The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 4

Four icaire Guild Stages O'Neill: Play “Dynam veat Acting DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929 SAMCHYKOVSKI ‘Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ Postal Workers Ask MUSIC AND CONCERTS Presented at 55th St.| Telegrams to Favor \Playhouse Program! Forty-four Hour Bill ‘DL: : | WASHINGTON, Feb, Br", PhilharmonicSymphony WN Kelth-Albee | A double feature program will be GE'VE clectrocu' © eaccceeine | rch double feature program ill Pe rouse of Represeniatives has before | BERNARDINO MOLINARI p=sse==—sc=mmme O don’ on the floor; the dead girl, |pouse today, UFA’s “The Cabinet | it bills to grant tie 44-hour week to |) saith sien: gris Students Best Film Show A ME ONE is postal employees. Its fate is prob- In Town lematical. The postal employees are Light (Glen on the second plat- black at Tomorrow Afternoon at 3:00 }of Dr. Caligari,” with Conrad Vivaldi—Beethoven—Malipiero | Veidt, Werner Krauss and Lil Dag- 42nd Street and Broadway foe el | ecusta) the? leading vale prohibited by the U. S. statutes at Reapihi—Stravinsky y the structure itself or in tra feature is’ the first large from building a real labor TA MIRROIIGSE AMERICAN NEWEST AMKINO ags when | | Broadway. presentation of “Beauti- Union, and have only a kind of social RTURO TOSCANINI PREMIERE PRESENTATION upon it, as no| ful Blue Danube,” a waltz romance, | club for their “protection.” Carnesie Hail, suere:] A branch of this embryo union, the New York Federation of Postal Clerks is calling upon all friends to wire congressmen in favor of the bill. at S145, Fri, Aft, Sat. E x based on the famous melody by oe | Johann Strauss, and directed by | Friedrich Zelnick, one of Europe’s foremost producers and director of “The Weavers” and “Dancing | Vienna.” Lya Mara and Harry Liedke play the chief roles. The | same bill includes a UFA short “The PASH ottte CZAR™ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible’ DIRECTED BY I. A. PROTOZANOV. a mechanical | she were not] by which the | from the} she would mean little in| i she takes up a lot of | q (Steinway) yA Arthur Judson, Mgr. at the Guild Cinema. Proletarian Is Proud Of! “Eugene O’N scene the preacher and | | film “Rusti ” Rus- vioete one the preacher and.) (imal UteA “atioriwha bene atel aa tine ae fea ance hue Based on the famous story by Andreyev, “The Governor.” ful, to say nt scene, so far title of “Merited artist of the U. S. | j= = 2 ¥ ¢ | eae ones Se tar ee'R"plays the principal role in|] American Symphonie Basemble One Special Showing! 3 western or-the | {two ” now in its hird week A Record of Which Every sacs in the : i Conductor ess % THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS there was tendency io f tion and s chanical thin He did evolved a new te atre. He let his ar tice, into a m tempered instru But the thought on reality oozed aw: tical, dream-like attitu him. . Some literary fo: tia.praecox, with a p: sional system fixed its Or so it seems. Now either 0’) is ¢tizy or he thinks the rest of u arey which is a bad stage of de- moralization either way you look at it... “Dynamo” It is said to t The mys- le grew up n of demen- ic delu- 's 32nd play. ai AIRW _ | from *\and this is what Miss Nunn has play. It seems to a chance for the ill at drawing d audience | Here is some ill’s technical ng warped, along Let us end by |2 AIRWAYS, INC. TWO NOT ARTISTS IN YS, INC.” Nunn, who appeared in will play one of the lead- in the New Playwrights’ |1 ming production “Airways, by John Dos Passos, which| February 19 at the Grove| set Theatre next Wednesday. rom singing and dancing jazz to very revolutionary lines Dos Passos play is a far ery, Eves, 8:30 5c; $1 00; $1.50. NNE, Director e Cradle Song.” d-Be ¢ Fay Bainter in JEALOUSY with John Halliday 2°."%) done. While Dos Passos’s play is a serious one, there are two former Broadway musical comedy actresses The latest New Playwrights group production, John Dos Passos’ “Air- will open at the Grove heatre on Wednesday, Feb. 9th as previous- the best act- |] ding to a state- ce “Emperor | me } by Em Jo V. S. |Basshe, executive director. CIVIC REPERTORY 'St sthas ts. Wed.&Sat.,2.3¢ nileman.” Bt. Ic, Concert Me 30} aba hy hn he hy, Dance Dens hor e- delle | Symphony Orchestra Carnegie Hall, Thurs, Eves Feb. 28th, at 8:45 Handel Concerto Grosso in Tschaikowsky NAOUM BLINDER, Soloist Violin Concerto The Greatest News Picture Ever Filmed! “KRASSIN’ F Debussy “Nuages” and “Fetes” Wagner Boxes $20.00 and Tickets $1.00 to $2.50 Mgt. Beckhard efarlane, In: | compen THPATRE, | Night at 8:30 | —Steiny ay MARTIN aA Night at 8:30 ‘Tomorrow Prelude Meistersinger .00 ‘Tomorrow ‘Maier Pattisor A Sovkino Production C. OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH FOUGHT AGAINST TREMENDOUS ODDS AND RESCUED THE NOBILE CREW seed og Oy Introductory Speech by the noted explorer Vilhjalmur Stefannsen CARNEGIE HALL, Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 8:30 P. M. EUGENE O’NEILL’S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK 3: EXTRA MATIN! Wings Over Europe By ROBERT NICHOLS & MAURICE BROWNE ALVIN THEA, 52nd St., West of Bway. Mat. Thurs, Wash. B'day. and SPECIAL MATINEE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY, SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE a ae a ee a! in the cast, The other is pan /iddish _Art Theatre | Meiser, who was in “Garrick Gai-) 74th St * mod ‘¢ eties” a few seasons ago. | t of a trilogy nent that man Assisted by CHARLES WEIDMAN Concert Mgt. Daniel Mayer, Inc. —Steinway Piano— THEA,, West 52nd Street, Eves, 8:50 Sharp Tickets: 50c to $2.00 at Box Office A Wik oe GUILD 0 she EXTRA MATINEE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. devoted to the pr is by nature re you take awa. MAUR Friday, & Sunday Eve. TOWN HALL, Tue. By., Feb. 19, 8:15 the Hasts, ac . 7 " and Satu’ and Sanday Mat LUELLA on THEATRE GU MAY GIVE : c Ant Bwaday “Mats | poms for LONDON SE ‘ON. WILLIAM SHAKESPRARE'S | EUGENE O’NEILL’S cone ta int The Theatre Guild is considering ges | ‘ | EK] | OQ This is, nothing t pede yes rela Sadie \i| To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party TR from_a.swarm of ee a ea ceginiceee exit hae ire y Bort Coloratuss, ponaue | Sections and Affiliated Organizations! paratative ica a accepted the Guild will present four} nented by Boris, Giseonlp [pgolon Alberti at prinne: seTooks | ction: Es . ES) bie scie) - ie arker, Fiutist; ierre athieu, | a 4 lays, each play to run from tWO | gE CEES hoist; e 7 ERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— it $s a decade: a piay id s | Oboist; Louis Letellier, Bassoonist. | SCHEDULE A PER RMAD Dy 'THEA., 58th St., 5, of Broadw: enh wpcth. cons in, ares wed PIG PGP Ws urset VOTE LI hecoras| JOHN GOLDEN frente omy ac" sharo The Guild’s cast for “The Game | of Love and Death,” which is to be | its next New York offering, will in- LECTURES AND FORUMS | clude Margalo Gillmore, Earl Larri- |more, Arthur Byron, Claude Rains, Henry Travers and Morris Carnov- Rouben Mamoulian is~ direct- | prqduct of a class of drone only then when it is in a nebulous form,, very much generalized. You cay find some such vague idea in the_minds of the second generation of descendants of “captains of in-| 1 dustry,” some theory that machine | °“¥° civjlization, seen only as capitalism, | "8 | hag a divine and pe Airways, Inc. Opening on Feb. 20 at the Grove St. Theatre Make $240 for the Daily Worker and the Needle Trades Strikers. Gall Paxton or Napoli at WATKINS 0588 for Arrangements. THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE AT COOPER UNION «Muhlenberg Branch Library (8th St. and ASTOR PLACE) | (209 WEST 23rd STREET) At ‘8 o'Clock At 8:30 o'clock | MONDAY, FEB. 18 MR. HOUSTON PETERSON “John Dunne—the Charnel Obsession” “HOLIDAY” “This comedy the leader of its field; virtual capacity.” —from “Variety.” Authentic index of box-office receipts. nent flavor. | And even such men might be a little | edad Sa Hoover on Everglades | worries yy the fact that machine Wiilization, industrielization, can | Lour to Plan Mortgage | also have the form of a Soviet so- | gy Victims of Floods | ciety=a doubtful sort of god in their a |} MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 14—| But eet soi i pacthe ae President-elect Hoover starts early | theory pe be ‘ “ iratal wi stay ee tomorrow on a personal survey of | ghee tt oy Aan oe the ti “| Florida’s flood district in the Ever- | cut the slightest inkling of the lu-| jicges about Lake Okeechobee. =| dicrousness he brings to it. ny is is ; motor parade of twenty auto-| He sits down and writes with con- “ f ; pease Ee cals dranin of prcanhe | meee ee eee i edie tts aie etrayed in a critic ihe (President-elect, Jadwin and Reid, a) ry ‘code of ethics this god idea symbol: /rouR Florida offieials, headed by izes. The son breaks loose from Govsrnsr Doyle Carlton end hia) the bonds of tradition. After being cabinet, and also national jporamipee- Meereticiad for over a year, im-| may Crean BD: SEDO eee agine it, he reaches a point where | The paread WL HBsmnigal nab sic bg he considers the dynamo he Penida toeoncan aoe places winding and oils and repairs, a deity itself, to narrow and in many places rough, he prayed to, propitiated and mar- | through a country flat as a floor, .: with mangrove swamps and scruppy “in AIRWAYS, INC. John Dos Passos attacks boldly the major problem of our Age and our America—namely, the class war. This is the play of the American workers awakening to class consclousness.” ——MIKE GOLD. SUNDAY, FEB. 17 MR. T. SWANN HARDING “The Seductive Qualities of Ignorance” “A joyous revel in which there was much sprightly froth, i some vivid characters in a seriously interesting romance, and | a cast of players remarkable for the excellence of their acting.” —Percy Hammond, Herald Tribune. New Playwrights Theatre, 133 W. 14th St., New York City WORKERS! Columbia Records VVVVVVVVVIVVYV WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 DR. HORACE M. KALLEN “Some Theories of the Comic” THURSDAY, FEB ?1 DR. E. G. SPAULDING ‘The Empirical Solution of Philoso- phical Problems: Locke and Common Sense: Hume and TUESDAY, FEB. MR. LEON V. QUIGLEY 19 1 “Chemistry at the Crossroads” | ARTHUR HOPKINS presents PHILIP BARRY’S New Comedy with settings by ROBERT EDMOND JONES. PLYMOUTH Thea., W. 45th St., Eves. 8:50 Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:35 Extra Matinees Lincoln's and Washington's Birthday FRIDAY, FEB. 22 Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN, A History of Liberty “Freedom as Emancipation—One Hundred Years of Mass Action in America” Positivism” SATURDAY, FEB, 23 DR. V. J. McGILL “primitive Buddhism: The Re- ligion Without a Goa” Newest ADMISSION FREB Open Forum Discussion. THE REMARKABLE SOVIET FILM Special Added Attraction! INGERSOLL FORUM Guild Hall, Steinway Building 113 Went Sith 81 . ¥. SUNDAY v LABOR TEMPLE 3 Be wes 14th St. and Second Ave. SUNDA BRUARY 17 Nos tyrized for. bes tae baisviedd | Bey ” eee in love: with Bn aor De aaa vnelnaein he 5200 PR. G. F. BECK FEBRUARY 17 is Raatian DAU: ..Violin, 1 part : 3 ‘ ‘al girl, genus flapper, 2 fs . G. F. fe Ba ire (claaiet qos The glaring sky above. ; An Outline History of the Drama DR. WOLF ADLER 57 ‘The Far Away Bells. :. & Violin, es CA Day with Tolstoy daughter of an atheist superinten- Mr. Hoover will, become again, the pas oe eek bor eines “Psychology—Normal and 25) Ain't ja coming out Tonight. +o part Be eaeeett, After much Hoover of Mississippi flood days. spepicrcmin acter bs Abnormal” A tgaeeie to icra ed on actual nnd authentle film-record of the dent of tne OW er esis new god,| He is planning a “re-construc-|} 7:15 p. m. pr: 792 Cohen on the Telephone -Comical famous Russian weiter taken in 1008 when praying to electricity, iy reenact se tion” scheme, which like the Missis- EDMUND B. CHAFFEE CENTS Abe Lewis Wedding Da: + Comical he was cleat “e showing the arent wens Beaying lheraly: tenied to repre- |*iPpi plan, will enable the farmers |] “lx Jesus Any dude for Today ” ae 939 Ain't He Sweet : wee2 parts fignre in the Intimate aspects of Me team a a ei _aebatelas suffering from flood to mortgage a = CLEMENT WOOD Mollie Make Up Your Mind ON THE SAME PROGRAM WITH eee Peres fucke Satara td's ptouy of New York Iho te Bauer é 20070 ‘Bolshevik Galop .... .Orchestra b , ! “dynamo, this electrician, this ma- “Love Life Tomorrow” chine tender, kills the girl because he thinks she leads him into im- purity and makes him unworthy of “Dynamo,” the Magna Mater, of whom he demands a miracle. ‘He ends by embracing his new a little too closely and getting | . Singing Singing sevves . Singing (Accordion Solo) Magnante (Ace. Solo-Guit) Magnante -Russian Novelty Orchestra .Russian Novelty Orchestra ++ Waltz ANNA LOUISE STRONG “Russia” —All welcome— 20074 20046 20085 12082 New Russian Hymn La Marsallaies ... Workers Funeral March ... Russian Waltz The Two Guitar: Tosca (Waltz) Broken Life (Waltz) ... In the Trenches of Manchuria |bankers. The state of Florida will i offer reasons why it cannot give aid, | jand will request that the Federal | government make an appropriation. Questions and Discussion from the floor. 12076 “TWO DAYS” ‘We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the work- ing class ix to raise the proletariat WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM, 28 Union Sq. (5th floor) 12079 | | @ jolt that kills him. But before he ae Ot ee Fan | S A WUFKU-AMKINO PRODUCTION 5 | ZIMMERM Sonja . ‘Waltz, js through, he has the whole crowd,| Marx (Communist Manifesto) | e E AN and BEN GOLD saan; “CuK "Solambis Quintette The Russian “Last Laug b” with the exception of the atheist, | Ramsay Fife (Dudley Digges). and | May Fife, the girl’s mother (Cath- | will speak on “The New Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the Dressmakers’ Strike” .Mabel Wayne sees et Waltz ..Umbracio Trio 12083 Ramona (Waltz) . The Seashore .... International Waltz . The ~roletarint of ench country muni+‘, of course, first of all settle | tters with its own bourgeoisie— | ‘A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion 12068 between the Whites and the Reds—caught in the e Doucet) about as looney as he | rl Mary (Commnist Manifesto) ne $1.26 ise The girl regards the dynamo as 39048F Weddin i changing tides of the Soviet Revolution Cae 4 eg g of the Winds—Waltz ....Russian Novelty Orch. Be ie chance at it salpete i Sunday, February 17, at 8 P. M. Danube Waves—Waltz ........++ Russian Novelty Oreh. ACCLAIMED BY REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS! 4 bing Pasgy apinbol of ‘harcann Questions and General Discussion —— Admission 25 Cents 59047F Victor Herbert Waltz Medley (Kiss me again; Ask her “powerful Tragedy” “Unforgettable” “Tremendous ¢lass eee ey | “GET THE SUNDAY NIGHT HABIT” while the band is playing; Toyland; Gipsy love song) anya Moissaye Olgin. Says Melach Bpstciy dram” Michael Gold. ie-bliss, nothing more than a rifting with the tide and a yielding % every gushing breeze of senti- ntality and cheap luxuriousness OO earner feels it, too, lly “vf course he thinks of “D: namo” as the anti-christ of es Hi 1 in the play three-quarters nk with this impossible | ly the atheist stays still an | and even he seems to be at times. O'Neill gets away from his | theme, in the by-play by works it out, he is won- | ul. TThe atheist, resourceful and | ightforward, is a great charac- O'Neill leaves him foiled | Eddie Thomas’ Collegians Beautiful Ohio—Waltz with vocal refrain Eddie Thomas’ Collegians tasese International Concert Orch Spring, Beautiful Spring—Walte .. Int'l. Concert Orch Three O'Clock in the Morning—Waltz . International Oreh My Isle of Golden Dreams—Waltz ....International Orch 95045F—Dream of Autumn—Waltz ....International Concert Orch. 59038F Gold and Silver—Waltz Fisher’s Dance Orch 59042F Just a Kiss—Waltz isher’s Dance Orch. 59042F Luna Waltz ...... .Fisher’s Dance Orch. ——— eee We Carry a Large Stock in Selected Records in All Languages Bh a t THIS REMARKABLE PROGRAM PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY UNIQUE CINEMA OF REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN film guild cinema 52-54 W. EIGHTH ST. West of Sth Ave. Continuous Performance. Popular Prices. 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