The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928 THE YOUNG COMRADE. CORNER-NEWS,LETTERS FIGHT CAPITALISTS BY era THE MINERS’ CHILDREN! At last the children of the workers | have awakened to the necessity helping the miners and especially their c¥ildren. During the 1 we have received a number of letter» | and contributions for the miners’ chil | dren. But that is not enuf! Ten| more children did their bit in fighting | the capitalists by helping the miners | | | of t week Ten more worker children kept | some striking miners’ children from STARVING! Ten more children} ed to put a smile of gratitude on| Luka’s tearful face! Ten more | children helped the hunry striking miner to tighten his belt and say, “As long as the k have s 2 | GIVE UP!” eat, ’LL NEV That’ what ten children did by their contri- | butions! But alas! W about the| other thousands of children who read the Young Comrade Corner? Are} they going to allow their brother: sisters to starve? Or will th do their duty d FIGHT THE ¢ | TALISTS BY HELPING THE MIN- | ERS? Send anyth you can afford, | old. clothes, shoes, and best n| money, by money ord well wrapped with pap velope. DON’T WAIT U IT 18 TOO LATE! SEND IT NO Ad dress: Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., New York City. Below Are Some Letters We Received Dear Comrades: I am sending one dollar to help the coal miners’ chil- dren. I wish that the money I send will make the miners’ children happy and help fight the capitalists. —CLARA SAGATIS. s ° * Dear Comrades: Enclosed find twe dollars for miners’ children. —EDMUND HIRSCH. oR eee Dear Comrades: I am contributing one dollar for miners’ children’s re-4 life. Hope everybody will do the same. Sr dee —EUGENE KOSS. Dear Comrades: Enclosed find one dollar which is my share towards helping the miners. —OLGA YUREFF. Dear Comrades: Enclosed find ten cents in answer to Mary Luka’s letter. N. & V. GRUBLIAUSKAS. . . . Dear Comrades: I am sending 25 cents to help the poor miners. It is not very much, but I can’t send more because my father is not working for ten months. I am sending this 25 cents for girls like Mary Luka. —GRACE TOTH. ee gee Dear Comrades: Our answer to Puzzle No. 11 and Mary Luka’s letter from Barton, Ohio, you will find in this envelope. We would gladly send more but we can’t do it. —STEPHEN & JOSEPH BALOGH. (Editor’s Note: I found 30 cents in the envelope and I consider this answer to the puzzle most correct and helpful.) * * * Dear Comrades: I read the Young Comrade Corner and enjoy it much, Yesterday, I read about a little girl calling for help. I am sending you fifty cents. I wish that I could afford to give more but at present I can’t. I wish that the other kiddies who can afford would send something too, to help fight the capitalist bosses. I have sent some clothes too. I hope} that you have received them by now. I am a little girl twelve years old in the sixth grade. —VIRGINIA RUTH BAKAN. , oe Dear Comrades: I am writing a few lines to thank the comrades for their offering to us. Amongst the comrades I thank is Mr. and Mrs.|! Charles Simacek. They sent us a let- ter asking me to come down. I went down and they gave us some gro-| ceries. The man, Mr. Simacek, offer-| ed me to go and stay at his house| during the strike. I want you to ad- yertise this in the Uj Elore. With best Communism. —MARY LUKA. . * . Dear Comrades: I am sending 25 cents for the poor miners’ children. —GEORGE OSCIAK. ja letter THROUGH TEARS! I it! I will try to send all I can to help. | | Name “WILLIAM HARRIGAN. In M. Cohan’s latest farce, which opens Monday night at the Hudson The- atre. Whispering Friends”, George Dear Comrade Mary Luka: I am very sorry that things are as they are, for I know what it is to write d If you read my letter in the Young Comrade Corner, on the same page with yours, you will understand. I came from Europe, from Hungary, six years ago, The mines are not working, but as soon as I can I will help with all my heart and soul. The next dime that I get a hold of will be yours! » It wil! not amount to much, but if everybody would give just one little dime, what a mountain of food, clothes, and HAPPINESS it would bring to the miners and their children. Ever a Pioneer, —JULIA YUHAS. (Editor’s Note: Just thot that Td tell you at this point, that I agree wholeheartedly with my little Comrade Julia Yuhas. Let us see how many more agree by the num- ber of dollar bills, halves, quarters and DIMES we receive. MARY LUKA: KEEP ON WRITING TO US.) MORE ANSWERS TO PUZZLE 11D. Milda Casper, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Ethel Menuch, Detroit, Mich.; Benja- min Brovet, Detroit, Mich; Simon Mann, Cleveland, 0.; Jack Rosen, New York City; Joe Handel, New York City. THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 13D. This week’s puzzle is a MONTH puzzle. Find out what is hidden in the following months. By the way, don’t forget—only two more puzzles to go! My first letter is in the month of SEPTEMBER. My second is only in the month of APRIL. My third OCTOBER. My fourth is both in JANUARY and JUNE. My fifth and sixth are at least twice in NOVEMBER and DECEMBER. My seventh is twice in FEBRUARY. twice in the month of Send all answers to Daily Worker Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St. New York City, stating name, age. address and number of puzzle. YOUNG COMRADE SUB. -year sub 25¢ — 1-year sub 50c. Address (Issued Every Month). at the Hudson Monday night. Edwin and Edith Gresham, tre Monday night. Claire starred. Other players Harold de Becker, Paula True Hallberg. the Biltmore Theatre. _ tallow.” ‘cast, lo Gallaher, will be produced at t Clifford Dempse; The New Plays “WHISPERING FRIENDS,” George M. Cohan’s new farce, opens rigan, Chester Morris, Elsie Lawson, Anne Shoemaker, Walter “SHERLOCK HOLMES” will be revived at the Cosmopolitan Thea- i Stanley Logan, Fritzi Scheff, Frank Keenan, Robert Warwick and Vivian Martin head the cast, “OUR BETTERS,” W. Somerset Maugham’s comedy, will have its premiere at Henry Miller’s Theatre Monday evening with Ina c nald Bach, Edward Crandall and Lilian Kemble Cooper. 'MAYA,” by Simon Gantillon, will be presented by the Actor- Managers in association with Gertrude Newall, Tuesday evening, at the Comedy Theatre. The cast is headed by: Aline MacMahon, Mare Loebell, William Shelley, Josephine Wehn and Sven von NOPE,” by David Wallace and T. S. Stribling, opens Tuesday at The play is based on the novel “Teef- Mary Carroll, Ben Smith and Crane Wilbur are in the “SH! THE OCTOPUS,” a mystery play by Ralph Murphy and Donald yy and Harry Kelly hid the cast, The cast includes: William Har- include: Constance Collier, Regi- Theatre Guild Players “Strange Interlude” right, about “Strange Interlude,” by} Engene O'Neill, now at the John Golden Theatre. | The whole nine-act affair, bulky. | slow moving, seems deliberately de- signed to use the most recent psycho-| logical and social theories as clothing | for one of the oldest of religious | doctrines. The les- |son, implicit in all [the course of the |play, occasionally |expressed in whole Jor in part by one or another of the jactors, is that of the Vedas — the | ascetic ideal—that life is terror and trouble. and all the healthy part of life is but a “strange interlude” between birth and life’s * consummation, old age, and its peaceful ashes, from which the fires of passion and desire and ambition, all of the self, shall have burned | themselves away—provided of course, you are good and have sacrificed. Like all asceticism, it is intensely preoccupied with sex, and there is more than an echo of Babylonian sac~ red prostitution in the heroine’s promiscnity with disabled soldiers in z. veteran’s bureau hospital, which she practises as a sacrifice of herself in punishment for not bearing a child to her soldier betrothed before he got himself killed. The play is about an author with a Freudian mother fixation, a profes- sor with a daughter fixation, father of the promiscuous lady, Nina Leeds, who herself is a neurotic with an ab- normal desire to bear children, and who is eventually persuaded by her shocked friends to marry Sam Evans, descendant, unknown to himself, of a long line of insane ancestors. The sane characters in the play are Sam’s mother (a fine character, played brilliantly by Helen Westley), who confesses to Nina the taint on the Evans family and persuades her not to allow Sam’s child to be born alive, and Edmund Darrell, a neurol- ogist and biologist, whose life is wrecked on the corners of the triangle that results when he becomes the father of Nina’s eugenie baby (which they let Sam think is his in order to keep him from going clean crazy). Sam, incidentally, becomes a thillion- aire instead of a lunatic, or because he is one, maybe. Much of the later action turns around the unusual affection of the neurologist for his illegitimate child, and the child’s abnormal dislike for his actual father, also Nina’s plots to keep her son from matrying a shadowy and ill defined personage, a college flapper. * O’Neill’s artistry proves itself in his ability to keep this queer jumble going for four and a half hours, un- til it just naturally fades away into Nirvana, in a ninth-act that sends chills up and down your back and sends you home with a feeling of in- tense pessimism and world-weariness, or maybe just weariness. The length is due to O’Neill’s development of the “aside.” As every one knows by now, the char- acters in “Strange Interlude” speak their thoughts, as well as the con- versation. It is a brilliant idea, es- pecially in a psychological drama, but darned hard on the actors, and sometimes confusing to the audience. Occasionally, when some business can keep the other actors busy, the long soliloquies sound reasonable. Dur- ing an animated conversation, though, the pauses become rather awkward for all except the person exposing his thoughts. The tendency is for everybody else on the stage to sit with a metallic, frozen expression, waiting until one of them shall have finished thinking. Here we need a new invention, some combination of cinematograph and spoken df&ma, some color organ device with a sys- tem of previously explained symbols, some phonograph attechment which ean talk in a different key, artd sim- ultaneously, or something like that. All the acting is rood. Desnite the trying circumstances, Lynn Fontaine gives a strong and fearless im- personation of the neurotic Nina. Tom Powers might be signaled out fer his sympathetic and highly skill- ful impersonation of the literary old maid, Marsden. It is his human handling of tthe anti-human philo- sophy of the ninth act, where Mars- den inherits Nina after the lusts of the flesh have wasted away and died, that gives so much of the queerness co it. Well, what about O’Neill. This play is miles away from “The Hairy Ape,” though there is a connection Eugene O’Neill “@ man, Otto Hulett, George Heller, he Royale Theatre Tuesday night. ° = he i for all of that. O’Neill is writins now for a leisure class, and even if the working class some day frees it- self from drudgery, it will not make the sort of a leisure class he speals to. . —V. SMOKE OVERCOMES SEVEN. ee is plenty that is strange allo— _ WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 17. — Five firemen and two patrolmen were overcome by smoke during a fire in Bay State Hotel early today. Eugene O’Neill’s Newest Play Do Splendid Work in at the John Golden “Martha” to Be Added to American Opera Repertoire Von Flotow’s “Martha” will be ad- ded to the repertoire of the Ameri- can Opera Company. on Tuesday eve- ning, at the Gallo Theatre. Cecile Sherman will be Lady Harriet; Brownie Peebles, Nancy; Charles Hedley, Lionel; George Fleming Houston, Plunkett; Howard Laramy, Sir Tristam; “Martha” will be sung in English as are all the operas. The text used is a revised one based on the translation of Nathalie MacFar- ren. ing. Frank St. Leger will conduct. The week opens on Monday evening with “Carmen.” “Martha,” given for the first time Tuesday evening, will he repeated on Wednesday and Thurs- day evenings, Saturday matinee and Saturday evening. Gounod’s “Faust” will be given Wednesday matinee and on Friday ‘evening. The casts will vary throughout the week. NEW YORK SYMPHONY. Rachél Morton, prima donna of the British National Opera Company has been brought here from England by Walter Damrosch for his concert per- formances of “Tristan and Isolde” with the New York Symphony Or- chestra in Carnegie Hall next Thurs- day afternoon and in Mecca Auditor- jum Sunday afternoon, February 26. Rudolf Laubenthal is to sing the part of Tristan and Frederic Baer, Kuren- wal. The scenes, selected for the con- cert include the Prelude from Act I the Love Duet and Brangane’s Warn- ing Call from Act II, and Tristan’: vision and Death and Isolde’s Liebes- tod from Act III. Another perform- ance of this program will be given in Brooklyn, March 3. “ Saturday afternoon, February 25, in Carnegie Hall, Walter Damrosch will give a Symphony Concert for Young People with Madeleine Mon- nier as soloist. e Music Notes=—= Carl Flesch, violinist, will give the following program at his recital this Sunday night at the Guild Theatre: Concerto in E-major, J. S. Bach; Prayer, Pastorale and March, Han- del-Flesch; Sonata Op. 6, E. W. Korn- gold; Caprice in Octaves, Paganini- Flesch; Rumanian Dances from Hungary, Bartok-Szekely; Suite Populaire Espagnole, de Falla-Koch- anski. | Sonata The production has been staged | Etudes, Polonaise under the direction of Vladimir Ros- | ALINE MacMAHON. Will play the leading role in the continental success “Maya”, which opens Tuesday night at the Comedy Theatre, eed Maxim Schapiro, pianist, will give his recital at the Guild Theatre this Sunday afternoon. Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, will give his recital Monday night at Carnegie Hall. The program: Toc- eata in C-major, Bach-Busoni; Son- ata in C-major; Capriccio, Scarlatti; in B-minor, Liszt; Three in A-flat major, Two Mazurkas in C-sharp minor, Chopin. Maurice Ravel, French composer- pianist, will appear at the Century Theatre, Sunday afternoon, February 26. He will be assisted by Lisa Roma, soprano, ‘who will interpret his songs. Katherine Bacon will appear in pi- anoforte recital Saturday afternoon at Town Hall. Marcel Grandjany, the French harpist, wil! include a number of French compositions at his harp re- cital in Steinway Hall, Sunday after- noon, February 26. Anna Robenne, assisted by Anatole Viltzak, will give her third dance program at the 48th Street Theatre, Sunday evening, March 4. Beatrice Weller will give a harp recital at Edyth Totten Theatre Sun- day afternoon, February 26. Reginald Denny’s newest Universal picture will be called “Good Morning, Judge,” and is an adaptation of a story by Harry 0. Hoyt. The much-anticipated King Vidor production of “The Crowd” will have its premiere at the Capitol Theatre this Saturday. Eleanor Boardman and James Murray play the leading roles, Victor McLaglen, the Captain Flagg of “What Price Glory,” will be seen in his first stellar role at the Roxy Theatre this week in the Fox produc- tion, “A Girl in Every Port.” “Beau Sabreur” comes to the Broad- way Theatre, beginning Monday. Noah Beory, and William Powell who appeared in “Beau Geste” are cast also in “Beau Sabreur.” In addition, LECTURES AND FORUMS AT COOPER UNION (8th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o'Clock SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19th MR. G. F. BECK “A Critique of Pragmatism.” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY DR. PAUL RADIN “phe Fashioning of the Gods.” 21st FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN chology of the American “The Influence of Rising Industrialism on the American Mind. & Lecture on Work, Ambition and Exploitation.” ADMISSION FREE. “THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE | Muhlenberg Branch Library | (209 WEST 23rd STREET) At 8:30 o'Clock, | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20th DR. MARK VAN DOREN Hight Poets—“Milton,” MR. KENNETH C. BLANCHARD | Experimental Analysis of the Living Cell—“The Chemical Composition of Protoplasm.” i WEDNESDAY, EBRUARY 22nd THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd DR. E. G. SPAULDING Fundamental Philosophical Prob- lems—“*What Is a Contradiction?” | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th DR. HORACE M. KALLEN Fate and Freedom—*Why Christian- | ism Needed Free Will.” | TOMORROW NIGHT 8 o'clock Bertram D. Wolfe Director of the Workers School Will speak on ‘What’s Happening in Mexico’ Morrow, Lindbergh, Will Rogers, the Hearst Documents, the Oil Dect- sion, the Presidential Blection, the an-American Conference—and the est developments in the changing a ican situation, The speaker was jeported from Mexico for his activ- ties in a railway strike. At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 BAST idth STREET Admission 25c. \@XT SUNDAY: A symposium lec- ure on “Khe Problems of the Work~- lus Woman Today” by Juliet Stuart Ray Ragosin and Rose EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM At the Church of All Nations 9 Second Avenue (near Houston) SUNDAY, FER. 19th, 8 P. M. F. ERNEST JOHNSON will speak on “18 FORCE ESSENTIAL IN HUMAN AFFAIRS?” Admission Free, Hveryone Invited. —_—— Tomorrow night at 8:30 sharp LEON PLOTT ° “LINDBERGH, THE ‘FLYING’ IMPERIALIST AMBASSADOR.” BRONX OPEN FORUM 2075 Clinton Ave. (near E. 180 St.) NEXT SUNDAY: Joseph Freeman will speak on “The Russian Theatre” Under the auspices of the BRONX WORKERS’ SCHOOL. ————— = LABOR TEMPLE {ith Street @ Second Ave, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12th 5 Pp. M.—Lecture Dr. G. F. Beck—"Cabell's ‘Figures of Bart! 7:30 P. M.—Am. Int. Church Dr, E. B. Chaftee—'‘Democracy— an Appraisal.” (|]8:30 P, M.-Forum Rabbi Alexander Lyons — Walt Whitman—Poet of Democracy.” ————————————————— Can The Theatre G STRANGE BEGINNING MO EXTRA MATINE: GUILD THEATRE Week of Feb. 27: “THE REPUBLIC Matinees EUGENE O'NEILL'S INTERLUDE THHA., 58th St., EB. of B'way. JOHN GOLDEN Evenings only at 6:30. EUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAY - MARCO MILLIONS WEST 52nd ST. Mats, Week of Mar, 5: “MARCO MILLIONS” PORGY A FOLK PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD THEA., West 42nd St. om ——— a . uild Presents === NDAY, FEB. 20 1B WEDNESDAY Thurs, and Sat. DOCTOR’s DILEMMA” Evs. 8:40 Wed. & Sat., 2:40 The shooting’s all over now, Walker 5851) Michael Gold 108 East 14th Street. Phone Still in all seriousness, but” with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights present at their theatre, 40 Commerce Street (phone *s New Play Hoboken Blues For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on all tickets purchased from the local Daily Worker Office Stuyvesant 6584. i Eves. 8:30. Mats. Winter Garden Son" rhurs. & Sat, WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § Models ' WINTHROP AMES presents ' JOHN GaALSWORTHY’S with LESLIE HOWARD 8:40 Sa. cronch ARLISS in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE DRA, ee Br ction Th St.E Broadhurst 33isstoe wea: Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.36 FULTON Mats: Wed.&Sat. 2.30 ERLANGER’S Thss.W-4 St bve. Extra Holiday Matinee Monday THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN »» 41 St. W. of B’way 8:30, Mts. Wed. &Sat.2:36 Extra Holiday Matinee Monday “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman SATURDAY & SUNDAY 8—KEITH-ALBEE ACTS—8 “The Private Life of HELEN OF TROY” Coming Mon—Nan Halperin, “BETTER THAN THE BAT” . The Answer to STE by DA DWAYW:':. EVELYN. BRE - WILLIAM_ POW! Music and Concerts BEGINNING MONDAY +] ws ‘Ss CROBARE EH OWANLEN «- ZAMBUNI wth AMATA G@ GAUCHO iD HICKEY, BROTHERS aeons LBA 1 RES PHILHARMONIC TOSCANINI, Conductor. ARNEGIFE HALL, This Suan. Afty 3:00 * VIVALDI—HAYDN—RAV EL DE SABATA METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE TUES. EVE. FEB. 21, at 8:30 HAY DN—ELGAR—HONEGGER RESPIGHI —— ete Carnegie Hall, Thurs. Ev., Feb. 23, 8:30 eee Afternoon, Feb. 24, at 2:30 Soloist: SOPHIE BRASLAU GLUCK—MARTUCCI—DE FALLA WAGNER Piha ss Re Carnegie Hall, Mon. Eve., Feb. 27, 8:30 2na Membership Concert for the Benefit of the Orchestra Pension Fund Soloist: LEQ SCHULZ, ‘Cellist CHERUBINI—SAINT-SAENS WAGN! ER Tickets at Box Office, 50c to $5.00. Arthur Judson, Mgr. (Steinway) Guild Theatre, Sun. Eve., Feb, 19, 8130 om FLESCH Violinist (Steinway Piano) egie Hall, Mon. Eve. Feb. 20, 8:30 VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (Steinway Piano) Planist iid Thentre, Sun. Eve., Feb. 26, 9:00 saat of the Series of 3 Recitals Musical Art Quartet Jacobsen Paul Bernard shag Marie Roemaet-Rosanoft Louis Kaufma program: Schubert Quartet—Debussy Quartet, Randall Thompson: “The ‘Wind of the Willows. “Present Arms” is to be the title of Lew Fields next production, a fusion | al comedy presentation which will go into rehearsal next week. Herbert Fields completed the book, Hart and Rodgers have collaborated on music and lyrics. N.Y. Symphony Guest Gsaanctor Walter Damrosch MECCA AUDITORIUM, Tomorrow (Sun,) Afternoon, at 3:00 Box Office Open at 11 A. M. Tomorrow ASSISTING Harold Bauer &nvisr BRAHMS, Symphony No. 2; LISZT, St. Francis Preaching to the Birds; BEE- THOVEN, Concerto in G for Piano with Orchestra. Carnegie Hall, Thurs. Aft., Feb, 23, at 3 Mecen Auditorium, Sun. Aft.,Feb, 26,at 3 “TRISTAN and ISOLDE’ wagner) In concert form, Scenes from Acts I, LU, IT RACHEL MORTON as ISOLDE RUDOLF LAUBENTHAL as TRISTAN VIOLA SILVA as BRANGEND FREDERIC BAER as KURWENAL Tickets now at Carnegie Hall Box Of- fice, Mecca tickets at Symphony Of- fice, Steinway Hall, 113 W. 57th st, GEORGE ENGLES, Mgr. (Steinway Pi TOWN HALL Tonight at 8:30 Second and mel eetar this season, G ELEN ERHARD | SCHUBERT PROGRAM—In commemo- ration of Fronz Schnbert’s Centenary MME. GERHARDT will sing the entire eycle “WINTERREISE.”. COENRAAD . BOS at the Piano. (Steinway) Tickets at box offt lee. Dir'n GEORGE ENGLES, ¥ _ AMMRICAN OPERA COMPANY st_N, GALLO THEA. 54th, W. of Bway, Mon, Evs. & Wed. M: fly, Tues. Wed., Thurs., & Sat, Mat, Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH Eves. 8:20, Muts, 2:20, PHONE COL, 1140, at. Mme, Butter- Fri., Sat. Evg. rme! * “Dr. Knock,” Jules Romains’ com- edy which has enjoyed a run on the continent, will have its premiere at the Laboratory Theatre Thursday evening, February 23. Granville Barker made the translation and Rich- ard Boleslavsky directed the entire Schnitzler’s “The “Dr, Knock” will alter-- Granite.” — ~—