The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1934, Page 5

| ! Conducted by SENDER GARLIN | ear Sender Garlin: “FEW days ago you told me you were going on a vaca- tion and asked me to write a column for the Daily Worker while you were gone. That would have been easy | a few months ago when the weather was cool, but now it ds June, the rent is overdue and the midsummer heat is already upon us. It’s tough, sitting down to a typewriter and knocking out a column. | so T am writing you this letter in the hope that it will do. Besides. if T write’a column in the form of a letter, folks are more likely to for- give me for not possessing a redundant and highflown Flizabethan sty Anyhow, I am off in a cloud of humble prose and am already streaking across the horizon as fast as I can go. You told me I could write on any tofic whatsoever, but suggested that I confine myself to the state of literature in America. Well, that is something which every young writer thinks he knows an awful lot about, And’I am no ex- ception. So here goes. * * * American Literature Like “Western Omelet” AMERICAN literature, surveyed from any angle, resembles one of | . those scrambled-egg concoctions which are served on thick white plates in humble lunch-wagons and shoved through the wicket with the battle-cry: “Western omelets!” I am not trying to be funny, but that’s the way the literary scene looks to me. On the right side of the fence we find genteel writers bending over their typewriters and “tapping out the same old stuff relieved by a dash of sophisticated sex, | and on the left side of the fence, if we look in that direction, we spy grim-faced young men and women hammering out their “proletarian” epics. There is still another group whose typing we can hear, and if we look up we can see them too—perched upon the fence. It has become somewhat of a vogue lately, if a person is not frievidly enough, to hurl in his direction the brickbat, “Fence-sitter!” “Bit if I were asked which of the three groups possessed the most promise I would unhesitatingly give the palm to those upon the fence. I would give it to them because, first of all, they are hard-working as-well as honest. They are not even fence-sitters, if we care to Split hairs on the matter. They are merely confused. They are confused {na world of confusion and are trying to find out the, correct road. And of the three they certainly have the most talent. Fence-Sitters Will Fall to the Left J “MAKE these rather firm statements because I am personally ac- _ qQuainted with members of the three divisions and have studied | :them rather closely under short range. It is easy, in a Communist -society, to ascertain in which direction a writer is going, but in a fountry like America where the left wind blows from all four points” of the compass at once, the problem before the critical skipper is not so simple. Of course, in time, when the breeze stiffens, the wind will blow hard enough to knock the fence-sitters off their roosts, and it is. my belief that most of them will fall to leftward where they rightly belong. And they will be our best writers, I am certain of that. > I think the fundamental reason for all this confusion in the camps is the absence of first-class Marxian criticism in our midst. Literary critics in America can be divided roughly into two classes, those who labor for the commercial press and do a daily column on Aihe hook of the hour, and those who write for the liberal and left- wing publications. The former are competent columnists with pleasing slightweight styles who cater to a broad public, and the latter are promising or semi-promising young men and women who are doing the best: they can. <1 am rather. tired of the left-wing critics in our, midst,.who. have 50. little on the ball that they are unable to write a ten-line book preview without writing nine. lines of quotes. To me all this quote business is a glaring admission of intellectual poverty and I suggest to -fe John Reed clubs that when their next conference comes up they. ~give-a little thought to this matter. I realize, of course, that Marxist criticism in America is still young and faltering, but a baby is not forever taught to walk. by being held up, it must needs stand on its own feet if it is to learn. = * * irxian Critics Must Prepare For Battle AM writing all this with a chip on my shoulder, because in private conversations with left-wing intellectuals they admit the weaknesses of Marxian critics and yet are too timid to come forth and grapple with the matter. It is high time for Marxian critics to gef next to themselves and throw aside their intellectual laziness, for as soon as worthwhile revolutionary fiction appears a good battle-line of Marxian critics will have to know how to handle their guns, if revolutionary fiction is to be defended at all. And defended it will have to be, for the right-wing reviewers will bring up their French 75's and lay down a barrage the like of which has never been seen before. “Woe betide the Marxian critics if they are not prepared! The hurling of denunciations and catch-words will not suffice. The reac- tionaries will grow fat on such missiles. They have an uncanny knack of deflecting such shots and speeding them back to their adversaries. And in the smoke of battle, how much good can our left-wing sympathizers do, those lost generation boys who go on the literary picket line for two or three days, then hot-foot it to Hollywood where the easy money blooms? I make this last statement because I have been hearing. a lot lately about how “radical” Hollywood, is getting. Radical? It is Merely petty dissatisfaction, nothing more. Who ever heard of a Yadical coming out of Hollywood? Hollywood is the graveyard of promising writers and artists, nothing more. I have ten friends I used taknow well who have returned from those Beverly Hill shades. They teturned with well-cut suits, fine shirts and an uneasy look under the @xes.. A little dose of Hollywood is not fatal, but four or five stretches on the scenario chain-gangs and the shades grow deeper, all is lost. = * . . Good Critics Are Shock Troops - QO IT is up to our left-wing critics to go into the intellectual gym- nasiums and harden up the muscles. Good critics are the best jock troops. They always precede good novelists. They level the Bround, they clear the stumps away. The¥ make the roads. And they Set ‘a hot fire under a promising writer until he strains his guts to do more than his utmost. Mencken, though he was never a left- winger, was the last of the old war-horses. Under his drive we have gotten the best out of Dreiser, Lewis and others. That they did not “quite come through is not his fault; he did the best he could. In the next five years, from certain signs on the literary horizon, a good half dozen real novelists will just about start to flower. They will not be major writers because they will have to do too much “pioneer work, but it 1s my firm belief that good critics, if they work ‘hard enough, will be able to hasten their bloom. And this is important. for in a-careening world there is no time to lose. eS Sincerely, ” . : ALBERT HALPER. TUNING IN ore M- '—Baseball Resume Segal, ‘ano, Oliv. Smith, Tenor “or Brors Resume—Ford Frick | 9:00~ sage tng WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—£ylvia Froos, Songs Mock, Soprano; Edgar Tas Wone—Comeaat Mute eee ABO ‘clecrge Giver Conia * ‘usi vot, in WIZ—Jack Parker, Tenor 9:30-WEAF—Ray Perkins; Comedian; ‘WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketc! Browne and Al Liewel- lyn, Comedians ‘WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield ‘WJZ—Federal Financial Aid to Cities —J Gale Page, Contralto; Stokes Orch. WOR—Micheel Bartlett, Tenor WsZ—Symphony Orch., Dr. Howard Hanson, Conductor ‘WABC—Himber Orchestra; Morton 7:30- joseph D. MeGoldrick, Control- Downey, Tenor; Jane Froman, ler, New York ag ; Reginald Werrenrath, Ww. jaders Orchestra Baritone, and Others 9:45-WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin 10:00-WEAF—Operetta, Countess Maritza, With Gladys Swarthout, Soprano WJZ—Pan-American Concert, U. 8. Marine Band; Francisco Tortolero, or es Varitty Musicale ‘SWIZ—The Cut-Throat King—Bkéteh rt Oreh.; Frank Munn, rent Events—H. BE. Read ‘WOR—Studio Music wi Melodic Strings -Wireless Amateurs—Sketch WOR—Dance Orchestra 11:00-1 2 WOR—Minevitch Harmonica Band | . * . | | QUT fortunately, the great mass DAILY WORKER, | Workers Audience! ‘Applauds Geld’s Poem Set to Music “STRANGE FUNERAL IN BRADDOCK” Reviewed by CARL SANDS | TEGMEISTER’S musical setting | of Michael Gold’s well-known | poem was performed for the first! time at the Summer Music Festival | of the Workers Music League on June 17, at Irving Plaza. It is the first large composition by an Amer- | ican musician, utilizing a 20th cen- tury musical idiom of the bour- geois concert stage as the vehicle! for a proletarian text, to be given adequate rendition before a large and critical audience. The special task of the Workers | Music League ‘is the development | of music as a weapon in the class struggle. This means, primarily, the | | encouragement of music among the great masses of workers themselves. | But it means also the drawing of| more and more professional musi- | cians of high standing into the| service of the workers music move-| ment. Technically, this is just as/| big a job as the revolutionary | movements in literature, painting, and the theatre. What may be called the politicali- zation of music has only just begun | in America. It las proved pos- sible to rouse to vigorous class con- scious activity a small number of musicians. But in comparatively few of them has the revolutionary viewpoint, method, purpose and ar- dour that has transformed their} lives in general, made the slightest | impression upon their musical taste, | thought or action. In few matters | has the hold of bourgeois educa-| tion proven stronger. And as in| the musical profession, so among the | people at large. So far as the music- lesson, the concert habit, the phono- graph-dise and the radio has taken hold, to that extent prevails the | musical taste of the conservative | academic professor — the musical | styles of 75 years ago, of the workers have been com- paratively shut off from such in- fluences, That they are thoroughly 20th century in musical taste in spite of their lack of musical train- ing under capitalism is becoming more and more apparent. Few more dramatic instances of the fact have been exhibited in this city than in Gold “Strange Funeral in Brad- dock.” The discussion, led by Gold him- self, showed clearly some of the “in-| tellectuals” present still insisting | upon the horse-drawn plough of | 19th century romanticism while the “untutored” workers almost unani- | mously acclaim the tractor of 20th century modern music. More than a few of the latter volunteered the information that the effect of the words plus the music was infinitely more powerful than that of the words alone. One, a metal worker, prophesied that if a hall full of Pennsylvania no misleader in the whole staff of the A. F. of L. would be able to control them. Yet on the other side of the question, a man with a/ cultivated, even learned, voice com-| pared the music to the creations of| Gertrude Stein, saying that it was not fit for revolutionary ears and/ quoting Lenin in denunciation of cubism and futurism. | Siegmeister’s music, however, is in no sense cubist, futurist or even experimental or extreme in any way. It is in a well accepted idiom, as typical of Paris, London or New York as it is of the Soviet Union, today. We have our musical Steins and experimenters, but “Strange Funeral” has parctically nothing in| common with them. Certainly, it is not a mass song nor does it pretend to be one. No amateur could make much out of it. But it is easy to listen to when sung as well as Mor- decai Baumann can sing it: It is craftsmanlike in the rebel- lious, destructive manner that has been a la mode for 20 years in Europe and America—a mode re- flecting in musical technique many of the contradictions of 20th zen- tury’ capitalism but none the less many of the forward looking ien- aoc in the revolutionary move- ment. eee . THEORISTS and critics of music must realize that we shall use on the music front every means we can lay our hands on. The mass song must be in the simple current idiom of a hundred years ago that is familiar to the masses. But we are not going to encourage this mu- sical laissez-faire any longer than is absolutely necessary. Already the best mass songs begin to sound less like melancholy folk-songs, dreary hymn tunes, silly patriotic propa- ganda and sentimental anaesthetics from Broadway. But proletarian music will not be all mass songs. Already symphonic works, opera and concert-pieces are in demand. There is not yet a pro- letarian musical style for them to be written in. So whatever puts the revolutionary drive into the listener, be it 13th century counterpoint or 20th century expressionism, that is the thing to use. At any rate—the audience ap- plauded the “Strange Funeral” with a vigor that was not Carnegie Hall. The Irving Plaza was packed to the gunwales and showed its temper by almost réfusing to listen to the nice, old-fashioned Bruckner slow- movement from the Quintette, played by a fragment of the Pierre Degeyter Club Orchestra under Charles Williams. The four chor- uses which won awards at the Second Music Olympiad, on April 29, also sang (but in pocket-edi- tions) and received their certificates. A new Thaelmann song, by John Lewis, was tried out on the audience. The words were bad from every viewpoint. The music has ood first and last lines, but the second and third wander out of hearing in low ranges of the voice. It is going back to the laboratory and may turn out very catehy. The Workers Music League should |I used to get | which the Southern ruling class is | |offer me any treatment, and they | jasked Herndon whether he was re- NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934 Page Five ? Angelo Herndon’s Own Story Of Treatment in Fulton Jai ——— (As told to Ben Davis, Jr.) — “QINCE the Georgia Supreme | State has no right to send Herndon Court upheld my chain-gang|t? the chain-gang as long as his case is in process of appeal sentence of 18-20 years the bosses | Beendenth!: Wenlity de? egttociaks and their jail tools have increased! broken, A leading Negro surgeon the pressure on me,” is the way | whom the Georgia authorities were Angelo Herndon, militant Negro | foreed to secure to examine Hern- unemployed organizer addressed me | don, has already stated that Hern- the morning when I visited him in | 0n's chest is not normal and that the Fulton County Tower. Hern-| in certain spots it recedes, indicat- don said, “I know that they must |ing that there might be incipient be raiding the homes of the com- | tuberculosis. Herndon himself states rades and militant Negro and|that “everything I eat hurts my white workers outside, by the way | Stomach, and most of the time they were treating me in here. Thes ” E hold up all of my mail and won't | let me have anything at all to read the Daily Worker sometimes, but now they won't let me have that or anything else, since | the Supreme Court decision.” i A letter had been sent to Hern-| don from New York. with a $4.65) money order inside. The letter was | postmarked May 31, but he did not! receive if until June 5. This is the usual practice now, especially since the Georgia Supreme Court’s deci-| sion has said in effect “that Ne-| groes in Georgia have no rights | bound to respect.” The decision | lends an official endorsement and color to all the torturous treatment | which Herndon receives, Two months ago mass pressure | forced the Georgia authorities to | give Herndon a special physical examination, but they whitewashed the report and tried to “hush the matter up.” But. the news was spread that the examination was a mere form, so the authorities were forced to examine Herndon again. Th time they stated “nothing was wrong | with Herndon, that his chest and stomach were OK, although he may have gall bladder.” In addition to this, the physician's report read that Z “Herndon refused treatment.” This | tacts in jail. Recently he formed | morning I asked Herndon about |® friendship with two Jewish pris- this, and he stated, “These fascist | Mers who were charged. with swin- dogs are lying. They didn’t even ane Greek merchant out of $9,-| 000. and said they thought my charges were framed-up. They proinised to send me a Russian-English diction- ary.” True to their promise, they have sent Herndon the dictionary Angelo Herndon causes vomiting.” He has lost more | than 20 pounds during his two} years’ imprisonment. Again he says, “My eyes hurt and worry me ail | the time and they won't give me | anything for them.” . . . | some smoking factory chimneys and a bright future for all concerned. | . .. It's an incompetent piece of | patchwork which succeeds in ex- posing itself very nicely before it’s! half over. . .. And if you must see it, | don't fail to take along one of our ERNDON has made some very | valuable and interesting con- | know it. Certainly I didn't refuse} treatment as bad as I need it.” I ceiving any medical attention at all. I told him that a sympathetic white woman doctor had sent him a ie" the reception of the Siegmeister- | steel strikers‘ could have heard: it, /¢xPiration of ten days from | Workers School |@ shoe-box full of medicine which |she gave to the county physician. |The county physician promised to |give the entire box to him. But Herndon has only received two bot- |tles of medicine from the box. “The county doctor gave me a bottle of |liver extract and said that the white | woman doctor had suggested that I| |take this. He led me to believe that he had gotten the medicine for me himself. I didn’t ever receive a shoe-box of medicine,” Herndon stated. Threatened With Chain-Gang Herndon said, “They have been | threatening to send me to the chain- gang every day since the Supreme Court ruling. Jailer Bob Holland Says ‘nothing’s the matter with | Herndon. Other niggers are in here and nothing's the matter with them!’ Herndon would have been sent to the chain-gang after the the Supreme Court ruling. but notice of appeal to the United States Su- preme Court was filed, and this has stayed the execution of Herndon’s sentence. Therefore, legally the Summer Session at Brownsville School The Brownsville Workers School has opened registration for the summer term which begins July 9. | Classes in Principles of Communism, Political Economy, Marxism-Lenin- |ism, Negro Problems and Organiza- | tional Principles are offered. The course has been made to cover a period of six weeks. A special re- duced fee of a dollar per course is charged. Every one is.urged to register early. Comrade A. Overgaard of the Trade Union Unity League will speak to the students of the Trade Union Strategy class this Friday evening, Inne 29 at 7 p. m. sharp at the Harlem Workers School, 200 West 135th St., Room 214-A, on the subject of “The Role and Tasks of the Revolutionary and Independent Trade Unions.” All who are interested in trade union work are invited to attend this open session of the class. Class ends at 8:30 p. m. sharp, aie tears School Drive in Pittsburgh The campaign for the establish- ment of a Workers’ School and Bookshop in Pittsburgh is well under way. . Every comrade and sym- pathizer should make special efforts in getting funds. Help to make the and Bookshop a reality by the Fall. The following letter from Comrade T. W. Shane explains the situation: “With the staging of a picnic July 4 in Sugar Grove, near Pitcairn, for the benefit of the Pittsburgh Work- ers School and Bookstore, the cam- paign to raise sufficient funds to open the school by September is well under way. The response which is meeting appeals to various workers’ organizations for aid, has been good so far, and is an indication of how well the workers of the Pittsburgh district realize the need for such an enterprise. At present no cen- tralized bureau for working-class literature exists, with the exception of the Party bookstore, and it is of the utmost importance that such a source for revolutionary material be provided without further delay, especially in view of recent develep- ments in Pittsburgh, which show an undoubtedly fascist trend. “The situation in steel has brought an immediate tightening of sup- pressivé measures in the city, in- cluding the appointment of the fas- cist Marshall Bell as public safety director and his ban on all parades by working-class organizations. The red scare is being raised daily in one or the other of the Pittsburch papers; the patristic jingo groups WJZ—Studio Concert rABC—1 ‘WdZ—Berger Orchestra w. ‘Lymen Orchestra: Vivienne! WABC—Charles Carlile, Tenor continue to run large affairs of this sorte are untiring in their anti-Commu- nist activity, and Mayor McNair, What's Doing in the Schools of the U. S, The Russian lan- Herndon have it. may.think that the guage’ contwins some secret code| take a lot to discourage that guy! | Socialism, which was rushing in fiom Moscow and turn the diction- ary over to “ -baiter” Jon son, prssecutor of th- lanta Six” and Herndon cases A young white prisoner formed a great_ admiration for Herndon and used to stroll over to Herndon’s cell to visit him. (They don't allow Herndon out of his cell, not even to get exercise, although Herron har repeatedly asked for the privilege to moye around in the hallway just to “limber up.”) Once when this prisoner was at Herndon’s ceil, the guard came up and threatened him. telling him “to get away from that cage. We don't allow nobody to hang around that cell. Besides yuu ought to be ashamed of yourself talking with a nigger.” The white Hud boy replied, “He’s as good or better thar: you are.” This prisoner is very iriendly toward Herndon and they exchange cigarettes, money, paper, stamps, and other comforts. He thinks Herndon's sentence is an ‘oulrage!” (To Be Concluded Tomorrow) Workers ostensibly just a clowning politician but in reality as vicious as any La- Guardia, has of late accepted the role of agent provocateur for the capitalist class. “The importance of a regularly functioning, full-time _ workers’ school can hardly be over-empha- sized. Workers’ classes have been established and conducted in certain sections of the district at times, but what progress has been made under these conditions only indicates the strides in development. which could be made through a full-time school. “Bearing in mind these things, it jis necessary that all possible haste be made toward opening the Work- ers’ Bookstore and School. Collec- tion lists are out now and can be obtained by communicating with the committee at the address given below. “Not only individual workers, but ail organizations which have not yet done so, should take steps toward making a collective contribution to the school fund, and should en- deavor to bring them to support the picnic July 4. | “All contributions or communi- cations should be addressed to Workers’ Bookstore Committee, Rm. 209, 929 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh. As predicted in this column last week, the $1,000 Drive went over the top. The prizes to the shock brigaders were awarded at the General day evening. The student assembly marked the close of a most suc- cessful school year for the New York Workers’ School. A total of 6,000 registrations for the year 1933-1934 at the school is an in- dication of the growing conscious- ness on the part of the workers of New York for the need of revo- Intionary theory. In addition, over 1,509 workers attended the Brownsville Workers’ School and the Harlem Workers’ School in the past half year. Tuesday NATIONAL Negro Theatre. Midnight Show at Lafayette Theatre, 132nd and 7th Ave., Tuesday night. Reserved seats 75c and $1 at Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. General adm. 50c. Splendid program of features, Harry HershSeld, Master of Ceremonies. DO NOT MAKE any engagements for July 4 if you want to make the Annual Picnic of the Communist Party, N.Y, District, to be held at North Beach Pic- nic Park, Astorie, L. I. Sports, Games, Theatre, Dancing. Lots of fun 20-50% Discount sale at Workers Book- shops begins Friday, June 22—ends fat- urday, July 7. Join Circulating Library, 50 E. 13th St. N.Y.C SHORT TALK on “Cause of the Depres- sion. Why No Depression in Soviet Rus- sia.” Speakers: Mershall Shaw. Dancing to follow. Adm. free, 1401 serome Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th St. Auspices, Mt. Eden Youth Br. FSU, Student Assembly Fri- | FLASHES azd“Brains Behind Barbed Wire’-German Writers, Scientists Persecuted CLOSE-UPS Oddities of the Week | FUGENE LYONS, former United Press correspondent in Moscow is preparing “an original story with a Russian motif” for Sammy Gold- | wyn’s newest toy, Anna Sten | A lady with definite fascist inclina- tions is financing the production of a film on the Hopi Indians of New Mexico, to be directed by an editor of Experimental Cinema magazine. . .» Harry T. Smith, movie critic of | the New York Times, who praised |“S. A. Mann Brand,” is a former Socialist journalist - Dorothea | Wiecke, the Storm Trooper return- ing to Germany to emote for Hit- ler, is considering bleaching her hair to please the Fuhrer. .. . Sev- eral dames still hanging on to Nazi sereen and theatre have already aryanized their scalps OLFE KAUFMAN, Variety staff writer returning from Zerlin, reports the German movie indus-/| try at a complete standstill. . . .| Only a few tired old men are still hanging on to what's left of the once gigantic Neubabelsburg (Ger- man Hollywood)... . Says Kauf-| man: “The same thing holds true| of life in general in Berlin. There is no ‘spice, no spontaneity. | Berlin has become today an over- grown hick town... .” ler!” eh? >. . Minute Review (Eastern Standard Time) | «YJORLD IN REVOLT!” All’s for) the worst in the worst of} possible worlds, with the exception | of America, where there are base- ball games, movie theatres, Tadios, | “Heil, Hit- | “They were very nice to me | Patented Bronx-cheerers (with a! Nazi had become aware of the en- | year’s guarantee)... . | | Ree as tite | | | arpa Astoria has reduced | | the rental on its main sound) | stage to $1,000 a day. ... The Film| viet story for Paramount... . It'll . For over two years now he's been hanging on to a script and ‘At- | now Paramount ts ready to dive. .. .| Lenin amazed and dismayed him. | |The bishops are trying to change | the spots of the Hollywood tiger to a more consistently black hue. . . . And trying to create the impression | that they are cutting claws and taming the beast... . They demand less sex and more preachings. . . Which is precisely what Hollywood is conforming to more and more | every day . How much sex is |there in films like “No Greater | Glor ‘World In Revolt!” “Con- | querors, “Washington-Merry-Go- | Round,” “Gabriel Over the White House” and a hundred others, gen- | themen of the pulpit? ... . Isn’t your | real aim to set up capitalist gov- | ernmental control over the film in- | dustry to make sure that the flow | of fascist film continues uninter- rupted? ... O you know that Mussolini has |” asked two Americans to produce a film on Italian Fascism? . . . The Italian industry is so thoroughly | bankrupt that there’s no one left there with enough “talent” to turn out even a cheap piece of fascist ballyhoo. . . . The Butcher’s Boy recourse to two American film- | makers for this purpose is especially significant, don’t you think? ... | Figures the pudgy thug: If Holly- | wood can't erank out fascist rib- bons, who can?... FRENCH director is making | “almost a detective story” out of the betrayal of Jesus by Judah | and the arrest of Jesus by the Ro- | mans, with “Calvary as climax.” . . . Will someone please revive an old miracle play and put Groucho Marx, Buck Jones and Mickey | Mouse in the cast? ... eots MIL JANNINGS is a Nazi... Boo! ... Pause, are! | LEARN from Paris that Rene Clair is swinging leftward and I’m anxious to see his next ribbon, “The Last Billionaire.” . The Broadway Paramount and Capitol are pooling. .. , Business is lousy. . . Mae West, collected $10,000 a week during the making of her forthcoming “Tt Ain't No Sin.” , Who said artists are underpaid? . . » Do you know that many au- thors in Hollywood are being paid huge salaries simply for the use of their names and with no scripts even expected from them? . .. The heirs of Emile Zola have succeeded in having the Hollywood version of “Nana” withdrawn from French . Hollywood's “Caval- ) still a great favorite with Berlin’s Nazi chiefs. . . . Being re- vived there by Fox Co. . . . Com- menting on one aspect of the film under Hitler, a Variety correspond- ent writes) “With the advent of the pearing in films, would be knockouts in a harem scene—with veils.” i Sok ‘© Amkino, New York City; “Please very soon. . . . Advance reports on this film make us increasingly tm- patient to see it.” Wednesday OPEN Meeting of Film and Photo League, 12 E, 17th St., 8:30, followed by showing of latest newsreels. Ne admis- sion charge. MUSICALE by Comrade Kurtz, 916 48th St., Brooklyn, at 8:30, Auspices, Harry Sims Br, LL.D. Refreshments. FRIDAY CELEBRATE Ninth Anniversary Inter- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., Priday, June 29, 8 national Labor Defense at Manhattan Ly- p.m. Adm, 15¢. Philadelphia, Pa. JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle for Negro Rights and Internationa! Labor Defense, Sunday, July 1, at Burnholme Park. FILM and Photo League of Phila. First still exhibition "Men et Work’ opening Priday, June 22 to July 9 at John Reed Club, 136 8. th St. Week days: 12 a.m. to 6 p.m REPORT will be given on Soviet Union Wednesday, 7:80. 108 E. 14th St. Room 202, by Reumanian delegate just returned. Adm. free, ;|tail of the architecture, New Deal there are new faces ap-/ most of whom) release Ermler’s “Counter-Plan” | Ix SOLDIERS OF THE flood of newspaper le letters, | telegrams. . None of his old Nazi — comrades ling to believe FUTURE that the ni yas true. And those RICHARD SCHERINGER who were to accept the pos- HIS young lieutenant in the/| sibility of this change of mind, yet Reichswehr, Richard Scheringer, | Wanted to see in them nothing more is no writer. He is the son of an officer who fell in the World War; he grew up in the old Prussi militant desire for truthfulness, a deep detestation of the falsity of the Nazi phrases He is no writer—this young sol- dier. But he became a suspect and dangerous to the ruling powers of Germany because of the written word, because he uttered a danger- ous truth, which reacted directly and unfavorably on the delicately adjusted mechanism of the German military machine. The name Richard Scheringer | was heard for the first time in a sensational trial for high treason. Together with two other officers of his garrison in Ulm, Scheringer accused of having formed Nazi groups within the German army, in order to paralyze the army in any fight against the Nazis, and to make it an intsrument of the Nazi policy He and his comrades were con- demand in 1930 to one and a half years of detention in a military fort- ress. After a few weeks the story appeared in the German press that Richard Scheringer, in his deten- tion, had gone over to Communism! IN CONTINUAL discussion with| imprisoned Communists the young tire hollowness and deceit of Hit- ler's propaganda. Scheringer se- cured @ leave of absence from his detention, travelled to Berlin, and/ asked Dr. Joseph Goebbels for in- but it is doubtful if the jailer wil] }and Photo League is still hesitating | formation and directions how he| jailer | though. . . . DeMille is doing a So-| should seek to counteract the un-| derstanding of scientific, Marxian upon him. The gigantic structure |of ideas formulaied by Marx and | But National Socialism had less than nothing to give him. Goebbel took him along to Munich to visit | Hitler, In naive pride of possession, | | Hitler had led Scheringer around the Brown House in Munich, pointed out to him this and that trivial de- promised |him a good position in the Storm | Troops after his release from deten- | |tion—and had no answer to make | | to many of the questions Scheringer asked him. Confused, despairing, the young officer had to run about |in Munich from one Nazi official |to another—and everywhere heard fear of clear logic, everywhere my: | tification, fog, deceit So Richard Scheringer had re- turned to his. confinement in the | military prison—and announced his allegiance to Communism | This announcement unloosed a@ Jose Iturbi To Open Stadium Concerts Tonight | Jose Iturbi, noted Spanish con- ductor, “will open the 17th season of the Stadium Concerts at C. ©. N. Y. with a program of Beethoven and Spanish music. The Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra will again be a feature of the open air | concerts, playing symphonic reper- toire five nights a week and two evenings of opera, the latter on Fri- day and Saturday nights. The open- ing program includes Beethoven's overture to “Egmont” and the Fifth Symphony; “Aquarelles,” Chavarri; Intermezzo from “Goyescas,” Gra- nados and Three Dances from “The Three-Cornered Hat by De Falla. Wednesday's program includes Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusic,” Schumann's “Rhenish” Symphony; Sinfonia de Antigona, Carlos Chavez and “La Mer” by Debussy. “In the Land of the Soviets” Opens Today at Acme Thea, The Acme Theatre, beginning to- day, will present the first American showing of the new Amkino pro- | years | resounding, hollow phrases, every- | | where saw the Same panic-atricken | nce of mental y imprisonment, ion of a temporary de- youthful thoughtless the express of tarist tradition, and was st pression, of ughtle the whirlpool of national social ness. But they soon were forced to | activity at the time of- the occupa-|Tealize that Richard Scheringer’s | tion of the Ruhr by the French in| Conversion to Communism was the 1923. He became an officer like his| Mature fruit of stringent, mer: ancestors. Nothing predestined him|*#@ uncompromising searc to deviate from: the narrow, well- | the trutt worn groove of his class—but his peg is N THE loneline Richard Scheri of his detention, er wrote letter | hundreds of letters, in which he swered his former co-believers in Hitler Fascism—answered it doubts, reproaches and questi and showed them clearly, honi {and in a well considered way, the reasons which had moved him to take this step. And because of these letters, which contained his profes: sion of faith in Communism, Riche ard Scheringer was put on trial again The two former officers who had been sentenced together with Scher- inger had long since been released and now, within the Nazi party, ase cend ever higher from rank to rank in the Nazi hierarchy | But Richard Scheringer was no sooner released from serving his first sentence, than he was thrust into jail again, punished with solie tary dark confinement, with prohie bition of all visits. A shameless lie was fabricated about him. He was accused of having attempted to es- cape with the aid of—a fingernail scissors. Finally, after a new trial, he was framed for two and a half of detention in a military fortress. Since then stillness has swallowed up Richard Scheringer. Only once again was he heard of—at the end of 1932 it became known that in protest against the provocation and persecution to which he was sub- jected, he had commenced a hunger strike. German workers in protest demonstrations and resolutions pro« claimed their sympathy and soli- darity with the young ex-officer, The rest of the German public fe- mained silent. For even before Hite ler was called to power, the public conscience of Germany had blunted and atrophied to an astonishing ex- tent. Courage and faithfulness to convictions no longer counted for anything. And the big newspapers of the Social-Democrats did not feel any occasion to raise their voices for Richard Scheringer—his conver= sion to Communism has placed him, |for them, outside the ranks of those men who might still lay claim to justice in the German Republic. Since the triumph of German fas- cism, nothing further has been heard of Richard Scheringer. But convenient. as may be this deadly |silence in the case of the great |apostle of National Socialism, it cannot prevent Richard Scheringer | from remaining for millions a sym- bol and prototype: a Soldier of the | Future! (To Be Continued) - §TAGE AND SCREEN duction, “In the Land of the So- | viets—1934, a graphic and stirring picture of the Soviet Union as it is today. | Besides the May Day celebration |in Moscow, which is a leading feature of the film, and which is | being presented for the first time in complete form, the picture shows |the Kolkhoz in its every-day ac- tivity. Here is presented the life on the cooperative farms—their work and study, their play, music, danc- ling and singing. The Chelyuskin expedition, with jits heroic leader, Schmidt, is an- | other feature. It presents a thrilling |picture of the travels in the Arctic |and the hunt for a Northern route, Here is a gripping picture of the life in the cold North aboard the Chelyuskin. | “In the Land of the Soviets,” also | shows Moscow~-1934 and its every- day life, an intimate picture of the | Soviet capital. Other items include | the Snow and Ice Carnival in Lene | ingrad, in which some. 100,000 peos | ple took part; the Stalingrad Trace | tor plant and the Gorki auto plant; the Kara Kum expedition and other |important scenes from the Soviet | Union. | | IN THE LAND OF See and Hear You SEE and HEAR STALIN. Music, Dancing and Singing. PEDITION, SNOW and ICE © PLANT, etr,, SEE and HEA ete, ACME THEATRE — AMKINO'S First American Showing! THE SOVIETS~1934 MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN MOSCOW (only eomplete showing) . MOLOTOV, ORDJONTIKIDZE, KALININ, | VOROSHILOFF, RAGAMEVOCE. ia tis ea AUSTRIAN SCHUTZBUND, Italian Workers z. DIMITROFF and his MOTHER, MAXIM GORKI, BULLITT, Millions of Workers and Soldiers on Parade. THE KOLKHOZ (the cooperatives)—Their Life, Study and Pley—Thelr CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION with PROF, SCHMIDT, KARA KUM BX- ARNIVAL, | MOSCOW, 1951—Life in the Soviet Capital Today VISIT THE STALINGRAP TRACTOR PUANT and the GORKI AUTO R the ROMANCE of the U.S. §. Ret See How the Soviets March Onward! Ever Onward! 14th STREET ard UNION SQUARE |NoW? ATRE UNION Presents -— Outstanding Dramatic Hit | | stevedore |] CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. R45, De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. { EVERY BITE A DELIGHT FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS Sokal Cafeteria 1988 PITKIN AVENUE | @TapIUM CONCERTS————. 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