The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1934, Page 5

AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934 |Five Day Bazaar and |Festival Opens With Fine Program Tonight} Groucho Marx on Mooney Pretentiousness and USSR, and Political Prisoners Sperficiality Mark Mumford’ s New Book TECHNICS AND CIVILIZ: by Lewis Mumford. New York: Py CHANGE ——THE-— “WORLD! ‘By MICHAEL GOLD | T WAS not to be expected that American recognition of the Soviet Union would lessen the volume of filth and lies and war-hate propaganda flung at it by its enemies here. Indeed, one might have counted on a new intensified NEW YORK.—The entire xan: | hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., will be taken over for the Five-Day Fes- tival and Bazaar which opens to-/} night with Earl Browder, General | Secretary of the Communist Party, as speaker, and will continue through | Sunday night. | Arranged by the New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party, the | proceeds of the Festival and Ba-| zaar will go towards extending the | influence of the Communist Party and intensifying the struggle against hunger, fascism and war. In addition to dance music by the | Red Star Syncopators, who will play | By EMANUEL EISENBERG '1O MANY people have failed to find more than meaningless lunacy in the cutting-up of the famous Marx Brothers that it was with a certain amount of misgiving that I went up to see Groucho Marx at his home. The motive of the visit was to ask him to appear at the June Jamboree which the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners will hold on June 1 at the Re- naissance Ballroom at 138th St, and “It’s without question the best propaganda play I've seen in my life,” said Groucho. “When I thought of taking the long trek down to Fourteenth Street, I packed a suitcase full of clothes and took a Harcourt-Brace and Co. 495 pp. couple of magazines along, because it’s a long time 20. ° . | since I ventured below Times Square for dramatic fare. The way I feel now is that I'd gla have gone to California, or anywhere equally distant, to see it. For a while I thought it ought to come up town so that more people could come to see it— Reviewed by barrage by fascists, and their allies, the social-fascists. Thus did it |eyery night, the opening night will | c.., but, on second thought let it stay at the Civic. Let é happen in England, France, Germany and other countries. Recogni- | feature Andre Cibulski, who will Pa ia ths Pekin | people make the trip there; it’s worth it Ra mee ee tion stirred the socialist leaders and czarist officers to new intrigues. | sing American and Soviet songs, the i aon tae f iti 4 a Biat . | Commenting on the Soviet Union, he said: “You | ford’s sonorous style Gnashing their teeth with baffled rage at this new evidence of Soviet | Red Dance Group, the Kotkin Trio ampaign Recognition of the Status know, that’s a wonderful country they have there. | evaluate the effects of th success, they filled the press with their 17-year-old inventions. Sees BOL Se Sree Ae tie, | Everybody expected it to fail. But it’s been going on on civilization Ta. Groucho, whose actual name is Julius, | for something like sixteen years now—so I guess Since the 10th c and the state of morals that | Every one of the old boogie-men were revived, and trotted out on the stage, dressed in new rhetorical clothes. Every strike and mass-action in the country involved was blamed A restaurant will be open every | day at which workers can get good | foods at proletarian prices. A large from among bears little resemblance to his stage per- sonality. His quiet voice, graying hair the present director and their opponents.” it’s a. success! My brother Harpo was there a fev months ago at the request of the government and assortment of unusual articles are |#Nd complete seriousness remind you in he came back with great reports. You know, they ry. t . on the new Sovict ambassador. We haven't yet heard this one in | ready for sale no way of the energetic clown we all GROUCHO | have no unemployment there at all. _ wa as ee iernadt ce hachian d Heation ‘ oe America, but who knows? know. He accepted the invitation to ap- could say the same here.” through three periods: the eotech- | nist to maintain his | | pear at the Jamboree immediately and eagerly. * . . nic, which We have, however, been seeing within the past month a stir among the preparatory period | lass utopianism, leads the intellectuals in the direction of a new anti-Soviet campaign. Stage and Sereen I asked if he knew the work of the committee. HAM FISH WELL NAMED FSSY & : gies and which iS|}to slight the pro: peared, Ne | He seemed remarkably well informed. characterized by the use of water | ments of the Soviet Unio! ray oe a sy on aay oegar Hin lady pikiersdlad ak Ue eo O’Neill’s “Ah, Wild pe ere * E PAUSED a while. “This Ham Fish,” said |and wood; the paleotechnic, the chepbiGe tea Ee ee eae eill’s » erness!” | IMP’ ME : Groucho laconically. “He's well x wey Which coal and iron the ba titer’ tha dictatorehin Gerais Kerensky liberal, but a Czarist at heart, who was forced to “escape from To Close At Guild June 2) MOONEY 'RISONMENT AN OUTRAGE think? And do you remember ke reetune tier of production; and the recent pe- | proletariat. ak book replet te wit th the Soviets,” and who tells her harrowing tale at great length. Another | | “[VE ALWAYS considered the imprisonment of | in Washington by the Russian Embassy? That was | ri’ tet Ky ules nd trivialities, “he book is by a British imperialist who also assumed the useful liberal | Eugene O'Neill's comedy, “Ah, Tom Mooney an outrage,” he said. “There’s ab- | funny, Everybody was amazed to find the Soviets Leese 3 a few brief par- mask to do his anti-Soviet work. | Wilderness!”, in which George M.| solutely no question in my mind that he’s innocent; i # on the Soviet Union and | clean-shaven, that they didn’t carry daggers and the science: The third book is by that miserable wreck of a once honest, gifted | Cohan plays the leading role, will) I've always thought so, If it wasn't for political rked by condescending 4 5 didn’t eat the guests for dinner like a lot of canni- ocial This and revolutionary mind, Max Eastman. See eee ee asia aa reasons, he would have been released years ago.” pals. Many of the American guests thought their ntimately r soak ss . * . . | company will begin an extended tour| _ HS acquaintance with the case of the Scottsboro | pockets were going to be picked. What happened ral can an Pebpac construc- A “Great” Newspaper |on September 28, opening in Provi-| Povs seemed equally full; be was intensely eloquent | was that the Russians had no faith in depositing |in the manner of a Pais: | dence. on the subject.. “The battle of the Communists for | their money in shaky American banks and carried it | terialist, Mumford 188 Bone tn ae histor of civil TY, THE New York Times, that important organ of big business, which, | “The Shining Hour,” the a | the lives of those boys is one that will be taught in | around in wallets instead!” tae praises them ail be: vata ab ees a9 ey oe ae “tke George Creel’s war-propaganda bureau, fittingly enough gets | Winter play which closes at the! Soviet America as the most inspiring and courageous | Groucho now ventured on the subject of political | tion of the book Le baal OS OLNEY US Henares some its work done by “socialists,” there appeared last Sunday a re- | Booth Hee Saturday nipDh will give! battle ever fought. It will be a red-letter day on the | prisoners and the difficulty they have in getting | Historical mate “Instead of elaborating upon the view of two of these books. Fuday tor See Renaie or tear nleae calendar. It will be what Bunker Hill is to the | radical literature admitted to them. Here he began Touts octet Oe a cats, bug | Phenomenal realization in a little The tone of the review was the usual gloating: here at last was a | modern text books.” ivi i 5 shen 2. entation suggests, Dut! more than a decade of plans which Relief Fund. | 4 3 is to conceive a fantasy typical of some of his screen |which have not previously been | canitalist technicians have been ad- chance to fire one’s rifle against the common enemy. “The Dark Land of the Soviets,” this review is headed, in a big “Furnished Rooms,” which was| comedies. readily available in English. vocating in vain for almost a half- CAN’T WISECRACK ON SCOTTSBORO ) announced to open this week, will) “Prisons, you know, are more likely to be Soviet- Supplanting Marx is a very big | century, he negates even his ca splash over the first page of the literary section. nee coe 50 NOR ror eae ee oa ERE Groucho looked up from his floor-bound | ized before anything else: the men are already to- Reinet wae — bei hiya _bY| ual mention of Soviet adi ; The reviewer, of course, accepts the books at their face value. iS ee i icki Cummings gaze and raised his quiet voice @ little. | gether and have the same fecling of resentment | ee nat an eclectic ee 8 lraisirig bogies of “the w When a pro-Soviet book appears, these reviewers check every typo- | hea le cast. a * 4 | and rebell gai } confused middle-ciass look. le mect ade Sune Eat fi pea PC hase I suppose you'd like me to work in a wisecrack Tebellion against the people on top. I can see | interpretations are largely an elab- rape eer graphical slip carefully, are properly skeptical and sybilline before eac! Glaréhee HanAbaN or two through all this,” he said. “Well, Td like | it now. People everywhere will try to break into |oration of the views of the Mavi DeALL Seen fact. But an anti-Soviet book is swallowed gratefully in a lump, the to; but I’m sorry; I can’t. All this méans too much | Prisons in order to share the life there. Anybody | lish reformist, Patrick Geddes, b Pea? mechani a ly way a police dog guips his meat. : , to me. Look at that whole business down South, | Who doesn’t behave will be sent out of prison into [tered by ideas borrowed from Veb- d bonanza farming One expects this, since these people are partisans of capitalism, The Negroes have been submitting passively to the general world. It'll be a jolly time.” len, Sombart and Max Weber. Here| “phe author comments that “Sci- 4 and not Communism. One of the signs of the deepening political crisis abuse for almost a hundred years. Fighting is the P ss Gs aa ata ee etre peatie s ee Je lence at the Crossroads,” the only = is i 7 4 PP | wi Y 7.8.8. wh ites a Saar eo ee Tee Jonmty deel the need only thing that can change the situation; fight and GROUCHO MARX A WORKER |tion of the degrading effects of ma- | WOK on the USSR. which he cites , Biotest ROUCHO MARX is of working ciass origin: his | Chines upon the working class un- | conection of ‘Suggestive, if teasing- The reviewer in the New York Evening Post, for example, stated frankly that he preferred the “kind, orderly” world of capitalism to that of “Communist tyranny.” In the daily New York Times Mr, Cham- berlain stated bluntly that if these facts about the Soviet were true, |der capitalism and in the author's remarks that “Western society is re- | lapsing at critical points into pre- civilized modes of thought, feeling |and action because it has acqui- ‘And the Negroes aren’t the only ones suffering there. What is the white woman in the South—or, for that matter, anywhere in the United States— but a kind of serf, a hired decoration? It seems to ly obscure, papers on Communism and Marxism and modern science.” f that book had “teased” him to think through some of his own ob- father was an East Side tailor and his mother sewed in sweatshops. Once Groucho worked with @ vaudeville troupe called the Leroy Trio; he re- ceived $5 a week for soprano singing (he was then and they seemed to be true, then American Communists had no cause me that until women here are thorou; 1 scurities from a consistently work- : ei ighly emanci- 13). Another time, stranded, he took a job driv esced too easily in the dehumaniza- | ing clas t of view, his work to complain of the persecution of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, pated as they are in Russia, and accepted on a full | i pple Creche {HOR of society through capitalist | Ost nave been a contribution, and @ grocery wagon between Victor and Cripple Creek in Colorado at $3 a week. Today he is one of the most diverting entertainers in America. He has never forgotten his origin—and his nonsense con- tains, as many have felt, considerable satire and passionate thrusts at contemporary society. “T'll be seeing you at the June Jamboree to help the campaign—with moustache, cigar and all,” he said in parting. and other martyrs of capitalism. jexploitation and military conquest.” . . | He sees that capitalism, which once played an important part i velopment of technics, now |the chief obstacle to its improve- ment. So Mumford argues that capital- | ism must go. But he makes haste to assure his readers that they should not associate him with th |horrible Bolsheviks. He is not afraid -|of the term Communism. No, sir! level with men, their position must go on record as one of our major oppressions in America.” not that of a dilletante beyond his depth. . . Honest Confession of a Fascist Sender Garlin Speaks in Chicago Tonight; Milwaukee Thursday CHICAGO. — Sender Garlin, feature editor of the Daily Work- er, will speak here tonight on “Do THRILLED BY “STEVEDORE” From discussion of Scottsboro and the Negro situ- ation, talk naturally shifted to “Stevedore,” the thrilling protest drama playing to packed houses at the Civic Repertory Theatre. UT to repeat, we do not expect Communist partisanship from re- viewers in the capitalist press. We do not expect them to go to the trouble of checking up and exposing anti-Soviet lies. It is only fitting that they accept these lies as new weapons in the holy war against the socialism they dislike. If they would only say they were partisans, however. This is the | thing that gags one, this pretense to super-human neutrality so often But he italicizes his qualifying ex- | y, What You Read,” at written into their prose. | Mumford, Lozowick & & AD. Da With the Shoek "Tencr e planation that “Communism as i cet ae ie Dental Arts The Sunday Times reviewer quotes a paragraph out of the British | | Ba: d A s y. p used -here does not-imply the par- Bide 186 No. Wabash Ave., under journalist’s book that gives the whole show away. How could Mr. Adams r im ymposium on | ticular ee ty ideology, the | PR “auspices of the John Reed read and print such a statement, and then fail to understand all its |Art at J. R. C. Tonight f h W Kk L b. Th Wy | messianic absolutism and the nar-| Giiy He will speak on the same implications? Who answers Cornelius Vander- | J . e iv) t e orKers a eatre pee militaristic tactics to which subject Thursday night in Mil- “Not,” Wraithby answered (speaking to a Russian Communist), “because they’re starving: or because they live in filthy nearness to each other; or because their lives are dull and unhappy; or because of the din of monotonous, shoddy propaganda; or because the bosses | are megalomaniac fools and the rest terrorized into imbecility; or be- cause you like it. In its very texture there is something absurd and | bilt, Jr. and others in “Hitler's | Reign of Terror,” now playing at the Acme Theatre, 14th Street and | Union Square. \« | | “Channel Crossing” at 55th NEW YORK.—A symposium on the “Leftward Trend in Contempo- rary Art” will take place tonight, | | Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave. Jat 8:30 pm, at the John Reed| By PETER MARTIN _ | The Shock Troupe of the Work- | | ers’ Laboratory Theatre strives to| be an actual example of what the | living revolutionary theatre of to- day should be; it does hot wait for ~~ Yatre of the Revolution. Several were forced to leave school at an| early age, while some have attende college; one, in fact, has attended | no less than six colleges. have traveled extensively in the | the official Communist parties usu- ally cling, nor does it imply ish imitation of the politic: ods and social institutions of So- viet Russia, however admirable So- Three | | viet courage and discipline may be.” He wants instead, a polite, re- {most of which were the stock in waukee, at the John Reed Club, 312 W. State Street. Radamsky Cables News of Musical Festival a trivial and barbarous. Every stale idea vomited up again. Everything Street Playhouse Today The speakers include Lewis Mum- | the audience to come to it, but goes | an exalt et ee ee Seer Hee aa ate lose Opening in Leningrad that you believe in and that I hate. All the dingy hopes that echoed “Channel Crossing,” the English ford, well-known critic and author | out and seeks its audience in the | rine. ”|Bellamy, supplemented by all the and re-echoed over Europe for a century and now are spent. The poor | film which was recently awarded a|of “The Brown Decade” and Ltnsuncesyaors Sete: eee | ‘As a whole the Shock Troupe con- |T@tionalization schemes now being| NEW YORK.—The following ra- little frightened soul of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is what I | prize for being one of the best films| “Technics and Civilization,” who 4s|theatre art i |stitutes a vital group developing | advocated by capitalist planners,|diogram from Leningrad was Te- ceived today from Sergei Radam- despise. Not its works.” of the year in England, will have! speaking at the John Reed Club! The Workers’ Laborato |along many lines which converge ry Theatre | 7 no- 7 ti hi s tenor, This is the true core of the book, and of the other books. It is the ee American premiere today at the! 4. the ‘first time; Louis Lozowick, | has two part-time production units | 9¢ the point of effective revolution- | eer) of the now soegoeteh vocation | BEY, distinguished Rides ihe mise hich th vie ernment is founded that thi 55th Street Playhouse. The cast is], i lin addition to the Shock T ary activity, and unlike the actors |T@ts: conversion of energy who has sung exte’ 9 ne SERS IRA LUG BO TiRc ae varia ar te counued tbe CEES DOORS | aed by Matheson Lang. Con-| lithographic artist and the author | nd, ation i ye pias one ot the bourgeois stage with a job|Pe increased, production econo- | working class audiences in this hate with all the loathing of their fascist souls. stance Cummings, Anthony Bushell|of a number of books and articles thecretically' the eaiae Nee oticee and a “career” they have a grasp mized, consumption normalized and | country: : aR They hate the very idea of a working class government in the | on art from the Marxian viewpoint; | of the realities behind their theatre |Creation socialized. He observes| “First musical festival ever hel world. They hate the abolition of the private profit system. They hate the socialization of land and factories for the good of the masses. They hate the masses, and want some kind of eternal assurance of what Mussolini calls the “hierarchies,” a world where there will always be slaves and masters, exploiters and exploited. |and Nigel Bruce. Paul Muni, who recently returned |from his trip to Soviet Russia, will be starred in a film with a Russian background. “Border Town,” his new film for Warner Bros., will be released soon. and Phil Bard, cartoonist for the New Masses and Dalty Worker, who recently completed a series of mu- rals for the Workers Center. Hugo Gellert, author of “Capital in Lith- Troupe’s, they are prevented by their very nature from being ae to meet fully the requirements of | a real emergency unit. Conse- quently their best use is as dra-| matic companies which perform at | |art which enables them to correlate | that to achieve these ends a their work to the broad historical | vision” of the moral, legal and po- process of which they are a part. How does the Shock Troupe spend a day? litical basis of the productive sys: tem is necessary, and so he declari {himself in favor of “revolution.” Again don’t misunderstand him. He “res | in Russia onened tonight. Hall 3,000 overfilled. Thousands turned away. Among foreign visitors 200 mi cians, writers journalists critics, representing 14 countries. Greek Conductor Mitropolose led Philhar- Not the shortcomings, mistakes or crude experiments of the Soviet |" «qranhatten Melodrama,” with | o™@PBS:” Will Renee ars He walle g jaureeytp get | ‘Gan greene bere ee rants | safely repudiates the use of “militar-| monic in Borodin Second _ Sym- is what tortures them, It is the IDRA, as this Britisher confesses with |Clark Gable, William Powell and ionary | theatre at about’ ten o'clock, OS os oe iNet nt eared [ala lara veya deel an. the passion of a Goebbels. Myrna Loy, is now showing at WHAT’S ON message and leave a clear and def- | another half hour is spent in clean- pases ” “RADAMSKY.” | A land where a British gentleman can no longer harry his menials, or look down on Negroes and other native races. A land where a Rus- sian intelectual lady can no ionger sigh over Tschaikovsky while out- side the door millions of peesants are flogged and starved by the Czar- Loew’s State. Calloway and his or- chestra is the stage headline. The Palace Theatre is showing “Change of Heart,” with Janet Gay- nor and Charles Farrell in the lead- REMEMBER June 9. Daily Worker Day and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Moun- tain. Glorious time. Get your ticket now On sale at all Workers Bookshops. jand thorough immersion in revolu- inite picture of the revolutionary situation. But since they are mani- festly incapable of the flexibility tionary activity which the living ing the theatre. Then daily classes begin; the subjects studied are cur- rent politics, dialectical materialism, make-up, technique of acting and bio-mechanics, and are given by the jof the “Communists, will be able to AMUSEMENTS ist brutes who protect her in her soulftlness. That’s what poisons the very soul of these people—the coming of world socialism, of which the Soviet land is the first victory. Tf you hate such an idea as keenly as does this shabby British gen- tleman-journalist, you must hate its works, you are even prevented from seeing them clearly, or reporting them truthfully and fairly. * . * * Laughter in Which Hell? New York? |comrades in the Troupe most de- | veloped in the respective subjects. | | At one o'clock the daily rehearsal | s| of material in repertory begins; new | material is whipped into shape and | the songs, skits and plays to be per- | formed during the week are gone} jover and over in an attempt to} achieve as perfect a performance as | | Possible. Frequently these afternoon | revolutionary theatre demands—the members having other obligations such as supporting or helping t ward the support of their famili |—the burden of carrying the fight kt, at deta Rese Club, 430 Sixth Ave., Me Ue ne Sieerg iis Sheng Oe ee ae | flict, falls upon the Shock Troupe THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL Prisoners | ‘00 . in the U. 8. Speaker, Nat Bruce at Sacco.|_ The Shock Troupe lives collec- Vanzetti Br. I, L. D., 792 E. Tremont Ave.| tively so that it may work better ing roles. Vie Oliver heads the stage show. Reliance Pictures announces that “Count of Monte Cristo’ is now be- ing screened at the West Coast studios. Robert Donat and Elissa Landi are’starred in the film. Only New York Showing! CLARENCE HATHAWAY | ANSWERS CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR., AND OTHERS IN “Hitler’s Reign Of Terror” COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS and LIBERALS UNITE TO FIGHT FASCISM! Wednesday JOHN REED CLUB SCHOOL OF ART. Symposium on the “Leftward Trend in Contemporary Art.” Lewis Mumford, Louir Lozowick, Phil Bard. Hugo Gellert, chair- ; N Kaeo eo anes |collectively, and it is supported by| rehearsals may be suspended be- | Special added] y C i in NEW TT IS interesting to note that the Times reviewer comments on the [ | NING J ‘AL be SUGARMAN. speaks on \“Unem-| i ae i pport vy Eateries os aah bopkings: pecial ibeated May Day Celebration YORK Britisher's paragraph as follows: loyment- Ite Gatses und Remedies” ai|% Small subsidy from the Workers’ | caus Seney e | EET and caoniawiers:!Ah Sha. isuahter in’ hell Washington Heights Workers Genter, 4046 | Laboratory Theatre, and by ‘volun- | because of appearances at demon- ACME THEATRE Lee STREET an JAS gta te Ls cea > Broadway, Room 2, 8:30 p.m. tary contributions from interested |strations and mass meetings. At ION SQUARE He approves intensely, in short, not recognizing that the Britisher of the Week Discussion, ‘What | individuals. The amount and the|four o'clock there is individual re- —— THE THEATRE UNION Presents — )y ‘ 7:00—WEAF—Baseball Re: : THE THEATRE GUILD presents— has attacked not only Communism, but the very idea of democracy | "Wor sports Resume Ford Prick | 1, TRE Meaning Behind Rare’? wine uts | quality of the personal sacrifices of | hearsal, wherein the comrades study || The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit | | G AW. which the Times is allegedly devoted to upholding. WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch Shaw at 1401 Jerome Ave. corner 1’ i each member of the Troupe need | their shortcomings and try to im- A ibaa tL Moat ee WABC—Vera Van, Songs t., 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. Auspices: Mt.| not be gone into here; ft is enough | prove their technique and broaden | 7 UEX— 7 For what are these “stale ideas,” and “these dingy hopes that have echoed and re-echoed over Europe for a century?” and that now are being put into effect in the Soviet Union? ; They are the ideas of democracy, of course; the ideas of Shelley, ; Byron, and William Hazlitt, of Mazzini and Garibaldi, the ideas that were latent in the French Revolution, the American Revolution of Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson, the revolts of 1848 and 1870. The political and economic rule of the great masses of humanity, and for them; as against the rule of a small minority of bankers and industrialists and their intellectual courtiers. ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Evgs. 6:40. Mat. Thur. and Sat. 2:40 St., Eden Br. F.6.U. DR. REUBEN YOUNG, of the Interna- tional Professional Association for Social Insurance, speaks on “Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill” at Henri Barbusse Br. LL.D., 884 Columbia Ave. near 103rd St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 5c. WORKING Women’s Council, Local 21, meets every Wednesday night, 261 Schen- ectady Ave., Brooklyn. Comrade Samuels, guest speaker, will speak on “Organizing the Negro Woman.” All invited—no ad- mission, OPEN FORUM on 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—sketch WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Result. of Poll on Roosevelt Policies; Sports High Spots WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Gota Ljungberg, Soprano WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WJZ—Sketch, with Irene Rich WABC—Armbruster Orchestra 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—True Stories of the Sea— Sketch WZ—Sketch—Max Baer, Boxer WABC—Borke Carter, Commentator sievedora | CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. | Sves. 8:45, Mats, Tues. & Sat. 2:45 | 30c-40c-60e-750-$1.00 & $1.50, No Tax GILBERT & SULLIVAN #845 “THE MIKADO” MAJESTIC THEA., W. 44th St.. eves. 8:30, 50c to $2.00. Mats. Wed & Sat. 50c to $1.50 to say that they often do not get enough to eat, and that they are in need of clothing. Of the nine members only two are native New Yorkers; one is a Westerner, an- other is a Middle-Westerner, still another is a West Indian; three are Russian-born and the last hails from the City of Brotherly Love. The age-range is from 18 to 28, and the theatre experience of each mem- their conceptions of the characters they are creating. Supper comes at six, before, during, and after which | the day’s work is reviewed. (Each | member serves as the cook for a} week at a time.) In the evenings} there may be bookings—Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are invari- | ably taken up—and during the week | several members attend the nightly | classes given for the evening groups, | EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN ab Ge Th 'd St. W. of BY GUILD evst0'stats.thur-aSat.220 DERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” MAXWELL AD “The New Wave of 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian ; r 7 “rei : | r TACT The dictatorship of the proletariat is only a technical name for WOR—Dance Orchestr: Strikes” at Tom Mooney Br. LL. 232/ ber Varies; a few have been instock | while others cither give these} GLADY ADRIENNE RAYMOND . the grand and ultimate flowering of the broadest working-class demo- WaZ-—The Overhead. Kill--Sketch ae ees, tree—discus- | and in little theatres, others have |classes or direct the productions of | COOPER ALLE MASEET: [| “te Cee akervate. Gee cracy and mass-rule, as in the Soviet Union. ap WABC—Rich Orchestra oe been “social directors” and in bur- | the evening groups. | THE SHINT HOUR ALVIN,™ |W. of Biwes ES ‘ i d El mane wave Ring On Thursday lesque and in the cabaret world,| It is a full day and it takes in | BooTH THEATRE, W. St. Evgs, a:tn)] “AL Ey.8.20 Thur.Sat&May30 8:30-—WEAF—Wayre King Orch. WOR-—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Maple City Four WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone This is the idea really that the capitalists hate; and as the con- a flict sharpens between the two systems, more and more of the intel- Jectuals are perceiving that the democratic idea really merges into Com- S : 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—-Babe Ruth | Speakers: Winifred Chappell, H. 8. Chan, } munism, when taken seriously, and ep are ready to abandon this | 9:o9-wmar—Fred Alien, Comedian Harry Gannes. Auspices: Friends of the f ge! Yi 4 WOR—Italics—H. Stokes Lott Jr. | Chinese People. Adm. free. ~ last pretense of a dying capitalism, and welcome the fascist attack on Wie Ray Rhight's, Ouskoos Pei ean eA democracy. Bat dager A Martini, Tenor; Kos-| symPosIuM—Culture, Art, Science in elanetz Orc the Soviet Union. Speakers: Louis Lozo- 9:30-WOR—Success—Harry Balkin wick, Dr. Frankwood E. William, Susan WzZ—Sketch: Without Benefit of/ 4. Woodruff. Temple Club, 901 Eastern Clergy, with Leslie Howard Parkway, nr. Schenectady Ave., Brooklyn. WABC—Lombard Orch.; Burns and | auspices: Prospect Park Br. F.S.U. Admis- Allen, Comedy sion 2: 9:45-WOR—Dramatized News SAIL the Hudson with the American 10:00-WEAF—Hillbilly Music Youth Club, Saturday, May 26. Tickets in ‘WJZ—Lopez Orch.; Male Trio; Mil-| advance 75¢; at Workers Book Shops and ton Berle, Comedian club. Dance all the way to Hook Moun- 40-Last week and one has had theatre experience in France and in the Soviet Union| ing, study and rehearsal and per: with Meyerhold and with the The- | formance. In addition, several | ~ pata = ~| members of the Troupe serve in the | | | | | Artistic Council and on the Execu- tive Committee of the Theatre. It 138th Street & : at the Air-Cooled RENAISSANCE ‘ith Avenue 2 is clear that the Shock Troupe is/| GROUCHO MARX—BILL ROBINSON SOVIET CHINA: Mass Meeting comme- every branch of the theatre—direct- | morating the Shanghai Massacres. Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irvins Place, 8 p.m. Tamiris and Group to Dance for New Masses Tom Myerscough Out of Hospital “Dear Comrade Gold: “Enclosed find receipt for the money received for assistance to Tom Myerscough. He is now out of the hospital, still on crutches. It will be some time before he will be ready for any strenuous work. Would you the nucleus of the Workers’ Lab- | oratory Theatre; not only is it the dynamic wedge in forcing the revo- | lutionary issue, but its separate members help to guide an organiza- tion of over one hundred people, divided into departments of acting, NEW YORK.—Tamiris, who has scored triumphs both in America and Europe, as a modern dance in- terpreter, will give a dance recital with her group on Sunday evening, ’ mind acknowledging thanks to those comrades who responded to our eppeal directly and through your column? Without their quick and generous response, we would not have been able to as quickly give the proper medical and surgical attention to Comrade Myerscougn. : “Comradely yours, “Org. Sec'y, District 5.” WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny Orch. 10:15-WOR—OCurrent Events—H. FE. Read WABC—To Be Announced 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas — Edward ‘Tomlinson WOR—Robison Orch Au es Orch.; Harry Richman, WABG Albert Spalding, ame Conrad Thibault, Bariton tain. Sports and entertainment. IN PLACE of Protit, by Dr. H. F. Ward, reduced from $2.50 to $1.75 at Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th st. Denver, Colo. DAILY WORKER affair, iad May 27, at Eagles Hall, 1030-15th St. Music, Workers’ Adm. ie, with Play, Dancing. A‘ ‘Unemployment Council Card ve. |May 27, at City College Audito- rium, Lexington Ave. and E. 33d St. for the benefit of the New Masses. Tickets may be bought at the New Masses, 31 E. 27th St., Washington Sq. Book Shop, 27 W. 8th St.; Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St., and Drama Book Shop, 48 W. 52d St. classes, playwriting, stagecraft, dra- matic dance and dramatic chorus. | are al monthly feature at the Workers’, Laboratory Theatre, 42 E. 12th St.; | on these nights the Shock Troupe | gives a “studio review” of its plays | “Shock Troupe Nights” and skits, to which the public is invited. Mara Tartar and Other Broadway Stars § SPECIAL NOTICE: All former political prisoners who have served 6 months or more can get free passes at: Nat'l Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners 156 Fifth Avenue (20th St.), Room 5384 Chelsea 2-9593 General Admission (in¢l. tax): ‘3c. Box seats: $1.10 eerie 0. SK