The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1928, Page 4

Page Four 7 YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928 SCENES FROM “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE,” THE NEW SOVKINO FILM DUE NEXT SATURDAY The latest cinema production from Soviet Russia to reach America will have its premiere showing at the Cameo Theatre next Saturday. “Czar sven tk e Terrible” created a tremendous impression on the continent. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures here, characterizes the picture as “Greater than ‘Potemkin’,” L. M. Leonidoff (center) of the Moscow Art Theatre, plays the title role. Harping on Southern Chivalry! “Rope” at the Biltmor Character Drawing new play at the Biltmore The- atre, “Rope,” as one might guess from the title, is a cross section of life in a town of 800 inhabitants in the Tennessee hills. In “Teeftallow” done into drama at the Biltmore, un- American New York can see where the American race lives, whiling away its time with the amusements of its Elizabethan ancestors: “drink- ing, dicing and drabing.” A reform wave hits town in the person of Rev. Tobe Blackman, whose crudely letiered posters: “Come to Jesus—Was Your Grand- father a Monkey?” are pasted on every wall. Soon the shadow of a noose floats over one of them, and a masked mob leads its kicking, squeal- ing victim to death. Abner Teeftallow, true hundred per cent Nordic leader of men—his mother died insane and his father died in jail—is contrasted sharply throughout the play with Henry Dit- mas, representing capitalist civiliza- tion, he is the construction gang boss on the new railroad coming through. } The South is shown as ignorani,| Ditmas as educated. The South is} fundgmentalist and lynches not only for sport, but out of a religious con- yietion of its duty: “Vengeance 1s mine, saith the Lord,” so why wait for the law? Ditmas is free-think- ing, and pays a day’s wages to the boys while they hunt the killer of his| best teamster, but he prefers legal} hanging, and tries to prevent Abner from leading the lynchers. The girl they are both courting seems to have been enough influenced by the culture of the North, brought her by Ditmas, so that though she still prefers Teeftallow, she takes no pride in his leadership at the necktie party, and seduces him away from what he regards as his duty, the hanging of one Peck Bradley. Since this love affair took place during the red-hot revival campaign of the Rev. Tobe, Abner’s own little gang of “whitecaps” (for the better known Klan is not mentioned—too power- ful yet?) try to tar and feather the girl, and actually flog Abner. The story is stale and stupid, but | the powerful character drawing, the} verity of the Southern atmosphere, the absolute accuracy of the revival seenes, with the half crazy preacher ing, tells the lynchers how to lynch, | societies, e e Theatre a Powerful) of Tennessee Life | tries to “make” the heroine, and in| general, performs the duty of a pa- triarch in a primitive community. Peck himself, a good example of the backwoods badman; old man Tolbert, | who gets his daughter married by | getting the drop on her suitor with the family shotgun, these too are fine. While a perfect picture of modern life in the South, the play by impli- cation throws too favorable a light| on Northern civilization. The event of the machine age is not all good. The northern employer who lashes | his Southern employes with the epithet: “Just a gang of lynching mule skinners,” is made too good. The South is not all bad. In fact it is not bad at all, if judged in its proper place. It is the f to hold Irontown, Tenn., up to co trast with Peoria and New Yor whereas it should be compared with Timbucktoo or Addis Ababa. The mountaineers’ South is a primitive ; ommunity, with witch doctors, seer lazii ignorance a boredom, inbred idiocy, and cast iron folk law, like any other savage so- cial order. Why demand more of the people there than you do of the people of Uganda? All this will change. The whole society of Iron- town will change, when the railroad Ss, comes through, as it changes at Birmingham in the coal and _ steel hells there, as it changes in the cot- ton mill centers “of Carolina. And far from driving on this social change, the capitalist agents, the Ditmases of that iime, will probably subsidize the K. K. K., because it can be used to break up unions. So in its furthest implications, this play is probably not correct. In iis im- mediate surface picture of the life of Southern. gentlemen and ladies, it hasn’t been surpassed. It is well worth seeing. The cast is all good. The difficult Southern accent is handled to a nicety. The extremely crude plot is made to move and seem credible, | perhaps because it is composed of the sort of things that do happen in such communities however impossible they seem in other settings. Aside from Ben Smith who does Teeftallow, Herbert Heywood as and his female satellites whooping on the lynchers, the unhesitating bar-! barity with which the only Negro in| the play is treated, the lynching of | whom is merely an incident, not to! be compared for a moment with the} ‘execution of Peck Bradley, all these | give it a magnificent grasp on| reality. The town’s only business- man, for instance, tells God all about | the railroad during the prayer meet- | Peck, Ralph. Cummings as Railroad Jones, the business man, there are especially to be praised three women’s parts: Mary Carroll shows herself a really worth while emotional actress in Nessie, Abner’s girl, and the two religious hags, Mrs. Roxie Biggers, played by Elizabeth Patterson, and Miss Lydia Scovell, by Caroline New- comb are both great. ~V. S$. Kate I have known you for many years, from the days when you and I were | young. You were in Germany, I was} in America, but my life has been en-j Tiched since I came to know you. In your revolutionary work amung the working class you remembered ‘hat there is a great part of the Wotking class, the women, who must be organized and educated and placed side by side with the men workers in the fight of the working class; against their oppressors, the capital- | ists. In the beginning your work among the women was very hard and not well | Understood by many. In your convic- tion you went on carrying the mes- Sage of socialism to the oe women. In your tireless work for soctalism | you suffered the persecution of the capitalist system, Buoyed up by your “Convictions and ideals you passed through the great dangerous waves of | * yeaction rolling over the revolution-| ary movement, in the difficult days in Germany—days which are not so eas- | ily forgotten. You, as a fighter for the world proletariat, have came to Soviet Rus- | Oo with the October Revolution. | ere you now, as a member of the tral Executive Committee of the| munist International, direct the working class the world over on to the road to freedom. __To be able to live through this sig- | it meeting with you in the! lin, during the days of the cele-| jon of the 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution, is something to be remembered. I met you in the bed Gitlow Greet: reets Clara Zetkin where there is no longer a czar, | LAURETTE TAYLOR Returns to Broadway next Monday in a new play by Zoe Akins, “The Furies,” opening at the Shubert Thea- tre. NEW YORK SYMPHONY. Walter Damrosch returning after a two weeks’ illness, will make his final appearance of the season as guest conductor of the New York Symphony | Orchestra this Sunday afternoon at Mecca Auditorium. He will be suc- ceeded by Maurice Ravel, French composer-conductor, who (will direct the orchestra at two performances next Thursday afternoon in Carnegie Hall and Sunday afternoon, March 11, in Mecca Auditorium. The program in Mecca Auditorium will have the Kedroff Quartet, as the soloists, and include the following: Symphony No. 6, in B minor (Path- etique), Tschaikowsky; Group of Songs, Symphonic Poem, “Chimere,” Farecki; Dances from “Prince Igor,” Borodine. Ravel’s program for Thursday and Sunday afternoons will consist entire- ly of hig, own compositions. Samuel Dushkin,™ violinist, will be the soloist. The program follows: Le Tombeau de Couperin, Symphonic Fragment “Daphnis et Chloe,” Rhapsodie Espag- nole, Tzigane, La Valse. PHILHARMONIC. The program tomorrow afternoon at Carnegie Hall includes the Over- ture to Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,” Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, excerpts from Pizzetti’s “La Pisan- ella,” and Debussy’s La Mer, Next Sunday afternoon at the Metropoli- tan the program will have the Rossini Qverture and the “Pastoral” Sym- phony, Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe” Suite, No. 2, and the “Tannhauser” Overture. Toscanini will conduct the tour next week, visiting Philadelphia, Washingion, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. ——— nor a capitalist system, where the workers are their own rulers and are building socialism—a living example to the world proletariat, On such oc- casions old age is forgotten. One| feels full of vigor and renewed deter- | mination for the fight to overthrow | capitalism the world over. I greet you, Comrade Clara Zetkin, women and workers’ wives of Amer- ica! May you live long to guide the working class the world over onto the and the establishment of the workers’ dictatorship! Long Live Clara Zetkin! on this International Women’s Day of 1928, in the name of the working matinees beginning Monday atre, Tuesday night. Taylor H the star, will open Wednesday supporting company includes: Kemble Cooper. THE NEW PLAYS “THE CHERRY ORCHARD,” by Tcheko, will be put on for special George Calderon made the translation. “WITHIN THE LAW,” by Bayard Veiller, will have its revival at the Cosmopolitan Theatre Monday night. are: Charles Ray, Claudette Colbert, Frank Shannon, Violet Hem- ing, Robert Warwick and Vivian Martin. “HER UNBORN CHILD,” by Howard McKent Barnes, opens at the Eltinge Theatre Monday. The cast is headed by Effie Shannon and includes: Theadore Hecht, William Corbett, Pauline Drake, Ivy Mertons, Lea Penman and Elisha Cook, Jr. “THE GREAT NECKER,” by Elmer Harris, at the Ambassador The- “THE FURIES,” a new play by Zoe Akins, with Laurette Taylor as Estelle Winwood, Ian MacLaren, Frederick Worlock and Greta “NAPOLEON,” a drama by B. Harrison Orkow, will come to the Empire Theatre Tuesday night, with Lionel Atwill as the star. Thais Lawton, Albert Bruning and: Selena Royale are also in the cast. Long Live the World Revolution! —KATE GITLOW. afternoon at the Bijou Theatre. The principal players olmes plays the chief role, night at the Shubert Theatre. Her A. E. Anson, John Cumberland, | BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY. | The Beethoven Symphony Orches- jtra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor jand Nicolai Orloff, pianist, as soloist, | will give a concert at Carnegie Hall | Friday evening, March 9. The pro-| |gram: Symphony No. 8, B minor (Un- | finished), Shubert; L’Apprenti Sor- \cier, Dukas; Introduction to the Mys- | “The Battles of Coronel and Falk- | tie Opera “Children of Truth,” George |!and Islands” begins the fourth and | Liebling; Leonora Overture No. 3, |last week of its engagement at the | Beethoven;. “We” Tone Poem, James|Cameo Theatre today. Next Satur- | |P. Dunn; Concerto No. 2, Rachmanin- | day the Soviet film, “Czar Ivan the off. j Terrible,” will have its premiere. William Haines in his new starring chicte, “The Smart Set,” comes to) he Capitol Theatre for a week’s en-| gagement beginning today. The Broadway Theatre beginning | fonday will present as its photoplay eature “The Cohans and Kellys In Paris.” George Sidney and J. Far- rell MacDonald play the leading roles. Vera Gordon and Kate Price are also in the cast of the comedy. Music Notes—= The postponed dance recital of An-| na Robenne will take place at the 48th| Laura LaPlante will be the star at- 18. Mme. Robenne will be assisted by | two male partners, Anatole Viltzak and Pierre Vladimiroff, ning this Saturday in her latest pic- ture titled “Finders Keepers.” It is an adaptation Mary Roberts Rinehart’s story of the same name. Phyllida Ashley and Aileen Fealy will give a recital for two pianos at the Guild Theatre tomorrow night. Chaliapin will give his last concert of the season next Wednesday night HUDSON } Theatre, WHISPERING FRIENDS above, and also lead the orchestra on | |road of a successful world revolution | at Carnegie Hall. DRAG. ERLANGER’ S Thea.’ w. “4 St. Evs, 8.30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. GEORGE M. COHAN’S THE MERRY MALONES| ay FZRSON 32k irae respon eat ch o ‘Thurs. Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 Mats Wed.&Sat. 2.30 | “BETTER THAN THE BAT" | ‘Lheatre, 41 St. W, 0: Evs.8:30. Mta. Wed. &s: “The Trial of Niary Dugan” Ry Bayard Veiller, with Anm Harding-Rex Cherryman Nauonal EB Held over by popular demand in new song program Coram & Jerry—Other Acts Reginald Denny in “On Your Toes” Monday—Alexander Carr & Co. A DWAN - BR NC La. IMliSmPAng in FARRELL Macbe DS PARS BEGINNING MONDAY Keith-Albce Vaudeville Zippy Frenchy Revue ZnS) with, = Shae 25 N.Y. Symphony | PHILHARMONIC Guest TOSCANINI, conauctor. Conductor Walter Damrosch Carnegie Hall, San. oetaee a e 3.00 | (Sun.) Afternoon, at 3:00 ME ROPOLI OPERA HOUSE Soloists ) SUN. AFT. RCH 11, at 3:00 fese°) KEDROFF QUARTET j ROSSINI, B tHOVEN, RAVEL, ALL RUSSIAN. PROGRAM NER é Mgr. w including TSCHAIKOWSKY |p Arthur Judson, “PATHE TIQUE” RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF, March “Le Coq | » (Steinway) d@Or", — BORODINE, Dances from | Carnegie Hall, Wed. Eve., Mar, 7 8:30 | amin es |(CHALIAPIN CARN Thurs, Aft., Mars | MECC UM, Sun, Aft..Mar. : a ; “ LAST N. ¥. CONCERT THIS SEASON Sonaucter MAURICE RAVEL J Assisted by MAX RABiNOVITCH at the anom—Tiekeis $1.10 to $5.30 OW at Box Office. (Victor Records.) (Baldwin Piano.) i RAVEL PROGRAM | ‘Le Tombeau de Couperi: DEBUSSY, | abande and Dance (Orch. by Ravel); | fice, Steinv Ge Sat. Evgs., . & Wed. & Sat. ete, CARM. PROGRAM Concert Celebration Workers School Club 3. Piano Solos—Rebecen Davidson. a 1. Dance Numbers — Blanche asec | Dans l'arule (from Caucasian and Group. Suile)—Ippolitov-ivanoy, Oricntal—Solo, Prelude, G Minor—Rachmuninofft Forces in Battle—| 4.Dance Numbers-— Blanche Evan taahele, and Group, Russian Gathering. Festival Dance—Group. Street Dance—Solo. Dance of the Czars’ Ghosts— Three Girls, Laborer (danced to a read- « of “The Man With the Hoe.") 2. Piano Solos—Rebecea Davidson, Foccata & Pugi—Baeh-fausig. Aivxt Nocturne D Major—Cuopin, Grea Binns The Con wabandist—sehumaan- np Tausig, . INTERMISSION. 3. Dance Nuinbers— Blanche Evan and Partner, 1. Brief Address a by Bertram Db, aneod With Cymbals, ho Worfe, Director of tue Work- ers school. % 2NVocal Solo—M, Sawnnoft. Aria from La Vosca, 8, Dance Selections, an's symbol—Sole, . American Gathering — Group dance of mechanical rhythms expressing the Muchine Age: ending up with the Internal tional, suag back stage, (Steinway Piano used through courtesy of Steinway & Sons.) At Davenport | fctichsct"estvet | On Sunday 1. Vocal Section. Aria from P; 2.Dance Numbe sed" -~ Primitive Group Dance, Bacchanale—Waree Girls, lickets. Seats reserved. Inquire: Theatre Workers School Office By ening | a7th Street and Lex- { 108 Hast 14th Street, | March 4, ' ington Avenue. Room 32. 8:15 P. M. Street Theatre Sunday evening, March| traction at the Colony Theatre begin* | by Beatrice Van of} Rhapsodie Espagnole; Tzigane; La | DUSHKIN {rat eS OPES Ea | iekets how at Carnegie Hall Box or GAL M | fice. M tekets oat Brute COL. 1140, GUNZ Cen | fee se The Theatre. Guild Presents EUGENE O'NEILL'S STRANGE INTERLUDE | JOHN GOLDEN bas p> 58th St. B. of Bway. Evenings only at 5:30, | (ne ING MONDAY, MAR, 5 BUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAY ~ MARCO MILLIONS THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO. GUILD THEATRE JV 28 S2n¢ st. | Mats. Thurs. and Sat. | EXTRA MATINEE WEDNESDAY BEGIN Week of Mar. 12: “THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA” Week of Mar, 19: “MARCO MILLIONS” PORGY A FOLK PLAY i BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD iC THEA. 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Thurs. & Sat. 2:30. “MAYA” LECTURES AND FORUMS _ THE PEOPI E'S LE'S INSTITUTE | | | AT COOPER UNION | Muh Muhlenberg Branch Library | (th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) (209 WEST 23rd STREET) \ At 8 o'Clock At 8:30 o’Clock. : | SUNDAY, MARCH 4th . Concert by AMERICAN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY | CHALMERS CLIFTON, Conductor, pees VTUROP. AMES presents GuLSWORTHY'S ith LESUB iE S$ Cc APE “HOWARD i jpoorH Thee weds & Sat Deen.) a Broadhurst 3p) WS: 2, W.44 St.By cgrorce A RELI 8 Ss & in THE MERCHANT OF V"“NiICB — ee ee’d MONDAY, MARCH bth DR. MARK VAN DOREN Eight Poets—“Blake.” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th MR. HERBERT POLLACK “The Role of Some Inorganic Cheme jeal Substances in the Cell.” TUESDAY, MARCH 6th |MR. JAMES WATERMAN WISE “Youth Movements in Europe” THURSDAY, MARCH 8th DR. E. G. SPAULDING Fundamental Philosophical Prob- lems—*What Are Abstractions?” ’ FRIDAY, MARCH 9th Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN The Psychology of the American Public—* “This People Can Read,’ The Psychological lufluence of Pop- ular Education.” SATURDAY, MARCH 10th DR. HORACE M. KALLEN Fate and Freedom—“The Eme: of Scientific Determinism,” = gerapeely ADMISSION FREB. Open Forum Discussion, ing a SN SERENE RS! TSP. Tomorrow night at 8:30 sharp | “The Miners Struggle in Colorado” by GEORGE J. SAUL one who has fought right in the mines, BRONX OPEN FORUM 2075 Clinton Ave. (near E. 180 St.) Under the auspices of the BRONX WORKERS’ SCHOOL, SAVE March 30th DEBATE SCOTT NEARING |