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

ee DATLY WORKER, NEW YOR K, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934 Page Fiv CHANGE THE WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN EVERAL weeks ago, on one of my batting days for Mike Gold, I commented on the change of policy of The Amer- ican Mercury, and referred to the advance publicity for an article entitled “The Russo-Japan War Myth” by George E. Sokolsky. I charged that Sokolsky was “a paid agent and propagandist for any imperialist country which would pay the price; an ‘expert on the Far East’ who has worked for British, Jap- anese as well as American imperialism.” Moreover, I asserted that Sokolsky “had done the dirty work of British imperialism while writ- ing for the North China News, and was in the employ of the mur- derer of thousands of Chinese workers and peasants—Chiang Kai-shek. Well, Mr. Sokolsky didn’t particularly like my putting these facts into print, for he writes me as follows: “Dear Mr. Garlin: “T have just read your column, ‘Change the World’ of April 13 in which you pay me a lot of compliments of a friendly and comradely chara Nearly everytmhing that you say of me is false and from many standpoints, stupidly false. I am sure you could do much better if you took the trouble to be truthful. “Furthermore, your statement that, Chiang Kai-shek is the mur- derer of thousands of Chinese workers and peasants is also untrue. From your own standpoint you must recognize that both sides of a re- volution fight to win, and in the course of the fighting human beings lose their lives. Your friends Ho-lung and Chu-teh have expended as many lives in China as Chiang Kai-shek has. And both sides will probably continue their destructive activities until one or the other side conquers. If you call Chiang Kai-shek a murderer, you ought to recognize that your own Communist Generals in China are doing just as much murdering. “Of course I do not expect fairness from a Communist because your theory of revolution excludes the bourgeoisie conception of fair play. But it is difficult to forgive misinformation. Respectfully yours, GEORGE FE. SOKOLSKY * h Sides of a Revotution” YR. SOKOLSKY, please pérmit me to ask you a few questions. ‘You write “nearly everything that you say about me is false i from many standpoints, stupidly false.” Just which statements nine ate false, and which ones are ‘stupidly false’ you do not > the trouble to indicate. It seems to me that the hasty, per- story manner in which you dismiss my charges indicates perhaps onsciousness of guilt” on your part. The most illuminating part of your letter, however, is found in ut denial that Chiang Kai-shek is the murderer of thousands of ninese. workers and peasants. For that reveals at once where your wn political sympathies lie, and also shows why my comments angered JOU 80. You write that I must “recognize that both sides of a revolution fight to win, and in the course of the fighting human beings lose their lives. Your friends, Ho-lung and Chu-teh (Red Army generals— §. G.) have expended as many lives in China as Chiang Kai-shek has.” In other words, Lenin was just as culpable as the white guard counter-revolutionary Generals Kolchak and Denikin for the death of thousands of Russian workers and peasants engaged in this struggle. Is thr, your logic? You compare Ho Lung, the heroic leader of the 4th Red Army, with the imperialist puppet and betrayer of the Chinese Revolution, Chiang Kai-shek, You put Chu Teh, the commander of the Red forces in the Central Soviet districts in the same category as the tool of the im- perialists, Chiang Kai-shek, Both are defending different viewpoirits in a revolution—is that it? Mr. Sokolsky, you say that “both sides of a revolution fight to win.” What revolution is Chiang Kai-shek fighting for? You feel, apparently, that the increasingly victorious drive of the Chinese Red Armies, the extension of Soviet China under worker-peasant rule, the division of the land among the exploited Chinese peasants—you feel that all this is simply a different kind of “revolution” than Chiang Kai-shek is fighting for. Especially when you personally know from your contact with the Soong-Chiang dynasty that Chiang Kai-shek is the paid tool of the imperialist bandits in China, slaughtering the Chinese workers and peasants in order to preserve the yoke of foreign domination and exploitation. How Do You Explain? |. pneebleiy does the fact that the Red Army has 350,000 soldiers in the field heroically battling against the million or more men under Chiang Kai-shek make any difference in your logic? How do you explain the almost daily executions of workers, peasants and students—hundreds of them not Communists, but anti-imperialists? How do you explain the execution at one sweep—in Shanghai recently—of 90 anti-imperialist’ students? The Lunghai arsenal in Shanghai has become a human abattoir for the killing of fighters for Chinese freedom. The very stones of this arsenal cry out against the \mperialist butcheries of Chiang Kai-shek. How do you feel abont the slow death of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg in the Nanking dungeon of Chiang Kai-shek for activity/on behalf of Chinese liberation? To you, apparently, this makes no difference in your position of Supreme “impartiality” as a paid propagandist for any of the im- perialists. And lastly, do you deny that you helped instigate the police of Chiang Kai-shek to arrest and murder anti-imperialist fighters through your editorials in the North China Daily News, the organ of British imperialism in China? Is it perhaps a troubled conscience on your own part in aiding the bloody Nanking regime which makes you sensitive? This Stuff About “Fair Play!” vee conclude your letter by saying, “Of course I do not expect fair- ness from a Communist because your theory of revolution excludes the bourgeois conception of fair play.” Here, Mr. Sokolsky, you're trying to put over a slippery one. We Communists believe in real fair play much more than you and your friends. The bourgeoisie, under the pretense of “fair play” of capitalist. democracy, and a lying, servile press, helps to enslave the masses by a ruthless dictatorship of finance capital—for which you, incidentally, are an apologist. “We Communists disdain to conceal our aims,” wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, That's the difference, Mr. Sokol- sky. We declare our class purposes boldly and defiantly. The bour- gecisie, to which you are so loyal, seeks to hide its crimes against the working class by a demagogic facade conveniently and “nobly” desig- nated as “fair play Your ideas of “fair play” is the fair play the foreign bourgeoisie mete out to the Chinese workers and peasants through their extra- territoriality rights in China. It is the “fair play” of the arrogant, slavehoiders of 400,000,000 people; the “fair play” meted out by a fat imperialist in a rickshaw to his sweating, groaning coolie rickshaw puller. : You ¢hd your “noble” plea for fair play with the statement that “St is difficult to forgive misinformation.” But nowhere in your letter have you given specific citations wherein I have been inaccurate. Our own feeling is that the purpose of your letter was not to refute specific charges made against you or to correct alleged “misinforme- tion,” but rather to justify your own dirty work in the service of the enemies of the Chinese workers and peasants. Dear Garlin: “In case,” writes J. L., “Commissioner Rice gives you some more advice on how to utilize water, don’t forget to mention gratitude for the beneficience of the City in allowing millions of workers to enjoy such overcrowded beaches as Coney Island, Brighton Beach, ete—many of which are polluted; and to be thankful that the city allows miles of seashore land to remain undeveloped. Of course, some parts of Long Island have been built up for swimming purposes, and may be used by any man, woman or child who has a car, money for gas, bridge tolls, garage expenses, plus a little extra for the bathhouses. “Othe-wise I think your letter to him was swell.” M, B. A Bad Anthology! | ough and keen understanding of | eral. of Literature by Soviet Writers SOVIET LITERATURE: An An- thology. Edited and transiated by George Reavey and Marc Slonim. New York: Covici- Friede. 488 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by LEON DENNEN WITHIN the last few years, Amer- fen has been flooded with Keep May Day parades and demonstrat AS everyone can see. Their greatest enemy. Our final victory, numerous volumes about the Soviet For One Big Solid Union Union. Some of them have been Chorus: written by men who have a thor- Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, the great social, economic and cul- Solidarity forever, tural upheaval that has teken place i in Russia. The majority of these volumes, however, are the works of incompetents who have very little connection with Russia, the Revolu- tion or the working class in gen- The men all stick together Cn the picket line. This anthology of Soviet litera~ ture belongs to the latter category. Neither George Reavey nor Marc Slonim has succeeded in grasping | or understanding that new creative life that is being forged in Soviet Russia. In vain will one look in | this volume for the younger Soviet | 'writers—the poets, short story | | writers, novelists and critics who |come from the factories, mills and | collective farms, and who are the! |Teal backbone of the new prole-9 | tarian art. : | Where is, for instance, the work of Iilenkov, the author of that ex- | cellent novel, “The Driving Axel,” | that has just been ‘published by the | International Publishers? Where |is the work of such an older writer |a8 Panferov, the author of “Brus- ski"? Where... But then we turn to the section on poetry and dis- cover that this anthology has in general very little to do with lit-| erature and still less with the So- | viet Union. Indeed, most of the | space is devoted not to the prole- | tarian poets of the Soviet Union | (who except for one or two are not | j@vén represented in this volume), | but to those poets who have “in- | fluenced” Soviet poetry. These are | (and I am not kidding): Anna/ Achmatova, a sworn enemy of the | Soviet workers, who having fled to | Paris after the workers seized power |in Russia, having severed herself from the fertile soil that stimulates Chorus: Rare Wave™Scarlet Banner, triumpha For Communism and Liberty! | The sweating millions, | March onward | | Chorns: Chorus: We face the danger—the rebel Chorus: Arise you workers, your chains Come rally ‘round it, come show artistic creation, has become sterile | | and ceased writing altogether; Lev | Gumilev, who was shot by the Bol- | Sheviks for his participation in a ;monarchist plot, and Marina | Tsvetayeva, another enemy of the | Soviet Union. | | eon tee | APPLYING the same “aesthetic” | Party Convention SONGS FOR this page with you when you join the | SOLIDARITY FOREVER workers learned their lesson now The workers know their bosses are We'll fight and fight until we win For the Union makes us str And the boys are fighting fine The women and the girls are all right | No scabs, no threats can stop us As we all march out on time Through One Big Solid Union, THE SCARLET BANNER | Arise you workers, fling to the breezes, The Scarlet Banner, the Scarlet Banner: | Arise you workers fling to the breezes, | Clench your fist for the fray, The Scarlet Banner, triumphantly! | Wave Scarlet. Banner, triumphantly! e Scarlet Banner, triumphantly! the working masses, under the Scarlet Banner The flaming standard of the suffering masses, The Scarlet Banner, triumphantly! Sailors and farmers and factory workers, United under the Scarlet Banner Raise up our emblem against the shirkers. The Scarlet Banner, triumphan‘ One party welded of all the races, We carry onward the Scarlet Banner. The Scarlet Banner, triumphantly! Will vanish under the Scarlet Banner The Scarlet Banner, triumphantly! Read the Revolutionary Press! 700 at Symposium on 8th Communist! MAY DAY INTERNATIONALE. ions tomorrow, PT Arise ye prisoners of starvation Arise you wretched of the earth. For justice thunders condemnation, A better world’s in birth. No more tradition’s chains shall bind us Arise ye slaves, no more in thrall The earth shall rise on new foundations We have been naught, we shall be all Chorus: ‘Tis the final conflict, Let each stand in his place The International Soviet Shall be the human race, (Repeat) RED FRONT Left, left, left, left, The drums, hear the drums’ steady play } Left, left, left, left, Red workers are marching today. | ‘We march, let no one hinder, we will pass. | We carry the flag of the workingciass | In the face of our class enemy, We ask no quarter, they shall not turns us We're standing ready for the final attack, | On our enemy the bourgeoisie. ‘ong. back RED Workers, we greet you, comrades, Ranks unbroken, shoulder to shoulder Strong for the workers’ great day. See, there stand our oppressors, Boldly their weapons they flaunt. Proictarians, prepare for the struggle, RED FRONT, R FRONT! HOLD THE FORT We meet today in freedom’s cause | And raise our voices high! Join our hands in Union strong To battle or to die! Chorns: Hold the fort for we are coming Union men be strong! Side by side we battle onward Victory will come! Look my comrades. see the union Banners waving high, Reenforcements now appearing, Victory is nigh! Chorus: Fierce and long the battle rages But we will not fear, : Help will come whenever needed, Cheer my comrades, cheer! Chorus: TUNING IN| ntly! tly! faces of slavery your bravery, : and Intellectuals, yardstick, Messrs. Reavey and | Slonim, were they to compile an |anthology of American revolution- |ary literature, would include in it such diverse “influences” as Ernest | Hemingway and H. L. Mencken, ‘and keep out, let us say, Jack Con- | “vi roy, author of the “Disinherited,” RRS ee ne Tine noes pioneer in American revolution-| The speakers were Harry Gannes, y writing, or such younger poets) Member of the torial Board of s Viadimir Pillin and Alfred Hays. the Daily Worker; Joseph North, | George Reavey’s failure to feel co-editor of The New Masses; first js | TeVOlutionary weekly; and Mar- ae Gans peraunandey, are 36 | guerite Young, of the Daily Worker | | Washington Bureau. All three Mayakoveki’s dynamic poem 8 | cpneakers reported the Cleveland Rides soe ae fee is Senora a jconvention for the revolutionary Brigades of dodderers spin picees the same old yarns, Comrades, To the barricades! The barricades of hearts and souls! True Communists NEW YORK.— Seven hundred | workers, students and professionals attended the symposium on “The | Eighth Communist Party Conven- tion ond the Intellectuals” held Friday night in Irving Plaza Hall, The New Masses, acted as chair- man. North described the composition of the convention, reported vividly burn their bridges of retreat. the speeches brought from shops, Enough of marching futurists, | factories and farms by the rank- Into the future leap! | and-file delegates, and told of the Compare this with Joseph Free-| fighting program of action adopted man’s translation: | by the convention. They brag, the old men’s brigade, Gannes briefly outlined the Of the same old wearisome goals | Party's analysis of the capitalist | Comrades, crisis, told of the growth of the To the barricades! Barricades of hearts and souls. | He alone is a Communist true | Who burns the bridge of retreat. | Previous convention in 1930 to 25,000 |members at the present time. Gannes showed how the crisis Nas i | affected the middle class the in- ead Hpoagr i Ml ee a alg | tellectuals and concluded by show- Because Soviet literature is des- | ing how writers and other profes- tined to play an important role in | sional workers can actively parti- the development of our own Revo- | cipate in the revolutionary struggle. lutionary literature, there is a cry-| Marguerite Young contrasted the ing need for a real study in the | Republican and Democratic con- English language of the new Soviet | ventions of 1932 which she helped jereative output. The present vol-| report while on the staff of the ume will not do. | Associated Press, with the Com- | munist convention in Cleveland. \“At the Communist convention,” she said, “nearly 92 per cent of the delegates were proletarians. At the Down tools May Ist! Show your will for the overthrow of capital- ism, for a Soviet United States! By BEN FIELD ago, he let it be known they are welcome to visit him. “I'll shoot, But I won't shoot in the legs. I'll shoot to kill.” They haven't bothered him since. He is frail-looking, but his face hardens like a cold chisel. His blue eyes glint. He smiles. “The bank- ers were going to evict me. I had a@ conference with them. They | promised to let me stay on the farm ;if I would work faithfully. I | Work faithfully, but not for them.” | He has kept his promise. One day he is over in New Jersey ad- dressing a bunch of farmers. An- other time in Philadelphia helping the milk drivers with their strike. | Another time south in Pennsylvania helping organize Mennonites. He | has little time to tend to his fields |or cut wood and milk the cows. He says that during the day he sleeps like a tomcat that’s been mousing and catting all night. Or he lies in the grass reading Lamont’s book on Russia with its inscrip- tion to him by Lamont. Reading the paper he'll often turn to the sports section first. He's a base- ball fan and roots for the Athletics. Was a pitcher himself once, a pretty fair spitballer. In the evening oc- casionally he sits on tha porch, The United Farmers Protective Association is one of the most mili- tant of the left wing farm organiza- tions in this country. Its president, Lew Bentzley, about a week ago in Philadelphia turned Secretary of Agriculture Wallace inside out like an old coat to show the guns in the lining to be used against the farmers in the proposed 15 per cent cut in milk production. In Washington at the first, con- ference Lew Bentzley was one of the most active of the farmer dele- gates, elected a member of the Na- tional Committee for Action, His stomach ulcer made him sick as a dog there and he had to be dosing himself with bismuth. That didn’t | stop him, Neither did the deputy sheriff pointing agun at him when the Pennsylvania farmers fought sheriff sale five times at Red until the lew sent out an army it 80 deputies and police to it them, The bullet buried it- in the ground at his feet. “Yes,” David Laurie, young farm or- in describing Red Hill, “Lew a second Eugene Debs.” In the week we spent in Pennsyl- vania we were able to see the U. BREREE wr Granville Hicks, literary editor of| |Party from 8,000 members at. the| Job in the Navy Yard. Didn't buy) F, P. A. in action under the lead- ership of its fearless farmers. Lew comes from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where they used to pick scabs off the hills with guns. Worked as a mechanic on printing presses. During the war had a a single Liberty Bond. And when) the K. K. K. and the American Picking oat mites off his hairy arms and cracking jokes. “The farmers have been treated like the baby brought out for an airing by the nurse. The nurse sa.’ her friend the policeman and got behind a tree with him, Meantime an organ grinder dropped around with his monkey. The monksy took the bottle from the baby and gave his Legion threatened him not so long) tail to the baby to suck. And while | Republican and Democratic con- | ventions, at least 99 per cent of the | delegates were capitalist-minded,” | The highlight of the meeting was the appearance of Enlah Gray, the niece of Ralph Gray, | Negro leader of the Sharecrop- pers’ Union murdered in Alabama | by thugs in the hire of the land- | lords, She had been a delegfiate to the Communist Party convention, and roused the audience to cheers when she said it “was wonderful ;to see how the entire and Negro | Workers cooperated so good together |at the convention.” Comrade Gray described the| 7:00 P. M.-WEAP—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Talk—Pord Prick | WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch | WABC—Jones Orchestra 7:18-WEAF-—Gene and Glenn—-Sketeh WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Baby Rose Marie, Songs WABC—Just Plain Bill—-Sketch 1:30-WEAF-—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio | WOR—Maverick Jim—Sketch WJZ—George Gershwin, Piano WABC—Armbruster Orch; Jimmy | Kemper, Songs | 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch | WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Organ | WAEC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Dramatic Sketch WOR—Jones and Hare, Songs; Orch. WJZ—Garber Orchestra | WABC—Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs | 8.15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAP—Richard Crooks, Tenor | | PIERRE Degeyter Club Membership meet- jing, 8:30 p.m. Instructions for May Day. | Mass singing. LAST of series on History of Soviet | Russia, “The New Economic Policy, and | |the Five Yoar Plan.” by Theodore Bayer, at Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby | Ave. Adm. free, 8 p.m. Auspices Williams- burg Br. F.8.U. | SPEOIAL Membership Meeting, Browns- | | ville Br. F.G.U., at 120 Glenmore Avenue, | |Last arrangement for May Day Celebra- Baritone; | conditions of terror under which} | Communist organizers ere working| Bs linda pag vIZ—Bi: a‘ | | in the South, and told of the growth| Cr dad of the Sha: | WABC—Bing Crosby, Songs recroppers Union, which! 5.45 wsz—Basebell Babe Ruth now has 6,000 members. | 9:00-WEAP—Gypstes Orchestra; Frank Parker, Tenor | WOR—To Be Annourced | i WJZ—Minstrel Show | WHAT’S ON WABC—Rosa Ponselle, Soprano if 9:15-\WOR—Jack Arthur, Baritone ne 9:30-WEAF—Ship of Joy; Music | | WOR—Success—Harry H. Balkin | Monday WJZ—Pasternack Orchestra; Michel Rosenker, Violin WABC-—Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Rapee Orch.; Henrietta Schumann, | Piano; Emile Boreo, Comedian; | Sketch, With Mady Christians | | 9:48-WOR--New York Philharmonic So- ciety Dinner and Concert, Hotel | Waldorf-Astoria | 10:00-WEAF—Eastman Orchestra; Lullaby Lady: Gene Arnold, Narrator ‘WJZ—Symphony Orchestra, Walter | Damrosch, Conductor | 10:30-WEAF—Mother's Day Stamp—Post- | master General James A. Farley WABC—Edward Nell Jr., | The dictatorship of the prole- Lillian Roth, Songs | tarlat must be a State that em- | 10:45-WEAF—Mildred Dilling, Harp hodies a new kind of democracy, yee | for the proletarians and the dis- | 11:00-wEAF—News: Mary Courtland, Songs Possessed; and a new kind of Wits een, Moonbeams Trio | dictatorship, against the bour- ’ rom Manila; Acceptance of { Independence Bill by Philippine gecisio—Lenin, Legislature i | | them to you? No, they! handed them out only to certain/| farmers. Why was this done? This | phodaseted to tie our hands in the | THERE is a meeting at Honey-|sht against the new milk agree-) i ment. There was testimony at the! |» brook, 50 miles off to organize hearing for this milk agreement.| | a new local of the U. F. P. A e | re epdaliygs | But from whom? Ninety-nine per | meeting is in the village firehouse.’ cent from the dealers.” | | It takes the Mennonite farmers a| long time to pluck up courage to| Lew wears the only good suit he |go inside. We hang out of the| has—old and rusty that his wife, window and look down at them in| Theresa, ironed for him early in the street. A fat business man|the day. He is clean shaven. As |harangues them. “Trim your lamps he talks he waiks up and down in |and your cup will be full of oil,| front of the farmers. The farmers | You farmers are not them that’s| are hunched over as if they are| | got the lamp trimmed and so you) Shelling something into hidden pans are left in the cold.” Lew cocks) With their big hands. | his ear. “That tub of guts may, “When they asked at the hearing | try to make trouble. I'll trim him) Who was against the new milk code, | if he does.” | farmer after farmer testified against | They sit in the beck biiakine and the other a banker who aso ek tises. syne I aeakiny owns a pleasure farm,” | farmers or a mixed group?” More|,, TH® Village banker had gotten | than half raise hands to show they! the firehouse for the meeting. This| ne doesn’t cut ice with Lew. | are farmers. Lew looks over some | . | of the merchants and then goes on: ,, WHY there was so much opposi- | “How many of you farmers know) tion to the code that the milk deal- “about the milk ment?” None &s, the small milk dealers, offered | jerks up a eee es tee TRE ‘of| Some of us farmers high as $100 a! you farmers worked to draw it up?| 4a¥ to stay longer at the hearing. None. Then who did sweat over) it? The milk trusts and ae hench- | tetstate leaders want us to deal with men, the leaders of the Interstate) the small dealers, get us off our | Milk Producers, The Interstate held| ‘Tack and harpoon us. They say meetings behind closed doors three! these are the small dealers and they | days before the hearing. The In- 2t¢ our friends. Are they? They're terstate leaders added five to seven fighting the code because it hurts amendments to the agreement and, them. Give them a chance to build | the farmer sucks the tail, the In-' hand terstate and other cooperatives have! |@ fling with the government.” | . And some of our farmers and In- To whom did they Companies. (To be continued) | to go round. hand the few they had, Did they! oy X ‘Sunday |—but do not know | who attach themselves to any | Pleasant economics Jew-Baiting Brings Cash at “Silver Shirt” Meet By JOHN L. SPIVAK LOS ANGELES.—The Sil- ver Shirts meet in the I. 0. 0. F. hall at Santa Monica and Oxford Aves., usually every night. The hall, capable of holding over 1,000 is well filled. On some occa to overflowing with a ions it is filled respecta middle class type. They are wel dressed; their wives look well fed and contented. There is an air about them of gentility sought after but not quite attained Most of them are young or middle aged. A good portion are retired farmers, small business men and their wives. They had “made their pile’ and had re’ Angeles to live out their the sunshine without a their minds. T' is the class which, for lack of anything to do in their retired hours, takes up spiritualism, Christian Science j Seances and other fine and occult j arts. Then there is the class of middle aged worker who had earned a good salary out of which he had been able to save; he owns or owned his own home. Others have lost their jobs due to the depression or had their salaries so drastically re- duced that they are blindly furious particularly at what. The third grouping are just the plain nuts one finds everywhere and all kinds of movements These people are religious. Their faith has been severely shaken by the past five years. They know that something terrific has hap- pened; they know there is a depres- sion, but what caused it, or who or what is to blame or what to do about it they do not know. Being somewhat unbalanced with their spiritualism, seances and general unhappiness they are an easy mark for the man who comes along with a@ formula which combines the things they are used to and the things they hope for: a touch of religion (private talks with God by the national leader); a touch of (no taxes, no foreclosures); and a touch of the % . The Shirt tion of the ritual, the pa stone dedication by politician, the demagogic -election iberally the mysticism of whole mee a the Stars and and L or the cro: their own side of t dishing The There offered Each s explain against place; are who keep: otk simple econ culated to appeal t desire similar to put munists tional thr for good mea Almost in the Jew is heid responsible for everything that happens and the audience nods its collective head in appreciation of the “facts.” The talks are sometimes inflam- mable. They have to be to make the collection large. Phrases like “mer- ciless killings,” “bloody 4 fills the hall. Advice like ‘ call every Jew you meet a kyke—be patient, stand solid. await The Day” is common f When they ha been filled this the customary procedure (used only at this particular meeting so far as I was able to ascertain) is to switch off all the lights for five minutes to “give you a chance to mediate on w ou will do when |The Day arrives.” Stirring scene from “Broken Shoes,” new Soviet film, which opens at the Acme ,14th St. and Union Square, this Saturday, the picture is in Nazi Germany. Theatre Guild To Present “Jig Saw” This Evening “Jig Saw,” a comedy by Dawn Powell, will be offered this evening by the Theatre Guild as its sixth and final production of the season lat the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. | Leading players in the cast include Ernest Truex, Spring Byington, Fliot | Cabot, Cora Witherspoon, Gertrude | Flynn, Shepperd Strudwick and Charles Richman. “The Lady of the Sea,” by Hen- rik Ibsen, will be revived at the Little Theatre on Tuesday night | with Mary Hone in the title role. | Others in the cast inlude Moffat Johnston, Richard Whorf, Rose Keane, and Roman Bohnen, “Love Kills,” a new play by Lida Lublenski Ehriich, is scheduled to open on Tuesday evening at the Forrest Theatre. Vivienne Giesen, Harry Joyner head the cast. Grethen Damrosch’s new play. night. The players include Percy Waram, Joanna Roos, Jean Adair and Esther Dale. “The Chocolate Soldier,” an ope- \retta with music by Oscar Strauss | Robinson, also “Love Birds and a libretto based ‘on Shaw's The locale of |“Arms and the Man,” will be revived lon Wednesday evening at the St jJames Theatre by the Knickers |bocker Light Opera Company. The | company is headed by Charles Pur- |cell, Bernice Claire, Detmar Poppen jand Fritzi von Busing. | Gilbert and Sullivan Group | To Offer “Iolanthe” Tonight | “Iolanthe” will be offered this | evening at the Majestic Theatre as ithe fourth of the Gilbert and Sulli- |van operettas to be presented by \the former troupe of Aborn players. Frederic Persson, William Danforth, Vera Ross, Roy Cropper, : |“One Is Guilty” At The | Jefferson Theatre | “One Is Guilty,” with Ralph Bel- |lamy and Shirley Grey, is now |showing at the Jefferson Theatre. | Marion Green, Bram Nossen and|The same program includes “I Like |It That Way” with Roger Pryor and - |Gloria Stuart, Tuesday and Wednes- | “Picnic,” will have its premiere at | day the program will have “Palooka” | the National Theatre on Wednesday | with Jimmy Durante and Lupe Velea |and “Lazy River” with Jean Parker jand Robert Young. On Thursday land Friday the Jefferson will offer \“Dark Hazard” with Edward G. with Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts. AMUSE MENTS — —2 Great Soviet Features!— AMKINO’S Film Masterpiece “Superior to Famous ‘Road to Life’ —N, ¥. Times, BROKEN A Soviet Talkie. English Titles Soviet News Extraordinary! George Dimitroff, Pope and Tanef, acnuitted in Leipzig Trial, arrive in Moscow--Red Arms parades in Red Square in honor of 17th Congress of Communist Party, ete. he 14th Street ACME THEA. |g onion so. — ‘¥ MUSIC HALL—— Fo RADIO, Clan Se lace of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M—Ond Big Week PStaNy. UP ” with and CHEER Warner Baxter & Madge Evans zs an Elaborate MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW 0 ith St. & | Ny, RKO Jefferson ih St. & | Now | THE THEATRE GUILD presents Opening Tonight at 8:20 Sharp | JIGSAW | A comedy by DAWN POWELL ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON | |) ETHEL BARRYMORE | || Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway | |] Evas. 8:30, Mat. Thur. and Sat. 2:30 4 EUGENE O'NEILL Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN |] MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play || “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with BELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN spay Thea., 524 St,, W. of Biway ALVIN ey.s.2oMats.thur.asat.s20 | | | PETERS and GEORGE SKLAR g drama of Negro and white rs on the docks of New Orleans CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. fives. 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE said they didn't have enough copies| UP 2nd they'll rob you like the big/ |" ROGER PRYOR and GLORIA STUART ‘in “I Like It That Way” Added Feature:—“ONE IS GUILTY" with) | RALPH BELLAMY and SHIRLEY GREY BNe-45e-BOe-F5e-$1.00 & $1.50. No Tax Ba For information on benefits Phone Wat. 9-2451 “GLADYS — RAYMOND- ee aa "ADRIENNE Gl RT & SULLIV AN STAR! COOPER ALL . MASSEY See ee eee uae | THE SHINING HOUR Week of Ma: “PATIENCE” BOOTH THEATRE, W. 48th St. Eves. 8:4¢ Matinees: Thursday & Saturday 2:4 | MAIESTIC THEA... W. 48th &t., ves. 8:20. 500 to $2.00, Mats. Wed a Sat. 50c to $1.50