The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1929, Page 4

Four Movies Used by Capitalists — ‘0 Poison Minds of Workers By S. BRODY. le attention h s to the motio the most been paid pict pourgeoisie. e in Amer- In this respect only be compared with it. which we must learn cles that been quick in ue of the screen as tor of influence over Sir James C. Irvine, a otion picture expert, said e art of photography s place permed _Political and should re- sd by the I for one woul ald not care to ure of phi aphy the part which it yet m Used to Mould Workers’ Minds. This is noe new in the histor; of the cinema. mind of ction. In o mould t a given di a r on “The Economic and So- cial Aspects of the Motion Picture,” i the American Academy of al and Social Science, Terry Ramsaye, tracing the development of the cinema as an institution in this country, says: ethnic and social aspects of this situation at the birth of the screen theatre m be considered. Since 1885 the U. has been im- porting cheap labor from the Medi- terranean countries and the Slavic regions, in the upbuilding of the vast American industrial machine. The great concentration of foreign labor in a polyglotic melting-pot was in the iron and coal regions of Penn- sylvania, centering in Pittsburgh. Too poor to import or support their varied national arts, theatres and literatures, and often too lowly in culture to enjoy these arts had they been available, the polyglotic aliens offered a ripe opportunity for the art of the motion picture with its simple, basic, direct and obvious nar- ratives, embodying no linguistic dif- ficulties and no problems of intel- lectualization. From this soil the motion picture theatre sprang, and spread to like regions, into the for- eign and labor quarters of the great | industrial cities, before it began to} extend more slowly into the more| American hinterlands. _ The aliens came chasing rain- | ‘nae and seeking the land of gold and promise. They came to see In-| dians and cowboys and all the ex- citements the steamship posters had| proclaimed to them at the foreign) emigration stations. The motion picture set about to deliver the de- sired goods. The motion picture could make their dreams come true, with splendors, and thrills and ex- citements. The films were made for them, an American-born art nur- tured on the tastes, codes and cul- tures of an imported labor popula- tion.” Movies in Elections. This most conscious use of the motion picture by the bourgeoisie to further its political and economic | aims is even more efficiently ap- plied today. Since the 90’s the film has travelled a long way, and its application in this respect has been improved a thousand- fold. Witness | the extensive use of the motion pic-| ture during election campaigns in| the open air. In the last presiden- | tial election the democratic party | erected a screen on Broadway near | Times Square and projected “talkies” | of its candidates. The throw was a| block long and attracted thousands | of people nightly. There is the re- | cent growth of “picture palaces” | seating as many as 5,000; the grow- | ing importance of the newsreel, which in its contents is as vicious as the yellow press itself; the tight-| ening of state film censorship, etc. The general trend in the motion | picture field today is not, as many believe, the development of the “little cinema” seating a few hun- Hedgerow Theatre to Celebrate Birthday | The Hedgerow Theatre in Moylan | Rose-Valley, is preparing to cele- brate on Sunday, April 21 at 8 p. m. its seventh birthday. This season, Hedgerow plans to entertain with “A Composite Hedgerow Rehearsal.” More than 20 of the Hedgerow | players of former seasons will take «rt in the production, unfolding climactic scenes from over 30 for- mer Hedgerow productions, among them Ibsen’s “Pillars of Society” and “Hedda Gabler”; Shaw’s “Mis- alliance,” “Candida,” “Arms and the Man” and “You Never Can Tell”; Susan Glaspell’s “Inheritors” and “The Verge”; Eugene O’Neill’s “Be- yond the Horizon,” “Different” and “Welded”; A, A. Milne’s “Mr. Pim | Passes By,” “The Romantic Age”! and “The Lucky One”; St. John Ervine’s “Mary, Mary Quite Con- trary”; Lynn Riggs’ “Rancor”; | Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author”; Alexander Berkmann’s translation of ‘‘The Prisoner”; Voelmoeller’s “Uncle’s| Been Dreaming”; Romain Rolland’s ; “Wolves”; Andreyev’s “He Who Tehekhov’s “Ivan- | Stewart, will be shown. dred and importing European pro- ductions, including Soviet films, (because thi e artistic y su-| perior to an prod On the contrar 2 real line of devel- opment is in the direction of the erection of monster ppichute pal- » (Roxy, Pa nd poisoning the es with pic- It to the Marines,” ete. dissing Squads.” In Europe the more adv tions of the working class much more awake to the menace of imperialist. propaganda thru the medium of the se The You ing Communist recently org plays the role trange Inter- films, fil In the ¢ e@ id we need only tre. mention the good work of such or-| aeki6 ions: au ‘The Adventures of Germany and Maya” at 55th St. Playhouse in Franc y comrades | , the xecutive Committee of nunist International unan- ly decided during all Commu- nist Parties to devote much more at- rt which today in reac! a EER, en Waldemar Bonsels, author f “An Indian Journey,” around “The Adventures of Maya, The the story was translated arfd published in eighteen languages. auahee than aN new Over four million copies of the book agitation and propa were sold. The film version of this it is one of the most pre - novel, produced in Germany, is to pond Whetede leacn tort have its first American presentation panniillinsapedints at the 55th Street Playhouse begin- . o . ing Sa rv a Soviet Film to Remain |" "Ss Seturday. ° “The Adventures of Maya” is a at Fifth Ave. Playhouse | tim in which the star is a bee, the - leading man a beetle, and the villain The Sovkino picture, “Prisoners of a ' us “atmospheric” the Sea,” produced in cooperation| parts are supplied by hornets, a with the Soviet navy as a sister pic-| frog, an owl and a butterfly, . ture to “Potemkin,” remains for a|fort is made to tell a bee’s story. in second week at the Fifth Avenue|the form of his “personal” adven- Playhouse. In this film, a thrilling tures among innumerable species of climax is achieved when a Ru: submarine si in a disaster similar to that of the S-4. In place of other numbers on the program, “Primitive Households,” a Ufa novelty, and “The Painted World,” with Anita in| plant and insect. life. took four years to make and was directed by Waldemar Bonsels, On the Czarina’ Charli features. “The with Baclanova, a ame program will be crets” Laura LaPlante will be featured at the Colony Theatre in “Scandal,” her latest picture. This is an adaptation by Paul Shoefield of the magazine story “The Haunted Lady” | PITTSBURGH, Pa., by Adela Rogers St. Johns. It was directed with dialogue and sound by Wesley Ruggles. Huntley Gordon, John Boles, Jane Winton, Uancy Dover, Julia Swayne Gordon and Eddie Phillips are other players in the film. Threaten Wage Cuts April 19.— Wage reductions up to seven per cent of the already miserable pit- tances paid were announced yester- day by J. D. A. Morrow, president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., a very large company and an Andrew Mel- lon concern, and leader in the recent lock-out of 150,000 coal miners. “Waterloo,” the Emelka produc- ‘tion depicting the downfall of! | Napoleon from the German-English} standpoint will be held over for a| second week at the Film Guild Cin-| ema starting this Saturday. The day rate is now $4.46 a day,| when you work, and men work only | a few days a week. Other coal companies will follow suit, the Carnegie Coal Co, has al- | ready announced a wage cut at 744 Be at the Coliseum iper cent today. May First. 's drama at} wrote story | parture for Moscow, | the Duncan group. |afternoon and evening and Chopin, An ef-| The picture! |based on the story of Edith Cavell, Bowers comedy and other | DAILY WORKER, The New Pins j cast |Brough and Cecil Barry. |companied on the program at the \Little Theater by a member of un- as “Companionate Marriage,” atre on Monday. atre, on Monday night. and Anne Forrest. sented by Roy Walling on Mond MacQuarrie, Mary Wall, Jane SSIN’ Hudson Theatre Monday night. DUNCAN DANCERS FARE- WELL PERFORMANCE TOMORROW | The farewell performance of the | Isadora Duncan Dancers in New York will take place at the Man- hattan Opera House tomorrow after- noon. Many new and novel features, both in solo and ensemble numbers, will be presented. Among these are arche Funebre and two etudes (Chopin); Chorus “King Stephan” | and a Polka (Beethoven) and “Young Guards,” the letter done in dance with song accompaniment done | by the performers themselves. The performance begins at 3 o’clock. S. Hurok announces the early de- U.S. S. R., of ae eee The last three performances in the farewell of the Isadora Duncan Dancers will be given this after- noon and evening and tomorrow afternoon. Numbers from Schubert and Chopin will be presented this | Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Mozart numbers will be given to- morrow. Each program will also in- clude the series, “Impressions of | Revolutionary Russia.” Tickets are on sale at popular prices at the office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. Phila. Little Theatre the “Dawn,” international film will be shown at the Little Theater, here, for another week. Sybil Thorn- dyke, famous actress on the London stage, has gained enthusiasm for her performance in the leading role. “Dawn” was produced by the British director, Herbert Wilcox. | Besides Miss Thorndyke, the large includes Maurice Braddell, Marie Ault, Gordon Craig, Mary It is ac- usual short subjects, including |\“Memories of Confl ict,” an actual record of land and sea fights photo- graphed during the world war. The Little Theater at 2222 Market Street, gives continuous perform- ances from 1 to 11 p. m., daily. Farewell PERFORMANCES IN A PROGRAM OF Revolutionary Songs and Dances “The Star”; Stephen | Leacock’s “Cast Up By the ‘Sea” and} Barker's “Ten Nights in a, Bar! Room.” : f York City. Isadora Duncan Dancers TODAY MATINEE; TONIGHT; SUNDAY MATINEE MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE Tickets on Sale at DAILY WORKER OFFICE, Room 201, 26 Union Square, New NEW YORK, SATUR “MARRY THE MAN,” a play by Jean Archibald which ran in Chicago will be presented at the Fulton The- Vivian Martin and Lester Vail head the cast. “CARNIVAL”, a play by William A. Doyle, comes to the Forrest The- The featured players are Norman Foster “THE COME-ON MAN,” a comedy by Herbert Ashton, Jr. AROUND,” Louis Isquith’s Negro Revue, opens at the | TOSCAN | and thirteen Friday afternoons each, | The two series of Sunday afternoons | eight concerts each and the two stu- APRIL 20, 1929 Madison Sq. Garden yt , TWICE DAILY 2 and 8 NOW! Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined CIRCUS 10,000 Marvels including HUGO ZACCHINI ie “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE Shot Through Space from Monster Cannon — Sensation of Century | J Admission to all (incl. seats) $1.00 to $3.50 Inc. Tax. Children under | 12 Half Price at All Matinees ex- | cept Saturdays & Sundays, | Tickets at Garden Box Offices Gimbel Brothers and Usual | Ticket Agencies, | will be pre- at the Forty-ninth Street. George bury and the author are in it. 1 10.CONDUCl PHILHARMONIC FOR | Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Broadway SIXTEEN WEEKS Wed, & Sat, 2:30 it Revue | | Eves, 8:30; The Greatest and Fun ‘Pleasure ae IVIC REPERTORY ¥St.6tnav Eves, 8: as 50c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2 Mats.: The Philharmonic-Symphony So- | ciety announces for 1929-30 a season | of twenty-nine weeks, one week | longer than this year, opening on; Thursday evening, Octcber 3, and | closing on Sunday afternoon, April 20. The first and last eight weeks LE GALLIENNE, Director will be under the direction of Arturo | pogay, 10:30 a, m. SHARP: “Twelfth Toscanini. The other conduetors | ight. a will be announced later. Se ees M: Tonight, TUDOR INN] Ninety-nine concerts are scheduled ; as compared with eight-seven this | season. At Carnegie Hall the pres- ent series will be replaced by two} series of thirteen Thursday evenings Restaurant 113 East 14th Street | will be augmented from seven to dents’ series of Saturday evenings will be increased from six to nine concerts each. The seven Sunday afternoons at the Metropolitan Opera House and the six Sunday after- noons at the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be continued as in the | For good and wholesome food, don’t fail to visit us We serve special luncheon plates frem 11:30-3 p. m. Reasonable Prices TRY OUR SPECIAL SUNDAY past. DINNER! HANS WIENER TO GIVE - DANCE RECITAL FRIDAY} Imperialism is at the same time the most prostitute and the ultimate |torm of the state power which nas- At the People’s Symphony Artists’ | cent middle-class society had com- Course Final Concert next Friday | mencea to elaborate as a means of evening at Washington Irving High | | its own emancipation from feudal- School, Hans Wiener and Vera Mil- | ism, and which full-grown bourgeoin cinovic will appear in a dance re- |*eclety had finally tr: sformed into cital a means for the enslavement of labor by enpital.—Marx, The program: Dancescenes from | ————————___ “Carnaval,” Schumann; Judgement, | MUSIC AND CONCERTS W. Fr. Bach; Sacrifice; Waltz, Re- ger; Ornament, Albeniz; Persian|| FRIDAY EVE, APRIL 26 AT 8:15 : yashi Irving High School, March, John Strauss; Golliwogg’s |} “°*" rity and pe Cakewalk, Debussy; Hindu Sounds, | Bainbridge Crist; Rouge et Noir, Mexican Melody; Slavic Dance, | Dvorak; Ethiopian Dance, Verdi; | Blues, Krenek. WIENER Dance Recital People’s Symphony Artists Course ADMISSION AT DOOR MUSIC AND CONCERTS Once a Year and for 5 Performances Only ‘tHE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE Direction: Alice and Irene Lewisohn will present two programs of symphonic music with a company of DANCERS and ACTORS in conjunction with The CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, Nikolai Sokoloff, Conductor A >. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY}MONDAY AND TUESDAY, April April 26, 27 and 28 at 8:45 29 and 30 at 8:45 Strauss’ Symphonic Poem Bloch's Symphony ‘EIN HELDENLEBEN “I S R A E L” (“A Hero's Life”) Grittes? “white Peacock” “THE WHITE PEACOCK” Debussy’s Nocturnes “NUAGES” and “FETES” Borodin's j“On the Steppes of Central Asia” Sand “Dances from Prince Igor”. 315 W. 34th St. Tickets now nt Box Office or 505 5th Av. Enesco's “Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1” Manhattan Opera House PRICES: $6.00—$5.00—84.50—$3.50—$3,00—82. -50—$2.00 $1.50 and $1.00 {= 'HFATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS THE CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE’S EYE By FRANTISEK LANGE# MARTIN BECK LW. of Oh Thurs. & § THEA., 45th S Sves. 8:50. Ma » 2:40 MAN'S ESTATE By BEATRICE BLACKMAR and BRUCE GOULD | BILTMORE THEA., Matinees 47th St. W. of B'way. Thursday & Saturday at Eves, 8:50 2:40 A COMEDY BY SIL-VARA CAPRICE | GUILD i ee West 52nd Street, Eves, 8:50 Sharp urs. & Sat, 2:40 Sharp LAST WEEKS! STRANGE INTERLUDE |} By EUGENE O’NEILL JOHN GOLDEN THEA, 68th St, EB. of Broadway Evenings only at 5:30 sharp, “A success of the first order. c —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. I ARTHUR HOPKINS presents PHILIP BARRY’S New Comedy with settings by ROBERT FDMOND JONES. Thea., W. 45th St., Eves, 8:50 ‘ Mats. Thurs. PLYMOUTH and Sat. 2:35 SOVKINO’S TREMENDOUS SISTER PICTURE TO “POTEMKIN” 2nd BIG WEEK! !) | “Prisoners of the Sea’ j. A Great Drama of the Soviet Navy “Potemkin photography plus a plot—a series of rapidly moving events and sketches of real life. ‘ERN SMITH, Daily Worker. 5TH AVENUE pLAYHOUSE 66 Fifth Avenue Cor. 12th St, Continuous 2 P. M, to Midnight Daily LECTURES AND FORUMS The People’s Institute | |ABQR TEMPLE AT COOPER UNION SU oo APRIL cas Bi (8th St. and ASTOR PLACE) 5:00 p. At 8 o'Clock DR. G. F. BECK An Outline History of the Drama “Psychological Drama (Goethe's Tasso)” 7:15 p. m.s— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “After Capitalism—Whatt” 8:30 p. m.: FORUM Paxton Hibben’s Memorial Service “Sacco-Vanzetti Still Speak” —ALL WELCOME— Harlem Educational Forum | 169 West 133rd Street SUNDAY, APRIL 21 DR. KANG-HU KIANG “The Ancient and Modern Educa- tional Systems of China” TUESDAY, APRIL 23 DR. WALTER H. EDDY “Vitamins” FRIDAY, APRIL 26 MR. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN A HISTORY OF LIBERTY “Freedom as a Psychological Problem” ADMISSION FREE Open Forum Discussion. SUNDAY, APRIL 21, AT 3:30 P. M. Richard B. Moore will speak on EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM Shee ae TO “The Ideals and Tasks of the SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 7:30 P.M. American Negro Labor it Ey ‘ad TK MOSS. Congress”. 8:30 P. M.: “Labor Union Problema” GERTRUDE WEIL KLEIN Admission Free—Everyone Invited Demonstrate for the defense of the Soviet Union May First at Coliseum. A. MARKOFF Instructor of the Workers School POPULAR PRICES. on “Anarchism and Communism” at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Sq. on Sunday, April 21st at 8 p. m. Admission 25¢ Questions and Discussion NEXT WEEK—SCOTT NEARING. ATHEIST REPORT “THE MASONIC CHURCH,” “COHESIVE CATHOLICS,” “HILLBILLYISM,” “DR. GLADMAN’S COUNSEL,” and “THE STRATON CASE” are some of the titles in the Third Annual Report of the 4A. For free copy, write: American Ass’n for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. 119 E. 14th St. New York, N. Y. 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