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BROADWAY BRIEFS MARY NASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES They Wave Their Hands and Handker- Bravc-Iy of It Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER He Challenged the Ruling Class Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. DRAMA Daily, Except Sunday New Phone, Orchard 1680 83 First Street, York, N. Y. IN MEMORY OF COMRADE C. E. RUTHENBERG BROADWAY BRIEFS MARY NASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES they wave their hands and handker- bravc-iy of it. It will be the curse I is the By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New Aork): i!> ANTHONY BIMBA. | chiefs, some of the handkerchiefs I of my life for the rest of my days “The Brothers Kai-amazov” months year $3.60 six months crowd • bill at the Guild, and “The Silver $6.00 per ... being SB.OO per year S4.SO six was in the summer of 1917. This I were red I push thru the ‘ that I murdered a human months $2.00 three months the thus.’ is what Cord” at tho Golden this week. The $2.60 three ITcountry was already in the clutches still closer to the platform of That conscription l to the : Piianedello play, “Right You Are If of the World War. The conscription automobile from which the speakers means youth of this nation.” Address all mail and make out checks to are addressing the demonstration. I Then he appealed to the audience You Think You Are,” will be given WORKER, First Street, New York, Y. law had been enacted by congress. at special Tuesday, DAILY 33 N. matinees Wednes- . _ TIIE "» very the platform to get rid of the 'bourgeois govern- . ' ' militarists were working over- am close to * The day and Friday at the Guild Theatre. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL I 1 1 time to whip the masses behind the I see a finely built figure arise . .. ment and abolish the conditions * * It is Ruthenberg which make -war possible. WILLIAM F. DUNNE war monster. The horizon was very Comrade Charles E. program [■ . my The Civic Repertore for . was the time in “We organize to MILLER Business Manager ( dark everywhere. The atmosphere That first .must our forces this week includes Song” on BERT Tho been meet situation,” Ruth-, “Cradle was full of blood and powder. The life that I saw him. I had the comrade Monday Friday nights Party enberg to his listeners. “We and and Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under , newspapers all over the country a member of the Socialist for shouted Wednesday Thursday matinees; not have an must organize our power to alter and the act of March S, 1879. were spreading the poisonous pro- quite some time, did “Inheritors,” Tuesday and Thursday . this . war propaganda with full speed. opportunity to see him . He moves situation. We are here to nights and Saturday matinee: Wed- Advertising rates on application. slowly from one fight to the end, to this condi- At that I was in Cleveland. hbs head direction end nesday night “Three Satur- time world, new so- Sisters”: The -socialists of Cleveland decided to another and surveys the audience tion in the to build a day night “The Master Builder”. with half-closed, but far-seeing ciety, to build new in the to organize an anti-war demonstra- his a spirit eyes. is world, to end murder, tion in order to raise a voice of pro- and piercing His face radi- end wars, to Two openings are scheduled for A Few Punctured Myths ever-present smile, but to end suffering, to end the destruc- test against the conscription law. ated with an this evening, “Menace” at the 49th recently myth forehead very tion of millions of There was in existence until a well-nourished Sunday afternoon about 2 his is wrinkled, he is lives and billions “The at It is of street and Mystery Ship” ... wealth, bring that the Chinese people were incurable pacifists and good for o’clock. I hurried to the public serious I forgot myself and the and into .existence the Garrick. eyes and my a new comradeship of the future, a man’s shirt, carried the yel square on 24th audience entirely. My little except washing the white who West Street. which inspire * on man. He brotherhood must the * * mind are this wonderful ON THE low man’s burden producing rice and tea and propagating their raises his hands the great hearts and of all men, in SCREEN indicating minds a romance of the myth, is that they will not I was on time. The workers are “The Show”, “Birds of Passage,” kind. Another which still persists, ; audience stop the applause and per- which we will have fraternity and Budapest underworld is being shown Is the star in do just beginning *to pour into the and the a drama the tropics, being imperialist powers not | mit to speak ...A few seconds equality, in which for first new of fight on a rainy day. Strange that the square. The square itself is very him at the Capitol Theatre this week not heavy ' passed and absolute silence embraced time the people will be endowed with 1 presented at the Bronx Opera House prevail on their deity to maintain a perpetual drizzle on two sides it is sur- John Gilbert, Renee Adored and. picturesque; I the square. He glances around more those inalienable rights of life, lib- this week. enough to make it impossible for the imperialists to live in comfort rounded by brick walls. On the other Lionel Barrymore head the cast. Then he speaks. 1 admire erty and happiness which the De- resorting along more. yet sufficiently substantial to prevent the Chinese from two sides are streets, one of his voice. Everybody can hear each claration of Independence says are is the film feature at the Hippodrome them street car is running. I see Charles Murray and Chester Conk- this week. a . the every to hostilities. \ word. fundamental rights- of hu- many policemen and cossacks, doz- ‘ lin in “McFadden’s Flats” the new . man being. ask you stand were enjoying a reputation for pacifism, He is a giant. His personality, We to When the Chinese ens of them, surrounding the square screen comedy showing at Moss’ faramount’s newest and latest fea- i ; his smile, his voice, his thoughts, the with us. We ask you to work with missionaries flocked to them with bibles, business men with rum from two The horses of the Broadway Theatre this week. ture, Rough Riders”, will sides. i ' very simplicity of his speech cap’ti- us to achieve this beautiful goal of “The be bayonets The preachers are very impatient. Their shown at George M. Cohen Thea- and opium and soldiers with and bombs. cossacks ; rates the They could not Socialism, the of man—- the are audience. .brotherhood “The Epic of Mount Everest,” will tie, turned their eyes to heaven and asked their deity to transform masters also 'very serious help wl.at has for today, as never before, rings out beginning to-morrow night. chance but listen to he to be presented by the Associates . awaiting their Film They are ! say them. in the cry poet of the Confucians into Christians, the business men doped their to world the of the for special showings at the Fifth ! “My friends and comrades,” says the social revolution: *j VAUDEVILLE THEATRES brains and tickled their palates and hoped that Jehovah would j Hundreds of workers, men women Avenue Playhouse, beginning March Comrade Ruthenberg, “this is not a MOSS’ BROADWAY into hopheads drunkards. Those that sur- and children, continue to pour to 21. transform them and into war for democracy. This is not a “Come shoulder shoulder Ann Codee; lbach’s Entertainers; . were the square. It is filled . and still Ere the world grows vived the attentions of the preachers and the bagmen ini war for freedom. It is not a war older. Florence Vernon and Company; The of bayonet The more people are arriving. There is The cause spreads over land and The chief features of the program Three Sailors; Thfe Four of Us. tiated into the mysteries practice by the soldiers. fer tlie liberties of mankind. It is at the Roxy’s, Broadway’s newest Christianity no more place on the square, every a war to secure the investments and sea. PALACE course in applied was complete. inch is occupied. The police the shaketh movie palace, are Gloria Swanson’s would profits of the ruling class of this Now earth and fear! Centennial week celebrating the The Chinese learned that clergymen, capitalists and soldiers not permit anyone to stand on the awaketh, latest production, “The Love of Sun- 100th birthday of American variety— country. The only reason we are picking the they joy at ya”, and “Carmen” a Vitaphone sub- have a habit of on meek so took their trusted street. in this war now is it to And last for thee and me.” Blossom Seeley with Benny Fields, The crowd because is ject with Giovanni Martinelli and Bourne and Phil Ellis; bayonets and returned the compliment, much to the disgust of enormous is very quiet. the interests of the ruling class, the Charles Van- No provocation the police “Joy at last for thee and me—of Jeanne Gordon. nessi and The Diplomats; Leo Car- those who were obliged to turn around and reclassify the hither- of can ex- capitalist class of this country wants cite it. It understands the occasion the working class, because, for the rolli; The Four Mortons; Dewey Bar- have us . to in . capi- to meek and lowly Chinese. Now the Chinese are “militarists” its purpose.
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