The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 5

a THE STORY SO FAR: The crew joining the union. You read how Pi Leningrad, circulated a resolution for the defense of the Soviet Union, | and how Bobby attended the world read how the men protested against paste for Sunday dinner, marching manding better food. Then they go about organizing a ship’s committee and draw up their.demands in prepai INSTALLMENT 39 CLEARING FOR ACTION | LL of the following day, there was was. lively discussion among the men, The strike demands were made known t,.them by the ship's com- mittee Gin. advance, so that at the meeting;:the question was less about accepting them, but more of carrying out the fight. When should the de- mands be presented to the Captain? | Should, they waif, until they signed | off first?. Wait and see if any help| was coming from the comrades} ashore? What would the Bos’n do? Eskimo? ;Lag? Small ‘slips of paper were constant- ly exchanged between the Chief, the men on. watch inthe engine room, and-Slim. The Filipino proved to be a fine courier. It was he who brought a@ message of warning to the men at the meeting. A ‘second wire had been sent off?'’.. The Captain and Mate were informed as to everything that had occurred last night. The stool pigeon was at work again! Who the devil could it be? The meeting was stopped at once. Each | department went into their own fo’- castles, and made their decisions separately, under control of the ship’s Committee members. This way, the stool could be sifted. It was well past midnight before the ship’s committee got together. Each man had his work cut out. Then they, scattered. | Sltm Jay down. in his bunk with- | out undressing. In his mind he re- viewed the preparations which had been made, He was surprised at the assurance with which.he went about arranging everything. This was his first fight of this.kind, and yet it didn’t seem new to, him. Suddenly he realized the reason: as Bos'n on the “Memphis” he had always to see after everything, to have everything cleared for the voyage. And getting ready for a strike was like getting ready to go to sea, ina certain sense. What sort of weather they would run into? Life boats cleared? Life boat! Slim listened, Everything was quiet. He swung easily out of his bunk, took the searchlight, and went out on deck, It was a nice warm night. In the distance, passing vessels glided silently past. The “Utah” cut softly through. the water, like a knife through, melting butter. IN his sleep, the. Chief looked like a big’ baby. Slinmi-held his fingers over the. lighted searchlight, and Studied the face of this ‘midships comrade. Would He-fight with them? To what” point? “THe Chief's head rolled back and forth on the pillow. Slim laughed to’ Himself. You won't go along with us? Or is it just the light bothering ‘you? He woke him.<2°. “Chief!” The. Chief opetiéd his eyes and was | awake at“once. “Hello, Rogers!” “Chief, when “a¥é we due in?” “Accotding toast’ report, about three in the aftérnoon.” “Chief, the “men are going to strike! Your department, the deck gang, dnd the stewards!” “The second assistant has told me. [gould hardiy ‘fall asleep.” “You're going to stick with us, Chief?” The Chief didn’t answer. The whole night he had been thinking of the hard long. years’ hé"had gone through before getting into this position ... now he,had a little-house, with mort- gages that hadtocbe paid off... and thrée’ childretr whom he wanted to send througH, college so they would have it betjer,than he... . “Chief, do you rémember what you said in Stockholm about windbags. Now's the time!” The Chief didn’t answer. Then he came out with the words which Slim had instinctively expected: “You_are all young and single, + of the S. S, Utah, deeply impressed by what they witnessed during a brief stop at the Soviet port of Lenin- | grad, organize and strike against working on a Sunday, their day off. Led’ by ‘Slim, 2’ member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, the ship is being slawly organized, with more and more members of the crew tts, after joining the M. W. I. U. at congress of the I. S. H. You also the serving of hash and tapioca together to the kitchen and de- ration for strike. Now read on: self, Rogers! my mother-in-law, pendent on me!” “And us 25 men, with our families? Are they inferior to yours?” The Chief let his head sink back | on the pillow, It rolled back and} forth just as in sleep. | “It was our confidence in your militancy which caused us to go this | far, Chief! Shall we retreat now?” | The Chief bit his lips. | “Chief! We will not retreat!” | “Listen here, Chief! Every man’s got to be at his post in this fight! Your post at present does not re- quire that you sign our list of de. mands, nor that you openly picket | with us. You have other duties!” The Chief looked up, obviously re- lieved. “For the present, at any rate, you remain behind the scenes,.in order to provide us with the necessary “munition.” Later, if the strike so develops that it’ looks like we're licked, you've got to—refuse—to sign on a single scab in your department!” The A.B. and the Chief looked in- tently at each other. The Chief gave Slim his hand solemnly. “Here's my word of honor on that, Rogers!” They shook hands. Outside, in the gangway, the heard passing steps. When it was quiet again, Slim wh pered: “Well, good luck! You'll furnish us with the address, of the first as- sistant and that other dope? You know where to reach me?” The Chief nodded. Slim peeped cautiously out, and returned quietly to his bunk. (Concluded Tomorrow). THE NEW FILM | “Wild Boys of the Road” at Hollywood Marred by N. R. A. Ending “Wild Boys of the Road” sweeps along with force and truth up to the catch NRA ending. It deals with the half million or mre homeless boys and girls Who travel the railroads from one end of the country to the other in a vain effort to find food and shelter. Eddie SmitHand his friend Tommy come of working class families. They both go to high school. Tommy's mother is living on relief, and there isn’t enough food for Tommy. Ed- die’s dad is fired, and cannot get another job. The family is evicted. Eddie feels that he will be better off away from home. Tommy feels that his mother could get along without him if he were no longer a burden to her, They both decide to leave home. And in the middle of the night, Eddie and Tommy are seen down by the freight yards, with knapsack on back, ready to hop the train. Two boys joining the army of homeless youth, which is marching and riding from one end of the country to the other in the vain search for food and shelter. This introduction carries the audi- ence with Eddie and Tommy into further adventures on the road. Ed- die and Tommy hit up with Sally, who is travelling from the West Coast to see her aunt in Chicago, because her mother has too many kids to support. The wandering boys and girls tra- vel in packs, Railroad trains look like roosts for homing pigeons. Hundreds of boys packed like sardines in the empties; piled onto the roofs when there is no more room in the gon- dolas; riding the rods, in the cold, in the rain, with the hot sun pouring down on them, with the snow and the cold making them freeze, with the rain. dampening their ragged bodies, and ragged spirits. Railroad detectives stop the train. Boys ‘and girls rush off, into the But my wife, my kids, they’re all se-| a XN \ “§ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WKUNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930 The Battle |JIM MARTIN HE STRIKERS mc soot, HAVING THROWN A.ROFL. ORGANIZER OUT, ARE Now GOING TO WITNESS THE “suePoRt” of A SOCIALIST CHIEF OF POLICE. Page Five by QUIRT / — _- » oo MO SCABS (ARE GETTIN’ G Win Here! 2 q U aN ILLIANA J. BURROUGHS isn't running for Comptroller on the Communist ticket to catch the “women's vote.” She is running for that office because, in common with the other leading candidates of the Party, she has proved that she has the attributes of Communist lead- ership—an understanding of Com- munist theory, an understanding of the local issues involved in the elec- tion, and the willingness and ability to work unsparingly to put into effect the local Communist Party program should she be elected. The proof of her qualifications, es- pecially in the matter of willingness and ability to work, lies in the fact that she was on the job long before the campaign started. Now immersed in a harrassing schedule of speaking dates, committee meetings and cam~- of guiding the New Harlem Workers School through the first shoals and rapids in which any new venture sets sail. Only she doesn’t look on her new rsponsibility as an added burden. She glows with enthusiasm as she speaks of it. “Unbecoming to a Teacher” “I was expelled from the New York school system, you know, for conduct unbecoming to a teacher. I was an- gry of course, because the expulsion was the usual cowardly punishment for radicl activity. But I’m not sorry now. This,” she said, indicating her office and the class room beyond it | with a gentle sweep of her arm, “this is really teaching.” Then, still seated sedately before her orderly desk, she swivelled from a small pile of letters, campaign: lit- erature and mimeographed oddments, to talk about the election campaign and her particular part in it. “What makes me think I could handle the job of comptroller?” she vocative question. “Listen, anyone who has run a household for four persons on $20 a month and has worked her way through college on $5 a month should be able to man- age the financial affairs of a great city which has plenty of credit and resources.” Then, in a more serious vein, “That is, anyone who is in of- fice under the control arid in co- operation with a well-disciplined po- litical party which has the interests of New York’s working class at heart because it is made up of New York's working class.” Discusses City Finances Mrs. Burroughs straightened the little pile of papers on her desk with gentle but effective taps and launched into a discussion of city finances. “You know, there’s been so much confusion deliberately created by the present administration on the ques- tion that it’s hard to make people see that it really is rather simple. The city’s most important financial problem is to find funds for adequate unemployment relief. Even Tammany is beginning to admit that now. Well, when a family hasn’t enough money for all its needs, what do they spend their money on? Why, the necessi- ties of life, food, rent, gas, etc. They don’t pay off debts and they don’t go to the country for a vacation. laughed in reply to a brazenly pro- | As a matter of fact, the bankers who are now holding up relief for a mil- lion starving workers in this city, could be made to bear the cost of relief by a working class program of taxation,” Mrs. Burroughs’ candidacy is her first open appearance as a Commu- nist leader since she joined the Com- munist: Party in 1926. For 16 years up to now she taught first and sec- omd grade pupils in New York’s schools. At night she read the litera- ture of the labor movement and the theoretical classics of Communism in an effort to understand why the Ne- gro race, of which she is a member, is the most oppressed section of America’s working class, Joined Party in 1926 “After the war,” said Mrs, Bur- roughs in her calm class-room voice, “I knew enough to want to join something, but I also knew enough not to join the Socielist Party. They had one policy on the Negro ques- tion in the South and another, much pinker, policy in the norty. It wasn’t They cut down on non-essentials. And that’s just what the city of New York would be doing if it were run by the workers instead of by Wall cael bankers through Tammany 1.”” Rogers. The second assistant too, You've nothing to lose. But for me— it would mean ruining everything. And possibly prison on account of the oath jn the Nayal, Reserves. .. .” Now;Slim remained silent. “Rogerg, I'll support you all every way I can, I'll give a hundred dollars fok the, strike funds, and——” the Chief looked toward: the door and lowered. his voice, ““——further con- fidentia]; information... but I couldn’t:-come out “openly on strike with you. I couldn't.” “I expected more courage from you, Chief?” “If it was only a question of my- pase nieeatts saben Shee tetihtstacenei Aan de |CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE e ¥ Poty WEA * Sept.'27: “The Daily Worker in the Struggle Against the N.R.A.” lecture by John Adams of the Datly Worker Staff at East Gide Workers Olub, 165 . Broadway. : Sept: 28: Open.Air Movie, Barnes and ton Avenue, Bronx, showing Soviet film Conquerors of the Night.” Ad- (at Coop mission 10c in advance Restaurant); 18c at the box office. Arranged by Unit 19, Section 15 C.P. and Women's. | 22, Sept. 28: ile Private film showing of “1905” and short subjects at Vegetarian Workers Club, 220 E. 14th St, Showings at 8:30 ahd 10:15 p.m," fields away from the freight. There are only eight railroad detectives. They number hundreds. Steps are taken to hold onto their empties, and ride on. A pitched battle follows. The boys win. While they have been fighting a brakeman attacks one of the girls. The boys throw him from the freight train. The train moves on. It stops at the next town. News of the attack and the battle has preceded them. The detectives and cops are ready for the “wild boys.” This time for capturing the train, and murdering Mrs. Burroughs, who recently had a taste of Tammany management when she was dismissed from the city schools because of activity in de- fense of the Scottsboro boys and her chairmanship of the Blumberg De- fense Committee, turned down an offer of @ cigarette and continued. “But that’s not the real problem. really until 1926 that I gét into any kind of activity. Then, someone with whom I had gotten in touch so that I could send my children into a club of juvenile radicals, told me about WILLIANA J. ILLIANA J. BURROUGHS Ousted from New York Public School System, Now Communist Candidate for Comptroller By Philip Sterling the American Negro Labor Congress That person. warned me, however “They say it isn’t Communist, but i is.’ That decided me. I joined up an: conducted classes in the history o. the American Negro, gave lectures spoke at meetings. But that wasn’t enough. I knew I had lost too many years in political idleness. I wanted to get closer to the real struggle, closer to the basic organization of the work- ing class, in which I belong. I joined Drawn by Morris J. Kallem, BURROUGHS the Communist Party.” Since 1926, Mrs. Burroughs has spent her days at P, S. 48 in Queens and her nights in Communist Party activity in Harlem. Summing Up -Her Life History Her assertion that she belongs to the working class is not the melo- dramatic campaign avowal. It is a matter-of-fact statement summing up her life history. Born in Peters- burg, Va., she was brought to New York‘at the age-of four by her wid- owed mother with a sister and a brother, She ‘spent her first seven years in New York in the Colored Or- phan Asylum, which was then at 143d St. and amsterdam Ave. Her mother could not care for children and work in someone’s..kitchen at the same time. Besides “sleeping-in” jobs were Jali. His crime has only been that of getting something to eat. “Was it my fault my dad lost his job, and I couldn't stand being a burden to him @ man, They chase them; they hunt longer? Do you think I like rid- them; they beat them. ‘There is aling the freighte? you think I grand rush, amongst moving and sta-| like to steal? Jail dn’t be any, tionary trains. Girls and boys dash helter skelter through the yards, Tommy falls, A train speeds from the opposite direction. The boys and girls. stand aghast. They cannot help Tomnry. Tommy barely drags the trunk of his body from off the track. His right leg is crushed by the on- rushing train. The detec- tives have done their job. The homeless boys are in Shanty ‘Town. Cops come to demolish their city. “We aren’t going to hurt you. No rough stuff,” say the cops. “Aw yeah,” say the boys, they know bet- ter. And feeling echoes into the movie audience. “Aw yeah,” they repeat with sneering laughter, “we know better.” They're driven out with hose and club, and again the aimless wan- . Again the bru- tality, helplessness, hunger, cold, all the Ee les st the bens Robbery, murder, begging, panhan- dling, aimless wandering. “no stop over here,” our particular charters finally end up in a New York court. earth Lien yh , as Eddie |, Makes an appealing and con- vincing speech, He tells the judge that he doesn’t care if he does go to worse! Then give me jail!” Enter N.R.A. ballyhoo. “We do our part” with the blue eagle over the judge’s seat. “It’s all different now,” says the judge, sweetly, with tears in his eyes. “Now that the New Deal is in power your dads will get jobs, and ev will be hunky dory. We'll give you a job so that you can earn enough money to ride back home in state, not on the freights.” “Amen,” ends the picture, its dynamic effect is counteracted with the usual Holly- wood Happy Ending, “And the N.R.A. will save them all.” Tommy has lost his leg. He has a constant reminder of his days on the road. Neither will Sally or Eddie for- get. In spite of the fabulous “Happy pose the picture is well worth seeing. The realism of “life on the road,”, together with the splendid acting of Frankie Darrow, Dorothy Coopan, and Edwin Phillips, and the fine shots of pitched battles, the human touches, and the fact that mast of the boys in the picture are supposed to be actual homeless boys, makes the picture an unusual one for Holly- wood HELEN KAY, TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Oharlie Leland, Comedian; Male uartet Q 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch 7:30—Lum and Abner 7:45—Tho Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Olsen Orch; Fanny Brice, dienne 8:30—Lyman Orch; Prank Munn, Tenor 9:00—-The NRA-Patrick J. Hurley, Former Secretary of War 9:15—Chorus ioe ahi Thibault, Baritone; Reisman or: 10:00—Corn Cob Pipe Club 10:30—Insurance of Bank J. Cummings, Chairman, Corporation comme- its—Walter leral Insur- :30—Bet 12:00—Bernie_ Orch. 12:80 A.M.—Pisher Orch. oo WOR—710 Ke 00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick 15—Jack Arthur, Baritone '30—-The Count of Monte Cristo—Sketch '45—News—Gabriel Heatter '00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama 15—Veronica Wiggins, Contralto }0-—A New Deal on Main Street—gketch 00—Gordon Graham, Baritone; Ohman and Arden, Piano Duo 5—Macy and Smalley, Bongs i er Musicale :00-—Jay Dennis and Ted Reese, Songs fo:an—Market-and Halsey’ Biveet Playhouse i and Hal Ber it enw sey eet Play! 02—Moonbeams: mW Le 12:30 A.M,—King “Orch, ! 5 ata 11:30—Seotti Oreh. 12:00—Robbins Orch. * * * WJZ~760 Ke. 300 F.M.—Amos ‘fn’ Andy 16—Re: rton, Bon, ‘an Gordon, Goldi , Piano 1:45—Himber Ensemble 8:00—Death on the Five-Yard Line—Sketch 8:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketeh 45—Red Davis—Sketch 00—~American Legion Program '30-—Russian Choir 00-—Magic 30—Ortis Tirado, Tenor; Concert Orch. 00-—Hillbilly Songs 18—The Poet Prince '30-—Denny Orch, 12:00—Calloway “Orch. es Contralto; Wal- 1 1 u 1 1 WABC—860 Ke. 00 P.M.—Myrt and Mi in Oreh,; Tr 7:43—Newe—Boake Carter 8:00—-Green Orch,;,Men About Town Trio; Harriet Lee, Contralto 15—News—Edwin C. Hill 30—Metropolitan Orch, #:00—Irvin 8. Cobb, Stories; Goodman Oreh. 9:15—Kate sfhith, Songs 9:30-—-Lombardo Orch.; Burns and Allen, Comedy 10:00-—-Waring Oreh.; Harry Richman, Songs; Milton Berle, Comedian 10:15—Alexander Woolleott—Town Crier 10:45—Concert Orch.; Evan Evans, Baritone 11:15—News Bulletins 11:30—Davis Oroh..~ 12:00—Rapp Orch... 18:30 A.M.—Gray Oren, 1:00—Light Oreb. cH 7 | asiest to find and afforded the best pportunities for saving money. “hen Williana was 11, her mother ook the three children from the asy- "um and set up housekeeping. By this me her earnings had risen from $5 : month to $20 and she had a “sleep- ng-out” job. Williana and her broth- r went to school and, after school, | he girl came to the house where her nother worked to help her with such chores” as washing floors, dishes, cleaning the pantry, preparing vege- ables, By the time she was ready to go to the New York City Normal Col- lege, which is now known as Hunter College, Williana Burroughs had ris- en to the position of a paid as: ant to her mother. She received $5 a month for waiting on table. Most of this sum she contributed to the support of her brother and sister. Occasionally she bought books, and less often clothing. “I guess my mother was pretty dis- appointed when I dropped from the head of my class,” said Mrs, Bur- roughs, smiling as if she still re- gretted it. “But when you” had to work, take care of the younger chil- dren and find a little time for read- its fall term on Monday, Workers School Opens in Detroit Oct. 2nd DETROIT.—The Workers School of Detroit, which has been organized as the central school of workers’ mass organizations of M will beg Oct its new home, 323 Erskine St of Brush, Eleven co fered. higan, Registration, which gun, will continue ur day of the term. has already be- atil the opening The World of the Theatre lee By HAROLD EDGAR oem! Broadway and An Alive Theatre. “Double Door,” at the Ritz The- atre is about a woman who lords Jit over one of those sedately monied |mansions which were once consider- }ed to give grace and dignity to Fifth Ave. Her sense of family, which is a sense of class and a sense of property, drives her to’ maniacal lengths of maliciousness, avarice and crime. With this material we might expect a melodrama, a character study of a piece of social investiga- tion. But as melodrama “Double ing that wasn’t offered in vour school courses, it was pretty difficult to stay on top all the time.” er’s education ended triumphantly when Mrs. Burroughs received an ap: pointment as a first grade teacher at @ salary of $50 a month, In late years, although she was known to her fellow-teachers and to parents as a “radical,” her high standing as a teacher and the respect of her associates prevented the Tam- many controlled Board of Education from molesting her. When she became active in the Teachers’ Committee for Defense of Salaries, however, Dr. Ryan, presi- dent of the board, and Dr. O'Shea, superintendent of schools, thought they saw an opportunity to get rid of the quiet, forceful little woman, who travelled from Queens to Harlem ey- ery night to work for the defense of the Scottsboro boys. The opportunity beceme ripe after Isidore Blumberg, ‘er teacher, was exnelled from the school system after a mock trial, for his chairmanship of the salary committee, Mrs. Burroughs there- upon became chairman of the Blum- berg Defense Committee and, with Isidore Begun, led a large delegation fo teachers to a Board of Education meeting. The delegation demanded Blumberg’s reinstatement and re- fused to be silenced by Dr. Ryan’s suave legalisms, Dr, Ryan, unable to prevent the teachers from speaking their minds, called the cops, Subse- quently, Mrs. Burroughs and Begun were dismissed for “conduct unbe- coming to a teacher and prejudicial to law and order.” Yesterday Mrs. Burroughs had but one comment to make on the expul- sion. “If they thought my conduct was unbecoming to a teacher then, wait till they see my comptrollership campaign.” WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL, last week Of registration, 200 W, 135th St. reat rae LL.D, MEETING, German Clara Zetkin Branch, Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St. at Every German speaking worker is d. ME HO COUNCIL 21 meets tonight at 261 Schen- eetady Avenue, Brooklyn. RC ee REHEARSAL of the Balalaike Orchestra F.8.U. under direction of Mark Sci shevaky Club, 122 Second nd advanced players as ill be enrolled. If you rument or want to learn enroll now. SACCO-VANZETTI Br. I.L.D. membership meeting, 702 E, Tremont Ave, at 8 o'clock. es DR. PAUL LUTTINGER, lecture on “A Sane Sex Life,” National Students League, 503 6th Ave. at 9:90, Auspices Brooklyn College Chapter. Adm. 10c. . REHEARSAL of Daily Worker Chorus at 35 E. 12th St., at 8 p.m. Nabi | Thursday -ACKAGE PARTY and Entertainment, Steve Katovis Br, I.L.D. at 85 Ave. B. Ad- mission free. LECTURE and Play on the “N.R.A.” at Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave. at 8:15 p.m. Speaker Bonchi M, Friedman, Admission 100. * . AND DANCE at Co- and Lenox Avenue. Adm, 20¢. ENTERTAINMENT operative Hall, 126th Auspices, Harlem Libet Celebrate 14th Anniversary. In celebration of the 14th Annive: of the Communist Party in the ited States, Section 2 plans a Mass Banquet and Concert, Saturday, Oct, 14, at the Del-Or Palais, 4214 14th Ave. The feature of the evening will be donated to the Daily Worker. Contribute to the Daily Worker Help to hoop up the Door” lacks action, as a character , Study it lacks background and subt- jidéas. It is played with that studied Jaccuracy which is adequate for the | communication of the trivial and ob- | vious points needed to make the plot | intelligible. It is technically above the | average of early season shows which means that it is a fairly smooth me- chanism with a content that could inet possibly entertain any adult in- telligence. Such is the state of the Broadway theatre, however, that this production | was greeted by a cordial press. The lacting, which is stock-company real- ism was highly praised, and the di- rection which is careful over little nothings was likewise treated with se- rious approval. What does this mean except that the Broadway audience satisfies itself with banalities when they are camouflaged with surface au- thenticity: good-looking period cos- tumes, oak-finish panelling, suave lighting or, in other instances, the latest model serving table, real refri- gerators, genuine lobster aspic! The aim of such productions apparently is to add a simple story interest to a | commercial exposition. This is the very death of the the- atre, To realize completely what is wrong with it we must turn to a theatre which is alive. The livest the- atre today—and since the collapse of the German theatre’ through Hitler perhaps the only one alive—is the Soviet theatre. If the Soviet theatre teaches nothing else, it teaches that | the theatre must use every element at its command to create action that is People’s Symphony To Give Music Two Concert Series The People’s Symphony Concerts announces for the coming season @ series of six chamber music concerts and a series of six artists’ recitals. The schedule for the chamber music series is: Oct. 13, Gordon String Quartet; Nov. 3, Clarence Adler and Eddy Brown; Dec. 3, Brosa String Quartet; Jan, 26, Budapest String Quartet; Feb. 2, Cornelius Van Vliet Trio; March 16, Music Art Quartet. The artists’ recitals will be given by the following musicians: Oct. 20, Mischa Levitski; Nov. 11, Felix Sal- mond; Dec. 16, Mieczyslaw Munz; | Jan, 13, Leo Ornstein; Feb. 10, Harold |Samuel; March 24, Toscha Seidel. | Both series will be given in the Washington Irving High School. Sub- scription for students, workers an¢ | artists for each series is $1. vibrant with emotion, movement, eol- jor, music—all in the service of some specific and unified idea. | To get away from the actors sterile imitation which is Broadway’s method |of “registering points,” the Soviet | Theatre uses the Stanislavsky system for the summoning of the actor's true feeling, or the Meyerhold method for |a more definitive communication of ideas through bodily movement or the Vachtangov synthesis which teaches |the use of true feeling for arriving |at forms of expression more complete and symbolical than those of realism, | When the play is a melodrama, every human reaction, every sound, every scenic effect is called into play—as in |the Moscow Art production of “The Armored Train.” When the play is The six-year struggle for a teach- !lety, as a social investigation it lacks|4 study of social manners every rhythm, characteristic manifestation of folk-life is studied and given a theatrical elaboration—as in Tairov's production of O’Neill plays. If the play is a fantasy every form of make- believe, joyous improvisation, theatri- \eal invention is released for the de- |light of an audience that does not take its function passively——as in | Vachtangov's “Princess Turandot.” If the play is a musical comedy, the | musical setting, the dances, the comic | by-play, the use of the chorus is orig~ inal and different in every case, de~ | pending on the nature of the mater- ial—as in Danchenko’s and Tairov’s | productions. | The point is that in every produe- tion there is the presentation of a ; whole gamut of human emotion, ac- | tion, and general stage life that is |mew and particular to each play—so that the theatre always remains the- |atre and not a form of limited mo- vie. The theatre preserves its own thrill, not to be replaced by any other art or entertainment. Bourgeois critics like to emphasize the “propaganda” elements in’the So- | viet theatre—elements which they can slight because they do not believe in them; what they fail to point out is |that "this theatre so committed to | “propaganda” is the most theatrical jof all theatres—the gayest, the most jexciting, the most colorful. And, of course, they never ask themselves |what relation there is between the | “propaganda” which they shy from jand the theatrical craft which they lare forced to admire. | AMUSE Ww “THE PATRIOTS" AN IND) Also: “MOSCOW ATHLETES | “THE PATRIOTS” A GORKI CONCEPTION (ENGLISH TITLES) ACME THEATRE ON PARADE, 14th Street and Union Square | RKO Jefferson }4t | Now rd Avi ARLINE JUDGE and BRUCE CABOT in “FLYING DEVILS” nd “POLICE CALL” with ST! ERNA KENNEDY “The Study of Russian” Boris M. Revsine, Ph. D. Russian Instructions Based on the New Life in the Soviet Union. Every Lesson Made Interesting and Vital With » Very Easy and Natural Method. PROLETARIAN PRICES. 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