The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1929, Page 4

1, 1929 Page Four Opera Plays in Life 0 about toire far thi stagir ” a ballet y has writ based on Communist which is bj Smolin and up a compe t tk f wl a are sing conte e, the old g produce¢ ie oper: are be pieces were wn in Olya of Nord- politov-Ivanov, a some- oned work, indiffer- d and Wagner’s is also proposed tc operas this season: Z “The Hair- ‘A Son of the and “Nose” by is hoped that h will be shown by There are several other operatic theatr in Moscow, the most interesting of which the Stanislavsky Theatre Studio. This theatre is at present engaged upon “Boris Godunov,” in the restored Mussorgsky version, Two new Moscow this seasc land” by Hy something f these work is New “Boris Godunoy” Staged. Equally interesting is the theatre working under the direct guidance of People’s Artist Nemirovitch-Dan chenko, although Manuel Fallya’ “The Girl from the Factory Dis- trict” was somewhat disappointing to its admirers. Great interest is aroused in the coming production of “Johnny Spielt auf” by this the- atre. The Moscow Central Techni- cum for Theatrical Art has many difficulties to overcome, but is ever showing fresh achievements, which are only possible owing to the soli- darity of the actors and the bril- liant direction of the conductor, A. G. Hessin and the producer V. A. Nordov. Its last performance, Stra- vinsky’s “Mavra,” was a striking example of the handling of extreme- Yy difficult vocal material and of vivid and expressive acting. This performance must be considered as Important Part f Russian Worker » | zhenko’s Workers. speci distr g phenomenon, At its inaug- was assumed that on i be given and t performance was Pa: enko’s on the theme of the y rising. This how- ilure, and the uninspired b pretentious music and absurd ibretto were incapable of impress- ing the audience and the theatre is playing “Carmen” and “Russalka,” in default of a suitable repertoire. The Leningrad Grand and Smal ra theatres are ahead of all Sov- iet theatres, technically speaking. In the Grand (former Marinsk) The- tre, one of the most original per- formances is that of the “Rosen- valier.” The theatre is now pre- Brand’s “Engine Driver Hop- recently received from Vienna, 2 small opera theat performances last y “Jump Through a Shadow,’ pronounced by Paul Hindemith to be the best performance in Europe and “Johnny Spielt Auf.” But all technical perfection of the per- ances and the attractiveness as pectacles, failed to win over the Soviet audience. Soviet Operettas Popular. | Soviet operetta has made great strides and gone over entirely to a modern repertoire. The new oper- ettas have gradually become a solid part of theatrical life and are ex- tremely popular. Such have been “Louis the Umpteenth,” by Alexaev and Sakhnovsky, “The Black Amu- let” by Russat and Strelnikov,| “Igra’s Joker” by Halmsy and Ba- grinovsky, “The Red Poppy” a ballet by Glie- ris is a tremendous success. Played in almost all Soviet theatres, its only real interest consists in its first act) which really allows of something} fresh in ballet treatment. All the rest is undistinguished either in| music or setting. “The Feudal Bal- lerina” by Korchmarey and Smolin is scoring great success at the Len-| ingrad Grand Theatre. It is an at- tempt to present a melodrama with classic and national dances. Gener- ally speaking a definite tendency may be noted in the region of opera and ballet to advance towards new forms and repertoires. Olin Downs, music editor of the New York Times, who is now in oviet Russia, “taking in,” the mu- sical events of the big cities, in a) wireless to his paper writes: “Mos- cow has the liveliest and most strangely assorted musical life the writer has ever seen. It is consider- ably more intensive in proportion Opera for oper: fc | IN “PL: Shubert revue ow in its last the Majestic The- “Ple three weeks atre. The New Pl “BECKY SHARP,” Langdon Mitchell’s ¢ atization of Vanity Fair,” will be reveived by the Players’ Club for one week only at the t Theatre on Mon- east includes, ia Loftus, Pa- Helen Freeman, il Sydney. “THE TIRED BUSINESS MAN, a comedy by Lyle Weaver Hal, will open on Monday at the Waldorf Theatre. The cast is headed Harlan Briggs, (cGrath, Bert Carpen- wrence O’Brien and ys SHOE STRIKERS GAIN IN PHILA. Land-Schober Co. May | Soon Yield | PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— Two of the Laird-Schober shoe strik- ers, Aaron Kaplan and Charles Kraven were arrested today a block away from the factory. While walking on Market St., near 23rd, Kaplan and Kraven stopped to speak to some workers who are still employed in the factory. A gangster! employed by the firm to terrorize} the strikers called the policeman to arrest them which he did. The case came up in the magistrate court where they were dismissed, | The report which came to the strike committee this morning at the most brilliant given ‘y any Mos-|to the population than New York’s their meeting showed the strike to cow operatic theatre; at the height of the season.” Use Women to Boost Wall Street Air Service be just as strong as on the first day four weeks ago. A report from a | reliable source was that if the strik- |ers maintained the present condi- | tions a little longer the firm would give in. Insures Her Chauffeur, Hires Man to Kill Him DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDA JUNE ‘Homes tor Destitute Mothers Sevve Real Need in U. S.o.ae shelter and accustom them to | dren its of work, thus preventing the abandonment of infants. The experience of recent yer proved that such institutions practicable and really nece: The number opened has far ¢ ceeded the provisions of the three- year program for combatting home- lessness among children. Duri the past two years twenty mothers’ shelters have been estab- lished (Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhni- Novgorod, Samara, Buguruslan, Ka- Tomsk, Saratov, Odessa Home. A new home for destitute mothers s was opened in Odessa last summer. are It is housed in a building surrounded by a luxuriant, -|though not extensive, garden. The clean, comfortable rooms for the mothers and children, the spacious dining room, solarium, pharmacy, baths and showers—all go to make up a little working commune for des- titute mothers, The home is occupied by poor, home! unemployed women with nursing children, Here they receive linen, clothing, shoes, a bed for ther s and a cot for the child in an adjoining room. They are vis- ited daily by a phy nurse makes the rounds of the chil- dren’s rooms each morning. The in- nts receive medical attention of excellent quality and care. Shops. sewing shop in the home, At first it had only two or three machines in poor condition. Now there are twenty-one good ma- chines in operation daily. Pokrovsk, Astrakhan, Kostrom Ryazan, Sarapul, Orel, Pskov, Che- repovets, Taganrog), this despite the ubiquitous housing crisis and the extremely meager funds appropr ated for the purpose by the central government, most of the money for the homes having come from local sources, In certain districts, such Orenburg, Novo-Sibirsk, Minu- x, Simferopol, Kerch, Stalingrad, where the housing There is a pecially severe and local the al mesources are weak, Da laid by establishing worl \s destitute mothers and sending their children t) day-nurseries. Self-Maintenance. | During 1928, the organization of ten new homes was started. The funds. Here the mothers learn a new trade under the guidance of a skilled instructress. Not only do they learn, but they also do actual jobs, so that the shop supplies linen for hospitals, day-nurseries, mater- fundamental principle of these in- Tity homes, ete, stitutions is self-maintenance. The | The institution is supported by mothers are given an opportunity funds provided through the local budget. Eighty per cent of the money earned by the women in the sewing shops is applied to their maintenance in the home, while the remainder is turned over to them when they leave, All other expendi- ture: quipment, fuel, light, cloth- ing, staff salaries—are met by local budget appropriations, Helps Find Work. Under the regulations mothers may remain in the home for no more than six months. At the end of this to work and thus pay for their sus- tenance The steadily increasing number of these homes for destitute mothers Dreiser Has Praise for Sovkino Film “The Village of Sin,” the first Soviet film directed by a woman, Olga Preobrezhenskaya, will com- mence its third and final week at the Little Carnegie Playhouse this|period an effort is made to find Saturday. outside work for them. This, of Due to the increased business of;course, is not always possible and “The Village of Sin,” Basil Dean’s|many of the mothers stay in the personally supervised production of |/home longer than six month “The Constant Nymph,” originally |ever, during the past year positions scheduled for that datz, will be post-|in factories and institutions have poned for one week. |been provided for sixty-eight mo- On the same program with “The'thers, This is of considerable im- Village of Sin” will be shown/portance, for the number of found- “Around the World in New York,”|lings left in the Nursing Infants a study of the metropolis made by|Home has decreased since the Home | Albert Parry and Julian Funt, and/fcr Destitute Mothers is in exist- several other novelties. The musical |ence. It is scarcely necessary also score of “The Village of Sin” has} been compiled from Soviet music and Russian folk songs never before| | played in this country. | | Theodore Dreiser, noted novelist, | author of “The American Tragedy,” | \ete., in his book on Russia gives high | | praise for the films released in the| | U.S.S.R. Writing on the Sovkino film, “The Village of Sin,” which he | | witnessed in one of the villages, | Dreiser states, “that the production | | was among the best achieved so far | stitution aids in the struggle against prostitution. THE CO ' is the object of these homes to]is expected to play a very import- homeless, destitute mothers | &nt with children off the streets, give ther ha role in the struggle against | pr homelessness and desertion of chil- large detached cian, and a} | These | were purchased by the home with its | to emphasize the fact that this in- | Unity Camp Mary Crosson, above, San Diego flyer, drove her plane to a height of 24,000 feet, a new record for women flyers. Who benefited? The Wall Street military air service, which encourages these stunt flights to stir up interest in the Wall Street air service, so that there might be enough cannon fodder for the coming imperialist war. —Just Off the Press! RED CARTOONS 1929 Bcox OF st tees SHOWING THE BEST CARTOONS 7 THE STAFF CARTO! DAILY WORKER Deine tains [ Fred Ellis Jacob Burck With An Introduction By the Brilliant Revolutionary Journalist PRICE Joseph Freeman Sold at all Party Bookshops or Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq. MACON, Ga., May 31.—Mrs. g.| by the motion picture adventures | C, Powers, owner of rooming houses | my estimation, was an excellent film, | |here, has confessed to hiring two| anywhere. ‘The Village of Sin,’ in| men as chauffeurs, insuring one of |and the Sovkino director deserves | \them, James Parks, age 25, a prin-| high praise.” |ter by trade, for $7,000 and hiring | See | POLISH FASCIST FLIGHT. the other, Earl Manchester for $1,- 000 to murder Parks. Parks was; PARIS, May 31.—Louis Idzikow- killed with a pistol given Manchester | ski and Casimir Kubala, Polish fas- by the landlady. Manchester also | cist fliers, arrived at Le Bourget air- |admits the crime. port here today to make final load | ———- tests preparatory to an attempt to| | Women Workers and Young | cross the Atlantic west to east, to) | Workers! Join the Ranks of the | boost the Polish bloody fascist gov-; | Struggling Workers! | | ernment. 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Reason e Prices Concertand Ball (Arranged by Section 5, Communist Party, Bronx) at Hunts Point Palace, 163rd & South. Blvd. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 15 An Elaborate Program Is Being Arranged. ADMISSION 50c. TONIGHT, SAT., JUNE 1, 11:30 p. m. MIDNITE CONCERT Sy Members of Conductorless Sym- phony Orchestra and Prominent Soloists at ALLERTON THEATRE, Bronx (near Coop. Colony) Arranged by CO-OPERATIVE LIBRARY and I. L. D. pire” at the Film Guild Cinema Commencing today, the Film Guild Cinema wil present the American iere of “Nosferatu the Vam- pi |“Dracula” and directed by F. W.) Murnau, the noted director of “The | Last Laugh,” “Sunrise,” etc. The picture was produced four years ago, | and was photographed in the actuat | locals of the story in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary. The/| settings, which are vividly reminis- | cent of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caili-| gari” were designed by Albert Grau, | a well-known impressionist painter | of Vienna. | The cast is headed by Max) | Schreck, Alexander Granach, and} also includes other notable artists of the German stage and screen. On the same program, the Film Guild Cinema will present the Amer- | ican premiere of “The Lure of the} Labrador,” produced, directed ana| photographed by Varick Frissell,| producer of “The Great Arctic Seat | |Hunt” also known as “The Swilin’| | Racket.” Other items of interest on | the same bill will be a revival of) Ferdinand Leger-Dudley Murphy’s | “Ballet Mecanique,” and “Graveyard Epitaphs.” | Beginning next Saturday, June} | 8th, the Film Guild Cinema will pre- sent three weeks of Emil Jannings’ | repertoire covering fourteen of his | best American and European charac- | | terizations. |‘Crime andPunishment’ jat St. Mark’s Theatre Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punish- ment” by the Moscow Art Theatre players, will be featured at the St. Mark’s Theatre, 133 Second Ave., near 8th St., Friday and Saturday. A Soviet newsreel will appear on the same program. It is the ultimate alm of this | work (“Capital”) to reveal the economic Iaw of motion of modern society —Marx, hea., 44th, W. of B’way Shubert Evenings 8:30 Mat.: Wediesday and Saturday 2:30) The New Musical Comedy Revue Hit A NIGHT IN VENICE | MOROSCO THEA., W. 45th St. Evs. 8.50. Matinees: Wed., Thurs, and Saturday, at 8:30. | JOHN DRINKWATER'S Comedy Hit BIRD 1 HAND Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Broadway Eves. 8.30; Mats.: Thurs. & Sat., 2:30 JACK PEARL, PHIL BAKER, AILEEN STANLEY, SHAW & LEE In the Revue Sensation \PLEASURE BOUND -OPERATIVE “Nosferatu the Vam-{ ” a psychodrama inspired by | WINGDALE, N. Y. 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If you are at all interested in the cinema you cannot afford to miss ‘The Village of Sin.” Jreighton Peet, Evening Post “Fine photography, striking characterizations, atmos- pheric perfection, good story and vigorous pictorial sense.” —Richard Watts, Jr., Tribune “It is splendidly enacted, to be sure. Nearly everyone in it¥does an excellent job. ... One of these though, E. Cessarskaya, would enhance the value of any Holly- wood picture. She is not only beautiful, but she is a marvelous actress.”—George Gerhard, Evening World “May well be boastful of glorious backgrounds, fine camera work and powerful character studies.” —Irene Thirer, Daily News “There are moments in it that make the natural set- tings take on the simplicity and dignity that is almost overpowering. The direction is perfect in every detail.” —H. David Strauss, Morning Telegraph ‘ HELD OVER FOR A THIRD WEEK! The Little CARNEGIE Playhouse 146 W. 57th St. Popular Prices CIRcle 7551 Performance Continuous 2 to Midnite ! First Showing in America! Now Playing! “NOSFERATU the VAMPIRE” inspired by DRACULA A powerful psychopathic drama—A symphony in sadism— —A thrilling mystery masterpiece— Directed by F. W. MURNAU, director of ‘The Last Laugh’ FILM GUILD CINEMA, 52 West 8th Street Continuous Daily 2 p, m. to midnite. “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. 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