The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 4

toad RUSSIAN MOVIES ARE POPULAR URING the recent visit to Berlin of | the Soviet Commissioner for Fine Arts, M. Lunacharsky, a Russo Ger- man film company was founded which will incorporate the productions of that fine Russian company, the Sow- Kino, which functions throughout the OSS. Rk. L y himself will Rdapt some of h s for the Berlin produc s. Mor nd more Russian fins are being shown in Germany. / “Bed and Sofa,” a Parisian three-cor- nered theme, translated into the at- mosphere of the Soviet peasantry, and “The Waiter at the Palace Hotel,” with magnificent scenes of pre-war restaurant life above and below stairs, are two of the best and most subtle of these. The growing import of Russian films to Germany has led to an inter- esting development. The value of Rus- sian pictures has been seen by the millionaire newspaper owner, Herr Hugenberg, who is principal owner of the big Ufa movie establishments. The German press has been going Jout of its to praise the newest of the Sowkino film, “Ivan the Terrible.” Feodor Chaliapin made freqent visits to the cinema to see his confrere Leo- nidoff of the Moscow Art Players who is playing the role of the mad Czar. Madame Lunacharsky, wife of the Soviet Commissioner for Education, who was a well-known actress before her marriage, 2 Berlin at the pres- ent moment taking the principal par in three forthcoming German films. One of these, “Carpenter and Chan- cellor,” has been adapted from her husband’s play of the same name. The others are.“Vera Mirzewa” and “The) Chalk Circle,” the German version of a Chinese legend, which was one of Reinhardt’s great successes at the Deutsches Theater. The director of | all three is Rudolf Meinert, who has | overcome the difficulties of giving | European actors and actresses a/ Chinese physiognomy by changing the | setting to Samarkland. This, he de- | ¢lares, is still sufficiently unknown to | Westerners to make an admirably Oriental film setting. MANY “Mrs, Dane’s Defense” Revived by All - Star Cast at Cosmopolitan ENRY ARTHUR JONES’ “Mrs. Dane’s Defense,” now playing at the Cosmopolitan Theatre as the first revival of a series to be presented by Chamberlin Brown is important to the extent of showing us the so-called moral code of the British aristocracy. This it does fairly well, pointing out how the ethics of capitalism is used to “preserve” the adopted son of Sir Daniel Carteret from marrying the woman he loves—Mrs. Dane. The plot in a nutshell concerns Mrs. Dane, who, because she had given birth to an illegitimate child five years previous, is prevented from | marrying the man she desires, The acting is much superior to the play, first presented in Nea York 27 years ago with a cast headed by Mar- garet Anglin, the first step in her long and successful career. In the present production the lead- ing role is portrayed by Violet Hem- ing, who does her utmost with the dusty story. The supporting cast is on an equal high plane including Robert Warwick, Alison Skipworth and Conway Wingfield, While the play was considered risque in 1901, it will not even cause a ripple on Broadway today. It is scheduled to play for two weeks and be followed by other successes of a quarter of a century ago. The present production is staged vy Clifford Brooke. The Junior Festival Players will give another performance of their special holiday bill at the Neighbor- hood Playhouse, Saturday afternoon, February 11. The Shubert’s have acquired the rights to two European plays; “The Kingdom of God” by Sierra, adapted by Granville Barker, and “The Love Duel,” by Lili Halvany. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928 JANE BARRY Plays an important role in “Hoboken Blues,” by Michael Gold, which the New Playwrights will present next Friday night at their Commerce Street playhouse. ===Music Note=== Gina Pinnera, soprano, will include the following at her Carnegie Hall concert on Saturday evening Feb, 18: Aria, O, toi, qui prolongeas mes jours, from “Iphigenie en Tauride,” Gluck; Who Is Sylvia, Schubert; Mit einer Wasserlilie and Mit einer Primulav- eris, Grieg; Standchen and Meine Liebe “ist grun, Brahms; Lullaby. Florence Schuette; Aria, Pace, pace, mio Dio, from “La Forza del Destino,” Verdi; Aria, Cast Diva, from “Nor- ma,” Bellini; Nebbie, Respighi; At Night (Russian), Rachmaninoff, Edna Thomas will give her third and final recital of Negro spiritual and Creole songs at the Booth Thea- tre this Sunday evening. Anna Robenne, with Anatole Vilt- zak, will give the second of their dance recitals at the 48th Street Thea- tre this Sunday evening. Part of the program will be devoted to the Swan Lake of Tschaikowsky, the two prin- cipals being assisted by a group of Chester Hale girls, Beginning this Saturday, “The Bat- | ties of Coronel and Falksland Islands” begins an engagement at the Cameo Theatre. The Daily Worker and the Membership Drive By I. AMTER, | fs the situation favorable for the) DAILY WORKER and for re- eruiting members for the Communist Party? One need mention only the follow- ing factors to recognize that the situ- ation for the Party, although diffi- cult, objectively is very favorable. Only a few days ago, Basil Manly accused the Communists of taking | advantage of the mining situation to stir up trouble. It is true that if the efficialdom of the Miners’ Union car- | ried on the affairs of the union in the | proper manner—but putting up a fight to save the union—the Communists | would have little ground for work. | Their propaganda in the strike itself would not meet with the response that it meets with. But the failure and treachery of the officials, begin- ning with Lewis and ending with the| local officialdom, have been so open} and brutal that the miners are dis- satisfied. What the Communists have told them has proven correct—so much the worse for Basil Manly and the other so-called reformers and pro- gressives. The Communists declared | years ago that Lewis was mislead-| ing the miners and was selling them out—but the miners did not believe. Now they not only believe it, but see it with their own eyes. Shall the Communists not come be- fore the workers and not only tell them the truth but also lead them out of the morass into which Lewis and his gang have plunged them? Or} should they, to please the reformers end liberals, leave the miners with- out leadership, to be led back into another slaughter? Just as several years ago, the Com- | | and have led them in demonstrations for their relief. In the fight against injunctions, against speed-up and wage reductions it is the Communists who take the lead. Basil Manly deplores this fact; well, we would recommend that Basil Manly aim his guns against the em- workers decent wages and grant them decent conditions, and not oppose their joining unions and fighting for conditions yhen they are not granted. Then Basil Manly, the socialists and cther reformers will have achieved paradise. But the employers cannot and will rot grant these conditions to the workers ‘or we are in an era of im- perialisn which implies extreme ex- ploitation of the workers. Therefore the workers must fight—and the Communists will lead them, for that is the function of the Communist Party. DATLY WORKER the Weapon. What has helped the Communist Party in this fight? Unquestionably the DAILY WORK- ER has been a most effective weapon - not only because the DAILY WORKER today more nearly meets the needs of the American working class than ever before, but also be- cause the workers are hungry for an crgan which reflects their wishes, even thought in some cases it may be a hazy, unconscious wish. The DAILY WORKER and the lan- guage organs of the Party are doing | militant work among the miners. The miners wait eagerly for the bundles 2s they arrive each morning. Not long ago they would not look at it— or glance at the cartoons and pic- tures and then throw it aside. Today munists pointed out the sore spots and offered the only remedy for the situation in the Miners’ Union, so too today they have the only program for the miners—strugele for reten- tion of the Jacksonville arreement, ousting of Lewis and his henchmen, violation of the injunctions and gen- eral militant action to save and build up the union. Is this the correct program? It is—and the miners are recogniz- ‘ing it. Today the Communists can speak to the miners openly and freely. To- dey their speeches meet with the support of the miners—for the ‘miners recognize their correctness. Tet Basil Manly bemoan the fact— the Communist Party is a party of ‘struggle, and when the workers de- cide to struggle they will willingly accept the leadership of the Commu- nists. Mass Unemployment. What is the situation in the cities? At is true that masse »f workers are pot in a struggle that may be com- red with that of the miners at the sent time. But they too face a jon such as the miners face: ‘the Communist Party meeting response in this field? this there is no question, for ly the Communists have a program qand are willing to face the facts of “the fight. In Cleveland, New York and elsewhere the Communists have come to the fore and have formu- Igted the demands of the unemployed they read it from front to back and then pass it to the next fellow who was not Incky in getting a fresh copy. The DAILY WORKER has become the expression of the miners who are in a death struggle to save their union, ond they regard it as their only ex- pression—as against the “official” nonsense which fills the columns of the Mine Workers Journal, This applies in equal measure to the unemployed, who know that the capitalist press makes a noise about “QUICKSAND,” by Warren F. plays the principal role. The Helen Flint, Camilla Dalberg, | and Catherine Haydon. Minnie Dupree and Robert Mi town Playhouse Wednesday ni Dalby. man, Sheba Strunsky and the unemployed, not of sympathy, but to sound the alarm about the ac- tivities of the “unscrupulous” unem- ployed. The workers in the shops, who face speed-upp and wage slashes, who have to accept ten, eleven or twelve hours’ work instead of the eight they | ployers, and advise them to pay their} may have had a short time ago—who accept this condition because they must—they too are beginning to look to the DAILY WORKER as the ex- ponent of their problems and no long- er fear the word “Communist.” The situation is ripe for the drive for members and for readers of the DAILY WORKER. The objective conditions, the subjective factors, the wantonness o the government in fur- nishing injunctions, using troops, etc., have opened the eyes of the workers, We must take advantage of this sit- uation, not for the allegedly “selfish” purpose of building up the Party, but in order that the working class may have the leadership that will lead it in the present difficult situation—a situation that will become more diffi- cult and be coupled with greater struggle as American impernalism becomes more ruthless. Only a strong Communist Party and a powerful Communist press can help the workers in the present situ- ation. We must build them up—the war danger, the attacks on the work- ers, the assaults on the union demand united action and a strengthening of our Party and of the Party press. BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY. The Beethoven Symphony Orches- tra, with Georges Zaslawsky, conduc- tor, at Carnegie Hall next Friday evening, will present the following program with Jacques Thibaud, violin- ist, soloist: Overture to “Oberon,” Weber; “Scheherazade” Suite Sym. Prelude “By the Waters of Babylon,” J. 8. Bach; Suite, A bord de V’etoile matutine, E. Berckman; (first per- formance) Symphonie Espagnole, Lalo. Frances Sebel, soprano, will give her song recital at Town Hall Thurs- day evening, March 1. The New Plays Lawrence, opens at the Theatre Masque Monday night. Robert Ames will have the principal role. “THESE MODERN WOMEN,” a comedy by Lawrence Langner, opens at the Eltinge Theatre Monday night. Chrystal Herne cast also includes Minor Watson, Norman Williams, Alan Mowbray, “THE CLUTCHING CLAW,” a mystery play by Ralph Kettering, will open at the Forrest Theatre Tuesday night. Ralph Morgan, iddlemass are in the cast. “HOT PAN,” a comedy by Michael Swift, opens at the Province- ight. The cast includes Ruth Chor- penny, Rufus Hill, William Challee, Farrell Peley and Henry “HOBOKEN BLUES,” by Michael Gold, will open at the New Play- wriehts Theatre next Friday evening. The scene {s laid in the Harlem of the nineties and of today. The cast includes: George Bratt, Lawrence Bolton, Jane Barry, Hazel Mason, Herbert Berg- Mona Lewis, phonique, Rimsky-Korsakoff; Chorale | “Carmen” will be presented by the American Opera Company for the |first time on Tuesday evening at the Gallo Theatre. The Bizet opera will be sung in English as are all the operas in the American Opera reper- toire. Natalie Hall will sing Carmen; Charles Hedley, Don Jose; George Fleming Houston, Escamillo; Adele Vasa, Micaela. The other principals are: Louise Richardson, Louise Bern- hardt, Howard Laramy, Mark Daniels, Edison Rice and John Uppman. “Carmen” will be repeated on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and for the Satur- day matinee. There will be changes of cast throughout the week, with Brownie Peebles singing Carmen on Thursday evening and on Saturday afternoon, Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” will be the Monday night opera and the Wednesday matinee. The produc- tions have been staged under the di- rection of Vladimir Rosing. Frank St. Leger will conduct, The cast of “Madame Butterfly,” is headed by Cecile Sherman, Clifford Newdall, Helen Oelheim, Allan Burt, Janet Mabon and Charles Stone. | With the Orchestras PHILHA aK The Philharmonic Orchestra, under Arturo Toscanini, appears this Sun- day afternoon at Carnegie Hall in a program including Sinigaglia’s over- ture to “Le Baruffe Chiozotte,” ‘Queen Mab” from Berlioz’ “Romeo and Juliet,” Elgar’s “Enigma” Vari- ations, and the Brahms Symphony No. 2in D. Tuesday evening at the Metropol- an Opera House there will be a spe- al performance for the benefit of the Neighborhood Musie School. The program includes the Sinigaglia over- ture and the Beethoven Fourth Sym- phony, Wagner’s Prelude to “Lohen- grin,” Good Friday Spell from “Parsi- fal,” Love Death from “Tristan and Isolde,” and the Preludo to “Die Mei- stersinger.” Thursday evening and Friday after- noon at Carnegie Hall Toscanini has scheduled the overture to Mendels- sohn’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Borodin’s Symphony in B-minor, Rav- €l’s “Daphnis and Chloe,” Suite No. 2. and De Sabata’s Symphonic Poem, “Javentus.” i The third Children’s Concert under Ernest Schelling takes place next Saturday morning at Carnegie Hall. { ‘AMERICAN OPERA SINGERS’ _ TO PRESENT “CARMEN” CHRYSTAL HERNE Heads the cast in Lawrence Lang- ner’s new comedy “These Modern Women,” which opens Monday night at the Eltinge Theatre. NEW YORK SYMPHONY. The world premiere of Gustav Holst’s “Egdon Heath” composed es- pecially for the N. Y. Symphony, will be given under the direction of Walter Damrosch in Mecea Auditorium this Sunday afternoon. Preceding the per- formance Paul Lyssac will read por- tions of the first chapter of Hardy’s “The Return of the Native,’ from which Holst derived the inspiration for this work. Vladimir Horowitz will be the so- loist. The complete program: Fes- tival Overture, Leopold Damrosch; Egdon Heath, Gustav Holst; Concerto No. 8 in D minor, Rachmaninoff; Symphony No, 5 in C minor, Beeth- oven, Next Thursday afternoon, at the Carnegie Hall concert, Harold Bauer will appear as soloist. He will be heard in Beethoven’s Concert No. 4 in G. Mr. Damrosch will also con- duct Brahm’s Symphony No. 2 in D. Liszt’s. St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, orchestrated by Felix Mottl. This program will be repeated in Mecca Auditorium next Sunday after- noon, February 19. The Roxy Theatre this week will show Reginald Denny’s newest pro- duction, “That’s My Daddy.” Serie By Felix Salmond, Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3. By Sir Henry J. Wood and New 7350-D. By Albert Sammons. 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