The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934 CHANGE THE — WORLD! By Michael Gold _ is Ben Gold a Poet? Yes! AM always being asked, are you related to Ben Gold? I have often been mistaken for him by some earnest worker who'd take me in a corner and tip me off about some fur shop:where scabs were working, and action was needed. Ben is the secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, For years he was the ‘leader of the Fur Workers Union. Himself a fur worker, he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of that union at the age of 16, All his life has been spent in fighting on picket lines, in building a strong union, in leading the New York workers in the daily struggle. He has lived on @ battlefield; but like all union leaders, it has been a matter of bookkeeping @s well. Ben’s mind is filled with the many technicalities of his industry. ‘He is a master executive, and in the Soviet Union, undoubtedly would, be managing the Trans-Siberian Rail- road or some enormous factory. . Yet, he has told me, nice old ladies often come up to him at the con- clusion of one of his meetings, and with quavering voice, tell him: “Oh, Mr, Gold, I did like that last poem-of yours.” In other words, I am often mistaken for that superb labor leader, Ben Gold, and, he in turn is mis- taken for Michael Gold, aspiring poet. So the accounts are even. . . ‘HE truth is, Comrades, we arenot related by the old bourgeois blood- relationships, We are firmly ¥élated, however, in the bonds of some- thing new and deeper. We are soldiers in the same proletarian cause, we are sons of Marx and Lenin and the Working Class. And as tt also happens, beside’ this, I am proud to call myself one of Ben Gold's friends and admirers for these past ten years. ® 40 Days in Jail EN GOLD has just been sentenced to serve 40 days in jail at Wilming- ton, Delaware. The “crime”—h¢ was one of the leaders of the Hunger March to Washington a year ago...One of the stops on the march was at Wilmington. In that slave city Which belongs body and soul to the Du Pont family, the Hunger March was met by an army of servile assas- sins—the police. Men:and women marchers, locked into the cellar of a eh for the night, were clubbed and beaten and poisoned with tear- gas bombs. That nobody was killed'by Du Pont’s assassins was the merest, accident. But the Hunger Marchets fought back, and Ben Gold, trying to prevent a massacre, Was one of those arrested. a civilized socléty the police and their masters, the Du Ponts, would been the ones to be arrested And tried for attempted manslaughter. ey would even be examined for their sanity, for surely there was some- thing inhuman and insane about the cold-blooded way tn which they fell upon the defenseless marchers. Thé brutality of the fascist ruling class is still legal, however, and democratic and constitutional. And it was Ben Gold who was put on trial. GOLD hes passed through many such experiences; they are epi- sodes in the class struggle which ts his world. He will come out of jail sentence with flag unlowered. Yet the circumstances of this par- m2-up are very peculiat “and ought to be examined by every For they are another proof uf ‘the Naai tendencies of the Roosevelt Nira regime. The imprisonment of Ben Gold is a crude piece of fascism. The Wil- mington judge was inclined to give Ben a suspended sentence. But a ram came from the notorious labor-faker Ed. McGrady, calling for The needie trade workers ‘of New Yorks had once exposed and de- feated this McGredy, and sent him back to the Tammany Hall slime where he sprung from. Now he’s part of the labor administration in Weshington, one of Roosevelt's trusted aides. And his official governmental telegram demanded blood. It practically instructed the judge that Ben Gold must go to jail. And the next day governmeiit—arbitrators, with the help of hired gangsters and the labor-racketeers who lead the right wing unions, de- seended on the fur industry in New: York. A campaign of slugging, in- timidation and violence was opened, to compel-the fur workers to give up the union they had chosen for ‘themselves, and to go back to the racket- eering outfit they had spewed out. Ben Gold was out of the way. The racketeers felt more confident. <Butithe fur workers are fighting hard, and will not be beaten. They have fought off similar attacks in the past; they will never yield to the Tacketeers, even though the government protects these snakes. and First Steps to Fascism wer a bitter heroic struggle these fur workers have conducted for a decade. It was only last year that the labor-racketeers sent 16 gang- sters to the union offices to kill Ben'Gold. If was a surprise attack, but it was resisted by unarmed workers, several of whom were maimed for life. There have been many other atiempts to assassinate Ben. Those who hire the assassins are presumably followers of Norman Thomas, but that sterling pacifist has never deigned to,chide them. He knows how to shut his eyes at the right time, To be a Socialist trade unign ‘Gee in the New York needle trades has been quite a profitable caregt fér many a bright young graduate of Brookwood and the Rand SchodieDhe needle workers have been radi- calized for years, and would only ‘Tespond to leaders who could bring them some vision of a worker’s world; And these young careerists would begin by spouting the demagogic and Weillistic phrases of professional socialists, then land in some good $100 and $150 a week union job, and end by de- fending these jobs with paid cones and the Zd McGradys, and the federal and city police.:: The needle workers-may be forced to pay tribute at times to these racketeers, but they always despise and loathe them, as the German work- ers do Hitler. But the workers love and trust Ben Gold. They know their very lives are safe in the strong as of this gay, fearless, capable young fighter, born in their own ranks......+) They have followed him through a hundred struggles. All seemed lost, bug he led them out to victory, He has shared with them the brunt of the gangster attacks; they haye seen him baitered and bandaged for their sake. The Ss have trte@)to bribe him at varlous times with huge sums of money. He could have sold out to the racketeers, like so many others, and built a dirty little nest-- But Ben Gold has been steady and true as the North Star, and the:{t workers know it. They will fight on, while Ben.js in jail. They will greet him when he comes out, and continue under his leadership. For the fur workers know what is happening. Always: the pioneers, they have been selected to bear the first blows cf Americam fascism. If their union can be de- streyed, then every other indepesdéht and honest trade union may be, likewise. The government hes deciticd; like Hitler, to take over the trade union movement, and rule i¢ with McGrady type. But the fur workers wil resist and win. 42an _JIM MARTIN p IVS GETTING TOOE FOR pee ee oe aT.) ) |R. C. A, makers of the instrument, | talkie, “Enemies of Progress,” | closes on Friday, the Acme Theatre lish version of Artists i in Boston | Organize to Probe | CWA Art Project BOSTON, Jan, 22.—Boston artists, | members of a committee elecied at a} mass meeting of artists Thursday night, today notified Francis Henry | Taylor, New England Regional Chair- ;man for the Public Works of Art Project, that they would call upon his committee next Tuesday at the Gardner Museum. The committee of artists will pre- sent a series of questions relating to| the administration of the art Project | in this district and they will report) the information supplied by Mr. Tay- | lor’s committee to a second meeting} | of Boston artists next Thursday, Jan. | 25, 8 p.m., at the John Reed Club, 825 Boylston St. At the first meeting, Boston artists, | including applicants for work under | the C.W.A. project, discussed the problems ef unemployed and em- | ployed artists. In addition to secur-/ ing information from the Regional Committee, the artists committee was | instructed to prepare plans for the establishment of an artists’ Brotec- | tive association. Music From Ether-Wave Instrument Will Be | Played at I. W. O. Ball’ NEW YORK.—Electrons, tiny specks | of electricity which can either be! made to whistle like a picolo, make} sonorous sounds like a cello, roll like | the boom of a drum or imitate the | human voice, will be heard next Sat- | urday, Jan, 27, when Bar-Levy plays | on the remarkable ether-wave instru- ment at the Costume Ball and Con-; cert celebrating the fourth anniver- | sary of the International Workers | Order at the 69th Regiment Armory, | Lexington Ave. and 25th St. The | instrument came into prominence} about four years ago, when it was} played by Theremin at Carnegie Hall | and was used by Leopold Stokowski in his Philadelphia Orchestra to play & Debussy piece. Bar-Levy has given performances all over the country, Tn an interview Dr. A. W. Gold- smith, former vice-president of the} said, “Any desired volume of loudness | of sound can be produced. Prac- | tically without effort the musician | can change from music that is the, softest whispers to a thunderous} volume which would make the very walls of the auditorium tremble...a| ~ child could fill the largest auditorium in the world producing sound effects never heard before by man.” The finest classical music can be played. It is controlled either from a key- board, from a device like a string, from a fret board or even by merely waving one’s hands around in the air. When Bar-Levy plays at the ILW.O. Ball and Concert he will produce the music by waving his hands near the instrument, While seeming uncanny and magical to people accustomed to the me- chanical piano, violin, trumpet and so on, the instrument is based on well known scientific electrical prin- ciples and is built of coils of wire, vacum tubes, linked to loud speakers. Other features at the affair will be a concert program by the I.W.O. Sym- phony Orchestra of 50 pieces under the direction of I. Korenman, dancing until dawn to Sol Braverman’s double Negro and white orchestra, and prize awards for the best costumes, Ad- mission is 35 cents. | “Hell on Earth,” International Anti-War Film, Coming To Acme Theatre Saturday Following the run of the Soviet which will present the first American show- ing of the new international anti- | War film, “Hell on Earth,” on Satur- day, Jan. 27, for an extended run. “Hell on Earth” was produced and directed in four different countries and four languages by Victor Trives, | noted German producer, now in exile. The picture, which is based on the book of Lecnhard Frank, author of “Karl and Anna” (produced by the Theatre Guild) and “The Home Com- ers,” has been acclaimed in the prin- cipal cities of Europe. Leading players include Viadimir | Sokoloff, of the Moscow Art The- atre; Ernst Busch, brilliant German artist (now in exile) and Louis Doug- lass, internationally known Negro artist. The film has a musical score by Hans Eisler, composer of “The Comintern.” Ann Harding plays the leading role in “Gallant Lady,” the new film at the Rivoli Theatre. Gilbert Emery and Douglas Doty wrote the story. Others in the cast include Clive Brook, Otto Kruger and Tullio Car- minati. “Girls in Uniform,” a dubbed Eng- “Meedchen in Uni- form,” will be presented by Krimsky and Cochran at the Criterion The- atre tomorrow night. Short features showing this week at the Trans-Lux Theatre include “Air Tonic,” with Ted io Rito, Leif Erick- son and Betty Grable; “Conquest of the Air,” a new cartoon picture, “Sog- low’s Little Ling,” and the latest newsreels. TO COMRADE LEN. By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER “The Tartar eyes coid ... inscrutable... Asian mystery The paid pens pour out their blots to hide you from us. The janitors of History work to drag you through their halls . . . of Fame wreathed with cartridge clips, haloed in gun blasts you the builder to be put with the destroyers, Napoleon . . . Cromwell... Caesar . . . Genghis Khan They cannot take you from us, Comrade Lenin. Forever to us you are the leading comrade! Mystery man? Only to those whom darkness prospers, only to the clouded minds who, till they foul them, cannot the clear; only to corrupters of ideas, who brew the dyes of mystery that discolor color. Comrade, how can you be a niystery to us, whom, when we were drowning in illusion. you led up the steep banks of reality. Ir Up the steep banks, on the safe land you Jed us In the campfires of the revolution we scorched out to the last vapor the Capitalist illusions. Free and strong, with uncompromised arms we built with you, in Russia, the workers’ state The land obeyed us, and tolled with us; where the miners went the mountains kneeled; in the factories we stepped solidly like men in the and the sounds of machines are peaceful like the purring of cats at firesides. In America the task waits to be done Lead us, Comrade Lenin, we will follow. Here the earth is against us, pitted with debt. Men pray for drouths, and cheer when cattle drow: and curse their crops, and leave the land bald. In Washington, officials willingly would go guides to the cyclone, pilots to the flood. From the mines the coal, the ores, shoot out, the gas fumes up, the oil coats us, in the old wa: against the workers; and we are mixed with fuel that feeds the fires of industry. Our factories are eight hour, ten hour, twelve hour prisons. The sound of the machines is a roar of hatred the smallest scolds and spits at us. And when we are let home, we drag after us chains of debt, of fear, of want . Comrade Lenin we know the rotting system cracks. We at the bottom feel first the crumbling mortar on our heads. In our united strength, following you we'll heave the thing over; ir it away; build where it stood the workers’ state in America, add it to the Sowet Union of the World. STAGE AND SCREEN o— Sholom Aleichem’s Soviet Talkie at Star Theatre Sulphides, and Beach, Danube and| | Concurren: e on Sunday night. ~ ||| Magazine of N. Y. John Reed Club to =| Appear Jan. 29th The John Reed Club of New York announces the publication of Parti- san Review, a bi-monthly magazine of revolutionary literature and criti- cism, to appear on Jan. 29th. The {magazine will contain fiction, poetry, Marxist criticism and reviews expres sing the revolutionary direction of the American workers and intellestu- in integrated literary forms. The John Reeq Club has long felt the necessity of having an organ of |its own, and now, with the definite | publication of the magazine, the hopes and enthusiasm of the club are running high. writes “there is not only a place but a real need for such a periodical.” The first issue of Partisan Review contains short stories by James T. Farrell, Ben Field, Grace Lumpkin ‘and Arthur Pense; poetry by Stan- \ley Burnshaw, Joseph Freeman, Al- fred Hayes and Edwin Rolfe; critical articles and reviews by Obed Brooks, Granville Hicks, Wallace Phelps, Philip Rehv, David Ramsey, Water Snow and Waldo Tell. A single copy of this 64 page maga- |zine will sell for 15 cents. A year’s | subseription is 75 cents, a dollar for eight issues. All communications are |to be addressed to Partisan Review, | 430 Sixth Ave., N. ¥. C. “with the new pro-) |gram for the New Masses,” Granville Hicks, noted literary critic, | ge Five Do Workers Want Culture? Yes, Say Theatre Union 1g JAN. 11 the Theatre Union pre- | sented “Peace on Earth,” the | anti-war play by George Albert Maltz, for the By that date 50,000 r the play and heard the ‘triumpha: cry of the workers at its final cur- tain, war!” Experience With Worker-Audiences By PAUL This is a record for working class culture never before achieved in been achieved in of contempt ai silence erected by the capitalist pre: It happened because the organiza- tion sponsoring the play set about its job with some definite convi sent and how to reach its audience. The play, a@ militant anti-war docu- ment, presented by a professional | cast in a large theatre, has been discussed here before. The Theatre | union had two other planks in its platform—cheap seats that workers could afford to buy, and a plan of organization which would be famil- jar to the workers. Warmly Received by Workers’ Press | The play met with a warm and/ hearty reception in the workers’ | M U.& Cc i I Appreciation Among Workers ee time began the masses of the ators of music. and bondage have been some of the themes which have given birth to folk music. The theme of revolt has | been rarer, but strong and compel- ling when it appeared. To those who | doubt the capacity of the masses for {creation, there is living evidence, | Aboriginal, Australian, and African tribes, Central Asiatic nomads, Ne- |groes and Hillbillies in America, liv- |ing in toil and tilling of the earth, |have created musical forms and con- | tents of the highest value. | just a step. The vast cordons of ~ | peasant and proletariat are steeped |in some form of music. It lightens |the drab pageant of their lives, it awakens them to rebellion, although often, and this must be said, it dulls ~|them with opiates or leads them to an ignorant chauvinism. But, what- lever music does, it is part of their | From creation to appreciation {s/| jviet Yiddish talkie, based on Sholom | Aleichem’s stories, opens today at the Star Theatre, Southern Blvd. and 163rd St., for its first showing in the Bronx. The picture was produced in the U.S.S.R. and has a cast of noted Jewish stage and screen artists, Titles are in English. Monte Carlo Ballet In Last Week; Shan-Kar Tonight This ts the final week of the Monte : | grams for their final appearances at the St, James Theatre follow: To- |night, Sylphides, Petrouchka and | Prince Ogor; Wednesday afternoon, Scuoia de Ballo, Beach and Beau! Danube; Wednesday evening, Sylph- ides; Friday night, Scuola di Ballo, Petrouchka and Igor; Saturday mat- inee, Sylphides, Beach and Danube; Saturday night, Igor, Petrouchka and TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P.M.—To Be Announced 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Trappers Music 1:48—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, 8: 20 Warne King Orch, 9: hi, | Baritone ramatic —Mme, Sylvie t Simmons, Tenor; 200—Talk—J. B. Kennedy 11:15—Jer ors Trio 11:30—-Preview of President's Birthday Ball 12:00—Vallee Orch. 12:18 AM.—Preeman Orch, 12:30—Denny Orch, coe WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick 7:15—Comedy; Music 7:30—Meverie: Jim—Sketeh 8:00-—Grofe Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor 8:30—Borrah Minnevitch Harmonies Band 9:00—In a Chinese Temple—Sketch 9:30—Footlight Echoes 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Eddy Brown, Violin 11:00—Moonbeams ‘Trio 11:30—Lane Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch. ae Betty WIZ—769 Ke 2:00 7". -Amos *n’ Andy 1:15—h.>) “ating Local Administration—La- | vinls <ugle, Chairman Civil Service Re-. What’s Wrong? Plenty! THE PROFESSOR IS WAATED OW TUE PAOWE Ik THE GOLD ROOM — “Laughter Through Tears,” the = Uday Shan-Kar will give two final | lives. performances at the Mansfield The-| Jt is in this connection that the atre this evening and on Wednesday | revolution calls on music and its com- | afternoon, before returning to India. | posers. Before millions of workers | He will be assisted by his company | struggling for power against terror | | | words “composer and audience.” people have been the truest cre- | Looking at the sea of working class) workers’ Love, fear, worship | faces at concerts, the better operas | Workingclass play, packing the house and recitals, he feels that the task | {is not futile. The proletariat is not | the beast and moron that capitalist lies and calumnies make it out to be. Its capacity for art is great and from jits ranks many of the greatest art- ists have come. The newest and/ most radical departures in music) have found unqualified appreciation | in these sweatshop workers, ill-paid| clerks and factory hands. For the others who will not or can not understand what the revolution- ary composer of today is saying, there is a need of education and ex- |planation. Courses, lecture-recitals, articles, all must be used to draw them toward an appreciation of mod- ern, revolutionary and Marxian mu- sic. When this is done we may ex- pect a unit front of understanding, the vastest audience in the world, and the first honest relationship between composer and audience since music began, —G. M. “Daily | | i} ” Receives Aid From Worker in Italy “Fight with us, fight against | tions on what kind of play to pre- | Carlo Ballet in New York. The pro-} hes Orch. | Sears Orch | of Hindu dancers and musicians. Dance League Raises NEW YORK.—Last Saturday | League appeared at the Daily Worker office, and, in fulfillment of a pledge made over two months ago, presented | | $150 for the support of America’s only working class newspaper. was raised by a recital of Revolution- jary Dance Groups on Jan, 7 College Auditorium. have been pouring into the W.D.L. Office, a repetition of the recital is being planned for the future. | TUNING IN | form Committee, Delegates; Prof. A. R. western University 7:45—Harris Orch. 8:00—Dead Reckoning—Sketch 8:30—Adventures in Health—Dr. Bundesen 8:45—Bavarian Band | 9:00—Alice Mock, Soprano; Poet, Koestuer Orch. | 10:00—Society Oreh.; Sid Ga: ney Mann, Soprano 10:30—Lucille Manners, Songs Maryland House of | Hatton, North- Herman Edger Guest, Songs; Syd- 10:45—Are We giving Up Foreign Markets A. for Cotton?—Henry tary of Agriculture Wallace, Secre- 11:0 ey 15—-Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30—Whiteman Orch. | 12:00—Masters Orch. | 12:30 A.M.—Sosnick’ Oren. WABC-—860 Ke Myrt and Marge Just Plain Bill—Sketeh 745—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Studio Orch. £:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Voice of Experience 8:45—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano Duo. 9:00--Philadelphia Studio Orch. 9:15—Alexander Woolleat!—The Town Crier 9:30—George Jessel, Comedi Mildred Bailey, Songs; Eton Boys, Quartet; Rich Orch. | 19:00—Gray Orch.; Irene Taylor, Songs; Trio 10:39—News Bulletins 10:45—Harlem Serenade 11:15—-Deil Campo, Songs iy 30—Nelson Orch. i 00-—Lepez Orch. -—Lapez Orch. 10 A.M.--Pancho Oreti 00—Light Oren, 12 2 1 n $150 for the “Daily” | tally 1 in the al ; committee from the Workers Dance} The money | at City | To satisfy the many requests that | & | would expect a healthy sympathy, | jone finds an unreasoning opposition. | and repression, the art of on a deep Tespons ib’ is not to “please’ usic takes | NEW YORK.—Workers in fas- cist Italy know about the Daily Worker and follow its progress with great interest, it is shown by a letter from a worker in Italy in which a dollar was enclosed for the Daily Worker $40,000 fund. The letter was received by a worker of Italian descent living in New York, The worker in Italy sends his revolutionary greetings to the “Daily” and to the Amer- ican working-class, and asks that his friend continue writing him about the work the Daily Worker is doing to arouse the* American and to integrate itself] life of masses, Just | jas the workers movement grows year- | liy in new weapons and new tactics, based on the concrete facts and les- sons of Marx and Lenin, so music |must move, refresh itself, shedding | what is outdated and useless, taking | its place in the contemporary scheme of things, availing itself of all tech- nological innovations of our age. This does not mean that the work- ers shall swallow whole and undigest- | led the more extreme forms of musi- cal cubism, expressionism, and Sarl masses against fascism and for decadent escapes of modern bour-! for the overthrow of capitalism. geois music. But weak as these are | in content, they have nevertheless | achieved some technical advances | WHAT’S ON which are of use. It is strange that many comrades | who are politically “left” should raise | Tuesday the barriers to their musical counter-| cHorus of th mont Prog. C! parts. The honest Ma mn composer | at 866 at 8:30 p.m. Old and of today must ride with the tide Oe te sriende Mt to come and bring progress. He can’t sit down and| W ed lecd dream his music in the plushes and ay SENDER GARL of the Daily Worker he Press—Major Indus- Worker Volunteers, 96 satins of yesterday. He must make it out of his identity with the whole | revolutionary movement. Tt must be/ venue “C" at 8 o'clock, ; sturdy, brust igorous and simple. PI of Harlem ts Tt must have something of the ficld | Meuné ® film, Ste Tecrate tn Oi and factory in it, of strikes and) Club, 1501—3rd A achievemenis, of warm comradeship irene baal S04 We and bitterness against the ruling | Chane Chaplin short at 6:30 pm. class. tribution 20c. For this he needs an audience. Let} Indianapolis, Ind. it be saiq that the audience is there! pri sHOWING “War Against the Cen- ut, if one of it is understanding j turies” on Jan. 24 and 25 at John Reed and appreciative, another is reaction- | ©¥% 143 E. Obio Street. ary and disparaging. Lost in the maze of bourgeois music, still drink- hi t 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. haying s ‘Con- FILM SHOWING of “ | Centuries” on Tuesd: Terre Haute, Ind. ing at sterile sources of coat ‘as Redmens Hall, 4th’ and Wabash. Ad- romanti , fond of banal operas,| mission isc in advance; 20¢ at door. Aus- sugary violin pieces and Sen Se FSU, a |singers, the latter group resists stub-| Chicago hornly the influx of a new and aot Paige saris v3 ose ppg ie music. It forgeis that the arts move | J*. 3 be i tad en, aap i 3] ery igh! with time and change, that the hon-| "sch Blvd. Dancing every night. n nt German Workers | "and al ./is planning for a second play | Spokesmen, Citing Own || PETERS = That wa of v press, { corps Loadese of | Sanizations | “Peace on Ea: | ing: For some of them sp lets were printed to be di among their members. The Nationz Student League, for instance, left a specisl student circular on every bench of every college classroom in | the city. Through such channels, ali jin all, over a hundred thousand leaflets were distributed | Workers Fiock to Play Once apprised of the existence of if workers’ play, sudde: | audience—a thing undreamed of by Broadway producers, an idea sneered | at by the critics—began to flock into the Civic Reperto: | “Peace on Earth.” They came they came in bodies. During first six weeks of “Peace on Eari 73 workingclass theatre parties, | ple into the the: | had not been in a for years, “regular some of them Until the advent of the | Union, many of them hed been un- | able to afford it. Overnight, “Peace on Earth,” with | “standing room only,” became one of | the hits of New York. A miracle: a theatre, with s militant —with workers! Here was something new under the American sun. Yes, We Do!” Do workers want their own cul- |ture? The Theatre Union answers that they are crazy about it. “Do you want a theatre like this? Will you help maintain one in New York?” a speaker asks the audie’ each night at the o of the play |And the audience tablished theatrical f Howard Lawson and Si as the most inspiring audience the jhad ever seen in the theatre, roars back: “Yes, we do! We will!” Workers have come to the box of | after the show and have asked wi they could do to help. They have offered to distribute leaflets, to bring thelr friends, to do typing. to raise | money, to keep the theatre alive at jany cost. The lesson of the Theatre | Union is that workers do want cul- ture. But it must be competent and j stirring; and it must be their cul- ture, The effect on the cast has been | interesting to observe. Bent on pre senting a play with professional | finish, the Theatre Union had to | draw, in some instances, on random | Broadway actors. They presented problems. The more militant pass- ages of the script some of them | disdained as “soap-box.” In some instances they balked at saying lines | or doing bits of action. Ah, propa~ }ganda, propaganda! But the first dozen performances changed all | that. Suddenly it became clear that |the most militant moments of_the | play were the most dramatic mo- ments. The audience warmed unde: them, clapped and cheered. The sympathetic members of the cast blossomed under this response. They grew bolder, more sure of them~- selves; their acting improved. The others paused to think. Backstage |Robody talks about “‘soap-box” these | days. Instead, they want to know | what “social problem’ will be about. |" Enable Unemployed to See Play Unemployed workers who could not afford even 30 cents for the cheapest seat have been part of the Theatre Union audience. Their tickets have been provided for them by contribu- tions from the paying audience and | distributed through the unemployed |} organizations. On any given night you may see in the Civic Repertory Theatre a group of unemployed Ne« groes from Harlem, unemployed men from the unions. Men and women jwho had forgotten what a theatre Jooked like. At this writing the play is still going strong, while Broadway has again sunk into a slump. The }Theatre Union predicts that before lthe play closes fully 100,000 people will have seen “Peace On Earth.” It the next play March, The Theatre Union has proved that if you can break down the walt of skepticism and derision erected by the uptown press, working-class ‘drama can exist in the United States, ored figures of the past were revo-| A M U S E MENTS lutionaries in their day. Where one| SOVIETS NEWEST TALKIN ‘The radical composer becomes an cutlaw in his own home. His efforts for change and new methods are met with rebuffs and sabotage. Two courses face the revolutionary composer. Persistence and education. ! He knows the glorious history of those whom Dostoieysky called the| |ENE M IES PROGRESS BASED ON THE STORY “THE LAST ATAMAN” PRODUCED IN SOVIET RUSSIA-CHINA. G@ PICTURE! LAST 4 D: THE NATION sayss — “One of the best that has come out of Russian In = long time.” (ENGLISH TITLES) ith STREET AND me ACMET “injured and oppressed.” They have) given music its heart and muscles,|}—THE THEATRE “GUILD presents— He adds his mind and experience.| ee ee ee Together they can go toward the real’ AH, WILDERNESS! communism that is implied in the! GUILD Ev Asimtets ThureSats0 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND HELEN PHILIP HELEN MAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN 722-524 8t.. W. of Bway Ey.8:20.Mats.Thur.&Sat.2:20 EUGENE O’NEILL’S New Play .DAYS WITHOUT END Henry Miller’s Praise B. of Broadway Evenings 3:40, Mat, Thurs, & Sat. 2:40 ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Everett MAK- SHALL, Jean SARGENT, Patricla BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 ROBERTA Re OUIRT HEA TRE cnon sevare Tonight —Trade Union Night™ THE ANTI-WAR PLAY — Srd Big Month PEACE ON EARTH” WILLIAM LYON PHELPS suys: “A thrilling and exciting play.” CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. 14th 8. & 6th Ay, — WA. 9-7450. Evgs. 30° to + 50 = Mats. Wed. & Sat, a se ee, JUDITH ANDERSON, (CoM OF AGE » CLEMENCE DANE & RICHARD ADDINSELL MAXINE ELLIOTT’S Thes., 30th, E. of Eves, 8:50, $3.90 to S5c, Mats. Wed. & — NOW SHOWING IN THE BRONX SHOLOM ‘tavonree | ALEICHEM’S rears” Soviet Yiddish Comedy (English Titles) STAR THEATRE| Southern Boulevard and 168rd Street ee Jefferson ? io oe ees JOE E. BROWN Pa Sea MUIR tn NEW AMSTERDAM. ‘Plus tax. Mats.Wed.aSat..500 to $3, plus tax “Son of a Sailor” t= ADVENTURE” with — ROBERT ARMSTRONG & HELEN Lo ae