The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1933, Page 5

Tage Five A Pointless, Facile Study by the Coles of “Europe Today” ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933 Symposium in Detroit} KATIA GETS A PENSION |’: New Series of Film Showings Sponsored ed | Will Honor John Reed’ p,.. New Masses, Film and Photo League Old Age Security in the Soviet Union 2 DETROIT.—In commemoration of | the great American revolutionistand| NEw YORK.—On Saturday night,, and lec writer, John Reed, the Detroit John | Noy. 18, @ series of film showings at | Joshua naa, s 4 : a By Michael Gold ‘Against: V. F. Calverton ] MUST confess to a political error, For several years I believed in the good-will of V. ‘¥/Calverton, publisher of the Modern Monthly. I knew he had Some of the ordinary complexes that afflict literary men when they come into contact with a proletarian movement, but I believed that in time he/weuld adjust himself. > Anyone-could see that the man was tainted with an unhappy oppor- tunism that made him try to reconcile every extreme, yet some of his early Work was good.Party leaders encouraged and aided his development, and a prominent Soviet critic did much to introduce his books into Soviet literary circles. I wréte & Jong review of his first book, “The Newer Spirit,” in the Daily Worker (this was in 1926, I think). Nobody hounded him be- cause of his “deviations,” all criticism of him was friendly. He was ac- cepied as a comrade... .;, As late as last yeat;I opposed the long’ critique made on Calverton in the New Masses. I agreed with nearly all of its content, but felt that it ywas a tactical error to give so much space in any single issue to the analy- sis of one man’s mistakes, Only a genius or a revolution was worth all this attention. ite That was my criticism, but when I saw how a technical error in edit- ing was used by Calverton’s friends, as an example of “persecution,” etc., instead of as a serious Charge to be answered seriously, I began to wake up. It was the publication of the letter of Charles Yale Harrison and the articles by Max Eastman that completely wiped out any lingering faith I might have had in V. F. Calverton. I have always disliked sectarianism, and any attempts to wash dirty linen in public. I used: te believe that Calverton might be doing some good work along with the: bad; in that he was influencing many American in- tellectuals toward a general sympathy with Communism. But looking back’ over the files of the Modern Monthly, and reading carefully Max Eastman’s article, I am forced to the conclusion that this Magazine now exists to poison the minds of intellectuals, and to excite in them hatred and prejudice against the Soviet Union and the Communist movement. As such,.of course, it must be fought and condemned. + . ® . I HAVE a copy of the August issue before me. There are the names of many honest revolutionary writers in the table of contents. Certainly Jack Conroy, Obed Brdoks, A. Z. Kruse, Stanley Burnshaw, to name those I am surest of, are no enemies of the Communist Party of America, but its sincere fellow-travellers. They would never want to be used to hurt the Party, and yet. here they are, in a magazine, side by side with the in- Jamous article’ by Max Eastman, titled, “Artists in Uniform.” Stanley Burnshaw has since withdrawn from all participation in Cal- Yerton’s monthly, and Jack Conroy is also doing so, I believe. Many more honest. writets will follow, when they study and understand the issues that src involved.” . . . Calverton’s New: Platform ‘OR it is no longer a fact that Calverton is a mere eclectic, one who tries to-maintain-as-broad a program as possible so as to “reconcile all the tendéncies.” He has passed beyond this ineffective opportunism. The theoretidians“of the tagazine are now men like Betram D. Wolfe of the ‘Lovestone: group, and Max Eastman. of the Trotzkyites. The magazine is now 2 dumping ground where anybody who hates the Communist Party is welecme. Calverton has no other platform at present. nes ‘i * . . OBODY: has ever said-the Communist Party makes no mistakes. It is a patty of human‘beings, working under the most dangerous and des- ‘jperate cireumstances'te pave the way for a working man’s America. The battles of the working’class are not won in libraries, but on picket lines and barricades. The theariés_of the working class are hammered out in a bitter School.. Its mistakes art ; always those of the man who acts and dares, not of the pedant and hystander. ere"is @ poisonows-atmosphere around New York, the stink of bureau- . ‘New York is.a finance-capital, with no basic industries. The intel- jectuals Néte"ure thrietsremoved from economic reality. Their theories are often fax aWay froni the ‘testing ground of practice. It is easy for them to ‘feel superior to the ‘sweaty, hard-working men who toil at the pioneer Jaber of hyilding Communism, New York cerk woods: are full of glib intellectuals, who can tear a novel, a pocm’ Or a political-movement to pieces, but are themselves as in~ eapeble-as Hamlet of deed or decision, Theiz,foubts at, first. seem the doubts and hesitations of the honest scientist. who will nob.make a positive affirmation until he has disproved Bvery lasi-negative..- = But after-years-of this kind of thing, one begins to doubt the honesty ‘of these Geubters. Afterall, the Communist Party’s past proves that it has invariably been right on issues where the intellectuals were wrong. To ume onlf“one case: before 1929 the liberal intellectuals were busy devel- oping theories’ of the New Capitalism. Stuart Chase, George Soule, Evans Clark, Walier Lippman, Henry Hazlitt, and nearly all the rest accepted the boom as.@ pernianent stage of capitalism. They preached that socialism ‘would be unnecessary, ‘sifice capitalism was developing to the point where ‘it could aff6¥d to “five the masses a high luxury level, and support the Profiteers, too: Jay“Lovestone and his group also accepted this theory and ‘tried to modify Communist tactics in accordance with it. The Communist Party repudiated this.program, which would have led the movement into companionship’ with Matthew Woll and Edward Filene, And the Communist Party was right. The boom collapsed; and even the stupidestiintellectual Jost faith in the stability of capitalism. But the “doubters*“d6 not yet admit this; they never admit anything. They can find no word of praise for the Party that, for example, counts on its record that great event, the social awakening in the South—the Gastonia strike, and the Scottsboro case. So, after years of “hairsplitiing and fault-finding and bac!:-stabbing, one begins to suspect ‘that many of these superior intellectuals really Suffer from a psychological conflict. Theirs is the dilemma that faces every thinking person {m times like these—the choice between the two \ worlds. One world is"dyifig, but still holds the power, and can reward and “punish. The other worlds hunted and persecuted, and has only the truth and its growing strength on its side. And the intellectua-Hamlets go through enormous sweaty tragedies, | compact of wonderfubsentiments and subtle nuances. But at the end, the conflict is resolved, and one sees what was troubling the heroes. For they seem to, drift contentedly into a certain type of job, like that super- man, Ben Stolberg, niow-on a semi-fascist journal. They become the labor and radical experts of the capitalist world—a kind of intellectual Bomb Squad. In war time=they will be found in the propaganda division and the secret service of thé:nation. And that’s where they really wanted to be all along. The Test Wa dolescence. . _ It is not thought ‘hofiorable that a patriot betray his country, even if it has abused him. It 48 worse and more dangerous, certainly, when a so- gelled Marxist befouls the living revolution, slanders and con‘uses ft. V. F. Calverton and..his. magazine now make just this their chicf labor and career. * Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. +. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist conypetition with: Dr,. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke and Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive; Bust Side Council. FAO “hese eae Previous total Ask Aid:jin(Indexing of the Daily Worker vA number.of workers from the Pen “wotk: for some Daily Worker. Frequent: requests for references to material appearing in the. “Daily” made this~project nec- e’sary, and at the request of the edit- ofs of the. paper it has been under- taken under the direction of Labor Research Association.. Periods already covered run from June, 1932 to Feb- ny Tuary, 1933, and August and Septem- ber, 1933. Work on the intervening period and current months is now under way. When finished, the index will be mimeographed and sent to libraries and all others who have kept back files of the paper. Any person willing to help with this Job, who could help in indexing 1931 and earlier years, should apply to Sonya Roberts, Lebor Research Asgsn., sii 634, 80 EB. 11th St. New Yori: iy. By DAVID RAMSEY THE INTELLIGENT MAN’S RE- | VIEW OF EUROPE TODAY, by G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. $3.00. Mr. G. H. D. Cole is one of those many-named Englishmen who com- bine membership in the British Labor Party, teaching at Oxford and mem- |bership in the Economic Advisory Committee to the present reaction- ary English government. Together with his wife, he has written what his American publishers are pleased to call “An exhaustive general sur- vey of European politics as a whole.” For 616 pages (not counting a bibliography, a preface, a voluminous index and a blurb by the titled La- borites, Milford and Lady Passfield (formerly the Webbs), the Coles skip lightly from inflation to sta- bilization, unemployment, politics, the crisis, etc., etc., without program or point. Every problem is treated “sanely,” that is, every problem is so treated that the iron logic of its revolution- ary implications is smothered in bil- lowing sentences. The Coles have erected into a fine art the use of such phrases as Imperialism,, Capi- talism, Marxism, without any pres- entation of the grim realities behind the phrases. By some intellectual sleight of hand, supported by a facile, journalistic prose, the grim reality fades out into a happy ending. Thus, in treating of the future of Europe, the Coles cite facts that show the impefialist rivalries plunging into open conflict with each other. But then the Coles tell us that peace and light will come through the calming of imperialist rivalries and the growth of “an internationalist spirit.” This is, of course, not accidental. Behind this prettifying there is concealed an ugly purpose. For Mr. Cole is jcr- haps the greatest single ideological enemy of the British workingclass movement. It is he, with his “Marx- ist” phraseology, who diverts the British workingclass, as well as the radicalized intelligentsia and petty bourgeoisie, into harmless channels. Consummately skillful at his task, he raises new barriers to stem the left- ward surge as the older barriers are broken. Thus, today, he and Sir Stafford Cripps are for a “dictator- ship of the workingclass”—after they have been successfully voted into’ power. Mr. Cole’s “new line” does not interfere with his continuance on the Economic Advisory Committee Pwhich provides the plans for driving down the living standards of the British workingclass. 'Remembers the Daily Worker at the Opera New York City, Dear Editor: | Enclosed you will find twenty-five | cents, my weekly donation to the | Daily ‘Worker, | During the summer months I vis- ited the Hippodrome Opera. I noticed ‘that the audiences were ovcrwhelm- | ingly composed of workers who never clusive and expensive Metropolitan. I therefore wrote a letter in Sep- apace” 2 | tember to the Publicity Managers stating that inasmuch as these per- formances were meant for workers, that a good way to reach them would be thru the Daily Worker. I en- closed a “Worker” rate-card. I later | noticed that Hippodrome ads appear- \ed in the Daily. I want no credit except to let the “Worker” know | where its friends are to be found | when it neds them. Mail me more rate cards. Comradely yours, HAROLD SLATER, : Section Five Workers’ 'Book Sale Tomorrow NEW YORK. — Section 5 of the Communist Party, which recently opened a workers’ bookshop at 699 Prospect Ave. near 155th St. the Bronx, yesterday announced a 20 per cent reduction book sale, to begin tomorrow and last until Nov. 21, The bookshcn has a full supply of revolutionary books, pamphlets and magazines, as well as a circulating library. It is open every day from 12 to 7 pm., and from 12 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, VAGRANT DOG JAILED. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 5.—Evidence that class discrimination is carried on even in the canine world was offered today when a white collie was picked up by a dog-catcher here as a va~- grant, for not having a license. When it was found that he bore the marks of a pedigreed aristocrat police took him to the city jail instead of the dog pound, IM NOT-MUCH OF SPEAKER BUTT AINTO THE STATE'S CHARGE AND PROVE THat ME ARE PART OF A CHARGES AGAINST FRAME-UP. get an opportunity to attend the ex- | Bookshop to Begin, By MYRA PAGE E are on our way to pay Katia Bemova an unexpected visit. I had asked Vera Bouganova, who is secretary of the Krassny Bougleter (Red Knight) rubber plant’s social insurance plant, to take me with her to talk with some of the workers who had received pensions, The Krassny plant lies along the cutskirts of Moscow, in what is little more than a village. The air has that fresh tang to it that one misses in the city, of birches and moist earth. Through the grounds of the plant slides a flat ribbon of a stream: low, rambling houses and stores run for blocks along the car line. In the midst of the old village, gawky as a schoolboy whose shoulders and arms ate outgrowins his jacket, vises the rubber workers’ settlement. To date there are 37 new apartment hous:s and two-family dwellings. It is here that Katia Bemova lives. ‘We knock. Shufflings of padded slippers, and the door opens on the jolly face and barrel figure of an Irish East Side mother. Although she greets us, a bit startled, in fluent Russian, I feel there must be some mistake, surely the rich brogue of the old country should roll from her tongue. “Come into my daughter’s room,” she says, “my husband just got home. He works on the railroad, and i8 sleeping in our room. You will have to excuse me, for I was not expect- ing visitors.” Everything is quite straight, no need for excuses. There are rubber plants in the window, lace curtains, and the inevitable Russian tapestry hanging behind the nickle- plated bed. Like the Germans, the pride of Russian skilled workers is in @ fine-looking bed. Without this, and &@ samovar, I am told no couple would think of getting married! With the era of tea kettles, gas, and electricity, the samovar js passin¢. But the cus- tom of the bed and plants in the window, remain, 'URE enough, no sooner have we settled ourselves to talk, and Ka- tia learned of our mission, than she insists on starting the kettle. Only our insistence on the short time we have and our promise to come back later for tea, keeps her from running away to the kitchen to feed us. “I hear you are drawing a pen- sion?” I ask her. She nods happily. In America, I explain, the workers are fighting to win a federal insur- ance system similar to that which ex- ists in the Soviet Union—insuring workers against every form of dis- ability and hazard, such as that of Bemova’s herself. “It is a bit hard,” I add, “for the majority of working people in the States to realize the economic security you have won here.” “I can understand that,” she says. “Why, for me, too, it is still like a dream, It is the third month since I quit work, and began drawing my pension. Each month, when the post- man rings the bell and hands me the book to sign for the money order, I think, ‘Now, why is it, here I sit and do nothing, but keep on drawing pay’!” Security She looks across at Bouganiva’s quiet, lined face. “You understand | all these things better than I do. You are a working woman who has studied. I am just a simple old woman. To me, it seems too good to be true.” “You gave 24 years of labor,” Bou- ganova answers. “Now your heart is bad. Of course, you must be taken care of. That is our Soviet system.” “Yes, I know,” Katia Bemova re- plies, “and my heart and rheumatism are terrible.” Placing her hand dra- matically on her breast, she tells us at length of its whimsies and general Reed Club will hold a symposium to- | day at 108 W. Hancock Ave., 8 p.m. | The ‘speakers include Louis Altshuler, | who will treat on “The Literary Sig- nificance of John Reed”; Albert Goetz, “John Reed, the Revolution- misbehavior. Yesterday she had gone to the station to make a trip to a friend in a nearby village; the crowd's jostling had nearly brought on a heart attack, she had had to} come home. |ist’; and Dr. D, Whitehorn, “The | Bemova and her husband are in-|Land That John Reed Died For.” dependent, economically, of their two | . . ° married daughters. “Only when they | have something extra good, they bring us some,” she says. In their latter years, she and her husband are @ drag on nobody. He works as a railroad cleaner, drawing not large wages, but she earned, when working, 160 roubles a month. She had become an instructor, training younger wo- men to shape and trim rubbers. Her pension is for 104 roubles a month, | | which allows her quite enough to| NEW YORK.—Beginning with this | live com‘ortably: This apartment, | on, the Workers’ School with its three rooms, kitchen, toilet, Allan Johnson will suc- electricity and heat, belongs to her. d Edwin Rolfe as instructor in| Through the rubber workers’ cooper-|the course on “Revolutionary Jour- | ative housing society, she purchased | nalism.” Classes will be held eve it on the monthly. installment plan.| Monday evening from 9 to 10:30 | The cost is now 57 roubles a month, | p.m., instead of from 8:40 to 10:10} of which her share and that of her | pm. husband is ten roubles. Her married Of real interest is the Anti-Impe- rialist. Art Exhibit which is being| shown at the clubrooms. All workers are urged to view these revolution- ary paintings and posters. — | New Instructor for Course In Revolutionary Journalism | daughters, who live with her, pay the | | | | Test. ene some Gates ted was paid | F LA S H ES and out by the Soviet government to | CL OSE- W) PS received as high a rate of pension as | pensioners. However, not all of them | Bemova (65 per cent of her wages) as | she has worked over three decades in a basic Ndustry, and one that is con- | optical Sidered injurious to health d this| Further selections. from “What makes her pension rate h Shocked the Censors” from January, Although she has w. Bemova is far from an old woman. | She would like to return to the fac- tory later, but it doctors will “allow this, months of rest, tinues unsatisfactory, her pension of 104 roubles monthly will be made one for life. Screwing up her eyes, she asks me, “And what are your pap: saying about us in America?” I r » “Only the workers’: “pri is telling the straight truth: Many other pavers are saying there is not enough to eat in Russia.” “But we are. far from starving,” she protests. “Why.do they lie ak us? I want you.to tell your yr that I, a non-Party y am sati: fied. We sre working hard to make | things better and better... . And | entire world!” pinates “At on, | remember,” she adds, as we rise to| sit on our necks, the capitalists and | leave, u promised to come back | the landowners. That is what they) for tea! : | r land, our bread, the fac-| We visit several other homes of | * the plants, the fo 1932, to March, 1923: | “Afraid to Talk”—Eliminate: “Sig, | I want you to know that we appre-| ciete this little party you're throwing | for us tonight.” (Mayor thanking | criminal). “Amateur Day”—Elimi ate clo: where whip actually comes in contact | |with man's body, “Behind Jury | Deors”—Eliminate: tell them how you paid me good dough to influence that jury.” “The Big Cage”—E:iminate views of tigers | tearing body to pieces . “The Big | Drive”—Eiiminate views of hand-to- | hand conflict between soldiers where | | th e fighting for their very lives, actually killing one another, | “Siberian Patrol,” a Soviet film—| ong live the Soviet power in the After if her health con- six pensioned workers. Comra‘ie Bougan- 1 what y_ nee Will we, | ova, who has worked at the plani over | Red pavtisans, be afraid? No.” “Con- | three decades‘also, and since last | Eliminate all views of} year has beern-placed by her fe workers in charge of t al in- Surance committee, knows the pro lems and lives:“of each one inti- mately. They talit with her as an old friend, who cam advise and lead. As we tramp in the-svring dri: one house to the-next, she tells us of | FE their social insurance work, Lat when we are -tired and wet throush, | p we are readyto: turn back, for the j now's fugitive from a chain gang, | waiting glasses of tea, |. «+ He has been branded a convict | |-. 2 and that makes him a hunted! thing on earth. ... The scenes in “I} |Am a Fugitive...” which depict | | in a chain gang, are true and| MUSI c | authentic, “bela pe y | body convulsed with labor | pains. | “Harlem Is Heaven”—"Here intel- lectua’s ming with illiterates— | ers and prostitutes pound the | “Hollywood after jected in toto, “I Am a vom 2 Chain Gang”—Elim- ire Foreword, rea in| brother, Robert E. Spiral “Ernani” and “Iris” At The | Hippodrome This Week | vs of ether cone over pa- nd ether being admin- jisteed to patient. “Last Mile”— ‘All| right, this is my duty—to show the world that I don’t like it—to show| ‘The Chicago Opera Company at thi Hippodrome will-present “Cayalleria’ and “Pagliacet”, tonight; “Carmen” | the world that I object to it. Do you on Tuesday; “Ernani”, Wednesday; | think I wanta die? You think I'm “Iris,” Thuesday; “Masked Ball,”| not a human You think 1| Friday; “Lucia’“de Lammermoor”,| don't wanna live? You think it’s Saturday matinee; “Faust”, Saturdey| very nice to wait in that rotten cell evening; “Tristan and Isolde", Sun-j| —e‘c.” Eim- day afterncon and “Rigoletto”, Sun- enes of gu striking at day evening. I 3 in cage with whip. Elim- | |imate all scenes of preparations for execution of Negro pvisoners and all views of fect and bo%es hanging after execution, (My emphasis— eliminate all views w boy hown felteting on way to execu- tion, Eliminate viow of man actually | ) | “Meuthpiece”—In march to execu- | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Dramatic Sketch 8:30—Floyd Gibbons Young Orch. 10:00—Eastman Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Gen Arnotd, Narrator 10:45—To Be Announced Tie Seats Oreh. 11:9°—Whiveman Oreb. anick Orch, ‘™M.—Meroff Oreh. 8 1 12:30 A. WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 1:15—News—-Gabriel Heatter 0—Terry and Ted—Sketch paign Talk—Frank J. Prial 0-—-Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery ama 15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs '30-—Morros Musicale the Campaign—Nathan 45—Campaign Talk—Meyor O'Brien 10:15—Ourrent Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Alfrea Wallenstein's Sinfonietta; Mine Heger, Soprano 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Robbins Orch, 12:00—Holst Oreh, a) WIJZ—760 Ke 7:00 F. M.—Amos 'n' Andy 7:18—Daby Rose Marie e Y OisPRovE THE turning on current to electrocute boy of man turning indicator | e current in electrocution. 7:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch 1:45—Three Jesters, Songs 8:00—Morin Sisters, Songs; King’s Jesters; What you need in} Stokes Orch. ja beexz Mucscolini,”| 8:30—Paulist Choristers Ga Peek, Mivolne | {ussolini—Get out or get Mussolini gives ‘em cas- “Red and White,” So- | Eliminate all views of | ; orders to fire on peas- | scenes of execution, © ae 45—Red Davis—Sketch 00—Minstral Show 9:30—Pasternack Oreh.; Tenor 10:00—Dance Orch.; Mary McCoy, Soprano; Betty Barthéll, Songs; Sports—Lou Little 10:30—Henri Deering, Piano 10:45—Planned Recovery—Henry A. Wallace, Secretary. of Agriculture +*:00-—Leaders ‘Trio 11:18—Poet Price _ 11:30—Hahn Orch: 12:00—Premiere of Ziegfeld Follies, Schubert Theatre, Boston oe | John Fogarty, | tor oil, too.” viet fil off! & ants, and all Aside from these selected cuts, | Vhat Shocked the Censors” | 2e-deep in a sewage obscenities, murders and idiotic dialogue. The pamphlet was published by the National Council On Freedom From Censorship, or- ganized two years ago by the Amer- rties Union, which be- hould “fight all forms } tic censorship, leaving } * WABC—860 Ke 7:00 P. M,—Myrt ghd Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30—~Travelers. Eigemble T:45—News-—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orcli.; Men About Town Trio; | ist League. Admission 15c . 8 the New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th S8t,, opens with a Soviet/ on film, “Spring,” never before show! in America, A committee which in cludes John Strachey, Granville Hicks and John Wexley are spon- soring the showings. “Spring” directed by Kaufmann, an ing Soviet film theoretician, and ha: been characterized as a “striking parture in film technique.” On same program will be that m: discussed motion picture, With the Movie Camera.” The showings will be a connected | Fre serles tracing the development of the | ley, Robert © Soviet cinema and will be supple- | Grant was ‘The Man | League, 1 | They Si anima | 27th sponsored le Hick: mented by extensive program notes! Frank Ward. Screen “Doctor Monica” Opens At The Playhouse Tonight; “Thorobred” At Vanderbilt “Doctor Monica,” Laura Walke: adaptation of the Polish play by Marja Morozowicz-Szozepkowska, will have its premiere tonight at the Playhouse. The cast—all women— include Alla Nazimova, Gale Sonde- gaard and Beatrice de Neergaard. Florence Reed returns 4) Broadway this evening in a new play, “Thor- cughbred,” include, Thurston Hall, Hilda Spong, Lillian Emerson and Harry Ellebe. Life Worth Living,” by Lennox Robinson, will open on Tuesday night company includes Whitford Kane, Margaret Wycherly, Jerome Lawler and Octavia Kenmore. The play was ews of beating of Jim | first produced by theAbbey Players in | exposure, Dublin in January. “I Was Waiting for You,” adapted “I'm going to| from the French of Jaques Natanson | by Melville Baker, will have its pre- miere on Friday night at the Booth Theatre. Glenn Anderson, Vera Al- Jen. Helen Brooks and Breaigne Win- dust head the cast. New Soviet Film Coming To Acme Theatre Saturday “Laughter Through Tears, Yiddish talkie p: d Unicn, will hav showing on S at the Acme Theatre. The f on Sholom famous st fotel Pa Dem Chazen’s” and is. enacte: members of the Moscow Art Theatre company. The e Worldkino, Er “Eat "Em Ali newest adventures in the w is now playing at the Cameo Theatre | WHAT'S ON WIR. BAND Rehearsals, } Preparing 7:45 pm. December sharp. for —improve playing while serving the move ment. ie ee Monday LECTURE--LOUISE THOMSON on Na- norities in Soviet Union—at 33 :15 p.m. Auspices.Anti-Imperial, * Tuesday ELECTION RETURNS WILL BE GIVEN at Concert and Dance by the 4th A. D. elec- tion campaign committee cf the Communist Party. Admission 10c, at 3882 3rd Ave, Bronx. the Masque Theatre. The | |Minute Movie Reviews | “No Marriage Ties” (RKO) The movies enter the advettising . | racket to prove the degradation of | present nods of advertising ag {compared with the good and honest... | old established methods of our fore- | fathers; that is, the time when tooth- | paste was advertised as something to.: | clean teeth with, maybe, and not as now, as something that will enable you to “take your teeth to the grave” without “gumblood,” “halitosis” of, | “tillytongue.” Richard Dix is the | rapid fire, slogan-coining adman | who “heroically” decides to give Up. | the racket a moment or two before |@ scandal sheet to whom he has re- | fused vertising because of said | paper's bl tactics, is about to |expose his fraudulent game. The title of the film has no more to do. | with the content of the picture than | the content of the picture has to do | with the subject supposedly unde? | “Night Flight” (MGM) While there is some excellent pho- tography and unusual direction in this picture, which is based on an incident in the early history of night } flying over the Andes, still «the permost in’ your mind #8 watch the film is that aviation italism is about as ruth- as conscienceless an entere power as any of mtrolled by Big now ¢ Business. the time the film is halfway through. you are as con- vinced of th ry motives of avietion officials in originating night one of the most danger- flying 0° 7 the face of the of the magnificent ing the defying the insoience of. the zars of the alr. I ced this film with of their famous all-star brass including John Barrymore, who all of the dictating on Jand, k Gable, who does most of the ing and sighing in the air, Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy, who perform j all the weeping and gnashing of \ teeth for the uncertainties of this kind of night life. | —DAVID PLATT. tutes on WORCESTER UNITS RAISE $18.29 Workers are eager to give financial support to our ‘Daily’,” writes A. | Brent, of Worcester, Mass. “Units i8)- | and 4 reised $18.29 in a few hours om ja Sunday. And there were not many | large donations, either.” | ———- | Vote Communist—for Minor, Bur- roughs and Gold. “The Patriots” contains some:hing th=t net Soviet Russia AMUSEME even Im the previous hichly artistic Soviet flms.”—FRETHEIT PATRIOTS” Also: The Complete Reception Accorded the LINDBERGHS in BIGINNING TOMORROW “THE RED-HEAD” “POIL DE CAROTTE” ACME THEATRE Ws sacu NTS you could. not find GUILD THEATRE EMPIRE THEATRE THE THEATRE GUILD Presents EUGENE O’NEILL’S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN 53nd St., West ef Broadway. Evenings 3:20. Mat MOLIERE’S COMEDY WITH MUSIC THE SCHIOOL ror HUSBANDS with OSGOOD PERKINS and JUNE WALKER ” Broadway and 40th Strest, Mats, Tues. (Election Day), Thurs. & Sat. 2.20°. Tu Election Day), Thors. & Sat, 2.20 Evenings 8:40) Vivian Ruth, Songs 5—News—Edwin ©. 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