ‘cooks, ordinary seamen, lumberjacks, ination of these. Drug addicts syphilitics, chrenic alcoholics and oc- ‘vasionally a nice young man who has ‘wun away from home are there. The ‘cooks cannot usually cook a nickel’s tworth, but what can be expected for “$50 a month? ; Raisins and Reaches. Living quariers for all the help are faot fit for beasts. Everything is ‘made of decaying wood except the plumbing, which might as well be. Warm water usually doesn’t run, a Aecent bath is hard to get, and the “afte are out of order more than halr «2 time. The workers’ food is a erying scandal in every hospital in the city whose workers the writer has met. Sleek roaches vie with raisins in the perennial tapioca or rice pud- ding served as a dessert. A while ago the internes at Bellevue went on Strike as a protest against the rotten meals served there. Hospital workers have always ex- pressed a desive to be organized. They are tired of being fired without tiotice or redress, of being cheated by dishonest employment agencies, thru which they get their jobs and which have uAdseatandinigs with dishonest housekeepers. They are sick of the fenditions outlined above. They offer @ fertile field for organized labor to enter. But they must be dealt with honestly. Readers Must Continue Aid r By A. RAVITCH. i (Cirenlation janager of The DAILY WORKER.) » After four years of struggle for ex- ce, we are beginning the fifth sar of the DAILY WORKER with le expectancy of seeing it become the ler of thousands of revolutionary ‘kers in America. On the day of brating our anniversary we ought consider what should be done to ke the DAILY WORKER more in- ntial among the broad masses of workers. With your co-operation, | vades, readers and sympathizers, have made it possible for the | AILY WORKER to celebrate its ‘ourth Anniversary, in spite of at- tempts of the capitalist authorities to ‘make its publication impossible by sending its editors and managers to | rison, and in spite of the Union bu- uicrats doing their utmost thru, their agents to prevent it from cir- culating in the shops and factories. Well co the bureaucrats know tt when the workers read The} ATLY WORKER they become class- | scious and will not allow them- ‘Relves to be led astray by dishonest | labor leaders, who work hand in hand } ith the bosses. And despite them DAILY WORKER is being read y more and more of the workers. It is the duty of all militant work- }to see that the DAILY WORKER ‘al the workers. */[he slo- i jon the situation in the Russian Thea- |tres. The following is taken from the | qualified ic in Europe and more espe ly in America. The Russian theatres give gener- {gan should b j;two new réaders. ‘explain to them why they should read! the factories. enlarge our paper, the only English speaking worl#/rs’ daily in the world. In the Russian ‘Theatres EORGE CAN'TY, motion picture comr ner for the Department of Commerce, who has been traveling throug! , has forward- ed to leng hy report. According to Mr. Canty the exter- nees of Ri y varied. to we do not : seem | part of | , the accompanying to the film. The program it- usually consists of a feature film and a new 1, and the public seems to be quite content with this sort of performance, which could be ally two performances a day, from six to eight, and a night performance. The first performance is apparently reserved for members of the labor unions, and the second is for the gen- | eral public. The minimum admission price is from 25 to 80 kopeks for the vening performarfée in the better vlass movie houses. { The make-up of posters. seems somehow neglected in Soviet Rus- sia, unlike the highly artistic man- ner in which they make their pic- tures. Lunacharsky, the Soviet commis- sioner for public instruction and} films. is not only a sensitive art and "heatre critic but also a renowned au- In one of describes what could be called the soul and es- sence of Soviet films. He says that the realistic and truth-bearing char- | acter of the film alone would not} have called the attention of the whole ‘orld to their motion pictures. It is because they choose their truths themselves and also because the Soviets do not picture the “ istic side of life” without motive. best films are propaganda films in the highest artistic sense of the word, he claims. They are savored with the strongest humanism, with a proud love for all the oppressed; they are filled with deep hatred, protests and indignation against oppressors. They dre the bearers of a victorious irony of the Old World. “We understand very well that we can not clothe our propaganda in naked formulas and programs” he continues. “Our pro- paganda must remain artistic. It is transformed into a specific ideology which thus forms the characteristics of our films. Our films are serious films. “It is no secret that the European and the American films are first of all commercial objects. The enter- tainment idea comes only in second | placer. A European or American film company would find it most ridiculous to make films for the sole purpose of conveying a ceftain doc- trine. We make such films. Our films may be better or worse from the artistic or ideologic standpoint, but they are impossible without ide- ology. They are all expressing more cr less our conception of art, but the special flavor of our films, which en- thuses the sensilive European, orig- inates from our revolution.” Y. W. L. Camaraderie Tonight If you want to fight the revolu- tion with a smile on your face, then atttnd the camaraderie and dance given by the Young Workers League, District 2, tonight at fr heit Gesangs Ferein Hall, 133 Sec- and Ave, | Let every reader get another reader; let every comrade get This can anly be made possible by organizing Daily Worker clubs, and Committees, and Joint Subscription Campaigns in every | city. Talk to~your fellow workers in the shops, to your friends at meet-| ings, and to your neighbor at home;} the DAILY WORKER by comparing it to the capitalist papers. Buy two copies every day at your stand, and give a fellow worker one. If a news stand doesn’t carry the DAILY WORKER, order it from him together with several other copies. Let us spread the DAILY WORK- |" ER to the workers in the mines and Thru your hard work and cooperation we will improve and | With the Orchestras } }at Carnegie Hall. {mir Horowitz, Russian pianist, Sun- | afternoon at Carnegie Hall he offers piano; | piano; |CARNEGIE HALL, Fri. Eve. Jan. 20 | Tickers now at Carnegie Hall Box Of- GEORGE ARLISS The noted artist will make his first appearance in Shakespeare playing Shylock in Winthrop Ames’ produc- tion of “The Merchant of Venice”, which opens Monday at the Broad- hurst Theatre. PHILHARMONIC Three conductors will direct the Philharmonic Orchestra this week. This Sunday afternoon Sir Thomas Beecham makes his final anpearance On Tuesday eve- ning Bernardino Molinari will be heard for the first time in New York, followed by concerts on Thursday Friday afternoon, and Sun- day afternoon, at Carnegie Hall. And on Saturday morning the annual series of Children’s Concerts will open, conducted by Ernest Schelling. Arturo Toscanini, who will take up the baton on January 26 for the re- mainder of the Philharmonic season, is due here Wednesday. The soloists of the week are Vladi- day, and Jacques Thibaud, the French violinist on Thursday and Friday. Sir Thomas’ program this Sunday afternoon comprises the Mozart Sym- phony in G,.No. 36, Delius’ “Paris” and “On Hearing the first cuckoo in spring,” a Paisielle Overture, Gretry Air de Ballet from “Zemir et Azer” and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat minor. Mr. Molinari’s opening program on Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan Opera House has the following num- bers: Suite for string orchestra from opus 5, Corelli; Symphony No. 5, Beethoven; Prelude to Khovantchina, Meussorgsky; L’Isle Joyeuse, Debus- sy, Stite from “La Giara.” Casella; and the “Tannhauser” Overture. On Thursday evening and Friday the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Gem- iniani’s Andante for strings, harp, and ergan, transcribed by Marinuzzi, Martucci’s Novelette, Lebussy’s Fetes, and Russini’s Semiramide Overture. ; iller’s Thea. W-43St.B 1.8.30 Henry Miller’s “{stinscethurs.€Sat, Grant Mitchell *, Geet, cghan's THE BABY CYCLONE ERL ANGER’ Ss Thea. W.44 St.Evs.8. 30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M, COHAN Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'way National Tysisisv, wis Wed. esate a0 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller fade 2 Rex Cherryman | ED. Le SAE. x | WAL L S wih Muni Wisenfrend | | 26—Phila., March 5 w@~M U S.1 Coe OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH American Opera to Pre- sent “Marriage of Figaro” Tuesday Movart’s “Marriage of Figaro” will be added to the second week’s repertoire of the American Opera Company, now playing’ at the Gallo Theatre. It will be given on Tuesday evening, and repeated on Wednesday afternoon and on Friday evening. Monday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday matinee will be repetitions of “Faust.” “Madame Butterfly” will be given on Thursday and Satur- day evenings. “The Marriage of Figaro” was one of the operas brought to the Guild Theatre Jast spring by the Rochester- American Opera Company. The pro- duction of the American Opera group will be essentially the same. The Mo- zart opera is played as artificial! com- edy, formalized in every detail of the) action. Like “Faust” and “Madame Butterfly” it is opera designed to please the eye as well as the ear. The ettempt has been made throughout to interpret the music in terms of move- ment. The opera has been staged under the direction of Vladimir Ros- ing and Eugene Goossens, who wi make his first guest appearance, will sonduct. The English version is based on the one used by the British Na- tional Opera Company. The singers for “Figaro” include: Cecile Sherman. Thelma Votipka, Louise Richardson, Adele Vasa, J. Frederick Robert, George Fleming Houston, Brownie Peebles, Mark Daniels, John Moncrieff and Howard Laramy. NEW YORK SYMPHONY Ossip Gabrilowitsch, second of the five guest conductors scheduled to di- rect the New York Symphony Or- chestra this season, will make his two appearances this week. The first will be at Carnegie Hall Friday eve- ning and the second at Mecca Audi- torium Sunday afternoon, January 22. This Sunday afternoon in Mecca Auditorium the concert will be direct- ed by Rene Pollain, with Walter Gieseking as assisting extist. The program follows: L’apres-midi d’un Faune, Debussy; Concerto in A minor, Schumann; Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Rach- maninoff. The programs which Gabrilowitsch has selected for his two concerts in. clude: Symphony in C major, Haydn; Third Symphony in. C_ minor, Seriabin; Nocturnes, Debussy; Over- ture, “Academie Festival,” Brahms. Gabrilowitsch will make a third ap- pearance this week in the capacity of assisting artist at the Concert for Young People which Walter Dam- Cy 2225 | REO vin NO Bx “ROLAND { | i i SWE fa reissue of her most wes A ii Pus ce BWAY 45 MQNDAY hemasicansenersicca u punitiscridcenene KEITH ALBEE VAUDEVILLE including E LARRY RICH @ i4 FRIENDS, RICH & CHERIE BOBBY ROWLAND LAMONT 7 A MELODRAMA with. a CONRAD NAGEL | ecu % as MYRNA LOY WILLIAM RUSSELL ® . ALSO - OFFICIAL MOTION. PICTURE: | | SHARKEY wv HEENEY we Music and N.Y. Symphony MECCA AUDITORIUM, Sen, Aft. at 3 | * Office open 11 A. M. tomorrow *rexe” POLLAIN a GIESEKING L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune: Concerto in A minor for, RACHMANINOFR, Symphony | No, 2. MECCA AUDITORIUM, Sun.Aft., Jan. 22 Ossip Gabrilowitsch Gnare | Conductor ij HAYDN, Symphony in C; SCRIABIN, | The Divine Poem; aa bey DEBUSSY, Nuages | | BRAHMS, Academic Festi- val Overture. 4 : : fice, Mecen tickets at Symphony Of- tice, Steinway Hall, 112 W. 57th St. GEORGE ENGLES, Mgr. (Stetnway Piano) American Opera Company ist N. ¥. SHASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH GALLO THEATRE (Eves, at 8:20) 4th St, W.of B’way (Mats, at 2120) ¢. Butterfly” Wed. & Fri. Eys., Sat ‘aust” Thurs. « Sat, Eves. Mme. Jacques de Broglie will give night. ’ Conesite PHILHARMONIC Carnegie Hall, This Sun, Aft., at 3:00 SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Guest Conductor (First Appearance in America) - Soloist: VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, Planist AQPERa House BER NARDINO| “Mor INARI > Guest Cenduetor (First Appearance in New York) Corelli-—Beethoven-—Debussy Moussorgsky——Casella—Wagner Carnegie Mail, Thur. Ey. Jan, 19, 8:30 Pri, Aft. Jan, 20, at 2:30 Soloist JAC pede fTHIBAUD, Violinist injani—Martucei base —Hossini cy (Steinway) TOWN HALL, Tues, Eve., Jan. 17, 8:30 FLONZALEY QUARTET LOUDON, CHARLTON, Mars. TOWN HALL Thurs. Aft. Jan, 19 Plano Recital kita NEVE | her recital at Carnegie Hall Tuesday Concert Mgt. Dan’l Mayer, Inc. Btainway Ripon. Will take up the baton as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra making his initial bow next Friday evening at Carnegie Hall. rosch will direct in Carnegie Hall Saturday afternoon, Jan. 21. He will play Tschaikowsky’s Concerto in B wat for piano with. orchestra. Eugene Plotnikoff, at one time con- ductor of the old Imperial Theatre in Moscow, is announced as the guest conductor of the concert to be given at the Capitol at 11:30 Sunday morn- ing. The soloist will be George Du- franne, the French tenor. Caroline Powers, violinist, appears in recital at Steinway Hall, Wednes- day evening. Mildred Dilling, harpest, will give her recital at Steinway Hall, Tuesday evening, January 24. 4 a) ER AMUSENENTS, GEN === Ine == Tre Theawe wuld Presents === ‘Gud Presents ———— PORGY < A FOLK PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD r THEA. West 42nd St, vs. $240 REPUBLIC Matinees Wed. 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