The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1928, Page 4

An explanation of the causes of | war was EUGENE O’NEILL’S ae tN ; i Page Pour THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1928 for All Wars | THE RUSSIAN STAGE | ee offered here at least highly ingenious. The author is none other than Rear Bradley A. Fiske, U. and therefore free to deliver talks be- fore such organization Ss ciety of New England Women. “If there were no women or chil- dren,” said the scholarly navy man, “there would be nothing to defend, | because there would be no riches for | 4n opponent to strive for.” Descending further into the depths @f sociology, the admiral announced that “all men want would be enough to eat ard drink and a place to sleep.” | But women, he asserted, demand jew- els, silks, great houses, limousines. It is the desire to satisfy this craving that trade competitions exist with re- sulting wars. Following his discourse, Fiske made an eloquent plea for preparedness for the next war. ORASH 1S PROBED CAMDEN, April —An investi- gation is now being conducted to de- termine the cause of the collapse of the balcony of the Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church which crashed during a conference Monday night, killing one and injur- ing over 50 delegates. George Brooks, $4, of Keyport, died on the way to the hospital with ‘a broken back. Mayor Winfield S. Price, who last o7 27. December ordered a city-wide inspec- tion of all public buildings, said he could not explain the accident. The sole supports of the crowded baleony were ten-inch wooden posts. Rep. Madden, Member Of Coolidge - Mellon Party Coterie, Dies WASHINGTON, Apr. 27,—After several weeks spent leading the White House fight in congress against the Jones-Reid Flood relief bill and the McNary-Haugen relief bill, Rep. Martin B. Madden, member of the} little republican coterie that has dic- yesterday | which, if not historically correct, is Admiral | S. N., retired, | the So-| tated affairs in the house for years,! Who will have an important part jin “Fast Company,” Ring Lardner’s inew comedy which is coming to Broadway next month. A new Monte Blue film will be the broadway Theatre Mon- ay. “Across The Pacific,” from a story by John Ransome, has the fol- lowing in the cast: Edna Murphy, |Burr McIntosh and Robert Ober. | | | sho at “The Raider Emden” has _ been | booked at the Cameo for initial show- | ing in New York commenging this Saturday. The film is founded on the exploits of the famous German cruis- er of that name. “Potemkin” is being revived at the Greenwich Village Theatre this week. | Another picture by Eisenstein, “Oc-! tober,” is having its continental premiere in Berlin. “October” is | based on “Ten Days That Shook the | World,” a story by John Reed, who | fought in the Russian Revolution. screen feature at the »Roxy this week is “Honor Bound,” Fox production, with George |O’Brien and Estelle Taylor sharing } |the stellar roles. The | i} | Douglas Fairbank’s sequel to “The Three Musketeers” is being scena- | rized by Jack Cunningham, who wrote th escenarios of “Don Q” and “The Black Pirate.” Max Reinhardt is coming over here next season to direct several produc- tions of German plays with New York 'VERY epoch has its own theatre which reflects that particular epoch. E |The future historian, upon examining | With the public restaurants and pub- resent repertoire of the Russian | 2, will be able to gain an idea | r x period through which we are pi ‘he proletariat, in its struggle for socialism, constantly mes into con- flict with the opposite class. We have not yet produced a rigidly proletarian theatre reflecting the present stage of transition trom capitalism to social- ism and *the pathos, of the heroic | struggle and of peaceful constructive | work of socialism; but we have al- |veady a rich repertoire reflecting the Revolution. This repertoire is impreg- nated with the ideas of the ascending class, of the new people who are bouyantly confident of victory, In the mentality of these new peo- ‘ple (people who are still of the tran- sition period) the cuiture of past is blended with that of the future. shese new people do not resemble ichekhov’s heroes who are weighed .own by superstitious beliet in fatal- predominant heroes of the |pre-revolutionary theatre in Russia. | The October storm has aroused the masses and shaken of the shackles of the past; and above all, it has emancipated the woman. ism—the The women’s movement is spread- ing in our country with unparalleled force. In the remotest corners of the country we 1 the women engaged in public life, acting as worker-corres- pondents, village-correspondents, chairmen of rural Soviets, and so on; we see the women of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Georgia, making steady progress on the road of eman- cipation, This new woman, who has already established herself as a public worker, jis finding her reflections in our modern novels and plays. Whilst the bourgeois theatres knew only of the woman as a doll and a pet, the new class brought forward by October, the proletariat, has given us the woman- comrade, and the woman-builder, en- visaging the problem of marriage and | family life under an entirely new angle. The future historian will be able to trace the gigantic progress made by} woman during the years of evolution. Dasha has already assimilated ‘the modern ideas of the new social life, lic laundries, whereas her husband cannot get away from the 6ld ideas of the excluded household and its endless drudgery. This leads to a dramatic struggle between the new spirit embodied in the new woman of October, and the old conservative notions of her husband. This,~ ‘we find in “Cement,” the problem of conjugal relations treated from the standpoint of the new, revo- lutionary ideas that are based upon the complete equality of the sexes. In Romashev’s “End of Krivorilsk” we behold again the types of new ‘women in the person of Natalie Mug- linova, and Rosa Bergman, who are championing the ideas of family life and social relations in defiance of the conservative traditions of the people around them. These are a few of the types of new women presented on the Soviet stage, which will furnish the future historian with some material on the great moral and mental revolution which we are witnessing in our coun- try. Tommy “Bozo” Snyder will be the headline attraction at the Broadwa) commencing Monday. Surroundings him in a vehicle called “The Decora tors” are Sam Green, Beatrice Tracey | § and Jack Malloy. Guy and Pearl Magley appear on the bill with their Serenaders and the Melvin Sisters The other acts will include “Thc Monologist?” by Edwin Burke; Med- ley and Duprey, and Johnnie Parker and Norman Mack. Monte Blue in the first showing of “Across the At- lantic” will be the Broadway’s star on the screen feature. John Ransome wrote the story. The balance of the east follows: Edna Murphy, Burr McIntosh and Robert Ober, Rumor elong Broadway has it that the Provincetown Players are seck- ing an uptown house for supplemental season after the Provineetown Play- house, in Greenwich Village, ‘closes next month, Possibilities are that the group will move up either to the Prin- died without warninb in his office | in the appropriations committee room |bring his famous German company yesterday. He was chairman of that| with him. His agreement specifies powerful committea,. and had. been|that he is to direct three shows, but called the ribht hand man of Coolidge | it is not expected that he will remain and Secretary Mellon in manipulating | Jong. approtriations. Madden was serving his twelfth consecutive term in the house and had just been nominated for another term in the Illinois shot gun primary of last week. A multi- millionaire enemy of the workers, he was the first to make a ploy for the|author of “The Command to Love,” Negro vote ‘in Chicago and was elect-| and has been adapted by Herman yed “misrepresentative” of the first| Bernstein. Lon Tellegen will play an congressional district in which | important role. large section of the Negro workers | of Chicago live. Heart disease was ascribed as the cause of death. casts, it is announced, and he will not Judith Anderson, recently seen here in “Behold, the Bridegroom,” is about to start rehearsals in a play from the German entitled “Young Truth.” It is the work of Rudolph Lothar, co- A motion picture based on the life of Kit Carson, Indian scout in the old west, is to be made by Fred | Thompson. To Pay Loan Shark 10% | oe a | “Tenth Avenue,” a Pathe picture, Of Salary For 10 Years |; now rials for release. Phylli Haver, Victor Varconi Schildkraut are featured. It is a jdrama of New York’s famed “Hell’s | Kitchen,” adapted from a play by the Testimony against Jacob Sarner, | money lender of 154 Nassau St., who ig said to have spec ed in preying $n city employes, was heard for most |.3me name. of the session Wednesday in the “loan ‘a shark” investigation now before Chief} ‘The Second Moscow Art Theatre, City Magistrate McAdoo. One wit-|which is directed by Mikhail Tche- mess, whose name was withheld by!khof, has recently had a film dealing the court, testified that he was “hope- with the activities of the company on lessly in debt to Sarner and expected one of its busy days, covering play ito. pay the lender 10 per cent of his, readings, rehearsals, technical prena- salary for the next ten years.” | rations, performances, ete. In report= a ing this-action Kino, the Moscow film p. NOTED JAPANESE ARTIST paper, voices the hope that other HERE jmodel Russian companies will follow !the example of Tchekhof and thus jmake full use of the possibilities of the movies in raising the general standard of the theatre. Pola Negri’s next picture, “Fedora,” will have the following male players in the cast: Lawrence Grant, Jack |Luden, Otto Mattieson and Bodil Ros- ing. Production already has started junder the direction of Ludwig Berger, | well known German director. FASCIST LEADER KILLED. and Joseph | | ROME, April 27,—Gen. Guidoni,| chief of staff of the Italian Air) Force, was killed here today while} trying out a parachute. Gen. Guidoni went aloft in an airplane piloted by! “The End of Krivorilsk” and Nizo- voy’s “On the Land.” “Luboy Yarovaya.” Trenev’s play “Luboy Yarovaya”| portrays the scenes of the Civil War in one of our southern towns which constantly changed hands in the bat- tles between Reds and Whites. The heroine of the play, Lubov Yarovaya, |who lost her husband in the imperial- ist war, although belonging to no party, supports the Bosheviks and hates the Whites. Among the Reds| there was a disguised enemy of the | Soviets who, whilst acting as a Red \Commi ar, Was secretly working for jthe Whites. After the evacuation of | the Reds, this man removed his mask, and Mme Yarovaya, to her great horror, recognized her missing hus- | band in | the person of the traitor. This man, known as a Red Commis- ar under the sobriquet of “Vikhr” | (whirlwind), was really acting ‘as |sp y and provocator among the Reds. The town has been recaptured by |the Whites. Lubov Y; ‘a is now; jconfronted with the terrible dilemma, | | whether to follow her husband into | jthe camp of the Whites, or her own ympathies for the proletariat. She makes up her mind, and hesi- sly she joins the Reds, to whom surrenders her husband, knowing that he will be shot by them. In the bitter conflict between the classes ‘Lubov Yarovaya makes her choice, and from an ordinary and common- |Place school teacher she grows into |@ heroine who sacrifices her own} |Personai feelings for the great cause; |of the toilers, “Cement” Deals with Reconstruction Gladkov’s .““Cement” denls with another phase of the Revolution, with jthe period of reconstruction which jfollowed upon the termination of the | Civil War, : | Gleb Tehumalov, a demobilized Red! Army soldier, returns to his native place. For three‘ years he had been| away, fighting on the different fronts and now on approaching his native place, he sees the traces of destruc- tion and devastation. He hurries on to rejoin the wife and little daughter whom he has left behind, | | This progress will be traced by such|cess or Frolic, Thé final production plays as Trenev’s “Lubov Yarovaya,” Gladkov’s “Cement,” Romashev’s| The Actors’ Equity has arranged \hearsal a new comedy by Louis Sobol, \play one of ‘the leading roles, and i those in the cast are Ada Ward, Tim |the famous artist, James Montgom- Lieut. Freri. Leaping from the plane at a high altitude, Gen. Guidoni’s arms and legs became entangled in the ropes and he was helpless. po. Oa Tear Me Up.” —The Daily Worker. ee o z GRE oN The New Plays “HERE’S HOWE!” at the Broad- hurst Theatre Tuesday night. This is the new Aarons and Freedley show, which has a book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith, lyrics by Irving Caesar and music by Roger Wolfe Kahn and Joseph Meyer. In the cast are Allen Kearns Irene Delroy, William Frawleey, Erie Blore and Peggy Chamber- i lain, ‘zaemon Ishimura has come to the States to rest up from his labors. One of the foremost of Japan, he has been play- daily to an audience of 4,000 per- ms in Tokyo, with each perform- running some six hours, and con- of at least six plays. Insert him in make-up. ‘ @ % | He finds his wife now as an active public worker, and he feels a sort of resentment. Whilst at the front he was, to be sure, a fighter and revo- lutionary; now, among the members of his family, he returns to the past, and to his pre-revolutionary social jideas, his wife is his property, a part of himself, and does not care to share her with public duties. The New Woman But the old wife is dead; she has now emerged as the new woman, re- generated in the flames of the Civil | War and the Revolution by all her experiences of the famine and the im- |mense struggles which she has wit- nessed. _ Dasha, the former village girl, is |now a conscious revolutionary build- jer whereas Gleb (her husband) be- |longs to the past. He cannot get him- |self to treat his wife as a comrade; he can only treat her as his own property: She wants perfect equal- ity: not only in the Soviet and in the factory, but also in her private life and affections. for two additional benefits the com- ing week in aid of the Actors’ Fund. Special matinee performances will be ' given of “The Trial of Mary Dugai,” at the National on Thursday, May 8, and of “Take the Air,” at Earl Car- roll’s Friday, May 4, Willard Mack, author of “The Scarlet Fox,” in which he is now playing at the Theatre Masque, has written three new plays, “Bad Debts,” which he has sold to the Messrs. Shu- bert; “Fancy Work,” written in col- laboration with Beatrice Banvard and sold to Mrs. Harris, and “Oil,” bought by William A. Brady. It won’t be long now before the much rewritten stage version of “El- | mer Gantry” dawns before a Sinclair | Lewis loving public. Joseph Shea, | the producer, has just taken over the | piece which Patrick Kearney drama-| tized and promises to have stock companies going simultaneously in Cleveland and Providence within the next few weeks. A third company will anchor in New York early in Oc- tober. Louis Isquith has placed in re- entitled “The High Hatters.” Juan-| ita Hansen, former cinema star, will, John Sullivan and Thomas H. Man-! ning are further additions to the cast. “The High Hatters” will open in New York shortly. “Blackbirds of 1928,” a Negro re- vue, will be presented by Lew Leslie | at the Liberty Theatre Wednesday night, May 9. The attraction will have its first performance next Mon- day night in Atlantic City. Among Moore and Adelaide Hall. “Forbidden Roads,” now playing at the Liberty Theatre, will end its engagement this Saturday night, First National has commissioned | ery Flagg, to supply the subtitles for! its new Billie Dove picture, directed 4 Alexander Korda, “The Yellow ily.” Children’s Concerts To Be Given in Two Series Te newly amalgamated Philhar- monic-Symphony Society of New’ York announces two series of Chil- dren’s Concerts for next season, each comprising five Saturday mornings at Carnegie Hall. The first, under the direction of Walter Damrosch, is scheduled for November 10 and 24, December 8 and 22, and January 5.) The second, under the direction of Ernest Schelling, will be given on: January 26, February 2 and 9, and March 2 and 16. Mr. Damrosch originated the idea of symphony concerts for children 12 | years ago. They were an outgrowth | of his concerts for young people, and were particularly designed for boys and girls between six and twelve years. Mr. Schelling has given his series the past five years. . | bill of the tournament. ‘was elevated, and it had a curtain jentire progress of the play. Plays the role of Mrs. Evans in Eugene O'Neill’s lengthy drama, “Strange Interlude,” which the Thea- tre Guild is presenting at the John Golden Theatre. International Group of Authors in Tournament UGENE O’NEILL, J. M. Barrie, August Strindberg and Luigi Pirandello are four international playwrights whose works will be com- peting against each other in the sixth annual National Little Theatre tour- ~ nament to be held at the Frolic The- atre beinning May 7 “O'Neill will be represented twice; the Memphis Little Theatre offering “The Dreamy scid,’’ and the Maskers, of Eliza- beth, N. J., “Where the Cross is Made.” The Englishman, Luigi rirandeilo Barrie, will be represented by “The | Old Lady Shows Her Medals,” which will be played by a group from Scot- land. Strindberg, the Scandinavian, is author of “The Outcast,” to be of- fered by the Manhattan College Play- ers of New York. The Italian, Piran- dello, will have “The Man with a Flower in His Mouth,” to be played by the Manhattan Y. M. H. A. Players. a ‘Two other well-known playwrights who will be represented in the tourna- ment are Susan Glaspell, whose “Trifles” is being brought east by the Players’ Club of Columbus, Ohio, and John W. Rogers, authon of “Wed- ding Presents,” which has been en- tered by the Dramatic Union, a Man- hattan group. A young Negro author, Mary Burrill, has written a play of her people for the Grigwa Little Negro Theatre Group of New York, who will present it on the second night Of the long distance entrants there will be a group from Kansas, two from Georgia, one each from Ten- nessee, West Virginia and New Jer- sey. The metropolitan district will be represented by groups from Pough- keepsie, Mount Vernon, Jackson Heights and seven from Manhattan. Old Roman Theatre Dug Up in Spain AN old Roman theatre was recently excavated in Merida, Spain, which had been buried for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is well pre- served, considering the time it has been since it was last used. The seat- ing capacity was for five thousand. Galleries, pit, orchestra stalls, boxes, amphitheatre and everything else connected with the theatre are almost perfectly preserved. Most of the structure is of marble. The an- cient Romans had painted scenery, but the stagehands did not shift the|. scenes between the acts. The stage which was rung up when everybody was seated and remained up for the As a rule the theatre of Rome, both at home and in the Roman provinces, was supported by money taken from the public funds, and every Roman had the right to patronize it. It was a favorite rendezvous of slaves as well, for the Roman staged many of these festivals to have the slave for- get his chains. The remains of the theatre found in the Spanish town’ show it to have been one of the! minor playhouses, although it would , rank as‘a great theatre today. But! the Marcelline Theatre, built in Rome by the Emperor Augustus as a mem- orial to his son-in-law, Marcellus, was able to seat 18,000 people. In this and other ancient Roman theatres were produced mainly Greek tragedies and spectacles, or Roman adaptations thereof. Later the na- tive Roman drama sprang up, and there came into being Roman come- dies and satires. The Romans pos- sessed a rich, salty and rather Ra- belaisian humor-which the Greeks did | not, and the racy comedies of Plautus and the satires of Juvenal and Ter- ence drew bigger crowds than the. tragedies of Aeschylus, Criticism, of the drama in those days was inclined to be rather em- phatic. Poor actors were lynched. | The audiences were most demonstra- | tive, and sometimes painfully frank. Whi'e the stage was not then high- ly regarded as a profession by the people of means, many young men liked to take part in mob scenes on gala nights, and it is known that once Nero sang on the stage. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? will be released this year. Merna JOHN GOLDEN * Dinner Interm! BEGINNING MON! GUILD THEATRE STRANGE INTERLUDE EUGENE 0O’NEILLS, MARCO MILLIONS WEST 52nd ST. Evenings 8:30. Mats. Thurs. and Sat, 2:30. Week of May 7: “VOLPONE” Week of May 14: “MARCO MILLIONS.” HEA., 58th St., E. of Bway, Evenings only at 5:30 sharp, ssion at 7:30, DAY, APRIL 30 CZAR | POPULAR PRICES—Afternoon, Yiddish Art Theatre DIRECT FROM BROADWAY BEGINNING MONDAY EVENING, APR, 23, and every day from 1:30 to, 11 The popular player of the Moscow Art Theatre, LEONID LEONIDOFF In a Sovkino production THE TERRIBLE ADDED PEATURES—Pictures of the Tenth Anniversary of Russian Revolution, also “Views of Moscow.” SECOND AVE., cor. 12 St. TEL. Stuyvesant 7195. IVAN , 25 cents; Evening, 50 cents. 42nd St. & Bway CAMEO NOW Cameo’s Contribution to New York’s welcome to Koehl, Von Huenefeld and Fitzmaurice, ACTUAL ADVENTURES OF THE FAMOUS GERMAN CRUISER THE RAIDER EMDEN UTHENTIC—THRILLING—SENSATIONAL. First New York Showing. Madison Sq. Garden? &,°° 5 Twice daily (except Sun.) 2 and § “=e CIRCUS Including Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION TO ALL $1 to $3.50 (incl. Seat and War Tax). Children under 12 half price at all Aft. Performances ex- cept Saturday. ; RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM & 32nd WEEK RACU B'way, 46 St. Eve. 9.36 FULTON Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.36 “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post. ERLANGER W. 44 st. Evs. 3:30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) “oumoiaxs MERRY MALONES COMEDIANS IN THE Theatre, West 44th Street. HUDSON Evs. 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat, THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS " Theatre, 41 St. W. of 8” National pysi%iu. ate wed.anct, “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard with Ams Harding-Kex Cherryman BROADWAY. A TIMELY ROMANCE OF TRANSATLANTIC FLYERS, “ACROSS ~ ATIAN win MONTE BLUE... BEGINNING ypeyery ween 04) MONDAY ]['933 735 A Bis KéitH-Aieee —PROGRAM— BOZO SNYDER THE MAN WNO NEVER TALKS *The MONOLOGISTY LY & OUPREY: AT 1ST FIC! Geran Fu jn tomph BROOKLYN THEATRES SECOND BIG WEEK. MOMART 40K, AW BB POTON ST. @ ROCKWELL LACE 730 RM. Broblin, owing "hse Mise piece / Y DIRECT from 4 WEEKS EXCSAT SUN & HOL wt CAMEO NY EAST SIDE THEATRES Rrate SU 32 Re ‘Abts. *EVGS! ESSE 9 Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun., Apr. 26-27-28-29 Little Billy, Mr. & Mrs, Jimmy Barry, Dave White's “White Hawks”—Other Acts, — William Boyd in “Skys¢raper” - LECTURES AND *FORUMS THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE AT COOPER UNION (8th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o'Cleck SUNDAY, APRIL 29th ; PROF. HARRY A. OVERSTREET “Finding Freedom in the ‘Twentieth Century.” Muhlenberg Branch Library (209 WEST 23rd STREET) At 8:30 o'Clock. MONDAY, APRIL 30th MR. HOUSTON PETERSON William Blake—“Nietzsche and Blake.” | ADMISSION FREE. Open Forum Discussion, ———— TOMORROW NIGHT 8 o'clock Last Lecture ‘of the Season! At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 EAST 14th STREET WILLIAM PICKENS Will speak on "Economic Foundation of the Race Problem” Admission 25c. Celebrate May First with the Workers School, at Madixon Sa. Garden, on Tuesday, at 3 P. M. SSE Richard Barthelmess is working on EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM At the Church of All Nations — Second Avenue (near Houston) SUNDAY, APRIL 29 7:30 P. M. Ceeil Headrick on “Pure itanism and Capitalism.” 8:30 P. M. James Myers on “Science and Religion in Industry.” Admission Free. Everyone ‘Welcome, MUSIC AND CONCERTS GALLO THEATRE Tomorrow (Sunday) Evening at 8:45 4th and Last Recital This Season Robenne “Roulette,” from Fanny Hurst’s story. Alfred Santell is directing. Lina Basquette again plays opposite Dick, Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chap- lin are preparing stories for their next United Artists Pictures, which assisted by ANATOLE*VILTZAK NICOLAS KOPEIKINE at Plano | (Steinway) i Coneert Mgt. Daniel Mayer, Ino, Katherine: Bacon will give her final pianoforte concert of Schubert musi¢ this Monday night at Town Hall. The Kennedy, cus,” leading lady in “The Cir- again appear opposite t Sonata in E flat,’Op. 122, | 2 ‘program: Sonata in D major, Op. ‘es: Six Mo- °