The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1934, Page 5

) WORLD! By Michael Gold f Death to Lynchers ‘HE day is coming when the..white fiends who lynch Negroes will be T tried and executed for murder by workers’ juries made up of white and colored proletarians, Speed the great day! The horror grows in America, and is no longer endurable. The Federal government would inter- vene if bankers or landlords were being lynched, but it ignores the fate of millions of innocent Negro farmers and workers. ‘We must do something about it. We are doing something, but it is not enough. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, mass conferences to fight lynching are being held tm every section of this blood-stained country, But where are all those white-collared liberals and Socialists of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People and Similar organizations? Are Dr. Dubois and Mr. Walter White and the Vothers too proud to unite with the workers to fight this horrible thing? ‘Are they too busy with their tea parties and social climbing to hear the bitter cry of their brothers? Are they too polite to stir up the people against this horror? And where ae aad the humanitarian white liberals, ie N.R.A. “revolution?” _ Bees plat of guilt? The white man who is silent when a Negro is lynched participates in the deed. He ought hide his head in shame until he has done his utmost in protest. . = The Rape of Truth Ts recent lynch cases in the South cast a burning light of exposure on the true facts of this American horror. ee Both were in the so-called rape category. In one case in Louisiana a “Negro boy was lynched, another hung, but saved in time. The real rapist confessed; and he was found’to be a white man, the stepfather of the red girl. be aoe case, in Maryland, ended when the 16-year-old girl who had accused two Negro boys broke down and confessed she had not been harmed, but had invented the whole story as an excuse to account for her being out late one night. y Imagine it! This little, giddy flapper of Belair, Md., had been traipsing about nights for some reason or other. Her family probably became angry and suspicious, and must have threatened her when she came back from her excursions late one night. And she invented a story, as have so many other Southern flappers for similar reasons. She even picked out two Negro boys as her kidnappers. They were arrested, and might have been lynched, had not the girl been trapped in her lie. But how many other cases have taken place where the We was not uncovered in time, and some poor boy fed the flames of a mob of white Junatics? : The story of Norman Thibodeau, who was hung up in a similar situa- tion, but saved in time by two white workers who defended him from the mob and cleared his name, was told in the Daily Worker recently. Thi- bodeau, risen like Lazarus from the dead, was in danger even after he had been released and fled to New Orleans. The white boss-class knew he ‘was innocent, yet they wanted his blood. He turned to the International Labor Defense, the one true friend of the Negro people in this country, and he was sent to New York. Here he is lecturing on his experiences; the life that was saved by a miracle he has devoted to the cause of his brothers. This strong, fearless, intelligent boy has passed through a life-time of education in a few weeks. He has entered the great Working Class Army that fights against lynching and its poisonous mother, Capitalism. Thus in blood and suffering and death does America teach its thousands of ‘white and black proletarian stepchildren. There is no justice for the poor, “and the only way to build a land of justice and raca freedom is to work “for Communism. First to Rouse the World ET it never be forgotten that it was the Communist Party that first had “ the daring in this country to defend one of these so-called rape cases in the South. The Dubois liberals tried to shush-shush such cases, making feeble legal pleas occasionally, or writing polite articles in small magazines. But the Communists took the Scottsboro frame-up case and blazoned it forth to the wide world. Today, in every nation under the sun, millions of workers and farmers know that im America Negro boys are framed-up ruthlessly and lynched for such lies. America is on trial before the world. America is hated for this crime by millions of the world’s toilers. America cannot do these things with an easy conscience any longer. The Commu- nist Party has shattered the submissive quiet with which the Negro mis- leaders accepted the whole rape-myth. A white-collar Negro, a doctor who was probably a follower of Dr. Dubois, turned over Thibodeaux to the New Orleans police after the boy's mother had confided the story to him, thinking she could trust one of her own race, ‘This kind of thing will happen again, but the millions of Negro work- ers will know how to despise such betrayers. The Negro masses are turn- ing, like Thibodeaux, to such organizations as the International Labor Defense. . . . , Jewish Ritual Blood Trial “OR many years the southern whites’ have been inflamed by this myth ' of Negro rape. It never had'the slightest foundation in fact, of course. It parallelled the historic charge made against the Jews in Europe, that at Passover the Jews had a custom of killing a Christian child and using its blood at the Passover ceremonial. Only two years before the World War there actually was held a@ trial of a Jew for this crime, This was in Czarist Russia. The anti-semites spread such lies about the Jews for many of the same reasons that the white boss-class spreads them against the Negroes here. ” In Russia the peasants starved in great famines. They would become rebellious, and sometimes riof.and burn down the mansions of the rich Jandowners who taxed them and stole from them. And at such times, the landlord government would send out groups of police spies and provo- cateurs. The priests would also be used. All these people would go among the peasants and tell them that not the landowners or the Czar was to blame for their suffering, but.the Jews, And massacres of the Jews would begin under the leadership ofthe church and the government. But after the Bolshevik Revolution many of these spies and race- lynchers were turned up and executed. Today there is not a spark of race. prejudice against anyone in the Soviet Union; all the races have full social and economic equality... In America today the bosses try to blame the suffering of the white workers on the Negro, They say the Negro takes away the jobs of the whites; and they use the rape lie as a further means of inflaming the whites, just as the Czar did with the peasants, But the lies is breaking down, and many white workers in the South have begun to realize that unless they join with the Negro in sharecroppers unions and trade unions to fight against low wages and unemployment, they cannot free themselves. "Lynching of the Negro is a weapon used by the white bosses to keep themselves in power. If it threatened their rule they would stop it in a minute. But they think it helps them, and that is why one finds in all these cases that the “mobs” are the so-called respectable whites, the small town bankers, lawyers, sheriffs. But Iet them beware. They cannot fool the white workers and farmers much longer, The Russian landlords trained the peasants in lynching, and one day the peasants lynched those who had taught them a lesson in horror. HE BIG DAY 1s NEAR- © ; Cae DECORATIONS ARE GoING uP ry Gj F AAWIT RIGAT THERE, WY Man! ‘TUAT HAS LOVELY DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934 the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR Gorky at the Artef opportunity given us by the Artef (the Jewish Workers Theatre) to see Maxim Gorky's latest play, “Yegor Bulichev and Others.” It is something that no one person inter- ested in the revolutionary cultural movement should miss. For despite reservations that might be made, it is the most stimulating play that this season has brought forth on any stage. In fact, this play might be taken as an object lesson to every one in the theatre. Critics can learn from it that a play may be meagre as a lit- erary text and still be highly signifi- cant as well as moving on the stage, that characters may be simply and almost schematically drawn and still be suggestive and rich in their effect on an audience. Playwrights can learn how an ideologically correct play may be written without the use of stock slogans, without situations that remind one of the radical class- room. Even conservatives, who are generally mystified by the idea that a character may be presented from a Marxian viewpoint and at the same time satisfy the demands of objec+ tivity, can see in this play proof that this seeming contradiction does not exist. Of course, audiences who go to se¢ “Bulitchey” need not, and probably will not, concern themselves with anything but the actual drama it- self, with all its savage humor and strange force. Yet we pause to em- phasize these general considerations because so much of our talk about revolutionary plays is abstract, based on rule-of-thumb notions rather than on concrete examples. “Bulit- chev” at the Artef permits us to see a good revolutionary play in the flesh! It permits us to compare a dramatic reality with our dramatic theories, it permits us to study a worthy model. There is something of a_miracle in the make-up of this play. For what could be simpler than the story of a merchant who is dying of a cancer, and the conspiracy of various people of this household to assure themselves of his fortune. Bulitchev wants to live, and though he knows he is con- demned to die, he seeks some spark of hope or solace from priests, sooth- sayers and charlatans of all kinds. The corruption of his family—part of which he himself is responsible for— and the impending revolution (the period is 1916-17) lead him to see in a dim but inescapable way how both these facts, the social upheaval out- side and the domestic debacle in- side, are interrelated and leave him no possibility of salvation. Bulitchey is an individual and yet the unmis- takable symbol of his class. He is shown as a man of passion, endowed with rude intelligence, a slowly awakening consciousness and a cer- tain kind of wry honesty. In other words, he is drawn sympathetically, yet without a touch of sentimentality, for he is the emblem of that bour- geoiste which is blind, despite all its power, spiritually helpless despite all its pride, How has Gorky succeeded in mak- tng such a limited plot gripping and big? By the strength of his convic- tion, by a real knowledge of his char- acters, and by an extraordinary in- stinct for theatrical symbolization. It is this latter quality, the ability to translate an idea into a simple, strik- ing, meaningful dramatic image, that is the source of this play’s superiority, the touchstone of its theatrical vi- tality. One example will suffice: the second act curtain in which a town ‘aker who calls himself “Gabriel” of. fers to play the trombone to cure Bu- litchev’s sickness. Bulitchey asks him to say whether he is a fool or a scoundrel. “Gabriel” replies that he is no fool, but that many people ask to be fooled. The sick man pays 25 roubles for his answer, and “Ga- briel” goes on to remark, “Still, it helps,” and, encouraged by Bulitchev, he proceeds to blow his trombone. We have rarely seen a more arresting symbol of the bourgeois artist whose art is supposed to heal all ailments, but who knows if he is honest that his “playing” is only a forlorn trum- peting of a false cure! Inherent in the essential theatrical merit of this play are its great acting vossibilities. Its original Moscow pro- duction last year took place at the Vachtangoy Theatre, and now we learn that other important theatres 4 (including the Moscow Art) are pre- varing to present it in altogether dif- ferent styles. But whether it is vlayed better or worse, its situations have so much vividness that they al- | y9: most seem to act for the actors. Thus the Artef company, whose actors pos- sess great sincerity and unusual con- fidence and energy are able, despite difficulties, to sustain their perform- ances throughout. By all means go to see their pro- duction, which is given at the Heck- scher Theatre, Fifth Ave. and 104th St., on Saturday and Sunday nights. Even the bare figures showing the development of armaments demonstrate, in almost graphic manner, at what headlong speed the imperialist yaagete are at present heading towards war. —Twelfth Plenum of Executive Committee of Communist In- ternational, All BOYS, TomoRRow You MUST PLAY AS WEUER GEFORE FOR should be very grateful for the rk- held NEW YORK—The Harlem ¥ s School, at 200 W. 135th St. its first ‘organizatio re Sunday afternoon at 415 Lenox Ave. Over 25 organizat of Harlem and Bronx representin aver 500 people attended the confer- preparing a pro- of the ence and assisted in gram for the improyement present work of the school Among many of the organi represented were the Inte Labor Defense, the League of Str gle for Negro Rights, the Interna tional Workers Order, the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Italian Workers Clubs, the Span- ish Workers Clubs, the Esperanto Club, and many others. Mrs, Williana J. Burroughs, direc- tor of the Harlem Workers School, made the principle report in which she described the progress of the school. She stressed that the ma- jority of the students were workers of basic industries in New York, and that the school assisted these workers in their activities in their trade unions, fraternal and social organiza- tions, as well as educating them po- littcally. She also discussed how the school served not only the Negro work- ers of Harlem and vicinity, but the workers of the various nationalities residing in Harlem, such as the Fin- nish, Jewish, Irish, as well as Spanish and native white Americans, Last term over 120 students attended the School registering for over 140 classes. Abraham Markoff, director of the Downtown Workers School, spoke on the purpose and importance of work- ers education in New York, and the achievements of the Workers Schools throughout the country. “The Work ers Schools are the largest of the kind in the country,” he said, “and are fulfilling an important task in the working class movement. It is impossible for workers effectively to The World of |25 Organizations Meet to | | | Plan Improved Program for | Workers School in Harlem jcarry on si es against the capi- | talist ssion unless they are ly educated in reveMtionary | Hence he importance of the | present participated! 's Schoo! The de s for popularization and de- velopment of the Harlem Workers School. Eve ganization repre- sented is nding students to the school, as well as pledging financial and moral support to the school. The delegates also voiced their intentions to do all they could as individuals to spread the news of the school and help build it into a large.and perma- nent institution serving the needs of thousands of workers in Harlem. Special scholarship rates are of- fered to organizations sending stu- dents to the school. Several new courses have been added to the cur- riculum for the winter term, includ- ing Public Speaking, Spanish, Labor Journalism, Political Economy, Rus- |sian, and current Negro Problems taught by James Ford. The conference ended after it had elected a committee of 12, composing the advisory council to school. The winter term of the school is to begin Jan. 15, and all persons interested in the school must act immediately. Of- fice open daily from 3 to 10 p.m. Olgin to Lecture NEW YORK.—Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, will | lecture on “The Lessons of the Rus- |sian Revolution for..the American Negro Workers,”. at the Harlem Workers School Forum, 200 W. 135th St., Room 216-A, on Sunday, Jan. 14, at 3:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to participate in the general question period as well as to participate in the general discussion following the lecture. Admission is free. Concert This Friday at New School to Aid Nazi Terror Victims NEW YORK.—Under the auspices of the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, Lilla Kalman, violinist, and Sylvia Sapira, Pianist, will perform a program of eighteenth century music at the New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th St., Friday evening at 8:30. Net proceeds will be sent to the Home for Exiled German Children in Paris, through the international committee, which is maintaining a number of such homes in Europe for child vic- tims of the Hitler terror. The program, devoted entirely to eighteenth century music, will open with the rarely heard Corelli Sonata in E minor. There wil be two other E major and the Mozart F major, In addition, each artist will have a solo group, Miss Kalman playing the Bach Partita in E major and Miss Sapira performing two Bach preludes and fugues and two sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Tickets may be obtained at the University Place Bookshop or from Jerome Klein, 106 Perry St. Young Writers To Give Concert and Dance On Saturday NEW YORK. — A concert and dance will be given by the Youth Writers Union, an organization of young writers ranging in age from 13 to 17, on Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Mt. Eden Workers Center, 288 E. 174th St. Bronx. The affair is for the benefit of the Union's pub- lication, “The Youth Pen.” The con- |cert will begin at 8 p. m. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P, M.—Mary Small, Songs 15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch ‘30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Jack Pearl, Comedian; Van Steeden cl = 9:30—Wayne King Orch, 9:00—Trovbadours Orch.; Walter Huston, Act allen, Comedian; Grofe Orch, ibilly Muste sional Forum 11:00—Elkins Orch, :18—An.hony Frome, Tenor WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 7:15—News—Gabriel Heatter 7:30—Terry end Ted—Sketch ‘:45—Harry Hershfield 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama, 8:15—-String Orch.; William Hargrave, Barl- tone 8:30—To Be Announced 9:00—Magazine of the Air; Sigmund Spaeth, Heywood Broun, Jack Kofoed, Gilbert Seldes 9:30—Dorothy Miller, Garfield Swift, Songs; Shackley Orch. 10:00—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Jack Arthur, Baritone 10:45—~Pasline Alpert, Piano 11:00--Weather Report 11:02--Meoubeams Trio 11:30—Scotti_ Orch. 12:00—Bartin Orch, Set ! VAow oO sonatas for piano and violin, the Bach| ~ TUNING IN Fiftieth Performance of “Peace on Earth” to Be Given on Thursday NEW YORK.—The Theatre Union, Whose anti-war play “Peace on | Earth” will be performed for the fiftieth time Thursday night, is now preparing for its second productkon this year. It expects to open early in March with a play chosen from the following scripts: A play as yet unnamed, dealing with Negro stevedores on the wharves | of New Orleans, the work of Paul Peters, magazine writer, and George Sklar, co-author of “Peace on Earth” and “Merry-Go-Round.” “The Sailors of .Catarro,” a play {dealing with a mutiny among sailors, written by Friedeich Wolf, German Playwright and author of “Cyankali,” who k fied from Germany because terror. Chicago Theatre Groups to Present Lenin Pageant CHICAGO, — Six Work Theatre “roups, with the co-operation of the Unemployed Councils and the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League, are re- hearsing a Lenin Memorial Pageant to take place Jan. 21 at the Coliseum celebration here. The pageant was written collectively by several mem- bers of the groups and show bolic form the meaning of Lenir for the American working class their struggles. NEW ‘D BOOK SHOP store, in the Workers .Culture Cen- ter, main floor, at 1522 Prospect Ave. The Workers School occupies the whole second floor of the same bt ing. WJZ—760. Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos ’n’ Andy 1:18—John Herrick, Songs 7:30—Potash end Perlmutter—Sketch 7:45—Hollywood—Irene Rich 8:00—Door to Disaster—Sketch 0—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch S—Red Davis—Sketch o—Warden Lewis E. Lawes in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing—Sketch 9:30—John McCormack, Tenor; Dely Orch. 10:00—Lopez Orch.; Jesters Trio; tart, Songs; Tony Cabooch, Cor 10:30—String Symphony Orch. 11:00—Pickens WABC—860 Ke 200 P. -ML—Myrt_and Marge 5—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh }0—Travelers Ensemble 8:00—Green Orch.; “Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, 8:15-—Ne Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thi- bault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch, 9:00—Philadeiphia Orch, 5—Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Vera Van, Contralto; Renard Orch. 9:30—-Lombardo Orch.;' Burns and Allen, Comedy 00—Waring Orch. —News Reports Kostelanetz Oreh.; Evelyn Contralto; Evan Evans, Ba: Chorus 11:15—Jones Orch. 11:30—Gray Orch. 00—Little Orch A. M.—Hall Oreb. 0—Light Orch, 10: MacGregor, tone; Mixed o YOu FEEL Boys? Cleveland has opened its new book s Soviet Russia Today By GRANVILLE HICK Three important events January issue of Soviet Russi historical signif tion of the USSR. issue: ognition, there is an article on Tri and there is an ext speech by Raymond Robbi two articles appear 0 eni | for the conyention are p addition there are two excellent ar= cles by American workers in Rus- and there is the usual number of fine pictures. Lamont's article is particularly in- teresting because he brings out the fact that recognition has by no means silenced the enemies of the Soviet Union. This fact is also emphasized si by E + Goldfrank in his appeal for a succesful convention of the F and by A. A. Heller in his notes on the ¢ menace. It would indeed be a pi the American workers permitted themselves to be deceived by recognition, and Soviet Russia Teday is quite right in stress- ing the continued danger of inter- vention. That is why the convention of the F.S.U. on Jan, 26, 27 and 28, in New York City, is so very important. As Jack Stachel says in his appeal to trade unionists to support the con- vention, this is the time for workers to learn about the Soviet Union and to put themselves unhesitatingly on record in defense of the USSR. “The very existence of the Soviet U he points out, “helps the workers of this country in their fight for higher wages, for unemployment insurance, agaknst another imperial- ist world slaughter,” Workers who are beginning to realize this will find in the F.S,U. the best instrument for helping to learn the truth a) a. In gi |, though people who have been studying the Soviet Union for years sometimes forget it, Russia is still news to millions of Americans. ‘Today, more than ever, Russia is vital and important n oviet Ri Today, though there is aly roon for improvement, is the best thing to to the hands of those who art USSR. It ought ds of thousands lows Workers’ Reference Bulletin CHICAGO.—A wealth cf material for organizers and p ists is contained in the issue of the Workers Reference Saulletin, pub- lished by the Chicago Labor Research Association. The first of a s the Chicago Sto: nature of a historical labor-hating, = dr of articles on ‘ds ts in the ticle on the ving founders of Philip D. Armour and F. Swift. This material ill later be published in pamphlet form. A similar series of articles, also to be put in pamphlet shape later, be- gin: hi ue, Gealing with the of the unempl Chicago An excellent expose on the Shirts completes the feat articles. Also useful are the tables of Economic Indices. They cover the economic situation nationally and locally. Indices are given on produc- tion, employment and payrolls, cost of living, et The Bulletin is only 5 cents a single 65 cents a year postpaid. Sub- tions may be sent to the Chi- SC cago Labor Reseash Association, 2822 S. Michigan Ave. It is also sold at workers bookstores and at the Chicago Wo. ers School. Don to Teach Class in Imperialism; Begins at Workers School Tonite} NEW YORK.—The course in Im- perialism to be given by Sam Don | opens tonight at the Workers’ School, 35 E. 12th St., at 8:40 p.m. This course will take up the de. velopment of capitalism into its la: stage, imperialism, the general crisis of capitalism, the struggle of the colonies. It will deal specifically with the post-war developments, the establishment of the proletarian dic- tatorship in the Soviet Union, and the struggle of the two worlds. Special attention will be paid to the development of American imperial- ism. There is still room for a few more students in this class, and those who have the prerequisites will be permit- ted to register today before the first session. Portland, Me, PARTY GIVEN by LL.D. on Jan, Workers Center, 82 Union St. Philadelphia MALCOLM COWLEY will lecture at the John Reed Club on Jan. 12 at 8:30 p.m. at Labor Institute, 810 cust St. on “America’s Mental Revolution.” 11 at By QUIRT WAT IN HELL YA TRAINING US FOR? CROSS CONTINENTAL RUN? WASHE AND Tae FOP, are “TRAINED Ta atu D outs (2,000 Witness First Workers yF ’ (Page Five =e Dance League Group Recital | By JEAN BOLAN ed jevery available inch of standing room filled 3 p, t the Theatre ne Red Danc- Dance Gr who has been a devotee of of dance and followed the , the Sunday re- trast as wide as the Soviet Union and st of the capitalist world. No alone on a vast stage, soloist whirling in space to a “Bacchanale” or a “Monotonoso.” Instead, healthy groups of people danced to a “Work- ere, ers’ Dance Son Cycle,” “Impressions Factory.” an “Anti-War of a Soviet * . . "HE New Duncan Dancers met with the greatest applause. The de- lighted audience called for encore after encore of “Impressions of a So- viet Factory.” The audience was ap- lauding the great Isadora Duncan, Isadora whom to have seen once is to remember always, Isadora who, filled with the love of life, broke from the confines of the Victorian ballet and created a new freedom in the dance, an unrestrained “joie de vi- But Isadora rose on the tide of a flourishing period of capitalism, a od when breaking with tradition 's the order of the day. Isadora went to the Soviet Union, the coun- try of the successful proletarian reyo- lution, and transferred the spirit of her dance to the joy of victorious workers. This was what the audience applauded in the dance “Impressions of a Soviet Factory,” Sunday night. But the lightness of the Duncan movements, though they lend them- solid with} selves easily to the s a Chopin wal 1 nade, do not workers caug sis. The “In Memo the New Duncan Dancers portrayal of workers ridng grief over the loss of a comrade to go h into the uggle, TE technique lacks the v inate with such a Dunean Dancers w something to the tea great Isadora. We are revolution, They must ‘sadora's new freedom, the € that belongs to workers waging ‘the greatest battle of all time. Union Group in ‘their r Cycle” had this new the quick, sharp, an- gular movements of Martha Graham, they gave an impression of action, of power. Martha Graham's technique és eminently fitted for working class motifs. It is unfortunate that Martha Graham herself misuses them for re- ligious ideas, serving the needs of the decadent bourgeoisie. But - the Theatre Union Group has mastered Martha Graham's interpretation of the Machine Age and has tfans- Planted it to the progressive uses of @ revolutionary class, t's HAVE chosen these two groups the main note for this re- ly because the one is try- ing to express an already victorfous working ¢! the other, a rising working class, The other groups in the recital fell into the second cate- gory and it is impossible in the ‘space of this short review to discuss each one separately. The clever’ satirical number, “Charity,” of the New Dance Group, which we have seen several times, has an added improvement in the increase in number of revolting workers at the end of the dance. “Southern Holiday” of the Red Dance Group és a powerful and. stir- ring number. The “War Trilogy" of the Rebel Dancers deserves .com- mendation. The Workers Dance League is a valuable addition to the cultural front of revolutionary activity, We should like to see more recitals by this organization. Stage and Screen of Progress” Opens Today at the Acme Theatre nies of Progress,” the first ikie to come from the U. 8. {S. R. for some time, will have its ‘st American showing today at the Acme Theatre. The picture is based on the story “The Last Ataman” by Nikolai Beresnyov, who also directed the production. The film was made by Rosfilm of Leningrad and is re- leased here by Amkino. “Enemies of Progress” tells a dra- matic story of Ataman Annenkov, a i dant of the Decembrist,s an of the Tzar's forces in the East at the outbreak of the Revolution. Against a background of the stormy days o f the Revoution in the deep jheart of Asia, the film portrays the downfall of Ataman Annenkov, the |last tzariss general on Soviet ter- ritory, and the stirring of the new life in the limit) expanses of th vast steppes of Asiatic Siberia. It is the story of the heroic fight of the Red Army and the Red partisans and the thousands of Siberian peasants who joined in countless bands to harass Annenkov’s troops on every side. The picture also gives a colorful | View of life in the Orient, its Chinese , its weird music, its dramatic art in most ancient form—a thousand years old — authentic, untouched by time. headed by Livanov, brilliant artist of the Moscow Art Theatre, who plays Ataman Annen- kov; Gardin, who will be remembered for his fine work as the old worker in “Shame” and Youdin. The film by Astradantsev. The picture has complete English titles. The Jefferson Theatre beginning today will present Paul Muni in “The World Changes” and “Golden Har- vest” with Richard Arlen, Chester Morris and Genevieve Tobin. New Soviet Talkie “Enemies| has a special music score composed | ®! | Pierre Degeyter Club to Perform 3 Sonatas o> -in Recital on Friday NEW YORK.—Three modern natas for violin and piano will be sented this Fri night at 8:15 p.m at the Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. Harry Fratkin, one of New Yor leading violinists (member of Pierre Degeyter Club), Vera Giles Pianist, and Alexander Lipsky, pig \st-composer, will be the pe! artists. The program is to be as follow 1, Sonata ..... -» Ernst Toch 2. Sonata (1931)....Elie Siegmeister 3. Sonata .......Alexander Lipsky (Composer at the piano.) Wednesday SYMPOSIUM on to the Food Industry,” “What the Code Means NRA. and other organizations to be Tepresented. .. Clarte, 304 W. 58th St. at 8:30 p.m. Adni. free. MRS. JUSTINE WISE TULIN will talk on “A Travellers’ Impressions of thé Soviet Union” at Labor Temple Auditorium, 14th St. and and Ave. Auspices F.S.U. CLARA ZETKIN I. L. D. Branch general membership meeting at 8:30 pm. Labor Temple, 243 ©. 84th THEATRE of the Workers School rehearsal at Workers School, 35 E. 12th St. Room 302 at 8:30 p.m. interested invited to join. OPEN FOR end talk on. “War; its causes and effect” at the Irish Workers Club, Bronx, 594 St. Anns Ave. at Bast 149th Sf. at 8 p.m, OPEN MEMBERSHIP Meeting © of). ¥iim and Photo League, 116 Lexington Avenue at 2th Street at 8:30 sharp. Quarter~ ly by David Platt, Executive Secretary, tol- lowed by discussion and demonstration” of sound recording All interested invited. REHEARSAL of Daily Worker Chorus, )35 E. 12th St., Sth floor, at 8 pm, Every member must come and bring another one to join. LECTURE by J. Wong on “The Devélop- ment of the Chinese Soviets” at Labor ‘Temple, 243 E. 84th St, at’ 8 pm. Yorkyilie SU. “CHINESE REVOLUTION, 1925-1927," lec- ture by J. F, Ho at meetings of Priends of the Chinese People, 168 W, 23rd St. at 8:20 p.m. Adm. free. Thursday LECTURE on “Race Prejudice mnd the Class Strugele” by Anna Krassner, at 4046 W. Broadway, near 17ist St. Auspices Wo= mens Council 38, AMUSEMENTS =———- AMERICAN PREMIERE! » AMKINO’S New Soviet Talking Picture NEMIES of PROGRESS | BASED ON THE OF ACME THEATRE | “ i PRODUCED IN SOVIET RUSSIA-CHINA. ENGLISH TITLES Smashing the Conspiracy of the Imperialists on the Eastern Front! THE STORY “THE LAST ATAMAN” OF THE Moscow ART THEATRE VANGUARD | 14th STREET and CULTURE|UNION SQUARE —THE THEATRE GUILD _presents—, EUGENE O’NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M, COHAN Thea.. 52d St. GUILD MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN Patti chtr EUGENE O'NEILL'S New Play DAYS WITHOUT END Henry Miller’s 3,4 St Evenings 8.30, Matinees Thurs. & Sat. 2.30 77 XEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Everett MAR- SHALL, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Evs. 8.30 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” Plymduth sen en ee RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation jon “Roxy” Opens: 14:80 gam. Irene Dunne, Clive Brook, Nils Asther. in “IF | WERE FREE” ETHEL WATERS in “Bubbling Over” and ® Brilliant New “Roxy” Stage Spectacle | Now RKO ‘iith St, if Jefferson 'h St Ne PAI ‘) és “THE WORLD CHANGES? pg eg ey ec love Tobias TRE ANTI-WAR PLAY 7TH BIG WEEK PEACE ON EARTH SCOTT NEARING says: “1 theateegoer Sivud wesivOny ‘hes, in’ oh ay, tax er TONIGHT AT 8:30 SHARP MONTE CARLO : sat BALLET RUSSE COMPANY OF 6% DANCERS ©