The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1933, Page 5

WORLD! By Michael Gold “Arfa Maroo;” from Shantytown Sketches 1 hese nation that year was covered with these miserable colonies of the men without jobs. Here it was in New York, too; the familiar landscape again, a garbage dump and shacks by a river. It smelled, like the others, of urine and melancholy. A great white moon blazed on the tin-roofed shacks. The sour earth was choked with tomato cans, rotten rags and newspapers and old bedsprings. A prowling tom-cat “sniffed at the fantastic skeleton of a dressmaker’s model. The moon glittered on a black abandoned boiler. On the river, hung with red and greeif lamps in the velvet dark, a passing tugboat puffed and moaned. The tall kid from Iowa had been bumped around in hoxcars for three days and nights, When he arrived in New York he was too tired to care where he slept; a ¢inderpile under the stars was good enough. So-he had found the shantytown, and now was hunting in the moonlit garbage for his bed. He found a woman's society magazine, slimy with the muck. He brushed it clean and stuck it for a chest pro- tector under his khaki shirt, Then he discovered a tin can once used for motor oil; it would make a fine pillow, Then he made the real find; an old soggy-mattress, heavy with months of hedvenly tears. Some local “Mark Twain had nailed up a signpost reading “Head- ache Boulevard.” In a nearby mound of gravel and coke clinkers the boy lay down, pulling the mattress over him for warmth, The night was frosty, flashing with hard bright clarity like a crys- tal. Up,.there,.in the blue and silver firmament, loomed the strange skyscrapers of-.New York. It was Walt’s first visit to this city, this dangerous magnet of all the youth of America. He meant to explore New York tomorrow. Now he wanted to sleep. But a drunk party was going on in one of the shacks. Men were howling’ and ~ singing. A gang of demons, they shrieked like murder, and if was really impossible to sleep. Walt found himself remembering. That night, for instance, at the Salvation Army flophouse, where on the walls a poster announced in big red and white letters: “God Answers Your Prayer.” And Al Kruger the clown had asked the prissy little clerk if God would also answer one’s prayer-for a chocolate malted milk. Then socko! the two boys found themselves slugged and kicked out on the street for this wisecrack. That was Louisville, Kentucky. Next night in the jungles the old hoboes got drunk on corn and ganged up on the kids there, Davenport, Iowa, how long ago that seemed. Poor Dad, what was he doing now? But to hell with Davenport!. And Toledo, Ohio! “Us boys do hunt for work; Your Honor. We ain’t just bums.” But the judge vagged them just the same. Vialt had once started to learn the saxophone. The exercises tootled through his head. And then the devils got to howling again; it was in the ehd shack. But the moon was strong as opium, it hypnotized him like a crystal ball. The flowing river gleamed with the white magic, and the Towa Kid was asleep. 4 In the Mayor’s Shack UT in McMurra’s shack they went on howling. They had finished three pints of “smoke,” the alcohol sold in Bowery paint and hard- ware stores in cans labeled “Poison.” MeMuzre, once a solid Gael and self-respecting family man, was quite “insane now with the drink. Under a wild, black mat of hair his eyes glittered red like evil jewels. He was ‘mayor” of this shantytown and the cther men were his henchmen. They always quarreled at their orgies . Zadke pushed his long hollow face like a snake at McMurra and snee.ed through yellow teeth: “Every day in the trenches we used to bump oif rats like you! Officers and all!” And Short Line Casey, worked ‘on section gangs, jumped and flapped his arms exactly i holy roller. His bald head was inflamed as though with prickly heat, he couldn’t focus his eyes. Monotonously he shrieked: “What did yuh do wit’ dat four dollars last Chuesday? Dat four dollars?” tbly enougi, Tammany politics were played in this shanty- 1 such gangs, this one never failed to quarrel over the ble loof. Foul and hot, the room was suffocating as a sewer. It of burning kercsene, rusty iron and old putrid clothing and under- McMurra, like many others, bartered in junk. An anchor lay in a corrs:, Bundles of tinfoil and pulp magazines rotted under the bed. This was about the foulest shack in the colony. The floor Was thick with a carpet of cigarette butts, sputum and potato peelings. The ceil- ing had been varnished a cockroach brown by months of cooking grease and tobacco, Al Smith's smiling face was pasted on a wall, the room’s oniy ‘decoration other than cobwebs. McMurra’giered about him in the lamplight. His brow wrinkled like @ puzzied gorilla’s. His neck muscles seemed ready to crack. With lifted fists like hickory clubs he advanced on the shrieking little Casey to destroy him. Eut old lean Pet O'Hara moodily smacked a chair over the Mayor’s sku.l,. Then fellowed an orgy of battle, the mingled scream of butchered fowl and the roaring of trapped bulls. Then all the henchmen formed a united front end threw their Mayor out of his own shack, miser: star ‘wear, Arfa Maroo! IT woke the kid from Iowa. He yawned sleepily as he heard them: He saw McMurra flung out in a twisted somersault, landing heavily on his face! It looked like murder. The man lay still, then lifted himself pain- fully. Sobbing and groaning, he crawled like a wounded animal to the river bank, There, his face a bleeding steak, he rested on hands and knees, his open muzzle gasping for air. Fascinated, the Kid watched him. The melancholy gorilla-man studied the river and its marvelous silver sparkle. It oppressed him with ® mys.cricus heartbreak. He was being tortured. Throwing back his shaggy»wild mane, the gorilla howled to the moon. ik “aria maroo!” he wailed. There was no reason in it that Walt could d. “Arta maroo!” Against his own better judgment, Walt moved slowly to help the wounded man. ‘The Kid had learned never to interfere. trouble that way. But maybe the man was dying; his tragic cry was cer- tainly a cal! for help. Primitive and strange, it could not be resisted. McMurra saw him coming, and slowly, too, he arose and waited. And then Walt caught the gleam in the madman’s eye, and in a spasm of regret, knew his mistake. He started to run, but it was too late. Drippnig blood and foam, like a baited bull, McMurra charged the boy. He slugged and kicked, his thick arms rose and fell. The Kid fought back, but was no match for aH solid madmen. He screamed, but nobody heard him; none came to ers es This was the city of the men without jobs. This was the home of the defeated. In the melancholy shacks men drugged themselves with checkers and booze. Others snored. A textile worker looked at a bread- knife and thought of suicide. A carpenter lay in a lousy burlap bed 4 and read stories of optimism in a magazine. Subway diggers dreamed of «ow ‘Italy. A Finn ground his broad sailor’s knife. Arfa maroo! The Kid was finally battered into unconsciousness. He sprawled like a corpse in the garbage. Arfa! howled the whiskey- ape to the moon. There was no reason in it all. Workers mouldered like junk in the putrid shacks. Maroo! Imperial city of New York! -Maroo us! Hunger, horror and holy ghost! Maroo, maroo! Arfa maroo! The words meant nothing but the anguish seemed real. “Arfa! | You got into | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933 FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS (The Roxy Theatre has grown tired Three little pigs have captured the heart of America! Three little pigs in color, song and sound! No more Frankenstein! Dracula! | | Hail America’s new super-Villain!: | | A big bad wolf! A big bad wolf! A| | terribly bad wolf, in fact! | | of course, we're not at all afraid | | No more of this big bad wolf— We've licked worse menaces to our institutions since ‘76! | Bring him on!} We're not afraid! It is getting colder every day now; Breadlines are beginning to form be-| low Fourteenth St.; A brand new Rooseveltown has arisen | on a garbage dump at the foot of} West Twelfth St.; It looks like the same old deal and| worse, | (There’s a solution Mr. Babson! There’s a way out Mr. Roosevelt! Listen Johnson!) GIVE THEM THREE LITTLE PIGS} AND A BIG BAD WOLF! AND A BIG BAD WOLF! . The little pigs are not afraid— They're brave little pigs in color, song and sound! No red-blooded American is afraid of a big bad wolf, is he? | (in the dreadful Chicago slaughter- | houses so masterfully described by Comrade Mike Gold in a recent | column, they are killing thousands of | little pigs every day, and the big bad | wolves who kill them dump them somewhere like they often do coffee |or cotton, and the hungry workers {in the breadlines below Fourteenth St. get no ham, no bacon, no lard, and the homeless workers in Roose-| veltown go hungry. Remember this when you see | “Three Little Pigs’—or when you see | it again, I should say). WE MUST HUNT DOWN THE | BIG BAD WOLF! (Let’s look in Wall | Street and Washington and Holly- wood, There may be many big bad wolves.) GET YOUR SHOTGUNS, PITCHFORKS AND KNIVES! THE) LITTLE PIGS MUST BE SAVED! * . * Dear Lens: I saw “Patriots” last | night and certainly agree with your | recent review in the “Daily.” It cer- tainly is one of the most remark- able films of all time. No incident that I can recall hav- ing seen on the screen has ever} moved me so much as the short) | sequence on the fraternization of the | Russian and German soldiers on the | battlefield. One understood at once |that these courageous war-ridden | soldiers in making their magnificent | attempt to fraternize across the terri- fying stretch of “no-man’s land,” were expressing the deepest inter- ests of the working class against | war. At first you feel the dread un- | certainty of the ground, as the un- | armed soldiers bearing the truce flag walked slowly toward the German | lines expecting at every moment to | see them blown to pieces by ‘a shell, but suddenly a helmeted but also! unarmed soldier appears from the German lines and you begin to re- alize that this is as certain and as | Necessary as the revolutidn that is to follow. They clasp hands like long- lost friends and the Russian motions to his breathless comrades to come |down—and they fly down from all sides, Germans and Russians singing | | and shouting, welcoming one another as comrades. Out of the thousands of films I j have seen, I would pick this single | | brief beautiful moment to illustrate | | the unique and tremendous power of | the Soviet film. And just one thing | ; more, Comrade Lens. The Russian jag of the shoemakers. When 1) | was a kid my father, also a shoe-| | maker, used to describe to me the |life of these villagers and what he | | said and what “Patriots” reveals are the same. The old dingy houses at night with_dim-burning oil lamps, The dust-covered crockery and old shoe-shacks, The inn, the poverty, | the patriots, the old crumbling roads | moved me as though I had actually | lived there. How much more I could go on to , |Say about that masterpiece by Bar- |net, “The Patriots!” ERNEST TELSIN. |. New York, N. Y. | of k¢ =iof its number | of ruts ve Tigo Three Little Pigs” revived Invinw.— Loew st Theatres—News Items). | Earnin gs Disclosed | Padeout Garbo, Pickford, Gaynor! Lower Than Fifty Years Ago By MARGUERITE YOUNG. WASHINGTON. — “Stitch, stitch, stitch, in poverty, hun- ger and dirt”’—. Thus in the early 1800’s |Thomas Hood described the | plight of the British shirt-sewer. And today, in lines less poetic but more stark, the United States Depart- ment of Labor reports that things are precious little different for the Amer- ican shirt-sewer of N.R.A. America, 1933. Stitch, press, wrap in cellophane. . ++ “Median weekly earnings of $7.40 were found,” reads the official publi- cation of the results of an investiga- tion covering 20,000 workers in nine states last June. Many worked for one nickel per hour, One manufacturer boasted “75 per cent of his employes were girls fresh from school.” There was a reason for the Labor Department's undertaking the survey of shirt-workers’ wages, and it wasn’t that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot were all worked up over the workers’ condition. It was, as the Labor Review puts it, that re- ports were coming to Washington showing “great restlessness among the employes.” These notices “made it important for the Department. to assemble some information for the use of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Adminis- tration.” So official inquirers jour- neyed into Massachusetts, Connecti- cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Delaware, Maryland, Indiana and Missouri. They learned that “22 per cent of all workers—men, women and chil- dren—earned less than $5 a week,” and that “of the 18,000 women and girl workers, only 24 per cent earned as much as $10 a week and 35 per cent earned less than $6.” With respect to actual hourly earn- ings of the workers, the investigators had great trouble getting the facts. “Tt is significant that the shirt fac- tories keeping time records are like- ly to be a selected group in which general conditions, including wages, are above the average,” the report noted. And yet the investigators veri- fied the 5-cents-per-hour wage in the case of at least 1 per cent of the ‘wo- men workers in four states. They found that about 7 per cent of the women workers “earned 10 cents an hour,” They had trouble, too, in determ- ining the actual numbers of hours each worker put in during the pay roll period covered. Exact figures could be obtained “in only 31 plants about one-fourth of those visited,” because “most of the plants. . . did not keep records of actual hours worked. Even in the two states where the hours-of-labor labor law required that actual hours worked be recorded for each woman worker, many em- ployers failed to keep such a record, giving as their excuse that most of the women were pieceworkers who came and went according to the work to be done.” In other words, thread-clippers, examiners, markers — speeded-up, stretched-out, put first on too long, then on too short time. “What were reported to be the regular hours of work .. . ranged from 40 to 55 per week,” but “over half the plants, em- ploying about 14,000 women, or 177 per cent of the total number, oper- ated 48 hours or more a week.” Information gathered on the num- | ber of children under- 16, among these slave workers, was “not con- clusive,” the report continues, But it does say that “at any rate, one | per cent of all the female workers. . . | were reported by the management to | be under 16,” | After emduring these conditions for | three years, under the eternal terror of no-work, the collar-turners, the | cuff-makers, the stock-room boys, all | the workers began to develop what the report calls “a new temper.” | They began to strike. Big strikes, in the spring of 1933, in Massachusetts, | Connecticut, New Jersey and Penn- | sylvania, Some followed attempts by organizers to unionize, but many, the | report naively contributes, “were ap- parently spontaneous uprisings| against intolerable wage conditions.” Many of the strikes were “settled”— often through the strike-breaking intervention of the Labor Depart- ment’s “conciliators.” “Work, work, work, while the cock is crowing aloof,” Thomas Hood j wrote in his past-century “Song of the Shirt,” “And work, work, work, ‘till the stars shine through the roof.” ‘Nine States Covered in| Weekly Wage of $7.40, Survey by Shirt Workers Under NRA Earn | U. S. Labor Department Reveals Recent Probe of Conditions | | And the Labor Review of ed | | says: “Although New York shows both the highest median earnings and the largest proportions in the higher wage groups, the earnings disclosed by this survey are lower than they were almost 50 years ago. “In 1886, when a strike and lockout tied up 10,000 workers in the shirt and collar factories of Troy, N. Y., the State board of arbitration that wages of the women and young girls employed ranged from $6 to $18 a week, with an average of $10. Even at that time, the settlement called for wage increases of as high as 25 per cent.” Today, the official report stated, 95 per cent of the workers—men, women, and children, “earn less than $15 a week.” And. strike settlements which the Labor Department helped to bring about usually included “wage increases of five to ten per cent.” | THE NEW FILM By IRVING LERNER THE PRIVATE LIFE’ OF HENRY ‘THE VIII, a screen drama by Lajos Biro and Arthur Wimperis; directed by Alexander Korda, made in Eng- land by London Film Productions; presented by United Artists at the Radio City Music Hall, with the fol- lowing cast: Charles.Laughton, Rob- ert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Elsa Lan- chester, and Franklin -Dyall. Cae Solin “The Private Life of Henry the VIII” proves several’ things: that Charles Laughton is oné of the finest charaxter-actors of the screen; it} also establishes the fact. that films of high technical merit can come from England; and it strengthens our conviction that we “have little to hope for in the way.of an honest and realistic historical film from a bourgois studio. It is not a new thing for Alex- ander Korda to present the private lives of famous historical characters. In 1927, he made for First National, the film version of John Erskine’s| “The Private Life of Helen of Troy.”| Korda’s stay in Hollywood was prof- itable for. him. He learned how to make slick movies. He learned how to avoid reality and apply instead the technique of superficial sophisti- cation. It is for these reasons that this present film has the’ advantages) of a finished Hollywood production with all of the decorative atmosphere and elaborate settings, good photo- graphy, Western Electric sound re- cording, and witty dialogue. While it is true that “Henry-the VIII” is funny and amusing (only as a joke or a cartoon in The New Yorker is funny, it is far from being the wonderful movie that. the critics of the capitalist press would have you believe. It is no argument that this film | only is concerned with Henry’s pri- vate life and that it does not pre- tend to be a historical chronicle of England in the 16th century. Even} as a production of Henry’s private life it is false. The film attempts to explain the monstrous.and tyranni- cal despot as a kindly:and a much) misunderstood person. It wants us TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Mountaineers Music, 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch. 7:30—Lurm and Abner. 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch. 8:00-—Julla Sanderson and Frank Crumit, sons. 8:30—King Orch 9:00—Bernie Orch. 9:30—Voorhees Band; Eddie and Ralph Dumke, comedians. 10:00—Lives at Stake—Sketeh. 10:30—Beauty—Mme. Sylvia. | “Mary Stevens, MD.” Now At the Jefferson Theatre “Mary Stevens. M. D.”, with Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot and Glenda Farrell is the screen feature at the | Jefferson Theatre. Another film, | “Devil Mate,” with Peggy Shannon, | Preston Foster and Ray Walker is on | the same program. George Arliss in “Voltaire” will be | the sereen program beginning Wed- nesday. Doris Kenyon and Margaret Lindsay play leading roles. A second |feature, “Life in the Raw,” with George O’Brien, Claire Trevor and | Greta Nessen is on the same bill Every dollar you send to the Daily Worker is a blow in the face. of Fascism, 10:45—Robert Simmons, tenor; Sears Orch. 11:00—King Orch. 11:15—Meroff_ Orch. 11:30—Davis Oreh . 12:00—Vallee Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Childs Orch, * ee WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick. ‘7:15—News~-Gabriel Heatter. 1:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch. tenor. 8:00—Grofe Orch.; Jean Sargent, 8:30—Eddy Brown, violin; Sympho 9:00-—Jack Arthur, songs; Ohman sn den, piano duo, 9:15—Tom" Blaine, songs. 9:30—Tammany Hall Rally. 11:00—Weather report. 11:02—Moonbeams Trio. 11:30—Nelson Orch, 12:00—Trini Orch, WIZ—7160 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Amos ’n’ Andy. 7:15—National Credit for Local Needs— East and| ‘7:45—Demarco Trio, songs; Frank Sherry, | %y, GRS) Henry T. Hunt, general counsel, Federal Emergency Public Works Administre- tion; Professor Charles E. Merriam, | University of Chicego, 9:45—Dog Chat—Don Carney. 8:00—Ghost With a Mask—Sketch, 8:30—Adventures Bundesen. 8:43—Billy Hillpot and Scrappy Lambert, in Health—Dr. Henry} songs. 9:00—Alice Mock, soprano; Edgar Grest, poet. 9:30—Beethoven — musical and dramatic! sketch. 10:00—Ortiz Tirado, tenor; Concert Orch. 10:30—Life of Richard ‘Harding Davis— Sketch; speaker, Mrs. Gibson, 11:00—Leaders ‘Trio, 11:15—Poet Prince. 11:30—Whiteman Orch, 12:00—Harris_ Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Dance Oreh. oe Charles Dane WABC—860 Ke 1:00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge. i:1f—Just Plain Bili—Sketch, 7:30—Trappers Orch. ":43—News—Boake Carter. | and a healthy social instrument then 8:00-—Ulmer Everett Yess—Sketch. 8'15-—Singin’ Sam, 8:30-—Volce of Experience. ~ 8:45—Kate Smith, song 9:00—California Melodies. 9:30—Nino Martin’ tenor; Symphon: Oreh. | 10:00—Legend of America miatization. 10:30—Boswell Sisters, songs. 10:45—Symphony Oreh, 11:15—News Bulletin. 11:30—Jones Orch. 12:00-Lopez_ Orch, 12:30 A.M.—Haymes Orch, 1:00—Hopkins Orch. to believe that it was for the good of England that Henry the VIII acted as he did. There are one or two weak jabs at high politics and poli- tical speeches, but they are lost in the jungle of Henry’s mistresses and numerous wives—his “private life.” There is not a single frame, not a single title, about the important political, economic, and social events during the reign of Henry the VIII. Outside of the people in the im- mediate vicinity of the palace, we do not even get a glimpse of the masses. As a matter of fact, one gets the impression, from this film, that there were no other people in England at the time. Hundreds of feet of film are spent on showing us how Henry belched and guzzled his food, but not a foot about the foundation of the Anglican Page Five Stage and Screen | | | Clare Kummer Comedy, “Her Master’s Voice,” Coming to Plymouth Oct. 23 George M. Cohan | “Her Master's Voice,” mer’s new comedy is Monday, October 23 at t ‘| Theatre. Roland You! and Laura j | Hope Crews, who have been in pic- #|tures the past few years, will play | the leading roles. Others in the cast |include Elizabeth Patterson, Frances | Puller, Frederick Perry and Francis | Pierlot. | “Divine Drudge,” a new play by | Vicki Baum and John Golden, will be | presented by John Golden on Thurs- |day, Oct. 26 at the Royale Theatre | with Mary Christians, Walter Abel, | Tamara Geva and Minor Watson in the principal roles. The play will be Who plays the leading role in | seen this week at the Boulevard “Ah, Wilderness,” the Eugene | Theatre, Jackson Heights. ee comedy at the Gutld | walter Hampden and his company ere | are playing this week at the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn in his new pro- | duction, “Ruy Blas,” & new version of | Victor Hugo’s play. Brian Hooker based made the adaption. Hampden plays en | & dual role, Screen Notes Irene Dunn in “Ann Vicker: on Sincliar Lewis’ novel, is the scre feature at the Palace Theatre this} Maurice Schwartz will present his week, Owen McGiyney in “The| new production, “The Wise Men of Manor Murder ” heads the| Chelem,” a fantastic comedy by Aaron Zeitlin at the Yiddish Art Theatre | this evening. Schwartz will play the leading role, | WHAT'S ON Wednesday vaudeville bill. “Too Much Har Bing Crosby and J: showing at the State Theatre. Dave Apollon and his new revue, “Sur- prises of 1933,” is the principal stage act this week. The short subjects at the Trans- Lux Theatre this week include Clark and McCullough in “The Oakie is now ties”; “Screen Snapshots”; a new) Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Me- fag 3 Gale of bag ae er — = - ote: ta igs” | View ¥ilm “Pragmen an Em chanical Man”; “Three Little Pigs”| witamspurg Mansion, 297 Go. Sth Bt., and the Newsreels. | The Paramount is now showing, “I’m No Angel,” Mae West's new pic- ture. | “Saturday's Millions,” with Robert| Young and Leila Hyams is the new) screen feature at the Roxy. “Before Dawn,” with Stuart Erwin, is the new film now being shown at the Mayfair Theatre. AMUSEMENTS Brooklyn, at 8°30 p.m. Auspices Williams- burg Br., F.8.U. Admission i5 cents. You need the revolutionary move- ment. The revolutionary move- ment needs the Daily Worker. The “Daily” needs funds to continue. Help the “Daily” with your im- mediate contribution. church; the struggle between the Pope and the English clergy. At least one reel is spent on showing us in detail the execution of Henry’s second wife, and not a scene of the War of the Roses, the foundation of Tudor rule in England, and the changes in the political map of| Europe. There is a good reason for mak- ing these historical films so vague and flimsy, Even Elstree (the Eng- “4 Stars, A New Masterpiece In Sound”—Daiy News, ———— LAST 2 DAYS THE PASSION OF ‘JOAN of ARC With Narrative Dialogue in English SOVIET YOUTH DEMONSTRATION IN LENINGRAD léth STREET & UNION SQUABE Added Attraction ACME THEATRE lish Hollywood) and Hollywood know that a historical film is more than a chronicle of days gone by. It is precisely in such times as these that films like Korda’s are valuable to the ruling classes. Imagine what the effect would be on the English masses if the studios would have pro- duced an honest and sincere film of the life of Henry the VIII. The type of historical film I'm alluding to is being made only in the Soviet Union. Compare the superficial “Henry the VIII” with the Soviet “Czar Ivan the Terrible.” A pro- found film that did not exploit the mad and barbaric debauches of Ivan but showed the relationship of the monarch to the people and the social forces of the period. It is impossible to apologize for this film on the grounds of “good entertainment.” It simply doesn’t satisfy. I saw it twice. The second time by accident. The first time I was amused and “entertained” by} Laughton's acting. The second time} the entire thing was flat. Even the/ acting left no impression. If the film) is to mean anything at all as an art) we've got to demand something more | than this kind of disguised entertain- | ment. HELPING | GOLD) MICHAEL TO WIN The following contributions came in yesterday in response to Michael | Gold's challenge to Dr. Lutti: nd Edward Newhouse to a Social petition to raise $1,000 in the Da. Worker $40,000 Drive. Workers in Virginia Lee Frock Shop + $5.3 Anonymous Esther P. 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Direction “Roxy” ". ‘The PRIVATE LIFE of HENRY the8t with Obaries Laughton and » great cast and a great “Roxy” staze show 350 to 1 p.m.—Sbe to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) —— RKO Greater Show Season ——— KAY FRANCIS and LYLE TALBOT in Also “DEVIL'S MATE” with PEGGY SHANNON and PRESTON FOSTER JOE COOK in Don’t Fail HOLD YOUR HORSES to Read and Dis- |} A Musiesl Ranaway im 24 Scenes tribute in the Elee- |]| “> rey eS Se tion Campaign Winter. Garden gys. 8:50. mats. What Every Worker Should Know About N.R.A. EARL BROWDER General Secretary Communist Party, U.5. A. PRICE 2c ‘THE THEATRE GUILD _presents— EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD: See, a eer es Ev.! 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