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copy of his novel his “Change the ‘ | CHANGE A By MICHAEL GOLD 'T TOOK Louis Adamic, the labor reporter, one year of study among hundreds of American workers to arrive at the conclusions about proletarian literature which he now publishes in an article in the Saturday Review of Literature. Now Marxists have nothing against thoroughness. ‘They believe that a man should spend some time studying a ques- tion before he arrives at its answer. On the other hand, it is very possible that the whole course of study was nothing but a sheer waste of time. It may be that the conclusions do not warrant the effort of analysis. This has been known to happen. It is well known that people have at times created and labored over tremendous contraptions for beating eggs when it was so much simpler to go into the nearest hardware shop and buy &@ quarter egg-beater. I have something of the same criticism to offer Mr. Adamic about his conclusions after the year’s study among the hundreds of Amer- ican workers. . . . The Man Without an Axe to Grind 'T IS always best to begin with a man’s political opinions before you discuss his judgments on art. MH helps clarify matters. Mr. Adamic is well known as the “man without an axe to grind.” At least, so he told us in his preface to “Dynamite” and so he as- sured us in his autobiography “Laughing in the Jungle.” A “man without an axe to grind” is one who believes that Communists are Gogmatic and doctrinaire. Personally, he claims to present the facts objectively, as he finds them, and allows the facts to present thetr own conclusions. Those interested in Mr. Adamic‘s objective presentation of the “facts” about the class struggle in America should read Anthony Bimba’s review of Adamic’s “Dynamite” in the December issue of the Communist. As a sample of his political “impartiality,” we quote, from this critical article of his on literature, parenthetical remarks which state: 1, That Mr. Adamic does not believe that the American workers will ever be radical. 2. That Mr. Adamic does not believe that there will ever be a revolutionary movement in America, The “man without an axe to grind” evidently has a few hatchets of his own to whet on the grindstone. Adamic and Proletarian Literature N LITERATURE, Mr. Adamic is no less impartial. Again we are given to understand that Mr. Adamic’s conclusions flow out of the objective facts and are not, like Communist’s facts, selected with a view to proving a foreordained point. , Nevertheless, we are soon informed that the Communist writers have been laboring under an illusion. They thought they were Marx- ists when they spoke about “proletarian literature.” O no, says Mr. Adamic, “proletarian” literature is anti-Marxist. Why? Well, for three reasons. First, because Marx never used the term. Second, because it is not Marxist to speak about a proletarian literature, and third, because Trotzky said that proletarian literature was impossible anytime, anywhere, anyhow. Point one may be true. But if Marx didy’t use the term, Lenin did, and Lenin was not a man to use words or terms idly. Point two escapes me. Mr. Adamic means, I take it, that proletarian literature is “narrow, sectarian, revolutionary-political,” which of course, by his own words, makes it anti-Marxist. Marxism is none of these things. Thirdly, if proletarian literature is impossible, according to Trotzky, what is the literature about which Mr. Adamic is writing? Bourgeois literature? Obviously not. It appears to be a kind of bastard off- spring of political ambitions. The Audience 'HE key point in the article, however, is that the workers, for whom this literature is intended, do not read it. With that point one cannot quarrel. It is true that the great mass, the great and, as yet, un-class-conscious masses do not read proletarian literature. But did it require a year’s study to find that out? It was obvious from the sales of the books. Even radical workers did not buy the books. Workers haven't two dollars and fifty cents to spend on novels. But in the circulating library of the worker's book shops, if Mr. Adamic will look, he will see that the copies are thumbed and marked. But the fact that radical workers and Communists read the books does not cut much ice with Mr. Adamfc. Because to him “proletarian literature” is primarily a literature of propaganda and it is not the radical workers who need to be propagandized but the masses of non-radical workers, I deny in the first place, that our literature is simply “propaganda.” Only a person who understands very little about the nature of Marx- ism and of proletarian literature would be capable of such a vulgari- zation. The greatest works of proletarian art are great works of literature capable of standing with the products of any class, Nexo’s “Pelle the Conqueror,” Gorky, Sholokov, are artists of great power and significance. They are “propaganda” only in fhe sense that they re- veal and strip the social results of capitalism. But what they re- veal is the truth, not wish-fulfillments. True, “truth” is a class matter; @ worker's “truth” is not a boss’s truth. Mr, Adamic sees one truth, the proletarian writer another. But from what I know of the course of history, I would venture to say that it is with the proletarian writer that the final truth lies, not with Mr, Adamic, * . The Readers of Tomorrow S FAR as audience goes, one cannot say with the assumed air of finality of Mr. Adamic that because workers do not read our writ- ings today, they never will. This is a favorite trick of Adamic’s, He himself points to the fact that the average German worker possessed an excellent Marxist library. Does Adamic think this was wrought in one or two years? Nobody is born a Marxist. The proletariat does not spring into life class-conscious and socialist. Socialism must be learned, And in the process of change, with all its social implica- tions, come spiritual changes too. A worker who becomes a Commu- nist changes. He becomes a developed worker with interests and ap- petites he did not possess before. Look at the tremendous working class reading public in the Soviet Union, Does Adamic think that the Russian worker is a phenomenon? Then so is the German and the Japanese and the Chinese and the growing French working class readers. Workers of every other country can become readers, Adamic seems to say, except the Americans. The American workers seemed to be doomed to illiteracy, movies and tabloids. I think the answer is obvious. But while I’m on the subject, I might suggest that it is about time somebody began to consider the publication of revolutionary Poems and fiction at cheap prices, in paper-backed editions, We are ready for it, we need it. * . . THE GIANT! Mike Gold, who has already filled his quota once, has nearly $40 to his credit today, has thus far raised the highest total in the drive, and is joined by Del and Ramisey, who have reached their quotas of $500 and $250 respectively. Rochester Section . E. M. Howell .. Milton Clyman . Previously Rec'd. . 1,00 Total ... sere sees 8964.39 t contributor each , “Jews Without Money,’ World” column. » Mike Gold wil! present an autographed or an original autographed manuscript of — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 [ Heroic apes Schehr Taken to Woods and Shot By WERNER HIRSCH | | | _ (The author of this article, who | Was one of the defense witnesses | in the Reichstag Fire Trial, | tells what happened to him after he testified, and gives a graphic description of “life” in a German concentration camp and in a Nazi torture-house.) | * Ky IN GENERAL the conditions of the | prisoners |very severe. The food was bad. | There was as good as no furniture | in the common living quarters. There | were so few benches that they | hardly sufficed for a quarter of the {number of prisoners to sit on, so that even at meal times most of them had to crouch on the floor. We were often roused at five | o’clock in the morning without any logical reason. The using of the | lavatories was a particular difficulty. In the prison building itself there were no lavatories and the prison- ers were only allowed to go out at definite times, and that very seldom and only for a very short time. Kicks, boxes on the ears, orders to lie down flat, do knee bending exer- cises, run around the yard and up and down the stairs—all this con- stantly occurred. The Jewish pris- oners especially were subjected to the vilest repression. Certain of the S.S. men, on duty as corporals, took particular pleasure in ways and means of torturing the prisoners. As is the case all over Germany, and perhaps still more so in Bran- denburg, the prisoners were un- scrupulously robbed. The S.S. men stole watches, money and the |greater number of parcels which | were sent to the prisoners by their relatives. In most cases, the pris- joners did not get more than one- | tenth of the contents of the par- cels. The rest went into the cup- boards of the 8.S. people. The occa- oners were regularly answered with the most horrible ill-treatment. Outrages of a sexual character often occurred. Downright satanic conditions prevailed in the so-called Jewish quarters, where the Russian white guard, Dimitrieff (in prelim- inary imprisonment), with the pro- tection and the active support of the 8.8. men, subjected the Jewish prisoners to the vilest ill-treatment and the foulest sexual perversities. From Brandenburg I was brought to Leipzig as a witness during the Reichstag trial. During my cross- examination there, among other questions a long political discussion arose on the question, whether there existed a revolutionary situation in Germany and whether the C.P. of Germany had prepared the uprising. The general opinion of our com- rades in Brandenburg was that as a result of this report and of my evidence given at the trial, we could expect inevitable repressions. Due to the general solidarity, all the comrades in my section and all over the camp were in a state of ner- vous anticipation as to what the §.S. men would do to me. One night, three days after my return from Leipzig, I was suddenly called out just as we had already lain down to sleep. I had to dress and pack my things. The general mood was such that I had every reason to expect the usual “attempt to escape.” Thefeore, I was all the more pleasantly surprised when during the night, I was taken to the police prison in Alexanderplatz in Berlin. There were many bugs in the cell here, but the following night —out of reach of the black-shirt 8.8. butchers—was one of the hap- piest of my life. This prison cell seemed almost like a sanatorium to me in comparison with Branden- ; burg. But this dream soon ended. The next morning I was taken to the State Secret Police Court in Prinz-Albrecht Street. The Com- missioner there explained to me with a sarcastic grin: “We're now taking you to a place where you will be able to think over what you said about the policy of the German C.P. during your evidence in Leip- aig.” This place was the notorious Co- lumbia House, a former military prison, now used by the Gestapo and the 8.S. as a special prison for political prisoners. One of the 22 various prisons through which I passed during my one and a half years preliminary imprisonment in Hitler Germany. When I arrived in the prison, I did not know where I was. Not until ten or twelve days later did I find out that I was in Columbia House when, for the first time, I had the opportunity of exchanging @ whispered word with another pris- oner whom I knew. My door had the notice on it. “It is forbidden to leave the cell.” The result of this was that only once, during Christ- mas, I was allowed to participate in a so-called “bear dance’—in its way a free hour in the yard. In the cell, where there was nothing but a straw sack, a board, Little Lefty MY OLE SIDE - Kick, Stoverire! in Brandenburg were | sional complaints of individual pris- | cover, eating bowl and a mug to drink from, one was not even al- lowed to have a comb or a tooth brush. Sleep at night was disturbed | by S.S. men rousing one almost every half-hour—this happened at least ten to seventeen times a night. The reason for this tactic of com- pletely weakening the prisoners was that it was necessary to prevent the prisoners from committing suicide, Restricted Use of Lavatories A special torture in this prison was the impossibility of having suf- ficient use of the lavatories. Since in the cells there were neither lava- tories nor pails, the prisoners were forced to wait for the rare occa- sions when the cell door was un- locked and they were able to go to the so-called “washing cell.” This however, took place in such a rush and under such dangerous forms, that there were actually pris- not been to the lavatory more than four to five times during a period of four weeks. An all absorbing question with which one occupied oneself during the whole day, was how to drink the minimum amount of liquid. This torture was made still worse for some of the prisoners since the S.S. men forced them to drink castor-oil. Naturally, the prisoners could never obtain any books or news- papers, so that for the prisoners in solitary confinement the isolation was applied in its most depressing form. The only relief was to set oneself a program of various prob- lems from day to day, which one could think about and discuss with oneself, and thus keep the brain active and kill time. The S.S. men labeled every prisoner in Berlin dia- lect with the name of “Paule.” Thus Short Wave The interests of the ruling class as expressed through the instru- ment of the radio communications industry are opposed to the inter- ests of the worker-amateurs. Caer oie During the past year or longer, class-conscious amateurs have been popping up now and then with the suggestion of utilizing amateur ra- dio in the movement. It dawned sufficient number of class-conscious amateurs in the country to estab- lish a trunk line which would not be closed to working class telegrams, For the last three weeks, this col- umn has been asking amateurs (and near-amateurs) to volunteer to ac- cept working class telegrams, to be- come a link in a red trunk line. In New York, the result has been encouraging. Quite a group of amateurs and transmitters has turned up. The only amateur out- side is one from Florida The class-conscious amateurs in the rest of the country either don’t read the “Daily” or don’t read it on Fridays, or don’t read the Short Wave News, or something. To ama- teurs whom we heard from a year ago we have written by both regis- tered and plain mail. We have sent jone an amateur radiogram, but there has been no answer. This is our first organizational step, and if we are to cement it, we must have an amateur outside BIS FLGHY WITH @ FAT OLD StiFF WHO'S HOLDIN! OUTON THEIR ERTS oners in Columbia House who had | upon them that there should be 8/ Six Weeks in Columbia House, German | | Torture Camp for Political Prisoners WORLD! | Dragged off to a concentration camp by the brutal Berlin Police, ers. One we later called “Slapping | Paule.” When he was on duty he came almost regularly into every cell, stood silently opposite his vic- tims ahd then suddenly him without any reason whatsoever. Another one we called “Knee- bend Paule.” When he was on duty, he gave orders as follows: “Fifty times on your knees!” If the vic- tims in question became breathless bend Paule” would say sarcastically, “You're so excited and quite out of breath. Just do another hun- dred knee bends in order to quiet down again.” A special sport which gave one the impression of being in a lunatic asylum was the “Flying Alarm.” In this case when they were bored, the S.S. men suddenly roared down the corridors “Flying alarm,” whereupon the prisoners, if they wished to avoid a thrashing, had to creep under their sleeping boards and lay there in the filth. Fiendish Tortures By far the worst was the treat- ment of some of the prisoners who were particularly hated. For exam- ple, there was a little cripple who had been in Columbia House nearly half a year on the charge of having participated in a scuffle during which an S.A, man had been killed. | Evidently there was no proof against him, since the man would have been sentenced long ago. This unfortunate cripple, completely starved and emaciated, so that he looked more like a stunted school boy than a perhaps thirty-year-old man, was daily beaten. The 8.8. men called him by the name of “hunch-backed hog.” When they unlocked the door, he was forced to stand up smartly and say: “I Radio News of New York: to establish two-way communication between New York and another city, preferably Wash- ington, D. C., and Chicago, Ill. Once this is established, we can say that we have achieved an important ba- sis for the trunk line. Gey oe Red Trunk Line: cq wkrs-hams bse qsl om. qra? qru? qtu? gke? 73. Kk x 2 Radio Clubs: No news from Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland. Since the New York Club meets only Fri- day nights (42 Union Square, one flight up), heavy thinking is being done as to where to get a full-time |club room for the operation of the | new 250-watt beauty, Tonight both the new tptg xmitter (not working yet) and a three-band D. C. Re- ceiver will be at the meeting place, | Come up and see them, 42a Fae Workers Schools: No news from | Cleveland and Sacramento, In New | be students is nine. If eleven more don’t write to this column in a hurry, expressing their desire to take a communications course as there may be no such course in the N.Y.W.S. this term. However, prep- arations are going on, and one of these days the school administra- tion will receive a detailedeplan as to instructors, course, equipment, ete, Not Waiting for Pie in the Sky! they were also named by us prison- | slapped | and exhausted as a result, “Knee- | | York, so far, the number of would- | outlined in last week’s column, | Meyerhold, Sexual Outrages Prac- ticed on Jewish Prisoners am an assassin.” TI ally followed bj It is hardly poss how this weak bo INTERNATIONAL THEATRE 2, 1984 " the Inter- national tionary i by Theatre. Reviewed by BEN BLAKE was gener- ks and blows le to understand was able to re- | S months there tain life after half a year of this issue of this suffering. ae magazine The acme of these bea the so-called cellar were atrocious t prisoners, whereby were gathered together | shouts of “Come down for rid. Between covers has appeared some of tl os 1 est material on the theory and lar thrashing.” This ill-treatmen nique of the theatre arts ever was divided up, according to “wi ach print. Also, it is the only power from 1 to 5 If it os case of “cellar thrashing No. 3”, this what | meant that the victims had to go reyolut: afterwards to the doctor. “Wind | 7,; power 4 and 5” meant that the|j. | victim had to be brought out of the | cellar on a stretcher. | g accom y theatre i 1 Theatre No. 2 t reaches a new high standard of quality. The Mar: approach to the theatre is already yielding fine fruit is t Among the most brutal outrages which was committed in Columbia House, was that of injecting cam-| The three articles by great mas- phor and hydrochloric acid into the | ters of jet theatre —“On sexual organs of a number of pris- | Plays ar hts,” by Max! oners. With terrible internal in-|Gorky, “On Ideology and Tech- juries and inflammations, with torn | nOlogy in the Theatre,” by V. Mey- intestines, these unfortunates were | @Thold, and “From the Diary of taken from Columbia House, some | =- B. Vakhtangov,’—written in each | to the police prison in Alexander- | Cas With clarity and simplicity, are platz and some to the State Hos-|™eaty contributions to the under- pital. These cases, the victims of | Standing of fundamental creative which had been seen by several of | Problems. my fellow prisoners, occurred some | | time before I was brought to Col-| director who died in 1922, writing umbia House, | back in 1919 before the revolution- I myself left Columbia House | ary theatre existed, gives a brilliant with only a stiff knee. Not until| analysis of what will constitute the two or three months later was I|new theatre. He also has valuable able to bend my knee again. Com- | guidance to offer on the training of | pared to the former ill-treatment | the actor, and on other theatrical | which I had endured in the Bran-j| problems. Meyerhold’s article is denburg concentration camp, Col- | rich in fine ideas, and is especially | umbia House was, for my personal | valuable because it was intended to conditions, a considerable improve-| explain to the leaders of amateur ment. But it might have been|dramatic groups in Moscow the otherwise. Later, when I had al-| principles upon which his famous ready been transferred to the Oran- | system is based. Gorky’s vividly ienburg concentration camp, I was | presented analysis of playwriting informed by another prisoner, also | problems contains observations that from Columbia House, of the fol- | hold good for the creative artist in [lowing incident which occurred | any field, | thereon: December. 1ath: | In the article, “Marx and Engels | Anonymity of a Number Jon Problems of On December 12th this comrade | George Lukas presents material and John Schehr were taken down | giving some of the basic views of into the cellar of Columbia House | the founders of Marxism on liter- | for a bath. The S.S. men who/ ary questions, showing their posi- | brought them down asked him, | tion to be for realism as a creative | pointing to Schehr, “Do you know | method. A. Gvosdev, writing on the | this fellow?” He answered in the| “Theatre of Feudal Society,” gives negative. “What, you filthy Jew, | an interesting picture of the strug- do you say that you don’t know the | gle within the medieval theatre of | leader of the German C.P.?” Com-| the reactionary forces of church | rade Schehr interfered, so as to | save the other: “That is very pos- | lutionary bourgeoisie. sible. I am unknown in Berlin, o a a since I worked publicly most ex- | clusively in Hamburg and Hanover.” The S.S. man then turned to the | ¥ mative but other prisoner: “Yes, we have shown Schehr how the wind blqws here. | But. soon we're going to get some- | one whom we are waiting for with THER features include an infor- insufficient critical | and Dramatist,” by R. Pelse, an | analysis of “Races,” the exiled Ger- | man playwright F. Bruckner’s con- | » Wi fused play about anti-semitism, by tience. irsch from | USE a ee ee i to | Heinrich Diament; a provocativ him!” r | article on “Jazz and Negro Music, At that time I had already been | over two weeks in Columbia House. | The man had only to go up one) story higher to see me. The fact | that from the very moment of their | arrival in prison the majority of | prisoners are only known by num- bers was very favorable for me here. I was called by my number, “nine- teen seventy-five.” And in all prob- | ability the incognito of Number 1975 had sheltered me from more severe ill-treatment. | Vivid Memoirs of Old Bolshevik Describe Illegal Czarist Days lutionaries,” the gallant working class fighters who braved jail, tor- ture and exile to build up the movement that swept the tsar off The hero of Columbia House was | a es .|his throne and launched socialism Comrade John Schehr. He was sub liar cielselas, 4a vividly ’phokreyid by A few weeks after I was transferred | ¥¢@'s in Underground Russia,” now from Columbia House to Oranien-|Pelng distributed by International burg, Comrade John Schehr, to- | Publishers. d : gether with Comrades Schoenhaar,| Leaving a little White Russia Steinfurth and Schwarz were taken|town when a girl, Bobrobskaya out of Columbia House one evening | taught study circles, distributed and shot in the woods, Comrade | revolutionary literature, organized Schehr was murdered, because they | trade unions—all the activities wished to do away with a witness| which Tsarism persecuted most in defense of Comrade Thaelmann. | savagely as “unlawful.” Abroad, | Since none of the tortures had suc- | Bobrobskaya met leaders of the |ceeded in breaking his spirit, the | | fascist murderers silenced him with | the revolvers. is a feature of the book. |Michigan ILD to Show Amusing Soviet Comedy ie | DETROIT, Mich.—Under the aus- | pices of the International Labor Defense, an entertaining picture of a Soviet comedy, entitled “Sen- tenced to Health,” will be shown on the following dates, at the follow- ing places: Friday, Dec. 14, 11:30 p.m., mid- night show, Echo Theatre, Oakland at Josephine;, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m., Pattern Makers Hall, 2467 Grand River; Saturday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m., in League of Struggle for Ne- | gro Rights, cor. St. Antoine and Watson; Saturday, Dec, 22, 8 pm. Workers Center, 8951 12th St., cor. Taylor; Thursday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m, Martin Hall, 4959 Martin Ave.; Tuesday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m., Serbian Hall, Grant and Dequindre Sts. There will also be news reels and Russian dancing on the stage. The entire proceeds will go to the In- ‘ternational Labor Defense. WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WsZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—interview With Team-of- Four National Bridge Champions WOR—Front-Page Drama WJZ—Plantation Echoes; Mildred Bal- ley, Songs; Robison Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Hirsch Orchestra WOR—Mystery Sketch WZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—The O'Netlls—Sketch 7:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra—Sketch WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8;00-WEAF—Bourdon Orchestra Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet; Football—Grantland Rice WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WJZ—Dick Liebert, Orgen; bruster and Kraus, Courtlandt, Song: WABC—Elwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WOR—Katzman Orchestra; Lucile Arm- by del iim RESPECTRBLE AND WHAT'S Mo! RE THE PREACHER “THAT COMES “1 OUR HOUSE. “HAT FIGHTIN IS A SAYS ~ AND NOY FLICKER OvT RESPECTABLE LIKE # MEEK ‘ te) CuRIStiaN Sheep! SOIN'~6 FIGHT LIKE A LION FoR HIS RIGHTS Vakhtangov, the brilliant young | Dramaturgy,” | and nobility against the rising revo- | | article on “Lunacharsky—Art Critic | by A. Alchwang; a theoretical ar- | The life of the “professional revo- | world labor movement and her re- | telling of conversations with them | WJZ—Jewels of Enchantment—Sketch Page 5 International Theatre Offers Articles by Gorky, Vakhtangov ticle on the dance by I. Chernote skaya, and brief articles and statis- tics on the Soviet theatre, including the figures of the Second Five-Year Plan Let professional theatre workers n the U.S.A. ponder these bare fig- ures: By the end of 1933, the nu ber of professional theatres in US.8.R. reached 0, wi more than in 1914 pitali Professional theatre workers reached the number of 47,000—and these do not know unemployment. In the international field, there are several good articles, better than previous mater: Readers will thrill to the heroism of the revolutior theatre in China (simply ted by R. Tru), where | its work goes on intelligently and resourcefully, despite bloody re- pression by the Kuomintang and fascist Blue Coats. Very valuable to the workers theatre is M. Lode’s account of the controversy within the Czechoslovian workers’ the- atre movement over the question of logans vs. realism revolutionary drama. The p ion of the LU.R.T. leadership confirms the general line worked out by the League of Work- in ers Theatre of the U.S.A last two years—for power the creations, for the full ] utilization of the technical re- sources of theatrical art: Propa- ganda is not enough. $s Rte 18 interesting to read, too, that in England at last a revolutionary professional theatre, the Left The- atre of London, has been formed, It seems to be modeled much along the lines of the Theatre Union. The author of this article, Andrew Gra- ham, reports that the British Work- ers Theatre Movement (W.T.M.) is beginning to contact professional theatre workers, and now has three of them in charge of W.T.M. groups. This is an encouraging development in what was until recently one of the most sectarian of all workers theatre movements. Finally, there are interesting bio- graphical sketches of directors and playwrights—of E. F. Burian, the Czechoslovakian, of Korea Senda of Japan, of the young Englishman, | Andre Van Gyseghem, and of the German, Bert Brecht—the last, one of the most brilliant literary | sketches it will ever be your pleas- ure to read. It is by the Soviet dramatist, Tretyakov. Brief inter- national chronicles and news of the LU.R.T. sections conclude the issue, With all its improvements, Inter- national Theatre No. 2 still has | shortcomings. First and most glar- ing is the lack of a single article on the most influential of all the theatrical arts today—the film, There are also no articles on the | United States, though the English edition is circulated chiefly in the U. S. and Great Britain. The edi- tors have been having difficulty in securing such articles. American theatre craftsmen and writers have an opportunity to perform an im- portant service by writing for I. T. WORKING WOMAN NEEDS HELP The Working Woman magazine | asks through this column for two | things. First—do you have a radio | in good condition, that you could give the Working Woman? Will you | do typing for the Working Woman? |In both oases see Margaret Cowl, | 9th Floor, 50 East 13th St, New | York, N. ¥. ANOTHER WINNER ‘ With $70.90 to its credit today || Ramsey exceeds his $250 quota || by more than $35! Look at him |] smile! Pen and Hammer Science Press League ...., Editorial Staff D. W, Business Staff D. W. Section 3 a Previously Ree’d. 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WOR—News WiJZ—Denny Orchestra ‘ee ABC Nelson Orchestra ‘15-WEAF—Ferdinando Orchestra us so Okc Moonbeams Trio -WMCA—Dance Music (Also WEAR, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WEVD) OVER THE TOP Little Lefty is proud and triumphant! Del today sur- passes his quota of $500. He de- clares, furthermore, that about $50 is due to his credit from af- fairs held during the past week. Send those proceeds in pronto! Business Office D. W...$ 9.80 Editorial Staff D. W. 5.00 Section 3 . 5.00 Previously ee 488.07 Total ........6+.. $507.87 Del will present a beautiful colored Portrait of his cartoon characters every day to the highest contributor,