NEW LEADER FORUM
Mast, J.M.
NEW LEADER FORUM THE PARTY PLATFORM Br J. M MM* Hove Just received my copy of The New Leader containing convention news and the Socialist platform adopt •ed at Milwaukee ^ The Soolallst party...
...For those that deserve...
...We believe you are mistaken, Comrade Mast...
...Under this administration the country has been lifted from the depths of a great depression to a level of prosperity...
...Walling Labor-Union Socialism and Socialist Labor Unionism...
...Beethoven...
...Symphony No...
...2 in D major...
...Cool Summer Study Our idea of a good time, these hot'days, would be to attend the Montana State University School of Creative Writing, and take a trip through Glacier Park...
...Symphony No...
...SPRINGTIME FOR LEVY The career of Bonn W. Levy, while still young, has been marked by alow and proper growth, in a direction that pleasingly combines fancy and intelligence...
...from a period of general prostration to one of substantial prosperity in which all basic industries are on sound economic foundations...
...For Oene Deb*I For Tom Mooney...
...Jubilee," from Symphonic Sketches," Chadwick...
...3, Beethoven...
...Negro Rhapsody," Rubin Goldmark...
...Sidney-March at the Colonial Theatre "Merrily We Go to Hell," featuring Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March is the current attraction at thnjpolonlal Theatre...
...Incidentally, will be Miss Lawrence's first appearance in America since her recent success In the stage play, "Private Lives...
...Brom...
...And the trip through Glacier Parkt It almost cools us now...
...Debate on Trade Unionism...
...Symphony No...
...1812" Overture, Tchaikovsky...
...In the reading one may linger, turn over a neat phrase, repeat a good witticism or pungent epigram, or ponder a probing thought While watching, one Is carried along on the surge of time...
...Two or three Instrument* to be used in relays, an unemployed musician to do the teaching, and a picked set of Ylpsels to turn out for practice once a week—and our street corners could outblast the O.O.P...
...the workers will when they understand It Let's make them understand.—Editor...
...Love-Song," from "Indian" Suite, MacDowell...
...There are three points that collectively make tbe bonus unworthy of the support of Socialists...
...Thomas, first of the Presidential candidates to appear in Boston, was given an enthusiastic reception by a gathering of more than 2500 men and women who bad been listening to the radio broadcast of proceedings of the Democratic convention in Chicago until the radio was...
...I t needed Cagney to beat Cagney records, for not since "Public Enemy" have the receipts of "Blonde Crazy" and ' T a x i " been equalled and now "Winner Take All" has passed the figures, of both these pictures...
...one enjoys the good acting, one captures sound effects (of which the classic instance Is the beating drum in O'Neill's "Emperor Jones") which the reading cannot convey...
...from economic disorders to sound principles of progress...
...2 in D major, Brahms...
...The supremely important problem that challenges our citizens and government alike is to break the back of the depression...
...REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1082 WE MEET In a period of widespread distress and of an economic depression that has swept the world...
...The Week t m flm Witt* By Joseph T. Shipley Lonsdale's "Arm'i We AIT* Brought to RivoU With Gertrude Laurence "Aren't We A H ? " Paramount* screen version of Frederick Lonsdale's tempting play, which held forth two seasons on Broadway, is now at the Rivoli Theatre...
...Our duty as Socialists Is to create a public opinion which would look with the1 utmost contempt upon the mercenaries of American capitalism...
...a most delightfully gilded philosophic pill, the reading renews the continuous chuckling the performance evoked If these plays represent the springtime of Mr...
...Don Juan, / Strauss...
...6 In G ("Surprise"), Haydn...
...Republicans and Democrats alike came under the fire of Norman Thomas of N ew York, Presidential candidate of the Socialist party, at the opening meeting of the campaign last Tuesday evening at the Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common...
...The prices received b y the American farmer for his wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats, flaxseed, cattle, butter and many other products (are) cruelly low...
...1, Cortege...
...Adrianne Allen and Sheets Gallagher play Important parts in this Dorothy Arzner directed picture...
...1, Grieg...
...Music was the conclusion —a brass band for demonstrations, two or three cornet players to draw the crowd at our street meetings...
...In addition "Winner Take A l l" will open at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre starting today...
...T h e folks back on the farm were starving, he said...
...The Moldau, Smetana...
...BROKE A T 90 KNOXVILLE, Tenn...
...Nonsense and good sense are often allied, and between them sentimentality is squeezed quite away...
...8, Pastorale...
...This put the Socialist worker on the defensive Immediately he presents the platform to a prospect...
...DeLeon and Rarrlman...
...N. Y. REBEL CORNBTISTS By Jessie W Haghah Our table at the Park Palace dinner were discussing the needs of the campaign...
...New York City...
...All the plays of Benn W. Levy are now published by Samuel French, and reading them brings thought of ttle difference between seeing and reading a play...
...The whimsy In Barrie, that grows maundary In Milne, is caught into crisp nonsense in Mr...
...Rhapsody, Espana, Chabrier...
...Symphony No...
...Those first two planks should have read i. A federal, appropriation sufficient for, etc., in both instances, instead of straight, specific demands for blocks of $5,000,000,000...
...S) with a smouldering war in the Far East and the greatest array of armaments the world has ever seen In existence, world peace is In a more precarious position than in 1014...
...Lee, Labor Politics and Socialist Politics...
...The human suffering occasioned may well exceed that of a period of actual conflict...
...The story Is taken from Cleo Lucas' novel " I , Jerry, Take Thee, Joan," which ran in serial Installments in many papers throughout the country...
...v With the splendid men we have for candidates there should be, and I hope will be, an encouraging vote Stover, V...
...The Swan of Tuonela, Sibelius...
...f Thomas, well tanned from recent travel, came to Boston late Tuesday afternoon for the Socialist rally...
...Wednesday Evening, July 9 • Overture to "Oberon," Weber...
...Overture to "William Tell" Rossini...
...With a piece of inspired tomfoolery (written In a fortnight) like "Springtime For Henry...
...There was no such necessity in the ease of the Socialists In convention...
...rr~ - t . — .— SENATOR DICKINSON Republican Keynoter, 1933 FLESIDENT HOOVER had scarcely taken the oath of bis office before economic storm clouds had begun to cast their sinister shadow over the nations of the w o r l d . . . His first act prevented a financial panic' Chairman Snell, Republican Convention...
...THE SOLDIER BONUS ^ By WllUam WsJHt It Is with a feeling of regret that 1 read that part of the platform of the Socialist party of Mintsna calling for the "payment of the soldier bonus to the veterans of the World War...
...The em-ergency is second only t o that of the great war...
...This also is stated In the platform...
...The Stars and Stripes Forever," Sousa...
...Professor H. G. Merriam, editor of the valuable magazine "The Fron...
...Thursday Evening, July 7 Overture, "Fingal's Cave," Mendelssohn...
...At any rate these billions of dollars propositions, whether by CostiganLafollette, Garner, Robinson-Hoover, Wagner or any others In a position to force a hearing by the powers able to grant them are mostly guess work, though In the case of government officials, right on the spot with their demands, It la, I suppose, necessary to specify definite amounts...
...With Cagney in "Winner Take A l l , " a story of the prize-ring are Marion Nixon, Virginia Bruce, Guy Kibee, Clarence Muse and A l an Mowbray...
...3 ) it is generally admitted that a powerful anti-war sentiment sml prevent a world war...
...there are no millionaires in It...
...Levy, we await with keen Interest his leafy summer and harvest...
...Clampers and Hlllquit, The Double Edge of Labor's Sword...
...Adaptations of "To...
...No better guarantee of prosperity and contentment among all our people at home . . . can be given the pledge to maintain and continue the Coolldge policies...
...It Is our duty as a party of the working class hi agriculture and industry to demand these federal appropriations and for the purposes mentioned...
...Symphonic Poem, "Taaso," Liszt...
...Monday Evening, July 4 Symphony, "From the New World," Dvorak...
...and even Tammany...
...Peer Gynt" Suite No...
...Academic Festival" Overture, Brahms...
...What, we should demand, Instead, is a bonus for the class war victims...
...If be objects to It this implies that he is under tbe spell of capitalist thought and will not support the Socialist party If our program was stated in any other lan8UMorsover, the demands are modest compared to our ultimate aim which Is to "grab" all the great Industries of the nation and transform them into social property to be operated In the interests of useful workers...
...1032: "Forward to Victory...
...Divertimento, Wagenaar...
...Hungarian Dance Noa...
...All of these are long out of print and I shall appreciate It if any readers can furnish me with copies, addressing me at the Rand School, T East ISth street, New York City...
...They are ( t ) There are about s.ooo.ooo looking for a Job and not very particular about the kind of Job they get...
...This Woman Business," his first play...
...Winner Take All" Remains for Third Week at the Strand "Winner Take All," starring James Cagney, remains for a th rd week at the New York Strand Theatre...
...pace," from the French, and "The Man With Red Hair," from Hugh Walpole's thriller, were practice for the deft "Mrs...
...out the world...
...It is sufficient disgrace to the organised working dam parties that the Communists have taken up this demagogic appeal for support—there is no need for the Socialist party to do likewise...
...4, Rondo (First time at the Stadium conducted by the composer...
...F P ) — Just when the big business propagandists are seeking to shift the burden of destitution by a backtothe-farm movement, Newton Martin, aged 90, trudged 156 miles Into Knoxvllle to look for work...
...H we pad the lot of the soldiers with bonuses, compensations and pensions we provide the militarist and the war profiteer with an excellent basis for war propaganda, for the glorification of the American soldier...
...In a play In which the idea is basic, like "The Devil Passes," reading strengthens one's appreciation...
...Thomas condemned both major parties as representatives of the capitalists, and ridiculed their national conventions as assemblages to discuss nonessentials while 12,000,000 men and women are out of work...
...Levy's latest "Springtime For Henry," now at the Broadhurst...
...Why not organised a Jimmy Hlggiiis Squad of Rebel Cornetlsts...
...DEADLY CONTRASTS Republican Keynoter, 1028 T N A comparatively short perX lod we are passed from war confusion to peace and contentment...
...Then why start out with two demands for specific sums of $5,000,000,000 each to be appropriated by the federal government, for worthy purposes to be sure, but laying us open to the charge of being grabbers-forallwe-can-get...
...turned off to make way for the Socialists...
...STADIUM CONCERT PROGRAMS WILLEM V A N HOOOSTRATEN Conductor , Sunday, July S Suite, Gluck-Mottl...
...tier," has organized the work of the summer session, which, with the annual conference of writers, should afford inspiration for those who plan to take summer courses...
...Moonlight" and "Art and Mrs...
...The ruling classes wlU not like this...
...Bottle," of last season...
...2500 Hear Thontn* In Boston Speech BOSTON...
...1 in B-flat, Schumann...
...Overture to "Rosamunde," Schubert...
...10, 3, 1, Brahms...
...There has arisen.in the mat few years a disturbing trend away from home ownership...
...Otherwise the platform averages up pretty well as platforms go but would have been better half as long...
...Are we to ask for reward for participation in a capitalistic war while millions are unemployed, disabled In the class war...
...Why not give It a try...
...This...
...Europa Theatre Holds Over German Film Schubert's Fruhlingstraum (Schubert's Dream of Spring), romantic German screen operetta, will be held over for a second week at the Europe Theatre...
...A good play — and these are — deserves both...
...DEADLY CONTRASTS . . — .. REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1028 BY UNWAVERING adherence to sbund principles, through the wisdom of Republican policies and the capacity of *" Republclan administrations, the foundations have been laid and the greatness and prosperity of the country firmly established...
...NEW LEADER FORUM THE PARTY PLATFORM Br J. M MM* Hove Just received my copy of The New Leader containing convention news and the Socialist platform adopt •ed at Milwaukee ^ The Soolallst party Is a poor man's party...
...The sum of these three points la that the bonus is the most effective argument to the millions of desperate, unemployed workers for another war...
...Today American labor enjoys the highest wage and the highest standard of living through...
...ner...
...Largo, Handel...
...a) "Traum," (b) Prixe-Song, Wag...
...2, Paspy...
...This year the sprightly and competent comedy of "Springtime For Henry" is balanced by the entertaining but serious development of "The Devil Passes...
...She is surrounded by a group of distinguished English players in "Aren't We A l l ? " , Ineluding Hugh Wakefield, Owen Nares and Marie Lohr, who starred here In "The Breadwinner" last season...
...Friday Evening, July 8 Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," Mozart...
...PAMPHLETS WANTED By Algernon Let I have a request from abroad for copies of the following pamphlets: Stone, Attitude of Socialists Toward Trade Unions...
...Sarabande and Dancer Debussy...
...Levy has grown from the amiable foolery of...
...If on the basis of these demands a worker considers that we are "gr*bbers-for-all-we-can-get," be 1* right...
...Aren't We A l l ? " was produced by the Paramount British Corporation and stars Gertrude Lawrence...
...Comrade Bonn Is ready to bring the Rand School Into action If there Is sufficient Interest...
...thereby giving our cities an apportun(ty to stigmatise us as a party that If given power would prove to be "beggars on horseback and not know how to ride...
...Tuesday Evening, July 5 "Eroica" Symphony, In E flat major, No...
...Overture to "Tannhauser," Wagn e r .— ; ;—jrr...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 1
