The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1933, Page 5

4: Sy bets appa ene UO LAMENESS Strachey Lecture On ‘Culture and Fascism’ Sunday, NEW YORK. — John Strachey, noted British critic and author of the “Coming Struggle for Power” and “The Menace of Fascism,”. is entering the arena of the present conflict between advocates of the} Marxist approach to literature and | their liberal, bourgeois adversaries. In his coming lecture before the John Reed Club on “Culture and | Fascism,” Strachey will examine from a Marxist v.ewpoint the lit- | erary theories and practices of the | leading bourgeois critics, Max |Eastman (the Scribe of Joseph Freeman's recent polemic in “What WHAT WORLD! By Michael Gold - ETE Garvey, an Irish seaman, is indignant because in these columns recently I compared the,Soviet Red Army to the Puritan troops of Oliver Cromwell. “{ wish to inform you,” the writes, “noi as a member of any religious organization, but as a truth-seeker, that Cromwell was the most inhuman monster that Mother Nature ever whelped. He was the Devil's pimp of The following is the second of a series of six excerpts from “Mem- ories of Lenin* by his wife and lifelong comrade, N,. Krupskaya, which we are reprinting in connec- tion with the appryPhing Lenin Memorial in January, 1934, These memories, which give an in- timate portrait uf the great leader of the international working class, are taken from Volume II of the “Memories,” published by Interna- tional Publishers. Yesterdri7’s in- stallment dealt with the arrival of Lenin in Paris im 1909, the publica- | | tyranny, landlordism and imperialism. a World”); Henry Hazlitt, literary| tion of Lenin’s “Materialism and | “He came into Ireland, and confiscated the land from the original | editor of “The Nation”; Archibeld| Empirio-Criticism” and his fight | owners, made them the slaves of British exploiters. To do this he es vaipeee poles powgec’s Post, seni the “God-creators and God- rf 1 whose recent escoes” an in-| seckers.” | massacred every man, wontart.and child in Droheda. bey tig fenhigal| teiinuival inode “what annie Gr New pe cut the unborn babies out ‘of their mother's wombs anc mc] it em. America’s ruling class to @ Fascist cad Oy i the points of bayonets, shouting, ‘these nits will not become lice. position; Joseph Wood Krutch, au- PARIS “He made a desert of Ireland, which had been known as the Garden | thor of “The Modern Temper”; (1909-10) of Europe. He put Irish civilization back for three centuries. Remem~ Allen Tate and the new aristo- (Continned) cratic Southern school of critics, will be among the exponents of | bourgeois and liberal thought whom Strachey will discuss. This will be Strachey’s only lec- ture on @ cultural subject in New York City, and in view of the grow- ing interest in his subject it is ex- pected that very many will want to hear him when he speaks on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 17, at 3 p.m, at the City College Audito- rium, 23d St. at Lexington Ave. Tickets are on sale at the John Reed Club, 420 Sixth Ave. the Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. the Columbia University Book Store, and the N.Y.U, Book Store. All seats are reserved. ber, sir, I am speaking as.a-man who voted for Robert Minor in the late election. I have also helped: your paper, but after today I am finished with it, “Only # liar or a bigos would mention a dirty louse like Cromwell among human beings. Is it any wonder that the liberal government, when it came in power, diig up his body from the grave and severed the head from the body and stuck it on the spire of the Tower of London? “T have only mentioned. a few of Cromwell's deeds—the rest of his acts are too immodest to. print.” England’s First Colony , Comrade Garvey, yoir are fully justified in your attack on Crom- well. It is true that he was a butcher and imperialist, and is still right- fully loathed by.every Inish worker, Tt is not my intention to conceal the crimes of Cromwell against the Irish people. But we must also look upon these matters in the historical light. As % e ean | compared to feudalism Cromwell represented a progressive force in the Stage and Screen - world for a time. He struc’g one of the first blows in the bourgeois revo- Yution that spread to country after country, including the great French Revolution and that destroyed feaudalism, His army was made of the 2° British masses, Roundheads ey were called in contempt by the Royal- ist cavaliers, The Royalists could not believe that they, with all their traditions of gallantry and chivalrous cottage, their experience in war, could be beaten by a psalm-singing “rabble.” But they were beaten, and beaten badly, and their King lost his head. Cromwell was a necessary step in the world’s progress from an agra- rian feudalism into the bourgeois machine age which created not only the millionaire, but also the'revolutionary working class. ‘This bourgeois revolution, which fought for liberty for mechants and shopkeepers, and which in the voice of great spirits like Milton, expressed noble ideals of free speech and democracy, also ushered in its regime by the conquest of Ireland, whieh Engels has called “England's first colony.” The conquest was achieved with all the heartless brutality Comrade Garvey points out. The greedy British landlords were as capable as Hitler of any atrocity. Cromwell ‘ifShered in capitalism, along with its boasts of | democracy and free speech, The mother of parliaments, England, has al- Ways posed as a complacent and law-abiding person at home, but beyond her doorstep has openly been a filthy, thieving and cowardly killer. She began her career in Ireland, continued it in India, and is still > busy in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and similar places. . - . In June the delegates began to as- semble for the enlarged meeting of the editorial board of “Proletarii.” This enlarged editorial board of “Proletarii” was, in fact, the Bolshe- vik center, which at that time also included the adherents of “Vperyod” (Forward). Golubkov (Davidov), a Party work- er who worked in the bureau o: we Central Committee in Russia under the direction of Innokenty and who was present at the Paris Conference in 1908, arrived from Moscow. Shu- lyatikov (Donat) and Shurkanov, a member of the Duma (who later proved to be an agent provocateur) also arrived. But he did not come to attend the conference. According to French custom our comrades took him to the cafe where be and Shuly- atikov. spent their time drinking beer. But Shulyatikov could not stand the drink; he suffered from heredi- tary alcoholism. The beer he drank caused @ severe nervous fit, and on leaving the cafe he suddenly attacked Shurkanov with his walking stick. Innokenty and Golubkov barely man- aged to retstrain him. They brought him to our house. I remained at home with him while they went to look for a doctor, and a room for tim. somewhere in the suburbs. They found a room on the Fontenay-aux- Roses, where Semashko and Vladi- mirsky lived. For two hours I stayed with the sick Shulyatikov in our bare living room. He tossed about nervously, jumped up, and had visions all the time of his sister who had been hanged. I tried to calm him and to distract his thoughts, I held his hand and this seemed to have a soothing efiect. No sooner would I take my hand away than he became restless again. I waited impatiently tor saad and Golubkov to come for him. Among those who attended the en- larged meeting of the editorial board of “Proletarii” were Lenin, Zino- viev, Kamenev, Bodgdanov, repre- sentatives of the Bolshevik organiza- tions in Russia—Tomsky (St. Peters- burg), Shulyatikoy (Moscow), Nako- tykov (Urals); members of the Cen- tral Committee —Innokenty, Rykov, Goldenberg, Taratuta and Marat (Shanster). Besides these there were also present Skrypnik (Shchur), Liu- bimov (Mark Zommer), Poletaev (a member of the Third Duma) and Da- vidov-Golubkov. The meeting lasted from July 4 to 13. Resolutions were passed on the Ot- covists and Ultimatists for Party unity and against the holding of a special Bolshevik Congress. a special question discussed at the meeting was that of the Capri school. Bogdanoy realized that the Bolshevik fraction would inevitably break up and he, in anticipation of this, was beginning to select and organize his own fraction. In Capri, Bogdanoy, Alexinsky, Gorki + . “Laughter Through Tears” in Last Two Weeks at Acme Sholom Aleichem’s first Soviet film, “Laughter Through Tears,” is now in its fifth week at the Acme Theatre. The picture, which was produced in the U.S.S.R. by Wufku and directed by G. Ritcher, will continue for an- other two weeks, and will then make way for “Mirages de Paris,” a film produced in Paris by the noted Soviet director, Fedor Ozep. ‘The same program includes a short | film received from Moscow, “Soviets | Sing and Dance,” presenting a group of dancers from the Academie The- atre in Leningrad in the new ballet “The Dance of the French Revolu- tion,” Ukrainian workers playing na- | tive instruments, a dance from the ballet “Don Quixote,” by Asa and Sulamith Meserer and a group of Caucasian workers in folk songs. The Jefferson Theatre is now | showing “Before Dawn,” with Stuart Erwin and Dorothy Wilson and “My Woman,” with Helen Twelvetrees and Victor Jory. The Red Army 'T WOULD have been better had I not compared the Soviet Red Army with Cromwell's troops. ‘This Red Army is something new in the world and not to be compared with any in the bourgeois past or present. It is really a great university, where millions of boys are taught an inter- national viewpoint. It is mo‘imperialist army, but the vanguard of the | Workers’ armies that will fight imperialism everywhere. The enemies of a Lee as free Irish Workers’ Republi¢ are also the enemies of the Red Army and | Chicago Opera Company In scp) the Soviet Union. | i; . ry i,-is only because Cromwell represented a revolution, as did Danton Final Week at Hip, podrome ~and Robespierre, that his troops beat the Royalists at home. Had I com- | nounces its twenty-third and last pared Red Army to the French people’s armies that defeated royalist The Chicago Opera Company an- “ Burope my comparison might have seemed less offensive. But like any | week of opera at the Hippodrome. analogy it still would have:Jimped. The final week includes “Otello” this Anyway, Comrade Garvey, you cught to get hold of books like James | | evening; “La Boheme,” Wednesday Connolly's “Labour in Irish History,” or the fine pamphlet by Ralph Fox, pains 4 yaa 4 del oe “Marx, Engels. and Lenin on the Irish Revolution” and acquire a broader penser Peale at id crete" Bune fi historical slant on these issues. ; | day afternoon;” Cavalleria Rusticana’ We are through with being so indignant over the past that we forget | and “Pagliacci,” Sunday night, and the present. The only forgestoday that fight against the British impe- | “La Traviata” on Monday evening. Tialism that began with thg.ushering in of capitalist rule by Cromwell The New York Orchestra will give are in the Communist moysiiient of Ireland, America, England. When you | their second concert of the season ILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TU {school for workers. By N. KRUPSKAYA and Lunacharsky had organized a Social-Democratic propagandist A worker named Vilonoy recruited students for the school in Russia, and his instructions were. to recruit “strong and reliable” men. revolr Vv. 1 LENIN moreover, this. was a time when the immediate struggle had died down end there was time for this sort of thing. The workers went to Capri to study, but to everyone who had been in the thick of Party work it was clear that the Capri school would lay the foundations for a new frac- tion. And so, the enlarged meeting of the editorial board of “Proletarii” passed a resolution condemning the organization of this new fraction. Bogdanov declared that he would not submit to the decision of the meet- ing and was expelled from the frac- iton. Krassin came out in his defense. The Bolshevik fraction split. In the spring, even before the meeting of the: editorial board of “Proletarii,”’ Maria Ilyinishna fell se- viously ill. Ilyich was very much alarmed, Fortunately the disease wa: checked in time by an operation per- formed by Dubouchier. Her convales- cence, however, was rather slow. She needed a rest outside of Paris in the country, The conference put a great strain upon Ilyich, and when it was over it Was necessary for him to go to the country for a rest, way from the turmoil and squabbling of emigr Ilyich began to scan the ch newspapers for advertisements of cheap boarding-houses. He found a boarding house in the vill of Bon- Bon in the jon of the Seine and Loire which ly charged ten francs per day for four persons. We- found the place very convenient and lived there about @ month. Ilyich did no work at Bon-Bon, and we tried to refrain from discussing Party affairs’ We went for walks every day and almost every day cycled to the Clamar forests, 15 kilometers jaway. We also observed French way: of life. Most” the guests at our boarding-house were office em- ployees, shop assistants, ete. One was @ saleswoman ata fashionable store, who was staying with her husband and daughter. Another was a valet to some Count, It was quite interesting to watch tHYs ‘petty-bourgeois crowd with its strongly marked petty-bour- geois mentality. On the one hand, these pecplé" Were highly practical, and saw to it that they were well Ted, and that’ everything was made comfortable for them. On the other hand, they all aspired to be regarded as real gentry, Madame Lagourette (this was the name of the sales- Woman) was typical of the rest. She was obviously a woman of the world. She had a great fund of suggestive stop helping the Daily Workér you are really helping the bloody heirs of | this evening at Carnegie Hall. Niko- bloody Over Cromwell lai Sokoloff will conduct and Ruth : Miller, soprano and Elizabeth Len- | nox, contralto, will be the soloists. ‘The program includes Bach’s “Cha- The Irish Workers MEAN to take up the Irish question again and again, and would like to [Sores eT teecet ots eee pipe e pr: ies |= minor, get letters and suggestions from Irish workers. This is of great im- portance to the Americam<movement, I believe, and has been badly Neglecicd. woxd Awter the drive for finds for the Daily Worker is finished, I plan to | propose a fund in this coliimn to go toward the establishment of an Irish | “ Workers’ weekly in this country. | Meanwhiie, visit the Irish Workers’ Club at 304 W, 58th St., and help | them lay the basis of a sirong organization. | I wonder if it is widely known that Marx and Engels thought the Nt Bets Meg se Irish question so important that Engels, with the encouragement of its | ANNIVER: he TORDAY,” DECEM+ great collaborator, worked for years gathering material for an economic tenths Consmnan, "ser AD Fon PROGRAM, history of Ireland. His deatit interrupted the work, which would have had @ profound importance. | Damozel,” Moussoresky'’s introduction | to “Khovanstchina” and Mikeshina’s “Kazatchok.” TONIGHT’S HT’S PROGRAMS | WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Mountaineers Music :15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch 7:30—Lum and Abner 7:45—Tho Goldbergs—-Sketch 8:00—-Julla “Sanderson and Frank Crumit, Songs 8:30—Wayne King Orch. Bernie Orch, 0—-Ed Wynn, Comedian; Voorhees Orch. 10:00—Cruise of the Seth Parker—Dramatic Sketcn -Beauty—Mme. Sylvia Robert Simmons, Tenor WHAT'S ON | CELEBRATE THE 10TH DAILY WORKER pee Paige, WINTER TERM WORKER'S SCHOOL — Registration is now open, Room 30, 35 E, : Engels was married to: in Trish girl named Lizzie Burns, an ardent | 12th st, 00—Talk—J, B. IKennedy ~ Fenian, and made three visits for research and study to Ireland. His wife: | cea ans hbo eteiee ew, _ Was an active worker in the-Fenian cause. Engels contributed heavily ot | Tuesday Vallee Orch. NEWLY ORGANIZED SINGING SECTION | of the Tremont Progressive Club meets at 8 P.M., at 863 Tremont Ave., cor. Southern Boulevard. Lahn Adamhyan, director, * . his own funds to that moyement, sheltered the exiles, and agitated in - the press for Irish freedom..He studied Gaelic, and could read and speak it, Visit the Irish Workers’ Qlub! You will be welcomed there, even if not a Gael, as a fellow-worker. A, M.—Martin Orch Ceri Sia WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P, M.—Sports—Ford Frick 5—News—Gabriel Heatter 0—Terry and Ted—Sketch 45—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, ‘Tenor 8:00-—-Grofe Orch.; Jean Sargent, Songs; Prank Parker, Tenor 8:30—Frank and Flo, Songs 45——The Road to Mandalay—Sketch 15~To Be Announced '30—Footlight Echoes 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Ourrent Events—Harlan Bugene Read 10:30—Eddy Brown, Violin; Concert Orch, 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Nelson Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch. eis Wednesday |, CLARTE, 304 W. 58th Street Moving Pic- j ture, synchronized—“War Against the Cen- turies” and Charley Chaplin, Contribution 20c. Time 8:30 P.M, * ‘Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist sow. CoMpetition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob _*" * Burek and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 sie Worker Drive: prideelt TOTAL TO DATE, coneess ees + $506.26 Secretary, International Workers Order, on “Social Insurance” at Jack London Club, 230 Court St., on Wednesday, Dec. 13th, at -Marx-Lenin Exhibit in West Allis, Wisconsin 2°.<° CONN. UNIT RAISES $5 HARTFORD, Conn.—Members of the South End Unit of this town * Newark LE BY MAX BEDACHT, General ot ete Wise Miho to give everybody ample time to see will give a lecture and e: on the efietorieal Role of hi mat Lac the exhiibts, which has been attract- . _ hor Hall, 6997 West Nationel Ave, on ing favorable attention wherever it] chested $5 to help swell the $40,000 WSJZ—760 Ke eee has been shown. ‘The lecture will be-|fund necessary for assuring the ex-| ji" Mame ie Re ante ‘The hall wll be. opened at p. m.|ain at 7:30 p,m. istence of the Sketen Daily Worker. TUNING IN | | 7:45—String ‘Quartet 8:00—Por Each Jad’ Kills—Sketch 8:30—Adve iy Health—Dr, Herman | Bundesen 8:45—Billy Hilipet and Scrappy Lambert, Songs 2. 9:00—Alice Mock; Soprano; Edger Guest Poet; Kaesiner Orch. 9:30—Man’ of Daring—Dramatic Sketch 10:00—Markel ‘Greti; Sid Gary, Songs; Syd- ney Mann,-Soprano | 10:30—The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion—Jeste “Jones, Chairman of the Board RPG; Speaking at Mecting of Illinois “Banufacturers Asosciation Dinner, Chicago 11:00—Leaders. ‘Trio. ‘Anthony Frome, Tenor Davis Orch. 12;00-—Harris “Orch; 12:30 A, M—Bomick. Ore. * WABC—860 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 1:15—Just Plain “Bill—sketch 7:30—Dell Campo, Songs ‘7:45—News—BOake! Carter 8:00—-Blmer Everett -Yess—Sketeh 8:15—News—Bdwin’. Hill 8:30—Voice of Experience 8:45—Exposition~of- Progress — D, Curtin 9:00—Philadelphia. Oreh., Leopold stolow- ski, Conductor 9:15—Poet's Thomas | | 10:00—Gray Orch. 10:30—News Bulletins 10: eRe Bying, Baritone; Symphony 11; 10—STuberostosie the Robher—-Dr, H.W. Haggard :15—Gertrude Nicsen, Songs 0-—Jones Orch, 00—-Lopes Orch. A. M.—Brigode: Orch. Hopkins Orch, Explain Yourself, Professor! — WELL, GENTLEMEN, I APPROACHED THE PROBLEM FROM MANY ANGLES BUY | THEN | YOUR. MOWEY LT REMEMGERED THAT IT was WHICH MOTIVATED MN | THINKING SO TUS MADE ME ATTACK’ THE PROBLEM wind ateiie' Eni EN FRom Rous, ANGLE~ (7 THE RESULT IS THAT I PROPOSE NOT EVEN 9 TEAR GES‘ the need for: theoretical training; | DAY, DECEMBER 12, 1938 MEMORIES OF LENIN "LENIN | stories which she would relate with great gusto. But that did not pi vent her from sp y the time when she wou! daughter Marthe to her f: nion, how touching that would be, etc, etc. Of course, to a large de~ gree, this mediocrity bored us. It was a good thing that we were able to | keep aloof from tt as we | wanted to. On the whole, Ilyich had | a good rest at Bon-Bon | In the autumn we changed our quarters. We moved to an apartment in the same neighborhood in Rue Marie Rose. We had two rooms and a kitchen—our windows looked ou on a garden, Our “li now the kitchen, where | to-heart talks took place. By Viadimir was eager to set to work. He established a certain routine, as he | called it. He would get up at 8 o’clock in the morning, go to the Biblio- He also did a lot of work at home. T tried to keep people away from him. We always had many visitors, crowds upon crowds, especially at this time when, owing to the reaction r Russia, and the trying conditi work, emigration from Russ crease very considerably. People | would arrive from Russia .and relate with enthusiasm what was going on there, but soon they seemed to wilt, became submerged in the dally to earn a living and the petty es. of life. At this time the students at the to Capri to lecture there. Ilyich cate- sorically refused. He explained them the fractional character of th: Paris. Within the Capri school, beginning of November, five students (there were twelve in all) including Vilonov, the organizer of the school, officially declared themselves to be staunch Leninists and were expelled from the school, This incident proved Lenin was when he pointed to the fractional character of the school, The expelled students came to Paris. I remember the first meeting we had with Vilonov. He began to tell us about his work in Ekaterinoslav. We had freq ved letters from a worker ‘esponder lav, who signed himself “Misha Za- | vodski.” His letters were very inter- esting and dealt with the most vital questions of Party and factory life. Do you happen to know Misha Za- ki?” I asked Vilonov. “Why, I m he,” tely created a friendly feeling in Tl- ich towards Michael and they had a ery long talk that day. In the eve- ing of that same day Ilyich wrote to i as follo ‘Dear Alexey Max- | imich: AIL time I have been fully |convinced that you and Comrade |Michael were the staunchest cham- pions of ti new fraction, and with whom 4t would be absurd for me to attempt to speak in a friendly way. Today I met Comrade Michael for he first time. We had a heart-to- heart talk about affairs and about yourself and I realized that I had been greatly mistaken. By gad! Phi- losopher Hegel was right: life pro- Sresses in contradictions, and living contradictions are much richer, more varied and profounder than the hu- man mind can at first grasp. I re- garded the school merely as a center of a new fraction. This proved to be wrong—not in the sense that it is not the center of a new fraction (the school has been and is such a center) but in the sense that this is not com- vlete, it is not the whole truth, Sub- vely, certain persons were mak- ing the school such a center; objec- tively, it was such a center; but in addition to this, it drew from real working-class life real advanced workers.” And what an ardent con- fidence is expressed in the strength of the working class at the end of the letter where Lenin writes that the working class must forge a party ut of elements of every kind and xeellent, revo- s will be forged in Russia mu ener than it seems to us looking at from the jangle of this thrice cursed state of j exile; it will be forged much more |surely than we imagine, if we are te id nice of this Five other students of the Capri school arrived wth Michael. Among them “Vanya Kazanets” (Pankratov) | was the most conspicuous for his ac- tivit | Opp more sharply expressed than that of the rest. There was also Lushvin (Pa- |khon), Kozyrev (Foma), Ustinov (Va- sily) and Romanov (Alya. A! Nlyich delivered a series o! ci to them and devoted » great deal of attention to their studies. Then they \left for Russia, except Michael who had tuberculosis, which he had con- tracted as a result of the harsh treat- my he had received in the Niko- | iayev poral regiment. We placed him in Daves. He did not live there long, however. He died on May 1, 1910. At the end of December the studies at Capri came to a close and the rest of the students arrived in Paris, Il- yich delivered lectures to these also. He spoke to them on current topics, sbout the land reforms introduced in | Russia by the then Premier Stolypin | whose pottey was to build up a class of “well-to-do” peaswits, about the leading role of the proletariat and about the work of the Social-Demo- by QUIRT theque Nationale, return at 2 p.n.| to | school and asked them to come to} al fractional struggle flared up. In the | better than anything else how right | nt in Ekaterino- |! he answered, This tmmedi- | matter what hap- | | | | | | | y- | visit. us and related to us how he | a | stories, and when the peasants are | the peasants’ votes, the candidate be- | Whose new pi ot Die” has been chosen by the Theatre Guild as its fifth production of the | current season, It is to go into re~ | hearsal in January and will open | about February 1, fellowing the Guild’s production of Eugene O'Neill's “Days Without End.” Wesley is the author of “The Last Mile” and “Steel.” His new play ts based on the Scottsboro case. cratic depuies in the Duma. Comrade aytey relates that one of the stu- | rip Ilyich up and make | lyich attached more importance to work the: Duma than e carr’ on ation in the army. Ilyich smiled, and went on to} talk akeut the importance of work in | it appear that the work in the | army should be slackened in the least jegree, but he did think that this work ought-to be carried on more | secretly, “This work,” he said, “must be done, but not talked about.” Just at this time a letter had arrived from Tor on, from a group of sailors, be on lara cruise! moment thir ski ularly for a person to be sent to carry on revolutionary work among the sailors, Ilyich sent a comrade there who had much experience in| ec. ork and this comrade settled in Toulon. Of course, Ilyich did not even as ch as hint about this to) the students, Although Le: most entirely hel 's thoughts were. al- p with Russia, | France was opportunistic to the. core. For example: In the spring of 1909 | @ great ike of postal employees } broke out. The whole city was in a} state of excitement over e event; but the Party Pt aloof és the | is division of labor, the | s aloofness from an economic gle, seemed positively monstrous. Tyich paid particular attention to the election campaign. The cam- paign did not seem to concern imme- diate political problems; it was all ‘aken up with personal bickering and mutual abuse. Only a few of the meetings were interesting. At one of them I saw Juares. He had. tremen- dous influence on the crowd; but I} did not like his speech—every word seemed. to be deliberately chosen. I liked Vaillant’s speech much better. Vaillant had been a fighter in the Paris Commune and was particularly loved and esteemed by the workers. I can recall the figure of a tall work- er who had come to the mecting straight from work, with his shirt} sleeves rolled up. This man Ustened | to Vaillant with wrapt attention and suddenly he exclaimed: “Fine speak- er, the old man!” Two young lads, the sons of this worker, sitting beside him, were equally enthusiastic. But not all the orators at the meetings were Juareses and Vaillants. The or- dinary speakers played down to their audiences: they spoke in one way to @ working-class audience and in an- other way to an audience of intel- lectuals. By attending French elec- tion tings, we got a clear insight hat elec is mean in a “demo- repub! To an outside ob- | r the thing seemed simply onishing. 'T is why Tlyich was | ‘9 fond of the revolutionary music- hall singers who poured ridicule on the election campaign. I remember one song which described how a can- didate gocs to a village to canvass for votes; he drinks with the peas- ants, tells them a lot of cock-and-bull drunk they vote for him and sing: “T’as ben dit mon ga!” (What you say is true, lad!). After having got gins to draw his 15,000 francs salary geputy, and betrays the interests peasants. On one occasion a Mst member of the Chamber of Deputies named. Dumas came to went around the villages during the election to canvass for votes and I involuntarily called to mind that mu- Sic-hall song. Ons of the most popu- lar music-hall singers of that time was Montagues, the son of a fighter AMUSEME {the South Seas” | woman’s By IRVING LERNER 7 ESKIMO, a 2! the becks by rected by W. duced im the Hollywood by Mayer; presented Peter Fruchemy S. Van Dyke; (peer Arctic Circle am@ Joe Sowers, Edward Deering, W* Van Dyke, and some native kimos. Freuchen, in 191 | tor sourteon years, livi a | kimo because he liked the people. a matter of fact he became an A kimo; he spoke their language; 6 he married an Eskimo woman wit {whom he lived until she died. His noval “Eskimo” was published if English translation in 1931. In many ways it is a notable work. It-carries |a strong conviction of authenticity. Freuchen’s descriptions of Eskimo so= {cial organization make the novel im-= |portant, as a scientific document. As @ matter of fact it is far better than most anthropological monographs on primitive peoples. To a certain ex= tent, “Eskimo” dealt with the sup~- pression of native autonomy by Brit~ ish imperialism and Canadian, native policy. The novel traced the complete disintegration of its hero, Mala, as & c lresult of this policy. It is said that Freuchen authorized this film version of his book. If so, it is too bad. Freuchen has succumbed to Hollywood lure. He must have for~ |gotten that he was ohce an Eskimo, |In this film, W. S. Van Dyke does |for the Eskimo what his “Trader Capri school invited Ilyich to come | ine Duma. O7 course, he did not for a | Horn” did for the South African Ne- |gro, and what his “White Shadows in did for the Polyne« sian native: exploited their sex-life, whitewashed imperialistic native pole icy, and advanced a suave chauvine ism. Everything about the film version of “Eskimo” is a distortion, Eyen the < |}photography, that has been so. high- ly praised by the bourgeois film crit~- ies, has been distorted with Dunning and other process photography. If they had to resort to trick photogra- {phy there is no reason why the tech= nical crew had to spend more than a year in the north. As a matter of fact most of the story takes place in the interiors of tents, igloos, ships, \cabins, all located in Hollywood, Cal. Even the central character, Mala, has been distorted. Mala of the book i ally opposed to Mala of the film. Freuchen’s Mala was a real |Eskimo hunter. When his wife died as a result of an accident hehad to get another. A man cannot live with out a wife to prepare meals and mend clothes, However, in any Eski- }mo camp there is a shortage of wo- Thus, Mala opertly kills one first husband, her two brothers and her second husband, so that he, the great hunter, will have a wife. He is arrested by Canadian mounted police for his “crime.” For “peace and order” must be preserved at all costs. Mala manages to escape. He is forced to flee with his family ~ to the far north; away from his tribe, Game there is scarce. And besides, an Eskimo cannot live alone, away from his tribe. Things get so bad that he is compelled to go south, to his vil- jage. On the way back he f& drowned. “And here ends the story of the great Mala who once dwelt among white men and thereaftes could never forget them.” But not so in the film. Mala of the movies is an Eskimo sheik—the Hol« lywood version of the Eskimo Clark Gable. His second wife, who was giv- en to Mala, by her husband, is the same edition of Jean Harlow Now you have the film. Mala is arrested by the Canadian Mounted Police for killing a white man (acted by Peter Freuchen) who had raped his wife Mala escapes. He is followed by twe C.M.P.’s, but they are unable t& catch him. Mala finally gets back tc the village, grabs his good ‘looking wife (he leaves his ugly wife to take care of the kids) and sails away “across the Straits” with her on « cake of ice. They are arm in arm. Long shot. Fade out. Metro refuses to give credit to any actors, claiming that they are‘all ne tive, This is to give you the impres- sion of authenticity. Here Is a list of Eskimo film stars in the film! Mala is played by Ray Wise, who ix half Jewish and half Eskimo. Be- ‘ore becoming an actor he was & cameraman, Fhe -good looking wife is played by Lulu Wong, sister of the famous Chinese-American movie star. Anna May Wong, and fs herself ex- perienced in films. The captain of the boat is acted by Peter Freucher |and the police inspector is played by W. 8. Van Dyke, the director-of the film, men. in the Paris Commune; he was the favorite of the faubourgs (the work- fng-class districts). His songs com< bined the sentimentality of the petty bourgeois with the spirit of the true revolutionary. (Continued Tomorrow} MENTS ADDED. FEATURE A LAST 11 DAYS ALEICHEM’S Yiddish Comedy (English Titles). | SOVIETS SaNG AND ‘DANCE | CME THEATRE tintoni | sora) cniliren tne, re “LAUGHTER | THROUGH | TEARS” i A Soviet Production | td oe to 1 pm.” iifon. | W OUTRAGE! RED STRONGH OLD BOMBED t Chiang Kai-shek's air-reiders bomb Communist region of Southern Kiangsi. Dense- ly populated village “FATHER EMBASSY NEWSREEL ROBERTA A New. 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