Hitler's Reign of Terror in Premiere at the Mayfair

"Hitler's Reign of Terror" in Premiere at the Mayfair?? ARTISTS ARE AWAKE?? There has always been a sense in which the artist is a natural rebel; but temptations of all sorts-money, prizes,...

...Such organizations as Rebel Arts, of course, are directive agents along this way...
...Hitler's reign of Terror" is said to be a record of the atrocities committed by the Brown Shirts against Jew and Catholic alike...
...During the past three and a half years, nine stpres have been established and the tenth, store will be opened shortly in Times...
...Square at |£e 'aonthwest corner of Broadway...
...He also acts as narrator...
...There is ope, a full figure of Christ, with $\ about him little views of life today, from California 'lynching* to/'red applesauce...
...This may be true of workers' songs...
...Philip Harry, who has pictured in his plays the many lures bourgeois society can use to entice the rebel, has himself, this season, along with Eugene O'Neill, given comfort to those who seek refuge in religion...
...Hitler's Reigtr of Terror," said to be the first/authentic and un-censored mption picture record of Adolf Hitlers regime in Germany, will have |ls world premiere a^tne Mayfair Theatre next Monday...
...Einstein faces Hitler more often than Lenin gazes over a capitalist world...
...But there are signs that intelligent artists are still awar of the social forces at Btrife in the world today...
...Open Middle of May...
...and an otherwise unprotest-ing subway scene shows a newspaper in a pole-clingers pocket, folded to show the word Scotts-boro...
...There is hardly an alcove in the entire, exhibition that does not, through several paintings, remind us that tb* world needs remaking...
...but temptations of all sorts-money, prizes, academies, prestige second of which, indeed, most —bring most of them to compromise and mediocrity (from the never ascended...
...Tenth Steuben Tavern to...
...but intelligent composers such (is Edgar Varese and others recently heard in the concerts of the Pan-American Association of Composers are establishing, consciously or not, a technique working out of and toward the new emphasis our age is making more marked...
...The picture is comprised, for, the most part, from films made in Germany amd Austria by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and smuggled by him over the German border...
...Do two things...
...The picture has been subtitled "The Nazi Menace in America," because it is said to disclose Nazi activities in this country...
...It also shows the spirit of unrest fostered by Hitler all over Europe, threatening world peace and security...
...Vanderbilt in the preparation of the film...
...J. T. S...
...more than Rivera's murals were invisible at Rockefeller Center...
...isolation, which means negative propaganda for it...
...During September, 1930, at the height of the depression, three gentlemen opened a restaurant at 725 Lexington Ave., near 58th St., Arm in the belief that they could sell the best quality of food served as a dinner at cost of 55 cents...
...but at the current (eighteenth annual) Independents show at the Grand Central Galleries, there is a larger proportion than ever before of paintings of social content...
...but even among the unaffiliated artist*, many of whom like to consider their field wholly individual, the social point of view is growing forceful and aware...
...There is one painting calleo/ "Uncle Sam's Crisis," which pictures all the forces of capitalist concern hovering about their erit-ically ill provider...
...They named their eating place the Steuben Tavern, and within not •juite lout years Steuben has de-VeldptHft-Jnto one of the most important restaurant chains in the country...
...In the current issue of Modern Muxic (published by the League of Composers) Charles Seeger considers the three paths open to composers: "fascism, which means positive propaganda'for the older order...
...Build the Socialist Party and get subs for The New Leader to, help build it...
...And it is the artist who moves the mores—whose assumptions, whose basic creeds behind their pictures and songs, are a great power in any changing time...
...The parade of protesting painters at the opening of the first Municipal Art Show indicated why...
...In music, too, there are signs of this awareness...
...Samuel Cummins to Present Much Discussed Film April 30...
...and proletarianism, which means propaganda for the new order...
...Edwin C. Hill, journalist and radio commentator on world affairs, collaborated with Mr...
...Urging full acceptance of the last upon musicians, Seeger declares that music is well on the way to its new, social content, but that its technique is still a bourgeois growth...

Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 17


 
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