AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stags By Art Yun ¥ F yon bare watched tb* Pacific coast as closely as J nave, you will has* noticed that It ts famous far two is lass besides wonderful...
...The affiliation fee is low and within reach of every local organization, especially compared with the benefits derived...
...A Strange Shanghai Any person who has spent any length of time in Shanghai will inevitably come out of the theatre where the "Streets of Shanghai" is being shown with the feeling it is nothing less than a travesty...
...The Waltz of the Dogs" reveals Itself, on this first production, as worthy of place in the repertory of that ideal theatre which all good playgoers dream...
...This, "The Skull" does...
...It adds to this a skillful anti-climax in the reward of one's watching that, when properly managed, sends alternate shivers of fearsomeness and ripples of released laughter along the spine...
...while August Delvinne depicts Vandervelde's activity in the Belgium Labor Party and thereby imparts to us something not much les sthan a his tor yof the Belgium Labor movement...
...It is unfair to judge a race by this-"class—as unfair as If the Chinese to China were to judge America by tbe American bums, tramps and what not In Shanghai...
...fpfenetf Special relief for food, riothtng and of coal miners in a storm area to Southern Pennsylvania, by tbtt Emergency Committee few attacks* ReBef of whteh Norman Thoraos is- aWahajias), sweaty terian Building...
...When Hoover made a speech, September 29, 1924, dm neater public ownership and operation of electric plants, the national Eire tire Light Association published It in pamphtet to** In hearings before Coiiiml—lsmi MeCnlloeh oa Apr* **> Ira L Grbnahmw...
...It so happens that Chinatown and Hollywood aornttanaa cross swords...
...Laugh DAB...
...When the Chinese students to the United States aimed a de-bunker at Will Hays, movie czar, several years ago, he replied that something will be done about it, and soon after Carl Laemmle announced his policy to dispense with Chinese villains...
...Postponing the issue will not solve the problems either of the sick members or the position of the Union Health Center...
...156 Fifth avenue, New York City...
...Representation on the Board of Directors is to be granted to affiliated locals...
...Msec Ash • first opened at the McVicker's Theatre in the Windy City in 1925 he fc credited with having played mors than 6,000 performances at the McVicker's and Oriental Theatres to a combined total of almost 20,000,000 theatregoers...
...The overhead of the service thus provided at less than cost, would then be met by the yearly fee for affiliation by the locals participating, a fee that would be low in comparison with the benefit obtained...
...With this programme the work of the lorum for the season will close...
...The Sovkino production, "Car Iran the Terrible," directed by Juri Tartttb and acted by players from the Moscow Art Theatre with L- M. Leonidoff In the title role, is to be seen at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse the week begtontei today...
...It is therefore timely to suggest that unions act at once...
...And to the main text of the pamphlet Hoover is an...
...This film, subtitled "The Wings of • Serf...
...On the m* page appeared a quotation from Herbert Hoover...
...The ecture will be followed by a symposium, )n the subject, in which will participate Algernon Lee, and Bela Low, after which the floor will be thrown open to the public for questions and discussions...
...A mystery play contrives, with whatso skill the author can summon (and by judicious garnering, B. J. McOwen and H. E. Humphrey have summoned much) to bring into harmonious expectancy the dread of discovering what is to come, and the utmost desire to discover...
...Lastly a table of the principal writings of which Vandervelde is author shows once again the extent of the fruitful activity, embracing all spheres of the labor movement, which we owe to Emil Vandervelde...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stags By Art Yun ¥ F yon bare watched tb* Pacific coast as closely as J nave, you will has* noticed that It ts famous far two is lass besides wonderful cnanace—Chinatown and Hollywood...
...The very first fundamental obstacle to gorernment ownership that onr *** of government presents,'' said > Hoover, "is ton -relation of the state to es* federal government...
...this production grossed approximately $8,000 cn the week, a phenomenal figure, indicating almost capacity business at every performance...
...The date is not definitely decided, but it will ue either June 2nd or June 9th...
...The American movies today are reeking with Chinese color...
...In this decision they have followed the lead of the Loew and Publix chains...
...Not very long ago, a conflict occurred, A movie director, eager for Chines* color, pounced down upon the helpless Chines* quarter to Los Angeles to catch the old flavor that has made the works of Thomas Burke and LeBra famous...
...As a arge public is expected for this lecture ind symposium, prompt attendance Is irged...
...The book now issued by a group of leading comrades in the Belgium labor movement under the title "Emll Vandervelde, The Man and His Work" ("Emile Vaniervelde, L'Homme et son Oeuvre...
...A reign of dictaphones, Informirs and stool pigeons can easily develop rom the embryonic *blue menace' exsting In this country", she warned, "lines sthe nation's common sense asserts itself...
...the fiefs, serfs and vassals...
...Lloyd's name is featured In larger letters on Broadway than any star nas ever enjoyed before...
...Opium is depicted as part of the diet of the average Chinese, but how many spectators Of the American theatre know that the drug was forced upon China against her will, and the country made and is still making every • honest attempt to destroy it...
...The Waltz of the Dogs' represents the most hidden, cruel mean.ng of tragedy, which renounces the meaning and reason of human existence...
...For shopmen getting 75c an nour the week off with pay represents a raise of about l*£c in the hourly rate...
...from 2000 to I 2500, $300: from 2500' to 3000, $390...
...Speedy" Lloyd, continues to pack era in at the Rivoli-United Aartists Theatre, and It is predicted that he will for some time...
...when he begins an indefinite engagement as Master of Ceremonies »t the Paramout Theatre, *tn have registered several box-office record when he ends his long Chicago engagement at the end of this month...
...A Cleveland man who had spent years in Shanghai reported his impression of tbe film in the Cleveland Putin Dealer as follows: "It is absolutely wrong to make an unsuspecting American public believe hat such things, can or do take place 'xj Shanghai, or any other city in China, is the attack on the mission property by -he Chinese, the closely guarded consulate, the access by marines to women's rooms to the consulate and by women into marine quarters, the type of educational instruction being given in the mission ,and the raiding of a Chinese ganb11 ng club by a missionary girl and a squad of American marines...
...This is to be the maximum fee, regardless of the number of members thereafter...
...newer phases of modern China And there are stage plays...
...On the same program will os a Chad* Chaplin Comedy...
...and finally Messmne draws a picture of the work accomplished by Vandervelde as minister...
...One of the most serious phases <* post-war Germany—the restlessness of its youth and the desire for freedom Mm the bigotry of old-age—is treated in "Prtmanerliebe" (First Love) at lha 55to St Playhouse, beginning Saturday...
...Griffith, at the request of the fans, changed the ending of the picture, it has become a really popular movie, which is testified bv the long queue at the Rialto Theatre, where it is doing a capacity business...
...Considering the play apart from any pronouncement of the author's, it gives i bitter picture, indeed, of life...
...The Chinese in Doyer street...
...Rene Jardot expounds to us the philosophical ideas of Vandervelde, Louis Pierard the artist and man of letters...
...This sincere and searching presentation of the character of man is not so poignant as the author leads us to expect, what with 'nis declaration that "even if God himself were to tell me this work is poor, I would not believe Him...
...locals with a membership of 500 to 1000 $150...
...Stop...
...A Book.on Vandervelde JT is in itself something out of the common when a monument is erected to a contemporary, and all the more so within the labor movement which has never encouraged hero-worship...
...of policemen to _ quell tha disturbance...
...It is now merely a question for the unions to decide and act...
...To Local Labor Unions in New York City: "Dear Sisters and Brothers: i "For fifteen Tears New York Innate nt the International .Ladies tGarment Union have been msJntaJpog a Unlaw Health Center With meoacal and don**} departments...
...Musicians Prepare for War In times of peace, prepare for war President Joseph Weber warns the American Federation of Musicians In an appeal for funds to stock the War chest against long and costly battles probable in the near future...
...The Chinese Protest The Chinese have protested frsquently...
...locals with a membership of 1000 to 1500, $200: unions with a membership of 1500 to 2000, $250...
...assistant director of the Joint Commit***--salary $10,600—identified letters, reports and telegrams ¦>*** ing how the power lobby was reorganised last June to **** the Walsh resolution of investigation, tbe Muscle Senate n*» ernment operation bill and the Scolder Canyon dam and BO*** plant construction MIL A fond of $40C,eM was raised to fight the eh****" Canyon bill alone...
...A scholar may be killed, but he can never be humiliated," he said...
...Films villifylng the Chirasc occastajnUly employ Jegwuscsa to act as Chinese, and when such are lacking Americans disguised as Orientals, do the job...
...The intellectual intolerance of the period kshown when a serf, with genius ahead of his time, discovered the first ens* principle of the aeroplane and was welshed by the Czar as an ally of the anil...
...Hew York, have always made th: filming of th»ir section a difficult feat...
...Out Dissolve the "blue menace" of the X A. R. to laughter, advised Elizabeth McCausland, Massachusetts newspaper woman, over W E V D, labor radia station...
...The resolution which is of chief concern to unions is the plan by which a labor union can affiliate with the Union Health Center and obtain the splendid services for its members...
...There is no time to lose...
...Even to the skull...
...Alberic Deswartes the speaker, and Arthur Wauters the theorist...
...Variety," the American theatrical weekly, called it the best film produced in Germany during the past J*f On the same program will be shown Insert J. Flaherty's camera poem of Manhattan, "The $24 Island...
...Miss BradyG's company will move over to Rochester the following week and then on to Toronto after that...
...If anyone is honest in the play, it is Happy Jennie, who, being frankly a prostitute, has naught to conceal...
...Americano and hi...
...The younger brother of the Tile* family, Carl, confesses himself a scoundrel as the play begins, but only to us...
...There is little iisk in "The Skull...
...May ML "Primsnerliebe" is a study in adoincence...
...All those are about as impossible in Shanghai as they would be in Cleveland, and this film, which was evidently made in Hollywood or other studio this side of the Pacific, ought not to be allowed to misrepresent to American audiences American and Chinese life and relations in Shanghai as this does...
...It is not necessary to take a Chinese word for it...
...They regard the caricatures as untypical oi American fairplay...
...for directing the senviaWi >f the Joint Committee of National Utility Associations...
...i -vould be ended...
...The international activity of the Belgium Foreign Minister and President of the Second International, who took a leading share in moulding the European International situation, is sketched by Joseph Saxe...
...When Hoover wanted him back, to eetss chairman af the American delegation in the International ran* conference last fall to order to block all proposals that tst** carb the liberty of American private corporations, the Jen* Committee banded Davis over for a month...
...In this area there are nearly one hundred thousand miners and their fannies who have been on strike for more .nun a year...
...Readers of The New Leader are requested to bring it before their meetings...
...On tbe next page is another ****** ¦statement, three paragraphs long...
...Western maestro, of syncopation, who makes his Broadway debut on May 12th...
...in jazz, bobbed hair and bell-bottoms believe that when you are in Rome you do as the "Romans do...
...The area, which la the south and east of Pittsburgh is in the grip of a late spring snowstorm which has :ut off telegraphic communication and held up train service...
...The Broadway Assodattaa gave a dinner at the Manger Hotel in honor of the showman known-" to anaiora of theatre-goers and radio fans as "Boxyfollowed by the unveiling of a bronze Unlet in the lobby of the theatrt lianlag his name...
...was directed by Robert Land, aad features Fritz Kortner and Paul Otto is the cast...
...This man...
...Expect Canadian Pacific To Boost Shop Men's Pay Montreal.—Railroaders are speculating on what the Canadian Pacific, privately owned transcontinental line, will do to match the 1-week vacation with pay recently -announced for shopmen of the government owned Canadian National Railways...
...The Union Health Center is well equipped and is staffed with competent physicians and dentists...
...Chinatown is often reproduced r-s a colony of lawlessness and crime...
...Paul Ash...
...The American youngster, who admires Bill Hart or Tom Mix shows, shudders—and oftthnes marvels—at the cunning and deviltry of the Chinaman, when he does bis stunt on the screen...
...The Departed Qaeae The movie Chinamen of San Francisco, Chicago or New York are adorned with long-winding queues, but they are today as common as women pig tails on Main street...
...One believed :hat the old-time fashion in melodrama of the wildest variety had gone out of date when directors stuck reasonably close to reality in the depiction of foreign peoples and places...
...It was aimed at Muscle Shoals and Bonlder Canyon...
...just because .the business of Hollywood loves to flhn tbe old Chinatown, while tbe new Amsriraaised Chinese resents such *nrronagt...
...If desired, the Union Health Center will provide speakers to explain still further the proposal herein set forth...
...The average wage is less than 75c however...
...But it differs from the ordinary type of monument by making no attempt to honor Vandervelde otherwise than by a reproduction of his achievement, which indeed requires no words of adornment and glorification...
...Union Health Center Offers Unions' Talks The organizing work among the labor unions of this city in behalf of tbe Union Health Center is in full swing...
...But Henry's confidant, Feklusha, Is no less a scheming 'rascal for all his inefficiency: and Elizabeth, who abandoned Henry for money (and perhaps thereby gave him the Impetus to his undoing) turns up as Carl's mistress...
...There are out-of-date school texts too romantic on the old China and too dumb on the...
...DOG-TIRED At the Cherry Lane Playhouse, where thr> New Playwrights were recently experimenting with propaganda on the stage, Celia Avramo has now put forward i the world premiere of Leonid Anreyev's "The Waltz of the Dogs...
...Besides picturing the barbaric eoort nd private life of the Czar, the aim if s an insight into the manners sod ustcms of sixteenth century Russia, to institutions, the landed gentry, the "toJars...
...Theirs is not s passive but an active resistance...
...The following letter has been sent out to local unions...
...IN BRIEF Announcement was made from the offices of Universal Pictures Corporation and the offices of Universal Chain Theatres simultaneously to the effect that the picture, "Dawn...
...This applies alike to the representation of Chinese and Americans, missionaries, marines, and consular representatives...
...Following that they will do "The Noose...
...is a vivid picturization of Bun* ¦n the second half of the sixteenth century under the reign of the mad Ittn II...
...family, the estimation of the Chinese 1st rather low—due to two principal causes One is that the only class of Chinese with which he comes In contact is the laundryman or chop-suey keeper, who are certainly not representative of the best sons of Cathay...
...That is very unfortunate...
...The Union Health Center has been phewomenafly successful net only in providing medical and dental treatment of high quality and at cost to the members of International Locals, but also in putting into practical and working form the idea that the health of the workers is a basic eonoaro, of .the labor movement...
...In the eyes of Mr...
...Drums of Love," now playing at the Rialto Theatre, is proving the truth of what the fans said about the picture in its $2.00 setting...
...Meanwhile at the Erlanger Theatre in Buffalo, Alice Brady wil start the season on May 7th as guest star in "The Road to Rome...
...At any rate, the rational explanation at the close of the evening Is slight atonement for the series of shrieks that pierced my ears, as women to right of me, women to left of me, grew beyond their nerves' control at one moment oc another...
...more, few mysteries seek—and then (as so good a drama as "Cock Robin" shows us) at their own risk...
...Union circles believe that instead of following suit the Canadian Pacific will raise wages to match the innovation...
...Louis de Brouckere, himself introduced by Vandervelde into the Socialist movement, brings- before us a picture of the man whose personality cannot be better characterized than by saying that he is a Socialist...
...The company presents it sympathetically, with Sylvia Hoffman, Rudolph Lovlnger and Harold Johnsrud effective in the main roles, and the tempo of the direction attuned to the mood of the drama...
...A speaker from the Union Health Center will be glad to come and address the meeting—if so desired and notified a few days in advance...
...At tl.50 top...
...But the present flood of Oriental films indicate clearly that no such thing has happened...
...When a low-down sees a Chinese, he thinks in terms of "Chink," or "yellow boy...
...There are the sight-seeing buses In Manhattan that exploit the Chinese quarter by showing make-up scenes There are a few Gospel people, often misled in their duty, who paint a lurid-picture of China In order to elicit sympathy in their work and financial support...
...In Los Angeles, tney block the camera's lens, shout, hoot, and on many occasions it was necessary to despatch extra squad...
...Broadway expressed its aopredatlsn for the debt it owes S. L. Rothifel it a dinner and dedication ceremonial Holiday evening...
...The Chinese queue, introduced when the Manchua gained control of China, vanished with the overthrow of their dynasty seventeen years ago...
...So successful an enterprise should be made use of by trade unionists generally...
...But we gradually come to see that the "respectable" brother who is supporting Carl has even bigger plans of villainy...
...The Board of Directors of the Union Health Center, in consultation with union leaders, among whom are representatives of the Central Trades and Labor Council, have decided upon a program for extending the facilities to the members of other trade unions, It has been agreed that the cost of medical and dental service to the workers must be as low as possible in the hope that it may be made easy and natural for them to think and act for the effective protection of their health...
...The three big chains of theatres find themselves in perfect afpreement in-their refusal to play this picture...
...In support of Miss BUlie Burke, who comes to the Empire Theatre on Moodsj evening May 7th in "The Happy Husband" by Harrison Owen...
...The proposal is that a local union with a membership from 300 to 500 is vto pay a yearly fee of $100...
...They are living in hastily erected Barracks and as the winter precautions for heating these places have been somewhat relaxed during the spring, -he miners are suffering doubly...
...from 3000 to 3500...
...his season of super-sock in Rochester, Buffalo and Toronto is now fairly under way...
...Chinatown" is announced as a forthcoming super-special, while "The Streets of Shanghai" Is enjoying a nation-wide run to the leading picture houses of America...
...The invasion precipitated a new riot of youthful Chinese who abhorred the Idea of publicising their people hi ancient costumes...
...and resist as Americans would resist similar conditions in other lands...
...from 350 to 4000, $450: from 4500 to 5000, $500...
...reenVoi J50,OSS a year...
...l'Eg'antlne, Brussels, 1928) is indeed a monument to the great leader of the Belgian workers, the "chief" as he is called in Belgium...
...Since the representatives of organized labor at two conferences decided to accept tbe opportunity to use the services of the institution offered them, the only thing that remains to be done is to put into action the resolutions accepted at these conferences...
...The new generation of Amcrican-borr Chinese, brought up according to .American standards and American ways of looking at life, accustomed to the lates...
...This is the picture that is supposed to tell the story of Edith CavelL Charles L. Wagner announces that, under the general direction of Daniel Frawley...
...Hoover Seer and Guide of Power Trust, Evidence Bef oreTrade Commission Show* Singled out above all other public men for support by the power *•**> as disclosed' to its printed documents before the Federal Trade Cotanustiea, is Herbert Hoover...
...For to oar plan we conceive that liberty respires a en** measure of decentralisation to authority...
...And why...
...A patriotic Chinese student, boiling with resentment, withdrew from a MidWestern university because a play, sponsored by the authorities, falsified Chinese religion...
...This week the first of the three regular companies, headed by Claiborne Foster and Robert Keith, wil lt&ke over the house and present "Quarantine" under the direction of Forrest Cummings...
...which has aroused a very considerable controversy, will not be played in any of the 326 Universal theatres...
...AND iJU>tS A "mystery thriller" entitled "The Skull'" has brought to the Forrest Theatre a full bag of bones from any three dozen earlier plays of its type, and shaken them to form the skeleton of a play that makes you shake and quake and quiver and shiver indeed, indeed...
...Earl W. Kramer and Major Bowes hive igned contracts for the showing of "We Americans' 'at the Capitol Theatre...
...On the third page is a still longer abstess* ttsn attribated to Hoover's Conference en Industry, held to Wasbtogt*n> December 11, 1925...
...It is an abandoned church, and there, I suppose, the hordes of the hosts of hell chiefly throng...
...To Hoover's office the' power lobby went for its activeJWj rector, Stephen Davis...
...Yet the screen is not the only medium that clogs the wall of understanding between Chinese and Americans in thie country...
...In the first place, the last place you would think of for evil spirits to frequent is the scene of the action: a church...
...The race as i. Whole, however, has never howled vigorously, for it is against a Chinaman's philosophy to bawl at things which lie know...
...Let them put this matter on their order of business...
...But, as a matter of fact, gambling, opium, and tong fights—despite newspaper write-ups—no longer represent the life of Chinatown...
...The soda-fountain girl and the high-school flapper likewise develop her shocking horror of Chinamen from similar sources...
...The Emergency Committee, a national nonpartisan organization Is financing the purchase of food in large quantities and >f medical attention for the strikers...
...Wage rates on the 2 lines have Deen kept fairly parallel...
...400...
...Since Mr...
...Out of these sordid lives a play less rich in surface spread than "He Who Gets Slapped", less deep in power of hate 'and pity than "Anathema", rises nonetheless to power and despair that lift it beyond a season's offerings to lasting vitality...
...After July I. 1928, members of unaffiliated unions are to be asked to pay a fee which will be higher than the fee for the members of affiliated unions...
...In some quarters, it is believed that protests are useless, but to all de-bunked Americans they have registered with jood effects...
...Committee Honded By Thomai Ruehen Aid to fun...
...to be false...
...Lecture and Symposium On Russia, to dose Work Of Tremont Forum The Tremont Educational Forum, 4215 Third avenue, near Tremont avenue, announces a lecture on: "Liberty Under the 3oviets," by Robert N. Baldwin, who recently returned from Russia, for Friday evening, May 11th, at 8:30 sharp...
...For if I beieved it to be poor, I could not live at all" (is there any significance in the .'act that the play is posthumous...
...on stage he is a dissembling, cruel villain...
...His New York production ol "March Hares," with Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin featured, inaugurated the venture at the Temple Theatre in Rochester last week, and was accorded a rousing reception by the local critics...
...Miss Burke, who appeared earlier this season in Nod Coward's "The Marquise" returns to "Tbt Happy Husband" to the Empire Theatre where she has appeared under the "Airman management in so many of her past successes...
...One of the first pamphlets published by Davis tor m* Jotnt Committee was entitled "Government—Federal, State, Local—Fes*' a* Industry...
...beside Cart's netty pimping, Henry's plot is gigancesque...
...Gilbert Must has assembled a cast of players which includes three members of the London production of this comedy...
...Americans are fair-minded, and seldom fail to render justice when justice Is due Will they continue to patronize those channels of influence, which out of ignorance and false motives, continue to malign a people as the "Streets of Shanghai" does...
...The other reasons Is the constant falsification and exaggeration which the Chinese suffer on the stage, screen, and daily prints...
Vol. 7 • May 1928 • No. 20
