Page Four DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929 Soviet Literature Is Vigorous MERRYMAKERS RETURN TO GARDEN ‘Man’s Estate, New Comedy um •-- mbobol "» was¦¦¦ - Reaction to New LNe in USSR Presented at the Biltmore ¦ i use m jjm? .ge.-g. . -earc. W ’ .HMSM—I VA ===THKATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS - By ELI B. JACOBSON , the impassable gulf between the two THE Theatre Guild presented its ' * Paradoxical as it may seem, the generations cherishing hostile ideol- fifth production of the season, Music Notes of literatures of imperialist America ! ogies. And with what absence “Man’s Estate,” a comedy by Bruce tears, wringing of hands, signs and Blackmar, at and Communist Russia have much in Gould and Beatrice the Fania Bossak, soprano, will give lamentation. The same emotional common. Both are young, vigorous Biltmore Theatre. recital Town Hall Monday by study- a song at MAN’S ESTATE and crude, and are in the stage of restraint is shown those A story of life in a small western changing sex and marital night. growing adolescence. From both ing the town, it is always interesting and By BEATRICE BLACKMAR BRUCE GOULD freudianism, and exudes the smelly atmosphere of the | relations. No dilettante keeps the audience on the alert dur- nor no un- Winifred Purnell, pianist, will ap- factories, both are shaken by the torturing introspection, ing the three acts. With the usual p|T ’T’A/fCYDT7 THEA., 47th St. W. of B’way. Eves. 8:50 pear in debut recital at Steinway A J.VIUAIV.E, & Saturday city upon rural married fathers, bachelor husbands; capable direction, Matinees Thursday at 2:40 impact of the culture Guild cast and it Hall Wednesday evening, April 17. backwardness; both bow’ before the no glorification nor degradation of develops into a play that is worth- j of the the flesh, no monstrosities like while seeing. Although ever-increasing demands it does not Aeolian Waldon, soprano, will ap- “Janet March,” and its like. expound any being ¦ EUGENE O’NEILL'S machine; literary w’eltschmertz and new ideas, con- pear at Hall Friday Marya, in recital Town sentimentality still sicken the read- the Bolshevik (A. Nev- cerned with the usual youthful love evening, April 19. ers of both; both stand helpless and i erov) does the third act of the affair, the fine manner of its pres- Doll’s all over again. She brings perplexed at the gradual transform- 1 House entation it to a compara- Madeleine Monnier, French cel- leaves her peasant husband be- tively high ation of the sex mores. I to level. give concert at Stein- DYNAMO liste, will her are not | come a Soviet village official. This Jerry to be- These characteristics Jordan, who hopes way Hall Sunday evening, April 14. MARTIN RFTK THEA., 45th St., W. of Bth Ave. Eves. 8:50 shared by all Russians or all Amer- ! peasant Nora causes many a peas- come a architect, spends an ant woman to stare famous' icans; nor in the same degree and and wonder. evening in the moonlight in the Martha Graham will give her And the men, like Helmer, begin intensity. But on a whole these to company of Sesaly Blaine. Shortly last recital of the do a little wondering themselves. third and season tendencies are revealed in both i not afterward, Sesaly has a fainting at the Booth Theatre Sunday eve- A COMEDY BY SIL-VARA | Such miracles as these they have ' countries. spell and discovers that she is go- ning, April 14, when she will he as- ! not experienced For instance, Dreiser gives us a heretofore. ing to have a baby. Os course, her sisted by her concert group of dan- | (P. Romanov) mere incidental glimpse of a collar In “Black Fritters” boy friend, Jerry, is the father. cers. | it is the husband who quietly closes When Pa CAPRICE factory (An American Tragedy); and Ma Jordan are told ! the door on his peasant wife whose about w'hereas almost the entire setting it, they make a lot of noise Giannini will give a re- THEA., West 52nd Street. | chiefly Dusolina PUTT n Eves. 8:50 Sharp is placed by N. Liashko, into ma- interests are centered in the The big show at Madison Square Garden is in full swing. The and arrange for an immediate wed- cital at Carnegie Hall on the eve- UUIIiD Mat., Wed., Thurs., & Sat. 2:40 Sharp calving of her cow, Lyska. He & chine factory (The Song of the ! principal feature of the Ringling Bros.-Barmim Bailey circus this ding between the boy and girl. ! ning of April 17. ' quiet, Chains). In true American efficient shares his life with a hard- season is Hugo Zacchini “The Human Projectile” who is creating After the wedding Sesaly states | working girl-comrade, wife, evening big arena Eight Avenue. fashion Sherwood Anderson tranj- -1 and his a sensation afternoon and in the on that she had her fingers crossed j EUGENE O’NEILL’S forms a farm village into an indus- | despite her intention to raise a vio- during the ceremony and therefore Roosevelt Signs New’ girl- trial community (Poor White); | lent storm, gives him and his Seventh Anniversary of “Flames on the Volga” she does not consider it binding, Baumes Law; Statute whereas Alexey Tolstoy merely ex- | comrade a present of fritters in- Shej returns the ring to Jerry and j Strange romantic hope for S stead. So she leaves as she came, “The Freiheit” Will Be to Continue for Week tells him to continue his studying. of Limitations Ended Interlude presses a distant j same wondering, irresolute, and yet im- She the transformation in “Azure Celebrated This Eve. More at Film Guild adds if later he feels that he way Cities.” The thick inky stains of ; pressed with that something that is actually loves her then they will ALBANY, April 5. Governor JOHN GOLDEN great and new, but which she does K. sentimentality that smear so many i The seventh anniversary of the Due to the big response to the live together. It is arranged that Roosevelt has signed the Baumes ! not and cannot understand. to bill providing for the abolition of of Michael Gold’s pages are barely Freiheit will be celebrated tonight new Sovkir.o cinema, “Flames on Sesaly is go to Europe while Marietta Shaginian The best story is “Azure Cities”. Jerry will continue his college edu- ! the statute of limitations in effect, visible in in the largest hall in the city, the the Volga,” the film dealing with J (Three Looms). In America Floyd | Here we have the Destoievski touch: cation which will prepare him for a ! in all criminal cases. The new hill bears close New York Dell is constantly pre-occupied with Buzheninov a resemb- a peasants’ revolt under the regime great future as an architect in New j | provides for the suspension of the his adolescent analysis of the chang- lance to Raskolnikov. A romanti- of Queen Catherine, now showing at York. Jerry suddenly decides that I statute in all eases as soon as in- cist, living only in his fantasies, formation filed or an ing sex and marital standards, he the Film Guild Cinema, will be held he loves Sesaly and asks her to live has been in- is unable to effect anything of the dictment issued. As this is a mat- standards that probably will baffle over for a second week. with him immediately. He says he to the of his already fading slightest concrete value. will study evenings, taking a ter of course whenever any crime him end This latest Sovkino release is S4O literary days, and in Russia Boris But Comrade Khotzaintsev cor- a week job to keep them going. is committed, anybody the police crime may Pilniak is equally baffled and per- rectly tells him: “When you are in notable for the direction of Juri The play is a typical slice of think of accusing for any -“HOLIDAY”-i years plexed, altho treading on a little the saddle, rifle in hand, that hour of Taritsch, who was responsible for middle class life in the United now be placed on trial twenty for surer ground. I the Revolution is lived on nerves, “Czar Ivan the Terrible” and also States. It is realistic and truthful later when all witnesses the de- “A success of the first order.” ?on emotions, on enthusiasm. But fense are dead or gone. But the newer Russians scorn de- for the fact that it is the first pic- in its portrayal. The fear of dis- —New York Times. introspection, investigation now harness that battle h rse to the covery lingers constantly in the cadence, plough—that’s hard—just day ture which was actually filmed in “A joyous revel in which sprightly of the “meaning of Life”. Beauty every minds of the petty-bourgeois people Os fie clnsseft that Maud face there was much froth, labor and sweat. In the end there the Volga regions. to face with tie bourgeoisie today some vivid characters in a seriously interesting romance, and is not truth with them nor truth, Russia, Cent ral with whim the play is concerned. is more courage needed to sell dough- Savina the proletariat alone Is a really revo- a east of players remarkable for the excellence of their acting.” beauty. Nor do they dwell in the The cast of 5,000 Tartar natives Margalo Gilmore gives nuts on the marketplace than to Russia, Armenia, an admir- lutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com- ivory tower. Nor do they idealize movements, forms the as —Percy Hammond, Herald Tribune. rush with the naked blade into the Turkistown, Siberia and all other and their able performance Sesaly. Her munist Manifesto). perversion. Nor do they indulge in background for a vivid and natural acting is restrained, dynamic attack. You must sweep out the sections of the Soviet Republic, yet wise-cracks. Nor do they sigh be- showing drama introducing such legendary whenever necessary. The part of Madison Sq. Garden townspeople with muslin and books, the important industries of NOW!llvll. ARTHUR HOPKINS presents PHILIP BARRY’S New cause the rich do not find sufficient each section, the way the workers characters as Pugatchev, the Rus- Jerry is also well handled by Earle 40th-50«h SI. at Sth Ave. novel pleasure to fill up their leisure and the theatre and the club and the “Robin Hood”; Prince Potem- Short Season—Twice Dally nt 2 A Comedy with settings by ROBERT EDMOND tractor.” and peasants live and work. The sian Larimore. Others in the cast include j S P. M.—Doors Open nt 1 nnd 7 JONES. time. Nor do they psychoanalyze kin, the favorite paramour of Dudley Digges, who the play; Special Entertainment each Sunday Razkolnikovism does not dominate most important part of this picture Queen staged j in out of season. Nor do they and Bulat Batyr, the Afternoon and Night and Catherine, Edward Pawley, Elizabeth Pater- - - ° ' this superb short story, but is re- is the celebration of the tenth anni- Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey PT VMm FTP Thea w 43th st -> Eves - B:s indulge in the luxuries of pessim- chieftain who led many Tartars in I ¦*-' -*¦ iflYyU placed by the patient realism and versary of the Russian Revolution. son and Edward Favor. Xil Mats. Thurs. and Sat. 2:35 ism. Nor are they cynical, “sexy,” revolt. intelligence of a Comrade Khot- The leaders of the Soviet Union, Although slightly different from spoolzy, trivial and lecherous —all program zntsev. the Red Army parade, workers’ On the same the Film the usual run of Guild plays, it is a these symptoms of a decaying pluto- murky introspection, no pessi- demonstrations, the famous Duncan Guild is presenting a Symphony in play they need not be ashamed of. 1 CIRCUS cratic civilization that so infest the No mism—but youth, strength, courage, Dancers, all appear in the film. Color, which is an experiment in 1,000 Foreign Features including literary and circles and Featuring HUGO ZACCHINI “artistic” relentless facing of the facts, when In addition to the movie, Nicholas color dynamics, and “Killing the AGAINST DEATH PENALTY. writings of the States are “The Human Projectile” United building social, not anti-social civil- Ivarlosh from the Russian Grand Killer,” the famous Ufa short pic- LONDON, England, April 5. A not evinced by the Russians. j j A Living Person Shot Through Space spirit phil- Opera Co., Ivan Vilikanoff , ture. bourgeois organization, which Velocity It is this spirit which informs the ization—it is this and of the is with Violent from the osophy that suffices the pages of the Moscow Art Studio and Anna Commencing April 13, the Film circulating an appeal against the Mouth of a Monster Cannon! new volume of Russian short stories, So-1 THE SENSATION of the CENTURY! newer vina, mezzo soprano of Kieff Guild Cinema present the Amer- penalty, yesterday Ele- “Azure Cities.” Significantly enough Russian writers. the will death received j “GOLIATH”The Mammoth Sen *Azure Cities, Stories of New State Opera, will appear in a pro- ican premiere of “Waterloo,” a new 10,000 signatures. The total of phant—lOOO New Foreign Features the volume begins with the great Russia, International Publishers, SOO Circus Stars—Vast Menagerie- gram of modern Russian songs. interpretation of Napoleon’s down- signatures is now reported to be j Congress of dreams of the azure cities to be 1929. Freaks Farewell The program follows: Interna- fall from the British-German angle. 52,000. erected all over Soviet Russia in the Seats) Miller; This film has an international cast, ADMISSION to All find. $1 immediate future and ends with the “THE SHAKEDOWN” AT THE tional and Pioneers’ Song, F. to $3.50—6000 SEATS nt every per- | * May Song, headed hy Otto Gebuhr. a German EPIDEMIC KILLS NATIVES. forma nee nt under ! vigorous, muscular spirit of “youth” COLONY TODAY M. Rosenfeld; Kirchan sl.oo.—Children PERFORMANCE Cloken artist who plays Marshal Blucher; Africa,! 12 Half Price at AllMatinees except (V. Lidin) that dominates the old “The Shakedown,” a new Univer- (Church Bells), by Abraham JOHANNESBURG, S. Saturday A Sunday. Tickets at Gesangs Charles Vannell, a French actor, Garden Box Gimbel professor of science, the dying revo- picture, will be presented the Reisen; Freimeit Varain, (By Mail).—A plague has killed! Offices, Bros., sal at who plays Napoleon, and Humber- r»la**v’B and Usual Ticket Agencies. lutionary as well as the young avia- Theatre Jacob Schaefer, director; Song of over 50 natives, and is still raging Colony beginning today. stone Wright, an Englishman who coursing proudly and bravely hy the Forest, A. Barodin; The Pine in the Orange Free State. The na- REPERTORY tor, This is a drama directed William plays Lord Wellington. over the vast spaces of Leningrad. Wyler from a story by Charles A. Tree, E. Buchd; the Song of the ture of the epidemic is unknown. OIVIC Young Vilikanoff, program with 50c: $1.00: $1.50 Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2:3C Where in all American literature Logue. .Tames Murray and Barbara Peasant, Ivan P. On the same also be the Amer- EVA LEGALLIENNE, Director a healthy, non-morbid principal Ruckin; Lullaby; Soviet Folk Songs; “Waterloo” will MUSIC AND CONCERTS Isadora does such Kent co-star in the roles. Serenade, Bizete; Old premiere of Man Ray’s “Star Today Mat., “Twelfth Night!” spirit breathe and have its being? Other members of the cast include Balera the ican Song; Sea,” which is a James Joyce Tonight, “Knterlaa.” And how the factories sing! How George Kotsonaros, Jack Hanlon, Wolfe, Folk Anna Sovina; of the King Goes War, of a Baudelairian theme; St., E. ol gladly and spontaneously the work- Wheeler Oakman and Harry Grib- When the to T. treatment rOMF.DYUUMEjJJ 1 Theatre, 41st a screen sonata Broadway. Eves., incl ers themselves decide to work on ICanamon; Two Grenadiers, Schu- “Electrical Nights,” PhilharmonicSymphoDy Duncan bon. and “The Sun. at 8.50. Mats. Thurs. & Sat three instead of two looms! Isn’t it man; Harmonica, Rebkinoff; Nich- inspired by incendescense, Walter O’Keefe will continue in olas Karolash. Private Laugh of Helen of Troy.” "j CLEMENT KRAUSS RUTH their factory, their land? the role of master of ceremonies finest Conductor Hull, This .Sunday No sentimentality is shown a from the stage and Sammy Kahn urnegfe After- parent, noon nt .'1:00 parent, because he is a if head the Colony Melodists. ] Lectures and Forums L Tohaikovßky-Wngner Program Dancers will Legal Between /> he is an enemy of the new order, complete diver- Battle ¦ 'i Draper Other acts will the then he must suffer. No reconcilia- Carnegie Hall, Thursday Eve., -1 sified program. Staten Island Busses April 11, nt Hi4s tion is possible. Both I. Babel in The Peoples Institute Friday Aft., April 12, at 2:30 Theatre. Saturday Eve.. April 13, at 8:45 Chanin’s MAJESTIC “The Letter” and Seifullina in “The and R. R. 12,000 St., West of Broadway The other classes decay anil finally Hits Weber - Korngold - Brnhnis 44th Woman” (observe that the disappear in the face of modern in- AT COOPER UNION Strauss Eves. 8:30: Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 Old | PLACE) dustry; the proletariat 1* its special Twelve thousand Staten Island (Sth St. and ASTOR The Greatest and Funniest Revue author does not call her “The p-odnet.—Karl Marx 8 o’clock Afternoon, and er«ential commuters may to walk blocks At Carnegie Ilnll, Sunday Mother”) unromantically portray 1 (Communist Manifesto). have April 14, at 3:00 to work today. Yesterday the Rich- SUNDAY, MARCH 7 Brahms-Strniiss Program mond Railways got an injunction to DR. EDWARD T. v. K. MENGE Arthur Judson. Mgr. Steinway ‘ Pleasure Bound “The Negative Side of Science” stop the service of the Fox Hills oooooooococrxyyyyyysoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo The New Plays Bus Corporation, which has an in- TUESDAY, APRIL 9 sufficient franchise, and comnetes to DR. JAMES GRAY some with the railway. “Microscopic Machinery” “THE LOVE DUEL,” by Lili Hatvany, will open at the Ethel extent Barrymore Theatre Monday evening, with Ethel Barrymore The Tompkins Bus Corporation, FRIDAY, APRIL 12 in the chief role. Others in the cast are Louis Calhern, which has no franchise at all for MR. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN this route, saw a chance to pick up A HISTORY OF LIBERTY Henry Stephenson, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Dorothy Hall, ¦ “Liberty mid Tolerance—A Leetare a little money, and ran buses all l V, Martin Burton and Leslie Barrie. ; on Reformer*'’ ¦' L/ 4|HRbhHB day yesterday. But the railroad j ADMISSION FREE “JONESY,” a comedy by Anne Morrison and John Peter Toohey, said they would be stopped by an- Open Forum DI«eu«fllon. will be presented at the Bijou Theatre Tuesday evening. The injunction today. Ball other Costume cast includes Nydia Westman, Donald Meek, Spring Bying- Q given by the Q ton, Raymond Guion, Kate Mayhew, Percy Moore and Helen Brooks. The play is based on a series of short stories by ITaborTemple] Mr. Toohey, published several years ago. TUDOR INN \ ) tith St. and Second Ave. 5 “THE SEA GULL,” by Tchekov, will be presented by Leo Bul- j SUNDAY, ATOIL T ( Modern Sunday School Camp flss’n, Inc. gakov for a series of special matinees at the Comedy Thea- < 5:00 p. m.: } tre beginning Tuesday afternoon. Restaurant DR. G. F. BECK (An Onlllne Illntnry of the Dr«m» I “THE VEGETABLE,” a comedy by F. Scott Fitzgerald, will be 113 East 14th Street ! i “The Drama of Concentration" s presented by the Lenox Hill Players at the Cherry Lane on > (Racine) > 7:15 p. m.:— ( LABOR TEMPLE, 247 E. 84th St. 8 Tuesday. cast Saxen, Brenner, For good and wholenome ; 8 In the are Eve Syd Fanny B. I IN A PROGRAM OF Seplow food, don’t fail to visit us EDMUND CHAFFEE Shack, Mildred and Lily Slotnikov. “Free Speech” ? We serve special luncheon i 6:30 p. m.: FORUM 5 Revolutionary Songs and Dances plates from 11:30-3 p. m. | < HARRY F. 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