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

‘| | i WHAT | WORLD! By Joseph Freeman poe past-three years a great deal has been written and said in li erary circles about the Marxian attitude toward art. In the camp of our opponents the confusion has been phenomenal. Some kind of im- aginary cordon sanitaire, flung by their own imagination around the left- wing literary world, prevented most liberal critics from reading what left- wing. writers-were actually saying. Hence they could form no accurate esti- maté#s to what in reality were the points in dispute. Writers: otherwise fairly rational, committed themselves in print to uié*mést extraordinary conclusions. They said Lenin and Tolstoy shared pietisely thé same views on art. They said Fascism and Communism had identical attitudes toward literature. The series of nonsensical assertions wag. infinite. +wAaysl while honest critics, too lazy or too busy to inform themselves of the, facts, were inyenting out of whole cloth a “Marxian” straw man whom they.proceeded..to.knock down, other writers, less honest because rabidly antie-Communi: were spinning out of their inflamed fantasies accusa- tiontwas malictous.as they were absurd. It appeared that left-wing writers andiartists arevslaves of the Kremlin. They are interested in nothing but propigands ‘for Moscow's policies. They have no feeling for poetry or art. Inid#éd; they’ areé enemies of poetry and art. They put artists in uniform. 7. Conducta “literary inquisition. aly ai“ Aacturate history of the left-wing movement in arts and letteFs Could reveal the truth. But such history requires time. For the pres- ent-Z-eontent niyself with dipping casually into the files of the New Masses ch~contain-hundreds of letters between the editors and contributors of that publicetion-seriously discussing problems of revolutionary art. pres date ‘of April 22, 1933, I received from A.B.C., a well-known and _f@lented Writer, a letter protesting the publication in the New Masses of poem by"Bdwin Rolfe entitled Homage to Karl Marx, which began: Mere:in the dim of the dusk with the wings of birds and thenoise of their cries and the slim lines of the trees ‘against the sea and horizon ee we the sons the fathers “dipped tn the thunder again for a final tilt with J oes the dying enraged the angry powerless fathers and ‘sons of decay made strong in despair and ‘the thoughts that are those of any and all who die ging death is certain the victors smiling al “arom there the poem went on, quite beautifully, in my opinion, to de- setibethe matéh-of the revolution in Karl Marx’s “great rooms, the coun- trisg%ot: the- world—his cumulative fatherland.” It sang of our day, when rid’s ablaze! Into our ears and eyes, his words! like rivets in a ste¢], red with sparks showering, penetrate’ The poem, com- orating. fhe 50th anniversary of Marx’s death, ended: enw Now, fifty years since his days met their last midnight, we—his countless heirs— risé°@auntiess in all lands, his wisdom in our brain, the added lessons of half a century, to finfiregnate the earth with newer life, te win the final battle; and, classless, to assume the final right to our supremacy. © ° ve them... * PQ, THIS poem, classic in its dignity, romantic in its warmth, A.B.C. found many objections. Among other things he complained that “no- body<from mow.on has the right to begin a poem with ‘here in the dim of4iie dusk*f orly for the reason that it has been done 200 times plus. Bitt4hére is another and more valid fact, There is no dim and there is no dts€ subjectively or objectively, in the revolutionary movement.” And, with: tioquent-indignation, A-B.C. added: “I am a Communist and I am a poet of long=stariding reputation. Why disgrace us all with tripe?” uef-B.C. is, to“the best of my knowledge and belief, a “freeborn Ameri- c@n-eftizen, untainted by “Moscow gold.” His opinions are his own. I re- spect-#hem,-but.in this case I disagreed with them. In defense of Edwin Rolfe, I wrobee letter, part of which I cite here: “You are; it seems to me, a little unfair to Edwin Rolfe. He has grown up*itrthe niovement and for years has been a member of the Young Com- munist “League. *°“BOt that concerns him as a citizen. It may be that as a poet he is not as far advanced towards Communism as yourself. Nevertheless, as a poet hé is honestly describing the emotional world of those who have de- véloped. in Pourgeois literature and are moving toward Communism. “T HAVE ASKED OUR POETS NOT TO FALSIFY THIS ASPECT OF THEIR, DEVELOPMENT. It is only too common to find people who are Communists in thought and action and bourgeois in their feelings. Our “emotions develop more slowly and painfully than our ideas. Some poets?attempt’to conceal or overcome this disparity by writing verse that represénis only ‘their ideas. In most cases the result is flat, stale and Tt is betterto achieve genuine growth by following the evolution of our feelings netirally and honestly. And I do not think tt is possible to deny that many of our best poets enter into “the thunder again for a final tilt with our {0és’ emerging from the ‘dim of of the dusk with the wings of birds and the noise of their cries and the slim lines of the trees against and horizon.’ ea have. already travelled so far along the road to Communism that you may: heve forgotten that world of trees, birds and horizon. But Rolfe is yourig, and he must—if he js to be sincere and really creative— ‘overcome the romantic world of the literature in which we were ail brought’ up "by acknowledging it and moving out of it.” poét A.B.C. generously replied that my letter was “a tribute to the good humior of a harassed editor.” But he continued to disagree about the poem in, question, and insisted that “the style of that particular poem of.xquag and,admirable Edwin Rolfe should not be encouraged.” .- JDear, dear, what a mess the Kremlin is making of its literary policy! Here sare twoof its “henchmen” in America, who are in duty bound +oHoliow the strdight and narrow path, flaunting independent opinions, arening with each other and leaving each other unconvinced. ing the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. foe, thediaily aeeeeB 2.00 Prisoners of Novidvor, Po- total TOTAL TO DATE . “Strange Orchestra” Coming To Broadway Nov. 28 “Strange Orchestra,” an importa- tion from England by Rodney Ack- land, is announced for Tuesday eve- ning, Noy. 28, at a Broadway thea- tre. Cecilia Loftus and Edith Bar- rett will be co-starred in the produc- tion. Following the opening of this play, Hopkins and Moore, the pro- ducers, will start rehearsals of “The ‘Wooden Slipper,” a comedy by Sam- son Raphaelson. Margaret Wycherly, now playing in “Ts Life Worth Living,” the Lennox Robinson play at the Masque, will have an important part in “Tobacco Road,” a dramatization of Erskine Caldwell’s novel by Jack Kirkland, which is due on Broadway Nov. 27. “Little Women” with Hepburn “9.2. At Radio City Kgtherine Hepyurn is starred in “Litte.vomen,”-a new RKO Radio picture screfned from Louisa May Alcott's novel, @oan Bennett, Frances Dee, {ean Douglass Mont- gomery” re ing Byington play Jeading roles in the film, which was directed by George Cukor. “re stage ‘show’includes “The Moth Ant! The Flame;""a musical feature inthe scenes with Robert Weede, Lawoend Stuart; the ballet and the entiré“ehsemble: © No ‘Angél,” 5° the ‘screen feature ai the’ Palace Theatte beginning today. ‘The: State’ is now showing “Broad- way ‘fhru A-‘Keyhole,” with Con- stanée Cummings, eC and Paul Kelly. ‘The ‘stage ‘is headed by ‘Ted his.“Siiver Jubilee Revue.” r YOUR HONOR, I MOvE FoR A DISMISSAL OF — {ty HAS BROKER DOW TAR STATE'S CASE BY » PROUING GE DID WOT WEAR @ Coat WwHich “ TOXEARRY A GUN 4S CHARGED BY THE SKATE WITHERS ES — ste das BEEN OE ietsen ene, UNSERTHE GaID~ ANCE OF A LAWYER FROM THE T.t.D. > wT IT 13 @ CAP- | V¥AbebsT Court !! sirey BGROUNOS OF (N= THE CASE OW THE | The ‘World the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR A Good Thing | The German dance group direcied |by Kurt Jooss, now appearing at the is something new in Its most success- ful subjects are contemporary, and lits tende: ard the left. | Above all, its collective | not merely @ ma allet discipline characteristic of most professional dance groups, but de- rives from an actual unity of spirit, a real connection of mind and heart, background and desire. is not a collection of individuals hammered by a virtuoso dance di- rector into an arbitrary form, it is a real organism whost parts naturally belong together. The Jooss Ballet is petit-bourgeois rather than proletarian in its make- up, and it manifests the qualities of nearly all such German groups as well as the shortcomings which are | part of these qualities. They have | tendencies, humor, a sprightly energy, lan almost milky youthfulness, and |a certain good-heartedness, which |appears to be a combination of the charming behavior of well-brought- |up children, and the shyness that jcomes from a life-time of lower | middle-class worry, These elements |taken together create a very appeal- |ing impression, particularly as they |go with a quiet intelligence and sin- cerity, but they also explain why the total effect of their work rarely gives one the sense of strength, of mili- tancy, of potential revolutionary power. They explain too why the jactual dance numbers are a little | less striking, a little less sharp than the dancers imagine them to be. Thus the waltz number ts sweet without being clowing, but it is cer- tainly not as satirical as intended. The Spanish number, which shows a human spirit (that of the infanta) crushed by Court formality is sen- timental rather than significant. And the number which shows us impres- sions of the big city is witty, color- ful, lively, even touching, but much more naive than we might suppose. The most original number, of course, is The Green Table, the anti- war ballet which has given this group rencwn in Europe. The first and last eposodes of this piece, showing the diplomats at their futile debates, constitute a little masterpiece of dance design. The movement is fresh, the observation delightful, the cari- cature sound. And much of the war episodes that follow, showing the marching of young troops, the greedy enthusiasm of the profiteer, the growth of protest, the development of hysterical cynicism and debauchery, and with it all, Death sweeping everything and everyone away with him, is fascinating and exciting to watch. Yet the idea of introducing Death as @ personified figure carry- ing each character away in a dance isn’t altogether consonant with the modern idiom of the whole, and though there is something of a tragic vision in the final effect, one feels the lack of a truly transforming con- ception of war, a new hate or a real fire of revolutionary understanding and will. © It is not enough to show silly dip- lomats, and a vulgar roly-poly prof- iteer, and a woman crying out against it all; there must also be a ruthless clarity, @ harsh candor which will give lightning evidence of their prop- er relation and connection. To put it badly there is not enough class- consciousness in “The Green Table” to make it transcend the realm of analysis than that war is sad and bad. This middle-class type of well- wishing pacifism, though it finds an unusually talented and hetic expression in this ballet, still re- mains its integral artistic fault. For all these reservations, the Jooss Ballet is decidedly a step in the right direction almost unique of its kind. Without having attained the final degree of technical perfection, it still is free not only of the musty and in- sipid prettiness of the old ballet or- ganizations, but also of that studio vigor that twilight sensitivity which are the mark of nearly all modern dancers. People who care for dra~ matic dancing will find enjoyment in an evening at the Jooss Ballet. : : E} seRLDLAEHEoED! lnillsaie This ballet | : DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933 IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY Short Stories from the Experiences of a Home | Relief. Bureau Investigator | as told to HELEN KAY Yes--We Have No Coal of men and women, with torn shoes and angry faces, with sacks | under their arms came to the Re- lief Bureau for their coal. But they were told, “No coal | here. LL morning a constant stream | | Go to the Police Station.” | | Neither was there any coal in the |. Police Station. But the chief super- | visor thought that the Police Sta- | | tion would be better equipped to handle those who insisted on get- | | ting coal. | Tt was a bitterly cold winter | morning. And the poor men and | women looked blue, The supervisor | thought it quite amusing to watch them march back and forth with their empty sacks, However, his chief concern was that they re- turn home without raising too | much fuss. | One group was desperate. They couldn’t stand the constant shift- ing. They knew that their children were home, freezing to the marrow of their very bones. In the sweet- est of words the supervisor told them to go home. His smile was angelic. His tones soft. “Now go on home. What can we do? Be good.” Be good little children; dont’ make me any trouble and go home, were his thoughts. A worker stuck the empty sack into his face. In broken English he yelled: “Me no go home. My wife is hungry. My children die. Sick in bed. My house is cold like a stable. | its bounds | nation. She | the supervisor's desk. He | man Me no go home!” The su halted his of flow Sweet words. His face paled in an- ger. He threatened and shouted. The group became more stub- born. Their anger was loosed from hey argued. Th One plained. group in woman headed expressions of indig- ad in an old red jacket, and torn shoes. They looked | like somve one's cast off clothing. The group were standing around stepped back in fear. He picked up the re- ceiver of his telephone. “Patrol- W.” He was connected. “There's a riot here, a bunch of reds. They're shouting and threat- ening. One woman here especially is very tough. She’s wearing a red coat. See that one of your cops mistakes her for a man, and crack her over the jaw. It'll do her good. Thanks” he added and hung up. The police soon arrived. They Slugged and shoved the crowd. It took some time but the workers were dispersed. Gone back to their cold hovels. The woman in the red coat was arrested. That same afternoon, the super- visor called over an investigator. “Say, take a-food ticket to that lady in red. Maybe that will shut her mouth.” ee a (Temorrow, the final story of this series: “Kindly. Reserve Suite in the Jail for Me.”) ‘Peace on Earth,’ First Theatre Union Play, to) Open in N. Y. Noy. 29 NEW YORK.—‘“Peace on Earth,” described as a play about the next war, will be presented by the Theatre Union at the Civic Repertory Theatre beginning on Nov. 29, Its cast of 40 professional actors and actresses is now in rehearsal under the direction of Robert Sinclair. Cleon Throck- morton has built its sets. “Peace on Earth” was written by George Sklar and Albert Maltz, au- thors of “Merry Go Round,” which was produced two years ago and which the city authorities attempted to suppress because of its expose of the alliance of Tammany Hall with gangsterism. Their new play is re- markable for the scope of its action. Workers, intellectuals, bankers, poli~ ticians, students—all are portrayed in the well developed plot, The Theatre Union is attempting | something in the theatre that has not been done before in the United | States. It will produce plays that/ present the struggles of workers sympathetically, that compete with Broadway shows as entertainment) and in technical competence, and that compete with the movies in price. Seats are priced from 30 cents to $150 Preview dress rehearsals on Nov. 25 and 27 will be given for or- ganizations who wish to run benefit performances, and blocks of seats at special prices can be arranged for at the Theatre Union office at 104 Fifth Ave, ROCKFORD TO PASS QUOTA ROCKFORD, Ill.—In sending $5 to the Dajly Worker, the Party Sec- tion here pledges to pass its orizinal quota of $75. $40 has already been raised. We hope to raise an addi- tional $20 at a showing here of the Soviet film, “Ten Days That Shook the World,” on Nov. 24th. We chal~ lenge the Chicago Sections to beat us in the $40,000 Drive. Limericks Will Add To Fun at John Reed Club Party Saturday NEW YORK.—Well known writers will be the judges in a Limerick con- test to be held at the “Cockeyed ‘World Party” by John Reed Club this Saturday night .at its headquarters, 430 Sixth Ave. The limerick contest will be open to all. Limericks on Hitler and the N.R.A. will be especially welcome. ‘The best ones. will win awards of art works by John Reed Club members. The arrangements committee an- nounced yesterday that a limited number of copies of the Dally Worker, Nov. 7 issue, celebrating the 16th An- niversary of the Soviet Union, which ‘were autographed by Henri Barbusse, will be auctioned off at the party. ‘The proceeds will go to the Daily ‘Worker $40,000 -fund. Pointless Laughs at ‘Obsolete’ Laws By PHILIP STERLING THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW, by William Seagle. Illustrations by Bill Gropper. The Macaulay Co., $1.25. . | Angelo Herndon ts doing 20 years | in the Georgia penitentiary because | he was convicted of “inciting to in- surrection” on a moth-eaten law passed against the carpet-baggers after the civil war. Anthony Bimba, working-class his- torian and organizer, once faced jail | |in Massachusetts on a charge of blas- | phemy made possible by a law passed |against atheists | abouts. Every day in the year hundreds of strike pickets, street speakers, Daily | Worker in 1792 or there-/| | agents, are arrested on} | charges such as “causing a crowd to| collect, “littering the pavements,” | |“obstructing a public thoroughfare” |and other idiotic excuses customarily | |used to harrass workers in their ev-| |ery-day routine of organization for | economic or political purposes. i | Yet William Seagle engages in aj typically liberal pastime—laughing at the stupidity of capitalist government without concerning himself with its real function. For instance, he thinks it's merely | |funny that there are “futile old laws | jagainst throwing stones at railroad | | trains.” It doesn’t occur to him that | such laws might have originated in| |the early struggles of tne American jlabor movement and that it may be) |one of that whole series of laws de-| |signed to make anti-working class | |frame-ups easier. | Isn't it possible, for instance. that | |the Nebraska law (cited by Seagle) | which makes it unlawful for a person | |to camp upon a public highway at/ two places within a radius of five |miles within 30 days might easily be used now against farm-strike | pickets? | | Seagle laughs because a California |law regulates the amount of cubic space for each person occupying a! bedroom, and points out in a cryptic title that this law makes poverty a/ | crime. | That is funny, but Anatole France once pointed out with superb irony that all capitalist law makes poverty a crime when he said: “The law, in jits majestic equality . . . permits) rich and poor alike to sleep under} bridges, to beg in the streets and to! steal their bread.” | There’s one really funny thing |about the book—William Gropper's illustrations. Many are not merely | funny but sharply satirical. And | barbed, analytical satire, Mr. Seagle, | is needed when you feel like laughing | not only at the laws, but at all the| | Phenomena of a dying society which | is forced into ludicrous shapes and | attitudes by its own mortal affliction. Anti-Soviet Pr Pulpwood Magazine Fiction By ALAN CALMER Tt is mo accident that in every “thriller” dealing with Soviet Russia, the hero of an aciveturous Ameri- can who lines up against the Bol- sheviks, Such — stories, which appear occasionally in the pulpwood maga- zines, extend from tales of American | troops in Siberia after the Revolu- tion, to mythical Siberian uprisings in 1933. The following are a few recent samples. “Honors of War,” by M. Wheeier- Nicholson (“Adventure Magazine,” June 1933), is a lengthy story of a “natural-born” cavalry leader who is driven out of the U. S. army by a stupid superior officer. The latter is sent to Siberia with an American regiment—“nominally allies of the Whites,” to protect the “people” TUNING IN | Station WJZ wil conduct a re- broadcast of 20 foreign countries today from 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. aaa ia TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 F, M,—Roxanne Wallace, Songs; Southernaires Quartet 1:18—Bily Bachelor—Sketch 30—Cireus Days—Sketch Goldber, 8:00-—Concert Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Revelers Quartet; Sports — Grantland Rice 9:00—Pred Allen, Comedian; Grofe Orch. 9:30—Lee Wiley's Songs; Young Orch. 10:00--First Nighter Drama ; Presents—Cast Chorus of Murder at the Vanities, Bela Lugosi, and Others - WOR—710 Ke T1S—Swit d Prick tehboard Seere!s-~Sketch 1:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch TAK-AL and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo; John —— Black and Slue—Mystery 2:15—Billle Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30—Dramstixed News. _ :4$—Willile Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, rand 9:00—Variety Musicale 10:00-—-Blubber Bergman-—Sketch 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Read 10:30-—Estelle Liebling’s Masik Shoppe 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams Trio 7:00 PB. Thrown to the Lions RHUMMP! TAI 1S Q PECULIAR CASE- ON THE SuRFacKE xr Wourd SUF FICIEN EUIDENCE -@PPEAR THAT THE DEFENDANT HAS PROVED THINGS = 11:30—Nelson Orch. 12:00—Lane Oreh. WJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos "n’ Andy 7:15—Three Musketeers, Sketch 7:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch 7:45—Talk—Irene Rich 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Sos 10:00—The Iron ‘Master—Bennett Chappell, Nat rrator 10:30—Labor’s Tribute to Radio City 11:00—John Fogarty, Tenor 12:15 A. M.—Same as WEAP WABC—260 Ke 1:00 P. M—Myrt and Mace 5—Just Plain Bill—sketeh 0—Travelers Ensembie ‘7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—-Green Orch.: Men About Town Trio; ‘Vivian Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—-Edwin ©. Hill 8:30—Mareh of Time 9:00—Irving 8. Cobb, Stories; Goodman ch. Orch. 9:15-—Tommy McLaughlin, Baritone; Kos- telanetz Orch.; Vera Van, Songs 9:30-—All-American Pootbail Show, With Christy Walsh; Speaker, Dana X. Bible, Coach at Nebraska 10:00--Olsen and..Johnson, Comedians; Sos- nick Oreh. 10:30-—News Bulletins 10:45—Symphonic Strings 11:15-—Boswell Sisters, Songs 11;30—Jones Orch, .. ee Ore | 12:39 A. M.—"" yes Ore! 1:00—Hopkins. Oroh, opaganda in against the “plundering Reds.” The Bolsheviks attack and are about to smash the American forces, when— Our American hero who joined the White army, leads a band of Sos- sack cavalry to the rescue, and wipes out the Bosheviks. “The White Eagle,” by Jack All- | |man (Argosy, Nov. 11-18, 1933), is an | up-to-the-minute story of an Ameri- can round-the-world flyer, who, fol- lowing the air trail of Post, is across Siberia when his feed line breaks. | Warned not to fly over Russla by the Soviet gcvernment — apparently | because he had ved with Wran- gel’s White army in the civil war— he fears the “dreaded hand of the} Gay pay oo.” He crashes. j When he opens his eyes he sees: | “An ikon here in a military establish- | ment! Why, it was the army that} had destroyed the churches; that had | punished people for professing rell- | gion. Perhaps these people were 50) far from the seat of things that they} had yet to feel the iron hand of) Sovict law! ... No! Impossib’e! The |army was the Red Rule!” (Wh: propavanda in “entertaining” tion!) He has been rescucd by a gar- | rison of White so'diers who are p’an-| | ning a Siberian revolution. The vil- lain, a Gay-pay 00, is in the hidden { outpest, and conspires against the} hero and the beautiful daughter of the White general. Captured by the | Bolsheviks, the American aviator out- wits them all, escaping with the Russ- ian princess for his bride. In the last pages the White general goes bravely to his death, an indomitable figure to the last. (Curtain.) These stories be’ong in the same category as the libelous novels by S, Andrew Wood (in “Blue Book”) | which contain direct slanders against Lenin and Stalin, and the defamatory | tales by F. Britten Austin (in the “Saturday Evening Pest”) which are full of attacks upon the Russian} people, AH of these stories are not} only reflections of anti-Soviet pro-/| paganda but instruments in spread- | | ing such calumny. Revere, Mass. LECTURE by Dr. 8. Pavio on “What Tf Saw on the Soviet Union” on Fr: tay 17 et 8 p.m. at 105 Shirely Ave. Adm, 100, Cleveland DANCE and Entertainment at Oak Pythian ‘Temple, 706 E. 105th St. on Saturday Nov. 18, Auspices, Clevelani Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fasesim, BUT, Tats .courr WILL ALLOW THE TURY To DECIDE THAT NOTION; DENIED. by QUuIRT | j1 will grow Page Five Soviet Shock Workers Speak I Kolhoznik T am kolhoznik member of farm cooperative, farmer, I. What lost in sixteen years?— you ask. Lost— living with the pigs and gost and chickens roosting, on the pots and pans,— lost, the barons and the counts, | and whips the cossacks hurled— lost, mine my own, but gained big land — yes, lost the landlord, but not the land. Obstacles we found, and memories by failure stung,— preparing soil for our abundant winnings.— I was one horse and a plough in the field.— But today in the morning. we Were seven teams, ploughing one big field That’s a winning— and we were singing: — tiny field tiny mind big field big mind.— I want, I want a big mind— tools, tractors, big mind My voice I found.— I want Isee Tread T talk I write I learn— lose _chains,— big space I found. I move, believe my voice.— I hear it speaking to you. That's new out there where it carries, our world to subdue.— I believe it grow to be a man— T on the land A MAN. By JOHN BOVINGDON will be. | | Mother of Three Sixteen years ago, | was » girl, standing st 8 loom,— | lived in 6 basement, | two families—twelve in 3 room, Can you hear me comrades?— T have a stake in life in myself, |in you. | "Twas lead in my breast | now my heart is pumping. | The future— | ® black roof close te the ground:— |now sky smiles, | I blossom in the spring. | You see— the collective is mine factory ming | the loan we gave to, is mine; |plan mine— society, iu | and our mistakes, mine. q |New rights are beautiful and mine. With comrades, we inventions test, and losses stem; on black sea, rest, | where workers sing.— I may have children and not be sad, te gaze on them — | mine . } the right to master everything. | I study dancing, at our garden of rest and plex, | and color scheming, | at the evening technicam— Seven hours | is the factory day— | Jong distance we have come This head hands, this body eyes, f, | Mother of three—changing, growing laugh with the skies— | Was born sixteen summers ago. it seems to me. future's sign, WHAT'S ON Friday DANCE and entertainment at New Webster Manoz, 185 E. 11th St. given by United Front Supporters Ed Newhouse, Master of Ceremonies. Excellent Program. Admis- sion 50c in advance; 75¢ at door. DR. PAUL LUTTINGER will speak on “How to Choose Your Mate” at the Ne- tional Students Lexgue, new headquarters, 114 W. th St. at 8 pm. Adm. 300. LECTURE by Phil Rehv at the Clarte, 304 W. 58th St. at 9 p.m. Auspices of the October Club. SYMPOSIUM on Proletarian Art by mem- | bers of the John Reed Club at Prospect Workers Center, 1157 8. Boulevard, Bronx. UNUSUAL Concert by Henry Cowell, com- poser and pianist at Pierre Dezeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. at 8:15 p.m. sharp, Ad- mission 35¢; with this notice 25, Dis- cussion of content. EDWARD DAHLBERG will lecture on “Hitler's Germany” at Harlem Progressive ‘Youth Club, 1538 Madison Avenue. CHARLES WEISENBERG, instructor of chentical engineering, Cooper Union, will speak on “Chemical Werfare—Hero of the Coming War” at the American Youth Fed- eration, 20 St. Marks Place. Adm. 10c. ANTI-HITLER Protest Meeting at Brook- lyn Academy of Music, Lafayete Avenue, under auspices of New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism and LL.D., Jullo Mella Branch. Speakers, David Levin- son, Walter Orloff, Herbert Klein and Rabbi Goldstein. Adm. ‘150. MARX-LENIN Exhibition and lecture by Comrade Wicks at Bronwsville Youth Cen- ter, 105 Thatford Ave. Exhibit all day; lecture at 8:30 p.m. LECTURE on “Current Trends tn Amer- ican Literature” by Joshua Kunitz at New ots Workers Club, 578 Stone Ave., Brook- “LECTURE on “War and Literature” by Comrade Briggs at Brownsville Shoe Cen- | ter, 527 Hopkins Ave. SYMPOSIUM on “Soviet Diplomacy”. Speakers, Joseph Arch and Julius Carstein at Nonbette Cafeteria Annex, 3082 E. 6th St., Brighton Beach. Auspices F.8.U. Ocean Side Br. WILLIAMSBURG F.5.U. presents Susan Woodruff, lecture on “What I Saw in the | Soviet Union’ illustrated with slides at 207 | 8. 5th Str a | REGULAR ot tho Daily Work e place at 35 E. 32th § ve, of the Daily , will speak portance of the Press in the Re Movement tor | | Saturday PREIREIT Gevang Parein Wleventh An- nual Concert st City College, 28rd Bt. end Lexington Ave. at 8:30 p.m. 250 singers Presenting oratorio “Geviter” (Storm), muste by Jacob Schaeffer, assisted by Symphony HOUSEWARMING PARTY at Germa: Workers Club, 79 HB 10th &t., 2nd floor Music and Dancing. Mex Bedacht speaker GRAND BAZAAR and Entertainment, Pri Saturday and Sunday at 4109 15th Ave.. Brooklyn. Adm. free. CELEBRATION of the 16th Anniversarr of the Soviet Union at Savoy Mansion, 6220 20th Ave., Brooklyn. Auspiees Units 10 and 7 and Y.0.L. Dancing and entertainment, Sam_Nessin, 5 ENTERT! and Dance at Laf- ayette Hall, 165 W. 13ist St. Benefit Har- lem Lfberator and Daily Worker, Adm. 150 in edvance and 30¢ st door. Auspices Unis DANCING every Saturdsy evening at the Pelham Parkway Workers Club, 2179-A White PlainsY Road. Subscription 20c. NATIONAL Student League String Quartet Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikowsky, at 114 W. 14th St. at 8:30 p.m. Adm. 20c. HINDOO from Bombay, India, first time in New York. Also 4 Hawaiian guitar pley- ers, dancing till 2 a.m. at 1538 Madison Ave., gyven by Meerut Br. LL.D. Adm. 25c. DANCE and Entertainment given by Edith Berkman Br. LL.D. at 1204 Southern Bird Bronx. Music by Brown Revellers, Workers Lab. Theatre. Mandolin Orchestra. CONCERT, Mustc, Song at 2709 Mermaié Ave, corner 27th St., Coney Island. Aus- pices Brighton Beach and Coney Island Shoe Center. CHOW MEIN and Housewarming Party, musical program. Dancing. Steve Katovis Br. LL.D., 15 ¥. 3rd St. Adm. 10c. GALA DANCE and Party given by Unit 11, 12, Sec. 15, ¥.C.L. at Cooperative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East. Hot Jazz Band. Adm. 16c. WEEKLY Dance and Entertainment, Ne- kro Jazz Band. Dance contest givea by American Youth Federation, 20 6t. Marks Place. Adm. 25c. | Lawrence, Mass. BANQUET and Dance at Loomfixers Ral! Margin St., Saturday Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. Admission 50c Philadelphia HARRY F. WARD, Union will lecture ¢ “What We Can Soviet on" on Friday at Lailadelphia Labor cust Street. E Ted R is on Friday, Nov. 4 17 at 8 p.m. at 1829 8. Sth St, Auspices Nat Turner Br. LL.D. ‘Theological CHORAL. Conducting Class under Schaef: | i } fer and Adi n meets Priday at 8:30 p. | Chicago m. at 5 arch group | DA. given by Workers Bx-Servicomen's meets with M tral Park West | League, Post 49, on Saturday Noy. 18 at at 11 am. 8} 11815 W. Division St. Adm. 35¢. é en ALEI -HiACME T | SHOLOM CHEM’S Yiddish Dialogue—English Titles : “The Moscow Art Theatre actors caught the exsential spirit of Sholom Alcichem’s representations.” — Daily an AMERSOON FSM OF NEW SOVIET PILOE | “LAUGHTER |j THROUGH TEARS” Worker. 14th STREET and= UNION SQUARE HEATRE -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL-); SHOW PLACE of the NATION | Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M. ||| KATHARINE HEPBURN in “UITTLE WOMEN” | Joan Bennett Paot Lukas Frances Dee an unusaal “Roxy” stage sbow |]! | ai 3Se to 1 p.m.—5Se to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) ||) RKO Greater Show Season -. | 88° Jefferson 1s 3 | Now MADGE EVANS and OTTO KRUGER in | “BEAUTY FOR SALE” | also: “HEADLINE SHOOTER” with WILLIAN GARGAN and FRANCES DEE Scott Nearing Will lecture on CURRENT EVENTS Fridays BEGINNING NOV. 17th, at 7 pm, at Institute Forum, Irving Plaza—17 Irving Place. Admission 25¢ Tel. CL, 2-1700 JOE COOK in i fold YOUR HORSES& A Musieal Runa ” Winter Garden Tharsday and Satur EN MI NUTE ALIBI Melodrama, herewith recommended the highest terms.”—Sun. ETHEL BARRYMORE THEA. W. 47th Eves, 8.49. Mats, Toes, Wi THE LD ent. EUGENE O'NEILL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M, COBAN Bz MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITH MUSIC The School for Husbands with Osgood PERKINS—June WAUKER EMPIRE Thea., Bway & 40 St.Ev. 8.40Mats. Thurs. &Sat.2.50 PEN AND HAMMER, 114 W. 2st St. WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 50 F. 18th St. JOHN REED CLUB, 430 Sixth Ave. NATIONAL STUDENTS LEAGUE, 583 Sixth Ave, TONIGHT ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE given by the United Front Supporters at NEW WEBSTER MANOR, 125 East 11th Street Program: Anastasia Rabinoff, prominent Russian Soprano; Ked ————Tickets on Sale at-——— Tickets in Advance 50c; at the door 75¢ ENTIRE PROCEEDS FOR THE DAILY WORKER! HARLEM WORKERS SCTIOOL, 300 Ww. unt 135th St. ¥ BARLEM LIBERATOR, %162 Avenae.