The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1929, Page 4

an Page Four Irish Peasant L Accurately in O'Donnell s Book THE WAY IT WAS WITH THEM. | By Peadar O'Donnell. G. P. Put- nam § Se . by MARTIN MORIARTY. » John Millington m the esthetic ian boulevards, crossed the n seaboard, and ives of the Review version in t ricken peasant-fishermen > Aran Islands. He was in- sted in the “low murmur of Gae which filled his later essays, “The Aran Islands,”; and the fisher- men who f y with the for a livelihood be- of the Sea,” to be ap- sponsors of the national in the days of the s Their legends, away in the mystic mind of ramatist, gave him the folk which pired “In the of the Glen.” With his of carefully chosen dis- ys won the hearts igade of literary na- tionalists, who, at a safe distance from the stink of Dublin slums, dreamed of the glorious of Ancient Irish Civilization. The last strongholds of a sup- planted culture still attract certain of the Abbey Theatre and ic members of the Gaelic The Western Seaboard—in League. this case the Aran Islands off the of Donegal—still inspires | creative literature. But Peadar O'Donnell, in “The Way It was with Them,” is concerned not so much with the charm of dialect, but with the actual struggles of the islanders who live in blind misery on a diet of bread, “praties” and tea. O'Donnell is alive to the cruelties of the struggle. He is moved by the reactions of the islanders to poverty, by the attitude of the mother of the Dugan family who denies herself food that her children may eat, who even while dying from starvation is ashamed to admit poverty and seeks | consolation with the rosary-beads | which exert such a pernicious, reac- tionary influence on Irish life. “An’ for yer lives don’t wan of ye breathe | a word about what ye had in the| mornin’ if they ask ye at school,” Mrs. Dugan exhorts. And again: “Just hunger, not a thing else,” the doctor says when prescribing for “dllness.” O’Donnell’s Mrs. Dugan is one of the many island mothers who starve patiently, pray for the good season which brings the lucky catches, and wail at the “bad times” which in- tensify the restless elders, driving them as emigrants from the island. “Oh, it’s a grand life for a woman with a string of childer at her tail, an’ hunger.” This is the bitter sneer of an islander who has tasted the “pros- | ited States. ss perity” of the Uni * Life in Gaelic peasant Ireland has | cal her breasts weasened with | ite Is Depicted! gered he bitter criticism of the paroch: m of rural Irish life con- | tained in the novels of Brinsley Mac- | Namara, Liam O'Flaherty, telling | the stories of men caught in the “trouble,” is producing a literature described by one c as “constitu- ting the most remarkable record of the period we are likely to receive.” The years following the 1916 in- surrection have swept the n fi the scene. F State Senator William Butler Y , far from the nine bean rows of the Lake of Innis- | tion—sit silent or openly acquiece Flogging Bill, one of the spiritual devices adopted by Ireland’s rulers in their suppression of the republi- can struggle. And others who blessed the former national litera- | ture—the esthetic backwash of a} too bourgeois movement for libera- | tion—sit silent or openly acquiese | y, in the cruel “realism” of the govern- ment. ie In such an atmosphere a harder | li Nterature is rising, which pays more attention to the drunken pre playing the accordion on Capel St., Dublin, than to the kilted Celt who twanged the harp of Brian Boru on the slopes of Tara. In “The Way It Was with Them” there is ex- pressed a sensitiveness to the de- mands of the new movement and a healthy instinct for social detail which incidentally has had its politi- reflections. O’Donnell has carried a union card; while other sang of Sinn Fein he wrote a popu- lar “Irish Workers’ Song;” he} fought in the guerrila war against | Lloyd’s George’s Black and Tam ter- rorists in 1921. With such a back- | ground, one should like to see his | capabilities expressed in a novel | based on a less socially-isolated | scene than the Aran Islands, where | the characters are faced by deeper, | more significant social forces, SPECIAL MUSIC PROGRAM AT LABOR TEMPLE | TOMORROW. The program for tomorrow at the Labor Temple will include Dr. } G. F. Beck in his series on an out- line history of the drama, at five o'clock. The topic will be “His-| torical Drama” (Schiller). A pro- | gram of music will be held at 7:30 p.m. The numbers will be: “Gypsy }Camp Scene” from “The Spring | Festival,” by children of the school, | musical program, vocal and instru- | mental and selections by the Labor | | Temple Orchestra, Joseph Franco, | conductor. |VARDLYOALIT GROUP TO | GIVE TWO PLAYS. The Vardi-Yoalit Theatre Studio will present its new production, a | dramatic etude in three scenes, “The | |Seer Sees His Bridge,” by Marry | Sackler, and “Mazel Tov,” a comedy }in one act by Sholom Aleichem, this | | Sunday evening at the Martin Beck ing on story by Alex DAILY WORKER, EW YO The New Plays “CONGRATULATIONS,” a comedy by Morgan Wallace, will open at the National Theatre Tuesday evening. players include Leneta Lane, Herbert Yost, John A. Butler, Doyle, Virginia Howell, Joan Bourdelle and Robert Cum- Other John mings. “THE LITTLE night. “THE GRAND STREET FOLLIE be presented at the Booth Theatre on Wednesday. ites are back in the new revue, including Albert Carroll, Dorothy Sands, Paula Trueman, Mare Loebell, Edna Frankan and Mae.Noble. Morgan supplied the book and lyrics. Agne: SHOW,” a revue, opens at the Music Box Tuesday Fred Allen, Clifton Webb, Romney Brent, Libby Holman, Bettina Hall and Helen Lynd are in the cast. Henry Hull is featured. ” the seventh of the series will All the old favor- More Workers Comment On | “October” A. Tolstoy’s “Azure Cities” The Daily Worker publishes two | nore letters from workers comment- | “Azure Cities,” the short | y Tolstoy, noted Sov- et writer, which the “Daily” pub-| several weeks ished ago. Other letters will be printed as space per- Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: In the Daily Worker of April 9, Comrade Ernest Bersin scores Alexey Tols for nis snort story, “Azure Cities.” Comrade Bersin does not like Buzheninov as he is pictured by Tolstoy. I myself was disappointed with such a charac- ter. Of course the author could dress Buzheninov in the clothes of a Mary. I refer to the story, “Mary the Bolshevik.” Would we learn something by that? readers, and Comrade Bersin too, I am sure, like stories with rosy lining. No doubt Mary appeals to us a whole lot better than Buz-, heninov. But this does not mean \ Many | that there are no Buzheninovs in | Soviet Russia, and therefore we don’t have to know them. The work of a rea! artist is to show our bad points more dis- tinetly than our good ones. question that there are plenty of Buzheninovs and Maryas among us. And while the Maryas are perfect creatures, nothing to add to, the Buzheninovs are a prob- lem to us. A social order can be changed by power, but it takes even more than change human nature. “Freed slaves are slaves,” says Heine, “because slavery is in their na- ture.” Marya and Buzheninov are pro- ducts of the revolution. While the first is reaping the fruits of the revolution, the latter is giv- ing everything for it, youth, health, etc. If I were’ Comrade Bersin I would not be against the author of “Azure Cities,” whose work re- No | education to | flects the small town life of Sov- | iet Russia after the civil war, but | on May Day! against the editor of the Daily Worker for publishing it. “Azure Cities” is good for comrades who have already jumped over the re- volution, but not for comrades who have yet to make one. MORRIS BITTENFIELD. Chicago, Ill, * Biome Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: In regard to the verdict against Buzheninov in the story written by Alexey Tolstoy, my opinion is as follows. I preferably agree with Comrade Bersin that Buz- heninov is no proletarian type o: period, pre-revolutionary or since. I also agree with Comrade Bersin that the author, Tolstoy, for a certain time joined the counter- revolutionists against the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. The writer placed Buzheninov | before the peoples’ court. (I should rather say the proletarian court), and we have to pronounce our verdict. Buzheninov, no matter which class he came from, defended the revolution as a Red _ soldier against many enemies. Further- more, he endeavored in his way to rebuild the country more beauti- fully than before, In a capitalist country, where punishment is a revenge, the sen- tence of Buzheninov would be either death or life imprisonment. In the Soviet Union, however, criminals (except spies), are cor- rected and not revenged. Buzheninov should, therefore, be sent to a sanitarium to im- prove his state of mind, and to be made into a useful member of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Re- public by teaching him that there is an ideal which is higher than love for a woman, which caused Buzheninov’s crimes. This ideal is Communism. JACK SAMEK. Bronx, N. Y. No school Workers’ children! | LECTURES AND FORUMS RK, SATURDAY, ‘APRIL aT, 1929 : Strides Being Made In Soviet Cinema Studios IN'S new film, “The * General Line,” will be , released this month in Moscow, U. 8. S. R., and on the continent. This is anew departure for the noted director, whose two films, “Potemkin” and (known here as “Ten Days That Shook the World”), por- trayed exciting scenes of revolution and civil war, “The General Line” is entirely de- voted to the development of co-op- erative village industries, and in-| cludes many striking pictures and imaginative detail. It is particu- larly interesting from the fact that it has been produced entirely with- out the co-operation of “actors,” all the parts being filled by actual peasants, who have never before posed for the camera. “The New Babylon,” a spcctacu- lar film of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, was released on March 18 for the anniversary of the Paris Commune. The pro- ducers are G. Kozintzey and L. Trauberg, producers of the “Devil’s Wheel,” “Shinel” (on a story by Gogol) and “The Great Alliance.” Another new film released this month is the production of Vsevolod Ivanov’s “Carif and Miriam” at the Sovkino Leningrad works. Edward Johannsen directed the film. An art council has been formed to direct the art policy of the Lenin- grad Sovkino works, The council is composed of the director of the works, the technical director, mem- bers of the scenario bureau, three producers, two operators, an artist und two actors, Training Proletarian Writers. In the Moscow Sovkino works, a scenario workshop has been organ- ized for the systematic preparation of scenarios and for the purposs of technical training of a group of young proletarian writers and scen- ario writers. The work of this group will be directed by experi- enced scenario writers—N. Zarchi (author of the scenarios for “Mother” and “The End of St. Petersburg”), V. Shklovski (“The |Love-Triangle,” “Hollows” and “The | Wings of a Serf.” There will be 25 workers in this group, most of whom will receive wages from the jworks. It is hoped in this way to \create a body of scenarists guaran- teeing the full realization of the \plan for future production, Among other films in preparation is a comedy, entitled “Jealousy,” on the theme of the struggle with | slander and idle gossip in modern life. | by Alexandra Hochlov (well known |from her acting in “The Ray of Death” and Jack London’s “Accord- ing to the Law”), P. Galadzhev, A. Zhukov and K. Gradopoloy (who played in S. Urkevich’s “Lace”). “N. R. K. 32,” by the young pro- jducer, A. Usoltzev, and the opera- | tor, G. Giber, who shot “The Love The chief parts will be played | film showing the role of transport | in the civil war, and the heroism of the railwaymen, E. Ivanoy-Barkov, having fin- ished “The Blast Furnace” (a film version of Lyashko’s novel), has be- gun work upon a new picture, titled “Judas,” in which the principal | roles are taken by Kovrigin, Regoz- hin and Tzesarskaya. Tolstoi’s “Living Corpse.” “The Living Corpse” (a film ver- | sion of Tolstoi’s play) has been fin- | ished in Berlin by the Mezhrabpom film group, together with the “Pro- metheus” firm, and is shortly to be shown simultaneously throughout the Soviet Union, The picture re- ceived high praise from the Berlin critics, Y. A. Protazanov, producer of | “The Three Thieves,” “The Forty- | First” and “The White Eagle,” has begun to work upon a new picture entitled “The Meeting.” V. Barnet, producer of “The Girl With the Hat Box,” is working upon “The Mexican,” founded on a Jack London novel. Negotiations are go- ing on between the Mezhrabpom- Film and the Mexican government, with regard to opportunities of tak- ing landscape films in Mexico. An expedition from the Mezhrab- the play by V. Kirshon. Another new film, “You Mustn’t Go Into the Town,” has been shown in Moscow theme of the picture is the drama his son is a member of the White Guard. The producer-operator of this film is U. A. Zhelyabuzhski, who produced “Dina Dza Dzu” and “Svanetia.” May Day—the day which began with a general strike for the cight- hour day in the U. S, THEA., Tomorrow (Sun.) ning at 8:45 ONLY NEW YORK RECITAL ANNA Robenne Program of Dances Composed by MICHEL FOK Concert 3 A British M SPEC EMIL JANNINGS in a Burlesque movie “TH® APACHE'S REVENGE” 5th Ave, Playhouse 66 FIFTH AV! Corner 12th St. Continuous 2 P. M. to Midnight Daily Masterpiece AL 44th St. West of Broadway Eves, 8:30; Mats.: | Triangle” and “Bulat-Bogatir,” is a pom had finished in Tiflis the shoot- | ing of “The Humming Rails,” on | and Leningrad. The | of a Soviet scientist, who finds that | “The Betrayal” Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue ‘Pleasure Bound THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS THE CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE By FRANTISEK LANGER MARTIN BECK [2 W. of 8th Ave. rh 240 MAN'S ESTATE By BEATRICE BLACKMAR and BRUCE GOULD THE Mat 47th St, Ww. s Thursday CAPRICE A COMEDY BY SIL-VARA 4 Street, Eves. 8:50 Sharp . 2:40 Sharp of B'way. & Saturd BILTMORE GUIL. | LAST WEEKS! STRANGE INTERLUDE By EUGENE O'NEILL JOHN GOLDE THEA., 68th St., B. 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 EDMOND JONES. PLYMOUTH Thea., W. 45th St., Eves. 8:50, Mats. 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OVERSTREET “The Problem of Psychological Release” world has experienced a cataclysm which has changed the face of na- ture, and Ireland herself has been turned from the wandering, soulful Cinderella Goddess called Kathleen not been accurately reflected in re- cent Irish literature, O’Donnell con- tends. His rejection is only inci- | dental to a general break with the | Theatre. mystic past which influences the | work of the new school. Conditions | which forced the break were ex-} pressed by a writer for the Con- ee servative “London Daily Telegraph” }, Anna Robenne will give her only in 1926, when in a review of Sean | local recital this Sunday evening at O’Casey’s “The Plough and the | the John Golden Theatre. She will Stars” he declared: | present a program of dances com- “Within the last ten years the posed by Michel Fokine, including | many new interpretations. 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