The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934 Page 5 CHANGE ——THE— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD HE latest profundity of Mr. H. G. Wells and the domgs and sayings of the female disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, the Lady Madeleine Slade, have been in the news recently. Mr. Wells has a firm and grounded reputation in the arts and sciences. The Lady Madeleine is a renowned vegetarian. Two famous people, upon whom one could write the most charm- ing and devastating essays. But space is so limited in the “Daily,” that it is necessary always to remember to confine yourself only to those outstanding traits of idiocy, philistinism and inverted egotism that distinguish the dominant class. Mr. Wells in Defense of Freedom IN LONDON, H. G. Wells was holding up Russia as an “awful warn- ing.” The National Government in England has before it an in- famous piece of legislation called the “incitement to disaffection bill,” a bill designed to muzzle and outlaw the radical press and silence left wing literature. It is a bill which will put into the hands of an In- spector of the Police power to imprison anyone uttering opinions with which he disagrees, and makes it = criminal offense to possess any anti-war literature. It is openly a piece of the war preparations of the imperialists, openly a measure designed to crush anti-war work. As such, one is pleased to hear that Mr. Wells has lifted his voice im opposition to this piece of warmonger censorship. But trust a liberal to stab you in the back. In defense of “freedom,” Wells once more took the opportunity to mouth one of his pieces of potboiler philosophy and canned observation. “In Russia,” said Mr, Wells, “there has been complete suffocation of opposition. No writer can write without permission.” O English cousin of Max Eastman! Further: “Russia has lost its intellectual freedom. There is some- thing greater than Communism and that is freedom of the human mind.” . Pacifism . . . When There’s No War ‘R. WELLS has an astonishing and private logic. He is attacking a bill that is open incitement to war, that is part of war prepara- tions of the imperialist powers. He passes from a consideration of the censorship to a discussion of “freedom” in the abstract, and ar- rives at the startling conclusion that the Soviet Union, which has maintained the only consistent peace policy, and has made the only honest declaration for complete disarmament, is on equal terms with the National Government of imperialist England, that old and hoary militarist! The liberal mind should be preserved for the grandchildren of a World Soviet to study. With what aplomb Wells forgets that in 1914, two weeks after the outbreak of war, he, the obstreperous pacifist, the Fabian and Socialist, wrote: “I find myself enthusiastic for this war against German militarism!” Mr. Wells neglected in his “Outline of History,” that monument of historical confusion, to outline the much more interesting history of his sudden and lightning conversions from pacifism to militarism, from Socialism to imperialism, ell depending upon the exigencies of the moment. It would be most instructive for other liberals of the same stripe. UT the Lady Madeleine also demands attention. Shall we neglect the duties of hospitality so far as to forget to welcome this vege- tarian and Mahatma’s right-hand woman to our shores? I can understand that it will be impossible for the majority of Americans to meet her. But the least we could do would be to pen a short note of welcome. * . . A Letter to the Lady THE lady Madeleine Slade, Mahatma Gandhi and the Goat— Dear Ma’am: Welcome to our shores! I understand, from the press reports, that no sooner had you put foot on,our soil than you were certain it was a “free and friendly” one. Did you get past the customs all right? Are you sure no seditious literature was found on you? Did they hold you at Ellis Island to prove you were a politi- cal refugee? Didn’t they question your relations with your servants? That tall, willowy young man with the long hair and the eyeglasses, I saw behind you in the newsreels, wasn’t he humiliated, like Maxim Gorky some years ago? I was very much interested to hear that, like your master, you subsist only on goat’s milk and fresh vegetables. I think this is fine in'an Admiral’s daughter who could have lamb chops if it wasn’t so easy for her to get them, You see, that’s my idea. You got tired of mutton chops and peach melba and roasted pheasants in your England. They bored you to death. All that food when you weren’t hungry and that driveling talk and those boring people. How did it happen? Did you grow interested in Theosophy through reading Madame Eddy or Blavatsky, or was hé such an interesting man? Do you really suffer at the thought of a hundred million poverty-stricken and op- pressed Indian subjects of his Majesty? Or do you just admire the spiritual uplift and the peaceful masochism of the Mahatma? These are questions I am much interested in. You see, for the past year many Americans have been living on vegetables from the garbage cans ‘outside restaurants and fruit markets. They love milk ‘but you cannot milk a dry Sheffield bottle. My point is, that if you get such a spiritual uplift from vegetables, perhaps your soul would be lifted several inches nearer Nirvana if they came out of a garbage can? With this I close, hoping you convert Mrs. Roosevelt also. I un- derstand the girl-scouts are beginning to bore her to tears, * . . 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FLASHES and CLOSEUPS By LENS AVID PLATT, National Secretary | of the Film and Photo League, jeapeed over to the microphone of Station WARD in Brooklyn the | other day in an attempt to present | his organization's position on the | questions of motion picture censor- |ship and the Legion of Decency. Platt had come by invitation, and jupon @ signal from the announcer |began to read-a prepared speech. |No one asked to see the script, and at 4:30 p.m. the electric impulses | carrying his words to thousands of listeners were flashing through an | astonished ether. Up to this point jour story might well be mistaken for a dissertation on the Blessings |of Democracy, or Where There's a | Will, etc., but, relax with me, dear reader, and lend ear to the central | figure of our plot: “I was going along fine for about five minutes explaining the origin of the Legion of Decency, citing a long string of films that had been banned and pointing out that certain films blacklisted by the Detroit Legion were hailed by the same organization in Chi- cago. I went on to show that complete unanimity did exist, however, on the question of what films were decent and worthy of Presentation to the millions of American moviegoers: the reac- tionary ‘No Greater Glory,’ ‘World in Revolt,’ ‘Mad Game,’ etc. I em ized the fact that the attitude of the Church in matters of film censorship was closely akin to that of the Fed- eral Government's and that the general tendency was toward strict federal supervision and censor- ship. “I reminded my invisible audi- ence of the similarity between the present campaign and the one of some ten years ago which also leaned toward repression and anti-labor legislation. I quoted from an article by Tom Brandon in the DAILY WORKER some years ago that it was during this earlier campaign that some of the ‘greatest figures of our coun- try’ in the Cabinet of the iate racketeer President Warren Ga- maliel Harding were pilfering the U. S. Treasury and taking nome every negotiable asset that was not nailed down. “At this point I was cut off, told to stop speaking, and the an- nouncer spoke into the mike some- thing to the effect that I was in- terrupted because of time require- ments. Later I was told, ‘You were libelling the Church, Mr, Piatt, and it is against the police of this station to favor one group against another.’ ” That Platt learned a little bit more about capitalist censorship on | that occasion than he knew before |he came to face the microphone of | WARD at 427 Fulton St., Brooklyn, is very evident. | “And I thought for a moment |they had interrupted me because |my voice didn’t carry!” Platt told me after the incident. It carried the truth, my friends, but “today, truth is in itself revolu- | tionary.” ND here is the latest and best on the Height of Optimism. | A headline in the New York Times: ... “Birmingham Will Com- bat Communism With Plays Put On |By Relief Workers.” . . . Also the Height of'Irony, etc... . das eo eh Ets CALL TO ARMS” is now in its third week of production. . : Manto aaa ND after the poisonous “Gabriel Over the White House”... “The President Vanishes” is soon to be re- leased. . .. Much worse, I hear... . peers es ERTHOLD VIERTEL believes that the “betterment and future of Pictures depends on ideas you be- lieve in, that you want to fight for.” . . . Apply this principle to world film production today.and you have the explanation of the greatness of Soviet productions and the croaking decay of Hollywood... . And this is true despite the fact that Viertel may have meant it in a different sense... . CaN E newsreels of the Alexender- Barthou assassination are an unparalleled masterpiéce of cine- camera reportage... . Italian fas- cism produced 25 films during the whole yéar . . . not enough to fill the schedule of a single theatre. . . You can’t milk a dead cow, Benito. - ++ The anti-Nazi boycott has closed another UFA theatre in Budapest. . .. What group is raising $17,000 to produce a film version of “Pre- cedent?” . .. To Amkino: We're anxiously awaiting the release of Dziga-Vertoff's “Two Songs About Lenin.” ... When? ... The forth- coming issue of New Theatre con- tains an article by Richard Watts, Jr., on radicals in Hollywood movies . . . also film correspondence from Moscow by Jay Leyda ... and while I'm on the subject of New Theatre. : ++ A red carnation to Herbert Kline for a brilliant job in making the originally anemic mag what it is today... . $60,000 drive méans a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. mediately to the “Daily.” Little Lefty ; . {lists stood Ernst Thaelmann. Send the money im-! —So “Wie WATER COMPINY CUT OFF OvUR WATER ANDO Now WE BIN FOR. SEVEN WEEKS witdouT wo WATER / Sharee By | | Old Kim Mulkey | Lean and stooped, | Heaves and sweats | On a Georgia farm | | Gripping a pick A shovel, a mattock A hoe—. And mixed his sweat | With Georgia clay Grubbing the bed For a new highway Old Kim walks with He starves himself To pay the rent On a tenant farm in Say Kim, wipe your Reyolution’s an ax, Kim, In the calloused hands DON He drove steel for bread Where the railroads go On the concrete road Where the traffic 10ars. And his old stiff bones Are warped and bent. Forget your skin is black or white. Pull back the scum of prejudice—— Religion, superstition—— See your children’s future . . ‘You read your bible, Kim, And you know the farmer lays ax To a fruitless apple tree . . ropper WEST MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, 3| new play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; staged by George | 8S. Kaufman and presented by | Sam H, Harris at the Muste Box. | Reviewed by | ALAN CHUMLEY | JERRILY We Roil tour de force | nering three eight “intimate” Music Box, concerns a Playwright in a bal aded Long Island palazzo, complete with cock- tail parties, ennui, epigrams, jealous Along, the currently gar- five at the middle-aged wives and succulent blistering toes | new leading ladies. Our hero owns {them all. He’s a “success.” He's | waiting on the night in question for notices on his new play. I | got to be a hit, one feels; if it flops | all this opulence will flop. But more than that, our hero’s reputa- | tion—he’s become a byword: com- | edies by Richard Niles simply don’t | fail. “Broadway's most fashionable | | playwright” turns out hits—a hit }a year—or else. ... | The play is a hit. The playwright | can breathe easier. For three| months he can forget everything—| take that cruise to the Riviera,| laze that month in Paris—forget| everything :—but the need to forget. For Richard Niles breaks down | (now that the reviews are in) and admits that he takes no joy in this} eyes, old man! | “success” tonight. He knows his} Of sharecroppers and workers. plays are trash. He knows the It chops down fruitless trees. | kind of plays he ought to write. It’s a keen scythe, mowing down greed And exploitation. It’s a sledge hammer Battering at the shackles that bind men It’s poetry and song, Don’t mind the dung Give her your hand! Of those who have long been silent. Wipe your eyes, Kim. She waits to greet you. She likes them soil-smeared. Look up, Kim: Greet Revolution, | He remembers even (on doleful oc- ;casions) the pious compact he} | made with himself when he was| still a punk, living with Crale. . . .| But the name of that rebel artist, who had painted him with one arm cuddling a cash-register, brings him | |up sharp, He alibis savagely, “All| | right, you turn out flops—you starve |—does that make you a genius? What the hell! My plays happen} | to succeed. People enjoy them.) | They aren't easy to write. It’s taken | | me ten years to learn the formulas, | on the iips Look! Shake her hand. on your own. DA WRIGHT is a simple black working class mother. She loves her children dearly. She had brought them into the world when she herself had been only half- {mature. There had always been |very little to eat at home. In Scottsboro they sentenced one of her offspring to death. A white Prostitute had been attacked, so ran the charge. Ada Wright cir- cumscribed the globe, in order to give her testimony of the unright- eousness of American justice. Ada Wright hovered over the world’s workers. On all continents, underneath the pigments of all races there beat hearts for her boys, the Negro boys of Scottsboro. In the sumer of 1932, Ada Wright came to Germany. The placards announcing her appearance were posted near the placards quoting the presidential decrees. Thrice that year Germany had gone to the polls. At the head of the Communist He ‘went throughout the land, Ada Wright, too, went throughout the land, both speaking to the masses. On a map of the world Thael- mann pointed out to the workers where lay revolution and where countér-revolution, and what the means and strategy of the struggle were. But then, unrolling the map further, he unfolded the earth to the Atlantic, past the Atlantic, until America appeared. Here, he said, lies Scottsboro, which in this ‘ Eetad ‘Thostninn tind the | Nine Scottsboro Boys to get my technique down. And} | after what I've suffered those ten years, I think I've got this com- ing. For that matter I couldn't give it up now even if I want to. And I don’t want to. What the be) Baar? The first scene ends on “What | the hell.” And the story ends there. | | The sequel just retraces (in inverted | order, i.e. each scene taking place | at a time earlier than the preceding) - the various steps from present 'HEN came the year 1933. Hitler putrifaction to his primal state of became Reich-Chancellor and| grace. The last scene is his vale-| Hindenburg remained as President.| dictory at graduation. And on this| Thaelmann was seized. Cut off from) crowning irony: “—To thine own the world. self be true and it must follow as It was 1934. And Thaelmann stilj| the night the day, thou canst not sits and waits. In the Third Reich| then be false to any man—” the the “electric chair” is the execu-| Pensive curtain falls. tioner's axe. | gla Again Ada Wright is in Ameriéa.| K* 27a ve, Masi g meaty omnia Slace eae ne ie vey would insinuate that he does it on 4 purpose. My modest opinion is March in Philadelphia, 31st that he sould: wive: 1 right March in Baltimore, 2nd of April.| (or make some sacrivice of athen® get. For our fight is an interna- tional fight, and our victory, too, can only be international. os | tive WORLD of te Slanderous Attack On Soviet Union in Book by Countess I WORKED FOR THE SOVIETS, by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy Yale University Press, $3.00. Reviewed by ARLINA McMAHON IOUNTESS TOLSTOY'S “I Worked for the Soviets” is another of those books about the Soviet U which will gladden t hearts of the New York Times Soviet-baiter J Donald Adams, and his white guard cohorts. In fact, none other than the Partial” Alexander Nazaroff gave stamp of approval to the Countess masterpiece of venom and falsifica- tion. A notorious white guard, Nazaroff is usually selected to re- view bool on the Soviet Union With vitriolic pen he 1 ches a Don Quixote attack on the wind mills of Soviet terror. Countess Tolstoy's book is just his meat and he fairly slobbers as he flings out his false statements. “I Worked for the Soviets,” trans- lated by the author in collaboration with Roberta Yerkes, is a naive childish and badly written narra- Among the agonies that the Countess endured under the Soviet regime were legal permission to leave the country in 1929, appoint- ment as Curator of the Tolstoy Museum at Yasnaya Polyana, and a three year sentence in a prison camp reduced to four months. This latter experience was the result of her having allowed an anti-Soviet organization, “The Tactical Center to meet in her rooms. When taken to court for this Krylenko, the prosecutor asked her: “Citizen Tolstoy what was your role in the Tactical Center?” “My role,” she answered in a loud voice, “con- sisted in heating the samovar for the members of the Tactical Center.” Isn't this clever? To Nazaroftf’s mind this remark shows how un- just her prison sentence was. May this reviewer call both his and Countess Tolstoy’s attention to the fact that the Tactical Center was a counter-revolutionary organi- zation and providing them with both a meeting place and refresh- ments (which might have been a blind) is definitely counter-revolu- tionary activity? nion Seventh World Congress Discussion Starts in ‘Communist Discussion for the Seventh World| Congress of the Communist Inter- | national begins in No, 20 of The) Communist International magazine which will appear next week. In| addition to the discussion articles, there will be an announcement of ERHAPS the most vicious insinua- tion in Nazaroff’s review is that small liberal-begotten state: ‘She does not condemn or pass dicts.” Then swiftly follows such impartial and kindly remarks “During the collectivization ca: paign of 1928 and 1929 peasa from Yasnaya Polyana and neighboring villages whom ice her childhood groaned. ‘Sometimes. we told her, ‘that our only war. If we have war r be in our hands. You really believe that we are go- No, as wi don’t ing to kill Japs or Germans. t ks . The Kremlin is our worst enemy.’ ” There are too many reliable state ments and now available even in bourgeois circles which re« fute conclusively the old charges of he damaging of Rus- ‘ulture, etc. Besides, the comi¢ aspects of this statement it a opera make serious consideration of little difficult. Was this a recitative on the of a chorus of Kulaks and liberals who lost their snug po- sitions when the capita regime was overthrown? However, there are worse aspects to this statement. I6 voking and i: Countess toy allies herself with the war provocations againt the Soviet Union, Because of this and the fame of her father the book will have a certain amount of circulation among intellectuals and enemies of the Soviet Union. Like that other conglomeration of lies and slander “Escape from the Soviets” by Mme. T. Tchernavina, it will be warmly welcomed by cer- tain liberals who by saying “This is @ personal narrative, may be in- accurate, but it does the other side of the story,” will lull theme selves into an intellectual coma As a matter of fact, regardless of what modern writers may think of the late Count Tolstoy, the Soviet Government has established no less than two museums in his honor in Moscow alone, and though Countess Alexandra Tolstoy may have found the Soviet Union harrowing to her bourgeois sensibilities, her brother Sergius Tolstoy lives and works in Moscow and is interested in the Pioneer organization. International’ 1, The Seventh World Congress ot the Communist International postponed to 1935. Editorials The U. S. S. R. and the League of Nations. 3. From the First to the Third International. 2. hour of history you must not for- ... To the canvas hanging on the| (or make some sacrifice or other) walls of the meeting-halls has been added an eighth name of those condemned to death. He is not a Negro, nor is he any longer a boy: Ernst. Thaelmann, leader of the German proletariat. “Free Thaelmann and the Scotts- boro Boys’—cry out the words from the white canvas. She knows it, the old black mother: there is no justice on cap- italist soil which the working class of the whole world, be the skin white, black, yellow or brown, can win without fighting for it. She knows. For the banner of the Revolution, for Ernst Thaelmann, for the Scottsboro Boys, the workers of the world must stretch their last ounce of strength, Trotskyist Legends geet eed legends about the presence of a “right wing” in the’ Bolshevik Central Committee are forcefully disproved by Joseph Stalin in his latest work, “The Oc- tober Revolution,” just off the In- ternational Publisher's press. The volume is a collection of speeches delivered and articles writ- ten in the course of the revolution. They date from November 1918 to | December 1927. A typical example of Stalin's re- Jentless logic is his speech before the Plenum of the Communist Fraction of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. One by one Trotzkyist assertions crumble before the sledgehammer blows of the foremost disciple of Lenin: “Comrade Trotsky is wrong when he declares that during the Korni- lov days a section of the leaders of the Party displayed a tendency to form a bloc with the defencists to support the Provisional Govern- ment,” Stalin declares. “This has reference, of course, to those same alleged ‘Rights’ who are disturbing Comrade Trotsky’s peace of mind. Comrade Trotsky is wrong, since documents are in existence, such as the central organ of the Party of that period, which upset Comrade Trotsky’s assertions. | “Comrade Trotsky cites Lenin’s - Now LET “ PERNUTS * > SPILL HIS WELL I'LL BE ge anne! 1 sue very EAR OF Are Disproved By Stalin in ‘October Revolution’ letter to the Central Committee with a warning against supporting Kerensky. But Comrade Trotsky does not understand Lenin’s letters, their significance, their object. Lenin in his letters sometimes in- tentionally runs ahead, bringing into thé limelight possible errors that might be committed and criti- cizing them in advance, for the purpose of warning the Party and ensuring it against mistakes; or sometimes he overstates a ‘trifling incident’ and makes a ‘fly look like an elephant’ to the same pedagogic end, “A leader of the Party, especially if he lives ‘underground,’ cannot act otherwise, for he must see further ahead than his comrade-at-arms and is in duty bound to sound the alarm over every possible mistake and even over ‘trifling incidents.’ “But to draw the conclusion from such letters of Lenin’s (and there are quite a few such letters of his) that there were ‘tragic’ differences of opinion and to trumpet it about means not to understand the let- ters of Lenin, not to know Lenin. | This may explain why Trotsky sometimes hits exceedingly wide of the mark. In brief: in the days of the Korniloy action there were no, virtually no, dissensions in the Cen- tral Committee.” The Culprit HEALTH AFTER ‘EM STORY INTO SYMPATHETIC UNCLE JOHN - WMH WHILE Wee WHO 15 fo TAKE A LOOK AY WE ONE. BLAME FOR ALL —_—_ um / NOY BAD - NoWw—THAT \ GoY —hE WaTeR SHUT OFF WLLL GET —HE BOARO OF to be able just to jack the whole mess up under the basic situation | and then run a real play in. Except} of course . , . that then he’d have | to become “serious.” He'd have to stir up such unpleasant topics as | the social tyranny of money, the artistic anarchy of “box-office,” the brutal dictatorship of managers. | He'd have to find himself another “hero,” someone with real sinew in his vision, with a valour that sur- |vived the first onslaught. And he |couldn’t pull his punches. The “conflict” in his play, instead of a |faked job to gull the customers, | would have to be a straight fight| }to the finish. . . . And then he'd have a “propaganda” play! He'd have a flop. And what would that prove! What the hell... . He happens to write hits. He wrote Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I | Sing, and Once in a Lifetime. Plays | like that are not easy to write. | Once you've mastered your for- mulas, you've got to get your tech- | nique down. And then you've got | to change your tricks. | Take Merrily We Roll Along. He | knew the plot was pretty thin—and | stale to boot. So his “trick” has to be a fast one. There didn’t seem to be a single innovation left for) | telling a straightforward story. So} |he arrived at the inevitable; he| | simply told it backwards. But he was pretty careful with} his point of view. After all, those who patronize his plays do not “agree” with revolution (horrors!) ; | So though he presents the con- | scientious playwright’s lot as some- |what trying, he must make him philosephic rather than rebelling. ‘Wealth may not be a Simmons bed |of roses, he must emphasize, but after all—that’s Life... . Of course inserting a talented painter who was “radically inclined”—“Crale even walked once on a picket-line”—was rather reckless. But then he was just a sort of Bohemian and all the more intriguing for his harmless pranks. | | Ey Mc | |\JO ONE will deny, I think, that i Merrily is first rate “theatre.” Integrated and vivid acting, lush decor, the proper working-up of each scene to its quick-shock cur- | tain—Kaufman has got conven-i tional technique down more than pat. And then the writing. Kauf- | the hell! the postponement of the Congress| 4. The Revolutionary Upsurge in to 1935 as well as articles on the} America, seventieth anniversary of the found-| Discussion for the 7th Congress ing of the First International, the | of the C, I. entrance of the U. 8. 8. R. into the| 5. Problems of the Standard of League of Nations, the rising wave| Living of the Working Class, by of revolution in the United States,| Sinani and the strike movement in Canada.|8. The Question of the Middle There has been a steady increase | in interest in this important pub- lication, which is the organ of the| Executive Committe of the Com- munist International, and is pub- lished twice a month. Beginning with No. 20, a drive will be made to) double the circulation. Five thou-| sand copies of this issue will be printed. The full contents of No. 20 are) as follows: Strata of the Town Population, by P. Reiman Canada . Strike Struggles in Canada and Tasks of the Communist Party, by P. Barnes. etae Send your orders for a special bundle of this issue of The Com- munist International to Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City. 7:00-WEAF—Why Not Save a Few Du Anyhow?—Irvin 8, Cobb, Humorist WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frich WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Concert Orchestra; Alexander ‘Thiede, Conductor, Melodic Tone Chorus WABC-—Just Plain Bill—sSketch his own brand of rowdy cynicism to the point where it is almost satire. Not searing satire, naturally, nor satire that might accidentally scratch any member of his audience, Just brisk, good-natured fun at the expense, for instance, of the gauche,. petty-bourgeois Babbitt, model! 1922, whom Mencken had already slain (and plundered) before 1923 was over. “Your trick won't last,” warns) Crale. “You're going to go fast.”) But so long as it keeps George| Kaufman in imported liquor, what You're only alive once.| Merrily we . . | It’s an ironic coincidence that | Broadway's biggest hit (produced by its most infallible playwright) | should be a work announcing} Broadway's death. But it’s no paradox. Nothing could be more typical of Broadway than to write @ gag upon a gravestone—and then man has burnished and whetted charge three eighty-five to see it. ¥ del — AND WMHOUT NEGROES IN “THE NEIGHBORHOOD MY PROPERTY Wilt GE WORTH MUCH 7:30-WEAF—Minstrel Show WOR—McGoldrick Campaign Talk WABC—Jack Smith, Songs 1:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures OR—Studio Music WJZ—Shirley Howard, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee’s Varieties WOR—Campaign Issues — Representac tive Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WOR—Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip James, Conductor; Leonora Coréna, Soprano WABC—Farms and Farmers—Colonel Henry C. Breckinridge, Constitue tional Party Candidate for Senator 9:30-WJZ—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Charles Stars, Tenor WABC—Johnson Orchestra; Edward Nell, Baritone; Edwin C. Hill 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry's Show Boat Wor—Pauline Alpert, Piano WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABC—Gray — Orchgstra; Annette Hanshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe 9:15-WOR—Larry Taylor, Songs 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Mixed Octet; Robert Childs, Piano; Larry Larsen, Organ WABC—Waring Orchestra 9:45-WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman’s Music Hall With Helen Jepson, Soprano, and Others; Scenes From Flying High, With Oscar Shaw WOR—Campaign Talks—Governor Lehman, Senator Royal 8. Copeland, From Syracuse WsZ—Canadian Concert WABC—For Minutes in Hollye : Sketches Our Machine Age — David ©, le, of Board of Technical Re- view of Public Works: Eveline Burns, of Columbia University 10:45-WABC—Addresses by Retiring and New Commanders of American Lee sion, Miami 11:00-WEAF—Berger Orchestra WOR—Moonbeame Trio WJZ—Campo Orchestra WABC—Vera Van, Songs VEAF—Jesse Crawford, Organ BC—Little Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Dance Music (Also on WABQ WJZ, WMCA, WOR, WEVD) 11:15. \—— Contributions receiyed to the credit of Del in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, the Medical Advisory Board, In the Home, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—s500. Friends + $1.25 Lefty Admirer . 230 David Woogen . 30 Jennings 1.00 Inch Lewis .. 50 Sam_ Shushkeviel 3.00 Previously received . 5.50 Total to date ......... 8115