The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 5

—- MANGE —THE-—— WORLD! By Michael Gold _ Ee o Conventions WO important conventions are taking place this month. One is that { the Friends of the Soviet Union, to be held in New York. The ner will be held in Washington, on the doorstep of President Roose- elt and the Congress, under the auspices of the Unemployed Councils. © * * y base two organizations focalize the great problems that are shaking America and the capitalist world; war and unemployment. The profit system has reached its final stage of decay. It can y function no longer, but until, the Workers are ready to take and to establish socialism, we are all caught in the dangerous of its death agony. talism is finished; and a child might ask, why doesn’t every mply admit the obvious, and ¢o-operate in the building of a new and better system? The answer is that no priveleged class ever surrenders. It is fated to fight to the bitter end, and to die defending its delusions of grandeur. Every privileged class develops its own peculiar state of mind; an deology that hides its ugly face from. itself. Capitalists have been told by their preachers and philosophers that private property has been decreed by God. It is fixed through eternity; some shall sow, and others reap; some are born to be masters and others slaves; the poor ye shall always have with ye, says the Bible. When capitalists slug and maim aia kill Workers on strike, they sleep well and feel no loss of virtue. They tell themselves they are fighting not for their own filthy profits, but for sacred law and order, and the church and the state are behind them. When a ship is sinking, the captain declares martial law, and ad- ministers his orders at the point of @ gun. Fascisrn is the last desperate gesture of dying capitalism. It has no program other than this morttd determination to save the misers.and exploiters from bankruptcy. But it surrounds its ugiy face with a veil of purple rhetoric. It even calls itself “revolutionary!” But it cannot saye the old rotten rat-infested hulk of capitalism. For Fascism is patriotic; in each land, it intensifies the worst competitive provincialism, It whips up the war spirit; it drills millions in militaristic hate of all nations; and without a doubt, we are on the verge of a new World War between the different fascist-crazed lands. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.- Capitalism is soon to be destroyed. Fascists At Work NE got a sample of American faseisin in operation orf the last Hunger March to Washington some two'years ago. I was one of the witnesses of ‘fie manner in which the authorities handled the two thousand men and women who had come from all over America to ask for unemployment Insurance. Ti was a piece of fiendish brutality, worthy of the degenerate Nazi mind The marchers, worn and hungry after weeks on the road, were shunted off on a wind-swept highway on the edge of the city. Here they were kept for three days and’ nights under an armed guard of drunken police. No sanitary facilities were permitted; there was no water for several Gays; the cops drank whiskey and insulted women and kicked men around; marchers who, d¢veloped flu and other ailments were not permitted to be taken out. to a hospital. Two of them died of pueumonia as a result of this experience. The climax came late one leaden winter twilight, When the march- ers gathered in ranks behind the Red Front band, and made a.dem- onstration on that strip of highway. The cops got out thelr machine guns and gas bombs, and yowled and hooted, provoking the marchers to attack them. It was a remarkable scene. But the marchers main- tained discipline, and under the menace of hundreds of rifle and tear- gas-guns, Herbert Benjamin rose to open the convention. The cops wanted a blocdy massacré, “openly yelled for it to begin. But the deter- mination ef the marchers, their firm, cool discipline evidently persuaded ome of the capitalist generals and statesmen that a massacre would not help capitalism. And so the next day the hunger marchers paraded through Washington, and presented their demands a¢ the Capitol. What good did it do? It did a great deal of good. These dem- onsivations and marches reach hundreds of thousands of Workers, sunk in their indfvidual defeatism, and iiispire them with the lesson of soli- y. It is their demands that ‘are being expressed, and when they » this, Workers always respond. As for capitalism, it would like to forget the unemployed. It tries to keep unemployment out of the newspapers. It resents being taxed on its boom profits for the cost of unemployed relief. But these demonstrations strip all the veils trom the ugly, face of the Dollar God. Capitalism has only one real emotion in its hard and calloused heart, FEAR; and it is fear that moves them when they see armies of ragged and bitter men marching on their capitol. And it is only FEAR that.makes them do something. It is noteworthy that these demonstrations always manage to impress the need of action upon the bosses; they generally do something for a little while after. The convention this year is important, because it will also crystallize ® program for the Unemployed Councils for the coming year. There has been much fighting done for partial demands, and not enough for the great basic demand, Unemployment Insurance. It is time to say, To hell with charity and relief; we are Workers, and are entitled to Unemployment Insurance! The convention needs funds to carry on its plans, writes the secretary. if you can spare any nickels and dimes, send them to Room 436, 80 East llth St., New York City. War is Near “ i i lee Fascists of the world plan & wir on the Soviet Union, that land where there is no unemploymi Tt may come via Japan this Spring; Nazi Germany assisting thelr fellow-Nordics, the Japanese capi- talists, against the “Oriental Slav,” the: Soviet masses, Never was it more necessary to build an organization like the Friends of the Soviet Union, to €ducate Americans on the issues involved, and to win them for the defense of the ‘Workers’ Republic when it is at- tacked by the bloody fastists. < The convention of the F. S. U. this coming week promises to be of great interest. The organization is evidently breaking away from the secretarian paralysis that has rendered so many similar grotips impotent. Thus far, over forty of the delegate credentials received are from Amer- ican Federation of Labor locals. There are even two delegates from an American Legion post, elected after a real battle. The worst enemies of the Soviet Union are of course, “liberals” such as those who run th: International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. But two locals from this body have defied their bureaucrats and are sending delegates, ‘The very first credentials to conie in were from five Mormon farm- ers In Ogden, Utah, elected at a farmers’ mass Meeting in that city ‘They have already started east in an old Ford. The Wood Carver Assoclation, one of the oldest and most conservative unions in America has elected two delegates. In Milwaukee a member of the City Central Committee of the Soci alist Party heard an F. 8, U. speaker, and was so impressed by th program of the F. S. U. that he was itistrumental in getting five delegate from the Soclalist Party of Milwaukee to come to the convention. Friday night there is to be ® mass meeting, open to the pubic, t welcome these and other delegates. Let’s all be there, | The World of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY. | the Theatie | | By HAROLD EDGAR O’Neill’s Latest | CTICALLY every one has agreed | that Eugene O'Neill's latest play, | “Days Without End,” at the Henry! | Miller Theatre, is a bad play. There | would be little point therefore, in| repeating this bare fect. The play | |is bad because its writing is dry, its characters conventional, its plot ama- teurish. Yet the most important aspect of this play is not its badness—most | | Dlays are bad and many are the work lof good authors—but the cause and nature of its badness. It is amazing | that reviewers, in attacking the play | fail to remark that in this, O'Neill's | poorest play, he still holds one’s at- |tention because the play is about| Club of New York, at work on his new murals in the Da Volunteer Hall on the fifth floor of the Workers Center, 50 | something, whereas most plays that | the reviewers praise, are admittedly | nothing; and it is even more amazing | that all of them fail to talk endl that something with which the play | deals. In failing to discuss the play’s | | theme, they actually fail to disouss | the play itself, for how can one judge a dramatist’s artistry unless one com- pares his subject matter with the treatment he has given it. Let us, for the moment, be “liberal” with O'Neill, and say that “Days Without End,” does not necessarily signify that he has confessed himseli a sinner, repented and formally re- turned to the Catholic Church. Let | us say that when the hero of his play kneels before the cross, alongside a | oest who gives thanks for his soul | and cries out “Life laughs with love,” | that O'Neill simply means to take the crucifix as a symbol of suffering hu- manity, and the expression of faith | expressed in the play’s last line means only that O'Neill wishes to voice his belief that life is worth living, and that despite all its pain, 8 man should be willing to struggle, hope and look forward to its continuance. Here is @ statement and belief that we can share. Yet when we ask ourselves what such a statement leads to, we) | realize that it directs us to combat the forces in our world that are de-| structive of life on all its levels—bio- | logical, social, cultural—it leads to a) | fight to the death with capitalism. O'Neill’s credo realistically viewed | must become a summons to action, | which in turn means the education | of the workers, farmers, intellectuals and indeed every one who truly jwants to eradicate the blight of | capitalism—and live. But precisely this struggle for life is what O'Neill tells us is Evil! His hero frees himself from his ancient heresies of “atheism, Socialism, Nietascheanism, Confucianism and mechanism!” And ends in what? In | & belief so abstractly steted that it | |means exactly nothing in terms of everyday humanity, but which may mean a good many very real things when once translated into terms of life. The choice is clear: on the one hand, an abétraction which is as static as death, on the other hand the road to conflict. a conflict with | the capitalist civilization of today for! the sake of a life which will be freed of capitalism’s devastating contradic- | tions. O'Neill hugs his cold, empty abstraction. Yet the Church is no abstraction. If O'Neill's affirmation is to mean | anything it must mean the church, And the reality of the church is an orgarfization as concrete and as prac- tical for tts own ends as any other. | Let O'Neill try to find out what these jends are, and what means the | Church uses to achieve them. He | will find them to represent s prac- | tice that systematically turns people’s |cyes away from reality, that leads | them into a mystic darkness where |there is no pain because there is no life. If Mr. O'Neill were in con- tact with the world and looked at it, he would see that it is the Church today which is “the spirit that denies.” And the proof of this is the play itself. Just as its fleshless ideology is in the last analysis obscure and Tigid, the creation it leads to, makes for characters without life or mov-- ment, scenes that are drawn me- chanically out of the dramatic dust- bin and peter out into melodramatic tableaux, When O'Neill was a “heretic” he was hardly a better thinker than he is today, but he wrote plays like “The Ape” and “Desire Under the Elms” which, ‘aulty though they may have been, had in them the breath of lfe, a sense of struggle that meant growth, 2 passion that showed a living con- nection with the world around him Today his religious “ ig ‘oesn’t cheer, his new-found “clarity ‘oesn’t reveal, his “rebirth” doesi veate, O'Nefll’s church is a maus zum. One more such play aa “Day: Vithout End” and we shall pro- ounce him dead. The Theatre Guild’s production i- nooth, careful, cold, unrelated tc It fits the play. *efused Aid, Veteran Dying from Starvatio: NEW YORK.—William J. Tierne: cabled veteran and member of Pr 2. 1 of the Workers Ex-Service- on’s League, is in a critical cond’ m in Bellevue Hospital due - irvation and exposure. He is n ected to live. tierney, @ member of the Vetera Foreign Wars, was refused aid xb organization and by the R° 28s when he was recently turr t of the Veterans Hospital. Leading the Pack Again! Revolutionary Phil Bard, y: New York City. TO LENIN By A. B. MAGEL ‘They who hate us, they shall fin: how we answer hate and repay them soon how the mountain of crushes into littlenes all their tall words. how invincible we can be. by your strength made pitiless. They who circle us with night. shall find how sun through darkness how from out your thousand sleeps your eyes rivet us with light. STAGE AND SCREEN “John Brown” Opens Tonight At Barrymore Theatre; “No More Ladies” Due Tuesday “John Brown,” a play dealing with the life of John Brown, by Ronald Gow, English dramatist, will be pre- sented this evening at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre by George Ab- hott, who will also play the title r Others in the cast include Alma Kruger, Buford Armitage, Whitney Sourne and Harry Cook. A. E. Thomas’ comedy, “No More Ladies,” will be presented by the Shuberts on Tuesday night at the Booth Theatre. The cast is headed by Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson, Rex O'Malley, Ruth Weston and Nancy Ryan. “Mackerel Skies,” by John D. Hag- gart, will open on Tuesday evening at the Playhouse, presented by George Bushar and John Tuerk, The players include Violet Kemble-Cooper, Tom Powers, Charles Trowbridge, Carol Stone and Cora Witherspoon. “By Your Leave,” a comedy by Gladys Hurlburt and Emma Wells will have its premiere on Wednesday night at the Morosco Theatre. Doro- thy Gish, Kenneth McKenna, How- ard Lindsay, Ernest Glendinning and Josephine Hall head the cast, “The Devil of Pei-ling,” by Howard Chenery, dramatized from the novel by Herbert Asbury, will open on Thursday evening st the Fulton Theatre. The players include Aug- ustin Duncan, Joanna Roos, Dodson Mitchell and Wilfred. Seagram, “Whatever Possessed Her,” a com- TUNING IN | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Trio Romantique 7:18—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio 7:43—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Dramatic Sketch 8:30—Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera ‘Tenor; Daly Orch. 9:00—Gyfsies Orch.; Frank Parker, ‘Tenor 9:30—Ship of Joy, With Captain Hugh Bar- rett Dobbs :00—Eastman Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Geni Arnold. Narrator ‘9:30—~The Barrier—Sketch 1:00—John Fogarty, Tenor i5—Weems Orch, 0—Lucas Orch. 00—U. 8. Junior Chamber of Commerce Dinner, Minneapolis; Speekers: Leslie B, Farrington, President; Lloyd .B. Olson, Governor of Minnesota 2:80 A, M.—Madriguera Orch. Arlt Yaa WOR—710 Ke ~:00 P, M.—Sports—Ford Frick 15—Comedy; Musie :30—Maverick Jim—Sketch 00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama *:15—Billy Jones end Ernie Hare, Songs :90—Renard Orch.; Olga Albant, Soprano; Edward Nell, Baritone 20—Variety Musicale ‘)~Motor Boat Show Talk 45—Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta; Mina ‘Heger, Soprano \5—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 50~Dance Orch. 2—Moonbeams Trio *0—Whiteman Orch, 00—Lane Orch, Artist at tle Run of ‘Peace on Earth’ to Continue Indefinitely, Says Theatre Union Head Work Tig NEW YORK—The run of On Earth,” the antiwar play of the Th n at the Civic Reper- “It is interesting to compare this latest attempt to build a workers’ theatre with the success of the New Playwright’s Theatre, which was an attempt i direction,” Walker s: by 25,000 people saw which the New Play produced in the Cherry Lane Theatre in a season of thirty weeks. “Peace on Earth has run for eight weeks and have seen it, I am con- loubled before the play closes and eea at an equal number of people will wr eee ;come to see our setond play, “Steve- Worker ‘jore” by Paul Peters and George 13th St, | Skiar | ‘The Theatre Union will soon an- nounce plans for building a per- |manent audience for its productions through memberships. The \ low prices will be continued, and membership cards will entitle the holders to further discounts ember of with hate, or late; your mind 8 They shall se By CHARLOTTE TODES ida © NEEDLE WORKER, central or- jubilee number, Jan. 1934, 72 pp., 3 cents. | _ We are today y the rapid {development of a ni volutionary de unionism. For the first time, working class of America, matur- under the impact of post-war ‘ican imperialism, is on the road Mansfield ‘Theatre. }.| +0 edger MG eo tein’ with a hat ory | class struggle policy and with a revo- jRaun Doucet is featured, llutionary leadership clear as to its AyaeyS ASH OTOE I g | objectives and its role. It is not the | “Blind Adventure” at |groping, confused syndicalist-tinged a 9 re industrial unionism of the LW.W. | The Jetterson Theatr €| which battled heroically against. the parE | class enemy but collapsed for lack of |a-clear revolutionary program. The new revolutionary industtial unions led by the Trade Union Unity League embody all the militancy of |. Brown and Jean Muir in “Son ot a Sailor” is on the same program, | #&ue screen | ‘he industrial unions of the pre-war | Beginning Wedn the | |program will include “Havana Wid- | jows” with Joan Blondell, Glenda | & mi |Farrell and Guy Kibbee and a second | Workers for struggle to wrest imme- film, “Smoky,” with Victor Jory,| ate concessions from the capitalist {Irene Bentley and Will James, [end to win their support in the revo | |lutionary struggle to overthrow capi- THESES talism, The experiences of the new revolu- tionary unions in the first years of growth are widely scattered in the revolutionary press and in fugitive Monday leaflets and papers of the unions. DAILY WORKER DANCE GROUP being| It is therefore of special interest to | formed. Meet at 35 E. 12th Bt., 6th floor. |all workers to read the enlarged * ig = |number of the January issue of the lene eee teats i ot 3| Needle Worker, published on the oc- bie kn, a Teta Me | casion of.the fifth anniversary of the Auapices Upper Bronk LW. 8:50) Needle Trades Workers Industrial . | Union, which is a summation of the OAKLEY JOHNSON’S CLASS IN “Elements | UDLO? achievements of five years. | of Politica eae at og y|In a special, well-organized and am- coer, cat, an Cains Ré. Com-| ply illustrated edition, many times its icgangente odes ta thot [regular size, the Needle Worker coles NORMAN THIBEAUDAUX SAVED Frost|Prates five years of stormy struggle | LYNCHING IN LA. At Anti-Lynch Mass|'n building the Industrial Union. Meeting at 37 Johnson Ave., Bklyn., 8 p.m.| What a record of achievement it LL.D. attorney just returned from Decatur, ' will also speak. At Mt. Baptist Chureh of | PéeSeD . Christ. Auspices Walter Rojeck Br. LL.D.| Every page of this anniversary edi- jtion relates an aspect of the many- |sided_struggles which has establish {the Industrial Union as the only fighting organization in the interests lof the needle workers. Born in the first year of the crisis | in 1929, beset on all sides by its ene- jmies, the first of the unions of the | Trade Union Unity League steadily | grew from a small group of 3,000 to & mass union of nearly 30,000 mem- bers. Eight separate sections of the industry are now part of the Indus- | trial Union of which one section, the |{ur workers, represents the majority |of the workers in the industry. Each of the articles in the Needle Worker contributes to a composits Dicture which makes the jubilee num ber an important historical recor¢ ly by Hardwick Nevin, will have premiere on Thurs ¢ | The Jefferson Theatre is now | showing “Blind Adventure” with Rob- Armstrong and Helen Mack. Joe { WHAT'S ON = pan, 5 Sa { WJZ—760 Ke le, Songs n and Perlmutter—Sketch 7:45—Frances Alda, Soprano | 8:00—Morin Sisters, Songs; King’s Jesters; | Stokes Orch.; Clift Soubler ena Van Gordon, Contralto of | Metropolitan O} Company 8:45—Red_Davis—Ski 9.00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Pasternack Ore liver Smith, Tenor het 9:00—Wagner, Part fc and Drama jOf the growth of a class strugg! 30—Henrl Deering, Piano union. In these we see the struggle Laetoli teed jout of which new members were re- 11:00—To Be Announced jeruited, the victories won by th- | workers and the problems ahead. Ben Gold, Communist leader of th- union, in the leading article outlines | the immediate tasks facing the need! workers in the sixth year and stresse pecially the strengthening of ih- wnion against the N.R.A. and th- | Lovestonite enemies of the union. \Irving Potash, secretary of the New York union, in a stimulating artic’ “cals with the probtems of the need’ workers in the A. F. of L. J, Wino- tadsky, organizer of the fur uni sts the successes of the fur worke: mn after the many strenuous bat S waged against the bosses ar he defunct A. F. of L. union. No ¢ 7. of L, officials can point to a com- sarable record of having establishe: ‘ne 35-hour week, a return of th- “926 scales and an unemploymen’ nsurance fund paid by the bosses | | 11:15—Chicago Opera, Last Act, Coq d'Or, } a:0 WABC—860 Ke. Myrt and Mar Plain Bill Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15--News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30--Bing Crosby, Songs; Mills Bros., Songs 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. | 9:18—Howard Marsh, Songs; | Orch. | 9:30—Gortrude Niesen, Songs; Jones Orch. | 10:00—Wayne King, Orch. 10:30—News Bulletins + 10:45—Evan Evans, Baritone; Concert Orci: | 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songs | 11:30—Lyman Orch. 12:00—Belasco Orch. ‘12:39 A, M.—Little Orch, 1:00—Light Orch, Arnheim Orch.; Kostelanetz By QUIRT MARTIN¢ How'D GE “Peace | ui of the Needle Trades Workers | ndustrial Union, special enlarged | od. But they are forging a pow-/ 1 weapon aimed to unite the, “International Page Five SSS Literature” | Grows in Popularity Among American Workers, Writers jon. | Poetry, Fiction and Criticism in New Issue; Vital | International Cultural Problems Discussed By PHILIP RAHV that INTERNATIONAL LITERTURE No. 4, American Distributors, Interna- tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., | New York City, | ° | International Literature ts rapidly sequiring in this country the esteem will be|and popularity which is its due whe that their only s: |the central organ of revolutionary literature. Time and again the | writer has observed workers discussing the contents of this magazine. He |has seen them coming into bookshops |inquiring whether a new number of the magazine had arrived. The ma- gazine is also read by writers and | artists in search of theoretical guid- }ance and contact with their comrades who are at work in the same sector {of the class struggle in other lands. The present issue is especially rich |in contributions from American writ-| lers. John Dos Passos’ play, “Fortune | Heights,” of which an printed in this issue, promises to be & major dramatic work. Within the small space of this excerpt the reader | Seeger to Lecture on World Music Systems | NEW YORK.—Charies Seeger, edi- tor of the American Library of Mu- sicology and former lecturer at the Institute of Musical Art, will igve two lectuxe-demonstration courses—Music Systems of the World and The! | Meaning of Music—which begin dur- ling the week of January 29th at the |New School for Social Research, The Meaning of Music will have its first sesssion on Wednesday evening, jJan. 31, at 8.20. This course is being given for those Who must, or can, approach music, even its technique, from a non-technical standpoint. Mr. Seeger will speak on music in ite rela- tion to individual emotional and in- tellectual experience; to politics; to science; to art; music as a social funetion; as @ commodity; music and finally, the musician and his audience. Music will be played at each sesssion. |Good-Will Flight Is Planned to USSR by American Airmen | NEW YORK—A good-will trade | flight to the Soviet Union and return is being planned here by two pilots, William Alexander and Major Wil- liam ©, Brooks. The trip, which will probably be called “The Recognition Trade Flight,” will start in about two | months, Finances are to be provided by American manufacturers with the possibility of a pay load from U.S. S.R. on the return trip. The plane will carry products of American man- ufacturers from here to be exhibited in various parts of the Soviet Union, FEAR LOSS OF ENGLISH SHIP SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17~The | British steamship Cape Cornwall jand her crew of forty were feared lost today after no word had been received since yesterday when the 3,180-ton vessel was reported in dis- tress and leaking badly. during the worst economic crisis yet oxperienced. The achievement of the organiza- tion of the unorganized is recorded in ® number of articles deakng with the new departments in the unions | among the knitgoods workers, custom tailors, bathrobe workers, rabbit dressers and dyers and out-of-town | locals of the union. Interesting features of the issue are {the letter of greetings from the fur | workers of the U.S.S.R., the many | photographs of the leading members |of the union’s various trade boards, |ond the pithy editorial comments. Every needle worker, regardless of | his union affiliation, will want toown j ‘his special number. Many will want to preserve it as a record of the first “nilestone on the road to winning the mnajority of the working class to rev- olutionary class struggle. excerpt is| ia given an understanding of |struggles of the lower middle striving to maintain ® footh |the storm of the crisis. Dos Pa: depicts the defeat of ti |the iexorabie forces |chicanery and monopoly capi traces the path which the mem of this class follow until in allying themselves with t! jers. This play will also prove to be |® lesson in creative method to some jof our young dramatists and fiction | writers who have not learned as jhow to avoid trite situations | Sloganized dialogue, Dos Pass | that the material of the revolut; |playwright is so genuine and al! jthat an honest presentation of it is jmore than sufficient to affect deeply | the reader or spectator. There is no jneed for shouting or hysteria, | What with the sixth Kuomintang campaign against the Soviet districts jin China, events in the youngest | Soviet Republic in the world are at {present of burning interest to work- jers. Agnes Smedley's fine description jof the winning of the peasants for |the anti-imperialist revolution and jthe fall of the city of Shangpo to tha Red Army becomes not merely an imaginative creation, but an his~ torical document of prime importance. | This is @ literature of facts, but there |Sre times when facts in themselves exceed anything which the artistic | sensibility might construct. © The | workers and peasants of China who have been oppressed for cerituries, |who have spoken in whispers, have |now raised their voices. Agnes Smed- ley's story resounds with the clash of armed classes in motion, Marvin Klein is the suthor of “1933,” @ short story which stand: out by the vigor of its onslaught. the savagery of the Nazis, Klein telis the story of a Jewish professor who is brutally torn out of his com- Placent academic life and flung into the arena of the class struggle, Th story is writteen in a staccato sty! that 's marked by many happy in- novations, Of the contributions by sSovic writers, the most interesting is “Shvambrania,” by L. Kassil. The theme is the life of a doctor's sor during the period of the revolution the dream life that he leads in the | privacy of his morbid imaginings anc how the new Soviet life makes an integrated and socially useful human being out of him. In his own inimit- able words: “I aim to have not or the half metre but my entire 1 centimetres an integral part of tl: proletarian revolution.” In iterary oriticism, besides av article by Sergei Dinamov on Sher- wood Anderson, the issue presente the long awaited Marx and Engels correspondence with LaSalle dealing with his dramatic tragedy, Franz Von Sicklengen. The concrete and pro- found insights of Marx and Engels into the problems of tragedy and the revolutionary viewpoint in literature will undoubtedly illumine many dark corners in our young proletarian criticism. Strangely enough, there: have been critics, both here and in the Soviet Union, who have denied jthe possibility of revolutionary trag- jedy. They have seen in tragedy a tendency to defeatism. These stupid- ities are utterly destroyed by this cor~ respondence, which, in the words of the editors, shows “what methods s revolutionary tdeologist of a prolet» arian party would adopt in artis~ tically presenting a tragedy of rev- olution.” In the preceding issue of the magazine, the late A. Lunachar- sky wrote with great penetration concerning the role of tragedy in pro- letarian literature, The {ssue ts rounded out by a series of chronicles detailing the develop» ments in literature the world over. There is an interesting letter from Jack Conroy, and an articie by Nathaniel Buchwald on the first in- ternational olympiad of revolutionary |theatres. But no review would: be {complete without mentioning the emergence of a new artist, Helios Gomes, a Spanish Communist, whose drawings of Spanish workers and Peasants in action heightens the éf- ‘fectiveness of the issue. | AMUSE MENTS TRE with GEORG GUILD THEATRE MARY OF HAYES ALVIN THEATRE HENRY MILLER’S EUGENE O'NEILL'S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS} 52nd St., West of Broadway. Evenings, 8:20 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play PHILIP HELEN MERIVALE MENKEN S2nd St., West of Broadway. Eveningy 8:20 ENGENE O'NEILL'S NEW PLAY DAYS WITHOUT END THEATRE, 48rd E. of Broadwa: GUILD Presents iE M. COHAN Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2:20 SCOTLAND Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2:20 Eve. 8:40 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:40 ACMET ON PRODUCED IN SOVIET SOVIET'S NEWEST TALKING PICTURE! 2ND BIG WEEK ===, ENE M IES PROGRESS ‘THE STORY “THE LAST ATAMAN" THE NATION sayst—“One of the best that has come: out of Russia in @ long time.” RUSSIA-CHINA. (ENGLISH TITLES)” Ath STREET AND HEATRE ctwron square “HE ANTI-WAR PLAY — 3rd Big Month PEACE ON EARTH LIAM LYON PHELPS says: “A thrilling and exciting play.” CIVIC REPERTORY 'Thea,. Lith 8. & 6th Av. WA, 9-7450. Evg! 5. 30°" "1" Mats. Wed. & Sat. TAX ZXEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Everett MAR- SHALL, Jean SARGENT, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th, Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saiuréay Support the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb, 3, in Washington, |. JUDITH ANDERSON. Come OF AGE 4 Eves. 8:50, $3.90 to S5e, Mat; & Bat, RKO Mth St. & 0 Jefferson ii St ® | Now|. JOE E. BROWN & JEAN MUIR im So%00 “Son of a Sailor? ~ also: LIND ADVENTURE” with ROBERT ARMSTRONG & HELEN MACK ——— eee Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS { “Her Master’s Voice” Thes., W. 45th 6, Evs, 8.40 Plymo Mate, Thurs. & Bat. 2:40