Labor Stage Scores Triumph with "Pins and Needles" New Musical
Labor Stage Scores Triumph with "Pins and Needles" New Musical NIGHT IN NEW YORK With ROY GOLIARD CRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-GEORGE M. COHAN took] first page in the newspapers and first place in the...
...Which is one precious privilege of democracy...
...12, at 8:30 p. m. A tSttadU concert program has been ssnsgtd with artists from the CUcsfQ Opera Company and stars of tot Jewish stage...
...Tickets are now on sale at the City Office and lib at all branches...
...each member of the Cabinet does a specialty act...
...Some, perchance, recognize good English when they heir it, and shiver a bit at the sound of "constiTOOtional" and the heavy initial accent on the "SOOpreme Court...
...The entire cast and Mr...
...devoted to each writer, ,S»S'"g not too late to sign BP BfM W course...
...But for this, the fireside chat must be re-enforced by real radio entertainment...
...Labor of Love for I. J. Singer, Maurice Schwartz and Yiddish Art Players in Dramatization of "Brothers Ashkenazi...
...Mor-genthau has "achieved, you must admit, the biggest God-damned deficit...
...28, and Sunday evening, January 2. Several of these new conceptions will be included in each performance, and all of them will be presented during her appearance here...
...Jewish Branch 1.—Meeting ot Thursday, Dec...
...we refused to pay that, insisted on $35 an ounce—-and put it in another hole, our own hole...
...Afternoon classes for housewives: Mondays, 1:30 p. m. and 3 p. m., at the Rand School...
...Asgsst Claessens will continue the rat* discussion class on "The 9oa...
...IB, at 1 Sv at, » 190 Belmont Ave., NesttSS-JJ"** bers should attend...
...You know the story— how a certain tattered script was peddled from one agent to another...
...J » » * MINOR MISSES THIS TITLE doesn't refer to the chorus, but to the few simple slips someone in the directing end should have checked...
...FIRESIDE FIREWORKS IN A FIRESIDE chat (How can there be a one-sided chat...
...8:80 p. nv St 844 Utica Ave...
...Leas Universal than "Of Thee I Sing," it is a direct charge of laughter at ourselves, and its directness and use of names show that democracy "can take it...
...Every Broadway hit has its own treasured fable, which both producer and author confide with untold glee...
...New Branch Organized.—A new branch, to be known as the Meyer London Reefer Makers' Branch, was organized with some 40 members as a start...
...And that was that, and just as facile...
...At our last meeting it UttS . cided to send for 60 sub cards g The New Leader and disSJ*OM | among the members to be sow...
...14, 8:80 p. bl, KM home of Comrades Oneal 98M 111th St., Richmond Hill...
...Two lectures «ffl...
...To work it out, a third term is necessary...
...As Roosevelt says, in the...
...But stocks thumped to bottom...
...it was no hazardous task to do...
...Meeting Thursday...
...German Branch...
...Fee is 21, or 25 CSSt* Mm single admissions...
...or, the incessant struggles that beset a producer during the play's infancy...
...Her suggestion is that they balance the budget by "taxing the: daylight" out of all the govern-i ment property...
...13, atSsMpai Queens County South Shore Branch.—All unaffiliated Socialists and svmatthizers are invited to a meeting it Tuesday, Dec...
...Midwoed Branch.—August CU«sens speaks on "The PhikssptT and Program of Social Democracy* in the Kingway Mansion, 1602 km...
...tained for a benefit performance for the Social Democrssk Federation, Local New York, for Thursday evening...
...AefSft Claessens will speak en "Tat rni gram and Activities of the SJ).F...
...But a good many more have watched football games...
...Imafc Molly Picon, famous comedienne, will star in a new mutkfl comedy...
...Yes, Maurice Schwartz knew he had a great production...
...Remember that we tipped you off also to "One Big Union for Two," "Sunday in the Park" and others that are likely to freshen up the radio programs these drear Winter evenings...
...The fctf s*S* ing was very well BttejslsATS* further lectures and*codl|jjS...
...or the number following, showing the Villainess who can produce but one bambino at a time...
...President Roosevelt meets Phil and Peggy, who—like a hundred thousand other young couples, cannot marry, because Phil won't get his raise until the budget is balanced...
...B, MsnttttttS, on Friday, Dec...
...Hardly an evening passes when there are no "standees" at the 59th Street Playhouse...
...Again everything is going well, when out pops the Supreme Court: "Unconstitutional...
...Samuel Orr and Qfefl 0. Parsons will lead die dtsettsskm East Bronx Branch.—Mesttae or Monday, Dec...
...or the grand burlesque on international diplomacy, "Four Little Angels of Peace...
...RATHER RIGHT BUT IN ITS major moments, "I'd Rather Be Right" is a joyous symptom...
...On Wednesdays at 6416 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn...
...Not since "Yoshe Kalb," Mr...
...Meeting on Fridav...
...AMY NICE BALLOONS TO POP OFF...
...or the skit showing the snooty dame singing the preachment: "It's Not Cricket to Picket...
...Louis Lipsky recording secretary...
...Consider the fact that the cast consists of workers, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, each properly labelled and tagged with his or her j Local number, and that the show is a labor of love with them, done after working hours in garment shops, and the production will be fully as amazing as it is amusing...
...Singer and Schwartz completed the dramatization...
...The branches will elect delegates and alternates during December...
...And that was that...
...16, at 175 East Broadway...
...Take it out: fine...
...The Federal Theatre...
...Take them all...
...I'd Rather Be Right" flashed into the Alvin Theatre...
...or that even gibjdier one.relating the biographical difficulties of a young lady with a job in Macy's, that postgraduate sorority of Red Star girls, all so very pure and cultured...
...near Church An...
...Its aim in life is to pop off all the pretty balloons filled' with hot air and blather...
...Some 60 jettk attended the opening sessioaaft Sunday...
...The only ones that seem to count are Morgenthau, Farley, and Perkins...
...Hope springs eternal, and what if the radio or the movies do snatch him off, we pray that he will still remember that we knew him when he was unknown, and that he will return to bless us with more skits and turns of the"Pins and Needles" strain...
...Morris Feins tone, secretary of the United Hebrew traits, and Louis P. Goldberg will speak at the j annual Shiplacoff coiiillf inrstion ; gathering in the auditorium of the Brownsville Labor Lyeeaa, HI Sackman St., Brooklyn, on tsBdsy, Dec...
...This was the irst ¦ a series of six weekly leettaOB tt| Tolstoi, Dostoievski and MssVy E. • L. Tartak, instructor at Mm Rand School...
...The very moment Maurice Schwartz stopped reading the fiery episodes o,f Max and Yacob Ashkenazi, he was truly convinced that the narrative would make a great drama...
...J Brooklyn Central Branch.—Meeting Thwtday, Dec...
...It is Labor Stage's Christmas gift to a world suspicious of drama with a message...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION NEWS News and Activities of State Branches Throughout the United States and the National Office in Washington...
...A few in the audience probably noticed the misplaced initials of the WPA...
...BUDGING THE BUDGET THE CABINET comes at his call (with brief cases that cleverly become chairs...
...An imports* event in this season of the Jett School of Social Science oeeatftl on Thursday-•evening, Doc...
...at 243 East 84th St...
...And there aren't many left like that nowadays...
...Gertrude i Gelman, recording secretary...
...at I8J1 Btfltfle Road...
...Fourth of July speech whose - preparation starts the play and whose delivery ends it: "Even though things are a little wrong right now, we've got a chance to make 'em right, because at least this is a country where you can come out and talk about what's wrong...
...tv5*A workers who dine at the Colony Club, but sing with genteel stir ' 'Sklt-skat beetio...
...Abraham I. IsJplsttf w pin mvniiH miip...
...at 1301 Boston Road...
...2, J* the Labor educational Center, 4J» S. 19th St...
...Lifshitz, Artef's manager, await their attendance with eagerness...
...This would be fine, save that fin a lively chorus) the ladies refuse to give their beauty away...
...The central theme of the play is the president's effort to balance the budget...
...Last years sflsjr was attended by more than l,0t0 comrades and friends of the 1st* beloved Abe I. Shiplacoff, and St equally large crowd is expected si Sunday evening...
...They didn't even bother asking some of their ardent admirers to read the play: they were not interested in their opinions...
...Brilliant is file weed for "Pins and Needles," that gay and not at all sweet musical for which you will be trying to get tickets all winter...
...SWEEPING SATIRE THERE'S A sting in every yne about the administration...
...Admission free...
...Franklin suggests that Frances- go home and try to sleep...
...Downtown Jewish Branch...
...annual meeting...
...who is a much better Mussolini than Musso himself, and to all the other cutters, operators, finishers and shipping clerks who are such swell song and dance men and ladies of the chorus...
...Don't say we didn't warn you, but you will be singing "Sing Me a Song-of Social Significance" for the next few months, and that is only one of file hit songs of this hit show...
...August Claessens addressed the meeting...
...in the City Council nil municipal affairs generally, will m addressed by Councilman B. Charney Vladeck...
...On Sept...
...But—not so with "The Brothers Ashkenazi...
...16, at lttl *faft ington Ave...
...ADMINISTRATION HOPES ITS OUTSPOKEN boldness is not the only virtue of "I'd Rather Be Right...
...Upper West Side Branch.—Hed- | wig Wachenheim...
...Pins and Needles" is all music and laughs, most of the latter being of the robust belly variety...
...Dec 13...
...Most of the comrades were formerly members of the Socialist movement or sympathizers...
...to Al Eben...
...There's a specific law against it in England...
...before he breaks into his tap dance, the football hero of the pantomime should learn to heave the baU off the stage, not in an inf entile end over end hurtling, but in something that at least remotely resembles a spiral pass...
...The novel easily lent itself to dramatization...
...and there are many lines...
...Take the "Mussolini Handicap," for instance, showing the Doochay distributing medals to four of Italy's most prolific producers of cannon fodder...
...The stag treasurer was instructed to *™a'' all members to pay up bef...
...Jacob Snyder, financial sec'y...
...Farley keeps his "popularitsy forever hale and hearty by finding jobs for everyone in the Democratic party...
...when the Kaufman-Hart, Rogers and Hart musical comedy...
...It is no hushed secret that Maurice Schwartz's colorful production of the I. J. Singer best-seller is enjoying a triumphant 'reign at the uptown Yiddish Art Theatre...
...He discussed the play with I. J. Singer, and was even more, adamant that he was clutching a nugget...
...fJB-^ iron* Conaty Meyer Levenstein speaks earTa* Cooperative Movement" attfctjto rum on Friday, Dec...
...George M. Cohen has an audience appeal that seriously vies with that of the real president he so well impersonates...
...16, at the office of Water Cook, 174 State St...
...D C, at 814 Albee Building...
...Joseph Beckerman, financial secretary...
...it's hardly necessary to think of Germany, or Russia—the existence and rip-roaring success of this play is testimony to the virtues of democracy...
...That leaves Frances, the dimpled darling of the Cabinet...
...13, at MAI Boston Road...
...350 Central Park West, on Monday...
...Sunday evening, Dec...
...General Membership Mstfiac et Friday...
...Women's Committee Classes...
...Walking in Central '.Park, Mr...
...The meeting will be held to W auditorium of Public School IPs*eh 10th St...
...20, the play made its debut at the Yiddish Art Theatre, and so sure was Mr...
...The skits as well as the girls...
...Since its premiere, on Sept...
...If any mtmJS have not heard from Miss MMw burg, send her the money fmjMMM^ \* tr-mai ww All readers in San Francises ¦ vicinity are urged to attend **M J portant meeting of the Social BmM 1ocratic Federation on Monday Or jning, December 13th, 8 J. **riR 1057 Steiner St., Ran FrssOag I Future activities of the lesHJBi ! to be considered...
...They're grand fun...
...J» Schuyler Ave., Newark...
...But everything in this administration is one-sided, as Roosevelt finds when he tries to interpret, the Wagner Act) Franklin asks the women to stop buying beauty aids for a year, sending the cash to Washington to balance the budget...
...THEATRE BENEFIT "THE Public Theatre, Second Ave and 4th St., has bc*n |k...
...AHGHA ENTERS IN RECITAL AT ALVIN DECEMBER Iff* Angna Enters, mime, will introduce seven new numbers during her New York engagement at the Alvin Theatre on Sunday evening, Dec...
...Last summer, Messrs...
...Dshea"^** dues are asked to bay dnSS ttSttP from Sarah A. Giashssf...
...P, on Monday, Dec...
...New York County Lower East Side Branch (6th8th A. D.)—At a meeting Monday, branch officers were elected: Isaac Schiff, organizer...
...Take it in before all the tickets are grabbed up...
...Yes, every stage success has its precious little anecdote, which, in due time, blossoms into a golden myth...
...East Bronx Jewish Breach.— Meeting Tuesday, Dec 14, at ISM Faile St...
...Words and music are by a young man named Harold J. Rome, and we are glad to kick off the thick, opaque bushel under which he has been hiding his bright, engaging light...
...The branch will have a large membership and has clubrooms at 131 West 33rd St...
...Reserve a few choice blossoms for Louis Schaffer, director of Labor Stage, and for David Dubinsky, who happens to be a labor leader with the imagination and the youthful and inquisitive spirit that makes it possible for labor to venture along new and untried paths, surprisingly entertaining as they may be...
...City Convention of Local New York called to meet Jan...
...Pennsylvania Philadelphia...
...which the Councilman-elect iff lecture on the program of tkt ?A.L.P...
...Councilman Vladeck Sasaki The first of a series of etssv tional meetings of the A.LP...
...N.Y.C...
...Labor is the thing, my lads, Labor is the thing— no aspect of the New Deal (our country's most popular government) but is lambasted and lampooned...
...While a bit lacking in the bubble of other fun, in the spontaneous swoop of fascinating chorus, the compelling surge of irresistible rhythm, its satire is act only saucy hut clever and penetrating...
...10th), when they will not only play "200,000," Sholoin Aleichem's bright comedy of manners, but also play host to the returning soldiers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...
...announced from time wMmm> , Now Jersey ' The Stat* Committee •>„ ** S.D.F...
...mentals of Modern nnrlsUsp-^ the same hall on Sunday etsofeM at 8:30 o'clock...
...Rightly] hailed on its pre-Broadway tour as something unique—wherej else in the world, since Cleon the tyrant put the muzzle on Aristophanes, has it been possible .to satirize one's leaders, by name, while they are in power...
...Labor Stage Scores Triumph with "Pins and Needles" New Musical NIGHT IN NEW YORK With ROY GOLIARD CRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-GEORGE M. COHAN took] first page in the newspapers and first place in the theatre...
...Recognizing that theirs is the future, Franklin resolves that the budget must be balanced, at whatever cost...
...Bouquets are hereby gratefully offered to Ruthie, the Sewing Machine Girl, programmed as Ruth Rubinstein, a dead-pan comic who fills an abbreviated costume with grace and ah-dear-me...
...On Tuesdays at the Amalgamated Cooperative Houses, Bronx...
...will meet to dett •**¦** on Sunday, Dec...
...Washington Heights Jewish Branch.—Meeting Thursday"* mm> • 16, at 334 Audubon Ave...
...The third budget-balancing trick, taking the gold out of the hole in Kentucky (Those who dug it in Africa wanted $21 an ounce...
...A One oaaetrt by radio and stage artists will b» j an additional feature of thSM meetings...
...The President himself, in a confidential moment, sings a confessional: tf I'm not reelected And worst comes to the worst, I won*t die of hunger, I won't die of thirst, I've one son with Du Pont And another one with Hearst— But that's off the record...
...20, the playhas been viewed by some 150,000 people — a number that includes both Yiddish and non-Yiddish playgoers...
...Inviting them to one of our performances is the least we can do to show our heartfelt appreciation to these men who have risked their lives for democracy in Spain, and the entire world...
...Flat bush Branch.—Algernon Ida, Hedwig Wachenheim, Belt juB and Fred Sehulman will all mat at a symposium on "As awjli Democrats View World A(fshC*ts Friday...
...and Ave...
...Schwartz that the play was destined for a long run that he did not bother reading the morning press criticisms...
...By all means take in "Pins and Needles" for a gay and robust evening...
...The entire group of 68 men, just back from the Spanish front, will be the guests of honor at the theatre, where a section has been reserved for them and their friends...
...They knew the play had sterling merit...
...The numbers to be offered for the first time are: "Venus American US'," "London Bridges Falling Down," "A Modern Hero," "Balletomane— Boys and Girls Together," "T'angChinese Dynastic—Bird in Rain," "End of a World," "La Nina de la Sangre—Daughter of Blood, Spain, 1986...
...10, at tS p. m...
...Schwartz's success of several years ago, has the metropolis been so deeply stirred by tt Yiddish opus...
...Among others, it pops off the belief that labor knows only strife and stress with never a smile to brighten its gloom...
...R. J. C. THE ARTEF CELEBRATES The Artef Players will be in a festive mood tonight (Friday, Dec...
...former Social I Democratic member of the Prussian Parliament, will lecture at a meeting of the branch in the home of Comrade Karlin...
...The following officers were elected: Joseph Stankevich, organizer...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 50
