The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 5

It’s Cracking } CHANGE | == THE——_ WORLD! By Michael Gold — ‘THER England? The Empire, as is well known, is cracking 1. Hollywood stiiceo palace built on 2 swamp. British trade, on which ail | the pomp and glory was founded, has sunk to a permanent low. British finance is engaged in a death-grapple with the American dollar. India, Treland and Africa are placid colonial slaves no longer, but awakening and rebellious giants. And so forth, my friends, it is a story written large on the heaven, for everyone to see. Britannia is sick, though she is still able to scheme and plot to drag the world into another great war. It is the British Fascist- | Tory who is making alliances with fascist Japan and Hitler Germany for a new attempt on the life of the Soviet Union. The last war dostroyed the foundation of capitalism, and reduced it to what it is today. So the British capitalists, like their kind everywhere, are ready to bring on a new war which they think will help them. ‘They reason like the man who took a large dose of strychnine to cure his indigestion. My Prince! i SHORT, the British Empire is in great distress, and these are great and terrible and historic days. and what is the Prince of Wales doing? I received a curious letter | Workers Industrial Union, is now six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934 “Steel, Metal! “Quintessence of the Fake”--- Worker”’Grows| Reviewer Says of “Nana” In Influence -xasxs = wit | By HARRY RAYMOND | T= “Steel and Metal Worker,” off-| cial organ of the Steel and Metal months old. But despite its tender age, it ts quite a mature trade union paper, the February issue being a marked improvement over the past | five issues. That which designates the maturity and effectiveness of a revolutionary trade union paper is the manner in which it deals with the detailed or- ganizational ideas confronting the union. A trade union paper should tell the workers what to do and how to do it. This issue of the “Steel and Metal Worker” does this quite effectively. | In this respect I refer to an article by Bill Dunne, on practical proposals for 8 united front with the rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions, and an- other by John Hunter, dealing with the detailed steps in organizing de- partment and shop committees. Steel and Metal Workers Union, namely, to interest themselves in all the internal issues of the A. F, of L. | With the name of Ho! starring Anna Sten, with Lionel Atwil and Philips Holmes, directcd by Dorothy Artzner. Pro- duced by Samuel Goldwyn. Reviewed By LEO HURWITZ “BIANA” is the quintessence of the fake pretentions, the bombast, the synthetic “glamor” and vacuous ro- mance that has become synonymous This a sort of thing has been done time a again, sometimes with energetic charm and sometimes with insuffer- able dullness. This time it is done dully, slowly, and with insipid dia- logue (“Kiss me. I am going to Al- giers. Wait for me.”). Since the coming of Garbo, every producer has searched the four cor- ners of the globe for a mystery woman to rival her at the box office. Dietrich, Harvey, Wieck, and others, now fallen by the wayside, have had their try at snaring the hearts of the multitudes. And now, Anna Sten. Goldwyn, the impressario. who dis- covered Anna Sten (she had appeared in only about a dozen Soviet and Germen films previously), had been eating his heart away because he When everytt id thousand and promptly They were not } good enough, it seems. Finally, at | jthe cost of god-knows how many j hundred thousand dollars, he com- pleted Nana. « | A FULL week before the film opened. glamorous, mysterious, fasc alluring closeups of Anna St pearing in all the daily papers. The tboards shrieked the name of Anna Sten. Something momentous was go- ing to happen to the world. Like the mountain, in gigantic labor, giv- ing birth to a mouse, this mountain of advertising and ballyhoo issued forth Nana—a weak costume picture with a stale plot, stupid lines, flat- | tering photography and the closeup face of Sten covering most of the! footage. The picture turns out to be nothing more than 8 further glorifi- | cation of the grafted personality of Anna Sten along the lines of the preceding publicity. | pond ANNA STEN herself is pleasant / OO a ane enough to look at, although the | follies Hollywood refinishers have given her —By Gropper the plasticity and motility of a wax | model. She has charm, thoroughly misplaced in a role she doesn’t fit: | BROADWAY COLUMNISTS After Radio Speech Workers Praise Broadeast by Corliss Lamont at Recent Convention in New York “What did the Soviet Union count on in this difficult and com- Dlicated fight for peace? On the moral support of the vast masses of the working class in all countries, | which were deeply concerned with | the preservation of peace.” (Stalin’s | address to the 17th Congress of the | Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.) | By JOHN ADAMS HE hundreds of } letters that flooded the offices of the National Broad- | casting Company, addressed to Co: Lamont, after his thirty-minute broadcast over a nation-wide hook- | up, at the convention of the Friends | of the Soviet Union impress one as a | resounding “Aye’' to the words of Stalin. From every section of the nation, they came, Some missed hearing the jaddress of the organization and their |letters were sent therefore to the on be a true its system.” friend to the jeasting co . spokesman forums” on the U.S.S.R. radio columns of your will convince you of the impo ye a talk on Rus la, demanding a F.S.U The greatest number of letter: quest application cards for r ship. Oklahoma farm areas a! to be tough spots for recruitin veants in the war against th Every rural section of represented in over fifteen lette came in response to the broa spokesman It is not only what the lett. but the broad strata whom the’ resent that makes one feel that would run garbage scows on the | broadcasting company. The greatest | only of all the producers did not have East River, |number of them come from workers recently, from a miner comrade in Western Pennsylvania, in which he tells | unions, “They must know what the a Parisian demi-monde played by a| F.8.U. is going to be a mass ima. * 8 little Garbo on his lot. 80, two) Slavic peasant. Another good actress, ie land others who expressed their feel-| tion in every sense of th pat saint pac Sa prlgicaingA Rodda le paicceg hentai Denes. “they teat bone ‘to show |¥OS 280, he discovered Anne Sten.| corrupted and given exaggerated im: | Suggested by Herman Spector, ey of ‘er at sally being able to| The manager of the “ov munism, and ready to join the Party, But he will not hear the royal brought her to the golden land of| portance for the sake of the box- ¥., who gets the original. ganized expression of | partment” of werful 1 A, F. of L. union members that they California, cultivated he st, 4 join in an org: ‘D pal of a po fonily inttocked, ‘sxpecinly: seis Eine of Wales, _ 1s Hinks the Prince 1S'@'| Lace iwtint’ they’ ang talking about. | Gees ey ere et eee, aes | offton, | |solidarity with the USSR. Let the| book publishing company writes from fine fellow, who has the interests of the workers at heart. and not content themselves with | very best allure-soecialists to model | wont tte at toe tat Gold | writers tell you direct. |New York City. He did not dictate f Th Prince has caitiraied Hits pose recently, and has paid well-pub- | hurling ready made empty phrases fist an iehe ene etd jana has nothing to do with Stage and Sereen 1 sean quote DS., a worker af | is e og poms but sat down licized visits to the English ie areas, at the A, F. of L. union officials. | Peoria, 1 and typed it himself. He represents a This is likely more harm ee | eae |host of executives of oil insurance The Old Mullarkey~ . ‘ K! per eee bgt “ces Z ” “They Shall Not Die* Opens| “i srt the misenie ke eel 4 very pees Pe hag Say Boing Bee i y, | interesting speech o! . Lamont, . . «| cone 1- UT this is all beliyhoo, comrade Scotty, It’s part of the routine of every |_ THis goes not only for S.M.W.LU. The Simple Tailor” at the Acme Is | Wednesday at Royale Theatre interesting speech of Mr. Lemont. yp [ecuttves concemed more in a tec! public man, ‘These capitalist politicians have developed back-slapping into a fine art. They will kiss a baby here, say a good word for the Jews in New York, and a good word for Hitler in Milwaukee, they will shake hands with miners today, and promise to break the union at a Chamber of Commerce meeting tomorrow. It doesn’t mean a thing. No public utterance of a capitalist poet or prince is sincere. It's what goes on behind the scenes that counts. What is the private character of the Prince of Wales? Briefly, the young man is a society butterfly, That’s what he really believes in—jazz parties, cock- tails, good times and expensive fun. Take that away from him, if you dare, and you will see how much he likes miners. He will tell his generals to turn the machine guns oh you. ° ’ }00-Hoo, Violet! R= the secial butterflies of England have degenerated sadly. The Prince of Wales is not a he-man like his grandfather. Sdwerd the Fat ILE the Empire is cracking, while the world is rushing with aeroplane speed into a new war, while the masses raise their red flag of révolt in a dozen different capitals, the Prince of Wales and Ris set are doing embroidery, De you get that, Scotty? Your Prince spends his royal days over an embroidery frame, stitching little designs. You don’t believe it? Why not? | Te is exactly the mental level of this group that you admire, without | lmowing their secret life. They are stupid, empty, useless people, Scotty, ‘ho must go the way of the Czar. But here is the United Press dispatch which tells the story. It ap- b red in Women's Wear, a newspaper of the garment trade bosses in “ew York, You see, they Nave a technical interest in such matters. If (ae Prince of Wales is an enthusiastic embroidertere, that means a boom woidery business. But here goes; and the italics are mine. ° ° : . LONDON, Feb. 5 (UP),—His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, and 8 brother, the Duke of York, are doing embroidery in their spare time, it 1 the ex | terial dealing with the big steel plants, |centrate its forces. The paper must members, but for all members of the Ted trade unions and oppositions. Hunter’s article, although somewhat sketchy, explains in a language that any shop worker can understand the fundamental steps that, must be taken in building a shop or department committee. Future issues of the paper should carry more of this material. The editorial deals with the hurn- ing question of war and the steel workers. It exposes quite well the war plans of the Roosevelt N.R.A. program. But in dealing with the question “does war mean prosperity?” the editorial merely states the fact that wages did not keep pace with the tise in the cost of living during the war years. The editorial would have been more convincing if there had been embodied in it a few of the statisties on this question published in the Daily Worker, April 1932, The leading article deals with prep- arations for the 5.M.W.LU. National Conference to be held in Pittsburgh on March 3-4. The second national convention has been postponed until @ later date which will be set by the | conference. j There is much news of shop activ- ities, a good workers correspondence section, and a special page dealing with the internal problems of the locals, But there is not sufficient ma- Here is where the union ist con- lead in this concentration work. Fur- ther issues of the paper must tackle reyenled today. | The Royal Family, inspired by Queen Mary, who has been Particu- | ¢ bur this problem in a big way. Story of Jewish Life in Old Russia’ By MICHAEL GOLD 4 gras “Simple Tailor’ now playing at the Acme Theatre in New York tells the story of the group of Jewish workers in Russia just about the time when the ezar joined all the other tyrants in declaring a world war. Mottele, a naive little tailor living in a Ukrainian town, reads the fateful mobilization orders that are posted in the market place, It inspires him with the strange fallacy that afflicted so many nationalistic Jews during the war. He believed it would be best for every Jew to enlist and fight for the “national honor,” If all the Jews did this, proved themselves heroes and patriots, it would soften the hearts of the militarists, capl- talists and other anti-Semites. Thus Mottele reasoned. But Shlan- sky, the swollen Jewish Babbitt who owned the big shoe factory in the town, he had no such illusions. The coming of the world war delighted him. He got on the job at once and started bribing officials right and left. The army would need boots, thousands of boots and he was the man to supply them. He would be~ come rich—rich—rich, He rubbed his hands with delight and shouted for the war. And when the naive every Jew ought to go to the trench- es the fat profiteer Shlansky laughed out loud. Then he got sore, and demanded the rent from Mottele, whose landlord he was. Then he chased that damn fool Mottele out of the nouse. From that point the story goes on, There are some good flashes in this picture, scenes of Jewish misery under the czar that ought to be shown as @ reminder of former con- ditions to some of these rabble that are trying to make war on Soviet Russia, evidently with the purpose of bringing back the Greek church, the czar and the pogrom. The movie also shows clearly how the rich Jews cooperated with the czar’s government in denouncing the working class Jews. STENOGRAPHIC AID WANTED | WANTED: Volunteer stenographic Mottele tried to explain him why| “They Shall Not Die,” John Wex- ley’s drama dealing with the Scotts- | boro case will have its premiere on Wednesday night at the Royale Theatre under the sponsorship of the Theatre Guild. Ruth Gordon, Claude Rains, Helen Westley, Linda Watkins, Ben Smith, Hale Norcross jand Frank Wilson head the cast. | “Ragged Army,” by Beulah M. Dix and Bertram Milhauser will open on Thursday night at the Selwyn Theatre with Lloyd Nolan in the featured role. Others in the sup- porting cast include Lee Baker, Tho- mas Chalmers, Irby Marshall and Emily Lowry. “Dodswirth.” Sidney Howard’ | dramatization of the Sinclair Lewis novel, will be presented by Max Gordon on Saturday night at the Shubert Theatre. Walter Huston who | has been playing in films, returns to | the legitimate stage in the leading) role. Others in the cast include Fay | Bainter, Nan Sutherland, Maria Ous- | | spenskaya and Harlan Briggs. } jastic delegates and made a fellow feel like really wanting to hear more information in regard to the Soviet Friend movement .. . will from now ‘Pamphlet Series ‘Treats the Drama Under Capitalism PHLETS, by Virgil Geddes. No. 1: The American Theatre—What Can Be Done? No, 2: Towards Revolution in the Theatre; No. 3: The Theatre of Dreadful Nights; No. 4: The Melodramad- ness of Eugene O'Neill. 9.4 T wrights, actors and dramatic art selpenapesaitienmligbidee in general of the capitalistic methods James Cagney In “Lady | ‘sed, in_ the American theatre is fully stated in these | Killer” At Jefferson | pamphlets, The | the screen feature now playing at the| and critic, and director of the Brook- | Jefferson Theatre. Mae Clark and| field Players, at Brookfield, Conn., | Margaret Lindsay are in the sup-| the only summer theatre in America | porting cast. “Sensation Hunters”| devoted to the production of revolu- | with Arline Judge and Preston Fos-| tionary playwrighting. _ | ter is on the same program, Begin-|. Geddes shows the decline of taste |ning Wednesday the J on will| and the absence of moral and cul- | show “Eskimo-Wife Traders” andj tural interests in the producers. The | “Shadows of Sing Sing” with Bruce} producers are men of the theatre | Cabot and Mary Brian. | only because they hold the money bag, seldom any other qualifications. | ‘The result is the domination in the theatre of greed and fear. “Lakme” at Metropolitan THE BROOKFIELD PAM- | demoralizing effect of play-| are written by Vir- | James Cagney in “Lady Killer” is| gil Geddes, revolutionary dramatist | |nical division of work, who write in |for membership and information. The frustrated technician of capitalism | speaks: | “It was good to hear you emphasize | the fact that some people in the } world are interested in something more important than making their jcountry a paradise for Park Ave | nuettes taking a pleasure trip |peints east.” The F.S.U, Technical | Bureay will undoubtedly recruit these | builders deprived of their creative | work by a dead capitalist. industry They are on the road to wholehearted alliance with the working class of | their own country as well. If | permitted, one would like to r |the whole letters without com | Net a “crank” note among them. | are all addressed “Dear Sir . | President, etc.” A few write “C jrade,” with signs of the thrill that the word has when one first become: acquainted with it. ‘We mustn't hide the fact that }among the hundreds who heard of | the F\S.U. for the first time and were waiting for just such information, few of the die-hards had the ener to sit down and inform Corliss La- mont of his “treason.” Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J., is one of the two that wrote in, We have to call the note after the town because | the writer forgot to sign his name! He furnishes the crushing answer to “foreign agitators” in quite “an | original fashion,” to wit: | “If this country isn’t good enough for you . . .” You can fill in the rest! |It is addressed to the “So-called of late embroidering seats for the chairs in Buckingham Palace as turned its attention to the art of stitchery, suly royal art The fad, or hobby has attracted the interest not only of the heir to the | assistance for Feature Department | of Daily Worker. Call in person or | phone between 10 and 12 am. or | First Presentation 4 and 6 p.m. Ask for Feature Editor.| “Lakme,” will have its first pres- Opera House Thursday Night Will Have Its “The Theatre of Dreadful Nights” | Friends of the U.S.S.R.!" It found its an ancient hobby and a \ is devoted to an expose of the “arty” | way to the office along with one of s land hypocritical Theatre Guild. In| different tone addressed to the “Sov- | stinging phrases Geddes shows how | iet Union,” 80 E. 11th St., N.Y¥.C.! | WHAT’S O | Monday ‘hrone, but of the Princess Royal and her husband, Lord Harewood. They ore particularly engaged in “petit point” which is one of the most dif- Seult forms of the art. ‘The work of the Queen, the Princess Royal and the Duke, is ar- | anged for them by the Royal School of Needlework which is directed by ~ady Smith-Dorrien, widow of the general. “The Queen is actively in- serested in our school,” Lady Smith-Dorrien told the United Press in an oxelusiye interview. “She yisits it frequently. The Duke and Duchess of York are now making seats for.a set of antique chairs at their residence. | The Duke's keenness is extraordinary. He is putting in a great number of ‘ours of work, and he probably will produce very artistic results before ong.” Both the Prince of Wales and the Duke have the regulation equip- nent for embroidering, a frame and an electric lamp which throws a beam of Ught on the work being exectted, “It is @ marvelous pastime,” Lady Smith-Dorrien explained, “It rests the tired brain, and it is a splendid occupation for men worried by the. ‘wonomic depression.” (!!!) ‘The school is said to be the finest of its kind in the country. I¢ turns out experts who are often called upon for advice and help in other coun- cries, One of them is now a teacher and lecturer at the Chicago Art ind Textile Institute. The school was founded 60 years ago by Princess Yhristian, daughter of Queen Victoria, its object then being to preserve and repair priceless tapestries worn by age. Modern dyes, Lady Smith-Dorrien explained, make permanent restora- ‘ons difficult. They fade easily. But as a result of chemical experiences and advances, the school has obtained seven colors of wool thread which axe guaranteed never to fade. Soefety is following the lead Family In its home work. ~ ea Bie ae 8:00—Morin Sisters, So: s; King’s Jesters; Stokes Orch. Clit Soubler eS 8:30—Cyrena Van Gordon, Contralto of Metropolitan Opera Company 8:00—Minstrel Show S:45—Red Davie—Bketch :30—Pasternack Orch.; Melody ‘ae lelody © Singers 10:00-—Carlos Gardel, 3: ; ‘Oren, el aritone; Marian! 10:30—Henri Deering, Piano 10'45—A New Bra in Narcotic Drug Con- trol—John F. O'Ryan, Police Commis- sioner 11:00—-Ramona, Songs 11:15—Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30—Harris Orch. 12:00—Martin Orch. 12:30 A. M.—-Stern Oreh, . oe TUNING IN IGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke, Tatk—Siate Senator Nethen y Batchelor, Sketch ley Howard, Songs; Jesters, 43—The Goldbergs—'sketch ne THe §:00—Dramatic Sketch 5:30—Richard Crooks, M tan a, "Tenor: ‘Daly Orch, Poueee Oper °:00—Gypsies Oreh.; Prank Parker, Tenor »:20—Ship of Joy, with Captain Hugh Bar~ « WABC—860 Ke. rett Dobbs 7:00 P M.—Myrt and Marge 9:00—Eestnian Oreh.; Lullaby Lady} Gene| 718—Just Plain Bill—Sketch Arnold 1:30—Armbruster Orch.; Jimmy Kemper, (:50—Nationel Forum Sones ‘1:43—News—Boake Carter * Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin ©, Hill | Branch W.LR. BAND rehearse! 7:30 p.m., at 29 Bt. Marks Pl. Final preparations for Needle Trades Concert Feb, 25, HARRY GANNES on ‘The Present Situa- tion in Cuba,” at open membership meet- ing of Press League, 168 W. 23rd St., Room 12, 8:30 p.m. REPORT of ¥.8.U. Convention by Seldin, at 87 Bay 25th 8t., Bath Beach Workers Center, 8:30. Auspices Orphan Jones Tuesday MASS MEETING on “The Revolt of the Austrian Wor "’ at Ellsmere Hall, 170th ®t., Near College Ave., Bronx, at 8:30 p.m. Speaker, Tom Lewis. Adm, 10c, Auspices Mt. Eden Branch F.S.U. jainst war and fascism, Brooklyn, Auspices Prominent speakers, GP. Unit 2, Section A scene from “YVhe Simple Tailor,” the Soviet film now playing at the Acme Theatre. {entation on Thursday night at the this organization operates under the} ‘The other writer merely wants to MINN. UNIT GETS SUBS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. —- Unit 11, recently secured two subs, one for a | half year and another for a month This Unit will do its utmost to get more new subs for the “Daily” and National Daily Worker circulation banner, the Daily Worker means winning another worker to the revolution- ary struggle against exploitation, war and fascism. | Metropolitan Opera House with Lily |Pons and Martinelli in the chief) |roles. Other operas of the week:| | “Merry Mount,” tonight with Lj | berg and Johnson; “Gianni Se! |and ‘Salome,” Wednesday ev- ing. | | the former with Fleischer and Mar- help the Minneapolis district win the | tini; the latter with Ljungberg and) Thursday | Lorenz; “Die Walkuere,” | afternoon with Leider and Melchior; “Palleas and Melisande,” Friday eve- ning with Bori and Johnson; “Tann- hauser,” Saturday afternoon with | cana” on Saturday night with Reth- i berg and Martinelli, $2 a Week By JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Thero are 48 local unions here, 27 of them affiliated with the Char- lotte Central Labor Union, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, with a total membership of some 3,000 but its leaders frankly admit that it is impotent. The Cen- tral Labor Union is just one of those bodies where you Pay your dues and cronies with an}: old dirty deck or} just to sit around and wonder how out of it iv your- * self, wife and an: John L. Spivak There is no bitterness in them. $:00—Green Orch.; Men About ‘Town ‘rto;/There is no protest. There is only} Johnson sajd there was to be no dis- acquiescence, a “what is must be” at- % Charity for So uthern Textile Workers so as to make up for the added pay. And they accept it. “You know it’s against the code,” hey say to each other, and then go on Wo! the séretch-out. The mills talk of raising their rents for the company-owned hovels they live in because “wages have been rais- ed” aud there is not a peep out of the workers, « In the asbestos mill where it means a horrible death to work for any length of time, the same stret¢h-out is used, wages have been cut to the minimum allowed by the code, no health protection is used—and no one opens his mouth, I could list innumerable instances of amazing exploitation, of amazing violations of even the recent N.R.A, codes and yet in almost every in- stance there has been little or no sign of protest. The slaves of the vnte-bellumn days could not have ‘een more acquiescent than the whites today in Charlotte and Meck- ‘enburg county. The only sign of any activity on the part cf the worker is in a few— & ver~ “ew mill hands who are trying to o:snaize with the United Textile Union, an A. F, of L. affiliate, since crimination against workers’ unions. tries in the clty were not much dif- “erent. The money that was in the banks, as in the New England indus- trial center, was slowly withdrawn to meet overhead expenditures and for living expenses by those workers who had been able to save a little during their life-time of working. During this interim three banks crashed, taking with them much of the city’s money. Last Summer when the N.R.A. went into effect there was @ slight in- crease—just barely perceptible. The few additional dollars caused by the employment of several hundred per- sons served to hearien the residents. They felt that something was being done for them in Washington, N.R.A, difficulties started almost immedi- ately as in Brockton. Prices rose but the majority of people were unable to buy even when prices were low, More than half the residents had been living on charity for years, Em- ployees who were getting more than the minimum wage were fired and others rehired at minimum wage rates, and as in New Egland this fir- ing and hiring was chiefly confined to the small storekeeper and res- taurant man—the small business man who insisted that he simply could not stand the increased drain upon his The worker reads news about busi- ness improvement in the newspapers but dees not realize that with a lim- ited number of stores in a city and with thousands pouring out in wages for a few thousand men and women naturally brings that money to these local stores and their business picks up. For half the population which is out of work and dependent upon charity, things have not changed the slightest, but they B@ieve they have changed, that they will soon have jobs or at least that charity will not be denied him. “Wht will you do if you don't get a job?” you ask. “Starve to death, I reckon,” most of them reply. The whole attitude is acquiescence to what those in authority do with them. There is a clear tendency to them. “There's nothing else to do,” they say, There is none of the dazed, be- wildered spirit so obvious in the New England industrial area, It is simply the spirit of a man completely re- signed, who has always been resigned. Among the Negroes, however, one finds a different spirit, The Negro vopulation here, doing the hardest Lehmann and Melchior and “L'Afri-| letting the government worry about | name of art for the purpose of {M~/ inform that Al Capone is Public creasing its profits, |Enemy Number one and Corliss La- “The Melodramadness of Eugene} mont is ditto, Number Two.” SNe sanlyeee tie seedual talent | With Stelin’s words in mind, we cax tegration of a playwright of ta ing .|say that the membership of a broad who accepts the professional capital: Vera neanicge aedineed to. the de~ istic attitude in the theatre. | Sema ‘Gece . of ec tn Further numbers in this important | series of theatre pamphlets are in formation about the U.S.S.R., as is the t Union; is lim~ vreparation. The four already Lag beige of the Soviet 4 lished may be obtained at The Work- | ited only by the extent to which we ers’ Bookshop at 25 cents each. all carry its message to the American Warren C. Rockwell. | working class, AMUSEMENTS TRE THEATRE GUILD Presents EUGENE O’NEILL’S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M, COHAN GUILD THEATR 52nd St., West of Broadway. Evenings 6:20 Matinees Thusday and Saturday 2:20 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play MARY OF SCOTLAND | a - 7 ‘LEN bs fAVE MERIVALE MENKEN HAYES Bend St., West of Broadway. Evenings 8:20 ALVIN THEATRE ""Satizces tharsaay ana Saturday 2:20 OPENING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 8:15 JOHN WEXLEY’S NEW PLAY THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE T ATRE 45th Street, West of Broadway Mats, Thursday and Saturday RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—,; 50 St. dr 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M, | JANET GAYNOR ; Lionel BARRYMORE “CAROLINA” | “SIMPLE TAILOR” A poor Russian Jewish working girl's struggle between love and need) Her heart draws! Poverty drives! The rich bosses live = good day, while the poor workers are being crushed! And » Great MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW [ °%° Jefferson i 3. * | Now | JAMES CAGNEY & MAE CLARK in “LADY KILLER” also:——“SENSATION HUNTERS” with operating expenses, iy 8:30_—Bin titude. The charity organizations give | Mill owners are seeking them out and ARLINE JUDGE & PRESTON FOSTER type of work, has not been affected ” Crosby, Anh ; Songs; em Orch. 9:00—Philadel; oh Orch. zt ia, - Levin, ‘ Ba recat . ies :15—Howard Marsh and Mary Zastmai Songs; Kostelans Orch, es 28; ets 4 9:30-—Gertrude Nelsen, Songs; Jones Orch. 10:00—Wayne King Oreh. 10:30—News Bulletins ja 10:45—Connie , Songs; Songs :20—Novelty Program 11:15—Rieh Oreh, 9:45—Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta g ents—Hartlan Sugene Read | 12:00—Belasco 12:20 A. 1:00—Light WOR—710 Ke. P. M.—Stan Lomax '5—Comedy; Music E }0—Maverick Jim—Sketch 2:15—Jones and Hare, Songs %:30--Renard Orch.; Olga Albani, Sopreno; Edward Nell, Baritone 9:00—Musical Revue Bton Boys, {1:30—Whiteman Orch. 13:00—Stern Oren. CORRECTION The showing of “Strike Me Red” which was wrongly announced as taking place Sunday, Feb, 19, will take place on Sunday, Feb, 25, at the es WJZ—760 Ke. 3:00 P. M,—Amos 'n? Andy —Baby Rose Marie, Songs 7.30-George Gershwin, Piano; Oreb. 7:45—Btring Quartet Concie: P.M. "y City College Auditorium, 23rd St, and|the mills devise the Lexington Ave. New York, at 7:30|system where a worker is given ex- them two dollars a week and they complain, meekly, hesitantly—these men who built this city and state. The city refuses to pay its school teachers even when it has money and they accept Jt meekly. Local officials who are running the C.W.A., the Salvation Army and the Family Service, which doles out the charity, say to a bricklayer for 50 cents an hour for 50 cents 8 day or taken off the charity go meekly. ‘The mills are compelled to pay the minimum of $12 a week instead of the $6 they used to get so “stretch-out” actly twiee as much work as before ‘any of them, knowing it, are fear- Tul of joining though there is a hope noticeable in them that perhaps, with a union, they might present a united ‘ront against the abuses developed since the N.R.A. code went into effect end to rrotect themselves avainst slashes In wages when the N, R, A. ceases to operate, But these things will be taken up in detail in subsequent articles about this “Queen City of the South” and what happened to it since the de- pression. In the meantime, since business, as a rule, has considerable effect upon the life of a community we will consider this first: The C.W.A. came along and poured money into the area for charity and work. Several thousand men and women got jobs of a sort. The weekly payroll made possible by the govern- ment money made considerable dif- ferene, financially and psychologic- ally, The business man views things as “picking up.” General business, the ‘atest available estimates and con- versations with storekeepers tend to show increased about 20 per cent over what it was last year. The mills, ac- cording to bankers and textile spokes- men are doing about one third more than they did last year. A spirit of During the past few years business, as well as virtually everything else in Charlotie was at a standstill. Mills were shut down; stores did not make even their overhead; other indus- confidence and hope that “the turn- ing point has been reached” has spread even to the men and women getting their six cents a day food allowance. as much by the recent years as the whites. He worked for whatever he could get and even now, though he cannot earn a living wage with codes floating all over Charlotte, there is a spirit apparent in him that is far different from that of the white man in the same circumstances, “T've got a right to eat an’ so's my family,” one Negro said to me in “Blue Heaven,” one of the four areas where the Negroes here live. “I ain't soin’ to starve. No, sir, I'm willin’ to work--work hard, too, but I ain't goin’ to starve,” He emphasized it with a deter- mined nod of his head. “What'll you do?” I asked. “I don't know what I'll do, but I ain't goin’ to starve.” (Te Be Continued) ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with PANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane WROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B’ ind 50th. Evs, $30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 Theatre Union's Stirring Play LAST WEEKS TRE ANTI-WAR HiT! PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. ith S. & th Av. WA. 9-7450. Evgs. 8:45, 0° to al 50 NO Mats. Wed, & Sat , 2:30. TAX Arrange Theatre Parties for your organiza- tion by telephoning WAtkins 9-2451 NO MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELVIN DOUGLAS hee WATSON 3:80, Mats, Wed., Thurs, and Eve. Bat, at 9:45 A MOVIE THAT MOVES EVERY WORK- £8’S HEART! ENTERTAINING! IN- STRUCTIVE! CONSTRUCTIVE! 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