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DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1934 Page Five Bill Gropper The World of Things Are «* ! If Lunacharski’s Great Gift as Changing Were Commissar CHANGE the Theatre Even in “Qrundyville” Writer Cited by Bukharin —= By HAROLD EDGAR By N. BUKHARIN were two aspects of his deviation THE many years ; which for kept Luna- TAMIRIS By ROB. ROBBINS er’s fault and refused to compensate away from the proletarian ’ charski out of the main stream of “Uncle” Grundy—Joe R. Grundy— him in any way, so the sued. FARfatherland, in Anatole Tamiri* is a dancer in need of worker France. ; Bolshevism. Gives his slaves a rest on Sunday; Thousands of were spent Vasilievich Lunacharski, “the ; radicalizaiion. This might be said of dollars by Soviet Did Not Become Chauvinist He gives them buildings, parks and Grundy fighting this on Ambassador to Spain.” as he will S all artists who have not yet associated “effrontery” The world War failed to turn Lu- WORLD! themselves in some trees, the part of one of his slaves; this, probably be referred to in the for- ! direct way nacharski chauvinist with but increase! passed j into a and de- Gold the proletarian revolutionary “Everything" a wage rather than give to the worker the eign press, away after a se- I fenslst. A man of vast international move- ... By Michael money vere The last X saw ment, but It especially true that spent on lawyers. The illness. time culture, he aid not betray the posi- is years ago every Lunacharski with radicalization in our would this writer reviewed worker lost out in court, but tion of internationalism. After direction his yellow face pass- Can Anybody Answer This? be of immediate value to Tamiris and SOMEa play called “Processional," by by sheer accident, because some of ing through the wreckage of the July, to our This observa- John Howard Lawson. Intended to judge wanted to pay off a grudge a dying man 1917, days after ’THERE appeared In the New York Sunday News recently, under the cultural front. death had airy ad: and seeing the in- tion is based on the evidence of her be a serious telling of the story of against Grundy, in a final court of side of a Menshevist-Social Revolu- 1 title, the buffle-headed little editorial which follows: verdict laid fingers on above ; own work at her latest recital in the workers in the mine regions, West appeals the was reversed and its tionary Jail, he returned fo;d Tribune Press Service dispatch from Montreal, him, although thh to the “We quote a Chicago Booth Theatre. Virginia the locale, I vaguely recall, the worker won the suit. Orundy . of the | cheerful “Helene, Bolsheviks. dated Jan. 18: Tamiris’ dance, more than any the whole thing struck me as a hor- made out the check. And then fired Jfc He hesitated in the October days, “ everyone who in his ‘Prof. W, F. Tait, head of he Department of Psychology, McGill 1 other American dancer’s, has a vigor, rible burlesque. What seemed in- in his mill related to this life ; when the imaginary shells of the controversy in two a and an credible in it, also, was the appear- worker. exemplified the ■ Bolshevik guns University, contributed angle to the present sturdiness enthusiasm that allegedly destroyed a new - m..\L magnificent ca derive from popular sources. One ance of the owner of the mine wear- Grundy gave town ! the esthetic beauty of St. and continents over the merits of sterilization. feels to the the new pacities of man y</J Basil in her a lyricism of ing a high living post-office. horrified the you wish,’ said, ‘to cure the ills of society by sterilization, big city streets, hat—and actually He insisted that it be up thereby “Blessed Ana- ‘“lf he In the town! still kept hi i.ole,” of modern life not in the mine built right near his partic- • as the of the great you should start with the over-intelligent. The worst crimes, the most studio sense mill, not spirits, pro ud 1 leaders but in the sense of actual contact That’s possible. I’m convinced now ularly for the convenience of his battle then Jestingly referred to Lu- are not caused by subnormal mental defec- held his head widespread blights, or with everyday things—shops, bus- —with the exception of the high-hat workers, but that feeling of in- ; nacharski. jested laughed w • * * tives, by intelligent people. Child labor, sweatshops, religious, po- cor- part of Nothing of sugges- and but j rides, parks, department stores, it. the creasing his feudal estate obtained with that pecu- litical and persecution, manipulation, bank delinquencies, ner Coney hitch- tion “absentee-ownership” in LUNACHARSKI that, however, racial stock flirtations, Island, of about this case. The only post office, liar ironic, wise Lunacharski intrigues and highgrade murder, It’s Grundy position. graft at the expense of the country, hikes. There is nothing sickly in her the town of Bristol, Pa. therefore, is located some miles from laugh which fitted in so well with AFTERadopted a firm Through- war and its horrors—are not caused by morons, but by the intellegent.’ work, nothing pretty-pretty. There is all the way, and “Uncle Joe,” the the main streets of Bristol. I his entire mxke-up. | out the Revolution, on ail the fronts and “lobby-gow” has his estate in the the “There must be an answer to this. But we can’t think just now animal spirits, there is hope couldn't determine whether Grundy Anatole Vasilievich was one of the ;in Commissariat of Education is.” youth, and there is little vulgarity or town where he “works.” was responsible for the pine board | most gifted men whom the labor j and at street meetings, at gather- what the answer ings * * * cheapness. Yet all these qualities The massive brick "himney of his stuck in lawn of of “Komsomols” (Young Com- • so the the post office—- i movement of our country has j much closer to workers than to the whitewashed cotton mill bears the and containing the names of the i brought to the fore. His was indeed | munist League) and in circles of au- Ask Any Pioneer arty audldnce of Broadway dance infamous six letters, ostentatiously, sixteen who were murdered in the 1 a brilliant talent. He was a man of -1 thors and artists, in all his multi- recitals, a six that actually spell war • activities, was a Part" THEY don’t know the answer, these hired men who do the capi- lack focus. The forms the letters last to make the world safe for —By Gropper ! outstanding artistic abilities. He did farious he Tamiris chooses to express herself out terror, sweatshop, industrial oli- the Grundys. Most of ! Poet and writer, one of the most SOtalists’ thinking. In the names not, however, have the Iron charac- are largely foreign to her. They are garchy, built upon the blood, sweat were of Italian and Polish origin; Gen. Hugh L. Johnson ter, the will-power and perseverance loyal and disciplined of fighters. Hr I, for one, don’t believe them. I am sure the gentleman who wrote I fully atoned abstract and cold. (Even when they and muscle of the mill workers formerly workers in Grundy’s mill, Would Be a Taxidermist necessary for a true leader of mil- 1 for his mistakes anr this editorial is hiding something. He knows the answer but won’t tell. are supposedly based on Whitman slaving in his mill for years: no doubt. lions. i blunders. (to every of thought Lunacharski universally capitalism). sphere poems.) - - was It would be too dangerous In In relation to what Tamiris G-R-U-N-D-Y. No one in Bristol | . He did not possess the theoretical loved could tell me ——■ 1 especially by youth. today “truth is revolutionary.” The truthful answer to the contradic- | is, and to what we sense in her hand- It’s a bitter, a hard name, exactly why the nanio profundity, the orthodox spirit and | Vladimir II- hadn’t been changed ! forgave him tion stated above leads one smack into Communism. some, energetic body, her subjects like the personality of the arch-ex- to Grundy or Grundyville. nil irresistible dialectic logic which dis- J’ich much for he was pretentious It’s tinguishes | "devilishly talented.” In the long ror Ask any 10-year-old member of that group of fighting young reds seem and forced. They ploiter who bears it. You feel its his. He even oversees the relief that the true genius of the | seem borrowed. sinister influence all about you in is dole Soviet Songs proletarian Revolution. With a mild ! h!s “devilish talent” stood the Revo- known as the Pioneers. He will tell you that the way the issue has been out to the extent of a couple luticn In good stead. If Tamiris would give herself con- this Upper Delaware River town, of dollars artistic character which more than j stated is misleading. It is not “intelligence” that makes child labor pos- worth of groceries a wejk. crete subjects (specific dramatic beautiful on its river side, with old A woman secretary of his directly - cnee exhibited fluctuations, Luna- "Fascinating,” “Lovable" sible, and creates racial persecution, stock manipulation, bank failures, themes) is charski never to such areng definite working class Colonial mansions, expensive shrub- in charge of the local relief agency. Popular Here pretended a 1 As a man, Lunacharski was ex- graft and all the other familiar products of capitalism. ! lines with a clear revolutionary bery, etc., and inhabited by com- He owns only newspaper ! role and his political biography con- | racrdlnarily fascinating and lovable.