The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1929, Page 4

Four Soviet Literature Is 1ZOVOUS Reaction to New Lite in USSR By ELI B. JACOBSON Paradoxical as it may seem, the literatures of imperialist America and Communist Ru have much in common. Both are young, vigorou and crude, and are in the stage of growing adolescence. From both melly atmosphere of the es, both are shaken by the act of the city culture upon rural ackwardness; both bow before the ever-increasing demands of machine; literary weltschmertz and sentimentality still sicken the read- ers of both; both stand helpless and perplexed at the gradual transform- ation of the sex mores. These characteri: red by all Russ: ans; nor in the are or all Am ame degree and ntensity. But on a whole these tendencies are revealed in both countries. the| th t, come a Soviet village official. Th .| peasant Nora causes many a peas- ssable gulf between the two ions cherishing hostile ideol- And with what absence of g of hands, signs and same emotional those stu hanging sex and marital No dilettante freudianism, ing introspection, no un- rried fathers, bachelor husbands; no glorification nor degradation of I flesh, monstrosities like h,” and its like. the Bolshevik (A. Nev- the third act of the Doll’s House all over again. She leaves her peasant husband to be- ant woman to stare and wonder. And the men, like Helmer, begin to do not a little wondering themselves. Such miracles as these they have} MERRYMAKERS RETURN TO GARDEN DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929 \‘Man’s Estate,’ ee Theatre Guild presented its fifth production of the season, |“Man’s Estate,” a comedy by Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar, at the Biltmore Theatre. A story of life in a small western town, is always interesting and keeps the audience on the alert dur- ng the three acts. With the usual pable Guild cast and direction, it develops into a play that is worth- while seeing. Although it does not expound any new ideas, being con- cerned with the usual youthful love affair, the fine manner of its pres- tively high level. Jerry Jordan, who hopes to be- come a famous'architect, spends an evening in the moonlight in the company of Sesaly Blaine. Shortly jafterward, Sesaly has a fainting spell ang discovers that she is go- entation brings it to a compara- New Comedy Presented at the Biltmore | Music Notes | | | Fania Bossak, soprano, will give | |a song recital at Town Hall Monday | | night. | Winifred Purnell, pianist, will ap- | !pear in debut recital at Steinway Hall Wednesday evening, April 17. Aeolian Waldon, soprano, will ap- | |pear in recital at Town Hall Friday levening, April 19. Madeleine Monnier, French cel- | liste, will give her concert at Stein- | way Hall Sunday evening, April 14. Martha Graham will give her | third and last recital of the season | at the Booth Theatre Sunday eve- | |ning, April 14, when she will be as- | ee THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS MAN'S ESTATE By BEATRICE BLACKMAR and BRUCE GOULD l EUGENE O’NEILL’S MARTIN BECK « fae}, %,.2 nea Ne A COMEDY BY SIL-VARA ' not experienced heretofore. | In “Black Fritters” (P. Romanov) it is the husband who quietly cl | the door on his peasant wife who: interests are centered chiefly in the lvi of her cow, Lyska. He his life with a quiet, hard- ing to have a baby. Of course, her |sisted by her concert group of dan- |boy friend, Jerry, is the father. | cers, When Pa and Ma Jordan are told about it, they make a lot of noise | and arrange for an immediate wed- ding between the boy and girl. For instance, Dreiser gives us a mere incidental glimpse of a collar factory (An American Tragedy); whereas almost the entire setting is placed by N. Liashko, into ma- ine factory (The ng of the CATRICE GUILD & = The big show at Madison Square Garden is in full swing. The principal feature of the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus this | Dusolina Giannini will give a re- cital at Carnegie Hall on the eve- | ning of April 17. | THEA., West 52nd Street, Eves, 8:50 Sharp Mat., Wed, Thurs, & Sat. 2:40 Sharp Chains). In true American efficient i ers season a mre eaten “The Somes cites ms 2 rea ting After the wedding Sesaly states -— fashion Sherwood erson tran:- comrade, and his wife,} a sensation afternoon and evening in the big arena on Eight Avenue. / that she had her fingers crossed R : EUGENE O’NEILL’S ; bs ocsevelt Signs New forms a farm village i trial community (Poor whereas Alexey Tolstoy merely ex- presses a distant romantic hope for! the same transformation in “Azure, Cities.” The thick inky stains of sentimentality that smear so many of Michael Gold’s pages are barely visible in Marietta Shaginian (Three Looms). In America Floyd Dell is constantly pre-occupied with his adolescent anal of the chang- ing sex and marital standards, standards that probably will baffle him to the end of his already fading literary days, and in Russia Boris| Pilniak is equally baffled and per- plexed, altho treading on a little surer ground. But the newer Russians scorn de- cadence, introspection, investigation of the “meaning of Life”. Beauty is not truth with them nor truth, beauty. Nor do they dwell in the ivory tower. Nor do they idealize perversion, wise-cracks. Nor do they sigh be- cause the rich do not find sufficiert novel pleasure to fill up their leisure time. Nor do they psychoanalyze in and out of season. Nor do they indulge in the luxuries of pessim- ism. Nor are they cynical, “sexy,” spoolzy, trivial and lecherous—all these symptoms of a decaying pluto- cratic civilization that so infest the literary and “artistic” circles and writings of the United States are not evinced by the Russians. It is this spirit which informs the) new volume of Russian short stories, “Asure Cities.” Significantly enough} the volume begins with the great dreams of the azure cities to be erected all over Soviet Russia in the immediate future and ends with the vigorous, muscular spirit of “youth” (V. Lidin) that dominates the old) professor of science, the dying revo-|sal picture, will be presented at the | lutionary as well as the young avia- tor, coursing proudly and _ bravely over the vast spaces of Leningrad. Where in all American literature does such a healthy, non-morbid spirit breathe and have its being? And how the factories sing! How White) ; | Nor do they indulge in| {despite her intention to raise a v' lent storm, gives him and his gi comrade a present of fritters in- So she leaves as she came, ing, irresolute, and yet im- pressed with that something that is great and new, but which she does not and cannot understand. The best story ‘Azure Cities”. Here we have the Destoievski touch: Buzheninov bears a close resemb- lance to Raskolnikov. A romanti- cist, living only in his fantasies, he is unable to effect anything of the slightest concrete value. But Comrade Khotzaintsev cor- rectly tells him: ‘When you are in the saddle, rifle in hand, that hour of the Revolution is lived on nerves, on emotions, on now harness that battle h_rse to the plough—that’s hard—just every day labor and sweat. In the end there is more courage needed to sell dough- nuts on the marketplace than to} rush with the naked blade into the attack. You must sweep out the townspeople with muslin and books, and the theatre and the club and the tractor.” Razkolnikovism does not dominate this superb short story, but is re- placed by the patient realism and jintelligence of a Comrade Khot- zntsev. No murky introspection, no pessi- mism—but youth, strength, courage, relentless facing of the facts, when building social, not anti-social civil- ization—it is this spirit and phil- osophy that suffices the pages of the newer Russian writers. * Azure Cities, Stories of New ia, International Publishers, |“THE SHAKEDOWN” AT THE | COLONY TODAY “The Shakedown,” a new Univer- |Colony Theatre beginning today. This is a drama directed by William Wyler from a story by Charles A. Logue. James Murray and Barbara Kent co-star in the principal roles. | Other members of the cast include George Kotsonaros, Jack Hanlon, enthusiasm. But) ‘Seventh Anniversary of “Flames on the Volga” \“The Freiheit” Will Be to Continue for Week \Celebrated This Eve. More at Film Guild The seventh anniversary of the Freiheit will be celebrated tonight | new Sovkino cinema, “Flames on in the largest hall in the city, the|the Volga,” the film dealing with , New York Coli-/a peasants’ revolt under the regime Seas ath St | of Queen Catherine, now showing at The big attrac. |the Film Guild Cinema, will be held tion of this af-|over for a second week. fair will be an} This latest Sovkino release is Sreel movie of notable for the direction of Juri fhe Soviet Repub- | Taritsch, who was responsible for takes you through |“Czar Ivan the Terrible” and also the entire Soy-|for the fact that it is the first pic- et Republic,|ture which was actually filmed in Piraine, White| the Volga regions. eee Acree: The cast of 5,000 Tartar natives Turkistown, Siberia and all other|#nd their movements, forms the sections of the Soviet Republic, |background for a vivid and natural showing the important industries of |@tama introducing such legendary each section, the way the workers |Characters as Pugatchev, the Rus- sian “Robin Hood”; Prince Potem- kin, the favorite paramour of Queen Catherine, and Bulat Batyr, the and peasants live and work, The most important part of this picture | chieftain who led many Tartars in revolt. is the celebration of the tenth anni- | On the same program the Film f | Anna Savina versary of the Russian Revolution. | The leaders of the Soviet Union, the Red Army parade, workers’ demonstrations, the famous Duncan |Guild is presenting a Symphony in Dancers, all appear in the film. |Color, which is an experiment in In addition to the movie, Nicholas |Color dynamics, and “Killing the Opera Co., Ivan Vilikanoff of the | ture. Moscow Art Studio and Anna So-| Commencing April 13, the Film vina, mezzo soprano of the Kieff | Guild Cinema will present the Amer- State Opera, will appear in a pro- | ican premiere of “Waterloo,” a new gram of modern Rutsian songs. interpretation of Napoleon’s down- The program follows: Interna-|fall from the British-German angle. tional and Pioneers’ Song, F. Miller; ! This film has an international cast, May Song, M. Rosenfeld; Kirchan | headed hy Otto Gebuhr. a German Cloken (Church Bells), by Abraham Reisen; Freimeit Gesangs Varain, Jacob Schaefer, director; Song of the Forest, A. Barodin; The Pine 2 Tree, E. Bucha; the Song of the |Plays Lord Wellington. | Young Peasant, Ivan Vilikanoff, P,| On the same program with Ruckin; Lullaby; Soviet Folk Songs; | “Waterloo” will also be the Amer- | | Charles Vannell, a French actor, who plays Napoleon, and Humber- stone Wright, an Englishman who Karlosh from the Russian Grand | Killer,” the famous Ufa short pic- | artist who plays Marshal Blucher; Balera Serenade, Bizete; the Old | Wolfe, Folk Song; Anna Sovina; When the King Goes to War, T. jican premiere of Man Ray’s “Star of the Sea,” which is a James Joyce treatment of a Baudelairian theme; gladly and spontaneously the work- Wheeler Oakman and Harry Grib- ers themselves decide to work on hon, three instead of two looms! Isn’t it) Watter O’Keefe will continue in their factory, their land? |the role of master of ceremonies No sentimentality is shown @/from the stage and Sammy Kahn Parent, because he is a parent. Hivil head the Colony Melodists. he is an enemy of the new order,!(ther acts will complete the diver- then he must suffer. No reconcilia-! i¢ieq program tion is possible. Both I. Babel in oe 5 “The Letter” and Seifullina in “The Old Woman” (observe that the | aisappear in the face of modern in- author does not call her “The/dustry; the proletariat is its special = : at ersential p-oduct—Karl Marx Mother”) unromantically ‘oramunist Manifesto). The New Plays “THE LOVE DUEL,” by Lili Hatvany, will open at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Monday evening, with Ethel Barrymore in the chief role. Others in the cast are Louis Calhern, Henry Stephenson, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Dorothy Hall, Martin Burton and Leslie Barrie, “JONESY,” a comedy by Anne Morrison and John Peter Toohey, will be presented at the Bijou Theatre Tuesday evening. The cast includes Nydia Westman, Donald Meek, Spring Bying- ton, Raymond Guion, Kate Mayhew, Perey Moore and Helen Brooks. The play is based on a series of short stories by Mr. Toohey, published several years ago. “THE SEA GULL,” by Tchekov, will be presented by Leo Bul- gakov for a series of snecial matinees at the Comedy Thea- tre beginning Tuesday afternoon. “THE VEGETABLE,” a comedy by F. Scott Fitzgerald, will be presented by the Lenox Hill Players at the Cherry Lane on Tuesday. In the cast are Eve Saxen, Syd Brenner, Fanny Shack, Mildred Seplow and Lily Slotnikov. The other classes deeny and finally an portray! (¢, . . Spring is he with its beauty... Have Your Vacation NOW in Proletarian Nit gedaig et Cooperative The Workers Rest Home Camp PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION PROLETARIAN ATMOSPHERE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR $17 A WEEK New York Central Railroad to Beacon CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. Telephone: Beacon 862. New York Office: UNITED WORKERS COOP. Phone: Estabrook 1400. “Electrical Nights,” a screen sonata |inspired by incendescense, and “The |Private Laugh of Helen of Troy.” plete Lectures and Forums ——— The People’s Institute AT COOPER UNION (8th St. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o’Clock Kanamon; Two Grenadiers, Schu- |man; Harmonica, Rebkinoff; Nich- olas Karolas ‘Legal Battle Between Staten Island Busses and R, R. Hits 12,000 | Twelve thousand Staten Island |commuters may have to walk blocks to work today. Yesterday the Rich- mond Railways got an injunction to} stop the service of the Fox Hills Bus Corporation, which has an in- sufficient franchise, and comnetes to some extent with the railway. | The Tompkins Bus Corporation, | which has no franchise at all for} this route, saw a chance to pick up} a little money, and ran buses all | |day yesterday. But the railroad \said they would be stopped by an- SUNDAY, MARCH 7 DR. EDWARD T. y. K. MENGE “The Negative Side of Science” TUESDAY, APRIL 9 DR. JAMES GRAY “Microscopie Machinery” FRIDAY, APRIL 12 MR. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN A HISTORY OF LIBERTY “Liberty and Tolerance—A Lecture ‘on Reformers” ADMISSION FREE Di jfion. | other injunction today. | beter dikestir fo tamed TUDOR INN |. ‘ LABOR TEMPLE 14th St. and Second Ave. SUNDAY, APRIL 7 . F. BECK An Outline History of the Drama “The Drama of Concentration” (Racine) 7:15 p, m.— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “Free Speech” §:30 p. m.: FORUM HARRY F. WARD “Labor Unrest in India” —ALL WELCOME— INGERSOLL FORUM Guild Hall, Steinway Hollding, 113 Went 57th St., N. 5 SUNDAY EVENINGS APRIL 7 r DEBATE: “Is Religion Useful Today?” YES: GEORGE TODD NO: WOOLSEY TELLER ADMISSION 25 CENTS Restaurant 113 East 14th Street ——— For good and wholesome food, don’t fail to visit us We serve special luncheon plates from 11:30-3 p, m, | ble Prices TRY OUR SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER! EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS «9 Second Av N.Y, CG.) SUNDAY, APRIL 7, AT 8 P. STANLEY HIGH “RUSSIA AND RELIGION” Admission Free—Everyone Invited M. Attention, Workers, Organized and Unorganized! JOHN J. BALLAM Acting National Sceretary of the Trade Union Educational Lengue will lecture on “THE ORGANIZATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNION CENTER IN THE U. S. AND THE COMING CLEVELAND TRADE UNION UNITY CONGRESS,” at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Sq., 5th floor. SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH, AT 8 P. M. Questions and Discussion Admisaton 250 Reem ce ree during the ceremony and therefore |she does not consider it binding. She returns the ring to Jerry and |tells him to continue his studying. She adds if later he feels that he ually loves her then they will | Sesaly is to go to Europe. while Jerry will continue his college edu- cation which will prepare him for a jgreat future as an architect in New | York. Jerry suddenly decides that he loves Sesaly and asks her to live with him immediately. He says he will study evenings, taking a $40 a week job to keep them going. The play is a typical slice of jmiddle class life in the United | States. It is realistic and truthful lin its portrayal. The fear of dis- lcovery lingers constantly in the \minds of the petty-bourgeois people |with whim the play is concerned. Margalo Gilmore gives an admir- uble performance as Sesaly. Her acting is restrained, yet dynamic whenever necessary. The part of Jerry is also well handled by Earle |Larimore. Others in the cast include | | Dudley Digges, who staged the play; | |Bdward Pawley, Elizabeth Pater-| json and Edward Favor. Although slightly different from | the usual run of Guild plays, it is a | play they need not be ashamed of. | AGAINST DEATH PENALTY. LONDON, England, April 5. — bourgeois organization, which is) circulating an appeal against the! death penalty, yesterday received| 10,000 signatures. The total of signatures is now reported to be! 52,000, | EPIDEMIC KILLS NATIVES. | JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa, | (By Mail)—A plague has killed lover 50 natives, and is still raging) in the Orange Free State. The na-| ture of the epidemic is unknown. MUSIC AND CONCERTS ~ | PhilharmonicSymphony 5 CLEMENT KRAUSS r Guest Conductor arnegie Hall, This Sunday After- noon at 3300 ‘Tehaikovsky-Wagner Program Carnegie Hall, Thursday Eve. April 11, at 8:45 April 12, at 2:30 April 13, at 8:45 ngold = Brahms Stra Friday Carnegie Hall, Sunday Afternoon, April 14, at 3:00 ‘Baumes Law; Statute | lof Limitations Ended | ALBANY, April | 5. — Governor | Due to the big response to the |live together. It is arranged that | Roosevelt has signed the Baumes | bill providing for the abolition of the statute of limitations in effect, | in all criminal cases. The new bill provides for the suspension of the statute in all cases as soon as in- formation has been filed or an in- dictment issued. As this is a mat- ter of course whenever any crime \is committed, anybody the police | think of accusing for any crime may | now be placed on trial twenty years | | later when all witnesses for the de- | fense are dead or gone. Of all the classes that stand face to face with tie bourgeoisie today | the prozetariat alone is a really revo- | Jutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com- | munist Manifesto). | NOW! Madison Sq. Garden 49th-n0th St, at Sth Ave. |B Short Season—Twice Daily at 2 & 8 P. M.—Doors Open at 1 and 7 Special Entertainment each Sunday _.,._ Afternoon and Night — | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey | CIRCUS 1,000 Foreign Features including Featuring HUGO ZACCHINI “The Human Projectile” ng Person Shot Through Space th Violent Velocity from the | nt [1000 New Foreign pentarsel roux Stars—Vast Menageric— | Congress of Freaks TURY! ADMISSION to All (incl. 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Agier York District Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre| § STRANGE INTERLUDE JOHN GOLDEN ¢: HBA., 68th St., BE. of Broadway venings 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. PLYMOUTH Thea., W. 45th St., Eves. 8:50 Mats. Thurs, and Sat. 2:35 Farewell PERFORMANCE Isadora Duncan IN A PROGRAM OF Revolutionary Songs and Dances 18,19 April 20, 21 Manhattan Opera House TICKHTS ON SALE AT DAILY WORKER OFFICE, ROOM 2¢1, 26 Union Sq., New York City and at Bex Office. — Popular Prices. IF YOU INTEND TO BUY RADIOS, PIANOS, PLAYER- PIANOS, PLAYER ROLLS, RECORDS, OR ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BUY AT “SURMA’S STORE at 103 Avenue “A” New York, N. Y. (Bet. 6-7th Str.)