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\ kles,” and i? cum of Phyllis CHANGE = THe—— WORLD! By Michael Gold Some Interesting Letters JHILADELPHIA, Pa.—“In reference to your column of Jan. 31, where | you say that books are too expensive for workers to buy, may I tell you how a group of workers to which I belong has solved tis problem: | “There are about 25 of us who want to study more about the class struggle, and books being so expensive we were in a dilemma. But finally | we hit on the idea that if each of us paid a small sum weekly into a common fund, enough would be accumulated after a while to buy an- other book. This has continued until now we own a small but well- selected library. By this method we have been able to read books otherwise inaccessible. “I believe thousands of other workers in the same category could ‘lub together and do the same thing. It could be done in the shops, mills, social and athletic clubs, neighborhood centers, wherever workers gather “Yours for more proletarian readers, “LESTER CROSS.” u * | 4 Swell Idea NSWER: This is a splendid idea, and most certainly shoulti be fol- lowed up. The workers ought to develop their own local initiative on such things. The reading circle among scattered groups of workers was really the first means by which the revolution struck its roots in the soil of Czarist Russia. These reading circles were illegal, but in America there are still no laws against reading books that tell the truth about capitalism. Let us have hundreds of proletarian reading and study groups, Don’t wait for someone to organize it for you; organize it yourself with five or six friends. The only way to get things done is to do them. You don’t need a functionary to direct everything you do; that’s the way bureaucracy lies. Every member an organizer is still a good one. * « * Also on Literature OSTON, —"That was & good job you, did telling workers to read. There are thousands of isolated workers all over thie who will be Communists sooner or later, and whose only contact is through literature. It is important to find them, to speak to w bring them in. I wish you would review some of the fine pamphlets put out by the International Publishers, such as Civil War in the Taiga, etc. ‘These are real adventure stories of our class. I have given some of these to 12 year old boys and they were so enthusiastic they got their parents to read them.”—Jones, District Literature Commit « e . g u i . f takki ‘These pamphlets you mention are very thrilling. Written with genuine artistry by workers who participated in these dangers, they have the suspense of the best kind of detective story, with our class view- point an organic part of the story. Yes, these are worth reading; but I wish we had more American stories by workers as good as these. Why are so many of our American pamphlets so statistical, and technical, as ry | grammar will not be considered a3 « chief | | also, the eharaeter of other anti-war move- D Workers’ Clubs of N. Y.| Announce, Competition for Anti-War Essays NEW YORK.—The City Club Coun-| cil (of Workers’ Clubs) announces an | essay contest on the struggle against | imperialist war to begin Feb. 15, and to conclude April 15th. All young Workers and students are urged to} Participate. The following conditions must be observed by all participants: | 1. The essay must be concrete, accurate, informative. and requirement for contestants. 3. The contents should contain gn analysis of conditions leading to war, the relation of the working class to war, and the writ- ors own attitude towards imperialist war, ments sueh a6, Pacifist, sccislist organize- tions, ete. are not members of the executire com- mittees of their respective tions. Only the rank and fle are eligible. testants should make an effort Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave., Bronx, at 8:30 a _ 15e. Auspices Mt. Eden SAM DON LECTURE on “Socialist Party, N.R.A. and Fascism,” Pen and Hammer, ti¢ 3 AILY WORKER. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. FEBRU A Political Poem (Teo Hot for the New Republic) They cut the birthday-cake At the Waldorf-Astoria. The claw of cold Brought streaks of numbness to strike-pickets Tramping up and down, outside They “cleaned up” Welfare Island “Gussie” and “Rosie” will graduall Revive, and six new gangsters Will eat their chicken-dinners To console themselves For prison-sentences Inflicted, why? You know the answer Another fake reform-crusade. Filthy degenerates Murder Communists in Germany Tabloids reeking with sewerage Claim that Mayor La Guardia Offered jobs to unemployed women Yeah, snow-shovelling jobs— Reform-crusaders lose their “chivalry” When women-workers double fists. That’s alright, we know these rats and wolves We'll drive them out some day, But in the meantime, I was walking Down Fourteenth Street, and I saw A fat boss spreading crumbs for pigeons On the ice before his store— | Too cheap to hire a man to clip the ice, Too cheap to pay his workers Living wages, but “the poor, dear pigeons.” You know the answer. Rise! Unite! We have been pigeons long enough. —Maxwell Bodenheim. Last Performance of ‘Strike Me Red’ Sunday NEW YORE.The last performance | of “Strike Me Red,” the colorful, | ively children’s operetta written by Harry Alan Potamkin, will be given at City College Auditorium, 23d st. and Lexington Ave., this Sunday at 7:30 pm. Sixty children, Negro and white, W. ist Bt., 8:30 P.M. Open Forum—d! cussion. “THE yr if they were written by research men for other researchers? ° * ° * Just a Postcard ead ANGELES, Cal—“Somewhere in your writings you say Marx has said somewhere that the proletariat will have to have as much as 10 per cent of the bourgeoisie with them to carry on @ successful revolution. Well, the morning the Blue Eagle went into vogue I said, holy gee, was Mike dreaming when he made that statement? The way they fell for it! ‘There wasn’t one-half of 1 per cent to choose from—even the peanut vendors fell for it. Marx did say this: the proletariat will not ask the bourgeoisie what they want to do, the bourgeoisie will do what they are compelled to do. Fraternally, one of Doc Luttinger’s Weary Willies—A Proletaire. . e ° . ANSWER: But some of the booboisie are now beginning to suspect the Blue Eagle of being just another capitalist buzzard. It’s true it takes twice as-long to educate the educated.” But they are not hopeless and we can and must win that 10 per cent. They are necessary in the transition period, until we can educate s new generation of Communist intellectuals. e . ° . What Does She Want? | bos ag Til.—“We can never escape evil by “hating” it, or destroy it by violence of thought or emotion. The standard of morality for all hu- manity has got to be raised. I am perfectly sure the struggle-for-existence has been ‘transferred to the psychic plane.’ You've said we didn’t have to worry about our souls, but we simply can’t escape our souls. In your calm moments, when you have a breath of leisure for something beside your legitimate work and researches, ponder on the other line of thought— the metaphysical, the ‘mystic’ side; {f you possibly can, investigate some of the cults like ‘New Thought.’ Love is stronger than hatred, goodness superior to evil. Metaphysics also contains the idea that since the tual ts superior to the material, some day Man wil learn how without food. Meanwhile, in my own psychic way, I bel munis is the first grand step to a spiritualized world, and dying for,—better yet, to live for. But Ma says I should not write about metaphysics—it might throw you out of your stride.”—Cornbelt Fanatica. Listen, Wild Eyes! y aahean I have received several such letters from New Thoughters. Also I once lived for two years in California, an@ am thoroughly fa- miliar with the spirits. Listen, Wild Eyes, have you ever been in a big strike? Take your theories out on a picket line for a cold week or two. “Love” a few gunmen and cops, maybe, or the Steel Trust. See what happens and come back and report to us as to how your methods suc- ceeded in winning a strike. Maybe it is true that we can kiss capitalism to death. But I doubt it; and I doubt that man will ever be able to live without food. This is ® capitalist idea, anyway; and some of the un- employed are starting to dispute it. I would suggest to all people still bothered by these foolish metaphysical cults which are merely a dis- guised form of the old theologies, that they give up all theorizing for a year or two and do some practical work for the Revolution. It is only in action that one learns what the world is like. The rest is fantasy. The working class cannot afford to deceive itself with such pipe-dreams. Its dreams are of the earth, and are more beautiful and mighty than all this vaporizing, just as any rose is more wonderful than the poems written about it. Besides, the occult in philosophy leads to fascism in politics. Did you ever think of that, sister? “Voices from Germany’ |Lozowick At John Reed Is New Masses Feature|Club in Phila. Friday NEW YORK.—The current issue of terrorism and the courage of the workers who carry on underground work despite torture and death, John Strachey writes from London on “TT Cents a Week for Food”; Na~ thaniel Honig contributes an article entitled “Green’s Cash Register Tin- among a number of other | Front, Comrade Renn.” Granville Hicks furnishes a criti- Bentley’s “A Modern »” while other book reviews by Ella Winter, Isidor Schneider and others also appear. Among the many artists contributing drawings and cartoons are Jacob Burck, Hugo Gel- lert, Georges Schreiber, Louis Fer- stadt, Stuyvesant Van Veen, Regi- nald Marsh and Adolf Dehn. Tustrated Lecture on Soviet Architecture NEW YORK.—Illustrated lecture on Soviet Architecture and City Planning, at the Housing Study Guild, 400 Madison Ave., to- night at 8. Sponsored by Priends of the Soviet Union. Talk by Simon Breines, one of the winners of the competition for the Sevieh Palsce design. Admission free, Ed ers at this Theatre Union symposium include Henry Hull, star of “Tobacco Road,” » play dealing with tenant farmers in the South; cess Story;" Albert Maltz, co-author of “Peace on Earth,” the anti-war play which is now approaching its 100th performance; and Blanche Yurka, well-known Ibsen actress. ~ A cycle of three anti-war dances will be resented by the Theatre Union Dancers, under Anna the » the Martha Graham Group. MENT INBURAN( Yorum at Dry Goods Workers Union, 114 W. 14th &., 8:30 P.M. Speaker, Sadie Van Veen. MAJOR GENERAL VICTOR A. YAKHON- TOFF, commander—imperial Czarist Army— Gov. Lecturer, traveler, author, diplomat, will compare “Russia under the Ozars and the Soviet Union Today.” Hunts Point Palace, 953 Southern 8:30 p.m. Auspices: East Bronx Br. F. 8. U. SOVIET ARCHITECTURE and City Plan- ning, illustrated talk by Simon Breines at Prosiag Study Gufld, 400 Madison Ave, st Me DAILY WORKER VOLUNTEERS Discus- ston Group meets at 8:30 P. M., af 38 E. 13th St., Sth floor. Discussion lead by Sam Don _on “ ol nism." ‘rer DEGEYTER CLUB Chorus meete at 7 P.M, music are invited to EDITH BERKMAN BR. LL.D. open meet- tng—education program. Bore Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M. CLARTE, 204 W. 56th St., film chowing, “Road to Life’ and “Hunger March,” at TP. M. and st 5:30 PM Caevink pene CARD PARTY AND DANOK, given - road Unity Movement, Pullman and Dining Car Br. L W. Join. 13ist St. muste, abt treitinr o dolin rehearsal at 106 B, 14th Orchestre, Sp. m. All members must come on tim MEBTING, Ells May Wiggins Br. LL.D. 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 P.M. Re- on National Unemployment Councils Convention, All welcome. Friday hattan Lyceum, Admission 10c. Auspiees Br. 68 a8. DELEGATES and all committees from I. . Bazaar. & D. MICHAEL GOLD lecture on “Present ‘Trends In Irish Literature,” at Irish Work- \GANDA lect of lecture by Sender Garlin of Daily Worker Staff, at the Prospect Work- » § B. 19th St. All who can read/| able take part in this performance. ie Center, 1157 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, Friday at “Is a Revolu- BRODSK’ tion Possible With = War.” Red Sparks A. ©. Club Rooms, 64 Second Ave., near 4th Bt, at 8:30 P.M. ROGER BALDWIN LECTURE “Is America Going Fascist,” Tremont Progressive Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. 8:45 P. M. Admission 10¢ for members; non-members 15¢. CORLISS LAMONT, lecture on “Under- standing Soviet Russia,” at Casa D'Amor, Mermaid Ave., cor. 31st St., Coney Island. Auspices Oceanside and Seagate Br. F.S.U., 8:20 P.M. BAZAAR PARTY at Ella Reeve Bloor Br., LL.D., 534 Hudson S., neat West 10th St. im Greenwich Villege. Admission: any sal- . Dancing, hot dogs and im- Promptu fun. ASTORIA OPEN FORUM—‘‘The Courts and the Workers,” lecture by David Schriftman, LUD. attorney. 25-20 Astoria Blvd, 8:30 P. M. Admission free. Philadelphia, Pa. SECOND ANNUAL BAZAAR of the United Workers Org. and ©. P. of West Phila. on Sat. and Sun., Feb, 24th and 25th at 1137 B. 4ist m. Lancaster, Pa. 4 and Unem- OPEN FORUM, “Why focial ployment Insurance,” Friday, Feb. 16th, at 8 P. M., at Redmens Hall, 219 E. King St. Speaker, John Parks. Questions and dis- cussion. Cleveland. O. GLENVILLE WORKING WOMEN'S Council presents for the benefit of the Childrens Colorful novel program, dancing, refresh- Priday, Feb. 16th, at 8 P. M. Ad- mission ic. First Evangelical Church, cor- ner Arlington and Thornhill Dr. nver, Colo. LORD MARLEY lectures on Sunday, Feb. 18th, at Broadway Theatre. Other speakers: Dr. Norlin, Pres. Colorado U. and Morrison Shafroth. Admission 400 and 250. Theatre Collective to Produce “Marion Models, Inc.” ‘The Theater Collective has chosen for its first production of the seasc: “Marion Models, Inc.” by Olga Sha- pire. Hans Bonn will direct. Stage and Screen “Richard of Bordeaux” Opens At Empire Theatre “Richard of Bordeaux,” a play of Richard II by Gordon Daviot, opened last night at the Empire Theatre. The play, which deals with the life of Richard and his fight against the English barons, has been running in London for over s year. Dennis King | plays the title role. | “Queer People,” John Floyd’s dra- matization of the novel of Hollywood by Carroll and Garrett Graham, will open this evening at the National Theatre. Hal Skelly has the chief role. John Howard Lawson's new play, “Gentlewoman,” will be the next pro- duction of the Group Theatre and is Scheduled to open here the week of March 5. Morris Carnovsky, Russell Collins, Lewis Leverett, Zamah Cun- ningham, Frances Williams and Neal O™Malley are now rehearsing in the cast. “Catherine the Great” at Astor Theatre “Catherine the Great,” produced by | the London Films and directed by Paul Cainner, had its American pre- miere last night at the Astor Thea- ter. Elizabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., head the cast. ‘Hell on Earth,” the International talkie, is now in its last two days at the Acme Theatre. The Soviet Newsreel showing Ambassador Troy- | anovsky and Karl Radek will aiso | finish its run on Friday. Toscannini to Offer Bee- thoven’s Ninth Symphony Arturo Toscannini resumes the Bee- thoven Cycle tonight at Carnegie Hall when he will conduct the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies. The latter will be given with the assistance of the Schola Cantorum and with the following soloists: Rose Tentoni. so- prano; Sigrid Onegin, contralto; Paul | Altiy tenor and Ezio Pinza, bari- | tone. is program will be repeated on Friday and Sunday afternoon. IF | WERE COMMISSAR | —By Gropper FATHER COUGHLIN would be a sky-pilot in search for that “pie in the sky.” THE FIRST WINNER! This Gropper drawing won by Joseph Serrano, N. ¥., who sug- gested the idea. The drawing, | autographed by the artist, will be mailed to Serrano today. TUNING IN} TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 PF. M—G ‘Trunk—Neida Hewitt Stevens 5—Billy Batchelor- 0 Jesters Trio 5 y Show Boat Concert 10:00—Whiteman Orch.; Al Jolson, Songs 11:00—Viola Phil iguera Orch ceford Orch. WOR—710 Ke 00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick :15—Comedy; Music 30—Lone Ranger—fketch 00-—Jack Arthur, Songs —Book Play —Dramatized News Variety Musicale :00—Redfern Hollinshead, Baker, Soprano Ope merase Tenor; Della 9:30—Elsie Thompson, Organ; Prank Sher-| ty, Tenor 9:45—The Witch's Tale 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—The Jolly Ru: 10:45—Sports—Boake Ci 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Coleman Orch. 12:00—Berger Orch WJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos 'n* Andy 7:15—Don Quixote 7:30—Carlos Gardel, Baritone; Concert Oreh. 8:00--Cape Diamond Lights—Sketch 8:30—Adventures {n Health—Dr Bundesen 845—Sizzlers Trio 9:00—Death Valley Days 9:30—Duchin Orch. 10:00—Canadian Program 10:30—Archer Gibson, Organ; Merie Contralto; Instrumental Trio 11:00—C: Herman 8:30-—Shi Orch.; Alexan, ym. Lyons Phel 9:00—Philadelphia Orch., 9:30—Waring Or hunter, Spe: 10:00—Gray Orch.; Comedians 10:30—News Reports 10:48—Evan Evans, Baritone 11:00—-California Melodies 11:30—Jones Orch. Stoopnagie and Budd, Wages Sink to Hunger Level in Mass. Shoe By JOHN L, SPIVAK BROCKTON, Mass.— Though the economic life of this city revolves Town where Jews and Italians congregate. They have no special trade. When manufacturers and union leaders are asked whet the Neary, See a liv- ‘ng they shrug their shoulders. fon, anything, I guess. Odd jobs ” “What does he average in weekly ey “T don’t know.” No one seems to know or care. The Negroes themselves do not know how they manage to eke out an existence in this city. Many of them are de- vendent upon charity. When white folks can’t find work the Negro is found even farther down the eco- nomic scale. ‘You stop two or three Negroes and ask them how they are getting along. “Pretty bad. Pretty bad,” is the same answer. There is no special resentment. ‘They seemed to have accepted it as their lot to get along “pretty bad.” One of them, a kindly, middle-aged Negro, when asked what he did said: “J ain’t done nothin’ for two years. it ‘What did you do before?” “Oh, I worked about. Never did have a steady job for years. Can't get no steady job.” work—in stores, in small two by ufacturing establishments— the Pole and Italian, thuanian refused to do. and change in recent to have left less an ef- 2—The shoe industry is trying to adjust itself to manufacturing a much cheaper grade of shoe and has consequently lowered wages to main- tain its own profits. 3—The average weekly wage of the employed shoe worker is less than the minimum cost of living. 4—The N.R.A., to which they had loaked hopefully has served only to decrease the average wage for the shoe worker. 5—The N.R.A. has resulted in many clerks being fired so employers could re-hire others at minimum wage rates. 6—A stagger system is used in the factories, and favored by the union, which reduces by one-third the weekly pay envelope of the shoe worker who has a job. 7-The Chamber of Commerce ad- mits that this weekly wage is below minimum living costs. 8—Workers, to get along somehow, have been forced to “double up” in houses so as to reduce rentals, which, though they have decreased, have not decreased in proportion to the de- crease in wages. 9—With the exception of the shoe industzy all other industries here are run on an open shop basis, 10—So desperate is the struggle for a job even below-living wage, that ‘he Chamber of Commerce advertises “Wages are cheap.” 11—Middle-aged married women have been thrown upon the labor narket in despairing efforts to keep ‘hei- homes and families from dis- ‘ntegrating. than upon the shoe collar class, per- Negro had never theca mes fifth ao growing be a as what 100 a abou." * anaes 12—-The white collar class—stenog- vaphers’, clerks’, etc., weekly wage is “way below” that of the unskilled shoe worker. 13—The two banks which special- ized in workers’ savings accounts failed. Seventy per cent of their de- posits were savings. 14—-$75,000 has been allotted to the city for C©.W.A. projects, This ts about gone; $200,000 more is expected from the government. What will happen when this sum is exha' Ro one seems to know, 15—Negroes are the lowest paid workers here—when they can find 7 odd jobs to work at. 16—Teachers’ salaries have been cut 15 per cent and a number have deen fired. 17—Charity distributions have in- creased tremendously as the years of depression continued. 18—Hundreds of families which had never known want have been ap- plying for charity. 19—Almost one out of every five privately owned homes have been taken away for non-payment of taxes or mortgages. 20—In numerous homes, furniture bought on the installment plan has been taken away. 21—In a blind rebellion against persistent cuts in wages which an A. F, of L. union approved, the work- ers organized an independent union | which now controls the shoe industry labor situation. 22—The leader of this new union meets with tho approval of the man- “ftacturers, bankers and Chamber of Commerce. He is an ambitious man who hopes some day to become a millionaire, 23—The union's immediate de- mands are “a living wage.” Even- ‘ually the new union president favors 2 “redistribution of wealth” and gov- crnment control of industry “like the N.R.A. only with teeth in it.” He ‘would like to see “an American type of Communism” which would allow vertein competent men the oppor- tunity to make a million. Essentially, he is hazy as to what Communism or, for that matter, what capitalism is. 23—Manufacturers, “industrial lead- ers” have no conception of what Is soing on except that “it’s terrible.” They have no suggestions to offer for conditions other than “cheer for the men in Washington; maybe they will get us out of it.” 25—-No one else with whom I talked has any clear idea of what brought on the depression or what to do about it. 26—Manufacturers favor a sors of fascist control of industry, WE ETERS ‘age Fivé Lenin In Red Marble By A. LUNACHARSKY - A fragment from an unpublished { Aronson said excited! Coulan’’ article, writen last August, and ome | you persuade him to pose for me of the last from Lunacharski’s pen.) * | ated SPRING morning in 1904 I was awakened early by a knock. ing at the door of my room in the Golden Lion Hotel near the St ain Boulevard in Paris. It was ark on the landing but I dis- f 1ed @ stranger wearing a cap, with a suitcase standing by his side. ‘I am Lenin,” the stranger re- to the note of interrogation ny face. “The train pulled in fully earls “Indeed,” I said, embarrassed. My wife is sleeping. Give me your suitcase. We will leave it here and go out for a cup of | coffee.’ } Vd do anything for s cup of coffee, but it just did not occur | to me at the station,” Lenin said We left the hotel, only to find the | whole of the Rive Gauche empty, Everywhere the shutters were up. “Listen here, Vladimir Tyich, ust a few steps from here there lives @ young artist, Aronson, a ter sculptor, who has already name for himself. I know he begins work frightfully | He won't begrudge us a cup .” that early. r ed into the sculptor’s | workshop, where some new master- | piece, copies of which would find their all over the world, could j be seen. Our host pre- pared coffee for us. Vladimir Ilyich smacked his lips, buttered | the roll and began to eat. He was | extremely hungry after the train | journey. | Who is He? | Aronson led me to one side, Who is that?” he whispered in my ear. | I considered it Tisky to mention | Lenin's name. I did not even | know whether his passport was in order. “He is a friend of mine, @ very Sreat revolutionary thinker, He may yet play an important part in history.” Arson shook his mop of hair, “He has a remarkable appear- ance.” “Indeed?” I asked with amaze- ment. Personally I had been dis- | 8Ppointed. I had long regarded | Lenin as a great man, but at our | first meeting I thought he re- | Sembled the average Tartar-Slay muzhik. “He hes a remarkable head,” | | | | | | | Browder Speaks on the Crisis at Open Forum in Cleveland Sunday | Earl Browder, Communist Party, Workers Secretary of the| will speak at the} ’ School Forum, Sunday, Feb. | | 25, at 8 p. m., on the subject “Five | } Mears of Crisis—What Next?” Pros- | | Pert Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Ave., | Cleveland, is being rented especially | for the occasion. | Browder speaks at the end of a remarkably successful first term of the Cleveland Workers School, whose student council runs the forum, te Rose nee Cleveland Section Or- | Sanizer, Section 2, will speak Sunda: A | Feb. 18 8 p. m., at the Workers School auditorium, 1524 Prospect Ave., on the subj “Personal Im- pressions of the Soviet Union,” She has just returned from & long trip jto the Soviet Union, | Soviet Music at New | Masses Affair Tonight evening featuring | + composition by Shos-| be performed for the first rica, tonight at 8:15 pm. at ton Irving High School. “The Program has been srranged by the New Masses Lecture Bureau, | ,,The artists include Lilla Kalman, viol! ist; Sylvia Sapiro, pienist; Dorothy Edwards, Ito; Norman Cazden, pianist; George | Uisiteky, flutist, and Ashley Pettis, pianist. A feature of the program is the produc. | tion by the Repertory Playhouse Associates | of Alfred Kreymborg’s Mass Recital entitled “America, America,” which appeared in the Masses. | Kunitz To Be Chairman Of W.LR. Theatre Night NEW YORK.—Joshue Kunitz, co-editor of Masses, will act as master of cere- he affair being arranged by the ernational Relief this Saturday Y College Auditorium, 23rd 88. and Lexington Ave. The program will include the Workers Laboratory Theatre in a series of one vlays, dramatic skits and dramatic poem: Eugene Nigob, pianist; concertina present tion by Gregori Matusevitch; Red Dancers, and a new experimental film by the Work- ers’ Film and Foto League. ‘Tickets at W.LR., 870 Broadway; Workers Laboratory Theatre, 42 E. 12th 8t., or Work- ers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. | dashed the monarchy | eves looked penetrating!: I should be giad tosmake a medal lion even, it might be very useful in making a statue. of Socrates.” “I don’t think he would con- sent,” I rejoined. Nevertheless I related all this to Lenin, including Aronson’s remark about Socrates. “Lenin literally wept with laughter. I was in Paris in 1935 W Aronson invited me to examine a large plaster bust of Lenin on which he was working. “I had come to the conciusion,” Aronson said, ‘that I could and | must make s bust of Lenin with- out having him pose for me. After Lenin’s death his image became more plastic and definite for me. I thought this image, almost en+ tirely the creation of my imagina-’ tion, worthy of execution, to sy the least.” Aronson took s view of Lenin that at once politically naive and rich in meaning. Aronson, a Jew~ ish democrat, hated absolutism. He regarded Lenin, before all things, as the embodiment and the leader of the Revolution which to pieces. | For this he was grateful to Lenin. As a democrat he felt proud of | him, but as a peace-loving artist Whose field was culture he was | terrified of Lenin, the mighty “destroyer.” He was well aware that Lenin had not st abolishing absolutism, that the Revolution connected with his name had dashed capitalism to pieces, pro- claiming a feasible transition to the kingdom of justice. Aronson frequently told me that he Placed Lenin along with Moses and Jesus, for Lenin, too, loved human beings with a passionate super- human love, loved also that justice in which alone men can achieve happiness and realize thetr worth. “But Lenin,” the artist would say. “stands higher than the prophets of the past because instead of pre- dicting things he achieved them, being a merciless destroyer and & mighty creator.” This destructiveness, particularly since it was directed against private property, rendered Lenin's appear- ance somewhat demonical in Aron- son’s €: The —the howed two rt principles artistic-realistic and the active-romantic united in harmony. The Bust of Lenin Lenin’s head, supported by a strong neck, looked forward. The huge forehead, executed with an- atomical precision, .was full of thought, at once weighing things and drawing conclusions. The into the part of ional res- gave an unex- distance. While the. lo the face revealed excepti olution, Aronson pected soitness to the mouth and lips. The mouth itself and the parts of the face near the corners of the eyes and the mouth ex- Pressed a quality of compassion and enormous tragic love of humanity. In the bust of Lenin, Aronson Produced the impression of a. su- povhuman being. Aronson realized his dream. He embodies his creation in red marble, The bust’ is now com- plete, . * * € tew days ago Dovgalevski and I saw it in the sculptor’s work- shop. Dovkalevski had not seen the Jarger bust in plaster. He found the finished one to be excellent. I am of the same opinion, but I think that the bust has lost some- thing of its elemental force. I do not by any means want to say that his quality has completely disappeared from the bust. I only fear that this side of the portrayal has been weakened, possibly be- cause the artist's undoubted craft~ manship is more. apparent. We see this in an attempt to cive a de- licate beauty to Lenin’s face. In the marble bust too, the face is wise, energetic, relentless and kind. The bust in plaster seemed to me to express the “Yeader’s ~ social character in a way that his physi- cal body, his real head,»never did. even in moments of greatest enthusiasm, Sometimes; however. during his inspiring-~speeches or while presiding-at-the Council of Peoples Commissars;* Lenin ex- pressed in his face Soriething so flaming, so alert, so leonine, that a few particularly successful photo- graphs convey these qualities in a way unexcelled by the Lenin red marble, This, of course, does not mean. that the Lenin in red marble is not one of the highest, if not the highest, artistic portrayals yet tiven of Lenin. MENTS —THE THEATRE GUILD presente, EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMED AH, with MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MEBIVALE MENKEN ALVIN _— 524 St., W. of Bway Mats. Thor. &Sat.2:20 EUGENE O'NEILL'S New Play DAYS WITHOUT END Henry Miller’s [004 + Evenings 8:40, Mat, Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 7 XEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- “IONS. Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” Thea., W. 45th St. Eve. 8.40 Mats, Mon., Thurs. & Sat, Plymouth LECTURE BY CORLISS LAMONT Well Known Writer and Lecturer, on “Understanding Soviet Russia” FRIDAY, PEB. 16th, at 8:30 P. M. At CASA D'AMOR, MERMAID AVE, Cor, 3ist St., Coney Island Auspices: Friends of Soviet Union RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— 50 St. & 6 Ave —Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. 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