The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1933, Page 5

| j i { DAILY WORKER Ww YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 WHAT WORLD! (O could have believed that in these dark days of unemployment and want the Daily Worker would find ft possible to raise $40,000 from among those who are suffering most? But the job has almost been done, and a slight last push will carry ‘the drive over the hump. The World of the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR Analysis of a Success No fair judgment can be passed on Maxwell Anderson's play, “Mary of Scotland,” until it appears in pub- tractive show for the theatre-going bourgeoisie, but obscures and prac- tically betrays Mr. Anderson's script. Because this production represents the combined efforts of the Theatre Guild, the most firmly established Issue New Masses As Weekly Dec. 29) To Be First Revolutionary Literary Weekly On Friday, December 29, America will witness the pub- lication of its first weekly revolutionary magazine. On that day the New Masses, which for more than 20 |Marx and Lenin Exhibits in Erie, ~ at | Cleveland, Akron| Wee On, Friday, Dec. 22, Cleveland and | vicinity will have an opportunity to see the Marx-Lenin Exhibit. sists of a carefully arranged se of original documents, letters, man- und of the social ggles of their time. The exhibition can be seen only one day from 3 p. m. till midnight, at the new Workers School, 1524 Prospect Ave. It con- | ¢ songs, dances, the celebration of the t the 12,000 workers who will ja: rs’ cultural mo planning program dram: ement mpetition betwen these s aS to which will repr most popular number to seum grows sharper each day. stions 0: of new variou! the Coli Auditor! becca Grec ers, . Tt falist : lished form. The production that * f 2 ee ee ae eee ie” Work } Go! may Ad by and on Marx and Lenin, tracing! sary of the Daily Worker to take! heit C By Michael id Haid Nasir genic li ote aoe Magazine in Amer ica j the begining and development of in the Bronx Coliseum on Lend: Lee oe their theories against a photographic evening, Dec. 30. i nd New Engl BOSTON, Mase celebr: I don’t believe there is any. other newspaper in America that has such | American theatre; Robert Edmond| Ye@rs appeared as a monthly magazine, will begin publica-| H. M. Wicks will act as guide to ite heaton pt Astin loyalty behind it. I am sure the New York World-Telegram or the Chicago | Jones, in some respects the “dean”| tion as a weekly. 4 Pte reat ete Seecttti ise ce | waren Me emees bao omen “Hall, 35 Mar- © Tribupe could never raise s proportionate amount in dimes and quarters jof American scene-designers, and an] T+ wil] retain the same ce news and report upon. tt while pupae te Monre 38 oc! caoneret: mil,’ Maen, as aaee Sr erihn iin feadara: unusual number of high-salaried ac- teak ~_, {it 1s happening. Strike “struggles, the | he eal sion amen a |" serge realize the tak ” in Bostab- on dre “tg sh ; is | tors, it is important to examine in|uncompromising Communist | feht for jobless insurance,‘the battles | , TH? Exhibit will also be shown in/ card aio, ee Even the liberals, who include many of the wealthier citizens of this as much detail as space will allow, Viewpoint Which has disiingniahed tt, | of the militant farmers; theligyrations | Akron, Dezember 2Ist and Erie, y Opera House, with “united”: land, do not support their own papers. The Nation at one time | the result of thelr collaboration. Simple recording of events decisively | of currencies and market$, the strug | December 23rd. sal is ire ebnici attempted to raise a popular find. The drive was a dismal failure, Liberal organs all require big personal. subsidies made by some angel with a fat | general discussion of Maxwell An-| sufficient. It is not enough to un-|in our collapsing capitalist state will| Wor kersSchoolEnglish checkbook. When there is no-such subsidy with big editorial salaries, ete, | derson’s work. He is one of the few|derstand the world — it must be| be brilliantly reported amd analyzed, | Exams Given Toni ght the paper dies. Liberals are not: very strong in their convictions, American ts who merit} changed. The New Masses will continue the bic cas ‘. s ‘The commercial newspapers that speak for capitalism ‘are read widely but not loved. Everyone knows, whether consciously or no, that they are “not meant for service but for profit. They are really printed to be We must sacrifice for the moment serious consideration, He is a sin- cere romantic and he brings to the theatre a feeling for the heroic—for affecting the world is today no longer To assure the expression of the revolutionary point of view and to give it direction, the New Masses has gle against, Fascism—all phases of life | publication of outstanding short} stories and poems. | Revolutionary Art | NEW YORK.—The first entrance | examinations for new students of | E 10TH DAILY WORKER SATURDAY, DECEM- i the broad ti the full word, | English in the Winter Term of the 4] mediums of advertising; their very life depends upon the department fearless pelted a longing toe La ena baile foal pe ona gro Die e-ny pure agg sopent book, | Workers School will be given on | 4 H Stores, manufacturers of tinted ‘toilet paper, and purveyors of rackets. wind-swept, unfettered existence. It able swiftly and illuminatingly to re-|“The Great ‘Tradition, Es hi shee eid Thursday, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. at the | But the Daily Worker is the voice of suppressed masses; the voice | is this spirit and an original and port and analyze the vital events now | world, will be in charge a ey ne Workers School, 35 E. 12th St., 3rd) ¢. H that speaks out boldly when social wrong is done; the voice that is loud | invigorating sense of the English making history: the ever-sharpening | views. | floor. Th se examinations are given | way | ©\< against injustice when pseudo-liberal papers discreetly are silent; the | language, born of this spirit, that| Caen between a dying capitalist sys-| Nathan Adler and Tom. Br: we hig aeB pala lend lens ore | "This group | may be set down without dispute as mi. Brandon | student belongs. Those who took! or, ; » trumpet of the disinherited and damned; the collective expression of min- notable contributions to’ the pase ri-| tem and the growing revolutionary | will conduct the film department. | | English course, aiding Siaecers Salsa | formances that I ' . ers, steel workers, school teachers, fishermen, housewives, sharecroppers, cf movement; the deepening economic | Ashley Pettis, noted pianist, formerly | the fall éarm.do.not.t t | slastic applaus: from “Negroes and immigrant workers, exploited children of America and other | “2 Stage. crisis; the fight against war, the|of the Eastman School of Music, will | 22° Tm do not have to take! throughout Greater New el 1s Se enn | ma rote erga iat 1 system. In the thrice-told tale of “Mary of | spreading militant strikes; the increas- | cover the musical fleld, white a writer | “ese ¢xaminatio }_ The cele Dente | victims of this horrible and hypocritical system. Scotland,” moreover, Mr. Anderson| ing lynch terror; the continuing un- whose name cannot now be announeed |. rhe, English D ment has been | will be the ou 0» i Nothing can replace such"en organ. If it should die, a deeper night | has found material’ not only for a employment situation, N. R. A. and| will handic dencene be announced |eniarged to even clas event of the j “would fall on the obscure places where capitalist evil goes on daily. We » are slaves, but we organize and fight against our slavery. The Daily colorful story, but for a theme that is central to his thought. Briefly, it its menace to workers. A Militant Magazine A special department wtil be de-| voted each week to letters from read- |two in Elenientary Intermediate, one venue, on aiism tn the Bronx Br. ‘ion of will to be free. It is our tribune and | is Mr. Anderson’s intention to con- ish; two-new classes have been in- Michael: "Gold ieee ane Puen cod trast the ruler who would gover on| AS a revolutionary magazine, Ste | cep ite Slack Bolton ta |{troduced, one in Advanced English 0. A. Hathawa Post 1 moved to 208 18m a. § basis umanitarian Masse: * y) Sap 1 on i in Spelling of the Da er, wil e mect every Thursday. n ‘That's how the readers of the Drily Worker feel about their news- oA Pye ery a Nat seks Wrst iueaneeing ones sce Pe tier ok ping, farming, etc, #§ the workers | a by an sig Sree Whee tee y Worker, will be the e day. Ope paper, and that’s why they make every sactifice to keep it alive, tactics are shaped by considerations| thousands of Americans, factory | hemselves live it. these co i : | Tickets in advance are 203, a1 7:30 pee All s i i of reason and interest, ‘The first| Workers and farmers, students, pro-|, Concise, clear-cut interpretations of | ‘Me mM |and are obtainable at the branches ang, mass Whe Tas Appeal ruler, Mr, Anderson says in effect, is| fesstonals—and those strata of | the significant events of the week | | Book Shop, 50 F. 13th St. i oe i doomed, and although his sympa-|middle class white collar workers| Written by the ablest minds in the | MUSIC | pect Ave,, Bronx on 1 ite now I shall make this-last appeal to the readers to wind up the thies follow her (she is Mary Stuart| Whose deep-seated illusions about American revolutionary mypvetnent | | tive Barb : 'L Ww, Oo. Daily Worker drive with a bang. in this case) he recognizes the im-| Capitalist democracy are being shat- Ave.; Needle Trade: 28th St.; The friendly competition which I began among the various depart- * ments of the paper has produced results; some of them I did not expect, howeyer. Can it be true that the sports column {is more popular with .- “Daily” readers than Dr. Luttinger’s witty science and health, or Mary ~» Luke's cornfed domestic wisdom, or the cartoons of Burck? I am down in third place in the competition, I believe; can this also - ‘be possible? But competitions are that way; and I am not going to take practicability of her principles as the basis of @ political method. What- ever our opinion of this thesis, we will concern ourselves today only with an analysis of how it is ex- Pressed in terms of its 52nd Street production. Helen Hayes, who is ordinarily an tered, It will bring militant support to all these—and to hungry millions who haunt the breadlines of a thousand cities and towns—to the doubly-exploited Negro share-crop- | pers—to the army of expropriated home-owners—and to the masses of The weekly New Masses‘will sell for 10 cents an issue. Subscription prices | are $3.50 a year, $2 for ‘stk month: while for a limited time a sp offer of 15 weeks for $1 -has been ar- | Tanged. Quarterly Supplement | Beginning about a month after the | will distinguish the editorial section. | | |Pierre Degeyter Club) | Chorus — Tonight | A special ma of the sone 1 be at 5| ursday at 5 p. m, 19th st Brownsville Book 131 W. ated on Jan. s i ‘ first issue of the weekly, the New All voice ranges are % "defeat badly. Neither are the*others. We know it is all for the Daily | actress of simple charm, gives a| unorganized workers. Its entire fh TS ah a fee Worker, a cause in which it is better to be defeated than to win with / rigidly conventional performance. To| strength will be enlisted in the | Masses will publish its frst Quarterly | ra I ey The ieee Literature For ‘William Randolph Hearst or Bernarr McFadden. Just the same, let us roll up our sleeves and see if we can still catch up and leave behind the cartoonist and wrestler. This race began between make the impression of queenliness she holds herself with tense upright- ness—chin in the air, eyes in the struggle of the organized workers intellectuals It will support revo- and honest Communism. toward Supplement. This will contain theo- retical and critical articles of greater length than the weekly can accom-| geyter ib Chorus is the chorus in the working clas: ment composed only Farmers Shows , 62 Herzl St. 6 at the YMA The- present, ‘be skies—and speaks hi aive | lution: and militant trade unions, | odate. It will be sold on the news | ; "3 } literature and spinach; let-us-try t® keep it that way. tradition oF peaks tn the seine Heclcad “otier “cnpantertione “auen” ay | Stands “Re, part of the Feguler issue, | members, and is Up New Deal: : - : unnatural carriage and elocutionary| the Trade Union Unity League, the | @Md is included in the regular sub-| competion with establis composi | pee ERE are & few letters that tell how readers feel about the “Daily.” It is | articulation of the lines, added to| John Reed Clubs, Pen and Hammer, | Sctiption price. It is hoped to make | fons by modern Soviet and other | “FARM DOLLAR BLIGHT, the ‘New ‘too bad there 1s no space for many more of these letters; they are a |her small body, create the effect of | National Students League, the In-| the weekly New Masses self-support-| ous by modern Soviet and other) “Se. in Agcieniture,” by John Bar- avar 2uy Copa fF htaatick’ ant of therm are inept a clever high-school girl imitating an| ternational Labor Defense, etc. ing. A budget has been svorked. out | Proietarian com, Lhigl Wore es t 3189 Hubbetd Bh ay cea oe Aenerics, he ame ot Cee actress of the old school. With these Board of Editors to permit this as soon as subscriptions | Pe : al cham- | wpHE GOVERNMENT TAK ne ec attributes, it is impossible to believe| The weekly New Masses will be | and newsstand sales aggregate 20,000] Per Ones are, ed ext| HAND IN THE COTTON PATC Welfare Worker Fe Nee trae tine pation ox | Se pape monensin, Abairetad Dy (8 NO sioitd vhsitie ieane| tm, Jatob, Schaeffer. is ‘the cons | | 2 «Soultech baeapasre er pride. Thus the love scens the work of America’s foremost ‘iptions sl e. sent to the} oe Workers Library Publishers, 2 cents _ . “This contribution is from a welfare worker who is gradually learning oe way iettoctiee pols ‘ fe favolitiotary” xetiath mn offices of the New Masses, 31 E. 27th | | See chek. mt a Ade Edt ie al Shout t hag) payee eodiine, tis Day Worker for over & | oo cdr gras cmibtien), Lu Ge cect ie teed oe halbuen follows | Se: Mew York hy. Node ee Mer alg pala nia ec hii: | Philadel phia “month, and am thinking that.{f our unemployed could Jearn to act upon ’ € eae pene: |} municate with H. 7 : mane | convey the author's purpose, which is| Nathan Adier, William Browder, of the Pi Degeyter Club Ghor~ the benefit “0: -this-kind of advice instead of taking meekly what charity hands out, there | to show the conflict between her per- | Stanl Burnshaw, Jacob Bure! H ‘ | s to Florida, the cism wi be & een her per. ey p «| Reception to Strachey | vs, 5 F. tin st, Ny. c. a 4 would be social justice in this land. We middle-class intellectuals may be / sonal feelings and her political ideals,| Wm. F. Dunne, Joseph Freeman, poet: Be a ua s are declaring thems program arranged. Adm. 800) oe a vacillating and undependable-lot, but some of us are waking up-—Social |Lacking the quality of maturity,|Ben Field, Eugene Gordon, Michael| At Art Exhibit for the | Hans L To Conduct Phil-|¥ith — +Worker, San Francisco, Oal."!”"” moreover, the contrast between|Gold, Granville Hicks, Langston ans Lange To Conduct Phi agriculture. Rank and fil ners who are individuall “pro- © 5 ease : ; Mary's sensibility and Elizabeth’s| Hughes, Joshua Kunitz, Herman| New Masses ses Magazine harmonic Orchestra Tonight | are finding that-the Roo testing the Roosevelt “New Deni,” | logic fails to be anything more than| Michelson, Joseph North, Ashley » ae jises of help are just as surely not| +16 a; y to struggle militantily > Pettis, Jack Stachel, and represen- tatives of the National Students League, and the Pen and Hammer, Interpretive repertiny from il strategic points in the United States and other countries will be one of the strong features of the’ magazine. Correspondents include John Stra- the staff of “Le Monde” in France; chey in England; Henri Barbusse and Erskine Calwell in New England; Ellis Winter in California; Jack Conroy in the Middle West. Marguerite Young and Seymour Waldman will be in charge of the weekly New Masses’ Washington Bureau. Frequently, special writers will be sent into the field to investigate at first-hand political, social and econ- NEW YORK—John Strachey,, Hans Lange, makes his first ap-| meant for workers and poor farmers visiting British author, will be given | Pearance this season as conductor of | but for bankers and businessmen as/anq on their farms, an informal reception:this Thurs-|the Philharmonic Orchestra at sanigy sakes Republican Hoover's. Workers’ | Gerstand that similar conditions day afternoon at 3 p. ri; dt the Al-|negie Hall this event His pro-} strikes against the N.R.A. codes ae | throughout tha’ country make the lied Arts Galleries, 152. West 157th | tam, which will be repeated on Fri-| being paralleled by militant farmers’) farmers of these sec ons also ready Street, where an -exhibition of | day afternoon and Saturday night, | strikes for an increase in purchasing | +, join in a broad mass movement paintings and drawings:-by noted includes C. Pi . Bach’s Sinfonia | power as prices of farm products con- | for ‘the realization of their own déal— American artists is bemg held for|No. 3, the “Pastoral” Symphony by | tinue to fall and processing taxes sky-| the deal of the farmers and workers, the benefit of the New Masses R. Vaughan Williams; “La Valse,” by rocket the cost of living and further | Repardless of color, creed or politi- A number of the artists repre-' Ravel and Rim reduce markets for farm Products. — | cal belief, farmers must get together « sented, who include Reginald Marsh, | {rom the opera Chstabeas Eve.” Because crop reduction results in| {9 carry through real relief “from e Adolph Dehn, Hugo Gellert, ‘Alex- | On Sunday afternoon Lange will | increased starvation for w TS and | the speculators’ low es, debts and ander Bloch,’ Max Weber, William | conduct a whe in fe agg ea Fe drppunnioeal ec etc og fs Gropper, and Ernest Fiene, will act | Saret Olsen, soprano; Theodore M.) refusing to continue the government |” ymportant weapons in this unifica-h as a reception committee. | Everett, bari . and the New York | campaign of food a truction. South-| tion of busted and disgusted farmers d On Thursday evening, Joseph | University Glee Club taling part. | ern cotton farmers, Negro and white Freeman, editor of the New Masses, | Bee” ~~ | sharecroppers, are rising militant pa ses hie will speak on revolutionary art and| Metropolitan Opera Opens| 28s? the landlords’ confiscation of cochlea idhal he Tuesday with “Peter Ibbetson” Mary's sensuous Southern nature “Nev Peet epee» ‘i the miserable bonu iments sent | he “New a4 Since ee ee with a forbiddingly gloomy Northern : |The materiel for these has been col- by the government in return for cot- | ction cartied out this et | lected from farmers and sharecrop- ‘The Metropolitan Opera House will ; open its season next Eyporind pint | environment. Mr. Jones's sets and “1 costumes may be considered hand- NOTE 11:30—Martin Orch, mer, and are refusing to be thrown | Pot 88 well as trom | gqvenmiagae | with “Peter Ibbetson,” w some, but they actually militate The Workers Short Wave Radio | 17:90—Bestor Orch for the right to ret in their homes * do not yet qn- ® Jewish custom and sending‘the ‘Daily’ my dollar instead of to’a syna- tae mens Os er oe “*gogue. He is dead these 13 yea! like a gilded witch, and reduces Mr. 3 _# court officer in a little European town, and felt intensely the sufferings Anderson's theme to nothing better ‘of ‘the’ peasanis as he saw them every day. As a worker, I have | than an academically melodramatic Jost my health in this speed-up.system. Now I am a so-called salesman, | struggle betwen a sweet little noble- iving on meager Mieco pial I am deeply grieved I cannot send you | Woman and a big bad more.—J. M. W., Chicago, mi Mee but I am sure he would approve. He was ¥ i Memorial to Father > a matter of the author's lines. This “It is my father’s anniversary, and: bs am breaking away from an old | failure becomes a catastrophe when At this point we must ‘tum. to Mr, Jones's costumes and sets. He has clothed Miss Hayes in materials so rich and hues so bright that her un- regal size is emphasized rather than counteracted, and in the last scene Miss Hayes in black is made to look like Priscilla beside Elizabeth who a Canadian Vet “Just thing of it! A year ago at the Briggs strike I picked up a Daily Worker. Somehow it seemed right and I read on and on and here’s my » “buck now. ‘This is a real war, the first I feel enthusiastic about—a war to “end thfs damnable system of poverty and lies. Other vets are beginning | in opulent gold looks like a glorified “to sce it, too, The best of luck—A Canadian Vet, Detroit, Mich.” wanton, This is a striking effect— . * . | Precisely opposite to the need of the |play. And, in the castle scene, Mary 1s made to look quite comfortable in panneled oak surroundings, whereas one might suppose this an excellent opportunity to contrast visually Working Girl : “Tonight I feel Ike hell, imposéibsle to describe what it is like some- ~-times to put in a nine-hour-day in a speed-up factory, and yet I have just read the ‘Daily’ and am sending a contrib as my grotest against our slavery and shall do more soon—Working Girl, Scrantem, Pa.” * * . ‘ sources. Facts and figures ate. pre- off their land. Refinancing schemes | se } a reveal that they are meant t {sented showing how farmers and |Borl, Swarthout, | Messr: 1 | workers are being sy e 5 he banks and inst | Worke: windled ‘by so~ in the chief role: 8 falled price-reising schemes, which § in not the debt-b enefit only middlemen profiteers, 7 estructioy | Other operas of the week will be: a |“Tannha Wednesday night, with Muel rmers now begin | to understand that the present 35 per | cent inflation of money has not bene- fitted the ‘oited farmers, and that h is sending thousands of > Negrd and white cotton croppers onto the highways to starve, and refinane- From a Red Playwright ~” > “I was married recently, and am strapped of course, but will offer $1 i ear ae ee > y nereasing inflation will only make | for the manuscript of the workers’ correspondence poetry you recently pub- ne ae ee Cle @ who|Club’s next meeting will be held | ¥ S ni air cond " Ss St ce — : | -lished. Maybe you can auction off such manuscripts in competition with | jooks and speaks well, is emotionally Thursday, Dec. 21, 1933, 8:30 p.m., at WIZ—760. Ke |Nino’ Martini and en phan iy. | Everyday als to the nein ae | poor farmers ever deeper ® ” r % which the farmers throughout ‘the it ‘740 Prospect Ave. (entrance through basement). For further information write to 446 Claremont Pkwy., Bronx, 7:00 RM —Amos *n’Andy, 4. Bishop's Candiestick—Sketch i 0—Cyrena Van Gordoh,* Corttralto~ %45—Mario Cozzi, Baritone. ‘the artists to help the ‘Daily. “Our Comrade George Redfield raised $6.60 at the wedding party given me in another comrade’s house and has sent it to the ‘Daily.’ Let’s have S$ of Yo |nature of jn agricuitu avitalist program s to get the wooden, and the rest of the expen- sive cast are merely passable types, not actors adding color and complex- ‘hursday evening, with Rosa Morgana, Martinelli and “Die Walkuere,” into debt. The forms of organized str Borgioli; Friday e, Which trie N.Y. 8:00—Captain Diamond's, ry ot ol tiirlags oF bankers, middlemen and big manu- bij wedding parties!—Marvin Klein, Davenport, Iowa.” | ity of characterization so important evening, with Kappel, Ljungberg, United States are initiating, the link- © io ite acs eh Ad rs = to the background of a romantic ae itd 8:30—Aaventures in Hetitnby, reman| Branzell, Lorenz end Hofmann; | factur Fers out Pte, Crisis at the ex-| ing up of farmers’ movemenby with iy : play. TONIGRT’S PROGRAMS ‘Bundesen “Mignon,” Saturday afternoon, with |Pense of the toiling Hons. Never- | the struggles of the workers in’ the A Coal Miner Communist critics are often ac- WEAF_660 Ke S45—Suanlers Teo éistes Bori, Pons, Schipa and Rothier, and| theless, hundreds of thousands of | cities, the victories of farmers and n “If you knew what a quarter means in this part of hungerland you’d | cused of demanding a revolutionary Vibe Be AE crea aiaieen able 90-0 Bo: Anmeinioet O47 Aida” on Saturday night, with} Phevancs Be : Be workers in the Soviet Union, and is “‘value it highly, and appreciate what the Daily Worker means to us coal Neepeion sa Roane artists, but | 7:15fuly Bachelor oketem 10:00—Canadian Concert» be eat Bampton, Martinelli pied eee Barbee byte pekenenelt parte other questions of ee Import- ’s wi note ere is 7 ‘ 10:30—Archer Gibson, Organ; Mixea Chor ca. i ay rte ance to every Americ: ‘armen, diggers. Life goes on, but it will never be the same. Even the dumbest must, | {yn8t 18, to be noted here is that in leech oie aa 11:00—Anthony Frome, Tenge, igs in the new Eugene O'Neill drama,| treated. in ‘these beoklote tens & 11:15—Morley Singers 8:00—Valle ; Sololsts ee, 11:20—Dicken's Christmas CarotBketen 9:00-—-Captain Henry, Show Boat Concert 10:00—Vhiteman Orch. 12:00—Olsen Orc! 11:00—Viola Philo, Soprano 12:30, A. M—Dance [oR 11:15—Russell Orch. aT SE 0 11:30—Madriguera Oreb. WABC-—860. Ke: 12:00—Eilington Orch. 42:30 A. M.—Denny Orch. 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge. Ss PRR er hw ‘%:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch. WOR—710 Ke 7:30—Mildred Bailey, Songs ~~ : | 7:45—News—Boake Carter 7:00 P, M.—Sports—Ford Frick #:00—Edith Murray, Songs » 1:15—News—Gabriel Heatter 8:15--News—-Edwin ©. Hill 1:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch 8:30--Shilkret Orch.; Alexatider Gray 7:45—Mayerick Jim—Sketch see, A revolution is coming.—F. D., Brownsville, Pa.” - * An Alabama Sharecropper “I am sending 15 cents.We hardly see money here, we are glad ‘- enough for a little food. Butzout sharecropper’s union is growing in spite “of hell. ‘The white croppers“&te “coming over, they see we must put up a united front if we are to live. It ts a miracle for us to see the Daily Worker in this place. I wish I could tell you what it does for us here. It must go on with its message, for God is on our side, and slavery will be abolished in this land.—J. W., Dadeville, Ala.” farmer and ferm organizer aoe read and study the material in- pamphlets, and distribute them : f ly among neighbors and friends, as *y 1 “Days Without End,” which the The- atre Guild will present next month. The play opens its out-of-town tour on Monday in Boston. torical play the directors of the lead- ing middle-class theatre in America are unaware that in casting, acting and setting their production belies and hullifies every serious value the play contains. This shows, from any but a “Sailor-Beware-Double Door” standard of the theatre, is a thor- ii ge adolescent, pitifully hollow job of play-production. If it dis- plays a certain technical proficiency it also betrays a fundamental ignor- ance of what it means to translate an author's idea into terms of the theatre, | Stage and Screen | | | “Yoshe Kalb” Premiere Dec. 28 At The National Theatre The English version of “Yoshe Kalb,” which Daniel Frohman is pro- ducing, will have its premiere on Wednesday, Dec. 28, at the National Theatre. The cast includes Fritz | Leiber, Horace Braham, Erin O'Brien | , Songs; | Moore, Ethel Wilson, Louis Polan | and John Wexley. Wexley is the) author of abe Last Mile,” “Steel” ERICA} a EDOR OZEP’S « (The Great Soviet Director) FRENCH FILM WITH COMPLETE ENGLISH DIALOGUE TITLES LAST 2 DAYS—Sholom Aleichem’s “LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS” Added Feature—16TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN. MOSCOW ACME THEATRE {uu Joie & UNION 8@. -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL-— THE THEATRE GUILD 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation EUGENE O'NEJLL's COMED! Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:94 a.m, AH, WILDERNESS! Hes DOLORES DEL RIO - FRED ASTAIRE in ith GEORGE M. CORAN “FLYING DOWN TO RIO” GUILD 5, 2:44, 5:31, 8:18, 10:27 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Supreme CHRISTMAS SHOW rhe MARY OF SCOTLA a with HELEN — PRL HAYES MERIVALE ‘Willy Robyn, “Melping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist competition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob ‘Burck and Del to raise $1,000"in “the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: Irene W.ES.L. POST ASKS FOR BOOKS Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Post No. 1 is in need of books for its brary. Anyone who wishes to Previous total . donate any, please send them to TOTAL TO DATE... $541.40 203 E. 15th St., New York, N. 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