The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | | — THE. — WORLD! By Michael Gold Buchwald on the Theatre ATHANIEL BUCHWALD, the' faithful and talented and serious pipe- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934 | What the Crisis Did to a Town In Oklahoma SALLISAW, Okla.—What e picture of the collapse of c: is Sequoyah County, Oklahoma! From one end of the county to the o ruin and destruction, desolation stand out conspicuously. Twenty-i-ve y ago this was a prosperous agricul tural community, There were well- kept farms, neat farm houses, and good barns and fences. Today many of the houses are entirely gone, th fence posts are fallen down or en- rf | NAZI POISON By DAVID PLATT It should be (T HAS just come to the attention of the Fil Photo League that a Nazi film, in which, ac to the “Variety” reviewer who saw the film ypened in Berlin last June, “all the azi characters are snow white an- gels and all others, Communists and Jews, blacker than the devil could Possibly be,” will be shown on Br when it | of the other big A. troops i all avenues of a is good and crow ON BR stands for Sturm Abteiling picture was put over in grand style at the Ufa Palast with Hitler, Goebbels, General von Blomberg and some is well made-and q OADWAY! in Germany Trooper)... This explained that 9. A. (Storm bosses present in flesh, w in the house and thousands guarding pproach..-As a production the thing -Photography » above average 'd sce re excellently 1 way with full censorship privilege: wisely intr a lot of comedy relief into early in February. This semitic | theme. j a a I al AL | “Otherwise it is unspeakably naive with all the Nazi Page Fiv- *Kick-Back’ in Musicians Union Exposed in Letter Editor, Daily Worker: { In your exposure of union racket- eering I saw no mention of the rack- | eteering going on in connection with | the American Federation of Musi-j| cians, A. F. of L. This is one of the| worst racketeering unions in the world | and has done much to bring about the | condition where more than 50 per cent | Working for the various £ved and the word that he is a troubi end he can't get any job. That is why m cians cannot land a job although a lot of duds of work, I have been told smoking dramati¢’ critic of” the*Communist daily in Yiddish, the characters snow white angels and all the others, Com- | of American musicians are unem-| Charity orchestras have to tirely gone, and the barns are in a/of the pro-Nazi, Bavarian Film Dis- ‘Morning Frejheit,” has the following’valuable things to say to the readers of this column, aw mh i rs He reveals the amazing factithat there are over 300 workers’ theatre group in this' country, something E,hadn’t yet realized. This is a movement | of immense cultural importance, I}.has grown up in just a few years. Funny, you never hear such things,talked about in the bourgois press. But the bourgois critics find the tinie to review every mean little false- hearted racketeering play on Broadwiy. Oh, well, to hell with the critics, as we have said so often. oe Listen to a proletarian critic, Goritade Buchwald 2 ibe vm * EAR MIKE:— I am sure you wouldn't ming taking a day off and at the same ae serving a worth-while cause, so here is your chance: lend me your space for the day to tell your constant reagers.@ few things about something that is very much alive today in the United ,States—about the revolutionary theatre. anne At that, you and I-may be late with the news, for there are in New York alone tens of thousands of people who have already formed a personal and very thrilling acquaintance with the revolutionary theatre by taking in a performance of “Peate on Earth’, #’stirring play capitally done by a very capable band of performers. Theri’there has developed an admiring mass audience for the excellent skits by thé Workers Laboratory Theatre, whose directors and leaders have learned fiw to make their playlets very eflective as propaganda by the clever use of.satire and racy theatrical forms. When you see announced a performancgrof.“‘The World’s Fair” or “Who's Got the Baloney” or “Newsboy”—don’t amiss it, even if you have to travel to some Bronx Workers’ Club to séé' it2*Now, I need not tell you about the vogue of the Artef among the fags of Jewish workers. The current Artef production of Gorky’s Egor’ Bulichev has made history in the revolutionary theatre and has puf, fo-shame the most pretentious produc- tions of the Yiddish professional,stage,, By the way, drop in some Saturday evening to see “Egor Bulichev.”.. You'll like it immensely, or there is some- thing the matter with you. eure sche ; w bots Believe it or Not is ET it is not about these highYights"of the revolutionary theatre that I wish to report. I should rathgryeall the attention of your readers to the three hundred or more theatre gy@ups in every part of thé country that are performing before workers’ and farmers’ audiences on the subject of the rottenness of capitalism, the séwndness of revolution and related topics. Don’t think, Mike, that I have fallewvictim to a cliche by using the phrase ‘workers’ and farmers’ audiences#®, ‘Believe it or not, but there are in America upward of seventy fartiitts;; revolutionary theatre groups per- forming in the countryside and tisifig_trucks or bare floors for stage, and furious resentment against babkers, kulaks and tax collectors for inspiration. You see, to many of these wotkers and farmers who perform in the revoluSionary theatre groups the thb&tre is not yet what it ought to be—a weapon in the class struggle; té“ieni it may be for the time being only an emotional release, an outlet for their pent-up fury against the powers that be, a chance to tell. the cock-eyed capitalist world what they think of it. Many of these groups may still ¥e clumsy at it and perform in a way that would hardly pass muster before a critical audience. But they have got the spirit, and that spirit is contagious. With a simplicity and naivete reminding one of the tiffacle plays, they present to their unspoiled, un-arty audiences the modern “miracles” of a system where a good crop is a mis- fortune, where too much food spélfs “starvation and too many unoccupied appartments lead to evictions. Ne yet recognized as “theatre” by the high priests of the Dramatic Departments,,Jooked upon with kindly contempt by the liberals with a penchant foridutellectual slumming—these threatre groups are, nevertheless, tremendously alive and possess an inner driving power beyond the hope of the professtonal theatre racket. * MONG these hundreds of revoluiclonary theatre groups you will find dozens of good ones—good by, the best standard plus something that comes of profound, stirring conyiction, plus the fervor of inspired fighters against a superior and monstrousoe. From sheer art standpoint many of these groups have won the admirations of sensitive connoisseurs of the theatre. Throughout the country youvill find more and more professionals of the stage,—actors, directors, scetiie tesigners, musicians and dancers who turn to the workers’ theatre groups int'xearch of creative self-expression. In some cases these newcomers front! «Glass that lives next door to the ex- ploited proletariat bring with themthe chaff of “pure art” and other deadening and stultifying influences, but for the most part they become aglow with the flame that burns,in &be revolutionary theatre and find in it both creative self-expression arida Wsion of a better world. . . * New Recruits to the Left —..: NEED not tell you about the fermen} among the American intellectuals, I about the gropings of those <honest souls who are bewildered by the sudden loss of their etohomic balance’'and who have with it lost also their spiritual equilibrium, of these thousands and thousands erstwhile adepts of capitalism who have turned sceptics and seekers after the truth. This ferment is reflected also in the theatre. A characteristic feature of the revolutionary theatre today is thé:tapid addition to its forces from the ranks of the so-called “little theatre,movement.” Community theatres, college groups, theatrical amateur ;organizations with a background of artiness and futility are flocking.to the revolutionary theatre, seeking and finding in it a reasonsfor their Being. . B78 J HAVE not really told you anything concrete about the revolutionary theatre movement in America. Goncretely, it is not merely a stirring and a ferment, but also an organization on’a national scale, called the League of Workers Theatres, which has been-in- existence about two years, has held a National conference, is about to hold another, is publishing a monthly magazine, The New Theatre, and-is extremely busy trying to supply leader- ship, content and quality to the révolifMfonary theatre. Now that you have been so hospif@ble, I hope you will do me another good turn and prevail upon the edit this page to spare some more of his valuable space for the present in greater detail of the problems of the revolutionary theatre. _T=ANATHANIEL Cc. BUCHWALD. FIRST ISSUE OF “PARTISAN REVIEW” AT JOHN REED MEET SUNDAY | jority. It is no trouble to get one’s rotten condition. Tens of thousands | of acres of farm land have been di serted. The few houses that remain | are miserable, woebegone make- shifts, with very poor roofs and| eaved-in-floors. In one section of the county where once stood 40 or more } farm houses there are now some five | or six, the buildings that remain en- | tirely unfit for habitation. | Sallisaw, the county seat of Se- | quoyah Sounty, was once a thriving | little city. On Saturdays and other special days many hundreds of pros- perous farmers, together with their families thronged the streets. Three | banks did a prosperous business in Sallisaw twenty years ago; there were | some 15 large general stores sharing | in the prosperous business of the county at the county seat. In ad- dition, there were eight other towns that did a prosperous business in the | county. It was a difficult undertak- ing to push one’s way along the | streets on busy days. People had) money and were buying what they | needed. Four barber shops were kept | busy, and there were any number of | restaurants and hotels. In the bar- ber shops one had to wait his turn, for there were hundreds able to get | work done at the shops. Tens of | thousands of bales of cotion were | shipped out of this county every year. | RUIN AND DESOLATION Today the county seat is a mis- erable scene of ruin and desolation. | A few dozen decayed buildings with rotten roofs and floors mark the res- idential section. Two business houses do most of the business of the town, and the business of these houses de- pends mostly upon the relief money put into the county by the govern- ment. | Even on Saturdays, the great trad- ing day in the South, there are few | people on the streets of the county seat; the barber shops are all but deserted. The store buildings are in a leaky condition. Strolling along the sidewalks are a few dozen men, women and children, dressed in rags | and tatters, often, and shoes that | long since should have been replaced with new ones. With a little relief money that the government has al- | lowed these people, they buy a little! sugar, coffee, flour, and such things | as they are compelled to have, Lux- unles are undreamed of by the ma- turn at the barber shop now, for a/ shave or hair cut at a barber shop is beyond the financial limits of the majority. The county seat now does almost the entire business of the | county, the other eight towns having almost completely been deserted. For ten years the history of Sallisaw has been a record of dis- appointment. Banks haye failed | and merchants have failed; farmers | have failed, When the great day _ of reckoning comes for capitalism, Sallisaw and Sequoyah County will | have a serious cherge of crime to | harl at the institution that has ruined them. | Well do I remember the cynical | smile that used to play over the faces | of those prosperous merchants and bankers when they were told of what was coming. “You are a calamity howler,” they would say. “We are conservative business men. It is the |wild speculator that is caught in the throes of business failure. We do things up in a business-like way, and a business way means security against failure.” But most of those conservative business men have failed, and some of them have died with broken hearts, perhaps. At any rate, the town and county is a pic- ture of ruin and desolation. Yet, there are some who try to make the miserable survivors believe that Roosevelt can put new life in the pic- ture of ruin and desolation. It wi! take something entirely different to do this... Bedacht to Lecture on “Building Socialism” at Daily Volunteer Forum NEW YORK.—Max Bedacht, mem ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A., will lec- ture on “Building Socialism,” at the| Daily Worker Volunteers’ open forum this Sunday, on the fifth floor, 35 East 12th St. ‘The last Sunday open forum, ad- dressed by Corliss Lamont, was at- tended by about 150 workers. The audience contributed $19.42 for the upkeep of the Daily Worker. The lectures are held in the Daily Worker Volunteers’ hall, which Phil Bard, John Reed Club artist, is dec- orating with a series of revolutionary murals, } | |Fifth Avenue, New York City, who |minimum amount of relief for all | Irving Place, Monday evening, Jan. | the World-Telegram; Herman Mich- tributors, with headquarters at 489 have let it be known that the film is already being shown in eral cities throughout the countr Poison Chief Goebbels, Nazi | | y, ha: es for had several private performane Nazi sympathizers | him stool pige in the city, and will positively open at a well-known | him, however, ay Broadway theatre sometime in February | that his life’ is tt Desiring further information on this film, the | IY characterized Educational Committee of the Workers Film and Photo | © League consulted back issues of the “New York Times,” | “2% plotting, to “Film Daily” and “Variety,” in one of which periodical: it was understood, a long review oi € appeared, some time ago, under a Berlin date-line, and sure enough found in “Variety” ue of June 28, 1933, signed by H. Fraenkel, who appears to be somewhat of a Nazi sympathizer himself, a rather confused but rather illuminating review of “S. A. Mann-Brand.” This review reveals the fact that there are “several crowd scenes with the Nazi war cry Juda Verrecke— power. Nazi war ery—J on the screen. (Perish Jewry) sounding on the a,” as well as Ss sb eee scenes showing sinister looking Communists who drink | ee 4 igor! . | take that part a heavily of vodka, wear Russian blouses, and plot assas- sinations while surrounded with “loose wo! ptc., | ete. There is such vast evidence of the anti-semitic | and anti-Communist nature of this poisonous film that the Film and Photo League feels it a duty to warn all organizations and individuals throughout the country who are consciously aware of the danger of Fascism and fascist propaganda in America, that they must immediately set motion a terrific mass-protest storm against the Bavarian Film Produ off the screen forever. Below are sufficient extracts from Fraenkel’s re- view to substantiate the Film and Photo League's char- acterization of this lying vicious film: \ The Film ar its forces for against this vicio to begin bombar: in . A. Mann-Brand” and its distridutors, demanding in n diately stop ali United States. that will keep the picture jumph. munists and Jews, blacker than the devil could pos- sibly be...Only exception is a Communist’s daughter | who has been assigned by the Bolshevik leader to Jure young Fritz Brand (S. A.) by her charms and make on. She falls genuinely in love with nd saves him by her timely warning nreatened. The Soviet agent is main- by sinister looks and a Russian ac- it; also he drinks a lot of vodka and whenever he kill off Hitler boys, he wears a Rus- sian blouse and is surrounded by loose women...There isn’t really much of a story. @ series of incidents loosely knitted together and lead- ing up to the triumphant climax of Hitler's grip for There are also several crowd scenes with the The whole thing being uda Verrecke—Perish Jewry sounding There is also the absurdly distorted caricature of a Jewish merchant who early in the story @ hero becaus is a Nazi, having to take him ke a ludicrous escape to Switzerland No Jewish actor was found to nd the Christian who played it made a very bad job of the accent...” nd Photo League has begun to mass vigorous protests and demonstrations us Hitlerite film and strongly urges all organizations and individuals throughout the country ding the headquarters of the “Bava- rian Film Distributors,” 489 Fifth Avenue, New York City, with a barrage of protest letters and telegrams o uncertain terms that they imme- performances of This picture in the Watch this page for further information in regard to “S. A. Mann-Brand.” to Push fass Meet Soon Unemployed | Write Demands ai NEW YORK.—Determined on se- curing recognition as writers, and a - of being assisted to do socially use- ful writing.” Committees elected at this meeting will report back to a second mass | meeting at Greenwich House, Feb. 10. | Committees to be elected are for out- | lining C. W. A. writers’ project; for con! in: | Robert Whitcomb, discharged with- employed Writers’ Association. Speak-| out notice from C.W.A.; and for or- ers invited are Heywood Broun of | ganizing a Committee of 100 to con- |fer with C. W. A. authorities in New York on Thursday, Feb. 8. All writers and writers’ clubs are unemployed writers, 500 writers are calling an open meeting for all writers at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and 29, under the auspices of the Un- elson of New Masses; Oswald Villard of the Nation; Malcolm Cowley of | the New Republic; Edward Dahlber; of the Partisan Review; A. M. Bing- ham of Commionsense; George Shus- ter of the Commonweal; Theodore | petitions, and approval of the Un- employed Writers’ program, which ©| calls for (1) Recognition of the pro- Dreiser, and Colonel W.A. Delamater,| ression of writing; (2) the right to a New York director of the CWA. | secure existence; (3) 2 minimum Resolutions sent to President and | wage for all unemployed writers un Mrs. Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins,| der C. W. A. or other pub! agen- Director of C. W. A. read: “Artists| cies; (4) the right of poets, novel- under C, W. A., when employed, get | ieta,-etc.. to m: their own type of work and $34 a Peat classed as clerks or laborers, instead employment and social insurance bill. TUNING IN | 7:30—Rangers—Sketch 8:00—-Jack Arthur, Baritone 8:15—Book Talk 8:30—Dramatized News Tells of Articles on Short Waves and USSR Feature Editor, The Daily Worker: Becoming interested in shori-wave | radio, I bought a couple ‘of back numbers of “Short Wave Craft” and “Short Wave Radio.” In the August, 1933, issue there is an article entitled, “Short Wave Advances in the U. S. S. RB.” by Vladimir A. Pavloff. “Short Wave Radio,” November, 1933, there is a short article on U.S.S.R. stations and the editors ask all short-| 7 wave fans to send in information on reception. 9:00—Redfern Hollinshead, Tenor;. Della Baker, Soprano 9:30—Elsie Thompson, Organ; Prank Sherry Tenor 9:45—Th> Witch's Tale rent Events—Harlan Rugene Read e Jolly Russians 0—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Coleman Orch, 12:30—Berger Orch, WJZ—T760 Ke M.—Amos 'n’ Andy Hood—Sketeh Gerdel, Baritone; los Concert rch. 8:00—Captain Diamond's Adventures— J. A. Ey Sketch Philadelphia, Pa. 8:30—Acventures in Health —Dr, Herman * * Bundesen 8:45—Sizzlers Trio 9:00-—Death Valley Days | 9:30—Duchin Orch. | 10:00—Canadian Program 10:30—Archer Gibson, Organ; Male Chorus 11:00—Cavallers Quartet 11:15—Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30--Stern Orch. 12:00—Olsen Oreh. 12:30 A. B&—Dance Orch * STANLEY BURNSHAW TO BOADCAST Stanley Burnshaw, Poetry Editor of “The New Masses,” will be the guest speaker of Paul Kaminsky, book commentator, today at 3:15 p.m. over station WARD. He will discus: “What the Poets Are Talking Abou! ee ES TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 3:00 P. M.—To Be Announced 15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch 30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio toh WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P, M.i—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-—-Serenaders Orch. 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Morton Downey, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Shilkret Oreh.; Alexander such cases as that of| being asked for their signatutes on) aintain their own craft) | week Writers are paid $20, and are | Subdivision; (5) support of the un-| —Demarco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor) Stage and Screen | “Whatever Possessed Her” | Opens At Mansfield Tonight Hardwick Nevin's comedy, “What- ever Possessed Her,” will have its premiere this evening at the Mans- Held Theatre. The cast is headed by Catherine Calhoun Doucet, Richard Whorf, Roland Drew, Constance Mc- |Kay and Gordon Richards. Linda Watkins and Claude Rains have been engaged for leading roles in John Wexley’s drama on the Scottshoro case, “They Shalt Not Die,” which the Theatre Guild will present here on Feb, et, is announced for next Mon- ht at the Royale Theatre with Nancy Evans, Robert Emmett Keane, | Mary Orr, Charlotte Mayo and Greg- ory Robins heading the cast. Piccoli,” Vittorio Podrecca’s life- | size puppets, will continue their antics |for another two weeks, this time at the Ambassador Theatre, according to an anouncement received from the office of S. Hurok. * ee “Men and Jobs” Added to | Aeme Program; “Hell On Earth” Coming This Sat. The Acme Theatre, where “Enemies of Progress,” the new Soviet talkie is now in its last two days, has added | @ second Soviet film to its program, | “Men and Jobs,” and will show both pictures today and tomorrow. This film is a study of the human side of j the five-year plan | Beginning Saturday the Acme will present the first American showing {of the international talking picture, i 11 on arth,” a film made in four different coun: and in four lan- }guages, with English mainly spokes. { Victor Trivas, the director (now in jexile), has produced here a new sort of anti-war film. The conception and execution is international. All Eu- rope, except Germany, where the film was banned, hailed the picture as a masterpiece. Newly Formed Group to 1 |. NEW YORK—A group, sponsored iby the Daily Worker Volunteers, has jbeen formed for the purpose of dis- | cussing current events as interpreted | by the Daily Worker. | |_ Prominent members of the Daily | Worker staff will sum up these dis- jeussions taking place every Thursday | }night at 7:45 p.m., on the fifth floor, 35 East 12th St, The discussion this Thursday night will be on “Unemployment Insur- race and on the various phases of }the’C. W. A, P. W. A, with Carl | Reeve summing up. | On the following Thursday evening, | “Hotel Alimony,” a drama by A.) Discuss Current Topics| ployed. | ‘The “kick-back” racket is old as the hills in thes A. F. of M., and is going | on this minute all the time, especially in New York and Chicago. It works} in a very clever fashion. After a skilled musician has been hired for one of the leading theater orchestras, | usually having to pay a fee to an| | agent of the contractors to be hired, | he is informed that he has to take | “lessons” in ensemble playing. One of | | the members of the orchestra, a friend | | of the contractor's, usually gives these | lessons” each week, charging from | + $10 to $25 for the “lessons.” No mat-| ter how skilled the musician is, how | much experience he has had, he has| to take these “lessons.” | When the New York Symphony Or- | |chestra was disbanded some of the! members got jobs with the Broadway | orchestras. Believe it or not, they had to take lessons too, even though | some of them had played with leading | orchestras all over the world and had} been soloists. Incidentally, the A. F. of M. made | {no protest at the sabotaging of this | orchestra, although it could have| |pulled the Philarmonic and the | Metropolitan orchestras out on sym- | pathy strikes to prevent the disband- | ing of the New York Symphony. Un- | doubtedly, union officials were paid te | | keep quiet about this. HOW “KICK-BACK” WORKS | The “kick-back” for ensemble “les- sons” is split with union officials, both | with the A. F. of L. officials and offi- | ciails of the Association of Musicians | of Greater New York, whose rank and | file is now carrying on a confused | struggle with the union officialdom. |The “kick-back” is in force in all | theaters employing musicians, and was | |@ salient feature in the choosing of |orchestras for the two new Roxy | theaters where Erno Rapee is the con- tractor. Rapee has always had the | kick-back” wherever he has run the | eee | After a few “lessons” the orchestra |player is informed that he needn't | show up for “instruction” all the time, |antl gradually he is allowed to give ;them up. He must continue paying |for them, however. At the Roxy | theaters the ensemble lessons were | given for a while by a bassoon player. Now, anyone who knows a thing about | orchestras known that a bassoon is minor instrument and that most | bassoonists know very little or nothing about general orchestral technique. To have a violinist take ensemble | “lessons” from a bassoonist just rubs! | the joke in a little too far. j; Musicians are afraid to complain about the “kick-back,’ which works jfor dance and radio orchestras, too. | | If they kick they are simply fired. If they complain to the union officials | the contractor is informed and it is | Suddenly discovered that the musician is incompetent. In any case, he is | = some of their meager earning but I don’t know about a fact, though, that you have some kind of pull to lief” engagements for sembles like string quartets. So it can be seen that ever the sacred halls of music the bourgeoisie sheds so the slimy hand of capita! itself felt. The Great Toscanini whom so much praise an example of 4 music. He is a good musi That I will concede. But two sea- sons ago he fired more than a4 dozen members of the orchestra on the ground that they were incom- petent. His charges were not true, but they went. The real inside of the story was that the concert- master resented the abusive language Toscanini used during rehearsals and spoke up like a man about it. The concertmaster was replaced, and with him all his friends in the orchestra went. TOSCANINI THE KILLER It is a fact that Toscanini does wonders with the Philharmonic, but it is also a fact that he makes nervous wrecks in short order out of the players. Mengelberg, the great Dutch conductor, said a few seasons back that after Toscanini got through with the orchestra it consisted merely of a bunch of dead men. Toscanini does all this for an artistic “ideal,” and the bourgeois critics cheer. The effect on the art of the individual members of the orchestra is another matter. Tos- canini is exactly like a slaye-driver in a factory. There is no more reason why 2 musician should be driven to de: to turn out a perfect performa than @ mechanic should be driven + death to turn out a perfect automo- bile. Furthermore, Toscanini is Paid, and receives money that really go to the orchestra, If only go to see Toscanini, as it would they go if he stood wa baton on an empty stage? i he 1s paid more than the whole or chestra combined, just as in wood the stars receive big p: the extras, the scene shifte technical men get next to not Time and again the rank anq file of the American Federation of Mus: clans have tried to oust the racke but they have always been unsucce ful. A fight was waged against anization of music without compen: tion to musicians thrown out of work but the rank and file was intimidated, beaten and chased by gangsters. Fights have also been started to raise the standard of music iat could be played by union men, but the union bureaucrats have won out, Now it is the rule for union musi- cians to be unemployed ar to have part time work only. The logical results of the union bureaucrats’ pol- icles are here. They have~killed the goose that lays the golden eggs.—B.R. about WHA IN | Thursday | “THE NRA in Heavy Industry” will be | the subject of a symposium report by the Governmental Problems Comm. of Pen & | Hammer at 8:30 at 114 W. 21st St. Open | Forum discussion will follow the talk. | PIERRE DEGEYTER Club Chorus re- | hearsal at 6:30 p.m. sharp. Singers needed jall voices. Must read music; 5 E. 19th St. | THE DAILY WORKER Volunteers Discus- |sion Group meeting at 7:45 p.m. at 35 E. | 12th St., 5th floor. Carl Reeve, of the | Editorial Stat of the Daily Worker, will! lead the discussion on Unemployment In- | surance and the Various Phases of the C.W. A. and the P.W.A. ALFRED RUNGE will speak on the Cuban Situation at the Edith Berkman Br. LLD., 4704—18th Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 10c. Unemployed’ free. | TLD. BAZAAR Comm. will meet at 8:30] D.m. at 108 E. 14th St., Room 202, All dele~ gates of ILD. Branches and mass organi- zations are invited, DONALD. HENDERSON, Sec | Against War and Fascism, will speak at | Irish Workers Club, 304 W.'58th St, at 8:30 | p.m.on “War and’ Fascism”. of Leaguo | LECTURE on “War or Peace, Role o j Soviet Russia and Japan” at Paradise Manor 11 W. Mt. Even Ave., Bronx, at 8:30 p.m. Speaker, Joseph Arch. Adm. 10c. | MEMBERSHIP MEETING of the Tom| Mooney Br. LL.D. at 323 E. 13th St. at &) P.m. Members who haven't settled up for! ickets of our affair will please do so. | SAM GONSHAK, organizer of Unemployed | Councils of Greater New York, will speak |on “The Struggle for Unemployment Insur- ance and the Significance of the National Convention Against Unemployment” at } Irving Plaze at 8 p.m. Adm. lic, unemployed | tree. Proceeds to National Convention. CLASSES st.ll open in Political Economy, | Labor Journalism, Public speaking, at Har- lem Workers School, 200 W. 135th 8t., Room 212B, Register now. WORKERS Dance League, teachers and | leaders course to begin on Priday, Feb. 2. | Register at Workers Dance League office | every day between 6 and 8:30 at 80 E. 11th! 1 HUGE COSTUME BALL and Concert and 4th Anniversary Celebration of Internationel Workers Order this Saturday: at 69th Regi- ment Armory, 25th St. and Lexington Ave., 2 Brass Bands for Dancing.” Adm. 36¢. CLASS in Russian for beginners starts next week at Brownsville Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn, Register now. Friday SYMPOSIUM on “Is Roosevelt Introducing Socialism” at the American Youth Federa- tion, 323 E. 13th St., near Second Ave. 8:30 p.m. Speakers, Prof. Willard Atkins, chairman; Harry Gannes, from the Ds ly Worker, and ® representative of League of Industrial Democracy. Adm. We, “IS IT POSSIBLE to have a revolution without war’? lecture by Amtér at East N. Y¥. Workers Club, 608 Cleveland St., Brook- lyn, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c, INFORMAL Musicale, Music, Entertain- ment and dancing; Juanita Lewis, Herman Blanc and others. Program begins at 8:15 sharp. Pierre Degeyter Club, § E. 19th St. Admission 25¢, LECTURE by Isidore Begun, expelled fron: N. Y. School system, on “Education in America” at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. ‘Tremont Ave. at 8:45 p.m. OPENING NIGHT at Convention of the Priends of the Soviet Union Greet dele- gates. Hear speakers. Convention Hall, New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Adm. 25¢ See exhibition of Soviet progress, showing for 3 days Chicago ANNUAL BAZAAR of the N.T.W.LU. on Jan. 26, 27, 28 at Workers Lyceum, 2183 Hirsch Blvd. Dancing every. night, Cleveland, Ohio The Slovenian Labor Club “Iskra” will hold an affsir on Sunday, Jan. 25, starting at 3 p.m. with an act of the Paris Com- mune and other musical numbers. Dancing begins at 8 pm. Grdina Hall, 6021 St, Clair Ave, Detroit, Mich. LECTURE and Dance. Rey. Bollens will speak on “Menace of Fascism” on Satur~ day, Jan. 27 at @ pm. at 108 West Han- cock. Dancing and Entertainmeht. will fol- low lecture. Refreshments. Adm. 10c. Aus- Grey, | eb. 1, Sender Garlin will sum up a/ St. Room 632. Songs; William Lycns Phelps, Narrator’ | discussion on the press. | — * 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. There is no admission charge io) A M | J S E 9:15—Howard Marsh, Songs; Kostelanctz/ these mei pices Tom Mooney Br. LL.D. MENTS NEW YORK—The first issué6f) “Proletarian and Bourgeois Types in Partisan Review, new literary bi-| Literature.” The speakers are John monthly of the John Reed Club of! Chamberlain, author of “Farewell to ANTONOFF LETTERS TOMORROW The second instalment of letters from Todar Antonoff, U. S. de- | | Soloists | 9:00—Captain Henry Show Boat Concert | 10:00—Whiteman Orch. 11:00—Viola Philo, Soprano | orep. nes: { New York, will be available at_th form”; Kenneth Burke, author of} portee, will appear in S| 11:15—Norman Cordon, Bass 9:30—California Melodies = | LAST 2 DAYS BEGINNING THIS SATURDAY- symposium on literature to be ite Oxen,” and other works; Ed-| issue. : rng od Orch. | 10:08—Gray Orch.; Irene Taylor, Songs; Trio} CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF | Soviet’s tins. Picture em eee Showing of the at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. 2 Dahlberg, author of “Bottom niger mr RE Brain Sichery,< Bones | 10:30—News Reports | : TOLEDO SCHOOL ne q s araatlegnl: ARH - Wan aoe , "and “Prom Flushing to” Cal- Philadelphia ioe [e4Gapaem guard, Ne Se SE) TOLEDO, Ohio—A sorial affair to OF PROGRESS”? & s ot, Workers il gather at the Bazaar * * | 44:15—Charles Caste, Tenor celebrate ee opening of the Tole) Re EN ua Kunitz, co-editor of the ‘ ate izations of WOR—710 K | 11:30—Jones Ore! Workers’ School will be held at 13715; ” South Phila. on Friday and Saturday, J: c 2 ‘Orch. iaend | € Masses,” will act as chairman 3s"and 27 at Garrick Hall, 507 B. sin ot;| 7:00 P. Mc—Sporte Ford Frick 12:30 A Meetgman Orch North Erie St. Saturday evening, and JOBS’’| "Praust i ter sguet coe symposium, Adm, 25¢ for both nights; 15c one night. | 7:15—Comedy; Music Orch. Jan, 27. ; : ME THE VANGUARD {Ith STREET and ACME THEATRE lor CULTURE|UNION SQUARE , ATE! By Tv THE ANTI-WAR PLAY — 3rd Big Month PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,, 1ith 8, & 6th Ay, WA, 9-7450, Evgs. 8:45. THE THEATRE GUILD _presents—, EUGENE O'NEILL's COMEDY | AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD 2hes. 824 St. 7. of Bisay Ey.8.20Mats. Thur. &Sat.2:20 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I SHALL NOW READ THE LETTER BROUGHT BY YHE WINNER, TAMES MARTIN! | \ 3 ot unter aniaiee PST! MAYOR ee rare) CAGO, MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play Mats. Wed. & Sat., 2:30. 30° ote ee " Su la MARY OF SCOTLAND \ Ket Nigeny- FaILeo /! 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