The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1933, Page 5

aE a Fe ee “SIMMARTIN What a Mind! * der the direction of Bruno Walter at WHAT WORLD! By Michael Gold A Sermon on Smoking ISTEN, Pioneers, they are right in the Soviet Union when they discour- age the tobacco habit in the kids. It’s no good for anyone, and once it takes hold on a man he is lost for life: I started to chew tobacco as @ boy when I worked for the old Adams Express, then I took to cigarettes, then cigars, then a pipe when I-began to write (I used to foolishly believe all writers had to smoke pipes); ‘Now the doctor has told me to stop, but it is hard, I read all the tobacco ads and suffer like anything. In a healthy society such drugs won’t be needed. I wish I were grow- ing up Wke you into a world where this weed may vanish. I wish there were no United Cigar stores today, no big posters in the subways, no to- bacco ads. Some of you Pioneers sometimes get impatient with us older comrades, we have so many faults. Please remember that when we grew up these faults, like the tobacco evil, were learned from our parents and teachers. | ‘We used to think it smart and grown-up to smoke. But your Pioneers think it is grown-up and smart to study history and fight for the Working Class, How much better that is. How lucky you are. So don’t judge us | too harshly. We didn’t have as good parents as you have. And now I'll tell you what.I read in some of those tobacco ads, which is what I really wanted to talk about in the first place. You will see I am right. A Mile for a Camel SEEMS that most of the tich people, according to the ads, are now smoking cigarettes. Some of the ads claim it’s Lucky Strikes they smoke; others say Camels, Philip Morris, Piedmonts and Old Golds,“and so forth. It is very confusing. Of course we know all advertising is just a le that some merchant pays for so thatvhe can sell his goods. Still, when there are #0 many les in the same paper ij makes one dizzy. Rich people seem to favor mostly Lucky Strikes and Camels, according to the ads. ° Of course, the rumor is the advertisers go around to these rich peopie and pay them money to say they smoke their brand of cigarettes. A mil- Honaire’s wife may be fond of Camels, but the Lucky Strike man promises | her $200 and her picture in the papers, and so she tells a lie, too. It’s all | les, and it does make one dizzy sometimes. | Anyway, you kids who have parents without jobs, or parents with jobs that pay only enough for two meals a day, will hardly believe the way these rich people spend their time, according to the tobacco ads, Have you ever heard of Mrs, Powell Cabot of Boston? That is one of the rich old families of that old American city. You remember the rhyme: “f come from the city of Boston ‘The home of the bean and the cod, | Where the Cabois speak only to Lowells And the Lowells speak only to God.” Well, this famous and rich lady was paid her $200 (the rich are al- ways greedy for money and publicity), and she posed for a picture and told all about her life. “Flavor is just as important in tobacco as in food, don’t you think?” she said, smiling like @ sap, in her velvet dress. “I like Caméls best because they are Sthooth and rich and still mild. I never get | tired of the taste of Camels and they don’t make me nervous.” | Now, why, you ask, should she be nervous? I wondered, too, knowing she had never had a care in her life, or missed a single meal. The ad says about her: “She dances so beautifully that she has been asked to appear with professionals; she reads-~omnivorously; her collection of etchings is remarkable. She loves the sea; and at her wedding in Nahant, where she summers, the guests followed to the yacht scattering the waters with clouds of rose petals. She entertains exquisitely, and her husband is an excellent shot. She loves flowers and always serves Camel cigarettes.” Another Lover of Camels 10 WHY should she be nervous. The ad doesn’t say, but my guess is that it is because the lady has nothing to do all day but love flowers, hang etchings, read omnivoronsly, dance beautifully, entertain exquisitely and watch her husband shoot.excellently. People realiy ought to do a little useful work at times. Kid’s we'd be nervous, too, leading this life of a cultured bum and parasite. Anyway, kids, let’s pass on to the next example of the way Camels have affected American history. Do you know Hamilton Fish? He is nervous, too, but it is the big bad - wolf of Communism that has done it. He is a Congressman, and a Nazi, and Ku Kluxer and a rich man and all the rest of it. He’d like to kill every man, wothan and child in America who doesn’t believe in capitalism, He can’t, so it makes him hervous.-His wife also smokes Camels. “My debutante daughter really taught me to smoke,” she says for that $200 and picture, “and I do thoroughly enjoy smoking a Camel with her. The flavor is so smooth and fiéh an” they are very mild without being flat. I don’t tire of their taste. When my two younger children grow up and * start to smoke, Camels will probably be their cigarette, too.” “Mrs. Fish és as popular in Washington as in New York,” says the ad, “For genérations the Fishes have had their beautiful estates at Garrison, « N.Y. In Washingten, while Congress is in s®ssion, her lovely house, with » its ancestral portraits, is full of brilliant and astute conversation. Dinner at her table, with its exquisite’ amber glass, her asparagus with eggs Hollandaise, lives in the metmoty of many a foreign diplomat. Camels are always served. In the summer she goes to Mintay Bay, Canada, and plays golf.” : Camels, asparagus and golfi—what a life. I wonder whether the lady is netvous, too, She must be. Well, there tt is, Kids, I’ve told you enough. I hope this little sermon has convinced you never to smoke. Look at the people who now do it! Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received té 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: W. Berenbaum Previous Total . TOTAL TO DATE, appearance this season with the Phil- harmonic on Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall when he will conduct “MUSIC -Heifetz Soloist With Philhar- monic Orchestra Thursday Jascha Heifetz will be the soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra un- the Beethoven “Eroica” Symphony, Weber's Overture to “Oberon,” D'In- dy’s “Istar,” Symphonic Variations and Strauss’ Tone-Poem, “Dan Juan.” W.LR. Band to Hold Fifth Anniversary Concert NEW YORK —The Fifth Anniver- sary concert and dance given by the W.LR. Band will be held Friday, 8:30 pm., at Finnish A program of classical music will be conducted by Jack Zilbert, Carnegie Hall this Thursday night Seana Sere eat Eas e y No. mai ‘ oe bag Beethoven; Violin Con- in B minor, Elgar and Weber's Overture to “Oberon.” Hee Bruno Walter will make his: last Ora Pay ain ; CENTLECIEN! Wao & RU alder I STICKS }H25, 000 BULLETS xm QUITE SERI IN PROPOSING O ASA SOLUTION To THE. UNREST OF THE i | ences and critics. Hall, 15 W, 126th St, |to the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1938 The Liberalism of MEMORIES OF LENIN SholomAschShown in “Three Cities” By GILBERT DOUGLAS THREE CITIES, by Sholom Asch, Putnam. $3.00. * 8 | Sholom Asch is a liberal confronted |by a common dilemma: he aches for the creation of a Socialist order but is unwilling to pay the necessary |price. Speaking through the novel’s | central character, Zachary Mirkin, he pledges his allegiance to sweet re: |sonableness, enlightenment, and evo- lution as the means for bringing about change in society. He concedes that the capitalist assures his rule by | force and that the class war is a ter- rible and living reality; he has stir- ringly portrayed this class war in the Jews in Poland. But he refuses to accept the evidence which his inti- mate knowledge thrusts upon him; he turns from what he knows is true and buries his head in a pillow com- pounded of wish-fulfillments, of dreams which are utterly unfaithful to reality... . As the title indicates, the novel concerns itself with three cities; Tsarist St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow in the first months of the Bolshevik Revolution. Through the three cities wanders Zachary Mirkin, first as the son of a wealthy timber merchant, then as a school teacher jand member of the Polish revolu- tionary party, then as a soldier in the cause of the proletariat. Dissatisfied with the life of the rich bourgeois Jew as represented by the | St. Petersburg circle, he has come to Warsaw to help the poor Jews and had—in a confused way—become at- tracted to the revolutionary move- ment. Though he worked hard and loyally, frequently risking his life, he never seemed to become quite aware of the implications rooted in the idea of revolution. He was thoroughly @ Utopian, imaging that once a revolt was successful & new world would spring up, Phoenix-like, from the | ashes of the old. It was thus inevitable that after the the first plunge, the Russian Revolu- tion should turn him inte a counter- revolutionary; counter-revolutionary | not only in ideology but in actuality— to the point where he suddenly re- jfuses to fight against the White Army advancing on Moscow, return- ing instead to Poland and the warmth |of his fiancee’s arms. . . . Mirkin is really back where he started from. His experiences, his reading, his sufferings, his participa- tion in the Revolution itself had taught him nothing. For the mo- ment he had turned himself inside lout, as it were; but when the most exacting test of all came he slipped back into his true form. He was again the champion of enlightened ‘and abortive) liberalism, . . .It is hardly from his stuff that revolutionaries are created or that revolutions can be carried through to their logical goal. “Peace on Earth” To | Begin Its Fifth Week at Civic Repertory NEW YORK.—The Theatre Union announces that it is now preparing for the fifth week of “Peace on Earth,” the anti-war play at the Civic Repertory Theatre. Because of the support given the theater by many workingclass organizations that have taken benefit performances, the play is now assured of running until Jan. 1. Organizations that wish to take thea- ter parties ave urged to make arrange- ments at once, especially for Christ- mas week. “Peace on Earth” has eight per- formances a week, every evening ex- cepting Sunday, and Wednesday and Saturday matinees, Nearly ten thous sand people have. séen it during its | brief run, and it has received the uni- versal praise of .workingclass audi- Kreymborg to Preside at Symposium on New Theatre Sunday Eve. NEW YORK.—Alfred Kreymborg, well known poet and playwright, will preside at a symposium Sunday eve- ning, Dec. 17, in the auditorium of the New School, 66 W. 12th St., on the subject: “Towards a New. Theater.” Lee Strassberg, director of the Group Theater, whose “Men in White” has been the outstanding hit of the season, will express his per- sonal ideas on the future of the American theater. Virgil Geddes, di- | ;: rector of the Brookefield Players, Michael Blankfort of the Theater Union and John Lyman of the Rép- ertory Playhouse Associates, will talk on the viewpoints of their respective organizations in working “Towards a New Theater.” The posium {fs un- der the auspices of the New Theater Magazine. CALIF, UNIT TOPS QUOTA SANTA BARBARA, Cal.—An affair held here for the Dally Worker $40,000 fund netted $3.62. We have already raised about 400 per cent on our quota, and paid an old debt of $17.25 “Daily.” If other units fol- lowed our example the drive would have been over by now. YOUR PROGLEM '3 SOLVED WHED YOR MAKE THE section of the novel dealing with the| | i as The following is the third of a series of six excerpts from “Mem- orles of Lenin” by his wife and lifelong comrade, N. Krupskaya, which we are reprinting in connec- tion with the apprerphing Lenin Memorial in January, 1934, These memories, which give an in- timate portrait vf the great leader of the international working class, are taken from Volume I of the “Memories,” published by Interna- tional Publishers. ates Gees PARIS | | (1908-10) | (Continued) | Ilyich was fond of visiting the su- burban theatres, and of watching the working-class audiences there. I\ re- member on one occasion we went to | see @ play which depicted the tor-/| tures of soldiers in a penal battalion | { Morocco. It was most interesting | to watch the audience. They were quick to respond to every incident. | The performance had not yet begun. | Suddenly shouts went up from all over the theatre: “Hat! Hat!” This | outburst was caused by the entry of | a lady wearing a fashionable hat trimmed with feathers. The audience | demanded that the lady remove her | hat and she was obliged to submit. The performance began. In the play a soldier is sent to Morocco and his mother and sister remain at home in poverty. The landlord of the house in which they live is willing to allow them to live there without paying the rent if the soldier's sister agrees to become his mistress. “Brute! Dirty dog!” was shouted from all parts of the hall. I have forgotten all the de- tails of the play, but I remember that it depicts how the soldiers who do not submit to the officers are tor- tured in Morocco. It ended with a mutiny and the singing of the “In- ternationale.” The performance of this play was prohibited in the cen- ter of the city; but in the suburbs it was performed to enthusiastic audi- ences. In 1910 a huge demonstration | took place in which about 100,000 per- sons took part, to protest against the Morocco adventure. The demonstra- tion took place with the sanction of the police. It was headed by Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies who wore red sashes. The workers wate in a fighting mood and shook their fists at the windows of the houses\in the wealthy quarters of the town. Here and-there shutters were hastily put up; but the demonstration passed off as peacefully as could be. It cfd not resemble a protest demon- stration at all. ‘Through Charles Rappoport, Viadi- mir Tiyich was introduced to Paul Lafargue, a son-in-law of Karl Marx, 4 true. and’ tried fighter of whom Ilyich had a very high opin- ion. Lafargue and his wife Laura, Marx’s daughter, lived’ in Draveile, about 25 kilometers from Paris. They had already retired from active work. “120 Works Shown | | at Art Exhibition | | of John Reed Club} “Volga Volga” Opens At Cameo Theatre Tomorrow By N.. KRUPSKAYA husband. In 1911, when I learned of jthe death of the 1: I under- stood the rds and of t g ‘hey both other as ath: They pide. and eir old age, were,too feeble to cause th on the Tn 1910 an entarged meeting of the Central Conimitteeof the Party was held. At the eilarged meeting of the editorial board ef the “Proletarii, solutions had been passed in vor of Party’ unity and inst ¢: ing a Boishevik Congre this meeting of the Central Com tee Ilyich and,:a.group of comrades who rallied round him mafntained the same line; -In the period of reac- tion it was extremely important to have a party. that boldly told the y. I. LENIN whole truth, even though it was uh- important to, hold : of the Party7gt;all o the Mquidators-had their own stron; legal opportunist cer It was nec- essary to retain the to counteract that perience of the Cz how very often al tionalism of the five and pect have a united Wi the m: s of the Social- oeratic workers could rally. struggle in 1910 was a struggl the very existence of the Party exercising infittence upon thi through the medium of Viadimir Dyieh was convinced that Pai The for for One day, Ilyich and I cycled to Dra- velle to visit the Lafargues. They re- ceved us very amiably. Vladimir be- gan to tell Lafargue about his book on philosophy while Laura Lafargue took me for a walk in the park. I was a little excited—I was actually walk- ing with Marx’s daughter. I scanned her face eagerly to try to find some resemblance to Marx in her features. In my embarrassment I babbled something inarticulately about the part women were playing in the revo- lutionary. movement and about Rus- sia. She replied, but somehow or other conversation lagged: When we returned we found Lafargue and Il- yich discussing philosophy. “Soon he will prove,” Laura said about her hus- band, “how sincere are his philo- sophic convictions,” and she ex- changed significant glances with her within the Party the Boisheviks would be in the majority, th end the Party would take the Bolshe- vik. line; but it had to be a Party md not a fraction. Ilyich pureued arty this "ine also in 1911 when a school was being formed nes which admitted the foll “Vperyod” and’ Party Mensheviks* well as Bolsheviks. This line was al pursued at the Prague Party Con- ference in 1912. Tiyich did not want a fraction but # Party that ¢ ued a Bolshevik line-Of.course, in th ty there was no room for liqt for the fight: against whom were being gatheted. Of course, there fo * Le. Mensheviks who were not } uidators; who agreed that the il! Party should bé preserved.—Kd. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Shirley Howard, Song; Jesters ‘Trio 7:15—Billy Baechlor—Sketch 7:30—Lum and Abner 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Bert Lehr, Comedian; Olsen Orch. 8:30—Wayne King Orch. 9:00—Troubadours Orch.; Bettina Hall, Songs 9:30—Phil Duey, Baritone; Reisman Orch, 10:00—Hilibilly Music | 10:30—Current Phase of the National Recoy-| ery Program—Dantel C. Roper, Secretary | of Commerce 11:00—Davis Orch. 1:15—Jestera Trio 11:30-—Bestor Orch. 12;00—Ralph Kirbery, Songs | 12:05 A.M.—Molina Orch, 12:30—Sosnick Orch. | * WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick 1:15-—News—Gabriel Heater 7:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch ‘U:4S—Talk—Harry Hershfield 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Sketch 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30-A New Deal on Main Street—Sketch Oi dt Trio Bt fetropolitan Revue 4 9:4S—Dorothy Miller and Gerald Swift, Songs; Shackley Orch. 10:00—Same as WJZ Reigate Report ms :02—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Seottt Ore! 1:00 P.M.—Amoen’ Andy | :15—John Herrick, Songs 1:30—Potash and-Perlmu 1:45—Hollywood—frene- Ri 8: Each Ma Kills—Sketch 8:3 getous Patadiso—Sketch WiZ—760 Ke 9:00—Warden Lewid’B. Lawes in Years 8, Big AisigeSketoh 9:30—John MeCor 4 10: do restimoniet nhel Jen, Waldorf-Astoria Maleolm MM trator; Edward P:"Mulrooney, chair New York Stais Aleoholle Beverage trol Board; “Rrttttiiew Woll, Vice-Pre dent, Ainerioan--Federation of Lebor, and others 11:00—Three Scamp: oOngs 11:15—Anthony Fromeé, Tenor 11:30—Madriguera’ Ore 12:00—Elkins_Oreire 12:30 A.M.—Ring Oreb. WABC—860 Ke 3:00 P.M—Myrt and-Marge 15Just Plo, BUl-—Sketoh 40—Travelers Ensenible 5 —News—Boake Carter :00—-Green Orch.; Men About Town ‘rio; | "Vivien Ruth, Bones 8:15—News—Ed! + Hi 8:30—Albert Splading, Violin; Conrad Thi bault, Bartong;- Voorhees Orch, 00—Philadelphia “Orch. 15—Alexander-Wobdllcott—The Town Grier :30-—Lombardo- .7 Burns and Allen, AM,—Little Orch. 00—Light Oroky: + Now IF{ou QARRANGE A HOLIDAY Paid FOR BY, “V, ? ” es a NEW YORK.—The John Reed Club| “Volga Volga,” a new Europea) exhibit of paintings, drawings and/| film, in its English version, will oper Ipture against hunger, fascism and| tomorrow at the Cameo Theatre when Joseph Freeman, editor | The picture is # historical document Masses, formally opened the| of one of the traditional figures /@) | those | jwas no room in the Party for who had decided beforeha: | they would not abide by the | of the P. je to the public with ® talk on) Russian folk-lore, the tale of Stenkt the Revolution.” } gi pa exhibit. whic 5 _| Razin, early revolutionary hero, wht wd Alay i pee Sr ie | sacked the landlords and merchant 3 nce in the development of art of rig Wika Lhe belo a rected . Tourshanski. Stent liver sagen Sete Razin is played by M. A. Shlettay who e tirely supporte in’s point of view, | * who considered that the s to unite with th nain | § Party |in the United States, with the Plel sts,| Works by 77 different artists. ; Pye wiih the desire | © hosen from a vast number of |@nd the a Leb sccigg Page to preserve the Party that he, too, | Works submitted by 140 artists, both | Hall-Davis, Alexandss Ratsiy, ‘ nto incline towards the concilia- | members and non-members of the @pplied a new method of/indiress) 's putt view. Tlyich put him | John Reed Club. ;dialogue to the film. Famous Rus- - | right, however. , | Over half of the artists on exhibit | sian ballads are sumg throughout thy | On the whole, the resolution g | Ae ee eee ee eae re | Lectures are planned throughout! “poad To Life,” the picture of Ros- he duration of the exhibit, with the ysia’s homeless children, directed by next one, by Suzanne LaFollette, for-|the noted Soviet producer Ekk, wil {passed unanimously. It is ri {to think that Ilyich was voted down | and overwhelmed by the votes of the ime when the WORKERS FORGET THEIR WORK — CAPITAL AND DEVOTE | 1T To SPORTS YOU CAM SECURE THE GOOD WILt OF THE WORKERS BT TAKING THEIR MINDS OFF THE Ss veusie |conciliators and that he surrendered | ™erly editor of the New Freeman, | open @ short engagement on Thurs {his position. The Plenum lasted three | scheduled for Friday eventing, 8:30) day at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, r ich considered that it was the lown. The 500 yet been e funds of the m. were handed over to the “trustees,” three German com~- Mehting, and Clara who re to 0 only for general Bols! Party p a of the money was to be returned to the Bolsheviks. Kamenev was sent to Vienna as the Bolshevik rep sentative on the Trotskyist “Pravd “Things have been very stormy he recently,” Lenin wrote to his sister, na, “but it ended in an jattempt to make peace with the Men- 'sheviks, Yes, yes, strange as it may appear, we have closed down the or- gan of the fraction and we are trying to make a strong move towards unity.” Innokenty and Nogin went to Rus- sia to organize a Russian (i.e. work- ing in Russia) collegium of the Cen- | tral Committee. Nogin was a concil- jiator who wished to unite everybody d his speeches met with a rebuff the part of the Bolsheviks. Inno- nty followed a different line; but wussia Was not “abroad” where ev- ry word uttered was understood: his | words were tnterpreted in the terms of Nogin, all the non-Bolsheviks saw Lindov and V. P. Miliutin on the Central Com- kenty was soon arrested. indoy shared Nogin’s point of view, id was not very active, The state of the Russian Central Committee in 1910 could not have been worse. Abroad, things were not much bet- ter. Mark (Liubimov) and Lyova (Via ‘ov) were “conciliators in gener and frequently allowed themselves to be influenced by tales jabout the alleged quarrelsomeness alty of the Bolsheviks. | stories, for he was a member of the | United Bureau of the Central Com- | mittee Abroad, on which all the frac- |tions were represented. | The “Vperyod’-ists continued to organize their forces. Alexinsky's | group once broke into a meeting of a | Bolshevik group which had assembled tm a cafe on Avenue d’Orleans, With an insolent air Alexinsky sat down at ja table and demanded to be allowed | to speak, and when this was refused \he t n to create an uproar. The | “Vperyod”-ists came with him hemselves upon our comrades Skovno and of our group, e into the fight, ich Sapozhkov powerful man, | we | but ohe arm and other, while the pro- cafe, who had had| he matter of | ¢ lights. There er this incident ut the streets of | ‘ e returned Il asleep until | dated Well, it nd gi niggering, jo! Ing to have to live udicrousness,’ amidst td scandal. And it ts y to one’s moods. The life now is a hundred times s than it was before the Exile and squabbling are . But squabbling is a mi- enths of the squab- | bling remains abroad; squabbling is merely a by-product. But the devel- opment of the Social-Democratic |movement is gving on and on, in |spite of the present hellishly diffi- conditions. The pur al-De ic Party of its dan- of its liquidation- m is going ahead un- ; within the framework of | as made considerably more ress than before. er on, he states: “I can im- y hard it is to watch this | diffi of a new Social- | Democratic movement fot those who ; have not seen and did not experience |the difficult growth at the end of ‘the elghties ahd the beginning of the ninet: At that time Social- Democrats could be counted in tens of thousabds. Hence, crisis after orl- {sis. And Socia'-Democracy as a whole is overcoming these crises openly and honestly.” (Continued Tomorrow) pr | by QUIRi 8; in the évent of a split the bal- | rticularly, heard many such '#*, | p.n., at the clubrooms. HATS ON | 10TH DAILY WORKER THE ¥ SATURDAY, DECEM- at the SEE AD FOR PROGRAM. WORKER'S SCHOOL Room 30, 35 F. 2M. is now open. Ja RSAL for W.ILR. Band Con- All members must report at T p.m. at 2061 Lexington Ave., cor. 125th Bt. Wednesday | oO FORUM on “The Menate of War’ auspices of Social Youth Ouiture Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn. Adm. free. | CLARTE, 304 W, 58th St., movie showing | of “War Against the Centuries” and Char- |ley Chaplin. Time 8:30 p.m. Contribution 20. cents | LL.D. Clara Zetkin Br. (German), im-| |portant membership meeting at Labor | Temple, 243 E. 84th St. at 8:30 p.m. All| |membets are urged to come. GENERAL Rehearsel of Daily Worker Chorus, 35 E. 12th St., 5th floor, 8 p.m. FILM and Photo League announces lec- ture on Advance Photography by Albert Carroll followed by general discussion at 116 Lexington Ave. 9 p.m. ART EXHIBITION of “Hunger, Fascism, War” at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave. from 1 to 7 daily and from 2 to § p.m. on Sunday. THE INTERNATIONAL Labor Defense of Astoria meets twice monthly (the ist and 3rd Wed of the month) st their head- quarters, 25-18 Astoria Boulevard. HERBERT BENJAMIN, released recently from & New Mexico jail, will give = graphic account of his escape from the military steckades at “Welcome Benjamin” meeting arranged at Webster Hall, 119 B. ith St, Admission 15¢. MEETING of the Arrangements Commit~ | tee for the 10th Anniversary of the Daily Worker takes place at Workers Center, 60 E. 13th St., Room 203, 8 p.m. All comrades willing to serve on this Committee are urged to attend this meeting. Thursday FIRST MEETING of Edith Berkman Br. LL.D. st new headquarters, Boro Park Workers Clb, 4704—18th Ave, at 8:30 p.m. Discussion on Fascism and Tersani case. _ tography. “Advice To The Lovelorn,” the latest Twentieth Century picture opens today at the Rivoli Theatre Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Isabel Jewel Paul Harvey and Judith Wood hear the cast of the picture, which 1 screened from a story by Leonarc Praskins. The Strand Theatre is now show: ing “The Sin Of Nora Moran,” # nev Majestic film, with Zita Johann, Alap Dinehart, and Paul Cavanaugh head | ing the cast. | Film, Photo League To Conduct Photo Class NEW YORK.—Following the suc- cessful opening of the Harry Alan Potamkin Film School, the Film and Photo League announces the organt- zation of a class in Elementary Pho- Planned a8 a practica) class for training workers to make use of cameras to picture their liv ing, working and fighting conditions, the Photography Class makes no special requirements, excepting an in- terest in learning photography to be used for the working class. Students are not required to own cameras when they join (although this {s de- sirable), nor is previous experience essential. Even before the class has beer pub licly announced, there is a rush of ap- plicants for the class. The Film and Photo League asks all those workers interested, to come to 116 Lexington Ave. (near 28th St.) Registration will be open on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, 8 to 10 P.M. Reg- istration closes January 8 and clas begins on Friday, Jan. 5. AMUSE MENTS The story of R.K.O. Stenka Razin... The most romantic revolutionary here of old Russia. OLGA VOLGA American Premiere Tomorrow CAMEO @2ND STREET & BHOADWA¥ 2OC ite LAST 10 ADDED | FEATURE SHOLOM ALEICHEM’S Yiddish Comedy (English Titles), pays “LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS” A Soviet Production | SOVIETS SING AND DANCE ACME THEATRE ith St. &| 0c tol p.m. (Mon, Union Sq.‘ _ to Fri.) Childron ie RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL —q $0 54 & 6 Avo DHOW PUALA of ihe WAION Direction “Rory” Opens 11:30 A.M. JOHN BARRYMORE in “Counsellor At Lew” i at 11215, tho, 4:42, 7:43, 10:08 ond an unusual “Roxy” stese snow 1 Week Only! (Titles in Engtish) Fifth Ave. Playhouse 7% 30c 1 to 6 — 40¢ Evenings || EMPIRE a e to lip the suthore, of “MERRY-GO-ROUND™ | SOHN HOWARD’ LAWSON says: “Tt is the most exciting event of the season.” THE THEATRE GUILD presente—, EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! A with GEORGE COHAN ATT ‘Thes.. St, ot Bwa: G U ILD Ev.8.20 Mats. Thars.aSat200 MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITH MUSTO The School for Husbands with Osgood PERKINS—June WALKER Thes., B’way & 40 St.,Ey, 8.40Mats.Thurs.2S8at.2.40 BEGINNING — | ak roMoRROW |! MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play DRAMA OF MARY OF SCOTLAND RUSSIA'S with HELEN | PHILIP HELEN “WILD HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN CHILDREN” Thea,, 52d St., W. of Bway ALVIN Ev.8.80.Mats.Thar:&Sat. 2.50 THE ANTI-WAR PLAY PEACE ON EARTH tre, 14th St. & 6th Ave. its. Wed. & Bet, 2:30 300 te $1.50, No tax Roland YOUNG aid Laura HOPE OREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” “| Plymouth Thes., W. 45th St. Evs. 8.40 Mats. Thut. & Sat, 2:40 Dance With Us Till Dawn TENTH ANNIVERSARY DAILY WORKER Saturday, December 30th BRONX COLISEUM WEST FARMS ROAD—I77th STREET oN