The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1933, Page 5

j WORLD! By Joseph Freeman RITING to Romain Rolland on Jan. 1, 1928, Maxim Gorki explained the state of Soviet Hterature at a time when it was alleged to be the victim of a “literary inquisition.” They are writing to you,” Gorki said, “that there is no longer any literature in Russia. What an odd assertion! I am amazed at the abun- dance of young authors. At the present maoment there are hundreds of writers in Russia; their number is rapidly increasing, which I can explain only by*the giftedness of my people as a whole. The Russian people are at last beginning to realize their ‘I, their value, and their right to a free expression of their creative powers in all the fields of life. “This year has brought forth several notable writers, who give great promises. Namely, Fadeyev, author of the novel The Ninefeen; Leonid Borisov,.Nina Smirnova, the poet N. Tikhonov, who has written an ex- cellent book 4 “There are such talented writers as Leonid Leonoy, Babel, Vsevolod Ivanov—who is now editing the monthly Krasmaya Nov, although he is not a Communist. They have all won prominence, as have also Konstantin Fedin, Vladimir Lidin, Boris Pilnyak, Sergey Semenov, a workman. en- dowed with an original talent who is under the influence of Knut Ham- sun. Zoschenko is dissipating himself in short sketches, which does not in the least diminish his talent; there Is no doubt that he will gradually pass from humor to satire. Side by side with him stands Katayev, author of the Embezzlers, a story written in Gogol’s manner. I note the rapid growth of Alexander Yakovlev, Kaverin. 5 “Tt is difficult for me to enumerate to you all those who deserve. not only mention, but praise. * * * “ \ MONG the non-revolutionary writers I may mention Sergeyev-Tsensky, Michael Prishvin, Konstantin Trenev, Nikandroff, Veresayev, Ivan Volnov, Olga Forsh, Alexey Chapigyn (who has recently published a mag- nificent novel, “Stepan Razin”), the poet Sergey Klychkov—all of them working very, very successfully, Alexey Tolstoy is wrifing with zeal, as ever a splendid narrator, Ivan Novikov has just published a volume of tales. “In my opinion, two exceptional masters stand today at the head of Russian literature: Sergeyev-Tsensky and Mikhail Prishvin. .. . “It is quite possible, it is even certain, that I have forgotten to men- tion to you a number of gifted writers. I have not had the time to read them all. I am afraid to weary you by an enumeration of the writers who contribute to the review Siberian Lights, among whom there are very capable men. “Nor have I spoken about the poets, in whose midst there are many prominent ones, like Pasternak, Tikhonov, Aseyev, Zharov, Kazin, Sel- vinsky, Oreshin, and others. “Whole new literatures are being created by the peoples of the Cau- casus, the Circasians and Ossets, also by the Tatars of Kazan. “YES, THERE IS A FINE LITERATURE LIVING AND GROWING IN PRESENT DAY RUSSIA. ADMIRING IT, I AM GRIEVED BY THE FACT. THAT EUROPE PAYS SO LITTLE ATTENTION TO THIS GREAT MOVEMENT, TO THESE CREATIVE FORCES, THAT IT SO DILIGENTLY AND WITH SO MUCH ENMITY SEARCHES FOR EVIL THINGS IN RUSSIA, OVERLOOKING THE GOOD THINGS. “Undoubtedly (and this I admit), the quantity of good things exist- ing there is insufficient, considering that it is a country of 150,000,000 people, But one must not forget that it is only ten years since the Russian people conquered with one stroke the cultural heights and conceived a thirst for culture. Russia already has villages of 140 inhabitants who sub- scribe to 32 periodicals. Newspapers, magazines, popular brochures on scientific questions, are appearing in thousands of copies. I am convinced that hundreds of prose and verse writers, who are now just beginning their literary career, will, in five or ten years become brilliant stylists.” * * * i of the most striking aspects of Gorki’s letter is that im his descrip- * tion of a new and vital literature, he mentions writers the majority of whom were in conflict with RAPP. It would appear, then, that whatever “mistakes RAPP made, these did not result in the alleged “veritable death- valley desert.” For even the most casual glance of the Soviet press in 1930—the “exact mathematical center” of the alleged “literary inquisition”—will show that fellow-travellers, opponents and “victims” of RAPP, continued to be ~ published by the State Publishing House, to be read by Soviet citizens, and -to be praised by Soviet critics not affiliated with RAPP. 3 At that “exact mathematical center of the time” in which “the po- litical inquisition was (allegedly) so rabid that loyal revolutionists dared not even discuss whether a work of art possessed talent or not, or so much as mention the question of form above a whisper”—in that blood-curdling period the State Publishing House issued the works of fellow-travellers particularly distasteful to RAPP. I-note hastily in the Soviet press that 1930 was the year of publica~ tion of Leonid Leonov’s Sot (translated in English as “Soviet River); ‘Marietta Shaginyan’s Hydrocentral; Olga Forsch’s The Mad Ship; Yuri ‘Yanovsky’s Blood of the Earth; Ivan Katayev's The Heart; J. Nikiforov’s The Woman; Gorbunov’s Breaking Ice; and Boris Pilnyak’s The Volga Flows to the Caspian Sea. In poetry the latitude, from RAPP’s viewpoint, was equally striking; for in the period of the “exact mathematical cénter” there appear among hers books by such anti-RAPP poets as Boris Pasternak, Ilya Sel- vinsky and Antokolsky. * * * THE same “death-valley desert” thefe appear Malyshkin’s Sevastopol: Boris Pasternak’s A Novel; Michael Prishvin's .S8versky’s History of My Life, as well as Chapigin’s My Life. In that “literary inquisition” where no one “even dared” discuss talent or form, Boris Pasternak was publishing an autobiographical work entitled Credentials, showing his development under the influence of Scriabin’s music and Reiner Maria Rilke’s poetry; and numerous other writers dis- cussed talent and form not only in Soviet literature, but in European and American literature. Indeed, one of the most striking aspects of Soviet literary life is the attention it pays to foreign literature, not only from the viewpoint of “ideology” but also from the viewpoint of technique. There is not a school in Europe or America so obscure that Soviet literary scholars have not studied it. And whether or not one agrees with their ideas on “talent” and “form,” only a frenzied partizan could say that Soviet writers dare not “even discuss” them. _ In the fragmentary list above, chosen at random, the reader will note vthe repeated occurrence of the name of Boris Pasternak—an extremely sensitive and gifted poet who never called himself a “proletarian writer,” whom RAPP attacked, who yet continued to create and to publish pro- lifically. Pasternak is noted not only for his unusual talent, but for his unusual preoccupation with form. Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist competition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob * Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: + 2.00 TWO TO OME CARTIN | IS CONVICTED, BUD! FZ 473.16 | SOVIET Comedy 16 GOING To GE CONVICTED DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933 CLOSE-UPS | By LENS To Mr. William Troy: | on the Harry Alan Potamkin Film acknowledge our existence and to take | the trouble of a bit of editorial com- | FLASHES and Brownsville Will Open Own » “Peace on = ; School January 1st ee NEW YORK.—Following the recent, Browns: Workers opening of the Harlem Workers| - | School, @ second section school is to} step, especiz I've just read your long paragraph | open within a short time in the New/that many Brownsville workers were | York District, according to recent/kept out of the New York Worker: School in the November 22 issue of | announcements. This is to be the | School on account of fare, travelling The Nation. Thanks for the space.| Brownsyille Workers School, sched-|time, etc. and.now will be abl You were the only critic in town to|uled td hold its first session on Jan.| avail themselves of the training they 2, 1934. | The Brownsville section of Brook-| ment. That's very brave of you, Mr. | lyn, with its 500,000 population, which | dents will take om or more of the im- | Troy, condescending to discuss the | includes the second largest Negro cen-| Portant courses: given. The program founding of an institution which, as|ter ef population in Greater New \far as I know, is unique not only in| York, has been the scene of many America, but in the whole capitalist | Struggles of unemployed, as well as of | world. You know your colleagues, the Cohens, Halls and Delehantys better | than I do. Tell me, do they really | hate us so, or are they simply too! |cowardly to commit themselves? | Permit me, however, to set you straight on some of the things you | say about us, “The founding of such | @ school in this country,” you say, “was suggested by the success and | prestige of the great academy of the Screen in Moscow, whose faculty is | | made up of the greatest names in| Russian directing, etc... .” The| |founding of our school was “suggest- jed” not, as you say, by the “suc- cess and prestige of the great aca- |demy of the screen in Moscow,” but by the immediately urgent need to develop trained cadres of critics, scenarists, cameramen and directors to combat the monster Hollywood reactionary propaganda machine. We are in a terrible hurry to do this be- cause the revolutionary film move- ment is very weak in this country where the capitalist movie is the most powerful in the world. We are not imitating, Mr. Troy. We are cre- ating. And aside from Ralph Stein- er, the healthiest and most sincere artist in the “avyant-guarde” of the bourgeois cinema and photo, you can- not find the name of a single “great” director in our faculty. Is that im- portant for us? Give us another 12 months. It is also naive in the extreme to say that “the Workers School will undoubtedly follow to a large extent the “Plan for a Film School” out- lined by its namesake some months before his death and published in the current Hound and Horn. Potam- kin’s school “would provide a com- plete training in the arts and sciences of the cinema for students profes- sionally interested in the films. A degree from the school would be an equivalent of a Bachelor cf Science from an established college.” For the benefit of those readers of The Na- tion whom this fantastic supposition has grossly misinformed, it must be clearly and definitely stated here that the Potamkin Film School is neither particularly interested in “students Professionally interested in the film” nor do we intend to issue degrees. Our student body is at present com- posed of workers and intellectuals who have pledged to become active par- ticipants in the work of the Film and Photo League upon completion of their studies (a five-months course). Their League membership books will be their “degrees.” Our school bears the name of Harry Alan Potamkin because he pioneered in the field of revolutionary cinema criticism in Am- erica and not because he outlined a sketchy plan for a film “school as an adjunct to some large university,” which your statement seems to imply. sign os You state that the “possibility that a school which has the workers’ interests so much at heart will be tempted, in its study and practice of the new art, to ignore much that is not immediately concerned with those interests. This is a danger that can be avoided if it will only be} recognized that the Soviet film has/ become increasingly less effective, both as propaganda and as art, as it hhas become more direct and explicit in expressing its motives.” We shall, Mr. Troy, do our utmost to be as “explicit and direct” as possible in “expressing our motives.” We shall make a major virtue of this “weak- ness” that you ascribe to the Soviet film. HOW RARELY I HEAR YOU SCOLD HOLLYWOOD FOR BEING TOO “DIRECT AND EXPLICIT IN EXPRESSING ITS (ANTI WORK- ING-CLASS) MOTIVES!” But the} Soviet film! Ah, there’s your villain! The big bad wolf threatening the poor little pigs of the bourgeois film world! Can you really mean it when you say that you would like to see our School turn out “more perfectly re- alized expressions of experience” rather than “logical and convincing arguments in celluloid?” I notice in the same column in which you dis- cuss our School that you shower lav- ish praise on Hollywood’s “Prize- fighter and the Lady.” If that is your idea of a “perfectly realized ex- pression of experience,” then I feel no harm will come to us if we take your questionable advice with a grain of salt and continue our efforts on the road towards a really effective strikes of metal, textile and other worker: The newly-organized shop groups, union locals, workers’ clubs, etc., as well as the older organizations in- cluding the Communist Party and the Young Communist League units, do- ing their bit to draw the workers of | the section into the revolutionary | movement, have often expressed their | conviction that they could do a great deal more, and better, work if they | were given the opportunity to develop their most militant members by giv- ing them a Marxist-Leninist train- ing. For this reason, the opening of a | local branch of the Workers School, shoe, { ” ville extremely tion Commitiee, is an important and welcome 'y in view of the fact A New Critical Study of D. H. Lawrence By OBED BROOKS PILGRIM OF THE APOCALYPSE: | ues, different 8 A Critical Study of D, H. Lawrence, | equally vital, r to by Horace Gregory. The Viking| Gregory takes his e inter’ | Press, New York. 1933. $1.00. |ley against the a s and jana | Pee ee ists the Hound and D Tt is expected that at least 400 stu- | Cer ype ey ae! ‘eget includes classes in Principles of Com- munism, Po! Marxism, Tr Class Forces in American History, Public Speaking, English A and B, ond many others. The Section, Committee is negotiat- ing to obtain a large and spacious hall for the school. With the help of the “Build the Brownsville Workers School Club,” which meets every | Thursday at 8 pm. at 1813 Pitkin Ave., it is sure to secure such a hall, al Economy A and B, de. Union Problet Millicent Green, who plays the girl striker in the new anti-war play, meetings of the “Build the Browns- ville Workers School Club,” and ac- tively encourag® their members to Stage and Screen of D. H. Law-|and T. 8. Eliot's Criterion. But it e fire—|seems to me that in their attacks on Phoenix- | Marxism those on the extreme right Phere is in the work le to form or| In this he is amost alone mong the great bourgeois writers of | ave said very much what Gi implies in Pilgrim of the Apc that the artist’s first concern is BOTY is period. With men like Proust and | spiritual revolution, that change must Joyce we can feel that a process has] Proceed outward from the individual worked itself out to a conclusion.| The conservatives go on from that hat they give us is valuable as|t© Make allegiance to a mass mov th an economic it y they have lost the power to | infl 19 | ce us, to change us. But the |cnough by most of the principles of bourgeois-Romantic their predeces- Tulous and insistent demands that |@s well as other technical necessities,| “Peace on Earth,” which opens to- | L: made have an _ active | SOrs. before the term begins. night at the Civic Repertory He himself could not satis- Every Brownsville working class or- | Theatre. nem; they cannot be satisfied at ganization is urp to elect three | it n our present society, But they delegates to the ursday evening en @ response. We recognize | their validity jcome to 1813 Pitkin Ave., to register | under the direct guidance of the|for classes. - Registration opens ’ film movement in America| 12: Central Workers School and the Thursday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. MUSIC Albert Spaulding Soloist With Philharmonic Thursday Albert Spaulding, violinist, will be the soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall this Thursday evening and Friday after- noon under the direction of Bruno Walter. The program includes Mo- zart’s Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major and the Violin Concerto No. 4 in D-major; Chausson’s “Poeme” and Respighi's “Church Windows” (Four Symphonic Impressions). The Philharmonic program on Sun- day afternoon at Carnegie will in- clude Franck’s Symphony in D-minor; Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and “Church Windows” by Respighi. | Lydia de Rivera, Cuban soprano,| Workers School Plans “‘fford Odets, will be Frank Mer- to Open on December 2 will give a program of Spanish and Pan-American songs at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. Ruth St. Denis will give a lecture- | recital this Saturday evening at the Washington High School under the auspices of the Students’ Dance Recitals, Series of Lectures on Soviet | Drama at the New School NEW YORK—The first of two lec- tures on the drama of the Soviet Union will be given by Anita Block, playreader for the ‘Theatre Guild, at the New School for Social Restarch, 66 West 12th Street, tonight, at 8:20. The plays to be considered have @il had Moscow production and most of them have been very great successes there. These plays of the new Rus- sia, while largely so-called prop- aganda drama, are nevertheless among the most interesting and vital plays being written in the world today. Mrs. Block will lay special stress on | the difference between current Hitler | propaganda drama in Germany and Communist drama in Russia. The second lecture on Rusia drama will be given on Wednesday evening, Dec. 6. GIVES EARNINGS TO “DAILY” TACOMA, Wash—R. C. Strout, who sells revolutionary publications | here, will give all his profits of sales 3-Cornered Symposium | on War and Fascism Is Planned for Dec. 8th NEW YORK.—A_ three-cornered|on Earth,” an anti-war play by|cxamine his work rather than his | Theatre Union Opens Season Tonight With Earth” At Civic Repertory The Theatre Union, a new group organized to present working-class | alays with professional players, will epen their season this evening at the | Civic Repertory Theatre with “Peace | “Peace On |* people trying to reveal the essen d in Horace Gres to find that he has, in ed this challenge in Pil- Apocalypse. Gregory says, in ini uction, that since Lawrence’s perso! ity threatens to obscure his literary intentions, it is important to grim of the symposium onthe “Menace of War | George Sklar and Albert Maltz. The | lize, and deal with it “as one might | authors will be recalled for their|cdeal with the remains of any other | with the decadence of the bourgeoisie “Merry-Go-Round,” a forceful play | major Romantic poet.” He describes | whom he hated in another way, and end Fascism” wes announced here by | the American ‘League Against War | and Fascism, With Jchn Strachey, | Fenner Brockway, and Rabbi Israel Goldstein as participants. | The symposium will take place | Friday evening, Dec. 8, at the Mecca | Temple, and tickets can be secured at the headqWarters of the American | League Against War and Fascism, | 104 Fifth Ave., Room 1610. All tickets | are reserved. | Southern California HOLLYWOOD, Calif—The South. ern California sub-district Party | School will start Dec. 2. This will | be a full-time week-end school, with four instructors, leading comrades in the sub-district, teaching two sub- jects: Fundamentals of Communism | and Political Economy, and Principles of Party Organization and Trade Union Tactics. The school will be held at 1737 N. Highland Ave. | The rapid rise in membership in | the Southern California section | makes the rapid training of new | workers necessary, and section buros | and mass organizations are assigning | their most promising new forces to of corruption and crooked politics and | politicians which was presented last | season at the Provincetown Playhouse | and later at the Avon Theatre. The large cast includes Robert Keith, Millicent Green, Ethel Introp- tdi, Victor Kilian, Caroline New- combe, Halliam Bosworth, Thomas | Coffin Cooke, Clyde Franklin, and Walter Vonnegut. The play, which is in some seventy scenes, was staged by Robert Sinclair and has settings by Cleon Throckmorton. “Awake and Sing,” a new play by lin’s second production of the season, opening at the Little Theatre in De- cember. “Tobacco Road,” a dramatization by Jack Kirkland of the novel by Erskine Caldwell is announced for next Monday night at the Masque Theatre. Henry Hull will play the principal role. WHAT’S ON Wednesday Manhattan | OFFICE Workers Union Sixth Annual Dancs at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second} Ave. Negro Jazz Band. Refreshments, en- tertainment. Adm. in advance 35c; at door 400, DANCE given by the Youth Section LW.O. to celebrate opennig of new Harlem Cen- jthe means of exciting revolutionary young writer breaking out of the im pastures of Georgian verse, but nding successful expression for the fragmentary and highly personal im- pulses of his early verse only in the novels. Then at the end of his life, | after periods of preaching and bit- terness, Lawrence attained in his last | poems “the strength of complete it personality . salvation throug! the mere act of creation.” Gregory purpose is primarily clarification this progress, a relation of the parts to the whole, an attempt to find po- etic coherence in a very protean} career. As such the book is a valuable guide for those who have read or are going to read most of Lawrence's work, But it is impossible, of course, even in such terms, to give a neutral treat- ment of a man like Lawrence. Greg- ory’s position is here implicitly what it was explicitly in his recent article on Shelley and Romanticism in the New Republic. Gregory prizes Law-| rence for his “reassertion of man’s creative spirit,” and for that reason | makes Lawrence’s Apocalypse a docu- ment of first importance. In the| article in the New Republic Gregory | said of Shelley, “The instrument that | he used was poetry which reasserted at every step the indestructability of the human spirit, which in itself is c action.” And he complained at the | Because of this assertiveness, be- Although of the success with which he 90 easily de his life symbolic, most of the a genteel and mother, he hated the class into which he was born and which his father represented. But he never felt free of coal-miner father it, and was always aware of the strength of its people as compared felt ill at ease. reappears in with whom he al His father constan’ |his work as the symbol of animal vi- rility. Lawrence longed for the de. struction of classes, but always through liberation of the individuel spirit. He thought that if men could realize their own powers, they would appreciate the powers of er | men, would gain strength from them. end follow them as Fuhrers in free functional society mentation or political aw saw mass movements merely as cumulated weakness, spiritually structive. men like Lenin,” Law- rence wrote in Apocalypse, “is a 2) 2 mean, unutterably bare, stripped, miserable and humiliated.” The Book of Revelations is for him the religi- ous counterpart of Communism, a gospel of second-rate minds with the imagery of Bethels and Salvation Armies, promising the weak tyranny and power. In his opposition to intellect and authority, his struggle for “the phal- lic reality as ag: tt the non-phallic cerebration unreal .” Lawrence ex- presses another tendency in Roman~ ticism, the glorification of natural impulse, the elan vital, the subcon- scious, the blood-stream. This is a source of strength and weakness. Lawrence has been able to cescribe for one week to the Daily Worker $40,000 drive. attend. the school: ter, at 415 Lenox Ave. corner 13ist 8t. To Show Soviet Film | Dramatics, entertainment and refreshments, | Adm. with tafs clipping 25¢; at door 35c. in Chicago, Dec. Ist “Scr seni “Sut ‘in “ae |Last Insult” given by the H. A: Potamkin CHICAGO.—The first showing of | Youth Br. and Yorkville Br. F.6.U. at La- “ . bor Temple, 243 E. Bith St. 15; the Soviet film, “The Festival of St. | chitaren with parents free. Jorgen,” will take place at the Hun-| CLARTE, 304 W. 55th St. conference in garian Workers’ Hall, 1632 Mil-| French by J. Debrus on “La France et} waukee Ave. (near North and Da- | !’Allemagne 15-ans-apres-L’Armistice” at | men), on Friday, Dec. 1, at 7 and) ‘THe DAILY WORKER Cho: 3 pm. | ing the opening of new he: The film will be shown for the| % © St. on the 5th benefit. of the Chicago Workers’) ec ee See oe Adm. celebrat~ School, 2822 .S,. Michigan Ave., to) ment given Workers Union, raise funds for: the winter term,| at Park Palace, 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Q-piece Jullo Mella Orchestra. Adm. 38¢ in which will open.on Dec. 18, Every dollar you send to the Daily Worker is a blow in the face of Fascism. BI nksgiving Nite given b Theatre Club Theatre of Action at 4! E. 12th St. at 8:30 p.m. New plays, enter tainment, dramatic dances and a dance | j orchestra. ‘THE REGINALD GOODE PLAYERS of th: | TUNING IN one-act plays, “The Taming of the Shrew,” | “Thank You, Doctor” and “Jitters” to be} followed by party and dance. Young America Institute, Steinway Hall, 113 W. | Sith St., at 8:30 p.m. | THE FOLLOWERS of Nature Club will) | | Provincetown ‘Theatre will present three/ | | : Stuyves n art Reunion Festivel ‘Well a , 142 Ind Ave. TONIGHTS PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke | 7:00 P. M.—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters ‘Trio ri 1:18—Billy Bachelor—Sketeh. 0—Lum and Abner 45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 00—Bert Lahr, Comedian; Olsen Oreh. 0—Frank Munn, Tenor; Lyman Orch. 00—Troubadours Orch.; Elissa Landi, Actress ‘30-—-Phil Duey, Baritone; Reisman Orch. ‘00—Hilibilly Musio 10:30—The Home Owners Loan Corporation John H. Fahey, Chairman Federal Home Loan Bank Board 11:00—Family Welfare Committee, Thanks- giving Eve Program; Speaker, Dudiey Field Malone, Lawyer; Frank Luther, ‘Tenor; Drane Sisters, Songs 11:30—Bestor Orch. workers’ “immediately concerned” own class interests. Philadelphia “WHAT is the best way to fight Hitler- ism” will be the sym with its LENS. FOURTH Annual Ball given by the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union on Dec. 1 at Ambassador Hall, Broad and Columbia Avenue. Milwaukee will be shown at Hun- 1632 Milwaukee Ave. garian Workers Hell, om Dec. 1 at 7 and ® p.n. ME MISTER! GE's Betting? Not Against the Workers! '30-—A New Deal on Main Street—Sk ‘00—Metropelitan Revue 10:00—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor 10:15—Ourrent Events—Harlan Bugene Reac 10:30—Jack Arthur, Baritone 10:45—Pauline Alpert, Piano 11:00—Same as WEAP 11:30—Cott Orch. 12:00—Childs Orch. HALLO, Paisy Wwarsy ! Listen! L Just Gor A HoT TIP THIS MARTIN GUY IS GONNA GE FREE SEE! wow I GETS You Dance at the West WIZ—760 Ke ers Club, 210 W. 68th St. at 8 p.m. | ntertainment and dancing. Con- 7:00 F. M.—Amor ’n’ Andy tribution 25¢. 7:15—John Herrick, Songs } 7:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch i (Bronx) end that “by ignoring the creative /the irrational and apparently arbi- jfunctions of poetry, critics from the | trary behavior that is so much a part Left have joined with the extreme | of human experience, not only to de- Right in an effort to drive this| scribe it but give it coherence and “|not separate from thei | political | the time, branch of literature into a far corner.” | I think this attitude toward Ro- | manticism is a dangerous one, and | that Lawrence is a good case in | point. Admittedly Romantic poets like | Shelley and the younger Wordsworth | are important to us. Their poetry was | ir moral and convictions, but was inte- | grated with them in what was, for @ revolutionary message. Their ideals of equality, fratern creative individualism, are still ac. ceptable goals, and a challenge to| the bourgeois society that used them | aS ideological weapons in its rise to Power. But we know that these ideals can be realized only in a classless so- ciety, that to make them central at the present time is utopian, and in practise reactionary. In the dialectic of proletarian si le different val- | be us pass Detroit, Mich. THANKSGIVING Dinner and Danee given by the Detroit Workers School at the School Bidg., $23 Erskine St. on Nov, 30 at 8 p.m. far-reaching significance, But in the instability and decadence of Roman. ticism this emphasis is responsible also for the night literature of Joyce and the sur-realists, the perversity and sensuality of our own young W ers. Throughout Lawrence’s rs there is sptance of anger, cruelty and 5 as the necessary accom~ of sex-tenderness and self-realization. In the Fantasia of the Unconscious and Apocalypse there some lism, These arable ae Romantic phenomena to the “heroic” actions and rai national mysti cism of Fascism with the accompany- gz lynch-fervor and pathology, the er occultism of the reversed swastika. Gregory's attitude toward Shelley and Lawrence, his desire to reha- bilitate Romar 1, is @ very na- tural one at this time. It represents a sincere attempt to combine support of a proletarian revolut with aesthetic values that derive from 4 m ‘Admission 15¢. |bourgecis cultural background. But Boston, Mass. |this can be done only by a virtual | WM. L. PATTERSON, MAIN spEaxer—| denial of the effects of class differ~ 7:45—Hollywood—Irene Rich 1 COSTUME BALL given by the Tremont 8:00—The Paper Mars—Sketeh 8:30—Dangerous. Paradise—Sketch 8:45—-Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Warden Lewis E. Lawes in 20,000 ive Club, 862 E, Tremont Ave. at Excellent Jazz Band. Prize for | most attractive costume. ‘THANKSGIVING Festival and Dance in | Gingham and overalis at Cooperative Au- John McCormack, Tenor; Daly Orch. seein From the Air—Sketch ditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East. Auspices | 10:30—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Edward Davies, | ¥-°-U: Unit 9 and 11 Seo. 15. Baritone (Brooklyn) 11:00—Macy and Smale, Songs; Wirges SNTERTAINM tea Danke Cie We er the Edith Be: ir. LL.D. at LW.O. Cen- 11:15—Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30—Madrigueta Orch. 32:00—Calloway “Orch. 12:30 A. M.—King Orch. at 8 p.m. ter, 1373 43rd LECTURE “What's Happening in Cuba” given by tho Social Youth Culture Club at 275 Broadway, at 8:30 p.m, CONCER the Beneftt of the striking WABC—860 Ke Melizer w 0 “ W.LR. headquarters, 421 Btone ms 00 P. M— Magy, and Marge A NEW § film and newsreel will be ‘1:15—Just Plain Bul—sketch shown at Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave. Subscription 15¢. CONCERT and Dance at Workers Hall, * 1720 Kings Highway at 7 p.m. Thursday BLUE BUZZARD Dinner given by the Pel- ham Parkway Workers Club, 2179 White Plains R4. at 6:30 p.m. Pive-course Turkey Dinner at only boc. Red Bank, N. J. BOCTAL for the Denefit of the Scottsboro Boys at the Knights of Pythias Hall, West Bergen Place on Nov. 29th, at 8 p.m. Ad- bission 25¢ Pittsburgh COMMUNIST Party Dist. arranging an In- ternational Concert and Dance on Nov. 30 at 80S James St. N.S. Concert to start at 6 p.m. Dancing st 7 p.m. :15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thibault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch. 9:00—Philadelphia Orch., Leopold Stokow- ski, Conductor. tuetor. 5—-Alexander Woollcott—The Town Crier }0—Lombardo Orch.; Burns and Allen, Chibmen Quartet | ILD Banquet and Dance. International | Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury. Excellent | food, music. Adm, 2c, Including meal— | November 29, 1933. | Chicago | WEST SIDE Youth Club ts holding their | first annual dance and entertainment on | ences in culture, and by putting Marxism culturally, as Edmund Wil- son has tried to do, on a superclass basis. This is not, I believe, a ten- able position, but rather hesitation at @ point from which roads branch ry definitely right and left. Dec 2 at 4004 W. Roosevelt Rd. Adm. 25c. THIRD BIG WEEK “A work of dramatic DAILY “Players offer excellent terizations.”” ACME THEATRE OF NEW SOVIET FID) SHOLOM ALEICHEM’S WORLD TELEGRAM (| SOVIET YIDDISH COMEDY with English Titles, Vth STREET & UNION SQUARE 20¢ MENTS “TAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS” art” | “Am engrossing and an interest- WORKER |!" Sim.” } MORNING FREDKEIT t charac | “Highly amasing screen effort.” N.Y. TIMES 9 to 1 p.m, Exe, Sat., San. & Holidays, Midnite show Sat. THE THEATRE GUILD _ presen EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. CORMAN Thea., 524 St., W. of 7 GUIL) Ev.6.20 Mats. Thar., Fri. Sat. MOLIBRE'’S COMEDY WITH MUSIC The School for Husbands with Osgood PERKINS—June WALKER EMPIRE ‘isistecrvore.asat2.s0 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN Thea., 524 St., W. of Bway Ey.8.30.Mats.Thor.&Sat, 2.30 JOE COOK in Ho? YOUR HORSES A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenes Winter Garden 227 8% ‘Thorsdzy and Saturday at 2:80 ‘On Saturday the Dally Worker has| & pages. Increase your bundle order for Saturday! , > | Rola Banca’ Jefferson ies | KAY FRANCIS and EDW. G. lin “I LOVED A WOMAN” Opens TONIGHT at 8:45 ‘THE THEATRE UNION presents ‘PEACE ON EARTH” & new play by George Sklar & Albert Malts authors of “MERRY-GO-ROUND* Civic Repertory Theatre, 1th St. & 6th Ave. WA, 9-7450. " PRICES: 800 60¢ $1.10, $1.65 YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” Plymouth eg lA 43th St. Evs. 8.40 ROBINSON with BOT und BETTY FURNE! Entertainment & Dance Edith Berkman Branch, E. L. D, WED., NOV. 29, at 8 P. M. Chalk Ta Musio Singing Guest Spea Leonard Patterson L.W.O. Center, 1373 48rd 8t.! Brooklyn, N. ¥. Admission Me a won.