The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 5

WORLD! By Joseph Freeman: it true,as anti-Soviet propagandists assert, thet during the period of SORMAPP's-power (1929-1931), “the political inquisition was so rabid that Joyal revolutionists dared not even discuss whether a work of art possessed talent. or not, or..so much as mention the question of form above s whisper?” ‘The decree of April.23, 1932, dissolved not only RAPP bit ALI, OTHER LITERARY GROUPS. To dissolve ALL OTHER literary groups, means that such groups existed. And the fact 1s, they not only existed but functioned freely, stated their viewpoint, and did not hesitate to attack JRAPP, sometimes even in RAPP’s own organ, Na Literaturnom Poste. ‘This “tfagazine, for instance, long before the dissolution of the lit- etary groups, published an attack on RAPP’s policies by the fellow- ‘waveller Nikiferoy., For this some RAPP extremists accused the magazine | of succumbing to “liberalism.” More than that, the fellow-travellers had their own Stoups, their own orgayis, their own leaders. That “victim” of RAPP “ “persecution,” ‘Vyacheslav: Polonsky, continued to be editor of Novy Mir until two months before his death, caused not by “persecution” but by typhus. Novy Mir is the biggest literary journal in the U.S.S.R., from the piewpoint ‘of-size (about 300 pages an issue) as well as from the view- point of influence. All through 1929, 1930 and 1981 it continued to be the organ of the fellow-traveller. In’ January 1930—"the exact mathematical center” of the alleged “iterary inquisition,” Novy Mir published an installment of Leonid ..Leonov's “Moscow River;” verses by the Futurist poet Aseyev; part of aay ‘Shanginyan’s novel “Hydrocentral,” and part of Alexei Tolstoy's xf the Great.” | co Septem Neacennal ert opruneddaptar tingid rhiqeatn Ainge himself. His own subtitles include such topics as “the policy of Novy “Mir; its criticism on young writers; on proletarian and peasant writers,” and so on. This article is not only a defense of Polonsky’s position, ‘but included an attack on RAPP’s position. Novy Mir contains many discussions of talent and form, style and e, and not in whispers either. In the January 1930 issue A. “ wv had a dialogue between a poet and prose writer on the nature 08 DOM ‘and prose, Similarly in the February issue the reviewer of -*Pushtorg,” a new poem by the constructivist (non-RAPP) writer Ilya - Selvinsky, analyses various stanzas from the viewpoint of style, and compares. the structure of the poem to the structure of Byron's “Don Suan” and: Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin.” And in the March issue, a reviewer commenting on an anthology of “prose and verse by a group of proletarian writers says clearly, distinctly, @bove a whisper, that none of the poets ((with one exception) has mas- fered the technique of his craft. In the April issue of that whispering-gallery Novy Mir, Polonsky himself discusses “problems of Marxist literary studies,” “problems of the specific nature of ‘artistic literature,” amd the literary theories of Plekhanov and Perevarsev, with many comments on talent, form, style, etc. Note further that in 1929, the height of the alleged “literary in- - quisition,” Polonsky publishes # book through the State Publishing House - Galled, “Oh Contemporary Literature.” And he deals almost exclusively with fellow travellers—Ivanov, Babel, Veresayev, Pilnyak, Alexei Tolstoy, « Malashkin, bree Visolyi, Yessesin, Furmanov. ‘And -in the year 1930, when one “dared not even discuss” questions talent. form, the Communist Academy starts to publish a magazine ~oalled miterature ahigh Art,” devoted to such questions among others. publishes articles on “Genre in Proletarian Literature,” “Function or aid discussions about “the living man” in literature (character) doa Segeeslogo realism.” Iipossible to give in fais brief space «survey of the manifold dis- of Soviet Mterary publications in the three years preceding the and other groups. But is is worth nothing that may find “umlawful” discussions about talent a a is cussions oar HG of RAPP own organ one a ‘and form. : Na Literaturnom Postu carries in its issue of Sept. 1930 a “Cmiticism the Artistic Platform of RAPP.” This article discusses, among other “things, such topics as “--i-~-s -~d art," the “specific nature of art,” “living man and psychologism.* i Among the partic.pants u1 cu discussions is Yuri Libidinsky, a RAPP Jeader. known in the United States as the author of the civil war novel, “A Week.” Libidinsky had just published his novel “The Birth of a Hero,” and such was RAPP’s “literary inquisition” that this novel was panned by RAPP critics in their organ, by Karl Radek in the Pravda, by fellow- travellers in other publications, and by workers at their literary meetings im the factories! Libidinsky advocated a literary policy criticised by the Party. “We shall continuously remind our writers,” he says in “Na Lutev'avu,aou Postu of aJnuary 1930, “that without the dialectic materialist outlook fully conceived,’ a proletarian writer cannot create.” But is he uninterested in form?’ Is he scared to discuss it above a whisper? Read further in the same article by RAPP leader Libidinsky: “‘A new form was not cre- ated because we pay too much attention to the contents and too little to the FORM.” And While various members of RAPP were themselves trying to solve as best they could problems of talent, style, form, theme, viewpoint, the fellow-<-avellers were holding similar discussions, approaching the same problems from other presuppositions. Polonaky used to hold large meetings of fellow-travellers in the offices of Novy Mir. From these meetings he ostentatiously excluded all RAPP members, gee HUA °KUNITZ, who lived and worker in the Soviet Union for fifteen months—during 1930-31 (the “exact mathematical center”)—tells me that he attended some of these meetings. The Novy Mir offices are lo- cated inthe new building which houses Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet. Government. And these offices were much more luxurious than the offices. of Leopold Auerbach, leader of the RAPP, “satan” of the “itterary inquisition.” _. Polonsky, knowing that Kunitz had quarelled with some of the RAPP ‘Jeaders, invited him to contribute to the Novy Mir. Such was the “literary inquisition” at the “exact mathematical center.” Film-Photo League ‘of New York Expels Slanderer. of USSR | any ; adorn: Lerner of New York City has been expelled from the Film and Photo League of New York for cir- culating false rumors about “wide~ maintained a stubborn and subver- sive attitude toward the Soviet Union and its leadership, the Communist Party, that cannot be tolerated in working-class organization that holds the defense of the Soviet Union as a keystone of its activities. In expelling Isidore Lerner, the , Film and Photo League of New York, one of whose main activities is the spread misery and depfivation in the Soviet Union,” After a three months’ tour to the Soviet. Union he returned with fan- misrepresent Durant in the. Saturday Eve- Post and Carveth. Wells in his nt f eiwanes attacks on the So- workers and peasants. chis wife, who accom- spreading and popularizing of Soviet films, reaffirms its revolutionary stand with the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Government and declares itself ready to defend the Soviet Union against all counter-revolutionary and subversive elements like Isidore Ler- ner, who in misrepresenting and at- tacking the one great socialist fort of the working class, are actively lending their support to those ene- mies of the Soviet Union who are daily threatening its existence. Film and Photo League of New York. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1988 FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS Seymewr Stern, MGM Studios, “Sollywood, Cal.: A few days ago we learned that you. were working on the script of “Soviet.” I for one would list such a job under “dangerous oc- cupations,” especially for one who has built up somewhat of a reputa- tion as a friend of the Soviet cine- ma, Here's your acid test, Seymour. We're watching you closely! Oring: le During the making of “Duck Soup” one of the actors was directed to get up before a group of unemployed and deliver a speech. He was instructed to talk “straight” and make it sound realistic. When the sequence was completed it sounded so genuinely stirring and convincing that the big studio bosses immediately ordered it deleted. How they fear the lightt oe. Pity B. G. De Sylva, producer for Fox Films, who complains that “there are no youthful, beautiful sensations in. New York.” “And we visited every theatre, every cabaret and night club in New York!” sobs our despondent pulchritude hunter, Ses According to Lewis Milestone, its director, the film “Nikolai Kourbov” will depict “a Russian of low class during the Ozarist regime and in modern Russian society,” but will ex~ press no verdict on the Soviet sys- tem. No one is naive enough to expect a favorable verdict on “the Soviet sys- tem” in a film made by Hollywood, of course. But Milestone, whose splen- did record is stained only by his “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!” can be confident that the audiences will reach a fair verdict if by a miracle the film barons permit him to pre- sent an objective picture of “modern Russian society” uncolored by class venom. It’s never been done before and I'll remain skeptical until I see the last shot fading out of the screen. . 8 8 Dear Comrade Lens: A little over a week ago you re- corded in your very sprightly column the fact that Dorothea Wieck and her husband were leading Nazis. In commenting on the then forthcoming production, “Cradle Song,” you prom- ised that we'd “let them have it,” meaning the star as well as the Jew- ish producers, I don’t know if any organized pro- test was made, but the least we could have done was to utterly disregard the film or point out the presence of an active Nazi in the “star” role. Instead, we actually give very val- uable space in the “Daily” to a re. view of the film (that it was an unfavorable review is beside the Point) with no suggestion of a boycott of the picture. The efficacy of the boycott has been proven before, and it might not be amiss to broadcast this informa- tion now. With comradely greetings, BELLE BAKER, _brocklyn, N, Y. It is my opinion that, the. case of Wieck and her husband offered a most unusual opportunity for a popu- lar movement to drive the Nazis out of the Hollywood studios and to ex- pose the alliance of American film interests (Fox, Paramount) with German fascism. And in the case of “Cradle Song” there was room for something more than a boycott. I'm tempted to suggest that the comrades in the New York Film and Photo League are a little “dizzy with the success” of their excellent Film School and are losing sight of the importance of struggle on an even more important front. The fact is that I communicated the informa- tion I received from Hollywood on the Wieck affair to the League im- mediately upon its receipt. Your let- ter is most welcome. The alertness of workers is the best guarantee against our falling asleep on the job. eee “The Cinema,” says Emil Ludwig after a brief stay in Hollywood, “is art.” The influence of Mae West on some of these learned professors is truly astounding! King Henry VIII, has, aside from number of other more or less laud- able personal achievements, gone down in history as the most prolific and accomplished ructator (Doc Lut- tinger’s word for a belcher). Charles Laughton’s rather mild interpretation of same in the British film “Henry VIII” has caused Sir Frank Sander- son, Conservative member in the House of Commons, to ask Sir Sam- uel Hoare, Secretary of State for In- dia, to ban the film in that British colony. Historical authenticity is not the issue, of course, but to show a tyrant as the lewd, ill-mannered swine that he actually was to slaves of the present British ruling class might hurt “prestige” and reflect on the MacDonalds, Baldwins, Simons, etc. Never! es 8 T might interest you to know that. the native actors in “Esk!mo” were paid $5 a day and went out on strike for higher pay. Scabs were rounded up and the Eskimo strikers were eventually forced to return to work at breakneck speed in the most dan- hd sequences for the same meager pay, There's the stuff whereof “smashing Broadway hits” are made for you and me! What a stench! First Aid Class A first adi class will be held today, Dec, 1, at 870 Broadway, Weighing the Evidence The Plight of the Homeless Men and Women Workers Now Facing 5th Crisis Winter Many Huge Buildings Are Vacant and Avail- able; Homeless Must Organize to Force City Government to Provide Food, Shelter By 8. YAN VEEN Z first cold days of the year have | sent thousands of homeless men and women of New York shivering to any kind of shelter that affords them the slightest protection from the Weather. On every corner, on every. cross- ing, were men begging the price of a cup of coffee which would give them & moment of warmth in a restaurant. Thousands used their last nickles | for an all-day subway ride to obtain some sort of shelter from the biting winds. ‘Thousands of unemployed men and women tramp the streets in thread- bare clothing. The gaps and tears in their clothes expose their half- starved bodies to cold and rain. But the greatest misery that the cold weather brings to them is the continual nagging hunger which forces them to hunt all day long for food for undernourished bodies. A few days ago a man came to the counter of @ restaurant and begged for a small piece of soap. He wanted to get washed, he said. There is no place in the city where ragged, home- less, hungry men may wash away the grime of the city streets with soap, water and towels. A decently dressed man or woman may find their way into the lavato- ries of hotels and department stores, but an unshaved, tattered unemploy- ed worker would be hustled out of such places, which are reserved only for ladies and gentlemen who have all the comforts of home, as well as money in their Pockets. . @ 'N a cold and rainy night a young fellow in torn white shirt, ragged jacket and no coat, begged fran- tically for money to buy coffee and shelter for the night. Dozens of well- fed, well-dressed people passed him by without a glance. They hear the same plea dozens of times every day. It makes less Impression on them than a buzzing fly. It is the order of fthe day, every day. What remains is nothing but the bare and filthy flophouses crowded to the doors, and with lines waiting blocks long for the chance of shelter for a night. This is no new sight in New York. For the past four winters these long, silent lines of men—cold, hungry, weary, ill—has been growing. But there is no comfort and no veace for the tens of thousands of New. York's homeless inside the flop~ TUNING -IN house. The flophouse is a combina- tion of stable and jail. Thousands prefer jail and make it their business to get pulled in for some small in- fraction of the law rather than en- dure either the flophouse or the open wet and cold of winter. In New York City there are empty buildings that could be turned into comfortable homes for unemployed and homeless men and women. There are several abandoned hospitals that are large enough to shelter many thousands with decent comfort. The unemployed councils should act now before the cold of winter has fully descended. They should demand of the city that men be put to work immediately to renovate these huge buildings, turning them into homes for the unemployed. These places could be provided with clean, warm heds, reading and-club rooms, free warm baths with plenty of soap and towels, laundry and sewing rooms. More than this, the city should be forced to provide underwear, shoes and coats for the jobless. ig Seer UT, above all, three warm, nour. ishing meals a day should be pro- vided. Each building should also be provided in the same way. This year for the first time thousands of home- jess women are taking shelter, with their little bag of belongings, in the subways. More sensitive to their ap- pearance than men, they are afraid to be seen on the street in their rags. A campaign should be started at once to force the’ city government to come across, At the same time that we are fight- ing for unemployment insurance we | must push forward this issue of de- cent food and comfortable lodging for | the homeless men and women of the | city. Chicago YOUTH Section of - Morris Winchevsky | Club is having theit-Pirst Annual Dance | a at 4004 W. Roosevelt Rd. Detroit Pen and Hammer will hold their Pirst Press Party on Sat. Dec. 2 at 111 Forest West. Good dance music. Adm. 15¢. Philadelphia OFFICIAL Opening -of the Workers School will take place Dec,, 4; at 510 Fairmount Ave. Registration at 1225 Germantown Ave. _ Baltimore LECTURE on “Religion and the Revolu- tionary Movement” given by Dr. A. Blum- berg at International Book Shop, 509 N. EButaw St. on Priday-Deo, 1 on Sat., Adm. 2c. Dec. 3, Workers’ Short Wave Club Gets Moscow NEW YORK.—Tuning in on an in- oxpensive home-made two-tube set, made by the Workers Short Wave Club at its headquarters, 446 Clare- mont Pkwy., Bronx, the club was| gratified Sunday afternoon, Nov. 26, between 4 and 6, to hear RV-59,| Central Radio Station of Moscow, The station came in very strong with) more power than any of the other European stations. The club heard the strains of the “International” followed by speeches in different languages, including English, asking’ for workers’ comment on their pro- grams. For two hours the station continued coming and fading and coming back stronger as the hour passed. At 6 o'clock the playing of the “International” ended the pro- gram and the voice of a young woman announced that the Centra’ Radio Station of Moscow was sign- ing off. After three months of co-operative: work the members of the Workers Short Wave Club have succeeded in Moscow station that it experiment on the 25-meter band for Sunday morn- ings from 7 to 9. A comrade has al- ready reported good reception on| tkose meters at those hours. ‘The club will be glad to explain its| set to any worker who is interested and will help him to make a set of his own. The materials come tc about $5. Workers can get information at 740 Prospect Ave., Bronx, in the base- ment (entrance from street), on Thursday, Dec. 7, from 8:30 p.m. on, Meetings of the club take vlace at| this address every alternate Thursday after this date. The Short Wave Club is composed of workers who make it a hobby to] tune in on Soviet programs, and to) build short-wave sets for this pur- pose for their own use. It is not al commercial enterprise. Te TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS : WEAF—660 Ke 1:00 PB. M.—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jes: ters Trio T:15—Dilly Bachelor—Sketch ‘1:30—Cireus Days—Sketch T:43— “ne Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00-Coacert Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, S.>rano; Male Quartet; Sports—Grant land Rice 9:00—Fred Allen, Comedian; Grote Oreh. 9:30—Lee Wiley'’s Songs; Young Orch. 10:00—First Nighter—-Drama, 10:30—Lum and Abner Friday Night Sociable 11:00—The Lively Arts—-John Erskine, Author 11:15—Davis Orch. 11:30—Denny Orch? 12:00—Ralph Kirbery> Songs 12:05 A, M.—Weems Orch. 12:30—Sosniek Orch. o- 3 WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 FP. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 1:15—A Doctor's Love—Sketch 7:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch T:AS—Al and Lee Relser, Piano Duo; John Kelvin 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue- Drama 8:15—-Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30—Dramatiaed News 8:45—-Willy Robyn, Tenor; Soprano 9:00—Variety Musicale 10:00—Blubber Bergman—Sketch 10:15—Current Bvents—Harlan Eugene Read 19:30—Estelle Liebling’s Musik Shoppe 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams ‘Trio 11:30—Nelson Oreh. 12:00—Lane ‘Oren. —Mystery Marie Gerard, ws Z=760 Ke, 7:00 P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy T:15—Three Musketeers—Sketch 1:30—Potash and Perlmutter--Sketch 7;45—Talk—Irene* Rich :00—Walter Comedian; Ethel | ta, Songs; Orch. 8:30—Dangerous Paradise—Sketeh 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch 8:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harris Orch. 9:30—Phil Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Nell Sisters, Songs 10;00—The Iron. Master—Bennett—Shappel, Narrator 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 10:45—Talk—Floyd Gibbons 11:00—Three Scamps; Songs Hilk—gtars of the Auttimn—Dr. Robert H. Baker 11:30—Childa Orch,” 12:00—Calloway Orch, 12:90 A, M.—Lowe Orch. * WABC—860 Ke 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About ‘Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs $id Mewe —Bawins 0.2001 8:30-—Mareh Leopold Stokow- of U:002Philsdelphia Oreh., sk!, Conductor” 9:15—Tommy McLaughlin, Baritone; Koste- Ianeta_Oreh.; “Vere.-Van, 9:30—~All-American: Football Show, With Onrisiy Walsh; Speaker Lawrence A. Jones, Coach of Lousiana State 10:00--Olsen and Johngon, Comedians; Gos- nick Orch, 10:30—-News. Reports.” Hime sg Wy 11:15—Boswel 11:30—Jones Oreh. 12:00—Little Orch?" 12:30 A, M.—Belasco;Oreh. 1:00—-Russell Oreh,. Classes will be held | Daily Worker Chorus To Perform At Tenth Anniversary Affair NEW YORK. — English sesirarss-| ary songs in four voices, will be pre- sented in a comprehensive program at the tenth anniversary celebration | of the Daily Worker, |take place at the Si St. Dec. 30. The Daily Worker Chorus jhas selected a program of songs by \the proletarian composers Schaeffer |Adohmyan, Swift and others, as well arrangements, Soviet Russia Today Of late the Daily Worker Chorus has been appearing on an average Recognition, latest victory of the | of twiee a week; and while boosting Soviet, workers and farmers if (he | the Daily Worker, it has enlisted a © membership of the chorus is 45 day," Just out. Writing on this sub-| "tn view of the desire of the chorus, bit eagle a Mssooh art the | to progress more rapidly, it will hold, » lagna from now on, two rehearsals a week, | BA oa rl renagn ar ae to take place on Monday and Wed- “exacting concessions” from the So- onwediigets pam peg an Heo dnd Unien so pe Rd aed ar It is urged that comrades consider- ments of well established Soviet |! joining the chorus: sholld do so Religious freedom, . legal at once, so that they may be able to Pole a uit debt and propaganda | Sig at the tenth anniversary cele- question are all discussed and clari- bration. fied. be Myra Page, author of “Soviet Main | Street” and other books on the Soviet | Union contributes a selection from | | her forthcoming novel, “Moscow Yan | kee.” “Vasiliev Calls at the Kremlin,” |a short story based on an actual visit} of a workers’ delegation to Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.. Dr. Harry F. Ward writes on, “What We Can Learn from the Soviet Union.” According to the author of “In Place of Profit” what we can Friday MEMBERSHIP MBETING Worker Volunteers at 35 E. of the Daily lath 8t., Sth floor, at 8 p.m. NEW MASSES Costume Ball at Webster Hall, 119 E, lith St. Vernon Andrade’s Orchestra, Dancing from 9 p.m. until-3 a. ets $1 in nee and $1.50 at door EB and Ei given by the Club at 58th St. alk by mem ex staff. Red Front Band. mtr learn is plenty. We can learn how | tion 200. f LECTURE on the m of Soviet to produce for need instead of for) (on Questio ee Ot profit and thus avoid the tragic! Grand youth , 380 Grand st. Jules anomaly of starvation and plenty / Carstein, speaker. LECTURE by Pro! “Ths Outlook for 19 ¢ Stephen Graves on at American Youth existing side by side. “Bolshevik Steel,” a gripping -de- | Federation, 20 St. Marks Pl. at 2:30 p.m. \scription of shock brigaders at work | Adm. 0c ‘ LECTURE on “Recognition ‘of Soviet jin @ metal factory by Walt Carmon, | gaion' under auspices of Council 18 at now |in the Soviet Union, reveals clearly |why the Soivet Union has been able} 9 to transform a backward semi-feudal } LECTURE by country into a leading industrial) tion of the Soviet U: * at the Ination, The will, energy, enthusiasm | ee piceeade Club, 862 E. Tremont Ave. at 8:50 {and social consciousness of these | “Life Under the Soviet workers is irresistible. he F.S.U. Oce The Japanese policy of imperialist ja, 3082 EB. 6th § |conquest and expansion is a constant | \formerly of the “New Masses,” 4108 13th Ave., Broo! 1>> | Br., | at 8:30 p.x DR. LIBER will talk on ‘ egetarian” danger to the Soviet Union. Gertrude | at vegetarian Workers Club, E. 14th St. Hutchinson, recently on the staff of || PROSPECT Workers Center, 1157 8. Bou ee r |tevard, Bronx, 16 h a lecture o the Moscow Daily News writing on|\2%" ana American Federation of Labor’ “Will Japan Attack the U. S. S. R.”|by Louis Hyman of N.T.W.ILU. Ad shows the possibilities of such an at- | mission feo very e San bap Fi gene Blondel, at P Other articles in this issue ®Fe | Chup, 2179 White Pl \“Soviet Science Serves the Workers,” | Adm |by 8. J. White; “Soviet Music,” by | | Ashtey Pettis, well known music | | crite, in which some valuable in-| formation on the new proletarian | | imate being created in the Soviet | t |Union is offered; “Moscow” @ bi-| i610 Bo: Jography of the first Socialist city,| 11D. Chorus meste at, 44 chester ave, | {by ‘a pe pacers Clete tegetecg fa ‘Ant welcome Scott, who wor! ing , Saturday lurgical plant in the Urals; a column | “yy ougewaRMina Si oho lof news about the latest achievements | ychn Reed Br. 514 at 2842 W. jin Socialist construction; editorials | Brookiyn. 5 : and book reviews. CHOW Mein Dinner, dancing at ‘The call to the National Conven~- 10c. Unemployed free Herman, Dist “Latest Developments in Scot jem Progres. Youth Club, LECTURE by Irving of ¥.0.L. on <3. KLEIN, famous international press i ‘Who Burned | ‘onx Workers Club, by the 33th st., May as Negro songs of protest in special | Page Five | Stage and Sereen |“The First Apple” te Open Monday at Booth Theatre Lynn Starlir . The First Ap Monday with © cell heading tion is now pla “Blackbirds | colored revue, f en postr til tomorrow night wh | at the Apollo Theatre Pacey n Perry and jare the cast | Rachel Crothers’ new play ie | ent,” has been placed in rehearsal by | John Golden with Medy Christians in the leading role. The play is duc | here in December. “Au Good Americans,” 2 comedy | by Laura and 8. J. Perlman, is sched- | uled for next Tuesday night at Hen- lry Miller's Theatre. Fred eating, | Mary Philips and Brie Dressler piay | the leading roles, | “Walls of Gold at Jefferson Theatre Saturday |__ “Walls of Gold,” with Sally Eilers, |Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan, will be the principal screen feature the Jefferson Theatre beginning his Saturday. “College Coach,” with Dick Pow Ann Dvorak and Pat O’Brien, is on the same program Starting inesday, the program with Wal- ill include “The Bowery,” y, George Raft and Jackie a second fitm, “Ever in with Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Bellamy of the South My Heart | Otto Kruger and | “Gow,” a picture | Seas, taken by BE. A. Salisbury, the |explorer, is the new film now being | shown at the Cameo Theatre Joe E. Brown's new First National | starring picture, “Son of a Sailor,” i | now wing at the Strand Theatre jJean Muir and Thelma Todd pley | impo: t roles in the film | Katherine urn, now playing in | “Little Wom) at the Radio -City Music Ha I) have the leading role in “Joan of Arc,” ke ollowing Miss 1 “The Lake,” stage given by Brighton neil at Tnternat { | | | Br. at 4109 13th St.,’ Brooklyn:~eadm: \tion of the Friends of the Soviet| | Union to be held in New York Jan. 26, |27 and 28 is printed. Among the | Signers of the call are Roger Baldwin, AMUSE MENTS Frank Borich, Waldo Frank, Earl | Browder, Dr. Harry F. Ward, Langs- | |ton Hughes, John Haynes Holmes, | Lem Harris and Jack Stachel. Or- ganizational notes and 40 photographs | round out this interesting and in-j [orments December issue. | SRD BIG WEEK OF | “A work of dramatie | spirit of Sholom Aleic ACME T Noted Editors, Writers to Attend New. Masses | cae ‘Costume Ball Tonight’ “PE ACK ONE ART | NEW YORK.—“With a hey nagi-| , new play by George Sklar é Albe:t Malts nazi and a ha tcha tcha,” as the authors of “MERRY-GO-ROUND” | chorus of a satirical skit on the N.| Otvic Repertory Thostre, 1th St. & 6th Ave. | FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY | R. A. to be performed there says, the | w4 9.7450, PRICES: 30e 45¢ 60e $1.00 $1.50 festival event of the year, the Now Ma: Costume Bell, will be held ¥ ight ROBERTA. | tonight at Webster Hall, 119 EB. llth A New Musical Comedy NEW AMSTERDAM Theatre, West 4%nd St. Mats.Wed.gSat.5 | St. The night will be devoted to dancing to the catchy music of Ver. | is non Andrade’s orchestra, which | prepared to play until it can ser | nade the dawn. The Workers’ Lab: oratory Theatre is going to produce a short skit, “The House of Cards,” a biting comment on the New Deal. This affair, proceeds of which will be devoted to launching the New! Masses as a weekly, beginning Jan. | 1—to be the only revolutionary weekly in America—promises to be! one of the gayest of the gay costume balls the New Masses has held. Many of the editors, writers and contributors lined up by the maga- zine for the weekly will attend, among them John Strachey, Ashley Pettis, Joseph Freeman, Michael Gold, Wil- liam F. Dunne, Granville Hicks and | Lincoln Steffens. Reservations for boxes may he made at the New Masses offices. by JOE cook in OLD YOUR HORSES A Musical Runaway im 24 Scenes | Winter Garden 3° Thursday and Saturd: 8KO Jefferson 1% 5t # | Now lin FRANCIS 2nd Dw. "a. ROBINSON n“T LOVED A WOMAN”, : “MIDSHIPMAN JACK” with CABOT and BETTY FURNESS EUGENE O'NEILI’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN -» S24 St., W. of Biway Mats. Thur,, Fri. Sat. MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITH MUSIC The School for Husbands SHOLOM ALEICHEM’S SOVIET YIDDISH COME DY (ENGLISH TITLES) , Plus tax | Bway & 50th St. | THE THEATRE GUILD presente—¢_ telephone (Ca. 5-8524) and tickets may be bought there. The address is 31 E. 27th St. Tickets are also on sale at the Workers’ Bookshop, 50 E. | 13th St. and at Webster Hall. | EARNS $2.10; PAYS $1.25 FOR | BOARD (By 2 Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa—We work 7 hours a day here and get 30 cents an hour. We live in boarding houses and we pay $1.25 a day for board. How can we live on such pay? We are working for John F. Casey Co, | | |] with. Osgood PERKINS—June WALKER | ‘Thea., Bway & 49 St. 8.40Mats.Thurs.&Sat.2.40 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND |) with BELEN PHILIP HELEN BAYES MERIVALE MENKEN || ALVIN "=: 524 St. W. of Bway || By.8.90.Mats.Thar.&Sat. 2.80 | Philadelphia @ “The Best Way To Fight Hitlerism” | “The Best Way to Fight Hitlerism” is the topic of a Symposium arranged NEW SOVIET FILM, “LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS” art_. The actors caught the essential hem's rep resentations”—DAILY WORKER HEATRE “22% and UN IN PRIZES Just fer Writing Letters Soon a new magazine will ap pear—DEBATE— an impartial magazine, presenting al! views. |] Each issue will include both pro and con of current ques- tions, fearless articles of sharp |] controversy, ax well as satire, cartoons, book and theatre re- views and fiction of the first water. In addition, DEBATE will throw open its pages te letters from the people. Every month $100 wil be awarded in prizes for the best letters submitted. You may write on any subject: Roose- velt, the New Deal, the war danger, Hitler, revolution, reli- gion—anything at all—and you may say anythir<e you please, Letters will be Judged from the standpoint of interest. We want such letters as cross-section of opinion for the first issue. $50 for the best letter, $85 for the next best, and $5 each for the next five. It is understood that we reserve the right to publish without remuneration ali letters submitted, he they prize winners or not. Write Now— Win a Prize Write us a leter not to exceed 13 words—send it in immedi- ately, Closing date December 5th—but the sooner the better. You may win a handsome prize: DEBATE MAGAZINE Room 413A, 122 East 42nd St. New York City by the City Committee of the W.LR. for Friday Evening, December Ist, at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine Street. The participants are: Rev, Dr, Fine- | shriber, Professor Holmes, M. L. Theev's case 1s Nowinx Hanns oF THE i thd A Suck VERDicT (Ss 7 WOT ZAT? 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