The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 4

} Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, § SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929 Seldom -Acted Play by Ibsen Now Produced at the Bijou Ibsen surely goes the credit for | T° The stranger turns up, not dramatizing nervous disorders.| drowned at all, and at first she} The seldom acted “Lady m the doesn’t recognize him. When she Bee haw’ atarring does, she imagines he always looked Blanche Yurka, at as he does on his return. the Bijou, is an One of the starting points for other of the this delusional system is brought dinavi studie ut when the stranger asks her to £ neuroti vo with him, “of her own free will en, The mere Wangel didn’t give her any choice. that most « r critic conten ries and prede- ors persist iM Blanche Yurka ng it as “ mone: @ used economic pressure. The woman had a sense of guilt, felt she had sold herself, violated her mar- riage to the stranger, and so went _ |Dorsha and Dancers Will Appear Tomorrow Evening Dorsha and Paul Hayes, assisted by their company, will present a program of dances at the Booth Theatre this Sunday evening. The mbers presented will be a selec- on from the repertoire of the Theatre of the Dance, and have not been presented in recital before. There will be several short suites angos. A longer number is a study of group move- ment on a theme of Man the In- dividualist and man as an entity in the social group. of dances, sn Oriental group and al | of his life in Africa, about four of them farming and big game hunt- ing in northern Rhodesia. In con- junction with the main picture, “The Greatest Street in the World,” a record of the progress of Fifth Avenue from its earliest days to the present, will be shown. “THE SHADY LADY” COMES TO THE COLONY TODAY. The Pathe production which stars Phyllis Haver in an adventure story entitled “The Shady Lady” comes ” and lambasting that good actress, . Blanche Yurka, of the elodious, if somewhat affected, e and shining, if somewhat sus- blond hair, because she is too earthy” for the piece, should | pot forbid us from challenging them, and defending Ibsen and Yurka sim- ultaneously. riefly, the story Flida is this: Wangel (Yurka), second wife of Dr. Wangel (Edward Fielding), can’t be lept out of the water. She wants to bathe all the time in the ocean. In the course of the play it devel- ops that she was bought into mar- riage by the doctor after her own father had died. Before marrying Wangel she had an affair with a second mate on a steamer who was wanted for murder and had to leave the country, but who symbolically be- trothed her by putting their rings on a key-ring and throwing it into the ocea The second mate is a Finnish- American and full of pagan super- stitions, peasant and marine. He is known only as “the stranger” and is played by G, Pat Collins, a brawny figure of a man. Wangel’s child by Flida dies and she fancies it has eyes like the ranger. After the death of her i she boycotts her husband for three years, until the time of the play. When she hears that the stranger was drowned at the begin- ning of the three years, she imag- ines that it was his supernatural in- fluence that kept her from her hus- band. bathing in the sea (from which he came) as an act of retribution and compensation—fancying that she was “wedded to the sea.” When she is told by her husband jthat she can stay or go, that re- maining with him must be “at her own free will,” she vetoes the stranger, and votes to stay. In spite of the fact that the cure is rather over-simplified, easier than it would really be, Ibsen, ten or twenty years before others could recognize the type, has given us ac- curately the reaction of an emo- tionally unstable, bourgeois woman. A working woman would have been too busy making a living to have all these subtle reactions, but Ibsen was writing about bourgeois women. The very able cast has caught the spirit, evidently understands the play anc must not be attacked for their refusal.to make it “etherial.” Bolette and Hilda (Linda Wat- kins and Florida Friebus) are like “the good sister” and the “bad sis- ter” in the fairy tales. A good deal of fun is had by “the bad sister” over the youth, Lyngstrand, who pompously plans a great artistic career, but doesn’t know that an in- curable disease will kill him within a year. And this “bad sister” is psycho-analyzed, too, by the author, before the play is over. She is the thwarted, unloved child, trying to attract attention to herself. There is a minor romance con- necting Bolette Spa another char- acter. | The costuming and scenery are effective. VY. Se EMERGENCY FUND Sent in by C. Mugianis, Oak- land, Calif.: A. Whitney, $10; Russian Ukrainian Chorus, $5; A. Brenner, $5; A. C. Mugianis, $5; L. But- ler, $5; Collected by Byerk- nas, $5; R.. B. Hayes, $1; General Collection, $26.75; M. Collected by Yidus, $2.25 Sent in by S. A. cago, Ill.: Ukrainian Toilers Women’s Organization, Br. 36, $25; Mrs. Z. Dante, $1; Vincent Frydzinski, $1; S. Chilytko, $6; Seetion 6, Nucleus 29, $3; Wm, Man- setti, $2; M. Mazika, $9; Section 6, Nucleus 31, $7.. Sent in by Emma Sipila, col- lected at a dance held in Aberdeen, Wash. Slovak Sick Benefit Society, Br. 3, New York City: S. Kucera, 50c; Slovak Sick Benefit Society No. 3, $10; J. Ivan, $1; A. Felcan, $2; J. Silezio, $3; K. Zelenaj, $3; F. Purkas, 25c; J. Hiza, 50c; P. Maliorik, 50c; J. O., 65.00 54,00! 26.00 $1. 21.75 3C, 3F, New York City 16.00 Lithuanian Working Women’s Federation, Dist. 8, Chica- go, Ill. 14.00 Sent in by Nina ford, Conn.: Collected by E. Pearson: G. Pearmont, $1; F. Kyettling, 25c; S. Alans- son, 50c; H. Oak, 50c; E. Nilson, $1; N. Johnson, $1; E. Anderson, 50c; J. Haca, 50c; P. F. Giblin, 50c; L. Peterson, 50c. Collected by R. Ellison: J. Lindholm, $1; H. Peterson, $1; E. Sal, $1; J. Weir, $1; D. Ludastahl, $1; R. Ellison, $2 . San Diego, Calif.: Louis Nierman, $5; S. Bernhart, $1; W. Jasniagy, $1; Sarah F. Abraham, $2; Peter Dressen, $1; J. Adams, $1 11.00, Sub-district 2, New Kensing- ton, Pa. Branch 5, New York City... Collected by Rita Mandel, Jersey City, N. J.: Dora & Bessie Finkelstein, $2; E. Rangblatt, $1; Mollie Gold- stein, $1 J. Finkelstein, $1; R. Bleeker, $1; 0. Beck- niak, $1; Helen Steel, 50c; M. Foux, $1; Ray Finkel- stein, 50c; M. Ginsburg, ; Err rere reek ee Ukrainian Working Women’s 13,25 10.00 10.80 Club, Cleveland, Ohio 0.00 Jacobson, City . 50 Walter P. Sukut, 25 Honor Anniversary of U.S.S.R. Writer, Civic) Theatre Sunday Night | The 55th anniversary of the cre- | ative literary work of Sergey Ivan- ovitch Gussiev-Orenburgsky, Soviet “fellow-traveler,” will be celebrated at a public testimonial and concert at the Civic Repertory Theatre, 14th St. and Sixth Ave., at 8:30 p. | m, tomorrow, Gussiev-Orenburgsky ‘s author of “The Land of the “athers” and Children.” Nina Terasova, Russian folk songs. | “fischa Mischakoff, violinist, and ‘eon S. Theremin, Soviet scientist | end inventor, will offer an enter- | *sinment program. Advance tickets | “ony be obtained ct Russky Golos, | 4 E. Seventh St. “The Land of the, | Staten Island International | Br., Staten Island, N. Y | Kansas City, Mo.: Louis Al- | len, $2; Mrs. Val 9.50 50c; Fred Burns, Brodaek, 50c ... 8.00 Charley Rabbit, Naperville, ee ORR eRe 6.00 Collected by Chorover at send-off for Sarah Scherer, New York City .... és Mrs. S. Martin, Mass. De Leon Manerchor, Chicago, BES Pueblo | Colo. ponecven by J. Kirn, N. Y. C.: J. Serber, 50c; A. Du- mas, $1; S. Hansen, 50c; M. Steiner, 50c; L. Wurzt, $1; A. Reul, 25c; J. Paul, | 50c; J. Stern, 50c; F. Blum, | 50c; H. Schmidt, 50c .... \Staten Island International | Branch, Staten Island, N. y. Syneptas, City |“Aelita”, The Revolt of the Robots at the Film Guild 5.00 5.00) 5.75 3.00 -50 A new expression of cinema por- | 'trayal, developed during post-rev- olutionary days in Russia, will be revealed in America for the first |time, with the premiere of the Sov-| |kino production, “Aelita:” the Re- Da of the Robots, at the Film Guild Cinema, beginning today. By the use of symbolism, “Aelita” picturizes the revolt of man against his master. The locale is the planet — Mars, which permits freer reign for the most trenchant criticism of the \present social order. Produced by the Moscow Cham- ber Studio, “Aelita” reveals the most daring handling of mobs ever lyet attempted for the screen. Both decorations and costumes are dyna- |mic, designed to meet the peculiar jconvention of the camera and its attendant studio lighting. Isaac Rabinowitzsh, the noted | Russian artist, drew the designs and |Mme. Alexandra Exter of the Kem- erny Theatre, Moscow, made the |costumes. | The Film Guild Cinema will also present on the same program the |Russian classic “Potemkin” and a \revival of “The Last Laugh.” “MUSIC AND CONCERTS : PhilharmonicSymphony saw aot TOSCANINI onductor BROOKLYN aCADEMY OF MUSIC This Sunday Aft. at 3:15 Gluck-Plazetti-Dukas-Beethoven Carnegie oy Mi at 8:45 (Students) Schubert-Bu: ‘ommasini Roi | METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE } Sunday Aft, March 31, at 3:00 Paer-Beethoven-Wagner April 1, Carnegie Hall, Mon, Ev, at 8:45 Benefit of Orchestra Pens! Last Appearance This Conductor TOSCANINI, Asnixting Artixt, LEO SCHULZ ‘Cellist, Componer, Guext Conductor Foroni-Schuman-Schulz-Wagner Tieketn $1 to $5—Boxes $50 to 8100 Arthur Judson, Mgr, Steinway 5.00 | “Aelita,” lt of the Robc » film from So ssia, which will be shown at the Film Guild Cinoma begin- ning today. The picture was produccd by the Moscow Chamber Studio. MUSIC NOTES PHILHARMONIC WILL INCLUDE! St aus: WAGNER NUMBERS. DE | Strauss, Schubert's roup of modern com tinee concert ee Ne zed to Wed- Sokolsky-Freid, pian- be heard in recital Saturday , April 6 at Town Hall. includes j} i rias of the and 17th cent , Schumann’s Fan- 3 major, and comp: ions Korsakow, Liszt, cludes the rrived ly, will make her kure,” the Toscanini Over- ner, mate American debut at Carnegie Hall ture to : Il Sar- Wednesday evening. gino” of Paer, Haydn’s “Clock” : SympHony, and Brahms Variations i , Buprane. will give on a Theme by Haydn, s cital at Town Hall Monday For the Students’ Concert next Saturday night at Carnegie Hall the |program will be a repetition of that | of last Thursday and Friday: Sym-| WASHINGTON, March 22. — In- Phony in C major, Schubert; Ber-'tornal revenue collectors’ reports | ceus Elegiaca, Busoni; Prelude, Fan-| show _$379,981,531 income tax are and Fuga, Tommasini, and " counted to date, an excess of $99,- | “William Tell” Overture, Ross Peet h » | Tomorrow afternoon at the Bian: 870,683 over that of the same Gate It is expected that this |lyn Academy of Music, the orchestra | !ast year. | will play the “Iphigenia in Aulis”| year’s tax will exceed $100,000,000. Overture, Pizzetti’s Concerto dell’| New Plays g, April 8. BIG INCOME TAX. | Estate, the Sorcerer's Apprentice, | and the Second Symphony of Bee- | thoven. See Nevada Van. der Veer, contralto, “SECURITY, by Esme Wynne- will appear in recital at Carnegie | Tyson, with Margaret Aaglin starred, will be presented by the Shuberts at Maxine Elliott’s next Thursday night. In the company are Thurs- ton Hall, Reginald Mason, Mar- jorie Gateson and Anita Kerry. Hall Tuesday evening. The artist, |who will be soloist with the New York Oratorio Society on April 9, has selected a program which in- jcludes a Handel aria, an air from Bach’s Magnificat, two groups of Lieder by Hugo Wolf and Richard | LECTURES AND FORUMS Another offering will be a short play for dancers, “The Shadowy Bird.” This form, in which the two s rate arts of play and dance are/ united, was used in the ancient Noh plays of Japan. Other numbers in-| plete the cast, clude the Concert Waltz of Levit-!" ‘The film was made in Agua Cal- sky, Ti Eulenspiegel and a Cam-| iente, near Tijuana, in Mexico. bodian Roadside Dance. oi to the Colony Theatre beginning to- day. The production has a cast of enly four players including M Haver. Robert Armstrong, Louw: Wolheim and Russell Gleason com- ! |BATTLE OF MONS CC DRAPER TO PRESENT] ‘AT THE CAMEO. A DA RIMINI.” A picture without a plot, episodic RUTH “FRANC week-end concerts at the Comedy} man in a naive haphazard way—a | Theatre this Sunday by presenting | qitferent kind of photodrama en- ja novel act. Recently these Sunday | titled “Tho Battle of Mons,” has appearances have been omitted be-| scored at the Cameo Theatre where cause of the two performances of/it is being screened. And so the the Duse Benefit in which she par- engagement has been extended into ticipated. |the current week. With the resumption of the Sun-| “The Battle of Mons” is the film | day recitals, Miss Draper will make) record of the retreat of the Great an unprecedented departure from) War. It was the English who re- her solo programs by incorporating | created the scene for the purpose of therein a scene from a play which | the present showing. calls for another performer besides | herself. The play is Gabriele d’An- | nunzio’s “Francesca da Rimini.” Hugh Miller is the assisting play-|° er, and the scene is the one that was played at the Ethel: Barrymore Theatre the last two Sundays. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent, movement be the immense majority—Karl Marx ymunixt Manifesto). | SUNDAY NIGHT Mar. 24th at 8:30 BOOTH THEATRE 45th Street W. of Bway DORSHA and her company in original DANCES Benefit Theatre of the Dance “Dorsha, the indefatigible ideal- ist”—N. Muray in “The Dance” DRAMA OF LIVINGSTONE AT 5TH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE. | The exploits of the British ex- |plorer, David Livingstone, who spent his life roving through the darkest African ranges, will be seen at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse beginning this Saturday, when the| motion picture, “Livingston in} | Africa,” is presented, M, A. Wetherell, who produced | the film and enacted its leading role, has spent more than fifteen “Peter Pan.” erry Orchari TUDOR INN Theatre, 41st St, EB. of |COMEDY Broadway. Eves., incl. | |sun, at 8:50, — Mats. Thurs, & Sat Restaurant | 113 East 14th Street | | RUT SH Draper For good and wholesome food, don’t fail to visit us We serve special luncheon plates from 11;30-3 p. m. | Coal 8 MAJESTIC Theatr Theatre West ot Broadway | ekki Sb i Pleasure Bound re 0-0- 6-0 0 6 8 6 6 6-6-7] x Bronx ‘Kapzunim’ Ball } WILL BE HELD TT at 2700 BRONX PARK EAST a 7} || 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 SUNDAY, MARCH 24 MONDAY, MARCH 25 MR. HORACE BRIDGES DR. RICHARD P. McKEON “Can People Be Made Good by| “S™>*t# J Law?” WEDNESDAY, MA DR. HORACE M. ALLEN “The Tragic Principle” THURSDAY, MARCH 28 DR. HENRY J. FREY “The Laws of Heredity” MARCH 30 DR. E G. SPAULDIN “Phe Realistic Solution of Phil- ADMIBSION FRED onophical Problems: ‘A Realistic Open Forum Discussion. Worl ” TUESDAY, MARCH DR. F. E. DEN “Chemical Stimulation of Plant Growtl FRIDAY, MARCH 29tk¢ NO MEETING } A 12-Scene Opera Show, and Imported Souvenirs Something Great! Given by Branch 6, Section 5 for the Benefit of the Dally Worker CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE —MTH STREET AND SIXTH AVENUD— SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1929, 8:30 P. M. PUBLIC TESTIMONIAL and CONCERT in honor of the OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN WRITER Sergey Ivanovitch Gussiev-Orenburgsky Author: “The Land of the Fathers”, “The Land of the Children” on the occasion of the Yh Workers School Forum 28 Union Sq. (fifth floor) N.¥.C Sunday, March 24th, at 8 P. M. J. Louis Engdahl will speak on “BUILDING SOCIALISM IN THE SOVIET UNION” LABOR TEMPLE 14th St. and Second Ave. SUNDAY, MARCH 24 5:00 p. m.: DR. G. F. BECK An Outline ‘History of the Drama —Flizabethan Drama “Shakexpeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra” 7:15 p. m.i— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “Sclence and God” §:30 p. m.: FORUM HARRY F. WARD “The A, F. of L. and Brookwood” —All welcome— INGERSOLL FORUM Onli Ware ora N, Neg, | | SUNDAY, MARCH 23, at 3:80 8 uN BV INGS ADMISSION 25 CENTS Questions and General Discussion “Get the Sunday Night Habit” Harlem Educational Forum i | 169 W. 13rd St. Eo to be addressed by Napoleon B. Marshall (Returned to America after three years’ stay in Haiti) Subject: “Conditions of Natives Under American Occupation” eo MARCH 24 DR. PAUL BAUERBERG | “The Wisdom of God from the Viewpoint of a Physician” ADMISSION 25 CENTS WINNIPEG, Canada, (By Mail). —The transfer of the Seven Sisters power site to private ownership by the Bracken provincial government of Manitoba has aroused charges of | graft. Cnarges are made that the | site was practically given away to) private ownership by the officials | of the province, EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS (9 Second Ave, N. Y¥, C.) SUNDAY, MARCH 24, AT 8 P. TREADWELL SMITH ” “Trends in Education of Value to Labor” Admission Free—Everyone Invited © ON PROGRAMME: Nina Tarasova Mischa Mischakoff RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS RUSSIAN VIOLINIST Professor Leon S, Theremin SOVIET SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR Tickets: $1.00; $1.50; $2.00; $3.00—Advance sale at Russky Golos, 64 E. 7th St., New York. —Phone: DRYdock 1671 COMMITTEE: Sherwood Anderson | Alexander Archipenko Take Mace egidencieee A. A. Bakshy Michacl P. Baxte Konrad Berkovict Herman Bernstein Dr. Christian Brinton Remo Buffano Henry 8. Canby Stuart Chase Prof, H. W. L. Dana Prof. John Dewey John Dos Passos Waldo Frank Sidney Hillman Borls 8. Glagolin Freda Kirchwey | | | | | Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of His Creative Literary Work | Charles Recht Jamex Rorty Dr, Joseph Rosen Oliver H. Sayler Nina Selivanova Upton Sinclair Prof. Leon Theremin vim ‘Tally Onwald Garvin Albert Rhyn Prof, Harry F. W. Dr. W. Wovschin SOMETHING GREAT! A GRAND PERFORMANCE AND BALL will be given by the Ukrainian Working Wamels Association at the UKRAINIAN LABOR HOME, 66 E. 4th St. on SUNDAY, MARCH 24th A 5-Act Historic Drama If you wish to see a Ukrainian wedding, dancing, and hear Ukrainian songs, don’t fail to come. Ruth Draper will resume her incidents collected by the camera- | OE years icivic REPERTORY 14St..etnav. TONIGHT AT 8:30 P. M. | THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTION —————————} As the subscription seasons for all these plays have expired, ex- cellent seats for all performances are available at the box offices EUGENE O’NEILL’S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK W. of 8th Ave and Saturday CAPRICE GUILD 40 Mat., Mate West 5 Wed, znd Street, s, 8:50 Sharp Thurs, & Sat. :40 Sharp EUGENE O'NEILL'S STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN HPA. 58th St., , of Broadway Evenings only at 5:30 sharp. “HOLIDAY”- “A success of the first order.” —New York Times, “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 FDMOND JONES. Thea., W. 45th St., Eves, 8:50 PLYMOUTH Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:35 EXTRA MATINEE TUESDAY, APRIL 2 Kelth-Albee Caar ME 42nd Street and Broadway “The BATTLE oF MONS” Powerful Photoplay of the First Months of the Great War “Three Star Film” —DAILY NEWS “Stirring, Dramatic” —WORLD Best Film Show In Town “Fine Heart Warming” —TRIBUNE “Inspiring, Worth While” —TIMES FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORK! “A Visit to Soviet Russia” The official Motion Picture of the 10th Anniversary of the U. S. S. R. at the WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., E. B’way SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH 4 Continuous Performances — 2:00; 4:15; 6:30; 8:45 “The most comprehensive, stupenduous motion picture of social, political and industrial conditions in the Soviet Union’ since the October Revolution.” | —Henry Barbusse. Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. S. R. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx. Farewell Performance! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES \ BIG CONCERT OVER 200 SINGERS WILL PARTICIPATE Sunday, March 24, 1929 Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn Auspices of International Labor Defense, Branch 17 Cones Begins 3:30 P. M. ' H WORKERS CHORUS — BUTCHER GESANG-VEREIN “FRISCHAUF”—RUSSIAN CHEKOFF STRING ORCHESTRA with 25 members and dancers — THE KISATO- VERIT TUMBLERS OF BROOKLYN (Tumblers and Hand-Balancers) K. MENKEL, Soprano Solo — STANKUNAS, Basso — . ZAVECKA, Violin Solo — Pianist, HELEN RICH — Dancing After Concert: Only 50 Centh — — Admisaion $1.00 & T5c Everyone should be present. Support the struggling workers and our Political and Industrial Class Prisoners. Doors Open at 3 P. M. PROGRA AIDAS and LYRA CHORUSES — FINNIS!