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VoL. XIV, No. 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 1, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. ..• 3 Correspondence • . . • • . • • . • • . • • • • • • . • . . • • 34 Keeping the Banks Solvent...... 6 Review and Comment Americanism .•.••••. Henry George Weiss 6 Revolutionary Literature of 1934 The Fight For Social Insurance. • • • . • • • • 8 Granville Hicks 36 One Year of the Weekly New Masses A Prospect for Edna Millay A Statement to Our Readers and an · Stanley Burnshaw 39 Appeal • • ••••• ••••••. .• • • • . • • ••• 9 New Documents on the Bolshevik Father Coughlin's Army .••.. A. B. Magi! 11 Revolution ...•..••.•.•• Sam Darcy 40 Gagging The Guild •••• William Mangold 15 The Unheard Voice Life of the Mind, 1935 Isidor Schneider 41 Genevieve Taggard 16 Music ...... Ashley Pettis Will the Farmer Go Red? The Theatre 5. The Dark Cloud ...... John Latham 17 The Innocent Propaganda of Maxwell Take This Hope ...... •... Richard Giles 19 Anderson ••....• Michael Blankfort 44 In the Nazis' Torture House Other Current Shows .•.••••.••••..•• 45 Karl Billinger 20 Disintegration of a Director ••. Peter Ellis 45 The Man at the Factory Gate Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • . • • . 46 Charles Henry Newman 27 Drawings by H. R. 7598-A Debate on Social Insurance William Sanderson, Mackey, Crockett Mary Van Kleeck ,ys. I. M. Rubinow 28 Johnson, Phil Wolfe, Phil Bard. VoL. XIV, No. 2 CONTENTS JANUARY 8, 1935

Editorial Comment . . • ...... • ...... • • . 3 Arming the Masses .••.••••. Ben Field 25 Betrayal by the N.A.A.C.P. •. • ...... • 6 American Decadence Mapped Terror in "Liberal" Wisconsin...... 8 .Samuel Levenson 25 The Truth About the Crawford Case Fire on the Andes •••... Frank Gordon 26 Martha Gruening 9 Brief Review ••••••••••••••• , • • • . • • 27 Moscow Street...... Charles B. Strauss 15 Book Notes •••••••••••••••.••.•••••• 27 The Auto Workers Face 1935 Art A. B. Magi! 16 Design for a Parasite Class Man on a Road ..••..••.... Albert Maltz 19 Stephen Alexander 28 Bread Line ....•.•...... •... Dee Vagrlen 21 Current Theatre .•••.•.••.••...•... S. B. 29 Correspondence . • . • • • • • • • . • • • ...... • • . • 22 Between Ourselves .•.••..••..•..•.•••... 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Material for a Note on Shakespeare William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Russell Stanley Burnshaw 23 T. Limbach. VoL. XIV, No. 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 15, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... • • . • • . • • . . . • . • • 3 What .Spies Are Made Of Roosevelt Tells Congress...... 8 Isidor Schneider 25 The Fight for Bread. .• . • • . • • • • . • • • • . • • • 8 An Incomplete Indictment What Is Happening in the Saar Corliss Lamont 26 Ilya Ehrenbourg 9 Sidetracking American Thought Correspondence ...... 15 Maxwell Bodenheim 27 Back of the Yards .•..•....•. Jane Benton 16 Brief Review • • • • • . • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • . 27 2,000 Workers Dying on a Job Music: Bernard Allen 18 A Music School for Workers White Guards of the World Ashley Pettis 28 Harold Ward 19 Not a Dry Eye .•.••••••. Robert Forsythe 29 A Man· and a Woman ••..•. Ernst Toller 20 Sweet LeRoy •••••••••..••.••. Peter Ellis 29 Review and Comment ••..•.••.••••••••• 23 Ode to Liberty ••••.•.. Michael Blankfort 30 A New Direction for Criticism Between Ourselves ••••••.•..•••••••••••• 30 •· Stanley Burnshaw 23 Drawings by Lenin on Renegade Socialism Russell T. Limbach, Crockett Johnson, L M. Lerner 24 John Arrow. VOL, XIV, No. 4 CONTENTS JANUARY 22, 1935

Editorial Comment , .. , ..... , . •. . . • • • • 3 Inside Is the Wrong Side, Fallada The Saar Plebiscite...... • 6 John Norman 22 Students in Revolt...... 7 Pretty Pictures •••• Russell T. Limbach 24 A Year of the Guild...... 7 Short Stories in America. , Alfred Hayes 24 Our Congress and Theirs ... Michael Gold 8 Book Notes ••.••..•..•••...••.••..•• 24 The Sacramento Trials.,, .Jack Warnick 11 Brief Review • . . • • . • • • . . • • • . • • • • . . • 25 2,000 Dying on a Job .•.••. Bernard Allen 13 Art: Murals by Burck and Laning Hurrah for Mr. Goldstein ..... Sue Varna 14 Stephen Alexander 26 Songs About Lenin .•.• , .. , ••.• , ••. , , • • • 15 The Theatre •••.••.••. Michael Blankfort 28 Will the Farmer Go Red? The Dance .•..•••.•• , •• Horace Gregory 28 6: The Way Out ...... John Latham 16 Chapayev Is Here ...... Robert Forsythe 29 Correspondence ••...... , ••.••.•..• , . 18 Between Ourselves • . • • . . • . . . • . • • . • • . • • • 30 Review and Comment. . . . • . . . • • . • • . • . .. . 20 Drawings by A Call for an American Writers' William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Hoff, Congress ...... , • 20 paintings by Jacob Burck and Edward To Explain-or to Change? Laning, photographs by Margaret John Strachey 21 Bourke-White. VoL. XIV, No. 5 CONTENTS JANUARY 29, 1935

Editorial Comment...... 3 Vridar Hunter Betrayed .. Jack Conroy 25 Security-For Wall Street...... 6 Civilization Rampant The Vets March Again...... 6 Bernhard J. Stern 25 The Red Plot Thickens. • . . • ...... 8 Book Notes •....•.•.•.••.•••...•.•.. 26 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy Theatre 1. Testimony that the Dickstein Com- Waiting for Lefty ... Stanley Burnshaw 27 mittee Suppressed ... John L. Spivak 9 Artef Presents "Dostigayev" Aspects of Soviet Art ..... Louis Lozowick 16 Joshua Kunitz 28 Agnes Smedley in Danger...... 20 The British Are Coming, Boom! Correspondence . . . • ...... 21 Robert Forsythe 29 Review and Comment...... • . 22 Between Ourselves .•...••.....••••...... 30 What is a Proletarian Writer? Drawings by William Rollins, Jr. 22 Russell T. Limbach; Paintings by Ser Without Benefit of the A. F. of L. geyevich Petrov-Vodkin and Eugene Robert Dunn 23 Aleksandrovich Katzman. VoL. XIV, No. 6 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 5, 1935

Editorial Comment . .. • ...... 3 Review and Comment ...... 23 Writers in Union Square...... 7 A Test for Critics ..•. Granville Hicks 23 The Students Fight War ...... ·...... 7 Descent from Marx to Scott via Veblen Tanaka Still Talks...... 8 Addison T. Cutler 24 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy Still Waters-Still Hollow Bernard Smith 26 2. Morgan Pulls the Strings Brief Review ...... • . . • . 27 John L. Spivak ...... 10 Music .•...... ••...... •.. Ashley Pettis 28 Prospect for an Auto Strike .•. A. B. Magi I 15 The Auvilles' Songs ...•... L. E. Swift 28 The Greatest Story ..••.•.•• Nathan Asch 17 England "Revives" .....•.. Harold Ward 19 The Theatre: Mr. Knopf Makes a Sale Intermission ...... Robert Forsythe 29 George Simpson 20 The Same Old Warner •.••.... Peter Ellis 30 Correspondence ..••.•.•.....••••...... 21 Between Ourselves • ...... • • ...... • • • 30 VoL. XIV, No. 7 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 12, 1935

Editorial Comment...... 3 Review and Comment ••.••...••.••..•.. 23 The Picket Line Grows...... • . 6 Thomas Boyd, Communist California Justice ...... 7 Granville Hicks 23 A Prison in Russia ...... Lester Cohen 9 Portraits of Two Liberals "Anarchy" in Arkansas .... Harold Preece 1+ Edwin Berry Burgum 24 Two Poems ...... •.... Martha Millet 15 Reluctant Eyes on China Valentine Greetings Isidor Schneider 26 Drawn by Bernarda Bryson, Adolph A Sitwell Unconfirmed Dehn, Mackey, Redfield, Anton Ref Muriel Rukeyser 26 regier, William Sanderson, Ben Shahn, Brief Review . . . • . • . . . . . • . • • . . • . . 27 Art ¥ oung; verse by Dan Shays 16 The Theatre: God's in His Heaven Minority Peoples in Two Worlds Michael Blankfort 28 Langston Hughes 18 Land of Sweet Lorgnettes One Writer's Position ••.. Horace Gregory 20 Robert Forsythe 29 Do You Hear? .•..••..•.. Mildred Gaims 2t Between Ourselves •...... •• 30 Correspondence • ...... 22 Drawings by: Phil Bard, R. T. Limbach VoL. XIV, No. 8 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 19, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • . . . • • . • . • • • • • • • • 3 Brief Review • . • • . • • . • • . • • . . . • • • • • • 24 Seventh Soviet Congress • • • . . . . • . • • • . . . . 6 Art ..•...... ••.•.••. Stephen Alexander 26 Columbus Circle .•••••.•.. Will Lawrence 8 The Theatre Bruce Minton 9 International Theatre Week Trial by Vigilantes .••••••. Mark Marvin 27 Btown Shirts in Zion ...•. Robert Gessner 11 Helen Howe ...•••.•••.. Orrick Johns 27 Women and Communism •.. Rebecca Pitts 14 The Gilded Lily ..••....•••.. Peter Ellis 27 Biscuits and Blackjacks .• Edward Newhouse 18 Lady Macbeth of Mzensk ... Ashley Pettis 28 Correspondence ••••••••....••....•~. • . • • 20 Five Star Final. •..•••••. Robert Forsythe 29 Review and Comment ..•.•••...••.....• 21 Between Ourselves . . . • • • . . . . . • • . • • . . . • 30 Another Writer's Position Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Richard Edwin Seaver 21 Correll, Ned Hilton, William Sander Day Dreams in Life ••... Leon Dennen 22 son, Mackey; reproduction of a paint Shadow of Philanthropy .. Loren Miller 23 ing by Lydia Gibson. VoL. XVI, No. 9 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 26, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • ...... • . . . • . 3 Review and Comment...... • . • • . • • . 22 The Dickstein Report...... 6 The Fetish of Being Outside Official Soviet-Baiting . . . . . • . • . • • . • • • . . . 7 Mericle! LeSueur 22 What the Gold Clause Means New Form and New Content John Irving 9 Isidor Schneider 23 Seventy-five Thousand Captive Miners Dead Flowers in Lovely Vases Amy Schechter 10 Obed Brooks 24 Notes from the Road ....••• John Strachey 14 A Holy Wafer for the Starving Opium-For the People ..•. Harold Ward 15 Sylvia Glass 25 Letters from America: ...••••.•..••.•.. 16 The Theatre .••••••••• Michael Blankfort 26 How They Gyp the Teachers, by Boyd The Dance ••.••••.••.. Stanley Burnshaw 27 Wolff; Stretch-out in the Army, by Art ••.••.••••.••..••• Stephen Alexander 28 J. Arnold-Williams, Organizing Wall Stuff of Life ...•...... •. Robert Forsythe 29 Street, · by John Stone. Hollywood Makes "History" .•. Peter Ellis 29 Eisler: Maker of Red Songs .. Ashley Pettis 18 Between Ourselves ...... •••.•.••.•. 30 Three Southern Sketches .••••• Boris Israel 19 Drawings by: Limbach, Eugene Chodrow, Correspondence ...••.••.•.....••••••.••• 21 William Sanderson, Philip Reisman. VoL. XVI, No. 10 CONTENTS MARCH 5, 1935

Editorial Comment...... 3 Brave New Historians .. Henry Cooper 23 The One Busy Industry...... • 6 Pain Without Finish Fascism Moves on Africa...... 7 Norman MacLeod 23 Minnesota's Ramsay MacDonald Worship at Dusk John Strachey 9 Charles B. Hatchard 24 Doctors in the Red .••... Martha Andrews 11 Jacob Burck's America The Fight for Thaelmann ...Albert Viton 13 Stephen Alexander 25 I Handed Out Relief ...... Tom Johnson 14 The Dance ...... Edna Ocko 26 Hunger and Revolt Music .•.•..•...••...... Max Margulis 27 Drawings by Jacob Burck 16 The Theatre: Strikes in the Skyscrapers Awake and Sing!. .. Michael Blankfort 28 Edward Newhouse 18 The Soviet Film ...... Peter Ellis 29 Correspondence . . . • • . . . . • • . . . . • • . • • . . . . 19 Review and Comment ...... 21 Between Ourselves • . . . • ...... • • . • . . . . • • 30 And a Great Personality Drawings by W. T. Massey 22 Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck. VoL. XIV, No. 10 CONTENTS MARCH 12, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... 3 Poet and Revolutionist ... Isidor Schneider 20 Two Years of the New Deal...... 6 Correspondence...... • ...... 21 Mellon and His Millions...... 6 Review and Comment...... 22 The Macaulay Ruling...... 7 The Consumer Consumed Thomas: Prince of Straddlers Matthew Josephson 22 . James S. Allen 9 Approach and Arrival. .Edwin Seaver 23 Whose National Guard? ...... Ben Page 11 The Communist Answer Engineers on the Scrap Heap Corliss Lamont 24 Martha Andrews 12 \Vhy Wait? ...... Edward Newhouse 25 Letters from Prison: Our Scientific Heritage Sacramento County, Calif. David Ramsey 25 Donald Bigham and Martin \Vilson 16 The Eisler Concert ...... Ashley Pettis 27 Sebastian County, Arkansas Art...... Stephen Alexander 28 Horace Bryan 16 The Well of Insanity .... Robert Forsythe 29 Ellis Island, New York .. Christ Popoff 16 Between Ourselves ...... 30 Peat-Bog Soldiers ...... Hanns Eisler 18 Drawings by William Gropper, Russell T. I, Jim Rogers ...... STanley Burnshaw 19 Limbach, Raphael Sayer, Dan Rico. ------VoL. XIV, No. 11 C 0 N T E N T S MARCH 19, 1935 Editorial Comment • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • 3 Formula for a Best Seller Civil War In Greece...... 8 James T. Farrell 23 Thieves Falling Out ...... ,... 8 The Side-Step Philosophy The Soviet in Cuba .•.•. Josephine H-erbst 9 Theodore Draper 24 Saboteurs of Education ... Frank Harrison 12 Goethe and the Jews ... Kenneth Burke 25 Detroit's Labor Candidate .... A. B. Magi! H Vision Without Vision .. Isidor Schneider 26 For an Unborn Child .•... Willard Maas 15 Brief Review . . . . • . . . . . • . • ...... 26 Cartoons from the Foreign Press...... 16 The Dance ...... Stanley Burnshaw 28 Let 'Em Eat Horsepower ... Harold Ward 18 Can You Tell Us Apart in a Crowd? Art ....••...•...... Stephen Alexander 29 Saul Leavitt 19 Movies ...... Peter Ellis 29 Friends of McCormick ..... Richard Giles 20 Between Ourselves ....•.•.....•...••..• 30 Correspondence ...... • . . . . 21 Drawings by Review and Comment Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper; The Negro Writer and the Congress photograph by Grace Abbott; repro E. Clay 22 duction of cartoons by foreign artists. VoL. XIV, No. 12 CONTENTS MARCH 26, 1935

Editorial Comment • . . • ...... 3 Malraux's Sketch Book 23 Der Tag Again...... 8 Isidor Schneider From \Yar to War •. Charles Hatchard 24 Case. . . . • ...... • . . . . . 9 The Strachey "Rediscovering America" Fascist .Style The N.A.A.C.P. "Denies"...... 9 Ben Goldstein 26 Kingfish Huey: Brief Review . • • . . . . • . . . . . • . • • . . . • . 26 Expose and Interview ... Sender Garlin 10 The Theatre: Order in the Court! ...... Iris Hamilton 14 "Awake and Sing!"-A Protest by Teaching-A Peon Profession Abner Biberman; a Reply by Michael Martha Andrews 16 Blank fort . . . • . . . • ...... 27 Fremont Older .....•.....• Michael Gold 19 Art ...... Stephen Alexander 28 Bertrand Russell ...... •.. Robert Schuman 20 Movies ...... Peter Ellis 28 Correspondence • ...... • . . . 21 Between Ourselves ...... • . . 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Strachey and the Pundits William Sanderson, William Gropper, Addison T. Cutler 22 Ned Hilton, Russell T. Limbach. VoL. XV, No. 1 CONTENTS APRIL 2, 1935 Editorial Comment...... 3 Heavenly Visitation .• James T. Farrell 32 Strachey Testifies...... • ...... • 6 Greenwood's Second Novel Hunger in Harlem...... 8 Granville Hicks 33 The March toward Moscow...... 9 Our Greatest Mural Art I Escaped from Cuba Charmion von Wiegand 34 Pablo de Ia Torriente-Brau 11 The Big News .... Herman Michelson 35 Keep Them from Thinking! Feeble Verity and False Wonder James Wechsler 12 Clarence Hill 37 Fight the Gag Bills ...... Roger Baldwin 13 Correspondence ...... 3 8 Two Poems ...•...... •.. A. B. Magi! 14 A Task for the Writers' Congress What Happened in Harlem Robert Gessner 39 Louise Thompson 15 The Theatre Cuba-Sick for Freedom Union's "Black Pit," by Joseph Josephine Herbst 17 Theatre North; Archibald MacLeish's "Panic," Can We Pay for H. R. 2827? 42 Dr. Joseph Gillman 20 by V. J. Jerome ...... Jailbreak .....•...•...... Tom Johnson 22 Art ...... Stephen Alexander 45 The Red Stick Brigade ..... Joshua Kunitz 26 Between Ourselves ...... 46 The Origin of Music .. ,Sergei Tchemodanov 30 Stuffed Bird ...... Isidor Schneider 31 Drawings by Review and Comment...... 32 William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Toward Marxist Criticism Jacob Burck, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Norbert Guterman 32 Marsh, William Sanderson. VoL. XV, No. 2 CONTENTS APRIL 9, 1935 Editorial Comment...... 3 Review and Comment Slow Starvation. . . . • • • . . • . . • . . • . . . . • . • . 6 Only One Subject ..•..... Dale Curran 21 The Campus Strikes! • • • . • ...... • • • . . • . 6 Billinger's Fatherland .. Joseph Freeman 22 The Inflation-What It Is...... English Poets .••.... Orrick Johns 23 7 Sympathy is not Enough Heil Hitler ..•...... •.. William Randorf 9 Gilbert Douglas 24 Southern Mill Workers Framed Brief Review. • ...... • • . . . • • . . • • . 25 Dan Shays 13 The Theatre Two Red The Rape of Abyssinia .... Bruce Minton 14 Plays on Broadway Stanley Burnshaw Acorns: 27 Short Story .• •Marie Teresa Leon 16 Art ...... •.• Stephen Alexander 28 Letters from a Farm Organizer Raining No More .....•.. Robert Forsythe 29 David Lurie 17 Between Ourselves ...••.....•...•...... 30 To Our Readers 0 • 0 o •••••• o o o o • o o o Uncle Sam-Farm •••• o o 30 Mortgagor Drawings by Robert F. Hall 18 William Gropper, Scheel, Boris Gorelik, Correspondence ...... • • • . . • • • • • • . . • • • • . 20 RusseJI T. Limbach. •" VoLt_xv, No. 3 CONTENTS APRIL 16, 1935 Editorial Comment . . . . • . • • . • . • • • • . • • . • • 3 The Hunted and Booted .•. Jack Conroy 21 Statistics of Hunger...... • . .. • 8 S.hallow Deeps ..•••• , . Granville Hicks 22 The Students Teach...... 9 Analysis of Communication Mail-Order Dictatorship .•.•. Loren Miller 10 Norbert Guterman 23 Palm Springs, Calif••.... Irene Kilbourne 12 Hill 25 Coming: "A Damn Big Strike" Too Many Sonnets •• , ••• Clarence Amy Schechter 13 The Theatre .•.•.• , .••. ,,,, ••. Ben Blake 26 Heard at Dnieprestroi. .... Robert Gessner 15 Movies: Moscow Laughs •••••• Peter Ellis 28 Why I Quit Liberalism ••. Bruce Crawford 16 Down with the Novel When Counter-Revolution Wins Robert Forsythe 29 Henry Cooper 17 Between Ourselves •.•• , . • • • . • . • • • • . • • • 30 Correspondence • • . • • . . • . • . . . • • ...... • • 20 Review and Comment Drawings by Required Reading for Writers Russell T. Limbach, William Sander George Dimitrov 21 son, Mackey, William Gropper. VoL. XV, No. 4 CONTENTS APRIL 23, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... • 3 Agrarianism •...... Rob Hall 24 Socialists Hedge Again...... 6 Whose United States? ... Ed Newhouse 25 Letters From America...... • .. . . 8 Recent Magazines .. Stephen Alexander Coughlin Crusades Against Labor Isidor Schneider 25 A. B. Magil 10 Brief Review • ...... 26 Wildcat Coal...... Necho Allen 13 Current Theatre ...... Allen Chumley 27 Soviet Asia Sings ...... Joshua Kunitz 15 Strike Sweeps the Campus Art ...... Stephen Alexander 28 James Wechsler 19 Movies ...... Peter Ellis 28 Correspondence ...... 21 The Dance ...... Stanley Burnshaw 29 Review and Comment The Book Union ...... 30 Waldo Frank and the Left Between Ourselves ...... • , ••.... 30 Edward Dahlberg 22 , Drawings by The Path of Regeneration , Russell T. Limbach, Louis Lozowick, John Howard Lawson 23 Martin, Mackey, Hainsley. EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MlcHABL GoLD, EuGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE H1co, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RuSSELL T, LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELION, JOIEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF, WILLIAM BROWDER, Busine11 Ma1Ul{Jer. ALLAN TAUB, Mid-Western RepresenUJi"e. Published weekly by the NEW MA8BBS, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1935, NBW MAssES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permiBBion. Entered aa second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $8.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and :Mexico. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 : Foreign $4.60 a year: six months $2.50 : three montbs $1.25. Subscribera are notified that no change of address can be effeeted In less than 2 weeks. THE NEw :MASSES 178 welcomes the work of new writers, In prose and verae, and of artists. :MSS must be accom- -- panled by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pays for contributions. •• ~ , • VoL. XV, No. 5 CONTENTS APRIL 30, 1934 Editorial Comment ...... 3 Review and Comment Red Leaves of Red Books .. Richard Wright 6 For a Literary United Front The "Security" Bill...... 8 Matthew Josephson 22 There are Adventures and Adventures Our First Writers' Congress...... 9 Otis Ferguson 23 Dreiser Denies He is Anti-Semitic...... 10 Soviet Penology .. Victor A. Yakhontoff 24 Trying to Lock Up a Union Masterpieces ...... Corliss Lamont 25 Walter S. Pickard 11 When Lefty Came to Boston Earl Browder: A Profile .... Joseph North 13 Charles Hatchard 27 The Lecture ••.••...... Jose Mancisidor 15 "The Whites of Their Eyes" Robert Forsythe 29 May Day Song, Words by Robert Gessner, Pie in the Sky ...... Orrick Johns 29 Music by L. E. Swift ...... 16 Between Ourselves ...... 30 Middle-Ground Writers Drawings by Stanley Burnshaw 19 Art Young, William Gropper, Jacob Correspondence ...... , ...... 21 Burck, Redfield, Limbach. EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EuGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK }OHNI, JosHuA KuNITZ, RussELL T. LIMBACH, HERHAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NoRTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Ma111Jget'. ALLAN TAus, Mid-Western Repreunuti"e. Published weekly by the NEW MAssES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1985, NBW MAssES, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the aet of March S, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 : Foreign $4.50 a year: six months $2.50 : three months $1.25. Subscribera are notitl.ed that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES ' 171 welcomes the work of new writers, ln prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be acoom· ,..,_ panted by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pa:ya for contributions. • . :- _ VoL. XV, No 6 CONTENTS MAY 7, 1935

Editorial Comment • ...... 3 Caricatures Made at the Writers' Congress To the Trade ..•...... James Neugass 6 William Gropper, Phil Wolfe, Limbach 16 The League of American Writers...... 7 Values of the Revolutionary Writer What Is Communism? Waldo Frank 18 1: General Johnson Proves It What the Revolutionary Movement Can Earl Browder 9 Do for a Writer ••.. Malcolm Cowley 20 Georgia Work ,Song The Tradition of American Revolution Collected by Lawrence Gellert 10 ary Literature .•..•••. Joseph Freeman 22 Correspondence . . . • • . • . . . • • • . . . . • • . • • . . 26 Letters from America...... 11 Art: The White-Haired Boy of the Crisis May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle Stephen Alexander 28 Eight Drawings., ••.. Mitchell Siporin 12 Movies: The Youth of Maxim The Gun Is Loaded, Dreiser Peter Ellis 29 Michael Gold 14 Between Ourselves ...... •.••...••.•..• 30 EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GORDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JosHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager. ALLAN TAUB, Mid-Tf/estern Representative. Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1936, NEW MASSES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y .. under the act of March 3, I879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Six months $2 ; three months $1 : Foreign $4.50 a year : six months $2.50 : three months $1.26. Subaeribera are notified that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 171 welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ~ panled by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pays for contributions. VoL. XV, No. 7 CONTENTS MAY 14, 1935 Editorial Comment . • . . . . • • ...... 3 · Review and Comment Smash the Dunckel Biii...... • • ...... 6 From Dada to Red Front. .Louis Aragon 23 Tel. and Tel. "Celebrates". • ...... 7 Melodrama ...... •. Granviiie Hicks 25 Washington-Jim-Crow Capital Old Man's Dim Eyes ..... Dale Curran 25 Marguerite Young 9 Health for Workers ... Isidor Schneider 26 What Is Communism? Art: Primitive Negro Sculpture 2: Questions About the Movement Stephen Alexander 26 Earl Browder 13 Dramatist in the Coalfields ... Albert Maltz 27 The Kidnaping in Gallup Movies ..•....••.....•...... Peter Ellis 28 Philip Stevenson 16 Willie the Weeper .•...•. Robert Forsythe 29 Biiiionaire on Trial. •...... Carl Reeve 17 Between Ourselves...... • ...... • . . . 30 Mike Tighe Expels the Majority Drawings by Amy Schechter 19 Wiiiiam Gropper, Redfield, Phil Bard, Correspondence ••....•...... 21 Russell T. Limbach. EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager. ALLAN TAus, Mid-Western Representati'Ve. Published weekly by the NEW MAI!BES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1936, NBW MAIIBEB, INC., Reg, U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered aa second-clasa matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.60 a year In U. S. and Colonies and Mexloo. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year : six months $2.60 ; three months $1.26. Subscribers are notified that no ehange of address can be effected In lesa than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 17~ welcomes the work of new writers, In prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ,..,.. panled by return POstage. THE NEW MAssES pay• for contributio!lll. ' . ' VoL. XV, No. 8 CONTENTS MAY 21, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • . • . • ...... • 3 Correspondence • . . • . . • • . • • . . • • • • . • • . • • . 23 Sabotaging the Bonus...... 6 Review and Comment The Supreme Court Says "No". • • • . • • . . • • 7 Kenneth Fearing: A Poet for Workers Housing i)l the Sky: Edward Dahlberg 24 The Collapse of the Roosevelt Program Sidney Hill 9 Studs Lonigan in Conclusion The Frameup in Gallup .•...• A. L. Wirin 12 Josephine Herbst 25 Prisoners of the Class War ...... ••... 14 Thunder Over the Pacific Fraternity Minus the Bunk .. Bruce Minton 15 Donald Hemsley 26 Self-Criticism in Soviet Cartoons •...... 16 He Didn't Die in Bed ... Bruce Minton 27 What Is Communism? The Dance ...... •. Stanley Burnshaw 28 3: Who Will Lead the Revolution? Earl Browder 18 The Pulitzer Prizes .••... Robert Forsythe 29 Washington-Jim-Crow Capital Between Ourselves ...••..•.••...... 30 2: "Friends of the Negro" Drawings by Marguerite Young 20 William Gropper, Mackey, Redfield.

EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GORDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF, WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1985, NBW MAssES, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the aet of March 8, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year In U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Sb: montha $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; six months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscriber& are notified that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THI! NEW MASSES 171 weloomes the work of new writers, In proae and verae, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ..... panied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES I>BYI for contributions. • ~ :-- VoL. XV, No. 9 CONTENTS MAY 28, 1935

Editorial Comment...... • . . •. • . • . . • • 3 Review and Comment Wagner's Anti-Labor Bill...... 6 Louis D. Brandeis: Why Liberalism Farmers in Washington...... 6 Failed ....••••••.•••. Roger Brooks 22 Youth in Action...... 7 Two Worlds ...... •.. lsidor Schneider 24 John Reed's Portrait...... 8 A South-American Classic "Mrs. Roosevelt Will Not Speak" Frank L. Gordon 24 A Report on the Fascist Youth Con- Mansion and Mill ..... Grace Lumpkin 25 ference in Louisville .•.. James King 9 Brief Review ..•.••••..•.•••••.•••• ,,.,, 26 Sea-Safety for Fascism ...•.. Hays Jones .. 12 Parade in Boston .•...... Robert Forsythe 27 Why They Lost in Toledo .. Alfred Hirsch 13 The Theatre ...... •... Herbert Kline 28 Decoration Day ...... Philip Cornwall 14 The Screen ...... Peter Ellis 29 What Is Communism? Art...... Stephen Alexander 30 4. Your Wages and Revolution Between Ourselves ...••...... •... 30 Earl Browder 16 Drawings by Afternoon of a Realtor ..... Edwin Seaver 19 Redfield, Mackey, Crockett Johnson; Correspondence • . . • • . . . • • . • ...... 20 reproductions of paintings by Joe Jones. EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GORDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1935, NEW MASSES, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permiBSion. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the aet of March S, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.60 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Sh months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; aix months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscrihen ar<- notified that no change of addreaa can be effeeted in leas than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 171 welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ~ panied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES paya for contributions. · VoL. XV, No. 10 CONTENTS JUNE 4, 1935 Editorial Comment...... 3 Review and Comment The Guild Convention...... • 6 A Study in National Liberation Racketeering in Hospitals...... 6 Moissaye J. Olgin 2~ The Forced Work Program...... 7 Marianne Moore and Eliot .. Orrick Johns 24 Fired for Being a Communist Nazi Work of Art .•... Bernard Smith 25 Granville Hicks 9 The Theatre: Hicks-The Man They "Could Spare" "The Young Go First" Bruce Minton 10 Michael Blankfort 27 Heil, Blue and Gold .•.•...... Vera Cox 13 Sklar's and Peters' "Parade" Toward a National Negro Congress Stanley Burnshaw 28 Eleanor Ryan 14 The National Negro Theatre ...... • 28 Now We~ll Tell You Something Reviewing the Press William Gropper 16 Margaret Wright Mather 29 \Vhat Is Cummunism? Between Ourselves ...... • ...... 30 What the Middle Class Can Gain from Drawings by the Revolution ...... Earl Browder 18 Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck, Correspondence ...... 21 Crockett Johnson. EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1935, NEW MAssEs, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, i926, at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the aet of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.50 a year ; six months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscribers are notified that no change in address can be effeeted in less than two weeks. THE NEW MAssEs welcomes the work of new writers, in 178 prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return pastage~ THE NEW MASSES pays for contributions...... VOL. XV, No. 11 CONTENTS JUNE 11, 1935 Editorial Comment ...... • . • • . • . • . . . . • • 3 Sunny South •..•••... Hamilton Basso 25 -But the Patient Will Die...... 6 Soviet Tempo in an American Novel Four Billion Dollars-for Whom? Alice Withrow Field 26 Maynard Boyer and Sidney Hill 9 The Theatre ...... • . • • • • . . • • ...... • • 27 Britain Backs Hitler ..•..• R. Palme Dutt 13 Between Wars on the Coast.Bruce Minton 15 Jonas Lie, Red-Baiter What is Communism? Stephen Alexander 28 6.-Communism and Religion The Screen •••..•••...... •. Peter Ellis 29 Earl Browder 18 Between Ourselves . . • • • • ...... 30 Cyanide for Lunch ...•...•. Tom Johnson 21 Correspondence •...... • . . 22 Drawings by Review and Comment Russell T. Limbach, William Sander The Work of Friedrich Wolf son, Andrew Redfield, William Grop Erwin Piscator 23 per. EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JoSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INc., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1935, NEW MASSES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.50 a year ; six months $2.50; three months $1.25. Subscribers are notified that no change in address can be etlected in less than two wee.ks. THE NEw MASSES welcomes the work of new writers, in 178 prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES pays for contributions. ~ VoL. XV, No. 12 CONTENTS JuNE 18, 1935 Editorial Comment . • . . • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • 3 Review and Comment Blacklist in The High Schools. . . • . . • • . . . 6 Chamberlin's "History" .. Joshua Kunitz 22 Chiang Kai-Shek Sells China...... 7 Poetry of the Season •••. Moishe Nadir 25 What Kind of a Third Party The New Lenin Edition .•. Henry Hart 26 John Broman 9 Brief Review ••.. ~ ••..•.•••..••..•••. 27 What Is Communism? Art: 7: How the Communist Party Works Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Earl Browder 11 Stephen Alexander 28 The Timid Profession .••. Granville Hicks 14 Theatre Notes ...... 28 Red Belt Around Paris ..... Andre Ribard 16 Confessions of an Opium ,Sitter Revolt of the Hous~twives •••. Ann Barton 18 Robert Forsythe 29 A Letter from America Between Ourselves •..•.•••••••.••.•••.•• 30 Slavery in the Virgin Islands Drawings by G. D'Marcy O'Brien 19 Jacob Burck, Russell T. Limbach, Correspondence . . . • . . . • • • • . . . • • . . . . . • • . 21 Mackey. EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JosHuA KuNnz, RussELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NoRTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILUAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1936, NEW MASSES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Ofliee. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N.Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.6() a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; six months $2.60 ; three months $1.26. Subscri'bers are notified that no change In address can be ell<1cted in less than two weeks. THE NEW MAssEs welcomes the work of new writers, in 171 prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return ~ postage. THE NEW MAssEs pays for contributions. ~ VoL. XV, No. 13 CONTENTS }UNE 25, 1935 Editorial Comment . . • ...... • ...... • . 3 Youth Leaves Schol. •.... Martha Thomas 19 The Glory of R.P.I...... 6 Correspondence • • . . . • • ...... • . . . • • . • . . . 21 Let 'Em Eat Grass Roots. . . . • ...... • • • • 6 Death of Y osl Cutler Where Life Is Good. . . . • • . • ...... • • . . . 7 Nathaniel Buchwald 23 Why Japan Risks War: Review and Comment New Markets: Tokyo's Lifeline...... 9 The Rise of the Nazis ... Karl Billinger 24 Famine in the Countryside E (i. o. u.) Noncummings Soma Haruta 11 Isidor Schneider 26 Buick Strikes Back ...... Adam Smythe 12 A Very Sad Young Man .. Tom Kromer 27 What Is Communism? The Theatre ..••.•.•.•.•.... J. C. ,Seidel 29 8. Americanism-Who Are the Amer ,icans? ...••...... Earl Browder 13 Between Ourselves .•••••••••...... •.• 30 West Coast Labor on the March Drawings by Dawn Lovelace 15 William Gropper, Boris Gorelick, Murder in Manhattan .••... A. B. Shiffrin 17 Yosl Cutler, Carl Fox, Crockett Johnson. EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JoSHUA KUNITZ, RuSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, LoREN MILLER, JoSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETIIS, WILLIAM RANDORF. WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MAssES, INc., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1986, NEW MASSES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text m117 not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.60 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Sb: months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; ab: months $2.60 ; three months $1.26. Subscribers are notified that no change in address can be effected in less than two weeks. THE NEW MAssES welcomes the work of new writers, in 171 prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES pays for contributions. 4&- VoL. XVI, No. 1 CONTENTS JuLY 2, 1935 Editorial Comment .. • ...... • .. . . • .. . . 3 Correspondence ....•...•...... •... 34 The Crisis of the Middle Class...... 6 Review and Comment: What Is Communism ? A Ticket for Tarkington 9: Labor Party and Communist Party Murray Godwin 36 Earl Browder 9 History-Making Plays Twilight of Mosley ..•.•. M. B. Schnapper 11 John Howard Lawson 37 A Letter from Spain...... • ...... • .. 12 Meet the Soviet Citizen Maxwell Stewart 40 Chicago's Red-Baiting Comic Opera New Issue of Art Front Joel Eden 13 Stephen Alexander 41 A New Angle in Humor .... Bruce Minton 16 A Novel About Automobile Workers Short Story Supplement: Edwin Seaver 42 The Proletarian Short Story The Dance: Alan Calmer 17 Finale to a Brilliant Season The Rabbit ...... Ben Field 19 Stanley Burnshaw 43 Big Hands ...... Len Zinberg 22 The Screen: Case History ...... John Mortimer 23 Movies in Motley ..... Allen Chumley 44 A Lumpen •..••••...... Nelson Algren 25 Hooray, Etcetera .....•... Robert Forsythe 45 Spread Your Sunrise .• Richard Wright 26 Between Ourselves .....•...... •...... 46 Guns ...... Peter Quince 27 Drawings by A Trip to Uncle Joe's ...•.. Saul Levitt 29 Jacob Burck, Gropper, Del, William Another Washington Circus Sanderson, Redfield, Mackey; photo James T. Farrell 33 graph of a sculpture by Minna Harkavy. EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JoSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, LoREN MILLER, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANJ>ORF. WILLIAM BROWOER, Rusinn.s Managrr Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1935, NEW MASSES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as secorul-da•s matto,"'· June 24, 1926 at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies. tn cents. Subscdptions, $8.60 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2: three months $1 : Foreign $4.50 a year: sh months $2.50: three months $1.25. Subscribers are notified that no chanJ

Editorial Comment • • • . • • . • • • .. • • • • • • • • 3 Singer of the Gumbo •••••• Jack Balch 24 Two Kinds of Social Security •••••• , • • • 6 Join Hand and Brain.Meridel LeSueur 25 What Is Communism? The Evidence for Soviet Russia 10: A Glimpse at Soviet America lsidor Schneider 26 Earl Browder 9 Bread Winners •••••••• David Greenhood 11 An Important Study of Soviet Life Radio-The Great American Racket Grace Hutchins 27 Lucien Zacharoff 12 The Theatre: Be Careful, Mrs. Hopkins .•. Nathan Asch 14 Toward a Genuine Negro Drama Seed and Stubble .•..••.• Lola Pergament 14 Stanley Burnshaw 29 Labor's Dividends Under the New Deal •• 15 The Screen: The Depression Generation The March of Time ...... Peter Ellis 29 M. B. Schnapper 18 Other Current Films ...... 30 Farm in Alaska ...... ,Sanora Babb 19 Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 30 Correspondence ...... _ ...... , 20 Review and Comment Drawings by The Marxist Foundations of Humor Wiiliam Sanderson, William Gropper, Robert Briffault 22 Jacob Burck, E. Cooper. VoL. XVI, No. 3 CONTENTS JULY 16, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... 3 Graves without Glory ...• Dale Curran 23 Scottsboro and Equality...... • . 6 Apologists for Capitalism .• Hy Kravif 25 An Exclusive Labor Party...... 7 Two Studies of Sex .... Emanual Glick 26 What Happened to Us in Cuba "Just-as-Good" Marxists Clifford Odets 9 Jack Librome 27 A Passport from Realengo 18 Brief Review ••...... 27 Josephine Herbst 10 The Theatre: How "Left" Is the N.A.A.C.P? Influence of Ibsen Loren Miller 12 John Howard Lawson 28 Poem .•.•.•...... •... Penina Chinitz 13 The Screen: Our National Parks ...... Julia O'Connor 14 No "Escape" for Negro Artists Greetings to John D ...... 15 . Loren Miller 29 Love in Two Worlds ...... Ella Winter 17 At the Cameo •.•.....•••. Peter Ellis 30 The Crisi·s in Italy .•...... Bruce Minton 19 Between Ourselves • • . . • . . • ...... • . . . • • 30 Correspondence . . . • ...... 22 Drawings by Review and Comment: Redfield, Jacob Burck, William Grop Proletarian· Mystery ... Granville Hicks 23 per, Gardner Rea, Mackey. Vol. XVI, No. 4 CONTENTS July 23, 1935

Editorial Comment...... 3 Review and Comment Hearst's Hired Men...... 6 Flight into the Past •.•... Victor Burtt 25 How the Franco-Soviet Pact Works...... 7 One of Ours ...... Ben Field 26 The British Labor Party Surrenders One Honest Report...... Albert Lewis 26 John Strachey 9 Ossification ...... •...... Tony Clark 27 Ryan vs. Bridges Brief Review ...... • . . . . . • ...... 27 The Longshoremen's Battle, East and Johnson-The Man Who Was West ••..••....•.... Bruce Minton 11 Robert Forsythe 28 Ten Yeal'S of the I.L.D .•..• Sasha Small 13 Hitlerites in Hollywood ...... Jay Rand 29 A Report on Harlan County Between Ourselves ...... 30 To the Governor of Kentucky...... 16 Drawings by William Sanderson, Russell Comedy Cop ...... James T. Lim T. Farrell 19 bach, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, Correspondence ...... • . . • . . . . 23 Art Young, Pages, Esther Kriger. Vol. XVI, No. 5 CONTENTS July 30, 1935

Editorial Comment...... 3 A Flight from Fact ..... Henry Cooper 24 Uncle Sam Forecloses...... 6 The Making of a Riga Correspondent The Writers Meet in Paris .. Michael Gold 9 Paul Novick 25 The Crisis in the SociaUst Party The Wreck of Good Lives •. John Drake 26 Loren Miller 11 Two Pictures of Society A Dialogue on the Piazza ... Alfred Hayes 13 Jay Gerlando 27 ThoseTheyLeaveBehind .. Ann Rivington 14 Current Art ...... Sidney Alexander 27 Sugar is Not Sweet ....•... Harry Archer 15 Reductio Ad Mercurum ... Robert Forsythe 29 The Screen ...... •...... Peter Ellis 30 Chin Up, Anna ....••.... Friedrich Wolf 18 Between Ourselves ...... • . . . . • . . 30 Correspondence ...... • • ...... • . . . . . • . 21 Drawings by Review and Comment Reginald Marsh, Jacob Burck, William Poetry in the Modern Theatre Gropper, Mackey, G a r d n e r Rea, John Howard Lawson 23 Refregier. VoL. XVI, No. 6 CONTENTS AUGUST 6, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • . • • . • • . • . . . . . • . . . 3 Review and Comment The War Against War...... 6 The One and Only .... Granville Hicks 23 Pamphlet Poetry ...... Joseph Kalar 24 Washington Cuts Wages. • • • . . • • . • • . . . . . 7 Answered Sixty-Three Years ago What Is Happening in Terre Haute Sidney Hill 25 Joseph North 9 Old Russian Soul. •..... E. B. Burgum 26 The United Front in France As Benito Desires Me ..••.... Henry Hart 28 Michael Gold 13 These Russians ..•.....•. Robert Forsythe 29 But the Swastika Fell .•... Wilfred Evans 15 Between Ourselves • • ...... • • ...... • • • • . 30 From a Soviet Diary ••.. Harold Clurman l8 Drawings by Deportation Special ...... Theodore Irwin 19 Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Correspondence . . . . . • . . • • • . . • . . . • . • . . . . 21 Jacob Burck, Adolph Dehn. VoL, XVI, No.7 .CONTENTS AUGUST 13, 1935

Editorial Comment •.....•••••• ., . • • • • • 3 The Peasant Poet .••• Rolfe Humphries 23 The Peace Policies of Moscow. , . . . • • . • • . 6 Burial of Immortality •••• Stuart Green 25 Dickstein Gets a Biographer Literature for Use ...... Bruce Minton 26 John L Spivak 9 Wood Pulpiteer ...... Wilson Waylett 27 Southern Organizer •..•. Kenneth Patchen 10 Brief Review •• , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .••• , 27 Harlem Without Make-Up The Theatre: Loren Miller 11 O'Neill's Technique and Social Phi- Coniressman Amlie Sees Red losophy ...... John Howard Lawson 28 Marguerite Young 16 Shooting China ...... Mike Pell 29 A Love Letter for France ... Michael Gold 18 The Screen ...... Peter Ellis 30 Correspondence •...•.•..••.••.• , • . • • • . • 21 Between Ourselves . . • . • .. .• . .. • . .. ..• • • 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Mr. Jackson Sees It Through William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Arnold W. Bartell 23 Redfield, Mackey, William Sanderson. VoL. XVI, No. 8 CONTENTS AUGUST 20, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . . . . . • . • . • . . • • . . . . 3 Review and Comment Youth Gets Administered...... • . . . . • • 7 From the Literature Without Uniforms Isidor Schneider 22 The Rise and Fall of Abraham Cahan Criticism with an Ax .... Angel Flores 23 Paul Novick 9 For Young Revolutionists Way Down South: • . • . . . . • ...... 11 R. and F. De Sola 24 Georgia Is Misunderstoood, by Sasha Strength and Beauty ..•• Nelson Algren 25 Small; On Behalf of Angelo Herndon, Growth of Dead Soil. .• Louis Lerman 25 by Alfred Hirsch; Bloody Sunday, by Anti-Negro Propaganda .. Loren Miller 26 Boris Israel Made in America ...... Ben Goldstein 26 Walter Lippmann and Soviet Russia Brief Review ...... • . . . . • . . • 27 Corliss Lamont 15 The World by the Tail. •. Robert Forsythe 29 On a Soviet Steamer ••.••.••...... • 16 Five Prizes for Playwrights ...••••••••• 30 Between Ourselves • • . • • . • • . • • • . • • • • • • • . 30 "Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man" Drawings by Mike Pell 18 William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Monte Allegre .•.••.••.•• Greta Corsman 19 Boris Gorelick, Del, Gardner Rea, Correspondence . • • . • • • . . • . • • . . • • • • . . • . . 21 Mackey. VoL. XVI, No. 9 CONTENTS AUGUST 27, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • ...... • . . • • . . . . • • 3 Correspondence .. ·. . • . • • • • . • • • ...... • • 21 General Johnson, Enemy of Labor...... 6 Review and Comment Julius Streicher: Nazi King of Smut On Revolutionary Poetry .••. John Yost 23 N. Kornev 9 Pareto: Apostle of Force and Deception Four Poems: • • . • • . • • . . • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • 13 . Hansu Chan 24 Four Frescoes of the Future Spivak's Amedca ..•.•... Joseph North 25 Genevieve Taggard "Rebellious Race" ••.... H. B. Wolcott 26 Names .•.....•. Gladys M. La Flamme Nazi Economics .•.••.•• Arnold Bartell 27 American Etiquette ..•.... H. H. Lewis Brief Review . • . . • . . . • . . . . • • • . . • . . . . 27 They Take Their Stand .... Don West First Lesson •...•.....•.•• Bruce Minton 29 Capital's Fight for a Draft Law Between Ourselves . . • • • . • • • ...... • 30 Walter Wilson 14 Drawings by Southern Mother .•.••.... Emmett Gowen 18 Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Doctor's Dilemma, 1935 Mackey, Emerson Evans, Ned Hilton, Nelson L. Barnett 20 Hantman. VoL. XVI, No. 10 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 3, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... 3 Another Story .. , ...... Robert Briffault 25 Roosevelt Bows to Hearst ...... , 6 New Heroes and Heroines.Jack Conroy 27 NEW MASSES Prize Novel Contest..... 7 Stylish Miss Cather My Father Is a Liar.Nancy Bedford-Jones 9 Genevieve Taggard 27 Toward the Mexican Crisis The Theatre Charles Wedger 11 Drama for Both Ears Behind Closed Doors ...... Bruce Minton 15 Stanley Burnshaw 28 Italy on the Brink ...... Alberto Padovani 17 Praying for Peace ...•... Robert Forsythe 29 The Tiff Strikers Win ..... Karl Pretshold 19 The Screen Fascism Marches On ..•..•. Peter Ellis 29 Correspu-ndence ...... • ...... 21 Between Ourselves .•...... 30 Review and Comment: Drawings by Pareto: Apostle of Force and Deception Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck. Hansu Chan 23 Photographs by Charles Wedger. VoL. XVI, No. 11 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 10, 1935

Editorial Comment . • • . • • . . • . • • . • . . • • . • . 3 A Masterly Polemic .•. Isidor Schneider 25 Homage to Barbusse .•.••• Joseph Freeman 8 Not All of Briffault .•. Granville Hicks 27 Cross, Crescent and Star, A Picture of A Connecticut Valley .. James T. Farrell 28 Palestine ••..•••••.••.... Lester Cohen 11 "Peasants"-A Soviet Triumph Work or Starve! ...... Bruce Minton 16 Robert Forsythe 29 Shorty and Oscar ...... Nev Campbell 18 A Letter from Germany'. • . • • • . • • • • • • • . . 20 Between Ourselves . • . • . . . • • . . • • . • • . . . • • 30 Correspondence • . . • • . • • • • . • • . . . • • • . . • . 21 Drawings by Review and Comment Russell T. Limbach, Gardner Rea, Saul Reader's Report ••••••••. Alan Calmer 23 Raskin, Ned Hilton. VoL. XVI, No. 12 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 17, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... 3 The Closing Session ...... Eugene Gordon 20 A Breathing ,Spellbinder...... 6 Correspondence ...... • ...... • 23 Debate in Geneva...... • ...... 7 Review and Comment Who Murdered the Vets? Another View of Briffault Ernest Hemingway 9 Robert Forsythe 24 Southern Holiday ...... Frank Mlakar 10 A Source Book on Corruption Consumers' Research on Strike Alexander L. Crosby 25 Arthur Kallet 12 "In the Genteel Tradition" The Not So-Timid Profession Bernard Smith 26 Elizabeth Blake 13 No Crime and Plenty Punishment Vigilantes and Cops: Edwin Seaver 27 The Cops Were Not There ...... 16 Peddling Will Rogers' Body ...... Ed Ray 29 The Cops Were on the Job Between Ourselves ...... 30 George Martin 17 Drawings by Two Years of Drought, One of Rust Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Michael Blankfort 18 Gardner Rea, Mackey. VoL. XVI, No. 13 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 24, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 Emptying the Melting Pot Labor in Action Again. • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 Harry Archer 24 The World Gone Mad ••• Robert Forsythe 9 Concealed Dynamite .•• Bernhard Stern 26 A Labor Party on the Way •••• Carl Reeve 11 The School System Analyzed Letters from America. • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • . • • 13 Charles Wedger 26 Alabama's Blood-Smeared Cotton Brief Review • • • • . • .. • .. • . • ...... • • • 27 Albert Jackson The Theatre: Law and Order in Kansas City A Labor Theatre for Brooklyn Lowell C. Chamberlain Stanley Burnshaw 28 Rain on Our Hands ••. Gladys LaFlamme 14 The Screen: Peter Ellis. . . • • • • . .. . • • . .. • • 28 Last in Peace, Last in War .•• Loren Miller 16 Charlie Chaplin's Next Film Sacramento: 1935 ••••• Clement Greenberg 18 B. ,Shumiatski 29 Americans in Mexico .•••. J. P. Harrigan 19 Hard Coal Law ••..•.•.. Isidor Schneider 20 Between Ourselves • • • . • • • • • • • . • • . • • • . • • 30 Correspondence ••••.••••••.••••.••••••• 22 Drawings by Review and Comment Gardner Rea, Russell T. Limbach, On the Right We Have- Eugene Morley, Ned Hilton, L. Arena!, A. B. Magil 23 Eugene Cooper. Vor.. XVII, No. 1 CONTENTS OCTOBER 1, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . • ...... • 3 Dwight, Adolf Dehn, Peter Blume, What Happens to "Unemployables"...... 6 Mitchell Siporin, Margaret Bourke- How Good Is Hearst Stock? .. Bruce Minton 8 White ....•...... ••.•.•..•..... 18 to 32 Farewell and a Promise to Barbusse American Artists' Congress ...... •••. 33 Josephine Herbst 11 Marching! Marching!. Clara Weatherwax 34 Correspondence ••...... •...... ••••..•• 36 Minneapolis Counts Its Victims 12 Review and Comment Meridel Le Sueur Journalism in a New World Mussolini's Press .•....•••• James Carroll 15 Isidor Schneider 38 Art Section: Economists on the Way Out Revolutionary Art Today Marian Rubins Davis 39 Thomas S. Willison 17 There Can Be Laughter Works by .•.• William Gropper, Peggy William Cunningham 40 Bacon, Selma Freeman, Gilbert Wilson, Turmoil in the Middle Ground Louis Ribak, William Siegel, George Stanley Burnshaw 41 Picken, Joe Jones, Arnold Blanch, Rus Mr. Aiken at a Wake ••.. Simon Wells 42 sell Limbach, Reginald Marsh, Joseph In Defense of the Machine Vogel, Gilbert Rocke, Jacob Burck, Lil Robert Forsythe 43 Adelman, Anton Refregier, Eitaro Hollywood as Strike Breaker ..... Ed Ray 44 lshigaki, Georges Schreiber, George The Screen ...... Jay Gerlando 45 Biddle, Raphael Soyer, Jim {iuy, Luis The Theater ...••.••...... •.•••. H. M. 45 Arena!, Nicolai Cikovsky, Mabel Between Ourselves ...... • • • . • • . • . 46 VoL. XVII, No. 2 CONTENTS OCTOBER 8, 1935

Editorial Comment • • ...... • • ...... 3 Reviews and Comment Mr. Gannett is Worried...... 7 Sad Nonsense ...... Isidor Schneider 22 Stay Out of the Olympics! More About Mexico .. Charles Wedger 23 William Cunningham 9 Lewis Carroll ...••..•. Louis Zukofsky 24 Close Up This House ••.•. Joseph Bridges 10 Texas Chain Gang and Finnish Prison Norman MacLeod 24 A Revolution in Cotton Scien<;e at the Crossroads •.•. G. Gaard 25 The Machine Picker Opens Up an Era of Greater Struggle .. Harold M. Ware 11 Hearts of Gold, Heads of- Robert Forsythe 28 Lessons ...... : ...... Saul Green 16 Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite The Screen .•..•...••.. H. MacMurrough 29 Richard Wright 18 Between Ourselves • • . • • • • . . . • ...... • • 30 Correspondence ...... 19 Drawings by The Artists Fight Hearst William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Alfred H. Sinks 20 Eugene Morley, Julius Bloch. VoL. XVII, No. 3 CONTENTS OCTOBER 15, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... , ... , 3 Along the Oregon Trail The Making of a Revolutionary •.•••.. , , 7 James Hennessey 24 An Achievement in Two Arts Earl Browder Reports...... 8 Stephen Alexander 25 A World War: Has It Begun? Working-Class Unity-Bulwark Against Ilya Ehrenbourg 10 Fascism ...... Isidor Schneider 26 John Strachey 11 Music Hot Cargo on the Coast •••• Amy Schechter 12 An Interview with Hanns Eisler The Legion Convenes .•••.. Samuel Leslie 13 Tony Clark 27 Imitation of an Anti-Crime Drive The Theater Sasha Small 15 "Paths of Glory" Dramatized America 1918 ...... John Reed 17 Stanley Burnshaw 28 Enduring Bronze ••.••••• Heywood Broun 20 Author Trouble at Warners' Correspondence • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 22 Robert Forsythe 29 Review and Comment Between Ourselves • • . • . . . . . • • . • • • • . . . . • 30 Proletarian Literature Drawings by Mackey, William Gropper, Robert Morss Lovett 23 Redfield, Lynd Ward. VoL. XVII, No. 4 CONTENTS OCTOBER 22, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • . • • . • . . . . • . . . • . . 3 What Bosses Are Like Imperialism, Not a Race War...... 7 Edwin Berry Burgum 25 Ten Mooney Cases!...... 8 Educating the Middle Class What Is Britain's Game? .. John Strachey 10 Granviiie Hicks 26 Europe's Crisis: Japan Prepares Tiny and Graceful. ...••. Obed Brooks 27 Hansu Chan 11 Another Professor Joke ... Simon Wells 27 Looking For Elmer ...... J. S. B. 14 The Theater: "New Theater Night'' Three Lynch Affidavits By Alabama Stanley Burnshaw 28 Sharecroppers • • .. • . . . • • . • • . • • . . • • . . 16 "The Reapers" ...•..•... Joseph North 28 The A.F. of L. in Session ••.. Bill Dunne 18 The Screen: Labor Trouble in Harlem ... Loren Miiler 20 Here Comes Hollywood "Number One Boy" ••••.... Alfred Hirsch 20 Richard Hammer 29 Sell Entertainment ...... •• Peter Ellis 30 Cells ...... •••.•.•..... James King 21 Between Ourselves ••.•••...... ••.•• 30 Correspondence • • . • . . • • . • • • • . . • • . . • • . • • 22 Drawings by Review and Comment: Wiiiiam Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Socialist Realism ...... Edwin Seaver 23 George Dickson, Mackey. Empire of Death .... Harvey O'Connor 24 Photograph by Consuela Kanaga. Vor.. XVII, No. 5 CONTENTS OC'fOBER 29, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . . • ...... 3 Review and Comment The World This Week...... 6 Sinclair Lewis-Anti-Fascist Granville Hicks 22 The Gallup Verdict...... 7 Let My People Go! ...... Loren Miller 23 Capitalism Cannot Demobilize Two Escapes ...•••••. Isidor Schneider 24 John Strachey 9 Within Such Walls .•...•. Boris Israel 25 Are Jews Communists? Music: James Waterman Wise 10 "Useful" Music ....••.. Henry Cowell 26 The Explosion in the A.F. of L. The Theater: Bill Dunne 11 A Letter to the Author of "Squaring the Circle" ...... Stanley Burnshaw 27 Advertisement .•.•..•...... Oscar Byrnes 12 The Wails of St. Mary's .. Robert Forsythe 29 Canada Swings to the Left ... Robert Bruce 14 Current Art . • . . . . • • • • . • ...... • . • • . • • 30 Pelzer: "Just Another of Those Damned Between Ourselves . . . • . . . . • • . . • • . • • . . . . 30 Strike Towns" ••.•.•••• Fielding Burke 16 Drawings by Correspondence ••..•.•.••..•..••..••.••• 19 Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Shaw and Mussolini...... Joseph Freeman 20 Boris Gorelick, Joe Jones. VoL. XVII, No. 6 CONTENTS NovEMBER 5, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • • . . . • • . . • . • • . • • • 3 A Yankee Tragedy ... Granville Hicks 24 The Guild Girds for Battle...... 6 Science-A Collective Enterprise Mr. Baldwin's Lull ••...... John Strachey 8 Harold Ward 24 Can Mussolini Win the• War? Another Southern Novelist Falls in Line David Ramsey 9 E. Clay 25 Marx in the Mountains .••. Eddy Gilmore 12 An Artist Prescribes Our Olympics: Made in Germany Stephen Alexander 26 Bruce Minton 13 Middle-Class American Tragedy Angelo Herndon is Back in Atlanta James T. Farrell 27 Joseph North 15 Post-Mortem Million ...... •. Leslie Reade 28 Poem •...... ••.•..... Kenneth Patchen 16 The Theater: Seeing Is Believing •...... Meta Berger 17 Porgy and Bess and Mulatto Harvard Swears .•...... Merle Colby 18 Loren Miller 29 Clemency-Sixty Years! ...... Sue Adams 19 Current Film~ ...... •...... •.. 30 Ode to Walt Whitman ..... Michael Gold 21 Correspondence. • ...... • 22 Between Ourselves . . . • . • . • • ...... • . • . . 30 Review and Comment Drawings by I.M.P.-A Literary Casualty Mackey, Crockett Johnson, William Dale Curran 23 Gropper. VoL. XVII, No.7 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 12, 1935

Editorial Comment ...... , ...... 3 Dream-World Art., ..... Jacob Kainen 25 Eighteen Years-Two Countries, ...... ,. 6 A Marxist Looks at His Humanist On the Conveyor Belt to Death Past ...... , .... Samuel Putnam 26 John Strachey 8 Wells Shapes the Future Chain Gang Governor ...... Joseph North 9 Walter Ralston 26 The Theater: Radio's Role as Red-Baiter .... J. R. Atkins 12 Announcing an American Peoples' Where Smedley Butler Stands Walter Wilson 15 Theater, , .. , , ..... , . Mark Marvin 27 Tompkins Square Park at 6 A. M. Art: Matthew Schaeffer 18 From Nat Turner to the Moscow Sub- The Outlook for the Labor Party way ... , , , , .... , . , , , . Hugo Gellert 28 " Carl Reeve 19 "The New Gulliver",,., .Robert Forsythe 29 Correspondence ...... , ...... , ...... , 21 Current Art .... , . , , . , , , . , ...... • . 30 Review and Comment: The Real South ...... Granville Hicks 23 Between Ourselves ...... , ..... ,, ...... 30 Pirandello Didn't Know Him Drawings by Jay Gerlando 23 Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Lindbergh's Classmate ... Bruce Minton 24 Emerson Evans, William Siegel. VoL. XVII, No. 8 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 19, 1935

Editorial Comment • ...... • 3 A Proprietarian Society "Fats! Fats ! Fats !" ...... •. John Strachey 8 Walter Ralston 25 Major Bowes' Radio Racket .. Henry Cowell 9 America's Biggest Business Saturday Evening Liar ...... Bob Brown 10 Horace B. Davis 25 There Lived a Man in Our Town The Theater: Ruth Crawford 13 Let Freedom Ring .•.• James T. Farrell 27 The Women's Battalion •... Martin Russak 15 Art: Orozco's Lithographs Two Poems ...... Irving Bard 18 Stephen Alexander 29 Browder and Roosevelt .. Moissaye J. Olgin 19 "We Make Stars" ...••...... J as par Gall 29 Correspondence ...... 22 Mary Burns, Fugitive ...... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves • ...... 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Small Game Hunting .. Granville Hicks 23 Russell T. Limbach. Mackey, Gardner A New World Seen Through One Man Rea, William Gropper, Jose Clemente Isidor Schneider 23 Orozco, Hainsly. VoL. XVII, No. 9 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 26, 1935

Editorial Comment •• , •••••• , , , , , , , • , , • 3 The Bourgeois Revolution .. Tony Clark 24 We "Free" the Filipinos...... 6 SoTiet Art., •••.•• Russell T. Limbach 25 Conspiracy in Brooklyn., •• ,,,, •. ,., ••• , 8 In the "Let Freedom Ring'' Country The British Elections .•....• John Strachey 9 William F. Dunne 26 March of the Cripples ..••...• Bob Brown 10 The Theater: U.S.S.R.: Land of Plenty ... Joshua Kunitz 12 Dead-End Social Order John Reed and the World War Stanley Burnshaw 28 1: "This Is Not Our War" Art: Granville Hicks 15 In Search of Truth Correspondence . . • ...... 20 Stephen Alexander 29 Review and Comment La Maternelle ...... ••.... Peter Ellis 30 Escape or ,Suicide .... Robert M. Coates 21 Between Ourselves ...... • • . . • . . . . 30 An Epic of Collectivization Drawings by Granville Hicks 22 Gropper, Limbach, Eby, Dixon, Joe Farmers in Rebellion .•. Karl Pretshold 23 Jones, Sanderson. VoL. XVII, No. 10 CONTENTS DECEMBER 3, 1935

Editorial Comment , • . • • • • • • . . . • . . . . • . • • 3 The Moral Equivalent The Battle of the Loans .... John Strachey 6 Isidor Schneider 25 Who is General Sherrill? Life Without Stint ••.. Josephine Herbst 26 Henry Cooper and Walter Wilson 8 The Theater: Industrial Insurance, A Snare for Workers The Theater Union Produces "Mother" Mort Gilbert and E. A. Gilbert 14 Stanley Burnshaw 27 John Reed and Teddy Roosevelt Boulevardier ••..•.••...•• Robert Forsythe 29 Granville Hicks 17 Art: Correspondence . • • • • . • • . . . • • ...... • . . . 22 Kerr Eby .•.••.•••. Stephen Alexander 29 Review and Comment Between Ourselves . • • • • ...... 30 Better .than "Call Home the Heart" Drawings by Granville Hicks 23 William Gropper, Vincent Van Gogh, May It Please the Court •• Loren Miller 23 Maurice Becker, Otto Dix, Russell T. Capitalism's Ally ••.••••. S. W. Gerson 24 Limbach, Adolf Dehn, Gus Peck. VoL. XVII, No. 11 CONTENTS DECEMBER 10, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 Review and Comment: Caldwell Sees America •• Albert Halper 22 Revolt in Brazil...... 6 · Marxist Literary History The Thomas-Browder Debate...... 7 Isidor Schneider 23 Thought-Ruled or Ruling? Italy and Germany ...... John Strachey 9 Ruth Lechlitner 25 The Nazis' Olympic Chief Talks Hull House Reconsidered .• E. H. Nielson 26 John L. Spivak 10 Brief Rev.iew • • . • • • • • . • • • . . • • . • • . • • • 26 Why Lewis Resigned .. William F. Dunne 12 The Dance: Five Dancers in Fourteen New Works The ·Klan Turns to Murder Stanley Burnshaw 27 Bruce Minton 13 Current Theater...... • ...... • • • • 28 Blank College Revisited ..• Joseph Bridges 16 "So Red the Rose" ...••.•. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves • • . • • . • . • • . • • • • . • • • • . 30 Battle of the Century Drawings by Emanuel Eisenberg 18 William Gropper, Mendez, Russell T. Correspondence • • . • • • • • • • . • • • • • . . • . • • • • 21 Limbach, A. Redfield. VoL. XVII, No. 12 CONTENTS DECEMBER 17, 1935

Editorial Comment •••••••••.••..•...••. Wall Street's Prayer to Father Coughlin Albert Raffi 30 Christmas, 1935 ••.••••.••. Sinclair Lewis "Thunder Over Alma Mater" "Hail ye Heroes, Heav'n Born Band" S. J. Perelman 32 Franklin P. Adams John Reed in Czarist Russia Blackmailing Ethiopia ••.•• John Strachey 7 Granville Hicks 33 La Madama Smiles ••.•.. John L. Spivak 8 Correspondence • • . • ...... • • ...... • • 3 8 The Guild Cracks Down Review and Comment Marguerite Young 11 A New Magazine .•.••.• Alan Calmer 39 Fred Bass and the Norman Case The Dilemma of the Middle Class Bruce Minton 12 David Ramsey 40 United Front Opens Herndon's Jail The Eye and the Mind .... Lynd Ward 42 Joseph North 15 The Theater Choral Ballade ••.•... Emanuel Eisenberg 16 No Tears for the Virgins Bill Smith's Clinic ....•.••.•.. Bill Smith 18 Bruce Minton 43 "Shirley Temple, You Traitor!" A Spoonful of History .. James T. Farrell 44 Arthur Kober 20 Why I Am Not a Fascist. .Robert Forsythe 45 School Days ...... •...•.. Arthur Beecher 21 Two Dostoyevskis •...... Peter Ellis 46 The Green, White and Blue George S. Kaufman 22 Between Ourselves .•...... ••...... •... 46 The German Girls! The German Girls! Drawings by Archibald MacLeish 23 Limbach, Morley, Gardner Rea, Chas. John O'Hara's Dilemma .•.. Jobn O'Hara 26 Addams, A. Redfield, Adolf Dehn, Ned Passion and Prices in Nazi Land Hilton, William Gropper, Robt Day, J. Dickty 27 William Steig, Frank t!anley, Wolfe, Clerical Crape ...... •..•. W. E. Farbstein 27 Garrett Price, Art Young, Aime Gau Red Nettles .•.... Harry Thornton Moore 28 vin, Franz Masereel, Ellison Hoover, \Va r Fever .•....••.•.. Lawrence Lipton 29 Ernest W. Hainsly. VoL. XVII, No. 13 CONTENTS DECEMBER 24, 1935

Editorial Comment •...•••..••.•.••• , . • • 3 Facts Is Facts ..•••..•. Walter Ralston 25 Tokio the Insatiable . .• ...... 6 Two Jeffersonian Poets The Split in Britain •..•... John Strachey 8 Granville Hicks 26 The U. S. Army Gets Its Orders Justice-For Millionaires George Seldes 9 George Abrams 26 II Duce's Labor Racket .•.. John L. Spivak 11 Art The People Demand .... Mericle! Le Sueur 14 Chicago's Art Show One of Us ...... Leane Zugsmith 16 Wallace S. Baldinger 27 What Do You See ...... Frank Rudnick 17 The Theater Along Came Stakhanov .... Joshua Kunitz 18 "Paradise Lost" ....•.. Robert Forsythe 28 Correspondence . . . • ...... • 21 Between Ourselves ....•.••...•...... 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Which Books for Your Children? Alexandre Hogue, Gardner Rea, Russell Jean Simon 23 T. Limbach, William Gropper, Deni. VoL. XVIII, No. 1 CONTENTS DECEMBER 31, 1935 Editorial Comment ...... 3 Review and Comment What Kind of Recovery?...... • .. . . 6 Eliot, Auden, Isherwood, Cummings What the Victory Means ...• John ,Strachey 8 Rolfe Humphries 23 The Assumption of Song The Chinese Revolution Norman Macleod 8 Isidor Schneider 24 The Underground Speaks .• John L. Spivak 9 Prerequisites of Growth Storm ...... David Greenhood 12 Edward Newhouse 25 Vermont People's Front, 1776-1936 Sweet Impartiality •. Emanuel Eisenberg 26 Jack Wilgus 13 Brief Review • ...... • • . . • . • • • • • 26 How "Under Fire" Was Published The Theater Simone Tery 14 Principles of "Educational" Theater I Met a Man ...... Irving Fineman 14 Eva Goldbeck 21.1 Macaroni for Africa ..... Grace Flandrau 15 Why I Created "Air City" Perspective .•...... •...... H. H. Lewis 16 Alexander Dovjenko 29 · Rain in Virginia ...... Lester G. Cohen 17 Between Ourselves., ....•..••••.•..••.•• 30 John Reed and The Old Masses Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, William Granville Hicks 18 Gropper, George Picken. Correspondence ...... 22 Photograph by Irving Lerner.