The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929 ™ Sherwood “Anderson Visits Strike; Heaves a Few Sighs . B. MAGIL 1 Sherwood short story ewspape a few of ton, s an lover ” and ra heaving a few sigh, And then for the bour- r By A IN The Nation of Anderson, writer, poet, itor, heavy the dire al jorous s tic Tenn. themselves away from the fascinat- ing machines? “There is always the old question— to make men rise in nobility to the nobility of the machines.” Ah, here we have the core of the problem, Speedup, low wages? Pooh, trifles! We must strike for more nobility. The brutal bosses are pre- venting us from becoming equal in nobility to the noble machines. ANDERSON meets Hoffman, the organizer of the United Toxtile | Workers, the A. F. of L. company | n Union that has for the second time , where all soul can be ten- derly The a theme sonian These ver} heaved be. ter all, 1 Ander- be played. have been “come in to help shackle the rayon workers more firmly to the mill s’ will. Anderson, the i tive artist, is deeply touched b: sight of this great man in action. He describes him as “a fat man, of the characteristic sledge-hammer, lebor-organizer type.” Anderson is a careful observer. He noticed right off that this 300-pound labor “or- i If 1 want some this ‘ ige-hammer looks, just take a peek at the picture reproduced here. Hoffman is really too good to be true. The arch-type of the A. F. of L. fat boy, every inch a labor faker. Just the sort of fellow to inspire the confidence of the scrawny, thin- lipped, half-starved strikers of Hap- py Valley. aes es UT maybe you think Anderson is of these high-brow literary an intellectual snob patron- workers. Not a bit of it.) f came from the working When I was a young man I ed for years in factories. These g people are close to me, al-| h I am no longer a working ov izing “I m: el w | ling around the decks. The New Plays “THE FIRST LAW,” a drama by Dmitry Scheglov, which was adapted from the Russian by Herman Bernstein and Leonid Snegoff, will open at the Theatre Masque, Monday night. The cast includes Snegoff, Frances Carson, Reginald Goode, Wilfred Seagram and Samuel Schneider. Snegoff, who directed the play, was formerly with the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. The Nightmare Voyage On a Shib That Never Returned (By a Seamen Correspondent) Out in the Atlantic at last. Dead calm, light airs, winds and variables. A long-lazy swell is coming from the west. | Morning. The sky is clear, the After all these gales, so much! sea is light and the wind is all like a society parasite after a glori-| around the comp: ous revolution—the Invermark is all trimmed the yards to a slight in rags; rolling drunkenly upon the! southerly puff, we are clearing up} heaving breast of the mighty ocean |the “gear.” Four bells have just —she seems like a scare-crow! been struck. Jack, the husky Aus-| We are working hard and long. tralian is coming from the ‘wheel’; Some are aloft repairing rigging,) having done his “trick”—the usual ome on deck are mending sails. Seated by the dimly lit and flick ing old hurricane light, our poor old “sails” is busy with his palm and needle, and hunched, bent over the canvas, he keeps on sewing deep into the night! Having just got out of their lairs, the young welps (the future ship- officers, the fascist class) are prow- The yellow- aristocratic second-mate ‘is “keep- ing watch,” he looks well-fed, well- ship it drifted by :.. but soon the sharks came upon the scene, the body was gone—they made a meal of skin and bones. constantly watching for a “shake” break of the poop, and, as cus- tomary, stopping for a moment to report the head (Full and By)—he| was about to go.... | “Don’t forget,” angrily shouted the aristocratic, blue-blooded second- |mate, and giving Jack a contempt- rested—three weeks of “sickness”| yous look he hissed: “When you had left no ill effects; leaning) speak to an officer, you must ‘sir’ against the “fife-rail” on the poop and “purring” like a big, fat, lazy| tom-cat—off he goes to sleep again! And the first-mate, the big raw- boned man with the wrinkled face Jack almost laughed. He smiled and replied calmly: “I don’t ‘sir’ you, | nor any other bastard like you,—I/ Having just» content. Ukrainian Music Experiences | Renaissance Under Soviets NDER the old regime Ukrainian musical culture was scarcely al- lowed legal existence. Musical Society, in its schools and concert work, absolutely ignored the Ukrainian folk song as an ele- ment of musical culture, The Peters- burg government was inclined to re- gard the leaders of Ukrainian choirs and the singers of Ukrainian songs almost as state foes, and treated them with corresponding hostility. As for the opera, this field was tightly closed against Ukrainian compositions, and there was no thought of state initiative, assist- ance or approval for the develop- ment of Ukrainian music. Consid- ering the impossibility of obtai finished musical education, it reely to be wondered at that of the Ukrainian composers did not get much beyond the level of talented, self-taught dilletantes. It is also scarcely to be wondered that they wrote chiefly for choirs sca two long, weary hours of standing in|and the human voice as almost the | a place and with a stretched neck only instrument within their scope. | Needle’s Eye,” Frantisck Langer’s | even It is true, Ukrainian music, in the gaff-tops'l almost above your |}jefore the Revolution, contributed | | head—he had just been relieved.|preat names, such as Lissenko,| ALICE BRADY TO JOIN THE- Meeting the second-mate at the [eontowitch, Stetsenko and Stepova, | but this was in spite of official carelessn Music for the Masses. The solution of the national ques- tion after the Revolution produced the problem of the revival and con- struction of a musical. culture that should be national in form and ma- terial, but Soviet and socialist in The first slogan was “Music for the Masses.” The in- tense feeling among the masses of the workers and peasants for their The Russian | 4 ample mir- class man, I have my own class. I i belong to the artist class.” The touching dignity of that last sentence, Sherwood Anderson has i He is no longer just an or- tal dinary worker. He is now an artist, ish 2nd all the gigantic burdens and ¢ /Sufferings of an Artist are his. An- iderson discreetly forgot to mention n,|that he has also been a boss, the ’ owner of a paint factory. And that he is a boss right now, the owner _ |of two newspapers. But it is true of that he was a poor working boy once. So was Charlie Schwab. a cs * § UT let me not do Sherwood An- ons in an effort to |D derson an injustice. It is true: and that vast, emotionally and above all, sentimen- ng or othe mer- tally, he is much closer to the work- last found the solvent ing ‘class than the average American perplexities: he has |hourgeois artist. His best work has small-town newspapers, heen concerned with poor pecple. n paper and the other But he has dealt with them as last the real thwarted individuals, thwarted not Ameri¢a” Jai \by an implacable economic system, but by psychological—to a large ex- “\tent sexual—barriers, defeats and thousand workers on and lover ore than fifty ing, of reciting soft, ng become a ‘sher and editor, Sherwood Ander- on is in search of co) Real hot f! Full of the thumping, mad, lood of “America!” maladjustments. He hates not cap- italism, but industrialism, yearning | for the petty artisan days when in- is quiet, very quiet; looking gloomy, old and sad—he feels demoralized. In his prime the big “bucko-mate,” the bully has seen his day. And the “gallant captain” is still below, still drinking! At eight bells in the morning the young Dane with the three broken ribs was found to be dead. Having been strangely silent for the last two days (stopped groaning), he was found lying on his side, curved-up like a big question mark and facing the wet iron wall—he was cold, stiff, stark and thin, very thin—only skin and bones, He was buried at noon. Tied in an old sack and laid on a hatch, he was raised above the rail, Silently we all stood by. After some cursing and much fumbling among the leaves of a big-fat book with greasy covers, the old mate was about to read a chapter . .. just then, either somebody played a “mean trick,” or the body, perhaps, did not want the so-called christian burial,—the body slid off the hatch and dropped into | the sea. After a momentary dis- appearance it eame to the surface and floating around the beealmed | ‘six’ nobody!” and turning around he |national song, the source of all Pages birraaad Sewers: ae Ukrainian musical culture, guayran- “Look-out, Jack!” shoute: af teed the sympathy of mass audi- oe the sharp words a warning ne ences and explains the vast seale of ie morning air—too late . . . the development of choral singing. aristocratic second-mate, jumping} py the 11th anniversary of the from behind like a cat, was right on | November Revolution, Ukrainian Paberes apeideina eal e pelea musical culture had shown itself to Lis 4 -'be a powerful creative process, pin, he squared off, expecting Jack) standing on a firm organizational to fall right on the spg:q But Jack asic of mass activity, and on the | was tough, he staggered to the rail, | oroanized assistance of the cultural hs na on ie a moment Se Lae activities of all nationalities in the cleared, and turning aroun |Ukraininan S. 8. R. his enemy, the mortal enemy—the| The foundati f Wkeatnhan fight was on! But there was no| PS OUBOR TON 05 Sr ap ee | fight, only a one sided affair—the k ‘ z kov, Kiev and Odessa, must be ac- (eer eee sees ean \counted as a great cultural achieve- Pe pe ahaa oe ii ¥ | ment, The first opera in the Ye Fit %. he Ukrainian language was produced in The worker's fist is hard —where| 1995/1997 in Kiev and Odessa. “The ‘he sffikes, “wet” only remains ..., sat ; fe Opera” |Jack closed in, and with muscles | State Ukrainian ‘Ttineran pore } has had great artistic and financial steeled through hard work, he struck} é trans “ |suecess in the present season, | with vengeance, and as if the whole) Up till now all the operas per- ; et jweight of centuries of untold 1 formed by the Ukrainian State Op- justice was bebind his fisterhe| cog have been, with the exception struck,—the “aristocrat” went down |State Opera, with branches in Khar- | | & ee | MIRIAM HOPKINS | | | In “The Camel Through the |comedy at the Martin Beck Theatre. ATRE GUILD | | | The Theatre Guild announces the | jaddition to its acting company of | | Alice Brady. The neweomer will open | the coming season in New York, while Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne | jand others of the acting company |ere playing on tour. She will prob- jubly appear in two plays, as the |Guild plans a return next season to the system of alternating plays weekly so that its players will al- | | ways be appearing in two parts. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne | | will come into New York late in De- | cember with “Meteor,” by S. N.| Behrman, and shortly after will al- | ternate this play with either Tur- | genev’s “A Month in the Country” | or Werfel’s ‘“‘Spiegelmensch.” OIL WORKER CRUSHED. | LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).—An| | elevator chain snapped ard the links | crashed down upon and killed Jo-| seph Brown, a worker at the General | | Petroleum Co, well 232 at Santa Fe| | Springs. The oil field is described | as a death trap by workers, W. 45th St. Evs. ts. 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GUELD LAST WEEKS! i: STRANGE INTERLUD By EUGENE O'NEILL JOHN GOLDEN er ‘ THEA., 58th St., B. of Broadway ‘ Evenings only at 5:30 sharp. “HOLIDAY”- “A suecess of the first order.” | ‘ ie * _A:" —Now York Times. “A joyous revel in which there was much sprightly froth, ; 4 of Lissenko’s “Taras Bulba,” trans- jin sheep, a bloody aud “wet heap. |iated from other languages. There | —R. J. PETERSON. (are now, however, several operas by (To be Continued) | Ukrainian composers. The Peoples | Pleasure Bound | dividual craftsmanship was in flow- er. And in all his defeated poor | i people ke has been busy discovering HERWOOD ANDERSON comesjand revealing not the American| to the hell-hole built in what worker, harassed by wage-cuts, | jester named Happy Val-/speedup, unemployment, landlords, s deeply wounded in /gyocery bills, etc., but more or less | ed projections of the artist, sit to Elizabethton. he irit. The soul of Sherwood Ander- i is nd lover of beauty bi © many years—and still is to a ture large extent—a groping, confused America,’ |and thwarted person. « Brooks,” thing in readers of The are fighting for elemental demands, ministers, ‘is the sadde: Remembe' he writes about—himself. And that’s y he is so deeply wounded by— | the ugliness of buildings. of Undoubtedly a Young Pioneer, aged ten, could go to Elizabethton ng aw not the grind- nd blood into| and bring back a more intelligent for the few— |report. ing of human wealth and power is is not the saddest thing in America. It is the premature aging | ¢¢ Red Majesty” at the of buildings. How horrible the lot| 1 of the sensitive artist, To be so tor-| Fifth Avenue | tured by the fate of inanimate | y | aa. Playhouse | Pe, Sa | ‘WE went to the hotel to dine,”| What is believed to be the world’s | continues Anderson, “and 1) oldest Communal State will be re- | went into the washroom. Such places | vealed at the Fifth Avenue Play- —intimate, personal places—mark a| house, beginning this Saturday, in town. The hotel, but a few vears}* Motion picture entitled “Red | old, already had that shoddy, weary Majesty, pxceneed by Harold Noice, | air characteristic of cheap careless | noted explorer, aver a period of six a | months. | eomatruction, : | Single-handed, Noice scaled the, “There were a few tiny fragments | mountainous cataracts of the Ama- of cheap soap, The washbowls were | zon and penetrated the northwestern dirty. Such things are important. frontier of Brazil to make a study | They tell a story.” Soviet Author Will Philharmonic to Give Present Drama on | Series of Children’s | B’way on Monday) ConcertsThis Season The Thrilling Story of a South American Communal State “Red Majesty” Filmed and Presented By Harold Nolee, Wrangel Island Rescue Hero Commissariat for Education has given many Ukrainian composers | commissions for operas with a view to furthering a new repertoire. | Verikivsky’s “Legend of Spring,” a ballet based upon Ukrainian folk | Dmitry Scheglov, author of “The herwood Anderson, who was for! First Law,’ which opens Monday |ciety for the coming season will night at the Theatre Masque, is a well-known lecturer and author in And that’s why, coming to Eliza- the Soviet Union. He was assistant | Saturday morning concerts and to- merica. 'bethton, Tenn., to see how strikers professcr of the history of theat- |gether presenting ten distinctly dif- si and director of the literary division of the Proletarian Culture Association. He was director of the Second State Theatre in Leningrad. e is also a well-known sportsman and has won several prizes for skiing, Scheglov is thirty-one years old. Scheglov is an enthusiastic Com- munist and never misses an oppor- tunity to forward the interests of the U. S. S. R. Leonid Snegoff, one of the chief players in the drama and also direc- tor, will for the first time in his stage career of twenty-six years speak English on the stage. He is a product of the First Studio of the Moseow Art Theatre. In his third season with that famous company he became a director as well as an actor, In “The First Law” Snegoff makes five the sum total of lan- guages in which he has acted. In- cidentally, English is the third in |eerts, each series comprising five | Lowest Priced : fi | ora 4 Tours to » vical culture in Leningrad Univer-|ferent programs. In addition, there \certs, consisting of five Saturday 3 \cents, consisting of five Saturday | 4y expenses included | The Philharmonic-Symphony BO |e action ‘Scelaaast | \give two series of children’s con- | mornings, at Carnegie Hall, to take jthe place of the series of Young |People’s Concerts which Walter |Damrosch conducted for thirty years, | This latter series has aymore ma- ture program than the) children’s concerts, as they are planned to take care of the young people who previously attended the children’s concerts conducted by Ernest Schel- lling and Walter Damrosch. The children’s concerts for next seascn are scheduled for November 2 and 23, December 7 and 28 and January 11. The second series will be given on January 25, February 1 and 8 and March 8 and 22. The junior concerts series will be given on October 12 and 26, November 16 and 30 and December 21. All of the features which have ‘distinguished Schelling’s children’s concerts in the past six years of their existence will be continued New York to Moscow and return. 329 and up By special arrangement, the Soviet government grants free entrance and exist visas for these excursions. No previous visa applications required. June 29—Fiagship Leviathan uly 24—S. 8, George Washington, Every tour and tourist insured free—stopover privileges through- out Europe—free Russian visas. Next sailing to Russia May 4- 11-15-22-29, No delays—s52 sail- ings during the Spring and Sum- mer months, Visas obtainable by cable in three days. lore, is of great artistic and ethno- | |of the vast Tariano empire whieh | Again Anderson brings us to the for centuries has lived under an ad- | vanced state of civilization. | Noice made his first expedition! at the age of 20, when he joined Stafansson at Banks Island in the! realization of how deep the suffer- ings of an artist must be, while we ordinary clay go about our daily which he has played “The First Law,” having done it previously in Russian and Jewish. next year. There will be the talks of the conductor and the usual col- lection of stereopticon slides. See your steamship agent or: tasks of getting beaten up on the picket lines, hunting for jobs, dodg- ing the landlord, etc., callous to the Arctic. In 1924, he led the Wrangel Island Relief Expedition. Since true poignance of life. Sherwood Anderson, coming to Elizabethton to sympathize with the strikers—and get copy—was compelled to stop at that shoddy, carelessly constructed hotel instead of in one of those heau-| tiful, modern, carefully and artisti- cally built homes in which the mill strikers live and where his soul doubtless would have been spared such tortures, And think of it: “The | wash-bowls were dirty.” It’s enough | to make one weep! | ‘o* 8 | HERWOOD ANDERSON goes to} inspect the mills. | “Anyone working in these places must feel their power. Oh, the beau-| ty and wonder of the modern intri- | cate machines! It is said that many of the girls and women in these places are half in love with the machines at which they work.” Now we know why the Southern mill workers “won't” strike. They’re in love with the machines. Eugene O'Neill has written a play about a man who worships a dynamo. Here a new wrinkle for him. What ‘bout the women and girls who love “he factory machines so much that gladly work twelve, thirteen @ day because they can't tear then, he has done considerable ex- ploration work in the Arctic and in South America, and it was during his last voyage to the Amazon which ended a few weeks ago, that he produced the present motion pic- ture, In conjunction with ‘Red! Majesty,” the Playhouse will hold| over for a second week Emil Jan- nings in the burlesque movie, “The | Apaches Revenge,” or “Jannings | Ueber Alles.” Noice will deliver a| brief talk at each performance of | “Red Majesty.” | TUDOR INN Restaurant 113 East 14th Street | SS For good and wholesome | food, don’t fail to visit us \ We serve special Juncheon plates from 11:30-8 p, m. Reasonable Prices TRY OUR SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER! PROHIBITION ‘LAWS’ USELESS Deaths from acute ané chronic alcholism, are 3.8 per 100,000 for the first quarter of the current year, as against 3.2 per 100,000 for 1928. 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