The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1928, Page 4

Pace Fou THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928 ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO, A|'_ = |NEW ERA FOR LITTLE MINING TOWN ON BAIL | THEATRE OF MOSCOW By T. J. OPFLAHERTY. E State Academic Theatre is the@— When the war to make democ | oldest Russian theatre, having been safe for Harny Sinclair, A. B. F |founded 104 years ago. By its tend- and the coal operators was in bloom jeney it is a theatre of artistic truth, and the stool-pigeon was looked upon |and of realism. It was never given as the highest type of Ameri - | pro: lover to pure aestheticism. a I ‘THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS EUGENE O’NEILL’S PLAY STRANGE INTERLUDE assumed a bored look. Wrapped in deep thot they gave the impression of being engaged in the business of solving weighty problems. Two little law students who were assisting the scutor horned in on the confer- BELA LUGOSI aie ae GO THEA, 58th St, E. of B'way. ; zen-in official quarters, a co ence, hands in hip pockets. The activity of the Little ‘Theatre JOHN LDEN HEA, 58th St, B, of Bway. salutation in circles that re They also were having their day |was always based on service to pub- Dinner Intermission at 7:30. : in the n. porters and all those not direct- oncerned in the hearings were d out of the room. Then both lectured the defendants on dvisability of observing the law picketing is illegal. The law-} d not say that it is effective s why it is illegal. The law-| id that the miners must obey | v. The prosecutor said that if| they did not make any more trouble the entry of the United States into the r as a crime against the Amer- | iean masses was, “Where is your in dictment ? Today in the mining town of La ing, Belmont county, Ohio, a woman not under bond on ch: anything from disorderly cond “fiotous and uniawt embly” with the 2 as a bank account |lie ideals in their different exprés- sions and contents through the vari- jous perfods in Russian ‘history. “K'St0adyOf the ideological paths traversed by the Little Theatre might |furnish the basis for a peculiar the- ory of the ups and downs in its art- istic life, showing that such vicissi- tudes were intimately interlaced with analogous changes in the social life of the country. In view of this pecu- beatae] wea BEGINNING MONDAY, MAY 14 EUGENE 0’NEILL’S MARCO MILLIONS 4 est 5 i 8:30. ; GUILD THEATRE WEST 52nd ST. Evenings 4 Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:30, Week of May 21: “VOLPONE”. st to in is almost} ) in a f "4 amily. in Belmont county the ights which the citiz y don’t need -|for the county officials, the cases} n-| would never be called. The mimer: said nothing but went away more de- jliar feature, this perpetual and faith- a : ful service to social ideas, the activ- Lynn Fontanne who has an im-jity of the Little Theatre may justly Week of May 28: “MARCO MILLIONS”. portant role in “Strange Interlude” | be considered as a fact of tremendous | at the John Golden Theatre. The importance not only in the history of O'Neill play was just awarded the|the Russian theatre, but also in the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for the best play | history of the entire Russian cultur produced. “In Moscow there are two univers Continues in the leading role in the tense drama “Dracula,” which is now in its eighth month at the Fulton The- atre, ——— {| termined than ever to win the strike. Arrest Strike Leaders. A few hours later three mine strike leaders were brought by a deputy heriff into the office of Squire Brady tucked awa jail in Saint C Miners’ Wives March to Jai. Saint Clairsville, the IPERB PICTURE w®tio EXCEPTIONALLY INTERESTING fhiés == 5) Quthentic War Adventures of Famous GERMAN CRUISER, =Cite RAIDER EMDEN is a typical American commun: iy : nana—~neueseni= |tiag: the one on the Mokhovaya, and | city began to patronize the branch 1,900 inhabitar leading’ res-| Bréaticltt ° Joc “Webber, of: Bebdge- | the ; 'the Little Theatre”, such used to be | establishment, too. dayst 8p Sse, zs a port, John Spiee ; , f u » be | esta too, tenet Padi, ot paring . (port, John Spiedh of Neify and Andy Phitharmonic Orchestra |the Little Theatre”, such used so be pup ee ae eee ea Bert Sratheie aty of Dillonv Sepich v arrested while addressing a mass meeting in a hall at Crescent. Web- -q| ber and Pleeahty were arrested on only.” No doubt it wa spot in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan| and inhospitable te: ry for those} To Extend Season to |in the 70’s and 80’s, and it was un Twenty-Hight Weeks | questionably a true saying. branch theatre should be mentioned: “The Death of Peter I” by Shapova- The October revolution opened up |lenko, “The Seven Wives of Ivan the Ye. who did not do the with the K. K. “honor” American womanhood in ap- proved klan fashi. It was a liv April 21st, when and daughters of the str n, the w of Lansing marched on the county the jail to protest again: t of their strike lead: to themselves tricked into jail by Colone Don Caldwell, of the Ohio National Guard, official observer for Governor Donahey in the strike area. Many of the women had to sleep on the bull pen floor because of over-! crowding in the jail. Several of them | were nursing babies. The sheriff fi-| rear | tioned the witness. Did Sepich attack "the government? No. Did he attack the street outside the hall. Deputy Sheriff J. C. Baker, taker the witness chair. He is questionec by an a tant prosecutor who de- velops the fact that John Sepich ad- ressed the mass meeting at Cres- cent on April 28. Sepich is alleged to have stated that there are several miners in jail now and that therc ould he several more in jail. This was ineiting to riot! The prosecution rested, Defense attorney Bradshaw ques- the county officials? No. Then why, the devil was he arrested? The deputy felt ill at ease. His was not 'HE concert schedule of the com- bined Philharmonic-Symphony So- ciety for the coming season is now| completed. The organization accord-| ing to the announcement sent out yes- terday will extend the season and} the new orchestra will play} twenty-eight weeks. The opening) concerts will begin October 4 and end | with the Sunday afternoon concert on April 15. The society offers to the former Philharmonic subscribers the follow- ing series of concerts:: Twelve Thurs- day evenings, twelve Friday after- noons, seven Carnegie Hall Sunday a new era in the life of the Little | Theatre. Having retained its classical position during the first revolutionary years, so to speak, maintaining a ben- evolent neutrality on questions of so- ciabepolities, the Little Theatre sub- sequently began timidly to feel for new paths and new themes, and in late years it has firmly taken up the path of service to contemporary life, thus taking a decisive step forward in the intricate process of its trem- endous and difficult internal evolu- tion. : Theatre a Social Factor. “The most interesting thing about this theatre”, said Lunartcharsky in regard to the Little Theatre, “is that Terrible” by Smolin, “Cupid in Wil- low Shoes,” (after Leskov) by Suk- hotin, “Whilst they Fought” (after the novel by Cyril Berger) by Wax and Mattern, as well as plays by Os- torvsky, Bill-Belotsehkovsky and so forth, t An interesting outgrowth school of the Theatre is the studio of the Little Theatre, where a body of young and talented actors are adapt- ing the art traditions of the past to the rhythm of modern life, gaining the reputation of an advanced revolutionary theatre. Harold Lloyd in “Speedy,” will be of the justly now open THE EVER-THRILLING BATTLE of TEAU-THIERRY = buperd Kelth-Albce Vaudeville OWEN McGIVENY Hunter & Percival Lowe & Sargent Revue Others ‘ Evs. 8:30. Mats. jWinter Garden ®y8..8:30- Mats. ‘Greenwich Village Follies | | GREATEST OF ALL REVUES. LUNA’S AQUADROME Finest Pool in Coney Island liy relented id mitted thei: afternoons, six Saturday evening.|! , < transferred to the screen of the Be ee, “| t0 reason why. His was to do as hel students’ concerts and five children’s|it. compels discussion not only as 4 Broadway Theater for the week be en See babies to be brought in to the nursing “ fini 1 talented hdaetne mothers, and taken away again. was told. So he had Sepich arrested.| concerts, Saturday morning. definite art, not merely as a talented) pinning Monday. The vaudeville sd The 61 women were released on| . Bradshaw flashed an affidavit on} To the former Symphony subscrib- and interesting ‘show, but as a social show will include: Owen McGiveney \ their own recognizances with the ex-|the witness bearing his signature. ers it offers: Twelve Thursday after-|factor, as a minor reflecting in its|in 2 dramatic episode from Dickens’ | ception of a few of the leaders who|A™ong other things it said, “That|/noons, twelve Friday evenings, seven|ow0 way the stirring images of our| «Bill Sikes”; Frank Hunter and Mac B'way, 46 St. Eves. 7 were held in bonds of $500 each. They | they did riotously agree with each|Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoons, six| times. Percival; Louise Lowe and Robert FULTON #90. Mats. Wed. & Be other to commit an unlawful act” and| Saturday evening, students’ concerts,| From the classie plays, through| Sargent; Weil Sisters and Johnny Bet 2-8) G went away smiling and more deter-| mined than ever to carry on the strug- gle for victory in the strike. that “they then and there made riot- ous movements.” six Young People’s concerts, Satur- day afternoons and five children’s Lunartcharsky and Smolin, to, the modern playwrights Glebov, Trenev Lee; Wm. A. Jones and Al. W. Rea and Buddy Doyle, with Peggy Hoover “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post, CHANIN'S 46th St. Evenings at 8:25 "4 ii A F Broadway What did Mr. Baker mean by un-| concerts, Saturday morning. and Bill-Belotserkovsky, such has Meth ek. beat SAM Thea., 42d. W. of perienebeared lawful acts? No answer. What did There. will algo be seven Sunday|been the evolution in the repertoire of | RED certo ts ead MANDEL'S H. HARRIS Bway. Eves. 8:30. A Typical Militant. Thirty-eight miners are sitting in| the Saint Clairsville court house. Six | of them are in the chairs usually oc-| cupied by the “gentlemen of the jury.” They are the “ringleaders” as| the prosecution likes to brand those who have more than the average qual- ification for leadership. John Barto, of the Lansing local of the U. M. W. of A., militant and cool, is called to the stand. He rented the union hall in Lansing to the miners’ women who wanted to organ- ize themselves into a Ladies’ Auxili- ary. The women had received permis- sion from the sheriff to hold their meeting. But, so it is said, there was| a telephone call to the sheriff from | the Lewis officials in Bellaire and the meeting was broken up and six| he mean by riotously agreeing to commit an unlawful act? No an- swer. The prosecutor came to the assistance of the harried witness. Baker did not have to know anything except that Sepich said more miners would be arrested before the strike was over. A Frame-up. The extent of Sepich’s wrongdoing was, according to Baker, that he talk- ed about winning the strike in a loud voice and that all those present appeared to agree with what he said Baker admitted that he did not read the affidavit he signed. As attorney Bradshaw pointed out it was copied from a form book in the court house and he signed it with his eyes looking upwards. The assistant prosecutor stood up afternoons at the Metropolitan Opera House and six Sunday afternoons at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. Arturo Toscanini and Willem Men- gelberg, as previously announced wil] eontinue as the regular conductors with guest conductors Walter Dam- rosch and Sir Thomas Beecham tak- ing up the baton during the season. Dr. Damroseh will also conduct his Young People’s and Children’s Con- certs in the first half of the season and Ernest Schelling his series of Children’s Concerts in the second half of the season. The orchestra will be increased to a minimum of -one hundred and ten players. Luna Park to Celebrate Silver Jubilee the Little Theatre during the last ten years. “The Bear’s Wedding,” “Ivan Koz- | ry,” “The Granary,” “Steer to the Left,” “Velvet and Rags,” “Arakt- cheyev,” “Notre Dame de Paris,” “The Wayside Inn,” “Lyubov Yaro- vaya,” and finally, “1917,” such has been the repertoire of the Little The- atre during the last seasons, and in each of these plays was portrayed the theme of the political struggle, or the clash of classes, outlooks and interests, or finally, the tragedy of the indi- vidual who got out of touch with his environment. In each new production of the Little Theatre could be clearly seen the in- |tricate evolution of the modern’ theme, |the growing development of complex psychological and ideological motives, Playhouse beginning roles, characterization has been signed Walls,” picturization in ==—=Screen Notes== “Sealed Lips,” produced in Sweden from a story by Guy’ de Maupassant, will be the feature at the 55th Strect Louis Lerch and Mona Martensson, both now under contract to American movie producers, are in the leading today. Vera Gordon, remembered for her “Humoresque,”” or a part in “Four of the Dane Burnet-George Abbott stage play. “West of Zanzibar,” a story of ad- venture in the tropics, will be Lon Chaney’s new starring vehicle after Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson MUSICAL SMASH Goop NEW with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC EXCITEMENT FUN EDUCATION ATTEND CO-OPERATORS FESTIVAL SUNDAY, MAY 20th, 1928 BEGINNING ‘AT 10 A. M. ULMER PARK, foot of 25th Avenue, BROOKLYN Program: Music: Brooklyn Finnish Work- ers’ Club Band; United Workers’ 10 A. M. Sports: Elaborate athletic contest, open and "Bacto opened 6 vintow to le’ oe taaor oe inugelie pore ‘ONIGHT will be the official open- Pecabnce neha gue ware aroie the eomapletion of “While the City five orpenisations. Se Oe CONE 3, COROT AHN Ors nrscau tea Apne ts ad gaa po Pheargr out on! which said in substance, “May it ing of Coney Island, for Luna|of modern subjects. : Sr ales? race for men, women, Trnpressions, i | Hardesty. ‘The sheriff asked John to| Please, the court, the people, believe| Park, tong Known as the chief play-) “Such are the principles upon which] Raquel Meller’s “Carmen,” now hav- ||] “4 °HiM'e4 1,500 meters run- “ Plesmureun? Henry Aakelt. | come out. He did and was placed| shonld be held for the grand jury.” | its welcoming gate wide open at seven lems of its repertoire plan in the ae ie rage ies premiere ‘at the EF anh obey iatious a Greater Man wore under arrest. “May it please the court,” started|o’clock. In the fifty acres devoted ae eee ae Fa of space will not reenwich Village Theatre, will be 4). Discus; Chaperce) “Why were you arrested?” aske¢ | W. L, Bradshaw of Wheeling, attor- that those men were entirely within|been added. Among these are|at) of the productions enumerated, 4. F events. Dancing: New York Young i peecpoeoen | Sheaet 7 their rights in what they did and the| “Thrills” a new illusfon exhibition, | ahove. aoe ta Raider 3 P. M. Greetings: Neal Kruth, pict Lina Associated sport poking out on the street, I) charges should be dismissed.” and “It” the very latest in girly Many New Plays Produced. ee chairman. and dthiétie. clubs. of Heoatiyn; guess,” replied Big John in his quiet | Way with a merry twinkle in his . ee | them for the grand jury, which course} of last season will continue at this 4 ¥ and Brooklyn; United Workers’ 6 P. M. Di Se John Barto is a big fellow. He is| he took with the unction of a Jesuit|resort. In the band stand free daily |e the current season should be}! Harlem Educational Forum Co-operative Singing Soc., Bronx; Refreshments: Complete food a leader. He could not help being a| putti heretic to: th k f ight! fe ¢ mentioned “Hussars,and Pigeons” By 170 WEST 130th STREET Workers of Consumers Co-oper- service all Plenty of eats Rema faven te the court house | putting a heretie to e rac or | and nightly concerts will be furnished Wolkenstein, which portrays in the Near Fi ‘Aventis ative Services, Irving Pl. Branch. ana deta: blue shirt was frayed at the His clothes never saw the i -| Jonah is supposed to have gone down that those men violated the law and Bradshaw, “but the defense believes But it pleased the court to hold doubting the truth of the fable where oes the whale’s gullet only to emerge as | and her trained baby elephants; Billy 2 Speaker: e-operative forces,in Greater New “ork and vicinity, Meet your 5 parted sheep & Marx factory.| fresh as if he had just taken a cold | Rice Trio; Comedians and acrobats. aiesender e b: a it See ae Or J aig a PMs ta dapat eagle witness | bath, John Agee and his trained horses and Sone ee de y a ecan pele : RAY RAGOZIN Co-operators Festival Me. tiie lang” ane ——- bull, and Martin and Martin. Luna|¢?S_ Yeflecting the P ats Biniece: HOW TO GET THERE: From Times Sy. or Union Sq. take BMT sub- ¢oal baron uire and a shallow- Fi will also present Wild West and |events, the Little Theatre stages also ject: way, West Bnd Line to 25th Ave. Station. From there it's only two . opera attorney, John stood | To Quiz Knapp Juror | Rodeo, with a group of rough riders | Plays belonging to the classic reper- The Need for a Federation minutes walk to Ulmer Park. Note sign at the gate: Oud like a r on a prairie. me aaa Se | toire. When the Sheriff Was “Ill.” John testified on direct examina-| tion by W. L. Bradshaw, defense at- torney, that he gave the use of the union hall to the women to organize into a Ladies’ Auxiliary, the sheriif having given permission to hold the méeting. A deputy sheriff denied that Bermission was given for this pur- pose. So Bradshaw suggested that the presence of the sheriff would be desirable to clear up the matter. Paul V. Waddell, the coal men’s Good Man Friday informed the court that the sheriff was ill and in bed. At this moment it was learned that the sheriff was standing in the court room corridor. An hour later a deputy stated that the sheriff had gone down to the; river, not to jump in, but on some business. Paul V. Waddell started in to ques- tion Barto. The little shiny-trousered, fellow snarled at John and wanted to} “know what he was doing at the Mut-| ton Hollow mine when the mass} picketing took place. | John is not the kind of a fellow to tell more than the traffic can bear | Wherever he was he had ‘a perfect| right to be, The prosecutor barked a TA: : to show his importance. John siniled| 4 pale ‘ ah ao bits Sarl sate! toatl picene Of Interesting Sightseeing Trips “in pop to show that he didn’t give a damn. | hae Ween ‘oii 7 “SHE STOPS TO CONQUER,” ith’ i RLIN ARIS s reisie 3 been passed by the senat d Q »” Goldsmith’s comedy will be revived by anne LEN 2 The defense rested. The squire was the house of repieatuitvee piled bait George Tyler at Erlanger’s Theatre, Monday night. The cast includes! bit este esate MOSCOW INGRAD be i resting on the bench. The defendants were resting in their seats in the court room. Attorneys for both sides sauntered over to the window with an air of importance as is the way with law- ‘yers. They looked out the window. flicked the ashes from cigars and ' * Who Voted Acquittal | ALBANY, N. Y., May 11.—An or- der was issued yesterday directing David R. Main, one of the six jurors | who voted for the acquittal of for- | mer Secretary of State Florence E. S. Knapp to appear before Supreme | Court Justice Stephen Callaghan this morning at 10 o’¢lock, and-show cause why he Should not be held in con- | tempt of court. | The order was signed by a supreme} | court judge, after affidavits had been| presented to him showing that Main had said he would not vote to convict Mrs. Knapp because District Attor- ney Charles J. Herrick, of Albany. said the evidence was not sufficient. The jury before whom Mrs. Knapp was fried on a charge of stealing thousands of dollars in census money, jdisagreed after deliberating eight hours. The former secretary of state wil) go on trial a second time May 21 on the same charge. Air Mail Rate to Drop WASHINGTON, May 11-—A bill goes to the president for approval, ground of the oceanside will throw to amusements many new shows have shows. The spectacle Chateau Thierry by Luna Parks Marine Band. In the Circus also free, will be Adele Nelson and Indians. As usual dancing will be free in the Ballroom. “The Price of Fear” goes into pro- duction at Universal City next week} with Bill Cody playing the leading role and George Hackathorne an im- portant part. The picture is an adap- tion of “The Stool Pigeon,” a mys¢ tery story by Basil Dickey. i =——=Music Notes-=== Dhimah will present a program of Dance Poems at the Guild Theatre, this Sunday evening, supported by a company, including Ltille Saiken, Francis Graham, Blanche Evan and Geraldine Chanin, Anton Civoru,+thé Russian basso, will give a re ] next Friday eve- ning, at Steinway Liail. Sigmund Romberg, composer of ‘My Maryland,’ ‘The Student Prince,’ and numerous other operettas, is at work upon a grand opera. the Little Theatre has dealt with the permit us here to deal minutely with Among the new plays to be produced form of a social farce the dark pages of the past history of the reign of | Among these should be mentioned the production of “The Wayside Inn” by Ostrovsky. It is not merely a re- vival of Ostrovsky’s play, but rather an adaptation to the present time by means of a careful selection of the so- cial types and personages. In order to attract the rising gen- eration, the Little Theatre gives spe- cial matinee shows on Sundays and holidays, the repertoire of which com- prises both Russian and foreign plays (Von Vizin, Griboyedov, Gogol, Tur- genev, Ostrovsky, Beaumarchais, Schiller, Scribe, and so on). The Theatre has also a branch house in the working class district (known as the Safonov Memorial The- atte.)' The performanges at the branch theatre are given daily by a full company of actors from the Little Theatre, with strict observance of all the artistic and scenic require- ments. As a matter of fact, the ma- terial interests of this theatre are sacrificed here for the sake of the idea. Recently, however, the playgo- ers from the central quarters of the ¥ Horace Braham, AVIATOR IS KILLED, LAWRENCE, Kansas, May 11.— Alfred Harwl of Atchison, died yes- terday as a result of injuries obtained in an ‘airplane crash, ¥ “ANNA,” a new play by Rudolph Lo Lyceum Theatre. Herman Bernstein who made the Love,” did the same for the new The New Plays Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fay Bainter, Glenn Hunter, Pauline Lord, Lyn! Harding, O. P. Heggie, Patricia Collinge, Lawrence D’Orsay and Judith Anderson and Lou Tellegen head the cast. thar will open Tuesday night at the held over for a second week. Admission Freet adaptation of Lother’s “Command to opus, Sunday, May 13, at 4 p. m. of Working Women’s Clubs QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION Come Earlyt SOVIET RUSSI (Free Visés—Extensions arranged for to visit any part of U. S. S. R.) : Only a few Reservations left FOR MAY SAILINGS Applications for these dates must be sent in at once. May 25 - -“Carmania” — May 30 - -“Aquitania” yp. Wor_tp Tourists, INc.. (Agents for OFFICIAL TRAVELBURO of SOVIET GOV.) 69 Fifth Ave., New York City “SEE RUSSIA FOR YOURSELF” and Novelty: Brooklyn Junior Co-operators, e) Broad jump. 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