The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1933, Page 5

WHAT aaa Al WORLD! By Michael Gold Singing Pickets The sky was cold and hopeless, Our strike was low that day, And fear marched with the pickets — Yes, all the world was gray. In blouses bright as summer Girls raised a jolly song: “The coward thugs are worried Because our strike is strong!” Knowing the strike was weaker, Knowing the thugs were bold, We grudged our little sisters The splendid lie they told. But as the girls paraded The sky turned sudden blue And all our hearts found courage At last the song came true! Girls! Carry on that music! Sing till the Last Strike’s won,— Sing till this land of darkness Flames. with a Soviet Sun! . Horace Liveright j) beta LIVERIGHT was a well-known publisher. I knew him because he published my book, “Jews Without Money.” An author gets to know his publisher very well, the way a dog gets to know the flea he can never catch. Horace never belonged to publishing. His heart was really in the show business, to which later he turned. He should have been an actor, a romantic tenor or a John Barrymore. He loved the grand gesture, the florid cadenza. He accepted my book without ever having read it. He read almost none“of the books he published, he left that to his employees. But he would discuss their plots and styles with his authors, and advise them on how to write. His authors were famous, He carried Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, O'Neill, Jeffers, and many others. If you had come into a room where he and his famous authors were assembled, you would have Picked him out as the best artist of them all. He had the temperament and appearance of a “great soul.” But he was really a Wall Street stock broker and ham actor. F Publishing in a capitalist world is nothing but a Wall Street gamble, ‘the pastime of a crapshooter. Why should Horace have to read his famous ‘authors? It was enough they made. money for him. He threw lavish booze parties costing a thousand dollars or more. ‘They were called literary teas, at one time an institution in the “in- tellectual” life of New York. He spent money the authors earned for him in other grandiose ways. You can say many things about his vanities. But somehow, this Self-deluded playboy had a spark of something that set him above all the other crapshooters of publishing. It attracted rebel authors to him and held them. He had a spark of integrity. He was the only publisher in New York to fight the censorship bills. The rest fled like sensiblé men; it might have proved costly, but Horace saw it through. And he was always more than willing to take a chance on a new | HITLER TERROR AND | BURNING OF THE REICH- end radical writer. He didn’t read their books, but he knew enough to know that the world was moving their way. Yes, he had a few principles for which he was willing to scrap now and then, The American publisher is such a spineless, amorphous, unprincipled, dollar-chasing figure that one of them willing to stand for < {8wW ineas and not hedge is so rare as to seem a genius. Herace Liveright had a spark of intellectual integrity. Ben Huebsch was the cnly other American publisher I happen to know of who had more than that. like to be informed if so. There must be more of them surely, and I should The New Deal Showers Its Blessings in A Cafeteria By JACK STRONG We watched our, boss paste the new schedule on the post near the dress- ing room, and when he finished, re- mark, “Anyone not satisfied can go up to the cashier and get his final pay erivelope.” No one answered. That was the* beginning of the N. R.A. The schedule pointed out that our hours have been cut. Instead of the usual 12 hours we will work only. ten hours—of course six days, and in line with the new re-employment cam- peign andther counterman is being put to work—for five hours daily; an- other dishwasher—who will also as- sist the cook, and a bus girl who - works split hours—five hours at ~- lunch and'three hours at supper tinie. -.No mention is made of the cellar “man, who works till he gets through (11-12 hours, seven days) and the :' head counterman, who continues to work 12 hours. : Most of us are satisfied—two hours ‘less work daily, and perhaps on pay- day— Meanwhile two hours less work and - nobody-taking your place while you have the two hours leisure. We be- gan to feel the extra work. We have ® the same amount of work to do in two ‘hours less—set the counters and prepare for the rush hours—but stil) we wait; the N.R.A. says more pay, and pay day is coming around... . ‘The day arrives—pay-day—and the only ones to get an increase are the bus and ‘counter girls and dishwash- ‘ers—and ‘that’s all. They get two dol- lars more, and now make the huge sum of $10 a week. The head counterman, making $25 “per week, and continuing to work 12 ‘JIM MARTIN _ "DARBY ‘| this season. WHAT 1S THE MATTER? hours feels that he, nob classified by the N.R.A., will get $35 per week. The rest, expecting the 20 per cent in- crease promised not only by the N.R.A. but last June by the Rrestau- rant Owners Association, who an- nounced to the press they decided to raise our wages from 10 to 20 per cent, never saw it, although the press statement said that we got the 20 per cent raise. Our $12 to $15 re- mained. Now a rumor is being circilated to the effect that $3 will be deducted for meals, in aoeordance with the code. The workers are beginning to think, and some are ready for action. MUSIC Modern and Classic Operas Feature Leningrad Season According to a report received from Leningrad, modern and classic operas will play a big factor in the musical season announced by the chief the- atres of that city. The repertoire will include many of Verdi's operas and most of Wagner's famous scores, as well as a number of modern operas. The ballet “Shalkunchik” will be staged in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Tchaikovski’s death. Two other moderns, Stravin- ski’s ballet “Petruchka,” and Proko- fiev's opera “The Love of Three Oranges,” are on the schedule for “Oedipus Rex,” with music by Asoviev, is also announced \for its first showin; OU Not MucH! JUST THAT YOUR & YOUNG FRIEWO IS IN SAIL AGAIN ! { I Oon'T WANT To HP PROSECUTE JIM 7 GUT GE AAS DE -— VELOPED SOME DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1933 The “Brown Book”: Now Available for| American Readers) By ROBERT HAMILTON. THE BROWN BOOK OF THE ‘THE | STAG, 348: pages, 26 illustrations. First American Edition. Alfred A. | Knopf, $2.50. | | The long-awaited American edition of the “Brown Book,” which -has set all Europe by the ears, receiving full- page notices in practically every Eu- ropean newspaper ouside of Ger- many, and causing the Nazis to hast- en the publication of a Counter- Brown Book, is at last available in | the United States, A concise analysis of the political situation in Germany on the eve of the Reichstag fire is followed by a detailed story of the Nazi machina- tions to burn the Reichstag and fasten the blame for the fire on the Communist Party to generate the! pogrom atmosphere needed to sup-/| press the entire Communist move- ment in Germany. The “Brown Book” makes a thor- ough analysis of the whole Hitlerite case against the four Communist de- fendants now on trial for their lives in Leipzig, and proves beyond the faintest shadow of a doubt that the Communists on trial are wholly in- nocent, and—what is more—that the Reichstag was set on fire by the lead- ers of the Nazi Party themselves. In no one place has the authentic account of the Nazi terror in Ger- many ever been given in as full and damaging detail as in the just-issued “Brown Book.” This incontrovertible narrative, simply related, with the naked facts allowed to speak for themselves, will spike the Hitlerite propaganda in the United States against “atrocity stories” for all time to come. The more than 200 pages describing cases of murder, torture, beatings, and intimidation, certified to by Lord Marley, President of the World Com- mittee for the Victims of Hitler Fas- cism, will furnish the workers of America with endless material to re- fute the Nazi Hes being spread all over the country by paid and unpaid Hitler propagandists, The “Brown Book” is an invaluable | source-book on the terror regime in Germany today. It should be on the library shelves of every workers’ club, and in the hands of as many work- ers as can afford the rather high | price—$2 .50. The ‘Brown Book,” now available in English, must become the trusty intellectual weapon of every anti- | Fascist in the United States. The first edition is, I understand, already | Sold out in New York, but copies aré | Still on sale at the Workers Bookshop, | 50 E. 13th St, New York City. | Two Courses on Negro) Question to Be Given At New Harlem School NEW YORK.—Two phases of the Negro question will be dealt with by the Harlem Workers’ School when it opens this evening, the historical phase in a course called “Revolu- tionary Traditions of the Negro People,” given by James Allen, and “Current Problems of the Negro Lib- eration Movement,” given by James W. Ford. - Allen will cover the history of the Negro people from the African slave raids and the colonial period to the present day, with special attention to the Civil War and reconstruction | period and recent developments. | Special ‘emphasis will be placed on} | those historical conditions which laid | | the basis for the present day Negro question and on the revolutionary traditions of the Negro people which have been buried by bourgeois and \ reformist historians, Ford will deal with the present conditions of the Negroes and the methods and organizational forms to win them to the revolutionary struggle for the self-determination of the Negroes in the Black Belt and against capitalist exploitation. Registration is now going on at the school office, 200 W. 135th St., Room 212 B. es ' Only 46c. a Day for Farmhand in Georgia (By a Worker Correspondent) MACON, Ga,—The Colton Mills are enlv working three days a week and for five cents an hour at that, which 4s about $4.50 a week. + The railroads laid off hundreds of men here today. The poor Negro is starving, but, you can’t do anything with the Ne- gro until the whites begin to change their attitude, and you know that the law is bad here in this state on free speech yet. Of course that can be broken down if the people begin to realize that things will never get better, only worse. ‘The farm hand here is only getting 46 cents a day, and of course you know that he is about half starved all of the time except when he steals semething to eat. T-would like to hear from you about the NRA. The people are getting sick of it here. They see that it won't do them any good. OANGEROUS IDEAS ! Zasu Pitts A, F. Shorin, Soviet S | Tie-Up of Research By PHILIP Is THIS coulitry the general often feel the’same way about i covers a new,..source of food {supply or -invents a more | deadly type .of poison gas. With Slim Summerville in their | But that’s not so in Russia, new film “Her First Mate,” now | according to A. F. Shorin, chief re- showing at the Jefferson Theatre. | search scientist in-the Soviet State Electro-Technical, laboratories, who sailed for home during the week-end after a two-month tour here. “In Russia the scientist cannot re- main aloof from the ‘social, economic | aad political life about him because “ every scientist, there is not only a Clare Kummer’s Comedy “Her | Creator but a-teacher. He has the Master’s Voice” Coming To ipignosten not, eas Seta ing technology and exploiting na- Plymouth Theatre Oot. 16 tural resources, but'of teaching the peopie the meaning of each new dis- covery and ofthe old ones as well. Stage and Screen “Her Master’s Voice,” Clare Kum- mer’s new comedy, is announced for Science and the _5-Year Plan Monday, Oct. 16, at the Plymouth; “Then of course, every scientist Theatre, under the sponsorship of| must understand, the relation of sci- Max Gordon. Roland Young and| ence and his particular branch of it Laura Hope Crews, who have been|to the Five-Year Plan, because in playing in films, will return to the) Russia we don’t believe in “pure” sci- stage in the leading roles. Other) ence. We say. that science doesn’t players. include Elizabeth Patterson,' exist unless it™has: practical applica- Frances Fuller, Francis Pierlot and tions and, of course, every practical Frederick Perry. Miss Kummer’s| application that’ can be found for sci- comedy “Amourette,”” which opened) ence is used for the development of last week, is now playing at 'Henry| our economic life under the Five- Miller's Theatre, Year Plan. . és “ .| There is another reason, says Sho- cents Saye eres fe this tin, why the Soviet scientist cannot evening at the National Theatre, will| tivoree himself: Irom the everyday continue its tryout tour for another | realities which his. work influences. thing to be kept in white-tiled laboratories and scientist: | about what’s going on outside of his laboratory and it’s same to him Whether he dis-¢-———————— cientist, Tells of Close and Five-Year Plans STERLING public regards science as some- Here a scientist seldom cares all the t. Shorin in a paper to be printed by the Journal of the American Society of Motion Picture Engineers. | Shorin denied vehemently that | there was any restriction on scien- | tific research in the Soviet Union, a charge which is often made by un- friendly professionals and intellec- tuals. there is intense interest not merely in biology, but in medical research and in public health. The medical re- The Status and Function Moscow Letter: | Pudovkin Directs | By ALBERT LEWIS. rage Five The World of Science in the USSR New Soviet Film} ot the Theatre —_—_ By HAROLD EDGAR sma MUROOW “OER RE ae The Group Theatre, | serter,” Pudovkin’s new talking pi HE Group Theatre is an important ture, soon to be released by Me, unit for two reasons: it is the only haces 5 por oMad > professional th in New York oe er ee organized as a col , that. is, as @ events -in the history of the Soviet | geatre in the complete sense of the motion picture. The Soviet mastery | word; and, like many activities Of the of the silent film was unquestioned, | jower middle-class intellectual’ world but the last year has witnessed the} today, it manifests a recognizable problems, particularly of technique,| movement toward the “left.” of the talking picture, a stumbling} The most significant and conclusive block. With one le Pudovkin | aspect of the Group Theatre’s work {has not only mastered these d at present is the technical one. From ° but with true Bolshevik |its theatrical method, which applies eu but h true 3olshevik 4 |spirtt has gone far beyond all other |t® the American actor the basic pre~ | achiovemetie here aad krcad. {cepts of the Stanislavsky system |achievements here and abroad. especially as developed and enriched | The story of the new picture is| py the Moscow Art Theatre Studios | simple and timely, Carl Renn, a| under Vachtangov, all who ate in- metallist inthe Hamburg dry | terested in true theatre—and parti- |docks, is a class conscious worker, cularly in a revolutionary theatre No Gags on Research A strike is declared.. Long months |—have much to learn, “There is no restriction on re-|of ’ picketing, arvation, rallying It is necessary to stress, however, search,” he declared. “Russia today|forces, Social Democrats and re-| that this assimilation of the doctrines has 192 scientific institutions devoted | formist elements demand capitula-|of the great Russian theatre is not solely to research and application.| tio), Strtkebreakers heavily guard- | merely a question of pedagogy. Other This does not include industrial lab-| i | organizations, notably the American | oratories. Naturally development of|°¢ by the militia are. recrui Laboratory Theatre, have taught the technology is our chief problem now, | Clashes With the police, Carl loses | mri n ee or the Stanislavsky system, but no field of scientific research|heart. At a meeting of the left |-They were neither able to survive, nor which anyone could name is being | irate nea ae ‘ion, he is sent |to impress any audience with a neglected in Russia today.” wit! nree other delegates to t advantages of their methods. ie Brotessst Shorin a asked why | Soviet Union. Once there, the thri p Theatre has a company of there seems to be special emphasis | and joy of being in the proletarian | a talented enough to engage any on almost all branches of biological; republic induces him to remain nce, intelligent enough to under- research in the Soviet Union today.|there and work. stand the value of real work, honest ioe i he replied with a gentle | Later he reads of the death of |@nough to want to develop not only smile, “is because we believe that | the Communist leader of the Ham- their commodity - personalities but the man is the cornerstone of every- bure worke: aiek aaah. ta _| their intrinsic abilities, courageous thing. We are building a new society | US Workers, just when Renn him-| snougn to maintain periods of dise to create new people—people who| Self is being rewarded for being| eoyragement and indifferent results. will be new because they will be hap-|the best udarnik. He realizes he|the Group Theatre has directors of | pier and healthier, because they will|has deserted. He goes back to | substantial theatrical experience. It | have stronger bodies and greater|Hamburg and leads the striking | has the aim of saying something in minds. To do this, it is necessary to} workers in their struggle. The|the theatre, and the will to learn a understand the human organism.”|theme thus brilliantly exposes the | technique whereby what it has to say Professor Shorin pointed out that/need for eliminating Social Demo-|™@¥ be said in appropriately effective | theatrical terms, Finally, it believes | that the best theory is practice, and |the most elogoent program in the cratic elements in the labor move- ment, the achievements of the So- week, and will not open here until! October 9, \ | Fannie Brice will have an import- ant role in the forthcoming “Zieg-| feld Follies,” which Billie Burke and Scientists in Russia, he explains, are in contact with..the workers in the industries with which their particu- lar branch of science or technology is connected. “For instance,” he says, | viet workers,and the necessity for theatre is what the audience can be | “automotive engirieérs take an active | | part in the factory committees, trade | unions and cultural clubs of the auto | workers. The samé is true of metal- PORE EEE ORO EE | lurgists and iroir miners, The same is “The Bowery” Opens At The) true of geologists and the workers the Shuberts will produce. Miss Brice’s last appearance on Broadway was in “Crazy Quilt.” Search institute in Leningrad, he says, was founded with a State en-| dowment of 30,000,000 roubles. | | Incentives in the U. 8. 8 .R. Russian science is also vitally in- terested in astronomy, but not as an| instrument in aimless discussion as to whether the universe is “winding up” or “running down.’ The Russian interest in astronomy, attested by a Rivoli Theatre Tomorrow | of the oil fields, anid so on.” In addi- | tion, the stientists have their own) | profssional organizations and these} highly developed astronomical insti- tute under the direction of Profes- sor Numeroff, is based solely on the great courage in the bitter fight against the capitalist. In addition, from the point of view of composition and technique, led to see, feel and understand from |the action on the stage, The result |of its two years effort, despite re- tards and setbacks, is that it is em- “The Bowery,” first picture of the new 20th Century Pictures company, | will open tomorrow at the Rivoli/ | lead them to take as active a part in| ‘elation of astronomy to physics and| the political and social life of the| geology, says Shorin. Pudovkin, whose earlier successes, “The End of St. Petersburg,” “Storm Over Asia,” and “Mother,” stamped him as an undoubted mas- ter, has achieved even a greater success. In the early scenes we see the grim, gaunt faces of the work- | ers, the cruel coarse lines of the | barking upon its most ambitious sea- son immediately after a good many funeral services had been performed over it. The content of the Group Theatre's ideological tendenctes is not a subject for abstract argument. Its list of plays, which in the past included Claire and Paul Sifton’s “1931—,” the police; the roar and fire of the|first tmemployment play to reach hammers and furnaces, the cool | Broadway, and which rods country as is» taken by any ' trade) Another question which evoked a Theatre. “The Bowery,” announced as a comedy-drama of the Hast Side) in the days of the ¢ighties and the| nineties, was adapted by Howard Est-| abrook and James Gleason from the) | reddish hair and a delicately chis-| fr and achievement?” union. | smiling reply from the Soviet savant Soviet Advances in Scienze | was this: “What incentive has the Shorin, small, cleanclimbed, with | Scientist in Russia for individual ef- elled face which’reflected every emo-| _, “The Five Year Plan,” was Shorin’s| calm residences of the rich; the| slow, weary tread homeward of the laborer; the bored nonchalance of the bourgeoisie; the strength and energy of construction of workers, plays by John H. Lawson, John Dos Passos, Melvin Levy, and Keene Wallis’ adaptation of Hauptmann’s “Weavers” for the future, must be taken as the final test of its progress | or its lapse in this respect. Each play novel “Chuck Connors.” The chief| players include Wallace Beery, Jackie) ing, spent his two months here at the Cooper, George Raft and Fay Wray. | Century of Progress Exhibition in the The Trans-Lux Theatre is now] laboratories of General Electric, showing “The Barber Shop,” with W.| Westinghouse ahd in the studios and C. Fields; Ethel Merman, in “Time control rooms of Radio City. He said, On My Hands”; and the “Three Lit-| before leaving, fhat he is greatly im- tle Pigs,” Walt Disney’s Silly Sym-| pressed with American technology. phony cartoon. The Moscow Air) But reporters who interviewed him tion aroused by reporters’ question-| Simple reply. “Further than that, we the pudgy effete dissipation of the fave the same incentive as has any | free man for working freely, the love| | of his work. Speaking for myself and my friends, I.can say that those | of us who were scientists before the| | revolution could not stop doing) scientific work merely because there| | Was a revolution any more than we must be especially examined and crit- idle, |icized from this ewer, wae cag |icism should be comparative Tela~ coulded — steel, se ue ®) | of society and of the theatre, and ab- roar of the blast | soiute in relation to the ultimate. goal worked at terrific speed in com- : of a fine drama, the drama of a plicated montage, music high fortis- | Classless society, which, in terms of simo, suddenly shift into a dreamy Show, showing 46 Soviet airmen leap-| were quite as impressed by Soviet | ing into space, is the principal item| advances in science, which he de- of the newsreel: features. | scribed, particularly ‘in the fields of | Sex Appeal to the Rescue The screen feature this week at the | Palace is “The Power and the Glory.” | The stage bill includes Joe Penner, | Venita Gould and the Russian Revels. | The Roxy screen beginning Wed- nesday will present “The Secret of the. Blue Room,” with Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart: and Paul Lukas. motion picture engineering, in which Shorin is a leader. They listened eagerly, visibly impressed as he de- scribed his machine for recording sound on ‘film which is a combina- tion of two methods now used sepa- rately in the United States. The ma- chine will be described in detail by CE = TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | WEAF—660 Ke. | 7:00 P. M.—Mountaineers Music. | 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch. | 7:30—Lum and Abner. 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch. 8:00—Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit, songs. 8:30—Dance Orch. 9:00—Voorhees Band; Eddie Ralph Dumke, comedians; Bast and John Hale, tenor, 10:00—Lives at Stake—Henry N. Stanley— Sketch, - 10:30—Beuty Talk—Mme. Sylvia. 10:45—Robert Simmons, tenor; Sears Orch. 11:00—Confersing of Degree of Doctor of Science to Senatore Marconi, by Dr. Walter 8. Dill, president, Northwestern University. 11:15—Meroff Orch.: 11:30—Talkie ‘Time—Sketch, 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, songs. 1205 A.M.—Davis Orch, 12:30—Childs Orch, * . WOR—710 Ke. —Sports—Ford Frick, A Purdy Brothers—Sketch. 7:80—Terry and Ted—Sketch. 7:45—News—Gabriel Heatter. 8:00—Howard Marsh, tenor; Katherine Carrington, soprano, 8:15—De Mareo Sisters; Frank Sherry, tenor, 8:30—Eddy Brown, violin; Symphony Orch. 9:00—Gordom Graham, baritone; Ohman and Arden, pi 0—Organ Recital. 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read. 10:30—Footlight Echoes. 11:00—Time; weather. 11:02—Moonbeams Trio, 11:30—Nelson Orch. 12;00—Gerston Orch, TUDE | 8:15—Singin’ Sam -_ WdJZ=760 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Amos ‘nl Andy. :15—Financial Pitght of the Cities—Mur- ray Seasongood, president, National Mu- nicipal League; C. A, Dykstra, president, International -Gity” Managers’ Assn, at—Don, Carney Feo ** St.Sketch. dventures + 3 jundesen, 5 8:45—Billy Hillpot ‘gnd Scrappy Lambert, songs; Shilkret Orch. 9:00—Alice Mock, soprano; poet, 9:30—Postimaster -Goneral James A. Farley and Senater Rabert.¥. Wagner of New Henry Edgar Guest, York, speaking at National Catholic Charities Confefence, Hotel Waldorf- Astoria. 10:00—Pedro Via _Qreh 10:80—Tho Last Routid-tip—sketen. 11:00—Pauline Alpért;~piano; Larry Adler, harmonica. =~, 11:15—Poet Prince,’ 11:30—Holst Orch? 12:00—Harris Oreh. 12:30 AM —Onilg, eh, i ap WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge. 7:15—Just Plain Bitlsketch, 7:30—Trappers Oxéh, ¥ >. 11:45—News—Boako. 9:30—Voice of Experience. 8:45—Kate Smith, songs. 9:00--From What’ Are’ We Trying to Re- cover?—Dr, Nicholas Murray Butler, president Columbia, University. 9:15-—Willie and Eugene Howard, comedians 9:30--Nino Martifl, ‘tenof; Symphony Orch. 10:00—Legend of Amorica—Dramatization. 10:20-—Belasco Oreh.; ,Sporis—Ted Husing, Barbara Meurel, 10:45—Symphony - Oreh,, 11:15—News Bulletin. 11:30—Freeman_ Orch. 1:00—Hopkins Orch.” wih INSISTS UPON ME DBLING (N THE STRIKE --tF You PERSUADE Him To Stay F aa AWAY TLL DROP THE CHARGES f -- could stop breathing for the same| Waltz, _the residential section, a | Teason. And if one is to corisider the| Siant figure of a policeman atop a eager throngs of young men and wo-| Pedestal, stereotyped face, waving men who are flocking to the scienti-| his arms in graceful\ gestures di- fic schools to become chemists, en-|recting traffic to the thythm of gineers, metallurgists, etc., one must|the music. The second part offers conclude that there will be no lack of scientific workers among the new generation.” Expert in Radio, Movies Professor Shorin’s line of. research in recent years has led him into the fields of radio, sound pictures and other types of sound reproduction and communication. For the benefit of movie trade paper representatives, | he discussed technical movie prob- | jlems and revealed . among other | things that there are now four large | factories in Russia manufacturing | movie equipment and that in the} |near future Russia will be able: to | manufacture all the movie film it re- quires for its own purposes. The de- | velopment of the motion picture in- dustry in Russia ‘has been retarded up till now by the lack of raw film. Professor Shorin gave some indica- tion of the growth of the cinema | since the revolution by pointing out | | that in 1916 only 180,000,000 Persons | | attended movie showings whereas in | 1982 the total audience for the year | | Was one billion. There are now 30,000 | theaters and other places where mov- | |ies are regularly exhibited, including numerous travelling movie theaters Which serve outlying districts, collec- tive farms and small villages. Plans to wire most of the perman- | ent theaters for sound and to produce portable sound projection machines |for the travelling movie theaters are now afoot, according to Professor Shorin. The installation of ‘sound equipment has been delayed up till now by the controversy over the width of the film to be used. It has now been. decided, however, to use, wher- ever possible, narrow film which re- quires less costly equipment both for | producing and exhibition. | Russians need no encouragement to. attend the movies. The Russian | jequivalent of the “Standing Room | Only” sign is constantly. in evidence | wherever. films are~ exhibited, says [Shoring oo | | One question, Shorin. smilingly re- | fused to answer on the grounds that | lhe, did“not care to discuss anything | which bordered on politics: “Do you think,” he was asked, “that progres- sive development is possible for science in countries where there is deep-going economic crisis?” "by QUIRT OF COURSE rtL DO IT' TAISIS So.SimPre! an opportunity to show the First of May in Moscow and the process of Socialist construction. Throughout the picture, Pudovkin uses dynamic contrast—of faces, | movements, places and even of sounds. There are moments when, | after a terrific crescendo, there is | absolute silence, the application of | the pause or rest in musi Like- wise, he uses actual conversation only when it advances the moye- | ment or is necessary for the de- velopment of the story. ‘hose of us who were privileged to. see the preview will never for- get the ge of triumphant ex- citement which welled up within us at the conclusion of a great work of art—a milestone on the cultural achievements of the pro- letarian revolution, | Tuesday HARLEM Workers School this week, 200 W. 1: CLASS. in “Polit American History,” by. Jack Harry Progressive Wor ‘ulture Chub, n~ ner Avenue every Wednesday evening at 8:30 | p.m i Classes begin th St, New York. and Social Forces in the the present, must be a revolutionary drama. ‘The Group Theatre’s present pro- duction, “Men in White,” at the Broadhurst Theatre is chiefly note~ worthy for the fact that it is the first which has brought the Group’s col« lective technique prominently and successfully to public notice. Other Group productions—particularly “The House of Connelly” and “1931” — have been remarkable for their en« semble or “teamwork,’ but there wera considered special plays. “Men im White” reveals this technique—which is not a trick that can be applied ine discriminately and at will whenever desired, but an accumulative theatri« cal discipline for the organization and the individuals within it—in a play of @ more popular nature. The result is what the reviewers call a good show, “Men in White,” which deals with doctors and the life of a hospital, is thematically based on the conflict in a young interne between personal happiness and the scientific pursuit of medicine. Despite this the play is not distinguished by any particular social comment or definite intellec- tual value. And whatever its emo- tional quality may be, it derives mainly from its vivid subject-matter and unusual milieu as seen through the simple intelligence and devotion to the task with which the Group actors perform their various duties. The production simply marks the first box-office success of a sound theatrical technique achieved through the most valid principles of colléctive work in the theatre. We hope that the Group Theatre, having found a modicum of recognition for its meth- ods, advances toward an increasingly important employment of them, AMUSEMENTS “Greatest of all Soviet sound films and urge your friends to see it AILY “One of the genuinely distinct 1 covite studios.”"-HERALD TRIBUNE, 2ND BIG WEEK! See it yourself WORKER, works form the Mus- “THE PATRIOTS” A GORKI CONCEPTION (ENGLI Also: ACME THEATRE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—|| SHOW PLACE of the NATION | Direction “Roxy” Opens 14:30 AM. “ANN VICKERS” Roxy” stage show 850 to 1 p.m.—Sde to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Greater Show Season | Now | B° Jefferson jh St & SLIM SUMMERVILLE and ZASU PITTS in “HER FIRST MATER” | also “A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT” | with GINGER ROGE! s a LYLE apr: Philadelphia PHILKINO | 20¢ 2222 Market Street 30 ROAD TO LIFE” SERGE! M. BISENSTEIN’S E SENTIMENTALE” | “THE Aaa THEATRE GUILD presen| EUGENE O’NEILL’s NEW PLAY | “AH, WILDERNESS!” with GEORGE M. 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