The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929 The Uzbek Drama Shows Great Modern Tendencies| THE ‘first Uzbek drama is usually asetibed to Bekh-Budi, a well known Uzbek writer and publisher of a @rogressive journal, in which he branded the parasitical life of the Amir of Bekhara, his courtiers and the Mohammedan clergy. Dur- ing the Civil War, Bekh-Budi was caught by a detachment of the Amir and was murdered with several of his comrades, At the present time the town of Karish, where Bekh- Budi was murdered, is named after him. However, even before Bekh-Budi, there existed a play in the Uzbek language called “The Associates” written by a Tartar from Simbirsk, the teacher Abdurauff Shakhidi, This play presented the life of the “TIshani” the spiritual leaders of the simple-minded folk, This life was painted in such a realistic way that the play was dubbed “pornographic” and was not allowed to be produced on the stage, but on the other hand it had a very wide circulation in jernment and occupied the capital | with the support of the people. Chalian’s comedy, “I want to Marry Again,” is the dramatization of a novel by lusun Djan. The lat- est play by Chalian represents a modern Uzbek woman, who is elect- ‘ed president of the village Soviet. Chalian has also been active as a translator, He translated for the Uzbek State Theatrical Company |the following works into the Uzbek language: “Princess Turandot,” “The Storm,” “The Growth.” The Uzbek Theatrical Company also per- forms “The Inspector General,” by Gogol, and “The Miser,” by Moliere, | which has been adapted from the! Turkish translation, Of the old plays that are often produced on the Uzbek stage we |must mention the musical dramas “Laili and Mazhnun,” and “Asi and |Karam,” translated from the Azer- {baidjan Tartar language and adapt- ed to the national Uzbek require- Following the murder of Arno| and Tammany go-between, a huge x had flourished under Rothstein's control. Above is shown a bit of “seized” narcotics, which the Tammany police dig up once in a long while to cover up their own connection as protecters of this vicious ring. ld Rothstein, millionaire gangster narcotic ring was discovered which ments. However, their ideas are entirely unsuitable for modern) manuscript. At the beginning of the present times. Whereas the original Uzbek century, there were very few edu-|drama bore a strong imprint of cated Uzbeks who could at all un- Turkish and Tartar influence, it is| derstand the problems of a national now assuming an independent na- theatre. tional character. At the present | In 1923 amateur actors produced | time there is a well trained Uzbek} the first play by Bekh-Budi called|State Theatrical Company and a} the “Parricide.” large number of amateur circles | Advocates Modern School. under the guidance of experienced In this play the Uzbek intellectual |St@e managers. The Uzbek drama for the first time appeals to the|@?ters now a new stage of wide de- fathers not to send their sons to|Vélopment and is employing the the old Mohammedan school and |latest theatrical methods. advocates the Russian or the Turk-/ ish school which is run on more pro- | gressive lines. This play by Bekh-| Budi had a very considerable suc-| cess and was staged by amateurs in all the cities of Turkestan. It was Music Notes Ernesto Vallejo, violinist, will make his debut at Town Hall Thurs- A Washington state farmer delegate to the Workers (Com- munist) Party Convention, now in session in New York, records in the letter below his impressions of the vast unemployment he saw on the way here, and of the dress- makers’ strike, which he witnessed as a volunteer picket. ee ee | Dear Comrades:— | Just a line in regard to some ex- periences here in New York City. where capitalism is in full swing. Being a farmer from the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, Wash.), I am more or less isolated from the every | 7 struggle of the workers in capi- | jtalist industry. But this trip to New York certainly leaves very clear Farmer Delegate Takes His Place on Dress Picket Line line, with the result that New York | capitalism presented me with a day | in one of its many bastilles, But despite this terrorism the workers are rallying in ever greater | numbers to the new union and are forming their picketlines in defiance } of the betrayers and their masters, the bosses. The poor and semi- poor farmers have also a fight against the fakers in their organi- | zations and must wage a struggle} against them thru the United Farm- ers Educational League and must fight capitalism side by side with| the working class. Boss Gets Proper Answer. One of the bosses in a certain |ter until the close of the season once regarded as a revolutionary play as it attacked the rich merchants and the old government view it with sus- picion and even prosecuted the amateur actors as dangerous revo- lutionaries. K short time afterwards we wit- ness the plays by Shukrulaey, which described life in its comic features. In the play entitled “The Oppressed Woman,” translated into Russian by Prof. Viatkin, a campaign is raised against the seclusion of women who had always to be covered with a veil and were deprived of any initiative in their private or social life. This play deals with the disintegration of the family caused by the Uzbek who introduced the second wife into his household. The other plays by the same au- thor, namely “Marriage,” “A Les. son in the Old School,” “Opium | Smokers,” etc., are comedies, and deride the old customs of the Uz- beks. ..At the present time Shukru- laev has completed his play “Bekh- Budi,” the hero of which is the famous Uzbek public man of that) name. Fitrat Popular Dramatist. day evening. His program will in- |clude the Brahms Sonata in A Ma- |jor, the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole and a group of shorter pieces, Marguerite D’Alvarez, contralto, will give her only local recital at Carnegie Hall Friday evening, pre- senting a program of old classics, a German, French and Russian group and a group of Spanish folk | songs. Max Rosen will give his violin re- cital at Carnegie Hall this Sunday’ evening. The program: Sonata in G minor, Tartini; Concerto in G minor, Bruch; Sonata in G minor, | Bach; Nocturne in E minor, Chopin- |Auer; Caprice in A minor, Paga- {nini-Auer. will appear in recital at Carnegie {Hall Tuesday evening, March 26. “LIFE OF BEETHOV: | ST. PLAYHOUSE {man production, produced at the suthentic locales. visited by the Nevada Van der Veer, contralto, | * AT 55TH | lis the big strike here in N iscri sig Bae PRR gle tee Me strike here in New York, Race Discrimination jin one’s mind the role being played | shop picked me out and said, “Why, |by the Hillmans, the Hillquits and| you are not a dressmaker, what are all of the traitors of the working-|you doing here?” Of course, a} class. jfarmer does not look like a dress- | Being one of the Seattle delegates | maker. But, Mr. Boss, it makes no to the convention of the Workers difference whether I make dresses (Communist) Party that made the|or raise food; I am a worker and| jtrip from Seattle to New York) the dress strike is my strike because | across country in an automobile, II have to produce and exist under was able to observe that not only | the same system of capitalism as the | in New York, but also in every town | dressmakers, | in every state the oppressive power of capitalism is in full sway, | = am not peeeihe paralyzed. I Thewands ak Sakic, jens bs and eel the same iron heel Unemployed by the thousands in : at k i Other Warnes Cal: ADE 9 avery tate latte Rad eal low | Very, worker that ts able should wages, long hours and miserable | Py \ Bae bart ied and fight conditions for the workers. Farmers | sper pepe ety auits and the : the scteaghes other fakers and betrayers. More Se rene Millet at Doverty | workers should be on the picketlines | country. Even out on the deserts | yn oY the ipollee serrer-in: Now of Arizona and New Mexico, in| - | ; Texas and California thousands of | Greetings to the new Industrial | unemployed traveling and hopeless- | Union from the Seattle delegation, ly looking for the right to work that | ALEX NORAL, | they may barely exist. And then| P, S.—Support your Daily Worker. New York City with its unemployed. PREP Mee But the thing that strikes me most the strike of the dressmakers being | Jed by the new Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, which is Against Latin Labor Narcotics Found After Murder of Rothstein | “Homecoming” Opens at the : { Film Guild Cinema Today 7 UE es ee “Homecoming,” a new German | | film, will receive its little cinema] . | premiere at the Film Guild Cinema | this Saturday, “Homecoming” is | based on the post-war novel “Karl and Anna,” by Leonhard Frank. Erich Pommer, who gave us “The | Last Laugh,” “Cabinet of Caligari” |and “Variety,” and who threw up the sponge when the American | movie magnates asked him to make | cheap pictures, directed this film. | Lars. Hansen plays the husband, | Dita Parlo the wife and Gustav | Frohlich plays Karl. " | On the same program the Film Guild Cinema presents Charlie Chaplin in “A Dog’s Life,” “Man- hatta,” inspired by Walt Whitman’s lines, and “A Film Director's Night- mare,” * * The technique of the cinema, which we have come to character- ize as Teutonic, can be seen in “That | Murder In Berlin,” which is at the |Cameo Theatre for its American * |meeting their terror on the picket- | premiere presentation. A sparing use of sub-titles will be one of the peculiarities noticed and that is typical of their method of motion-picture production. Magda Sonja has the part of the acevsed in the film. She was last seen here | as Mata Hari in “The Red Dancer.” Other players in this mystery tale by Max Brod include Carl Gotz, Anton Pointner, Gustav Diesel, Karl | Ettlinger and Gustave Riekelt. ee mee THREE RUSSIAN PLAYS AT | CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE— Next Thursday evening, for the first time this season, and thereaf- or twice a week, Anton Tchekov’s | “Three Sisters” returns to the ac- | tive schedule of the Civic Repertory | in 14th St. First of Tchekov’s dramas to be interpreted in English by Miss Le Gallienne and her com- pany, “Three Sisters” has been joined this season by the same play- wright’s “The Cherry Orchard” and | “On the High Road,” with “The Sea Gull” announced during the past week to open the theatre’s fourth season next fall. The coming week at the Civic | Repertory will be preponderantly Russian. In addition to the perform- ance of “Three Sisters,” Tchekov’s “The Cherry Orchard” will be given on Monday evening and at the Wed- nesday matinee, while the latest hit | of the theatre, Andreyev’s “Kate- | rina,” with Alla Nazimova in the title role, will be presented on Wed- nesday, Friday and Saturday eve- nings, Two old favorites will have | one performance each—“The Good Hope” on Tuesday evening and “Cradle Song” at the Saturday | matinee, * * * ERNEST SCHELLING SOLOIST | WITH PHILHARMONIC The Philharmonic Orchestra, Ar- | ! LYNN FON _ of their own. jgreat composer during his life, is to, A popular playwright of the pres-/have its first presentation at the, ent-day Uzbek theatre’ is* Abdurauf | 55th Street Playhouse, beginning to-.| Fitrat, professor of the High Peda-|dav. The film traces the composer's gogical Institute in Samarcand, the life from early childhood through author of the history of Uzbek mu-|the various influences of his life sic and other works. Fitrat wrote and music. Fritz Kortner, leading the folowing plays: “The Lion,”|player of the Leopold Jessner State “True Love” and “The Indian Revo-| Theatre in Berlin, portrays the title lutionaries.” The latter play repre- | role. sent§ the struggle of Indian revolu-| On the same program will be a re- tiondries for the independence of|issue of Charlie Chaplin’s “A Day’s Indid. The author has travelled | Pleasure,” “Man-made Miracles,” widdly in the Near East and lived|“The Beautiful Rhine” and other in Iddia and his plays are therefore | features. espetially valuable as coming from Cas one {who is intimately acquainted with the life of the new awakening | Easé, ‘Being well versed in Persian) literate and language, Fitrat has| recehtly written in the Tadjik lan- guage (a dialect of the Persian ian, z “The Revolt o! . A 3 " oa co Bip olittis the strug-| 45,000 iabite in Ar son Ce, gle of Vossei, the national hero of | Eeromee on ee Wat ak Ss they the jUzbeks. Although bi Tadiiks tend to clog rather thna speed up for peveral centuries past have N/the wheels of production, are forced living: among the Uzbeks ey ‘were | .1most completely to depend on their unable to aren ae hg en gue younger relatives for support. These Be Fitrat writen in the style o¢| crores, were announesd yesterday high-flown tragedy, is especially by oe iodine sd Cg cas ing valuable to the Tadjik nation. The he Condition 95 Fhe Feat. other plays by Fitrat written in the Uzbek language can also be de- scribed as heroic tragedies. From the artistic standpoint, however, the plays are somewhat ‘unsatisfactory, as the author is a better journalist than a playwright. | Uzbek Musical Dramas. There is another popular play in| musical drama entitled “Khalima,” which is especially popular among the amateurs in the various cities of the Uzbekistan. Gulyam Zakhari, the author, has made use exclusive- ty of national Uzbek melodies. Among the latest plays, those by Chalian, a lyric poet, deserve our attention. He has written the drama, entitled “Yarkin-Oi,” dealing with the popular legend of a gar-) dener of a captain of the Kahn’s “army, who revolted against the gov- (hla eta tataT ciate New Plays “THE.TOWN’S WOMAN,” a comedy by Martin Mooney, at the Craig Theatre, Monday night. “YOUNG ALEXANDER,” by Hardwick Nevin, a play about the earlier life of Alexander the Great comes to the Biltmore Theatre Monday nitht. Henry Hall and A. E. Anson play i important roles. “THE OCTOROON,” a melodrama, by Dion Boucicault, will be revived at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on Monday night. The P “SPRING IS Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, will open at the Alvin Theatre on Monday. Glenn Hunter, Charles Riggles and Inez Courtney are in the cast. melodramatic comedy by Albert W, and Edward L. Barker and Charles Beahan, will be presented by Hamilton MacFadden at Earlanger’s Theatre Thursday night. The cast includes Nydia Westman, James Bell, Ruth Easton, Violet Dunn and Lois Shore. Jobless, Is Thrown on Scrap Heap, Depend on Charity for Living at 64 classes e face of modern TUDOR INN Restaurant 113 East 14th Street For and whi food, don’t fail to visit us We serve special luncheon plates from 11:30-3 p. m. Reas TRY OUR SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER! struggling against the bosses, the police, the bureaucracy of the A. F.vof L. and the socialist party who are doing everything in their power | to help the bosses break the strike | and continue the rotten conditions in N. Y. Industry Few American workers realize that in the shops and factories of New York that race discrimination applies not only to the Negro work- @ecay and finally | Jers, but also to Latin-American ; Workers. In the candy factories, for example, for the same work for that they are responsible for. It is inspiring to see the workers break ered from this bunch of betrayers| hich other races outside the Ne- putting up a militant struggle | A A for their new industrial union along | "OCS 2re paid as high as $40 9 class lines. | week, the Latins are required to do Inspiration to Workers, ton Sah Surely this struggle going on in| The Spanish fraction of the Work- New York will inspire the workers |crs (Communist) Party, in order to back on the Pacific Coast to wage|reach these Latin-American work- a relentless war on their fake of-|crs, has started a newspaper “La ficials in the A. F. of L. and rally | Vida Obrera” (Workers’ Life), and their forces for struggle against |in order to finance it is giving a capitalism and all that goes with it.|“Sandino Ball” on Saturday, March | Since being in New York I have |\16, at Lexington Hall, 109-111 East | been in contact with the police on |116th St., at 8:30 p. m. three occasions while taking part| There will .be exhibitions of all jin the strike, twice escaping after Latin-American costumes, dances | arrest from the police and finall.:|and songs. LECTURES AND FORUMS THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE AT COOPER UNION Muhlenberg Branch Library (8th St. and ASTOR PLACE) (209 W iT 23rd STREET) At 8 o'Clock At 8:30 o'clock MONDAY, MARCH 11 DR. RICHARD P. McKEON “Subs ind Reason: John Se Eriugena” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 DR. HORACE M. KALLEN “Tragedy and the Romanticiste” THURSDAY, MARCH 14 DR. HENRY J. “The Behavior of SUNDAY, MARCH 10 MR. WILLIAM B. CURRY “The New Education” TUESDAY, MARCH 12 DR. W. S. LANDIS “The New Fertilizers” FRIDAY, MARCH 15 Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN A History of Liberty “Liberty and the Law” SATURDAY, MARCH 16 DR. E. G. SPAULDING ADMISSION FREE oscs Revenant inlaw, Jution, and the History of Ideas” EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS (9 Second Ave, N. ¥. ©.) SUNDAY, MARCH 10 AT 8 P. M. NINAN JACOB “Indian Mysticism” Admission Free—Ever; '|Workers School Forum 28 Union Sq. (fifth floor) N.¥.C “Negro Problem In the U, S. —Its Solution” ",ABOR TEMPLE 14th Bt and Second Ave. SUNDAY, MARCH 10 5:00 p, m.: — DR, G. F. BECK An Outline History of the Drama —Filsabethan Drama “Shakespeare's Othello” 7315 Dp. Mm EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “The Recent Life Jesus” 8:30 p. m.: FORUM MRS. NANCY SCHOONMAKER “Woman's Part in New Europe” ADMISSION 25 CENTS Questions and General Discussion “Get the Sunday Night Habit” INGERSOLL FORUM Gullé Hall, Steinway Bullding 118 West 5' lo Ne ¥. O, SaUADAY ENINGS MARC H10 Arthur Garfield Hays “Marriage, Divorce and Alimony” {program will turo Toscanini conductor, appears | tomorrow afternoon at Carnegie | Hall. The program consists of the | Mozart Symphony in D, Respighi’s Roman Festivals, Debussy’s Iberia and the “Tannhauser” Overture. On Thursday evening and Friday | afternoon at Carnegie Hall Ernest | Schelling will be the soloist, play- ing the piano part in his own “Im- | pressions of an Artist's Life.” The also include the “Faust” Overture of Wagner, Pro- hofieff’s Classic Symphony and Ra- vel’s Daphnis and Chloe. Next Saturday evening, for the | ——————— | *IVIC REPERTORY '48t.stnay | 2 Even 8:30 | B0c: $1 00; $1.60. Mats, Wed.&Sat..2.8¢ EVA LE GALLIENNE. Director oday Mat. “Peter Pan.” e T T 1 West of Broadway | Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30! ‘The Greatest and Funniest Revue Pleasure Bound COMEDY Theatre, ist st. EB. of} Broadway. Eves., nel. | Sun. at 8:50, — Mats, Thurs. & Sat | RU COME TO THE “SUCCESS” . . “LANDSLEIT” for the Benefit of . ADMISSION 75 Book Shop, 26 Union 118th Streets Unit: gressive Squares S$ ADMISSION 25 CENTS —All welcome— OTTO HUISWOOD | CARNEGIE Draper NE In “Caprice,” Sil-Vara’s merry comedy now being presented by the Theatre Guild at the Guild Theatre. | Student's Concert, the second half? |of the Thursday program will be re- | peated. The Schelling work will |have a substitute in Haydn’s Sym-' phony in D, the “Clock Symphony” ; jand the “Faust” Overture will be | replaced by the “Iphigenia” Over- \ture, ‘* * JAPANESE CINEMA AT FIFTH AVE. PLAYHOUSE The Fifth Avenue Playhouse will present a Japanese film, “A Daugh- ter of Two Fathers,” beginning this Saturday. Kinoshoki Higuchi, one of Japan's most noted popular ac- tors, will speak the parts of the various ectors as they appear on the screen, “A Daughter of Two Fathers” is the first film produced in the Orient employing the technique of the pres- ent-day realists. Its actors, with the exception of Omitsu, who plays the role of the daughter, are all members of the famous Kabukiza of Tokyo. League, Party, to Give “Daily” Benefit Dance A food carnival and dance for the benefit of the Daily Worker will be given by Section 1 of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Downtown Section of the Young Workers League on Sunday, 8 p.m., March 17, at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. MUSIC AND CONCERTS PhilharmonicSymphony ARTURO TOSCANINI Conductor Carnegie Hall. This Sun. Aft. at 3 Mozart-Respighi-Debusxy-Wagner CARNEGIE HALL, Thurs. March 14, at 9:45 Friday Aft., March 15, at 2:30 { Soloist: Brnest Schelling, Pianist -Prokofieff-Ravel Eve. Prokofieff-Ravel METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Sunday Aft. March 17, at 3:00 Gluck-Hadn-Dukas-Respighi ERNEST SCHELLING Conductor CARNEGIE HALL Sat. Morn., March 16, at 11 Children’s Concert-Request Program Arthur Judson, Mgr (Steinway) Gluck-Hay: TOWN HALL ‘Thurs. Eve., March 14, at 8:30 VIOLIN RECITAL ERNESTO “=: VALLEJO Concert Mgt, DAN'L MAYER, Inc. Steinway Piano HALL Fri, Eve, March 15 at 8:30 SONG RECITAL | MARGUERITE lvarez Concert Mgt. DAN’L MAYER, Inc, Baldwin Piano THEATRE PARTY of LOCAL 43 (Millinery Hand Workers) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, at 8:30 P. M. at YIDDISH ART THEATRE, 14th St. and Irving Place THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS: . .Moishe Nadir Berkowitz “MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. Chehkov Tickets on sale at Office of Union, 4 W. 37th St., 640 Broadway. POPULAR PRICES Ball of the Sandinistas “VIDA OBRERA” SATURDAY, MARCH 16, AT 8:30 P. M. LEXINGTON HALL 109-111 East 116th Street Typical Latin-American Dances, Costumes and Songs MARCH OF SANDINO JOHN SMITH NEGRO SYNCOPATORS CENTS — TICKETS now on anle at the Workers nish Workers Center, 55 West Seventh Avenue; Harlem Pro- ‘ooperni ‘outh Club, 1: Madison Avenue, | | | | | EUGENE O’NEILL’S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA,, 45th St., W. of 8th Ave. Eve: Mats. Thursday and Saturday at 40 | Wings Over Europe | ‘ie NICHOLS & MAURICE BROWNE THEA.,, 52nd St., West of B’way. Eves, §:50 Matinees: Wednesday & Saturday at 2:40 1 | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY | CAPRICE ' THEA, West 52nd Street, E o 52 Ss . E . 8:50 § \ GUILD {ies were as Sy Sat 2:0 Sharp? EUGENE O'NEILL'S STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN CHEA,, 68th St, B. of Broadway Evenings only at 6:80 sharp. - HOLIDAY” “Continuously gay and amusing.” —John Anderson, Journal. “A, joyous revel in which there was much sprightly froth, some vivid characters in a seriously interesting romance, and a cast of players remarkable for the excellence of their acting.” Percy Hammond, Herald Tribune, 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 Keith-Albee AME 42nd Street and Broadway NOW WHO MURDERED THE HUSBAND? in the AMAZING SENSATIONAL PHOTOPLAY ‘Tat MURDER in BERLIN’ American Premiere—Direct from its Jong run in Berlin To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! SCHEDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— Airways, Inc. Now Playing at the Grove Street Theatre Make $275 for the Daily Worker and the Needle Trades Strikers Call PAXTON at SPRING 2773 for Arrangements. our Age and our America—namely, the class , of the American workers awakening to ‘clans ‘consctonsnesa’ wnMIKE GOLD, New Playwrights Theatre, 22 Grove St., eee ‘In AIRWAYS, INC. John Dos Passos attacks boldly the major problem This te the play New York City A UNIQUE REVIEW! Original—New—Different Tickets at Box Office, Fretheit “STAGE AND BACK STAGE” MoistE * Cer ae ciyi¢ REPERTORY SON EVE. MARCH 10 TONIGHT 8.30 Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Auditorium 106 EAST 14TH STREET MANDO-CELLO RECITAL THOMAS SOKOLOFF INSTRUCTOR OF THE FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA CLASSES Assisted by SYLVIA SCHWARTZ at the Piano In A Program of Classical Music ee 0 D0 OC OO ON OY EO RD. DOME: