NEW- MASSES •• MAY, J:9Z6 IS THIS IT? IN THIS ISSUE Is th is the magazine our prospectuses THE WRITERS talked aboun We are not so sure. This, BABETTE DEUTSCH, winner of thia however , is undoubtedly the editorial which, year's "Nation" Poetry Prize, has published in al1 our prospectuses ., we promised faith .. two volumes of poetry. She has recently fully no t to write. visited Soviet Russia. As to the magazine, we regard it with ROBERT DONN is the author of "Ameri- almost complete detachment and a good deal can Foreign lnvesbnents"' and co-author with of critical interest, because we didn't make Sidney Howard of "The Labor Spy." it ourselves. ROBINSON JEFFERS' "Roan Stallion, We merely .. discovered .. it. Tamar and Other Poems," published last We were confident that somewhere in year, established him as one of the Impor- America a NEW MASSES existed, if only as tant contemporary American poets. He lives a frustrated desire. in Carmel, Calif. To materialize it, all that was needed was WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS is well to make a certain number of prosaic editorial known as physician, modernist, poet and motions. story-writer, and is the author of "In the American Grain." We made the motions, material poured in, and we .sent our first issue to the printer. NATHAN ASCH is the author of a collec- tion of vivid short stories published last Next month we shall make, experimentally, year under the title, "The Office." He lives slightly different motions, and a somewhat in Paris, different NEW MASSES will blossom pro- fanely on the news-stands In the midst of NORMAN STUDER is one of the editou our respectable contemporaries, the whiz- of the "New Student." bangs, the success-liturgies, the household M. H. HEDGES, editor of the official organ aphrodisiacs, the snob-baedekkera and the of the Electrical Workers' Union, is the department store catalogues. author of several labor novels. It's an exciting game, and we'd like very ART SHIELDS is on the staff of the much to draw you, our readers, into it. Federated Press. He has covered scores of What would you like to see in the NEW strikes in the industry of which he writes. MASSES? Do you want more cartoons? More labor stories? More satire--fiction- KAROL REMBOV is the pseudonym of a poetry? How about criticism of books, thea- young student and writer in the field of I tre, art. music, the movies) labor. How would you feel if the NEW MASSES HAL SAUNDERS WHITE is a member of went in for some confession articles) Amer• the faculty of Yale University. lea i• going through a queer period of stock• EDWIN SEA VER la a young poet and taking. Maybe we'll get some well-known critic living in New York. tired radicals to tel[ what made them tired; or induce some quite unknown people, who GEORGE STERLING is San Francisco'• are, however, rich both in experience and in poet and First Citizen . honesty , to c;lescribe their experience in SCOTT NEARING, recently returned from print, Soviet ·Russia, is well known as a radical We would like to fill a page with letters educator and author. He lectures to tens of from all over the country telling of indus- thousands of American workingmen yearly . tries, occupations, changing social customs, WHITT AKER CHAMBERS is a young the daily work and play of Americans every- poet, who recently left Columbia in protesl where . We see this as a possible feature-- against the censorship of the undergraduate a monthly mosaic of American life, in which literary magazine . the tragedy and comedy, the hopes and dreams of the most obscure American mill .town or cross-roads v.illage will be chron- icled with as much respect and sympathy THE ARTISTS by our correspo!_ldents as if they were re- WILLIAM GROPPER, remembered for his porting the political or 'artistic events of a 0 drawings in the .. Liberator .. and Dial," i• European capital Will you write us a letter now drawing regularly for the "Sunday of this sort? Will you send us ideas for World" and "Freiheit." other featured ADOLPH DEHN is a young Minnesota artist, who has been spending the past two years in Paris and Vienna . A PRIZE OF $50 DRAWING BY A. RONNEBECK STUART DAVIS is a painter and one of SIGNS OF SPRING the first contributors of the old "Masses." In order to add zest to this game of coop. erative editing which we invite you to play, ART YOUNG was with the old "Masses" we offer a prize of $50 for the best letter of from the start. He was a contributing 500 words or less submitted between now editor of the "Liberator" and is now embel- and July I. · The editors will judge the con- NEW MASSES MAY, 1926 lishing the pages of "Life" and the "Satur- test and announce the winner in the Sep- day Evening Poat." Volume 1 Number 1 tember issue, meanwhile publishing usable I. KLEIN is a young artist of promise letters as they are received. whose work was first · seen in the "New Yorker." Single copy, 25 cents Subscription $2.00 a year BOARDMAN ROBINSON is known for hi• OUR COMING-OUT PA:RTY EDITORS: .. fine drawings In the old ·"Masses" and Egmont Arens, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, James Rorty and John Sloan, "Liberator ." He accompanied John Reed The NEW MASSES had a great coming - on his first trip to Russia during the war. EXECUTIVE BOARD: out party in March, with a huge debate at WANDA GAG is a young painter who will Egmont Arens, Maurice Becker Heleff Black, Joh" Dos Po.ssos, Robert Dunn, Joseph Free- Manhattan Opera House between Scott ""'"• Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, William Gropper, Paston Hibb .en, Robert L. Leslie, Freda hold an exhibition at Weyhe'a Galleries in Nearing and a speaker from the National Kirchwey, Louis Lozowick, lames Rorty, John Sloan and Rez Stout. the fall. Security League. About two thousand per- • CONTllIBUTING EDITOllS: LOUIS LOZOWICK is a painter, and sons attended, and the discussion was broad- Sherwood Anderson, Cornelia Barns, Car/et°" Beals, Van Wyck Brooks, Howard Brubaker, author of "Modern Russian Art." He de- cast over the radio. The subject of the de- Stuart Chase, Glenn Coleman, Miguel CoVMrubio.s, Stuart Davis, Adolph Deh!', Floyd Dell, signed the sets for .. Gas,·· the mechanistic bate was "Recognition of Soviet Russia." Mas Eastman, Waldo Frank, Al Frueh, Arturo Giovanitti, Susan Gla.sJ,ell, n. l. Glinten- play recently presented in Chicago. kamp, John Howard Lawson, CltJ#de McKay, Lewis Mumford, Eugene O'Neill Elmer Rice, About the second week in May there will Lolo Ridge, Boardman Robinson, Rita Romi//y, Carl Ruggles, Car/ SandlnLouis Untermeyer, Mary Heaton Vorse, Eric Walrond, Student's League. The NEW MASSES pre- Representatives of all the big labor unions, Walter F. White, Edmund Wilson, Jr., Robert Wolf, Charles W. Wood and Art Young. sents his first published drawing. the various radical ·parties and poets, musl- BUSINESS l\lANAG:U: OTTO SOGLOW was one of the younger Ruth StOUI. ci'ans playwrights and other artists will be contributors of the "Liberator," present. There will be a concert o( modern Published monthly b;r NEW MASSES, 11,tc., Office of Publication, 39 West Eighth Street, New HANS STENGEL, formerly one of the music, speeches, and then the audience will York: Michael Gold, President; Joseph Freeman, Vice-President; Ruth Stout, Secretary; James Rorty, Treasurer. editors .of .. Simplicissimus," now contributes be invited to criticize the make-up of this Issue . Copyright, 1926, - by NEW MASSES, INC. Reg. U. S. Patent Office. to many American magazines. Application for Second Class mailing privilege pendini, A. RONNEBECK is a sculptor whose exhi- Watch the radical press for an announce- Subscribers are notified that no change of address can be effected in less than . a month. bitions in New York and Europe have at- ment of the place and time. Unsolicited manuscripts mU£t be accompanied by a stamped and addressed return envelope. tracted wide attention.