DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934 Page Seven Hugo Gellert Gives Us Marx’s Not for Th«se Highlights in the ’'Charity" CHANGE ’’Capital” in Picture Series Life Who Are Starving Worthy Attempt to Blaze Wr ay for Use of Marxism- Ernst Thaelmann THE Os L. SPIVAK plowing o(Mitr&ct ht rnsics with the 1 Leninism As Art Subject By JOHN BROOKHAVEN, Miss.—So paid for the lam! the bitterness WKmm KARL MARX’ "CAPITAL,” in Litho- j Born in Hamburg in 1886, Joined Revolutionary far as I have been able to ob- Then there is added WORLD! By Long of the cropper because he sees the graphs, Gellert, Ray A By Movement at the Age of 16 serve, government relief and landowner, who has not yet lost his SENDER GARUN Richard Smith. $3.00. by * * * work funds, have simply en- farm, getting paid the federal restricted planting. Reviewed by MILTON HOWARD on April 1833, in only in Berlin and Hamburg. This government for Ueorge Creel, 1917-1934 16, Hamburg, abled local Democrats to The cropper gets no share of tins BORNat age of 16 he became a field also still has to be cultivated. can only be thankful to the strengthen their own political control, government money. PLOWING through the acres of neatly mimeographed member of the Social-Democratic In our trade the younger people LUnited States Commissioner of on at general meetings discrimination against him in the his do the work and tax. and with federal relief doles of the Transport Workers’ Union in factory. The persecution to which he he gets half of the entire cron value getting scantier Education in the Roosevelt Administration! Western Pennsylvania Miners Hamburg. you find bitterness The reformist was subjected strengthened perhaps • paying • • bureaucracv his revo- —all. for S2O taxes in almost finally all classes. used the method of violent lutionary will and his conviction of for a farm. The very first restricted (To Be Continued) Or measures against this revolutionary the inevitability of 4 South American Denth youth the overthrow of Describes Their Lives and Struggles in Small Camp, section. the capltakt system and vetory very the Chinese-Japanese Night Shock Brigade Night al Dear Comrade Garitni Led by National At many union congresses, of Socialism. Despite all the diffi- I read your two columns on Lawrence Dennis m the recent issue Miners Union Ernst Thaelmann represented the culties, he maintained constant By Theatre tact con- Collective Workers “Lab” T -night of the Daily Worker and in my opinion, it reveals not only Dennis' dema- Hamburg members of the Transport with the revolutionary organi- I WENT Workers' Union. records zation of >,ogery, but also the tactics employed by Fascism generally. TO PIT COLLEGE By an outsider even when she lived in The of the the “left-wing” in Hamburg NEW YORK—The Theatre Col- NEW union show Ernst and when he got YORK.—The second a Having in America during the "regime” of Dennis In Lauren Gilfillan. The Viking Press. their homes and suffered their wants. Thaelmann as the leave later on made iective, in connection been South strong champion of the of use of his stay in Hamburg | with the East series of montlily Shock Brigade on part of American SJ.SO. Never, one feels in reading this book, interests to have Nicaragua, I am well t rare of the collaboration the the workers against the bureaucracy, illegal conferences and j Asiatic Week sponsored by the In- Nights will be given tonight • • • did she forget for a moment that discussions on at 8:30 and the feudal-bourgeois governments in that part of the which was imperialism she going to write a book about becoming increasingly revolutionary anti-militarist work. ternational Union of Revolutionary at the headquarters of the Workers Reviewed by was going world. EDWIN ROLFF, this conservative and more and (To Continu-rf) ■ ! Theatres, is arranging a experience. more openly Be Chinese- Laboratory Theatre, 42 E. 12th St * * * to the side of the cap- I am translating your two columns Into Spanish for the Argentfhe THIS is an account by a young : Japanese Night for tonight at * italists. With its The Shock Troup is a selected group revolutionary magaslnes, as I think that such an expose of the Inner result is this uneven book—- undaunted passion John Wexley Smith College graduate of a short ®-nst Thaelmann proclaimed the Is Guest i headquarters, 52 West 15th St. which works full-time and holds it- workings of governments under the wing of “Yankee imperialism” would THEexcellent in small and irregular right of the period spent among the miners of members to uninterrupt- of Honor Features of the evening will self in readiness to perform at any aid a great deal In convincing workers that they can expect no aid snatches, unconvincing and false in ed membership at John Reed be pla-e—at Pennsylvania. Unable to find a job in their organization. ; performances by the Japanese time or demonstrations, others. Her descriptions of Y. C. He revealed The- from these incipient fascists. in New York, possessing the vague himself here as the Party atre and Chinese muscians special meetings, and even on the L. unit meetings, for example, are champion of genuine Saturday Night -1 playing Not being certain as to your desires, I would consider it a favor if you and unform ulr..ed literary aspira- a revolutionary native instruments. Mara picket line. The Shock Brigade the most utterly absurd and fantastic trade i Tartar of grant this maga- tions so common among young union movement sufch as has : the Nights are planned to enable the would formally me permission to send to “Contra,” a col- bits of come JfEW YORK.-The artists and Theatre Union will offer new' writing that this reviewer about in recent year's songs. to - zine for a correspondent. lege people who find most of the through writers of the John I Shock Troupe continue its work which I am (who has attended several hundreds he R.T.U.O. which is Reed Club will program other professions closed to them, Miss developing in- celebrate the production of and the is made up of Comradely yews, of such meetings) has come to a powerful organization. "They their Gilfillan hit upon the novel and for- ever Shall Not Die,” Scottsboro play by own repertory, which under- OSCAR RUIZ. across. No less unreal and vague He came out boldly equal ’ goes tunate idea of spending her period of are for rights ’ John Wexley, a member of the club, Unemployed Writers to rapid change. After the per- certainly pantiiMtonH her descriptions of the actual strug- of the young ' You mbst have u\f comparative penury among the workers in the trade with a party Saturday night, at which formances, the members of the * • • gles—the unions. In his speech striking and penniless of picket lines and meetings. in the discus- I Wexley will be guest of honor, Hear Granville Hicks Shock Troupe will open the floor miners Miss Gilfillan is eveidently most at at the Eighth S and ejon Congress - Western Pennsylvania. of the • will recite a famous revolutionary for discussion of their work. 4 Latter on “Scottsboro and the Critled” Our author home when her material conveys Transport Workers’ Union in poem does not tell us why she went to Breslau translated from the German. NEW Just merely suggestion, the or 1912, he said: In YORK Granville Hicks, Dear Mr. Oariln: study in the the effect “ addition a program be of- Avelonla to life raw; she implication of class struggle. we now have Youth will ’Oted critic and awthor of “The Section 1 Party ami Thanks for the line piece today on the New York dramatic critics does not explain why coal strikers She Is Sections fered. including a shadow sketch Great Tradition,” will speak at the decidedly insecure In her treatment ■ written by members senna Wexley's Soottsboro play. Such a blrds-eye view of the whole interested her more than New York of the club, and Unemployed Writers' Association at Dance This Sunday of these struggles in their most Gold’s a good Jazz orchestra will play the •rtttoal front is certainly stimulating, In addition to placing your column bohemians. If she tossed a coin to naked and Poem, Set to for Greenwich House, 27 Barrow St., decide the course of her slumming truest form. dancing. The subscription is 25c. tonight, at 8 o'clock. NEW •nay above the hypocritical If not actually dishonest turned out by Music, to YORK. The Downtown Junk odyssey, it was a lucky break; for Perhaps one ought to forgive the Be Sung at mass organizations tendering a Sfee regular columnists. unconscious are only a crisis-shattered, starving and author’s snobbery, her lecture at j. r. c. concert and dance for the of my I ago to Concert Sunday I find in literary notebook a paragraph wrote a long time striking working-class community failure assimilate what she saw Night the Communist Sectionbenefit in but did John Dewey, Morris R, Cohen and Party, 1, M the wilful blindness of the middle class, as expressed In Its literary such Avelonla could have given not feel—or, more precisely, the Manhattan 66 E. It!) as NEW public ' ether American philosophers will be Ly-eum, goes meaning her failure to transmit what she may , YORK.—The first per- *eed. The definition for the critics as well. Here's the paragraph: to her book. .ormance of TUNING IN j analyzed from the Marxian viewpoint St., tomorrow at 5 p. m. have felt to her readers. Her entire "The Strange Funeral in Beaten to Its knees from above by the wolfish bankers, and fright- That her book does possess this ■ Braddock," ihe famous poem by Prof. Stephen Graves in his lec- The program includes the Workers background is petty-bourgeois, and b\ Lab ened for its mortgaged homes and tiny privileges by the rumblings of meaning and significance is unde- Michael Gold, with music ture on "Contemporary American Theatre. Dance Group, a chalk most of her life up to the point where by Elio in talk proletariat from below, the American Middle Class (and Its critics) niable. There are chapters of excel- Siegmeister,j member of Corn- TON IGHT S PROGRA MS Philosophy the Light of Marxism,” by John Reed artists, the Uk- Ibe she left for Avelonla had been spent the' Sunday night. 8.30 the rainian chorus and riflci s is lent reportorial detail, of description | Poser's Collective, to be sung by n. m. at John a rtolin Iks Chicago witness, "afraid to talk.” And lnferentlally therefore, in a flnanclally-uncertain but social- Henry Reed Club, 430 Sixth piano of miners’ lives and living conditions Scnroeder.j concert baritone, will be Avenue. solo. ft Is afraid to listen. "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,” Is Its ly-quiescent middle class realm. One given VVEAF—66O kc. approach some of best on tomorrow evening 7:15 Religion which the can point out the defects of her book at 8:30 at la the Newc-Dr Stan- literary creed. the Civic Repertory ley High workingeiass journalism this reviewer and at the same time recognize that I Theatre, 14th St. You can make use. of this paragraph If you oare to, but don’t use and 6th Avc. 7 30—Mfirth:i 1 i r.;:, Pones has read. There are other chapters these defects—a merely S This is included in the AMUSEMENTS nr name, though my initials are okay. skin-deep Program of a 7:4s—Jules Lande, Violin made melodramatic and somewhat perception of her characters in addi- i concert held by the s:oo—Bird of Paradise—Sketch Workers Music of —THE THEATRE GUILD presents— RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Sincerely, unreal by the author’s too-evident tion other already League New' Yprk 9:oo—Vcoriiees Orch.; Donald Novis, Tenor: JOHN WEXLEY’S New to faults enumer- i to protest against War 50 St & 6 Ave —Show Place of the Nation H. K. attempt to fictionalize material too war and fascism. Prances Langford, Contralto; Arthur i a*eY. nf E’w.y demanded her bove cloak to Juillard 13:30 A.M.—Wilson Orch.; /’T !TA Socialists of the federal dicks who arrested them. “We were the battle” Chapter of the National Ena Moten. 1 Li U Hill ET.I "(!Mals.Xbnr.*S»t.-:J(l RKO 14,h st A But the whole effect of “I Went to produce really vital reportage and Students Sor.ir: Tommy Harris. Sin 's; Ryan and 1 Jefferson | j only distributing copies of the Declaration of Indepefidenee, and it was League. New workers songs I 3rd Are. Now f loses dignity Noblette, Cammedy; Hillbilly Group Jefferson Pit College” is spoiled, fiction. taken from the recently published MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New riay BORIS KARLOFF In Thomas who wrote that!” power and and sincerity, by the too- “International Collection of WOR-710 Kc. we’ll ... - - « Revolu- "Well, get that too,” the dicks of the 7:00 P.M.—Snorts—Stan Lomax MARY OF SCOTLAND “THE GHOUL” inslstent intrusion author’s tionary Songs,” will be heard in this answered belligerently. narrative. 7:ls—Harry Hershfield with HELEN PHILIP HELEN aIso:—‘JIMMY AND SALLY” with personality into the direct country for the first will MERIVALE • • time. They ".SO—Dance Orch. HAYES MENKEN JAMES DUNN and CLAIRE TREVOR 9 Such intrusion would have been sung I an be by the Daily Worker Chorus 2:oo—Hedfern Hollinshead and Dell Baker, ! 1 TTTVJ The.., 524 St.. W. of B'wav That other “liberal,” Roosevelt, In now, justified only if the author had met Stage and Screen and Songs -1L V ail Ev.B:2o.Mats.Thur.ASat.2:2o is the White House but the the Frelhelt Singing Society. The j p these miners on a basis of equality, Pierre Degeyter oC—News—Oabrlel Heatter official mind is still the same, It seems. Out In Minneapolis recently Symphonietta. the «:45—The Jazz of complete understanding, of willing- first professional Judge—Sketch they had a big Lenin Memorial Meeting—-In two meetings, in “ musicians’ orchestra 9:oo—Robbins fact one ness to merge her personality “David Hqrum” And Bolero” to Orch. PALESTINE with be developed in the class 9:3o—Bronx Marriage the North Side of the town and the other on the South Side. The working Bureau—Sketch Natives Jew the personality of Avelonla and At Radio Citu Music Hall music movement, will perform. 9:4s—Lane Orch. 7IEGFELD FOLLIES The and Arab comrades, naturally, got among announcing also ’Oil?—John BRICE Sing; Dance: Demon.strate; Work out the masses with leaflets then it would not have been an in- “David Hamm,” a screen version of the Speakers will be Charles Seeger Kelvin, Tenor with FANNIE and *o:3o—organ * Eugene HOWARD, Baetlett SIM in “THE DREAM OF MY PEOPLE the meetings, and one of most novel of the name name, produced by Fox Recital Willie the practical methods of communication trusion. Lahn Adohmyan. Harry will 1 ther Report MON*, .lane .ROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. with Canter Rosenblatt and directed by James Cruze, is the new Mnrtell 1:00—Wee is through mail be 1 —Tremaine (VINTER GARDEN, B'way and Era. ft.3# boxes, which are conveniently nailed on to most houses, screen feature now showing: at Radio chairman. Tickets may be ob- 1:01 Orch 50th. -SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE- But Miss Gilfillan’s approach on the Thursday and Saturday 2:30 even where the rent is long overdue. City Music Hall. Will Rogers plays the tained from the Workers Music It:3o—Coleman Orch. Matinees this score leaves much to be desired. principal 12:00—Berber Orch. Well, some solid citizen of Minneapolis (probably a Farmer-Labortte role and Louise Dresser, Fvclyn League, 5 E. 19th St. She did not attempt to discard her Venable and Kent Taylor Are in the sup- WJZ—76O Kc. leader) in porting “LOT IN SODOM” a complaint to In College cast. turned one of Jim Farley’s boys charge of Smith outlook, nor her 7:00 P.M.—John Songs Maurice Ravel's • Is Herrick. Fes’urette Ex raordinarv Minneapolis postoffice. And presto! out the literary character. She studied these ‘Bolero." the principal 7:ls—Don —Sketch MO MORE LADIES the went customary form musical the stage show. Symposium on Film and Quixote people from above, when she item on Florence 7:3o—Kyt« Orch. S' A New Corned? bv A. H Thomas with letter to the one suspected of being responsble for the alleged Infraction. even Rogge, director of the Music Hall Corps ACME THEATREumou* on Singleton Copley: Our First Em- j MELVIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON courageously went forth with them de Ballet, designed choreography of the Photo L(•ague Sunday j Sway. So Bill Schnelderman, the dynamic Communist district organizer, the :nent Painter—Sketch KOROSCO Thea. 45th, W. »f Evs. on the picket line, on the streets of ‘‘Bolero*’ and the dancers include Nina Mats. Wednesday and Saturday 2:45 locked a little confused when he ran mail 3:2o—Cavaliers Quartet B:sft. MUSIC through his one morning and Pittsburgh to collect pennies milk Whitney and Alberto de Lima. Other num- NEW YORK. Film and 3:3o—Canadian Concert for bers on the stage show Include “A Stich in —The Photo found the following from the Minneapolis post-office: ; League Symposium, ft.oo—Stern Orch.: Songs j for the miners’ kids. She remained Time.” with Evelyn Duerler, soprano, Vir- "The Future of Arlene Jackson. 9:3o—Duchin Orch. Union’s Stirring Play - ginia Brown; “The Black Hussars,” the Film,” postponed from Sun- Theatre with last 10:00—1934: A National Park Year—Harold TIIE HIT: Philharmonic Svirohonv Tgor Gorin and Liszt’s “Second Hungarian day, due to bad wea her, will be LAST WEEKS ANTI-WAB r«*VVf}tl£ HALL Rhapsody.” held L. Iches. Secretary of Interior; U. S. HANS LANGE, this Sunday, March 4, at 8:30 pan. Marine Band Conductor j Thlv Sunday Afterneon at 3:08 at the headquarters of the League, 12 10:30—Barn Dance Boris Karloff In "The Glwul” 1 1:30—Whiteman Orch. ON EARTH Soloists: POST PENALTY FOR PRIVATE UN East 17th St. PEACE OFFICJE DEPARTMENT Thjglili "I TO Speakers will Meyer MTUSTEIN, Violinist Islitll—k be 1 2:00—Dcnhy Orch. CIVIC REPERTORY Thea.. IHb S. A *th At. NATHAN AvotpyxyiNm 9 w > mnrarrup At The Jefferson Theatre Leon GREGOR PIATIGORSKY, ’Cellist I Schapiro, Dennen, Evelyn Ger- 12:30 A.M.—Stern Orch. 9-7450. Evgs. 8:45. 50 Beginning today, the Jefferson Theatre steln, WA. O|A t. 0 MINNEAPOLIS, /' Nathan Adler, Nicholas Bela, Wed & Bat . 2:30 «3U 1 TAX MINN. Ms i will show “The Ghoul” with Boris Karlof WABC—BSO Kc. Vats. TOSCANINI, Conductor and a second feature, Tom Brandon and Arrange Theatre Parties for your organiza- HJ. “Jimmy and Sally,” others. 7:00 P.M.—Mlchaux Congregation Thurs. Ere. at ttdft; Friday Aft. at ■ with James Dunn and Claire Trevor. Be , I 7:3o—Screnaders Orch: Phil Cook. Im- tion by telephoning WAtkins 9-2451 Next Sunday Afternoon at 8:00 ginning Wednesday the Jefferson will pre- personations CFWCIM^mjSINEI* j BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS sent “Easy To Love” with Adolph Menlou,l First Meeting of I. W. O. 7:4s—Jones Orch. Genevieve Tobin and Guy Klbbe, and ‘ Hell 3:oo—Excerpts from Bpitfire and High Water” with Richard Arlen and Band in Newark Sunday B:4s—Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hlllpot. Concert for Children and Young People ' Judith Allen. Songs Roberta snv ♦ SCHILLING, Conductor t a. “It Happened One Night,” with Claudette 9:oo—Philadelphia Studio Orch. A New Comedy by Next Saturday Morning at 11:00 Colbert Clark Musical and Gable, is the screen NEWARK.—The City Central Com- 9:ls—Alexander Woollccott The Town JEROME KERN £ OTTO HARBACh (Sixth and last concert of series' feature at the Palace this week. J. Fred mittee of the International Work- Crier NEW AMSTERDAM. W. l?d St. Evg*. 8:40 REQUEST PROGRAM and Olive Sibley head the vaudeville lT Ray Thompson. Songs; n't) er's Order in Newark is nlan" )g tbe 9:3o—Palee Orch.: Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 Arthur Judson Mgt. i Steinway Pia MIL Male Trio; Black Rhapsody Choir Ann Sten in “Nana” now showing on formation of an T.0.0. Band In this '3:oo—Rebroadcast from Byrd Expedition; the NATIONAL THEATRE screen at Loew’s State. The stage show city. Music from New York Lenin featuring Conrad and Joe Phil- In Action—H. FESTIVAL OF NEW YORK is Thibault It calls upon all of language "o:3o—Leaders V. Kaltenbom «« Zola’s Orig- lips. the Todav ftv amia - *o:4s—Lombardo Orch. inal Novel sections of organizaiic ~ , Last Time INAil A FINAL COMPETITION “Carolina” Gaynor Lionel tile 'in 11:15—News Reports 425 xaseta Building with Janet and Beginning Monday Orep’s Soviet Film Barrymore is now showing at tho Center ark. Harrison, Kearny and Elizabeth : 11:20—Ann Leaf. Organ; Charles Carlile. ™ ° March 10th Theatre. Wednesday to Friday “Eight Girls to bring as many comrades with any | Tenor ANNA STEN LL W City In A Boat” will be the screen feature. instruments to meeting to il:3o—Catherine the Oreat—Sketch A FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE “A Lost Lady.” based on the noval by the first 1 2:00—Little Orch. BroMway »Blh SI.. 8:3!) M. this Sunday, 2 p.m. at A- P. Willa Cather, will be produced by Warner be held at j 12:30 A M.—Davis Orch sth Ave. Theatre Tickets at Workers Rook Shop Bros. 252 West St., Newark, N. J. • I:oo—Hopkins Orch.