The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1934, Page 5

WHAT WORLD! By Michael Gold - $ JAZZ a proletarian product, or something that springs from a corrupt bourgeois civilization? It is important to know this for our cultural movement. Our musicians ;will never write popular Red songs until they know. Our writers and artists must find some American folk-basis for their pro- letarian*art. Is the. jazz spirit that basis? I chave printed -letters in the past on this absorbing cultural topie, and here is an interesting one by a musician named Eric Dunlap: Jaws Is Afro-Yiddish "WAY L be allowed to take issue with some of the points raised by Charles Edward Smith in his recent articie on ‘Class Content of Jazz Music’? my opinion he fails to take a sufficiently broad view of this subject. “In the first place, he traces Jazz music entirely to the Negro. This is wrong. As. Isaaé Goldberg has shown in a book devoted to the subject, jazz music was a joint development of the American Jew and the American Negro; both oppressed minorities. The Jew, having greater entry into bour- geois life-in the United States, has undoubtedly been partily responsible for *he introduction of the bourgeots ideology into this undoubtedly proleta~ rian, in origination, musical expression. “Viewing the subject even more broadly, jazz marks the beginning of the breakdown of music in the western world. The deviation of jazz music from folk music as it was is only part of a deviation taking place all along the modern music front, a deviation without conscious direction that has brought.4nto the world atonal and arythmic works by Schonberg, Stra- vinsky, Prokofieff; Honegger, and others of the modern school. The break with the classical’ past in music, signalizing the crisis in the old feudal society, began with Beethoven and was given its latest impetus by com- posers like Debussy ‘and Richard Strauss. It now signalizes the breakdown of bourgeois culture. “The breaking of the old classical forms has consequently been a process under way for many years. In the United States the Negro spirit- ual, marking a change in emphasis of the early church hymns, introduced into the United States by the English settlers, was the first sign of this \wrisis in ‘traditional’ thusic. The spiritual developed nto the modern ‘blues’ \ong, the ill-defined” lament of the oppressed and reflecting the welt- ‘thmers of all the working class. ‘The various novel musical deyices atcom- vine the ‘blues, such as ragtime and syncopation, were not in them- ves new, and had appeared in Europe some time before as the early Symptoms of the break with the old classical feudalistic tradition in Mur sie. Broadway Melody Thieves “%MITH says that hourgeois popular music is ‘sterile in content, but this Ny is too broad generalization. He would be on firmer ground if he . Pointed out that bourgeois popular music was nothing more than a direct copy of the old classical music. Popular song writers of the Broadway bourgeois. school do fiothing more than ‘re-arrange’ European music of the 18th and 19th century, as Sigmund Spaeth has abundantly shown. ' The current hit, ‘My Moonlight Madonna,’ whose lyrics are so stupid, is "nothing ‘more then Zdenko Fibich’s ‘Poem’ for violin solo, ‘In the Valley of the Moon’ is taken from the second movement of Mendeisohn’s violin concerto. A recent’ curent hit, ‘I Want Something to Remember You By, was takeh from @ Mozart violin Sonata, ‘The Maine Stein Song’ was taken from_a piano composition by Brahms, and was originally an Hungarian ““ sdhg. ‘I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,’ a song hit of several years back, 3.8 Girect steal from Chopin’s Fantasy in © sharp minor for piano. @ Jolson hit of some years back, ‘Avalon,’ was simply the principle aria m. “Tosea,’ by. Puccini, and in view of the unfortunate fact that the oywright had not expired the ‘composers’ of ‘Avalon’ had to pay their valties to Puctini by order of a New York court. The musical papers are astantly exposing the thefts of high-grade music of the past by current pular song writers, “Now, in my opinion, the Marxian view of this subject is that popular urgedis<song-writers are not creating; they are merely stealing from ‘¢ Pest and thénSstealing from their colleagues who have in turn stolen. hile the Negro, jazz, exemplified in the ‘blues, is representative of a ‘nuine creative impulse originating from a starting point in the bourgeois usic of the past. The church hymns introduced into America by the arly séttlers atone time constituted genuine expressions of the Numan p.rit, but they are now dead. The Negro spirituals live on. * * * Musie in Crisis “J WOULD hesitate, however, to go too far in estimating jazz as an ex- Pression of class consciousness in the masses. Jazz of the present day, even that brand put out by the Negroes, seems to me to be a corruption of the earlier ‘blues’ songs, which came after the deeply moving spirituals exressing the burdens of an oppressed race and ctass. Jazz seems to me to be the authentic Negro music in crisis, moved by the same spirit of wild restlessness and lack of basic direction as modern bourgeois music. Jazz is the work of many, hands, and the hands of the bourgeois Tin Pan Alley men és strongly-diseernible as Smith admits. Jazz does not express the proletariat. It is agtorruption of the music of the proletariat. “And to say that bourgeois popular music is ‘sterile,’ which is the same @s ‘Saying the Gteat music of the past, from which it was stolen, is atertle, 1S fo miss {he Whole point. The ‘writers’ of bourgeois popular music, unable to. create originally, without anything to express, are the ones who are sterile.” The mfttsic itself is far from sterile, as its power to capture the masses shows:“"This is a sound Marxian view. Much of the music now put out by popular writers, all of it stolen, is musig which in its original forms will never die, will never be allowed to die by the proletariat. “L agree with Smith that American Negro music is not African. Com- tade Gold.erred inothis, just as his corrector errs in estimating jazz as a proletarian product‘ corrupted with bourgéols ideology. The mere fact that bourgéois ideas cold influence it shows that it is not proletarian, as are the spirittials and, to a lesser extent, the ‘blues’ songs. The Spiritual is wholely class conscious, in words and music; jazz is not, either in words or muste, and is simply the product of Broadway, corrupt. r Workers DanceLeague to Stage Mass Dance Recital on January 7 NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Dance League will stage a special dance re- cital on Jan. 7th, 8:30 p. m., at the City College Auditorium, to help raise funds for the Daily Worker new press Groups participating in this per- formance will include the New Dance Group, Rebel Dancers of Newark, Red Dancers, Theatre Union Dance Group and others, Tickets for the recital are on sale at the Workers’ Dance League, 80 E. lith St.; Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. [13th St; LO, W. 'T., 42 E. 12th st. REGISTRATION 1s How going on for the Harlem Workers School, 200 W. 185th St. Room 2128. Monday W. I. R. BAND reheaiéal, 29 St. Players wanted, all instruments. New Year's Party “at! “LOWER HARLEM COUNCIL, 63 East 104th St. ats aid son “SOCIAL “CONTRAST “THE NEW YEAR IN AMERICA AND SOVIET RUSSIA,” at Young America Institute, 113 Wost 57th St, Tas Arch, speaker. |, ‘Marks Pl. 1:45. MASS. AGAINST HIGH COST oF trv, bythe ‘Middle Bronx Workers | Club, “Olaremont Parkway. Prominent 1. "Open Unie: Membership Meeting, UNIT 1, ve.” Discussion on "What ‘Can Workers ve, iss 4 jan Workers Expect teen LaGuardia.” 8. P. and ©. P. sympathizers: invited, OY DEAR cHicaco! Ti AFRAID TLL AQUE “TOSEND You BACK AND GES SOME ONE MORE SUITED To THE WORK Coos A WAERE DN te D. New Edition of ‘Imperialism’ Aids in Understanding NRA By HARRY GANNES New, revised and first complete translation in English of “Impe- rialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalist, 2 Popular Outline,” by V. L Lenin, International Pub- lishers, New York, paper bound, 30 cents. Sone? e The appearance of the first com- plete and revised English translation of Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, a Popular Out- line,” greatly enriches the Little Len- in Library, and the Leninist litera- ture in the United States at a very opportune time. It is significant also, at this time, on the approaching tenth anniversary of the death of Lenin, for the popularization of all of his writings. Coming at this time it is particu- larly of fundamental importance for an understanding of the Roosevelt re- gime’s program for the solution of the capitalist crisis in the interest of finance-capital. Many questions of the New Deal and the N.R.A. can be cleared up by & study of this basic work. With the hubbub and babbling of a thousand confused tongues on the meaning of the N.R.A., and the whole basic struc- ture and class relationships under imperialism, @ reading of this new and complete edition of Lenin’s fun- damental work is exceptionally re- freshing and instructive. Lenin’s “Imperialism” ‘holds an ex- clusive position in Marxian literature, being a direct continuation of Marx’s theoretical analysis of capitalism in its present, highest stage of develop- ment. In a brief but penetrating and scientific manner tt does for the stage of imperialism what Marx’s “Capi- tal” did towards analyzing the fun- damental laws and development of capitalist society. Remembering Lenin’s briefest defi- nition of imperialism as “monopoly capitalism,” we can. ask what has Roosevelt done to aid the develop- ment of monopoly at the expense of the great mass of toilers? Through the banking act, he has deliberately intensified the creation of key monop- olies, through strengthening the pow- er of the big banks. This step has been avidly accepted by the Rocke- a i nes Stage and Screen | “Big-Hearted Herbert” Opens Tonight at Biltmore; “Talent” | Coming to Royale on Tuesday This will be a big week on Broad- way. No less than eight productions, one a musical offering, are scheduled for the week. The list follows: “Big-Hearted Herbert,” a dramati- zation by Sophie Kerr and Anna Steese Richardson of a short story by Miss Kerr, will have its premiere at the Biltmore Theater this evening. The cast is headed by J. C. Nugent, Elizabeth Risdon, Alan Bunce and Betty Lancaster. Rachel Crothers’ new play, “Tal- ent,” with Mady Christians in the principal role, will be presented by John Golden at. the Royale Theater on Tuesday night. Others in the cast include Paul McGrath, John Litel, Pedro DeOordoba and Katherine Stewart. “Halfway To Hell,” a mystery melo- drama by Crane Wilbur, opens on ‘Tuesday evening at the Fulton Thea- ter with Carleton Macy, Austin Fair- man, Katherine Locke and Ann Mason in the chief roles. “The Wooden Slipper,” a2 romantic comedy by Samson Raphaelson, with the locale in Budapest and Paris, will open Wednesday night at the Ritz Theater. Dorothy Hall, Ross Alexan- der, Cecilia Loftus and Montague Love are the leading players. “The Gods We Make,” a comedy by George Henry McCall and S. Bouvet de Lozier, is announced for Wednes- day night at the Mansfield Theater. ‘The players include Ara Gerald, John Blair, Lioyd Hughes and Frank M. Thomas, “Ziegfeld Follies,” a revue, will be presented by Billle Burke on Thurs- day evening at the Winter Garden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Fannie Brice, Beatrice Bowman, Vilma and Buddy Ebsen and Jane Frohman head the large cast. Paul Osborn’s new comedy, “Oliver Oliver,” is scheduled for Friday night at the Playhouse. Alexandra Carlisle, Ann Andrews, Tom Chalmers and Bretaigne Windust are the leading players. “A Divine Moment,” 8 fantasy by Robert Hare Powel, will have its pre- miere on Friday evening at the Van- derbilt Theater. The players include Peggy Fears, Ctrrlotte Granville, Allen Kearns, Tom Douglas and Roy Gordon, Detroit Book Shop Plans Sale of 1,000 of Jan. 6th Edition DETROIT, Mich—The Work- ers’ Book Shop here has placed an initial order for 500 copies of the 26 page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, of Jan. 6th, ‘This, book shop challenges work- ers’ book shops in other cities to equal or beat this order. The order for 500 copies is only a be- sinning. The Detroit Book Shop expects to sell 1,000 copies of this edition. W, OER OUST BE ROOMY NO,O% DEAR OR @& MUSCLE - MAN AROUND GERE SOME | PowWER a FELLOW— AILY WORKER, | | feller banks as well as by the Mor-/| gan banks, with a few siight criti- cisms and modifications. Through the N.R.A., Roosevelt has speeded up the whole movement of monopoly concentration and centralization of capital. Through inflation, he has in- creased the oppressive burdens on the masses by monopoly capitalism Through his rapid preparations for | war, through the struggles for world financial domination, through strug- gles for markets and colonies, he has emboldened imperialism in its hun- ger for new murderous adventures to Te-divide the world more favorably for Wall Street. “Imperialism,” Lenin repeats sev- | eral times in his great work, “is the Another Brilliant Idea BRAWN IS WEEDFD eve of the proletarian social revolu- tion.” A glance at the deepening world crisis, the growing difficulties of cap- italism, the successful proletarian Tevolution and the building of So- Cialism in the Soviet Union, the growing revolutionary struggles throughout the world, in a thousand ways testify to this brilliant charac- terization of Lenin. Af the same time, Lenin uncovers the whole basis for social reformism which at the present time becomes Social-fascism. Particularly apt in its application to the present demagogic propaganda of the Roosevelt regime and its A. F. of L. and Socialist official supporters is the following quotation from Len- in’s masterly work: “Tt goes without saying that if capitalism could develop agricul- ture, which today lags far behind industry 5 St could me Baga e |S ore stricken and half-starved everywhere in spite of the amazing advance in technical knowledge, then there could be no talk of a surplus of capital. And the petty-bourgeois critics. of capitalism advance this ‘argument’ on every occasion, But then capitalism would not be capi- talism; for unevéness of develop- ment and semi-starvation of the masces are fundamental, inevitable conditions and pre-requisites of this method of p-cduction. As long as capitalism remains capitalism, sur- plus capital will never be used for the purpose of raising the standards of living of the masses, for this would mean a decreasing profit for the capitalists, .. .” ‘The whole Roosevelt program, dis- guised with its mountainous dema- gogy as in the interest of the masses, is used to destroy even the present level of agriculture, to increase the poverty of the masses, and to provide greater profits to the big corporations (through subsidies, increased pric: ¢ etc., etc.) at the expense of the pov- erty-stricken masses. The oppressive burdens of the trusts are increased at a rapidly growing ratio under the New Deal. Even those who have read the older and less complete editions of Lenin’s imperialism will find it highly profit- able to re-read this work in its pres- ent form. In this book Lenin deals with questions of the highest imme- diate importance, as the contents show: Concentration of production and monopolies; the banks and their new role; finance capital and finan- cial o¥garchy; the export of capital; the division of the world among the great powers; imperialism as a special stage of capitalism; parasit- ism and the decay of capitalism; crit- ique of imperialism; the place of im- Perialism in history. The new edition corrects many er- rors in translation of older editions, supplies missing sections, contains ac- curately checked quotations and val- uable explanatory notes. This new volume should be a pow- erful weapon for raising the political level of the Party cadres particularly at this time when so much confusion is raised on fundamental questions of imperialism and the role of the capi- talist state under imperfalism. | TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 8:00—Dramatic Sketch P.M.—Lum and Abner 5—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:30—Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera ‘Tener; Concert Orch.; Story of Trans- portation—Harvey 8. Firestone Jr. 9:00—Gypsies Orch.; James Melton, Tenor 9:30—Ship of Joy, with Captain Hugh Ber- Dobbs stman Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Gene Atnodi, Narrator, 10:80—The Wolf Guard of Siberia—Sketch 11:00—Jobn Fogarty, Tenor 11;15—Weems Orch. }0—Lueas Orch. AM.—Olsen Orch. 12:30—Sosnick Orch. 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, Songs . WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P.MI.—To be announced ‘7:15—News—Gabriel_ Heatter 30—Terry and Ted—Sketch 7:45—Lee Cronican, Piano, 8:00—Dete tive Biack and Blie—Mystery Drama :15—To be announced 8:30—Renard Orch.; Olga Albani, Soprano; Edward Bell Jr., Baritone 9:00—Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta; Mina Heger, Soprano, 9:30—John Kelvin, Tenor 9:45—The Witch's Tale 10:1%—Current Events--Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Musical Revue 1:00 Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams Trio 14:30—Whiteman Oreh. 12:00—Lene Orch, / But suPPosE x GET To GF Dat TRAINE R- couLon'yY TO BRAIN AD “or 'W YORK, M DEW No Armistice for Workers! By GENE GORDON There is no armistice for workers yet So long as in the ds dead worker With bullets in their be From hunger while the fe With~countless drops of No truce will dim a s burning eye Until the workers see the red flag fly Above the bulwark of each Sovi s and oth Until that time when our hands hold the p To gather bread and beauty we have sown, Until that time when insane fascists cower In wild defeat and bosses are overthrown We'll mobilize the proletarian mass For ruthless war against the ruling class Weekly New Masses Appears, To Wage Cultural Struggle John Strachey, Michael Gold, Granville Hicks and Other Noted Writers Contribute NEW YORK —The first issue of) sented one of his best recent the weekly New Masses, for which poems, “Tom Mooney Walks At Mid- preparations have heen in progress night.” A for the last three months, appeared , between J Saturday, with articles, drawings! Bliven, editc and verse by some of the outstand- | thoroughly ing revolutionary artists and writers | lib in America. | editor The New Masses contains a brand! ‘The issue is rounded out with the new editorial section, unlike the old tment, edited by Gran- the rul New Republic, ing class Republic monthly which treated only a few the Theatre, by William of the month’s happenings in the Screen, by Nathan lengthy articles. Outstanding ar- 41 by Ashiey Pettis, ticles in the first issue include John! a with gs by Gill Gropper, Strachey'’s “Fascism In America,” | Mordi Gasner, Simeon Braguin, Art Leonard E. Mins’ “The Reichstag; young, Louis Ferstadt, Jacob Burck, Trial: a Nazi Defeat,” John Do: Adolf Dehn and Phil Bard Passos’ “Deves In the Bull Rin: As larg the old monthly (32 Marguerite Young’s “Congress—' paces) the New Masses now is printed Who's In It and Who Owns It,” and Josephine Herbst’s “The Farmers Form a United Front.” J. B. Mathews contributes Pacifism Counter - Revolutionary and answers the question in the af- firmative. Michael Gold is repre- in three columns and sells for only | 10 cents. It is edited by ed of Nathan Adie: tanley Burns’ William Gord Joshua Kunitz, Granville Hicks, Herman Michelson, Joseph North and Ashley Pettis, ner John Reed Artists in Boston Order 200 of January 6th Edition BOSTON, Mass.—The artists of John Reed Club placed an initial order for 200 copies of the 26 page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, of Jan. 6th, in an- swer to the challenge by the N. Y. John Reed Club artist group which ordered a similar number. ‘The Boston John Reed Club has @ much smaller membership than the New York organization. Every artist in Boston will be reached with the anniversary number. Artist groups in other cities are challenged to cover their territories as completely. ORKER, Decem- Published by ers Industrial 2 New York Five cents per copy. the Unio Ch By ROBERT KENT With the vast majority of American | furniture workers unorganized, the | Furniture Workers Industrial Union is preparing for its first national con- vention in Ni York City on Feb- lary 9th, at which a program of 2 will be proposed for building a strong national furniture workers’ union The current issue of the “Furniture Worker” is given over largely to this forthcoming convention, Book Sale in Philadelphia Workers Book Shop PHILADELPHIA. — The | Wor! Book Shop, 1225 Germantown Ave., announces its first annual sale be- ginning Jan. 1 and continuing to Jan. 15. A general discount of 15 per cent will be allowed to individuals and 20 per cent to organizations during this sale. to the re- vised constitution proposed for dis- cussion by the membership of the | Furniture Workers Industrial Union and to re) S on the success of re- cent organiza There are in addition interesting rticles on the slave code approved for the furnit: industry by the N.R.A., on unemployment in the in- dustry, and en an agreement reached by the Trade~ Union Unity Leagus, of the unio he eby n be WJZ—760 Ke 7:00—Amos 'n’ Andy 7:15—Baby Rose Marie, Songs 7:30—-Potash and Perimutter—Sketch 7:45—Frances Alda, Soprano 8:00--Morin Sisters, Songs; King’s Jesters; Stokes Orch.; Cliff Soubier 8:30—Cyrena Van Gordon, Contralto :45-—Red Davis—Sketch :00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Pasternack Orch.; International Quar- tette 10:00—Marcel Rodrigo, Baritone; Concert Orch. piture ement, in make-up over past issues. The type is clear, the items well arranged so the reader. Like all revolutionary publications, the “Furniture Worker” has to grap- ple with the problem oflack of finances, It is now appealing for a $200 fund to save the publication from going under. The “Furniture Worker” deserves utmost support from the working cla: 10:30—Henri Dering, Piano 10:45—Revelers Quartet 11:00—Roxy’s Gang 12:00—Bestor Orch. 12:30 AM.—Elkins Orch WABC—2860 Ke 00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge 15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch '30—Travelers Ensemble 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Bing Crosby, Songs; Mills Brothers, Songs 9:00—Philadelphia Or 9:15—Talk—Robert Be: Songs; Kostelanetx Ore! 9:30—Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Jones Orch. 00-—Wayne King Orch. 10:30--News Bitletins 10:45—Evan Evans, Baritone; Concert Orch. 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songs 14:30—Julttle Orch. 12:00—Belasco Oreh. 12:30 A.M.—Lyman Orch. 1:00—Light Orch. CATHOLIC CONFERENCE HEADS ENDORSE STOLEN RICHES DETROIT, Mich—tn the indus- | trial conference held in Detroit De- |}cember 4th and 5th, called by the Catholic Church, and attended by bishops, capitalists and labor leaders, the followirg admission was made by James Fitzgerald, Executive Secre- jtary of the St. Vincent de Paul So- ciety, “I have found nothing in the | papal writings to indicate that the {holding of great wealth is a sin, it is AF Hayton Orch.; Howard Marsh Fitzgerald was referring to Pope Leo's Encyclical which was the principle feature of all the discussions. CouLD Taar’s U-- 6uY’s You. BE AIS SERG@INERS WONT FZ. BE AAPPY OVER (y¥ Qty idea / ° 7 SR Des that each page attracts and interests ° the greed for power that is a sin,”} |P.B.K., B.A., M.A., Ph.D. But | By OAKLEY JOHNSON | JJPSTAIRS in the Porto Rican Gov- |U ernment Employment Office, at 9 | W. 116th St., I stood about five min- utes, the rain dripp’ from my hat and topeoat. I was waiting for the gent in charge to take some noticé f me, He was conversing amiably with some young fellows who seemed jto have been there a long time, jthough he still had his hat and coat ti The gent in charge continucd rsing. He never even looked in my direction. | Then & gitl walked in, took off he: coat and shook it, took off her hat and shook it, fixed her hair, sat down at the other desk in this C.W.A. office. Tt she looked in i | “Can I do somethir | “I waht to registe Works Admi “Till take care of you,” s | She took out e printed filing card jform, and I signed it. Th she put down my address, weight, height, birthplace, number of dependents, place last worked at, reason I left there, kind of work I do, kind of work T'd be willihg to accept. I hanven to be a college teacher. I thought there ought to be more Specific information taken down about qualifications and experience. “Don’t you want anything else?— college degrees and so on?” I asked. “There isn’t any place for anything jelse,” she said, “but there’s a clear place here on your card. You can write until that’s full.” Well, I thought Id fill it. Why not? So I put down all I could crowd in— ‘Can’tGetCW A Job underNRA A. M, and Ph. D., and 12 y: Jege teaching expe in versities. She filed the card —in with the others on her desk. “If you don’t hear from us days, cotne back,” she said. I nodde “How many have you registere here for the C.W.A.?” I asked, as 1 was about to leave. “You mean whité collar workers’ id, “about .100..We only just ed to register white collar work st week. But we have: any jobs for the white collar workers yet She was young and, in @ naive’dumb fashion, rather Kindly. “But we've got quite a lot of jobs for the la~ borers.” “How many jobs did you get for m?” I asked “Oh, about 200, You see, we started registering them nearly a month ago. But we only started recistering the white collar workers afterwards.” “How many laborefs did you tegis- ter?” “Oh, it runs into the thousands.” “And you got jobs for 200 ont of several thousarids?” “Yes” I was woretering. As I turned again to go, I said, “I don’t suppose there’s much chance?” “Well,” she said, “President Roose. velt is tryin’ to give every man 4 chance,” I had already started toward the door, but at this I tured and looked Sharply at her. She wasnt joking. She meant it. “Well, let me know if anything turns up,” I said, I'didh’t laugh elther, Scot’sboro Play Wr itten and Produced by Chicago Workers Laboratory Group |To Be Pre | sented Saturday, January 6 By ALICE EVANS | CHICAGO.—A cast of twenty Negro | and white workers will present a short play, “The Scottsboro Boys Shall| Live,” at the Chicago Workers School, | 2822 South Michigan Ave., on Satur- day evening, Jan. 6. This play was] written and produced by members of |the Workers Laboratory Theater, in| the school which they are conducting | at 700 East Oakwood Blvd. It will) be presented before many groups throughout the city during the month} of January, in an effort to mobilize | militant public opinion to save the | |nine innocent Scottsboro boys. The | | play, with a mass chant, proclaiming: | “The working class, Black and white, | Lives or dies | With the Scottsboro boys,” jand closing with mass determination | that “The Scottsboro boys shail live!””| With this play performed before | workers’ audiences throughout Chi- | cago, the Workers Laboratory Theatre | School presents the results of its first jterm. The play was planned, written j;and rehearsed in the classrooms, The class in “History of the Thea- ter,” under Leon Hess, has spent the first term in surveying the reflection of economic forces in the theaters of every age, particularly throughout the | history of Russia, and is now study- ing the worker’ theater movement in modern America. The class in “Acting Technique,” under Louise Hamburger, started out to, study through collec- tive readings the workers’ theawr \ classics of the past. Finding the call {of immediate issues too urgent, the iclass voted to abandon this plan and to work on plays about day-to-day struggles. A play about the Unem- ployed Councils was rehearsed in class and presented 23 times before Chicago groups, with four different casts. This Scottsboro play is the second production of the Theater of Action. ;The class in “Workingclass_ Play- wrighting,” under Bill Andrews, has produced two plays about evictions, a musical comedy about the Pullman ; Porters, an Irish folk play built about strike in a rubber factory, a play | about the struggles of thé unemployed 'painters in the A. F. of L.- painters’ lunion. and a play about the stock- la in “Acting Technique” for next terms Besides these class actiyities, the Workers Laboratory, Theafer School has a children’s group dancing, singing and acting, whieh/presented a musical sketch: “The Farmers, Fight jthe Bankers,” at -Ygung Pioneers Saturday;- Dec. 23. This program group mects every Friday evening at 7:30 at 700 ¥ Oakwood Blvd., and all children interested are urged to attend, MUSIC History Of Russian Music To Be Published In Moscow MOSCOW.—A new history of Rus sian musi¢ will be published jn Mos- cow shortly. The book ove the eighteen and ninetr = and is the work of B. Ps @ noted music critic of vu Union. The work will also c. music of the epoch of impe: It is being released by the Mu. Publishers. “The Emperor Jones” at the Metropolitan Opera Today This afternoon’s program at tb Metropolitan Opera House will in clude two operas, “The Emperor Jones,” with Tibbett, Windheim an¢ Mme. Besuner and “Pagliacci,” witt Morgana and Martinelli. Other opera of the week follow: “Traviata,” tonight, with Olaut Muzio and Schipa; “Don Giovan~ Wednesday evening, with Rosa P selle and Schipa; “Lucia di Latin moor,” Thursday night, with Pons and Martini; “Simon Bo negra,” Friday evening, with Ntu and Martinelli; “Tristan and Iso) Saturday evening, with Kappel Melchior, and “Boheme,” on Sai day night with Bori and Jagel. TOM AUSTIN, SOVIET DELEGA™ TO SPEAK MINNEAPOLIS, Mirin.—Tom neapolis tool and die maker of the American Workers Dele; recently returned from the Sov ‘yards workers. One of these will be ; chosen as the first project of the class AMUSE be greeted at m banquet ¢ Friends of the Soviet Union, Wi ning, Jan, 3, at the Workers Cu MENTS GUILD THEATRE i EMPIRE THEATRE MARY OF HELEN HAYES THE THEATRE GUILD Presents EUGENE O’NEILL’S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS with GEORGE M. COHAN 52nd St., West of Broadway. Evenings, Matinees Mon., Wed., Thurs and Sat., EXTRA MATINEES TODAY and WED’SDAY MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITH MUSIC THE SCHOOL ror HUSBANDS with OSGOOD PERKINS and JUNE WALKER Broadway and 40th Street. Matinees Monday, Tharsday ‘XTRA MATINEE TODAY a 2:3 and Sats 8B MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play SCOTLAND PHILIP HELEN MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN THEATRE [3ii.St, West of Broadway EXTRA MATINEE TODAY r. Evenings 8:26 Sat, 2:20 ’ ;-RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— ||] 90 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Direction “Roxy” Opens 14:89 a.m, DOLORES DML RIO - FRED ASTAIRE in “FLYING DOWN TO RIO” fat 12:95, 2:44, 5:31, 8:18, 10:27 (2d week) | & “Roxy's” Supreme CHRISTMAS SHOW ane etc EEN | 8¥° Jefferson Ms 5. & | Now Geo. Bancroft in ‘Blood Money’ Added Feature “MEET THE BARON” with JACK PEARL and JIMMY DURANTE Tonight — Trade Union Night THE ANTI--WAR PLAY 6TH BIG WEEK PEACE ON EARTH Civie Repertory Theatre, 14th St. & 6th Ave. Evenings 8:45: Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 WA. 90-7458, ‘Me te 51.50, Ne LAST 5 DAYS, FEDOR OZEPS i (Noted Soviet Director) a Mirages de Paris French Talkie with Enslish Titles Spee. Added TISENSTEIN'S Feature ALE ‘Mth Stree “ROMANCE ACME THEA, Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE ws, “Her Master’s Vo" Plymouth "3," 2 The 8-Page Clu! Send your greetings to ¢