The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE THE = — WORLD! By Michael Gold Ludwig Renn and Nazi Culture TS of the victims of pervert Hitler's war on modern thoug?t are the writers Ludwig Renn and Karl Wittfogel. After spending nearly a year in one of the Brown Shirt prisons, where over 100,000 men and women are-being tortured with medieval cruelty for the crime of being militant workers, Jews, or Socialists, Conimunists, liberals, thinkers and dreamers, Ludwig Renn has just been given the usual framed-up trial, and sentenced to two and a half years. He is comparatively lucky, He is fortunate to escape with even 2 thread of life from these bloody hands. To fall into the power of the degenerate group that rules Germany is literally the fate worse than death. An animal kills its prey for food. But the Nazis are lower than animals; for they have in- vented a system of torture that ex- ceeds anything known in the his-,. tory of sadism. These proud “Aryans” who boast: of their superior blood can give’ lessons in crueity to any simple- minded cannibal of the South Seas. * s 8 UDWIG RENN is still alive. That is all we know as yet of the fate of this fine, strong human being who cast off his aristocratic past. and gaye himself whole-heartedly to the great cause of working class. emancipation. Of the fate of Karl Witifoget we know nothing. He was swal- lowed up in one of those torture- cities known as a concentration , camp. All those who ‘know and love him must go about7their daily affairs with this cloud of brown hor- tor hanging above them—Wittfogel is in the hands of the Nazis. He is in the hands of men who by any psychological test would be judged criminally instene. What they are doing with him is beyond all reason- able surmise. LUDWIG RENN I Met Ludwig Renn ’ Ludwig Renn at af the International Congress of Writers held in the Soviét Ukraine, some three years ago. At that memo- ‘vere present authors from 22 lands, both Oriental and Germap delegation was especially sftong, with representa~- tives of the flower~of bourgeois revolutionary literature such as Franz Weiskopf, Anna Seghers.and Ernst Glaeser, and proletarian writers from the mines and factoriés,:such as Hans Marchwitza. All these men and women, the soul of a new free Germany, are now either dead by torture, or in exile, or in the concentration camps. Hitler has tried to wipe out all vestiges of-human culture. He will fail, of course, just as the Ku Klux Klan in this-country has fafled in its attempt to destroy science and the Darwiniaft teachings. At the congress Ludwig Renn {stood out as a personality and writer. from an old Prussian Junkér family, he had been a page at the court of the Kaiser. Then, following the ancient rousue of his clas. he entered one of the crack regiments*and led the usual profligate, useless life of a young aristocratic cavalry, offjger. > fought, as an officer all through the worst battles of the war. When the big-mouthed Kaiser scurfied like a hunted rat to Holland, and the German masses rose, following=the lead of the Russian masses, and \the s-mouthed Socialists established the first coalition governments, Ludwig Renn became an officer in-ene of the police regiments formed by this new evolutionary” regime. a time of intense soul-searching and doubt on the thoughtful if oificcr’s part. The Revolution of the masses and the ignoble collapse of the aristocracy had opened his way. It was about this time that he be- first novel, “Yar,” which, When published some years later, made him one of the literary heroes of the new Germany. ‘* And it was about this’ time that the Socialist regime ordered Ludwig Renn and his soldiers to shoot down the workers who had made the revo- lution, and who still believed in it. The Socialist politicians, led| by butchers like Noske, made an alliance with all the generals and profiteers of the old regime against these workers. The basis of Fascism was really laid at that moment, in 1918, when the Socialist rulers collaborated in the murder of Liebknecht, Lux- emburg and thousands of other militant Socialist workers. Renn fought on the side of; the Social-Democrats, because the issues \ were not yet plain to him. But the bloody events of those historic days -)/ shook him as profoundly as had the war, After months of feverish study and thought, he resigned his commission and joined the newly-formed Communist Party, becoming, in time, on the literary front, one of its most devoted and famous spokesmen in Germany. He has told this story in his second novel, “After War.” This book has been translated in English and was published in America a few years J treachery of the Socialists to the working class. It will prove more con- vincing to some minds perhaps, than the political documents that give the history of this crime. < The Socialists defended the® capitalist republic against the working class and paved the way for Hitler. Let who deny this who honestly ean. The facts are there, hugésas a mountain, in historical theses, in political documents, and in acciitate memoirs like Renn’s “After War,” and the more recent book by Plivler, “The Kaiser Goes, but the Generals Remain.” . im . * AP THE Kharkov Congress, Ludwig Renn, who spoke English, German, French, Russian and several Balkan tongues, was a kind of popular liaison comrade who brought the different groups into contact with each other. Tall, stooped and scholarly, rushing about to do every bit of Jim- mie Higgins work that needed doing in connection with the congress, his blue eyes beamed behind their glasses with a universal kindness. It was hard to believe that this gentle and modest figure was the valient vet- eran of a war and a revolution, and the talented author of two impor- tant novels. This aristocrat had) become one of the finest comrades and proletarianized intellecttials I have ever known. And now ths Nazis have him in their bloody claws. ‘ . * » Karl Wittfogel ; I HAVE never met Karl Wittfogel, but those o# us who had followed the German revolutionary culture knew of his significance. He began by heing # playwright, and wrote a! delightful comedy that was perhaps the first Communist play produced by a workers’ theatre in this country. Té was given under the title of “The Biggest Boob in the World,” by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre, sonié five years ago. Jasper Deeter of the One thought of Witifogel as a poet and playwright, but he developed in other directions. He threw himself into the study of Chinese, and ‘learned the language..He spent several years in China, and wrote the ‘first Marxist book in the west on the revolution in that immense empire. ar! i ‘Wittfogel then became known as one of the leading theoreticians in :. ‘the philosophy of Marxism, one of his studies on Hegel and the evolu- tion of the materialist dialectic being especially memorable, i And now this witty poet and playwright, this student and fighter for |v & better world, is lost somewhere in the brown darkness. Where {s he? pidge nes beasts doing to him? The John Reed Clubs and the Ameri- Movement begin a stro She tb Witdoad one mg campaign to force the Nazis to ago. It is worth reading as a simple, factual, day by day record of the | Hedgeron Theatre directed the production, and I had made the | t Cultural Groups Urged an Contribute , Short Stories, Poems and Sketches We invite the hundreds of writers in and around the John Reed Clubs as well as worker-writers in the mills, mines, factories and on the farms of the United States to send us short stories, poems and sketches. Secretaries of Johir' Reed Clubs, Pen and Hammer groups and workers’ clubs are invited to send, Us news of their octiviuies, as well as copies of their publications.» Address: Feature Editor, The Doiy worker, 30 F, 19th St, vew York, | | | t | cepore,” produced in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934 THE SCOOP—A Short Story by James T. Farrell) — ¢ The following story is by a young writer whose third novel, “The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan” is published today by the Vanguard Press. He is also the author of “Young Lonigan” and “Gashouse McGinty,” as well as numerous | | short stories, HUGE truck, with the lettering| THE CHICAGO QUESTIONER on | its side, roared northwards towards| the loop, parting the traffic. It shook the streets, roared and rattled, emitted carbon monoxide fumes from its exhaust pipe, punctated the at-) mosphere with the shrillness of an| open cutout. for deliveries by The Questioner, a | morning paper owned by a newspaper magnate, nationally known for his string of “yellow” chauvinistic jour- nals. And hanging onto a rope by the tailgate with studied nonchalance, | was Dennis McDermott, a circulation slugger. Husky and handsome, he | surpressed his pride with a charac- | teristic and slightly leering frown. He | Was duly appreciative for having been | assigned to the new truck, while the | others were working on horse drawn | delivery vehicles, | The truck, with bumpings, rattled over the Clark St. bridge. Dennis | Was going towards the scenes of his boyhood. He had been educated on the streets of the near northside, and for a while, he also had been an altar | boy at the Holy Name Cathedral. Nuns had often looked at him with} masked wonderment, incapable of un- | | derstanding why such an intelligent- | looking boy, who seemed so holy and | devout in his acolyte’s cassock, should | | always be fighting. That had been} | before he had been ejected from | school for the third and final time in | his seventh grade year. His father | had been an Irish immigrant and un- | skilled worker, who had, thanks to a precinct captain, been elevated, by virtue of a job as street cleaner, to j one of the most minor of the neigh- | borhood political aristocracy. | | Dennis Nad always had the ex-| | ample of the local hoodlums, and in| | his small boy manner, he had emu- | lated them, leading his gang in ex-| | peditions to roli drunks, and in fights against neghboring gangs of Jews and | | Wops. | | nage satel HS whole world, and its horizons, had been nothing more than a {human dog fight, and he had been} well taught in it. Reckless and with volatile courage, he had become a/ hoodlum, a hired slugger in strikes and taxicab wars, and then he was hired by The Questioner. Twice he had been arrested in holdups, but Duke O'Connell, from the same neigh- | | borhood, and an assistant state's at- | torney, had sprung him. Now, he was on a truck delivering papers to | the old corners, even to the corner j where he had sold newspapers him- self. And just as earlier sluggers had gyped him by subtracting papers from his order, and charging him for them, so was he now gyping newsboys who were deriving the same kind of an education as his own, in the same kind of a system. | He clutched his supporting rope Stage and Screen “Broken Doll” Coming To Masque Theatre Feb. 5 | John Golden announces that “his production of “Broken Doll,” a new play by Anne Morrison Chapin, will | have its premiere here next Monday | night at the Masque Theatre. The case is headed by Spring Byington, Ross Alexander, Barbara Robbins, | Fred Leslie and Joseph King. Ferdinand Bruckner, author of “Races,” anti-Hitler play which the Theatre Guild will offer in March as its sixth production of the season, | arrived here yesterday to help the | staging of his play. Hilda Reis has been added to the | cast of “Peace on Earth,” at the Civic | Repertory Theatre, replacing Julia | Colin, who will appear in “Theodora, the Queen,” which opens tomorrow | at the Forrest Theatre, Paul Muni’s New Picture { | Opens At Strand Tomorrow | “Hi, Nellie” Paul Munt's newcst| | starring picture, will have its pre-! | miere tomorrow at the Strand Thea- | tre. The film is based on @ story by Roy Chansler. Others in the cast | include Glenda Farrell, Douglas | Dumbrille and Ned Sparks. i and his wife are now on their way to Soviet Russia to make a study of the theatres, | _ “Flying Down to Rio,” with Dolores Del Rio is the screen attraction at the Palace this week. The stage show | is headed by Buck and Bubbles, Short subjects at the Trans-Lux Theatre this week include “Here Comes Flossie,” a comedy with Ben Blue and Janet Reade; Hannah Wil- liams in “The Audition,” a musical number; @ Mickey Mouse cartoon and the newsreels, THEATRE UNION GETS PLAY The Theatre Union has acquired “Viva Pancho,” by Robert Keith, the actor-playwright who is playing the Jeading role in its first production, “Peace on Earth,” now in its tenth week at the Civic Repertory Theatre. The new play is said to discuss Mex- ico’s agrarian problems. Mr. Keith is author of “The Tightwad” and “Sin- 1927 and 1932. JIM MARTIN /SEANS Witt SURE FEEL Sweir! 1 It was the first truck to be used| © JAMES more tightly as the truck curved about a corner. It drew up to au, | and Dennis flung down 2 bundle co taining forty-five copies of the ear evening edition of the next morning's Questioner. “How many?” the newsboy asker a tired looking kid of twelve or thit teen, with a hole in his left stock- ing. “What you ordered. Fifty,” Dennis replied in his habitually bullying voice, “Last night there was only forty-| newsboy, five. I counted ’em,” the kid said with | @ nervous and uncertain air of de-| flance. { “I said there was fifty!” | “Well, I counted ’em,” the kid said, | a whine creeping into his voice. | Squeezing the boy’s left ear between | two strong fingers, Dennis asked him how many there had been. “I counted ’em!” the kid said, his| voice cracking. Dennis gave him a back-handed | slap in the mouth, and again said that there had been fifty copies. He| collected for the papers, and jumped | on the truck, as the sniffling news- boy opened his bundle. | “How's it going Wop?” Dennis asked Rocko Martini at the next stop. | “All right Irish,” Rocko replied, | winking. | While Rocko opened his bundle of | papers, Dennis quickly said that he} and a pal were pulling an easy house Job on Saturday night, and they needed somebody for lookout. He'd} been watching Rocko, and knew he| was all right, if he wanted them to, they’d take him in with a fourth of the take. Rocko agreed, and Dennis|nulled out a razor, and when the} was to meet him after work to give| boy again struck out defensively with him the lowdown. ‘the pocket knife, Dennis slashed so ome FTER two uneventful stops, the| truck halted at a news stand| WHAT’S O Tuesday COURSE in English Literature from the| Historical Materialist Viewpoint by M. Vetch, Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Workers School, 35 E. 12th St. Register now. “WHY Unemployment Insurance—The Po- sition of the Communist Party on this Question,” discussion at Unit 22 Sec. 6 at 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday SCOTTSBORO Anti-Lynch Mass Meeting under auspices of West. End Sec, LLD. at Oriental Palace, 8515 New Utrecht Ave. cor. 83th St. at 8 p.m. Thibodeaux, Ruby Bates, | Aleander will be speakers. Negro musical, entertainers. PROF. SCOTT NEARING will lecture on | ‘The Way Out Fascism or Communism?” at Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sut-| ter Ave., Brooklyn, at 3:30 p.m, | CLARENCE HATHAWAY will lecture on/ “Roosevelt's Financial Policy” at the Work-| ers Center, 35 E. 12th St., 2nd floor, 7:30; pm. Auspices, New York District ¥.C.L. for the benefit of the Y.CL. Training School, Adm, 18¢, Buffalo, N. Y. A DANCE and Social will be held by the Unemployed Council as 2 send-off for the delegates to the National Convention Acainst Unemployment, on Wednesday, Jan, 31 at Vidler Hall, 159 Grider St. TUNING IN | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | WEAF—660 Ke 0) P. M.—Mory Small, Songs 15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 30—Trappers Music ) Oreh.; Phil Duey, Baritone © King Orch. Orch.; Max Baer } vynn, Comedian; Voorhees Orch. | of the Seth Parker-—Dramatic ime, Sylvie { immons, Tenor; Sears Oreh. | 00—Talk—J. B. Kennedy | 11:15—Birthday Ball for President Roose- | velt; Greetings From President Roosevelt U. S. Army, Navy and Marine Bends; | Violin; Elizabeth Reth- berg, Metropolitan Opera Sop and Others :15 A, M.—Rogers Orch. \—To Be Announced Cat WOR—710 Ke %:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick ‘7:15—Comedy; Music 7:00-—-Maveric: Jim—Sketch 8:00—Grote Crch.; Frank Parker, ‘eu 8:30—Borrah Minevitech Harmonica Band 9:00—Studio Music 9:30—Fvotlight Echoes 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eug 10:30—Eddy Brown, Violin; Concert O. 11:00—Mocnbeams Trio 11:15—Sanc as WEAF 18:15 A, i.—Robbins Orch. WJZ—760 Ke 3:00 FP. M.i—Amos 'n’ Andy 8: a Betty 10: ni: i ey CERES A COUD where two ne | that no one 45—The Goldbegrs—-Sketch 18 | sboys were jawing each other. Dennis leaped off, and steod/ over them, sneering, hands on hips. He noticed that a freckled face kid had a bundle of ri papers under | his arm. “What's the idea, huh? } “This guy's trying to bust into my} business,” the Zid who sold The Ques- | tioner | Dennis looked at the freckled faced | boy, and the latter drew back a few paces, | “This is my corner, ain't it Denny?” | “Well I can sell my papers where) I wannah. It’s a free country, ain’t | it?” “So that's the racket,’ Dennis said, grabbing the kid’s papers, and giv- ing him a shove when he reached for them. Dennis twisted his arm, booted him, and warned him not to | be seen selling any more papers around the stand. He tore the papers up, and told The Questioner news- | boy to let him know if that punk} came back. He deliverec’ .jme papers to Shorty Ellis, the punk he didn’t like. Ellis as always giving The Questioner in- his stand. He told the | side place on | Griver to go around the block, and | | returning to Ellis’ stand, jumped | and sauntered over by the} He pointed to the copies! of The Questioner, placed on the in-/ side, and sullenly remarked: “Didn't I tell you where to place our papers?” “Well Muggs was around and told; me to place his in the same position.” “He did?” “Yes.” j “What did I tell you?” | “I don’t see why you guys can't} leave a kid alone to sell his papers.””| “You don’t huh?” Dennis said,/ catching a look in Ellis’ face that he} didn’t like. | “Change 'em!” | “And them Muggs’ll come around and crack my puss.” “Change ‘em!” | e | down, LLIS did not move to obey the order. Dennis slapped his face. | Touching the red flush on his cheek, the newsboy drew back several paces, pulled out a pocket knife, and waved jit open before him, telling Dennis to let him alone. Dennis advanced, and the boy waved his knife de- | fensively. He scratched Dennis’ | wrists. Dennis lost his temper, | his throat, almost from ear to ear. The boy fell, dead, his blood rivering over the sidewalk. Dennis noticed had seen the fracas, and jumped back on his truck. It raced back to the Questioner office, and Dennis saw Kelly Malloy, the new city editor. Malloy, in his early thirties, had worked himself up | from a copy boy’S position. He | always talked hard, and had a soft, womanish face, with the chin doubling. He had been given the job to jack up circuletion, and Dennis was the best circulation man. When Dennis assured him, for the | fourth time, that no one had scen| him slash the boy, he breathed a {sigh of relief. Then, he slapped his | | hands together, and said that it was! jworth an extra. He became a | dynamo of energy. Very soon, Dennis was back on| the truck, delivering an extra which bore the headline: j NEWSBOY MURDERED; SLAYER | UNAPPREHENDED North-Side Bey Slashed With Razor | in Suspected Local Gang Fight | ner sae) | T THE time, The Questioner was | conducting one of its crime wars | as a circulation stunt. On the edi-| torial page of the extra there was | ® flamboyant editorial, demanding | that the police enforce the laws, and | 'reduce crime. | important theatre magazine in this| ané Better Municipal | T1s—The Banks Credit-—O. ©. Lester, Vice President Bow-/ errors in the reporting of the L ery Sayings Bank, New York: Luther Gulick, Director of Institute of Public | Songs; Arlene Jackson, | id Me a Corpse—Sketch e ventures in Health—Dr. Bundesen Herman | 8:45—Bavarian Band 9:00—Alice Mock, Soprano; Poet; Koestner Orch, 9:30—Duchin Orch. } able jerentes a desuitory Watch This Spot Tomorrow! | The World of | the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR NOTES The first printed issue of New Theatre (organ of the League of} Workers’ Theatres) has recently ap-} peared. The change from the old| mimeographed paper to the more| | substantial printed form is not only} an obvious improvement in looks and} readability but a sign of the great advancement of the movement which the magazine represents. Formally | the paper had some of the earmarks) of a special organ for a small group| apart from the main stream of activ-| ity. Now it ‘enters the field with the bright demeanor of a contestant for} major honors. | The contents of New Theatre in-| cludes further answers to the ques-| tionnaire on Prospects for the Ameri-| can Theatre. These answers by Paul/ Green, George Sklar, Lee Simonson, | John Howard Lawson, J, Edward! Bromberg and others are on the} whole more interesting and more per-| tinent than those of the last issue. | Mordecai Gorelik concludes his valu-| article on Scenery, Nathaniel | Buchwald reviews recent perform- ances of the Workers’ Theatr Groups, and there are reports 01 numerous activities of the individual Workers Dance and Theatre Groups, | criticisms of plays and movies. We would suggest that the play) reviews (though good) abandon their present form—more fit for al | dally or weekly publicat: and con-| sider plays from the brosder persnec- | tive which time and mature refiec-| tion throw on current theatrical} events. New Theatre could be im-j| proved too hy fewer diffuse notes andj remarks on sund matters—this | club journal—and by a few more fun-| damental articies of a scholarly and) professional competence. One might suggest a piece on the Exhibition of | Theatre Art at the Modern Museum | by Lee Strasberg, an essay on the} Radical Playwrieht on Broadway by} John Howard Lawson, translations | from sections of Erwin Piscator’: | book “The Political Theatre,” papers | on “Organizational Problems of a| Stationary Worker Theatre” by) Michgel Blankfort; “What I Learned | ~ from the New Playwrights’ Theatre” by Michael Gold. We look forward to the further development of New Theatre: it should become the most) country. The Musie League and Lenin Memorial Meets Editor, The Daily Worker: We are surprised to discover seve’ memorial meetings, which you pub- lished in Monday’s issue. The Workers Music League was asked by the New York District of the Communist Party to cooperate in| | these Lenin memorial demonstrations, | : the greatest Lenin meetings ever held | Edger Guest, by the Party. The Workers Music | League mobilized all its affiliates to|| GUILD 10:00—Society Orch.; Sid Gary, Songs; Syd- | participate in all these memorial) ney Mann, Soprano 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 10:45—Cotton Adjustment and Rural Educa- Federal Board for Vocation Trade 11:00-—Three Scamps, Sonzs 11:15—Same as WEAF 5 A. M.—Masiers Orch. 0—Kemp Orch. . meetings. | All the league’s choruses partict- | on—R. D. Maltby and Dr. ©. H. Lane,| pated. All. the Bronx choruses sang | jat the Coliseum (which you faileq to} | include in your story); the Manhattan | choruses (not, as you said in your} story, | which included others besides the} | Daily Worker Chorus, sang at the St. the Daily Worker Chorus), | }of common men, rich impression of a/ © "Hell on Earth” At the Aeme Is Vital Anti-War Film Page Five Conception and Treatment, However, Is Not | | Adequate to Theme, 5 By LEO T, “HELL ON EARTH,” an independent German film, directed by Victor ‘Trivas, from a story by Leonhard Frank, with Wladimir Sokoloff, Ernst Busch and Louis Douglas, at the Acme Theatre. HE current film at Theatre, “Hell on has been hailed by critics abroad as a re} ‘kable indictme It is in many ) picture, one seeing. and it displi for character an in the usual movie. But whatever its ; Virtues, which are many, it remains unfortunately true that its concep~ tion and its treatment are inadequate to its great and powerful theme. The film relates the story of fiv men: a Frenchman, a Negro, a Jew an Englishman, and a Germai snatched from their separate daily caught up in the hurricane of war, id thrown together in a shell-torn dugout in No-Man’s Land. The early sequences, treating intimately the homely details of the lives of these men, so unmindful of impending war, are delicate and delightful portrayals with sympa- t understanding. The camera catches the Englishman drawing the drapes from the window just before @ nurse announces the birth of his} The Frenchman flirts with a} girl on a streetcar and makes a date. | child. The Jew’s marriage girl is celebrated dinner and “chassid! Negro does a song and dance in a Montmarte cabaret. The German carpenter stops his work for a mom- ent and plays with his child on the oor. It is in this first part of the to a beautiful th a holiday dances, The film that Trivas, the director, does| his best job, He brings a fresh and imaginative technique,~ unhampered by the already crystallized conven- tions of the talking picture. His per- ception is honest and sensitive. (The picture up to this point does not fail to live up to the superlative pra and Germany have seen fit to hestow upon it. But in the war sequences, where the director attacks the essence of his theme, in which his grip should be fixmest, the movement of the film slows down to a dull pace and the} drama develops stumblingly.) ‘AR is declared. And these men, unknown to each other, find hemselves enemies at war, cut off from their respective regiments be- | tween the battle lines and forced to! live together until they can return to their ranks, They begin vitupera- tively to attack each other's nations, and patriotically to defend their own. But this antagonism is soon shattered by the insistently laughter of the Ne- gro, who explains that only the arti- ficial barriers of language and uniform separates them and sets them upon each other. The film ends with the matic symbol of five men marching united across the battlefield, batter- ing down the barbed wire entangie- ments with the butts of their guns, This consummating symbol is the/ key to the structural as well as ideo- logical weaknesses of the picture. Complete the image—five men, tear- ing down barbed wire fences, march- ing straight into the guns of soldiers who will be commanded to fire on the deserters. Thus would end their in- Acme | in different corners of Europe, | ys Critic | HURWITZ .— effectual pa The film gives } lying causes of \true enemy of j the r iz last di e to ma or augments its economic and power. The picture has no ‘ | except the vague idea of war tiveness. And having no lacks th Villain Comrades of 1918, and it is t ception of just this principle that |raised The Patriots to such heights. Hell on Earth is Victor Trivas’ fir: ie Hitler's comir to po banned and burned by Tt is to be hoped that In the Streets, Trivas’ new film, which }concerned with post-war years, w | show the effect of lessons lea: r | his first, Certainly his exile and th events in Germany should have con- vinced him of the impotence of simple pacifism. Hans Eisler, author of the score for | Kuhie Wampe and composer of. The | Comintern, has written stirring and | beautiful music for this play. before | since, | Nazis. heatre Openings This Week “American, Very Early", a comedy | by Florence Johns and Wilton Lack- | aye, Jr., will be offered at the Van- | derbilt Theatre on Tuesday ni: | The cast includes Miss Johns, Mills, Alexander Clark Jr, Marian Warring-Manley. “A Hat, a Coat, a Glove”, adapted | from the German by William | Drake, will have its premie: Selwyn Theatre on Wednesday A. E, Matthews, Nedda Harriga Isabel Baring and Lester Vail hi the cast. | “Theodora, the Queen”, Milward and J, Kerby Haw open on Wednesday © Forrest Theatre. are Elena Miramoy | Raymond Bramley | and Horace Braham | “The Wind and the Rain”, by D More at and by will open on night at the Ritz Theatre. The' ca is headed by Frenk Lawton and Ros Hobart. | SUBSCRIBES TO “NEW MASSES” INSTEAD OF “LITERARY DIGEST” Recently I received an offer from jthe “Literary Digest” to subscribe }but after reading it a few times I {came to the conclusion that . this | weekly ts against the working’ class. Here is part of an article printed in |their paper about China: “China’s Stricken Peasaniry” | “In the struggle for existence, thou- sands of helpless farmers have been forced to leave their homesteads for |towns and cities. Those with less ;courage have become bandits and | Communists.” | If the Literary Digest would be hon- | est it would say “with more courage.” ;Anyway, I'm very glad that I did not go in for their proposition in subscribing for the paper. I am sure that the “New Masses,” which I will read now, will take a different atti- tude. PAUL ZURIK, MENTS with ERNST BUSCH (now in exile) ACME THEATRE |o7 “THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! ELL on EARTH” SYLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (of the Moscow Art Theatre) LOUIS DOUGLAS, Negro International Vaudeville Star | “The Greatest of Anti. War Films” ~—HENRI BARBUSSE Produced in four different coun- tries—spoken in four languages, mainly English, Directed by Victor Trivas LATEST SOVIET NEWS! AMBASSADOR TROYANOVSKY VANGUARD} lith STREET and OF CULTURE} UNION SQUARE ——-THE THEATRI P EUGENE O’'NEILL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN | ‘Thea.. 52d St., W. ef Bway #) Ev. Mats. Thur.&Sat.2:20 |! MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND | with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN 2is2: 524 8t.. W. of Bway || Ey.8:20.Mats.Thor.&Sat.2:20 f) EUGENE O'NEJLL'S New Phi DAYS WITHOUT END Thea. | WINTER GARDE: petite WABC—860 15—News—Edwin ©, Hill 30—Veice of Experience Duo —Aleander Weollcott-—The Town George Jessel, Cxomedian; ley, Songs; Eton Boys, Quart: 00—Gray Orch.; Irene Ta: ‘50-—News Bulletins 45--Harlem Berenade 15—-Same as WEAF A. M.—Lopez Oreh. Pancho Orch, @—Dance ‘Oreh. SILVER Ccup~ Clow Mach Wir You GIVE FOR (7 7° | Nicholas Arena, and all the Brooklyn j choruses sang at the Arcadia Hall. | At the Coliseum, the workers’ club ‘bands affiliated with the League | played; at the St. Nicholas Arena the |W. I. R. Band played, and at the Arcadia Hall the Freiheit Mandolin | Orchestra played. This music section of the Lenin ei meetings had a stirring effect on the | Sudiences, and we feel that the Work~ | ers Music League and all its affiliates | which participated in this program | | should get the proper recognition. WORKERS MUSIC LEAGUE, ‘Ain't Silver ! || Henry Miller’s |f Evenings 8:40, Mat. Thurs. & &: 43rd St. |! | | | ci ‘ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by | | JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK | | NEW AMSTERDAM. W. 42 St. Evgs. $1 to $3. | Plus tax. Mats.Wed.&Sat,,50e to $2.50, plus tax | \NO MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. E. Thomas with | MELYYN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON BOOTH Thea., 45th, W. of Bway. Ev: Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:45. Theatre Union’s Stirring Play | F.S.U. CONVENTION NIGHT THE ANTI-WAR HIT Sed Big Month “WATE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thex,. 14th S. & 6th Av, ‘WA. 9-7450. Bygs, 8:45, c to $3.50 NO Mats, Wed. & Sit., 2:30. OU) i TAX ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Everett MAR. SHALL, Jean SARGENT, Patricia BOWMAN. B'way and 50th. Evs. 8.30 ay and Satur 30 JUDITH ANDERSON,, OME OF AGE »; CLEMENCE DANE & RICHARD ADDINSELT. MAXINE ELLIOTT'S Thea., 39th, E. of Bway Eves. 8:50, $3.30 to S&c, Mats. Wed. & Sat. RKO “Tith St. Now) { Jefferson Wm St. & | Now | The 4 MARX BROTHERS in “DUCK SOUP” added feature:—“FLAMING GOLD” with MAE CLARKE & PAT O'BRIEN Matinees Thi By QUIRT WELL BUD ~ THIS AINT SiLveER — ITS PEWTER, ee