The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 4

4 roe ~ Page Four Will Divide Jobs at Farmers’ Expense By ALFNED KNUTSON. (S: "he Daily Worker.) 5 April. 20—The rs have opened reets. In 1916 or 1918 they would not have been per- mitted to do this by the business ele- ment, which was then hostile to the league. Tn the windows are found placarded the names of the congressional and state candidates, headed by Lynn J. F sénator and T. H. ermor. In one place is lowing 2 voters for support: “Prosp rmers mean success for busines labor. Why not vote for better marketing facilities?” Plays Into Business Interests Hands. A Coolidge or a Lowden might have written this. It is exactly the kind of propaganda that the business inter- este need and want to bolster their position and this is the kind of dope the league uses in North Dakota to get the support of the bankrupt farm- ers. The farmers and workers of the state are asked to assist in holding together the capitalist system that is tobbing ther of the fruits ot their toil, the system that shows increasing signs of falling to pieces. There is now no hostility between the League faction in North Dakota and their erstwhile Independent Vot- ers Association enemies. A large number of business men are support- ing the league candidates, It is hinted in political circles that the two groups have made a political deal whereby the leaguers will get the United States senatorship and the I. V._A. the principal state offices, the offices which have control over the espectively for United States m for gov- nd the fol- z appeal to the illumi illum rous State mill and the elevator and the/ Bank of North Dakota. Pooling the Farmers, The business interests of North Da- kota have nothing to lose but every- thing to gain by supporting the Teague condidates because this fac-| tion is closer to the farmers and thus in a better position to hoodwink and fool them. The exploiter has dis- covered that the league is safe. The United Farmer and the United | Farmers’ Educational League will wage a relentless campaign against the League “progressives” and all other “progressives” masquerading as “friends” of the farmer. Priest, Cop Raid Home PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 20— @harges that a Philadelphia police- Man and a Lithuanian priest forcibly @ntered the home of Charles Pleda, Lithuanian, of Philadelphia, broke up @ class of 25 or 30 children being taught by Anthony Laurinavich, a Baturalized Lithuanian, and roughly treated the latter’s wife, are made in ® report filed with Superintendent Mills of the Philadelphia police by David Wallerstein, Philadelphia at- torney. Mr. Wallerstein is a member @f the Eastern Pennsylvania Civil Liberties Committee. The policeman left the house after being called upon to show a warrant. Mr. Wallerstein. reported. IN JOHN GAY’S OPERA Melia Turrill, who plays an impor- tant role in the two hundred year old operetta by John Gay, “The Beg- ” Opera,” now current at the 48th Theatre. —— BUSINESS GROUPS| AND NONPARTISAN LEAGUE IN UNITY rters here on one | Popular artist of the Moscow Art Theatre, who plays the title role in the S ino production, “Czar Ivan the Terrible,” which will shown in local neighborhood theatres—the Mo- mart in Brooklyn beginning today and lat the Franklin, in the ‘Bronx, start- ing Monday. { will age “The ‘Trial of Mary Dugan” at his theatre jin Berlin on June 15, Other produc- \tions of Bayard Veiller’s melodrama jare now running in London and Mel- bourne, Australia. In addition to the company fow playing here at the |National Theatre there will be three other troupes in this country. A Los | Angeles company, and a company that will open in Philadelphia in October jand the third troupe will appear in Boston early in September, | Hyman Adler, who played the lead in “57 Bowery,” and Marion Gehring, |who was with the Meyerhoff Art |Theatre in Moscow and last season direetor of the Chicago Art Theatre, |will make their first production this |spring with “Skidding,” a comedy by | Aurania Rouverol, which goes into re- \hearsals immediately. Billie Burke is to star as Dot Ren- dell in “The Happy Husband,” a new comedy by Harrison Owen, the Aus- itralian playwright, which Gilbert Mil- |Miss Burke, who was last seen in \“The Marquise” will be supported by A. E. Matthews and Lawrence Gross- mith, =—=Screen Notes=== Jacqueline Logan will be seen upon a Broadway screen again when she appears as an animal trainer in “The Leopard Lady,” which will be shown at the Broadway -Theatre beginning Monday. Alan Hale and Robert Arm- strong play leading roles in this story by Edward Childs Carpenter. Marion Davies in “The Patsy,” adapted from the stage play of the same name, comes to the Capitol Theatre this Saturday. King Vidor, the creator of “The Big Parade,” wielded the megaphone. “The Play Girl,” a new William Fox comedy, with Madge Bellamy in the title role, will be the screen fea- ture at the Roxy Theatre this week. Today at the Cameo Theatre will |see the premiere presentation of “The Woman Tempted.” adapted from the novel of Vera, Countess Catheart. Produced in Bri- tish studios, it is played by an inter- national cast including Warwick Ward of “Variety” and Juliette Compton. Two features, “The Swilin’ Rack- jet,” a drama of the annual seal hunt lin the Arctic, and “Madre,” the only | motion ‘picture in which Eleanora Duse |ever appeared, will be shown at the |55th St. Playhouse beginning today. Mary Philbin will be starred in “The Girl On the Barge” which will be directed by Edward Sloman. This is an adaptation by Charles Kenyon of the story by Rupert Hughes. | | | The Greenwich Village Theatre is | showing the remarkable Russian film, “Armored Cruiser Potemkin.” The |house is operated as a little art cinema. Warner will present another Vita- phone picture, “Glorious Betsy,” star- ring Dolores Costello which opens Thursday evening at the Warner Theatre. Three former vaudeville players are associated in First National's |screen version of “The Butter and Egg Man”. on a story by the late Fred Bijou Theatre, John McFlhaney Elsie Jayne E, Humphrey at the Forrest Sydney Riggs, Allan Davis, C. and Reginald Carrington. Marion, Donald Gallaher, W: | “THE WALTZ OF THE DOGS,” Johnsrud, who made his first have the principal role. “PRESENT ARMS,” Lew Fields’ Mansfield Theatre Thursday Breton and Gaile Beverly, NEW PLAYS “KIDDING KIDDERS,” a melodrama by Stephen Champlain, founded The cast includes Grace Valentine, Neil Pratt, “THE SKULL,” a mystery play by Bernard J. MeOwen and Harry “THE GOLDEN AGE,” a new play by Lester Lonergan and Charlton Andrews, will open at the Longacre Tuesday night. Diantha Patterson head the cast, set for next Wednesdsy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Harold Fields, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, will open at the Charles. King, Joyce Barbour, Fuller Mellish, Jr Flora Le erick H. Isham, will open at the and Ruth Thomas. Monday night. The cast includes . W. Van Voorhis, Winifred Barry George ‘arren Williams, Leila Frost and a posthumous Andreyev play, is appearance in “The Prisoner,” will ’ musical production, by Herbert night. The cast is headed by ler will place in immediate rehearsal. | The picture was | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 HE Moscow theatrical season, ti y large extent, has bee med into a supplementar tion of the tenth anniv y he Re ution. At last twe plays were produced in honor of th celebrations, and several of them rank among the most interesting pro ductions of the season. The plays may be roughly divide: into two categories: those which em ze the mass aspects of the grea! 1 upheaval, and those whi focus attention on the feelings an experiences and reactions of indi- vidnals to the s ing times throug? hich they are living. The most brilliant achievement in the former category was unquestion- ably the Art Theatre’s production of 4-69,” written author who ‘is known for his realistic stories of the warfare waged by the Siberian easants against the “White” regime f Admiral Kolchak. The play has its full share of t grim aspects of civil war; i ult to forget the intensely powerful scenes where the | peasants, lying in ambush, try to find in their number a volunteer who will undertake to step the armored train (manned by the Whites), by throw- jing himself under its wheels, or where jthe officer in command of the armored train goes mad for lack of food and water and through exhaus- | tion after sustaining a long siege by |the embattled peasants. Brilliant Mass Scenes There are elements of personal | drama and tragedy in the work; the |reaceful old peasant, transformed in- | to a resolute leader of the revolu- tionists when the Whites burn ‘his home and kill his children; the Kol- jchak officer, with little faith in his cause, stoically going forth to die in command of his armored train; the Communist “underground” worker, shot down on the very eve of the successful uprising which he has or- But these are {solated , not linked together in a single drametie framework; and, al- |though one of Ruseia’s greatest ac- |tors, Vassily Katchalov, plays the role lof the cld peasant, he seems a little miseast. a little unsuited for the in- terpretation of such a simple and elemental character. | “Armored Train No. 14-69” re- |mains in the memory for its mass scenes, which are staged with extra- | ordinary brilliance; the tumultuous | mectings of the partisans, signalling jto each other from the church stee- ples of neighboring villages; the amusing episode when a crowd of the peasants, with their typical straw- colored beards, tries to “propa- gandize” an American soldier who has accidently fallen into their hands; the genuinely stirring climax, when the armored train, mantied by the city to turn the tide of battle ix the struggle between the workers and the Kolchak authorities. In the past the Art Thvatre hasj often heen attacked by (ommunist critics for its alleged unrespwnsive- ness to the social and cultural changes which have taken place in Russia since the Revolution. How- ever, it is generally agreed that “Armored Train No. 14-69” is a worthy wreath on the shrine of the Revolution. A Drama of the Fleet Different in treatment, but equally interesting is “Bazlom,.” or “The Break,” a play of the Russian Fleet in the period between the March and November Revolutions. Here the interest is concentrated on a small group of individuals and their reac- tions to the swiftly changirg events. The principal characters are the commander of the cruiser Aurora; jhis daughter, who catches the conta- gion of revolutionary enthusiasm; the young Bolshevik sailor who is presi- dent of the ship committee, and an- other naval officer who is bitterly hostile to the revolution and every- thing it has brought, The crisis of the play is reached when this latter officer works out a conspiracy to blow up the cruiser, a plot which is accidently discovered and thwarted by the commander’s daughter. Then her father, who has always worked in close touch “with the ship committee, agrees to stay at his post and continue to command the ship, even after the Bolsheviki have taken power. Historical Drama The play, “1917,” given at the Lit. tle Theatre, represents an ambitious effort to turn history into drama, It is a series of episodes from the period between March and November, reproduced in as literal a setting as possible. One sees the first chaotic days of the downfall of Tsarism and the emergence of the Petrograd Soviet; Kerensky is shown wasting his inexhaustible torrents of rhetoric cn the sullen and recalcitrant soldiers at the front; other acts depict the Kornilov plot, and the final victory lof Bolshevism. This work has more | historical than dramatic interest. The theme is too vast to be compressed into a single evening’s entertain- ment, even though a Russian evening is allowed to stretch out to consider- REVOLUTIONARY PLAYS | IN MOSCOW THEATRES victorious workers, steams into the / |an orchestra of TO LEAVE STAGE AT 83 enting Lenin, is shown haranguing | he throngs. Revolutionary Ballets | There ha® been no revolutionary pera this year; the experiment with | n opera, commemorating the Decab- | isti, the Russian revolutionaries of 1825, two years ago, was not very ncouraging. But the State Opera House hag presented two ballets on vevolutionary themes. One of them vas entitled “Smerch”; it showed the votkers hurling the capitalists and <ings from their seats of power to ‘nm accompaniment of booming artil- lory fire. Not much could be said for “Smerch” from the artistic stand- point; and it has now been with- drawn. 2 i The other tevolutionary ballet,] Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, noted ac- “The Red Poppy,” with music by Gliere as an accompaniment, is more pleasing to the eye, whatever may be thought of its rather strongly po- litical theme, and it is quite fre- quently given. ‘The “Red Poppy” is a Chinese dancing girl who falls in love with the captain of a Soviet ship, who virtuously repels her ad- vances, but presents her with a red Poppy as a symbol of the new order in China. The Chinese reaction- aries, in league with the British com- mander of the port, work out a plot to poison the Soviet captain; but the Chinese dancing girl foils it by dash ing the fatal cup from his hands he is prepared to drink. She is shot| by one of the reactionaries; and as she sinks down and dies with her eyes fixed on the departing Soviet ship, a huge red poppy blooms ont behind. youthful age of 83, after a brilliant career on the American stage. Mrs. Whiffen appeared in the recent re- vival of Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer.” ‘CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE’ IN NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES Readers of this paper living in Brooklyn, the Bronx and in Coney Is- land will have an opportunity to see the amazing and remarkable Sov- kino production, “Czar Ivan the Ter- rible,” which is being booked the coming week to neighborhood thea- tres. Following the four weeks’ stay at the Cameo Theatre, whore the picture broke records for attendance and cre- ated intense interest, the film has been selected for showing in Brook- lyn, where it will begin a week’s run today at the Momart Theatre on Ful- ton Street. Beginning Monday the Amkino production will also be shown at the Franklin Theatre, the Keith- Albee Bronx house. On April 30, May 1 and 2, Coney Island will have the opportunity, when “Czar Ivan the Terrible” will be the screen feature at the Tilony Theatre. “Czar Ivan the Terrible” is a dra- matic tale of the mad czar who ruled Russia with a cruel and iron hand. Leading players of the Moscow Art Theatre headed by Leonidoff play the important roles. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” reach- ed its 250th performance at the Na- tional Theatre last night. The play has attracted Something like $800,000 to the box-office, and the end of the engagement is still far off. The cast is headed by Ann Harding and Rex Cherryman, The bill at the Broadway Theatre beginning Monday will include Julia Rooney and Walter Clinton and their orchestra; Josephine Harmon and Georgia Sands; James Burke and Elenor Durkin; Arthur Aylesworth and Company in “A Love Lie” by Vincent Lawrence; Larry Meehan and Wark Griff ‘ Griffith, ah Gertrude Newman and Leon and Mae. Sesh ot tant is pec at the a | Rivoli, has begun camera work in ee ,, — Hollywood on his newest United Art- Music Not ists picture, “The Battle of the Sexes.” The cast includes Jean Her- sholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett Martha Graham will % hear tt * | and Sally O'Neil = | program of dances at the Little Thea- tre this Sunday evening, when she will present hew conceptions to the musie of Malipiero, Ornstein, Koech- lin, Horst and Slavenski, Lenora Sparkes, soprano, will make her reappearance at Steinway Hall Thursday evening, when she will sing an old Italian group, a Russian group, an aria from Faust, a Schubert group and a modern English group. Universal has purchased the screen rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ book “The Jungle Tales of Tarzan.” This will go inte production shortly as a chapter play under the title of “Tar- zan the Mighty.” Katherine Bacon will give the fol- lowing program of Schubert at her third recital, this Saturday afternoon at Town Hall: Sonata in A major, Op. Posth; Sonata in B major, Op 147; Laendler, Op. 171; Fantasia (The Wanderer) Op, 15. BROOKLYN THEATRES NOW/, MOMART 20 _Anna Robenne, assisted by Anatol Viltzak, will give her final dance ae cital of the season at the Gallo Thea- tre Sunday evening, April 29, Jacques Gershkovitch will conduct F eighty members of the Philharmonic at @ special concert in Town Hall next Thursday night. Joseph Yasser, organist, will be the soloist. The Program: Fourth Sym- phony, Tschaikovsky; Night on the Bare Mountain, Moussorgsky; Toten- tanz, Paraphrase on “Dies Irae,” ! Liszt; A Fragment From Ballett “The | Soul of a Harp,” Avshalomoff; | “Stenka Razin,” Symphoni | Glazounoff, eee ee! FULTON ST. G ROCKWELL PLACE 7730 P.M. Brooklyn Showing — Amazit I yr hy D ny DIRECT from 4 WEEKS EXC SAT SUN & HOL at CAMO NY LECTURES AND FORUMS ‘THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE AT COOPER UNION [Muhlenberg Branch Library (8th 8ST, and ASTOR PLACE) (209 WEST 23rd STREET) At 8 o'Clock At 8:30 o'Clock. MONDAY, APRIL 23rd MR. HOUSTON PETERSON William Blake—“The Prophetic Poems.” SUNDAY, APRIL 22nd DR. DAVID S, MUZZEY “The Duty of the Historian to Tell the Truth.” WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25th TUESDAY, APRIL 24th DR. ROBERT CHAMBERS PROF. HARRY A. OVERSTREET Soccutyiemamaee xa me Livia able length. Moreover, the action! loses something in vividness, be-| cause, for reasons of taste and political expediency, no Communists, alive or dead, are represented on the stage, with one possible exception in, | the last scene, when a figure, repre- |. A » “The Ascent of the Weat.” THURSDAY, APRIL 26th DR. E. G, SPAULDING FRIDAY, APRIL 27th Fundamental Phil ical = MR. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN isto ein Teese. ieeonbien Brebs Pee eeushalogy of the armorlcan of Goat same Lek of the ‘Older freer ong deat SATURDAY, APRIL 28th DR. HORACE M. KALLEN Fate and Vreedom—“Fate and Frees dom as Facts and as Ideals.” EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM At the Church of All Nations 9 Second Avenue (near Houston) SUNDAY, APRIL 22 7:80 P. M. Cecil Headrick, on “Up- ton Sinclair, Soctalinst.” 3:30 P. M. Clarence V. Howell, on “Revolution and Reconciliation.” Admission Free. Everyone Welcome, [SSS te ADMISSION FREB. Open Forum Discussion, | TOMORROW NIGHT 8 o'clock At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 106 BAST 14th STREET JOSEPH FREEMAN ‘Will speak on “Some Recent Aspects of American Literature —< | The new edition of “The Grand Street Follies” will be placed in re- ite the N One of tne editors of the New |! hearsal next week. Most of the rends and tendencies in some re- || members of the previous editions sent American books and plays. Admission 250. NEXT SUNDAY: Wililam Ptek ‘will speak on “Heonomic Founda. tion of Hace Problem.” have been re-engaged, with five or six new players. The opening of the revue is scheduled for the week of May 21 or May 28 at a theatre in (West Forty-fifth Street, tress, is planning to retire at the |« -—————————_—=— = Sa STRANGE INTERLUDE “VOLPONE” De THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS —————— EUGENE O’NEILL’S JOHN GOLDEN THEA., 58th st, E. of B'way. Evenings only at 5:30 sharp +Dinner Intermission at 7:30. BEGINNING MONDAY, APRIL 23 WEST 62nd ST. Evenings 8:30. GUILD THEATRE Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:30. 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April 26, 8:30 JACQUES MERRY MALONES G ershkovitch Lew Leslie’s production of “Black- birds of 1928,” a Negro revue, will come to 14, Among the principals in the cast will be Ada Ward, Adelaide Hall and Tim Moore. All tours include a 10-day stayover in MOSCOW and LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- May 25 “Carmania” - May 30 “Aquitania” VIA—London, Kiel Canal, Hel- singfors. VIA—Paris, Berlin, Riga. RETURN—Warsaw, Berlin, | RETURN—Warsaw, Rotterdam, Paris. P) London. - $450 AND UP. $500 AND UP WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. * ALGONQUIN 6900 69 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK, N, Y. EASTON AROCLOR CRT MON EN DOT TOILE George M. Cohan has retitled the; Beginning this Saturday evening \Ring Lardner baseball play. It’s to}and continuing through Tuesday eve- open as “Fast Company” at Provi-|ning, the Alliance Players of the Edu- ‘dence on April 80, and Nan Sunderland head a cast of thirty. i . Condueting SO Members of the N. ¥., PHILHARMONIC ORCH Soloist: JOSEPH YASSER, 0 Tickets $1.10 to $2 Now at Bi Mitzi in “The Madcap” will con- elude its engagement at the Casino Theatre Saturday evening, April 28. the Liberty Theatre on May See VISIT OVIET RUSSIA THIS SUMMER tional interest will be visited. GROUPS SAILING ON THE FOLLOWING CUNARD STEAMERS: July 6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” Walter Huston |cational Alliance will present “Hedda Gabler.” The title role will be played _ by Edna V. Fleischman. — Neher