Powerful "Julius Caesar" Is Mercury Theatre's Offering
Powerful "Julius Caesar" Is Mercury Theatre's Offering The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley FASCIST TYRANTS "JULIUS CAESAR." By William Shakespeare. At the Mercury. This is no niere...
...But Dance International, at Radie City this month, shows that mankind may go far toward fellowship and beauty...
...With a Utile more cooperation the house sriO be sold out...
...Fourth St...
...There was found a thriving local whose activities contributed to the election of the A.LP...
...grace MOORE'S "i'll take romance" at music hall Grace Moore's new musical comedy, "I'll Take Romance," has been held by Radio City Music Hall for a second week, and the film heads the gala four-part program at that theatre...
...Two sanv dred copies of the Declaration of Principles were ordered...
...THE CRADLE will ROCK" TO 60 TO THE WINDSOR "The Cradle Will Rock," by Marc Blitzstein, will begin its regular Broadway run on January 3, at the Windsor Theatre...
...The main floor will be cleared for an allnight session of dancing and festivities ushering in the New Year...
...Cleveland, Ohio, held a very sSV thusiastic meeting...
...Holiday Season at Hipp Features New Singers and Return of Old Favorites—All-Night Festival New Years...
...City Convention of Local New York called to convene January 29...
...Concert, dancing, etc...
...Mary load Speeisf Notice - Comrade Leo Mel tier...
...Bronx County The class in the "Fundamental...
...workers...
...daughter of shanghai.' with anna may wong...
...Lena Morrow Lewis was appointed field organizer...
...Branches will -elect delegates and alternates during December...
...James, Shan-Kar is going to Benaresj India, to devote himself to the development of an art center there...
...Bring year friends and family to the Sunday night supper (35c...
...Thus ever with tyrants...
...The official billing of the production will be "Sam Grisman presents the Mercury Theatre's production of 'The Cradle Will Rock' by Marc Blitzstein...
...Rummage Sale The Women's Committee pleads for active assistance in promoting another successful rummage sale, proceeds to go to The New Leader and the S.D.F...
...The delicate art of UDAY SHAN-KAR and his Hindu ballet is being shown, for perhaps the last tune...
...not only indicated that they were busy trying to oust Trotskyists and Stalinists from their organization, but resulted in the admission "we're Social Democrats here...
...artistic director of the New York Hippodrome Opera Company, has selected a repertoire of favorite grand operas for presentation during the holiday week, commencing with a Christmas Night "Aida" (Saturday evening, December 25th), marking the return to current casts of Nerina Greco in the title role...
...An attractive buffet menu will be served at moderate prices...
...In addition to the National Secretary, the gathering was addressed by representatives (of whom there were over 60 present) from local labor unions...
...At the Palace "Zola" is accompanied by the new Burgess Meredith picture "There Goes the Groom...
...A gay, crowded, beautiful occasion...
...graveyard of the days...
...Tickets are on safe st the City Office, 7 East 15th St, and at all branches...
...Following the opera, which ends at eleven o'clock, a bizzare entertainment will be presented, including operatic travesty acts and Oriental extravaganzas...
...The flow oi crosspurposes, the counterbalancing of personalities, Caesar, Antony, Cassius, Brutus (the last played as a thoughtful idealist by Welles himself) give one a sense of what may be preparing to break forth in Italy or along the stolid fortresses of the Rhine...
...MUNI AS ZOLA AT RKO theatres xmas eve Acclaimed by critics as one of the outstanding pictures of 1937 "The Life of Emile Zola" starring Paul Muni, will open at all RKO Greater New York Theatres today...
...NOTE: Dancing is having gala days this festive season...
...is well attended Bronx Social Democrats will sty goodbye to 1937 and welcome 1938 at a grand party in cooperation with the A.L.P...
...On New Year's day, January 1st, there will be both afternoon and evening performances...
...Dayton is the only city in which our candidates went upon the ballot with the description (it had to be less than 13 letters) (Soc...
...The National iSecretary later addressed a meeting in the industrial city of Hammond, Ind., held to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the "Bund," and there made many friends for the S.D.F...
...This will include the" opera "Madame Butterfly...
...National Secretary, will be in Baltimore Sunday, January 9th, at a party membership meeting, where he will in a number of states...
...A hurriedly called meeting in Dayton, Ohio, brought out the most active S.D.F...
...An event unique in grand opera annals will be the New Year's Eve celebration arranged for Friday evening, December 31st...
...This is no niere 'Caesar in modern clothes," but a gripping drama of a dictator today, alive and electric with implications...
...OrganizaSes plans were considered...
...Dayton has had perhaps tsa most active local in the ttntlst states, with the possible except...
...Sic semper tyrannis...
...Everything ana anything that can be sold, clothes, household articles, bric-a-brac, etc...
...the Ballet Caravan, the Sandor-Sorel, and the Philadelphia Ballet also performed...
...Patricia Bowman did her well-known "Tennis...
...K5 be a success...
...1301 Boston Roald, on New Year's Eve, December 31st...
...The newspapers supplied the asess» sary explanation and our kSS candidate received about IMBl votes...
...candidate for Mayor...
...branches held a banquet, attended by over 200, in Debs Hall in the Amalgamated Temple...
...of Modern Socialism," conducted by August Claessens at 1301 Boston Road on Sunday evenings at 8:t0 P. M...
...Following attendance at the 13th bi-annual convention of the Jewish Socialist Verband and an address at its convention ban quest in Pittsburgh, the first stop was Buffalo, [New York...
...Patrons are invited, should they so desire, to bring their own liquors, beer and soft drinks only being sold on the premises...
...Entertain meat and installation of officers, January 9. 1938, at 7 P. M., at 7 E. 16th St New Jersey The annual meeting at* tM stats committee of the S.DF...
...Oi$ January 2, an equally festive evening of the modern dance, culminating the significant showing of "Dance International...
...at the new criterion "Daughter of Shanghai," Paramount's dramatic insight into the workings of the billion-dollar "flesh" racket, is the feature attraction at the Criterion Theatre this week...
...This program has attracted unusual public interest and promises to be an outstanding metropolitan event userhing in the New Year...
...30th, at the Public Theatre...
...at fox brooklyn "Thrill of a Lifetime," with a cast of film favorites headed by Dorothy Lamour, The Yacht Club Boys, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, Betty Grable, Eleanore Whitney and Johnny Downs, heads the Christmas holiday show opening at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week...
...DANCE INTERNATIONAL Moiiere has one of his characters remark that all the great social evils, all the wars, come because mankind has not learned how to dance...
...Ann Southetn and Mary Boland are featured with Meredith in the RKO Radio comedy...
...new or used are acceptable...
...t*HE.first tour of National Secretary Meltzer embraced the central states of Michigan, Illinois...
...After Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons, and Sunday evening, at the St...
...ANGNA ENTERS will appear, for two more Sunday evenings, at the Alvin, in her always effective program of pantomimic dances...
...Alfredo Salmaggi...
...Notwithstanding the atrocious weather, a fair-cized meeting was held at Indianapolis, presided over by State Secretary Emma Henry...
...And our foremost interpreter of the modern dance, MARTHA GRAHAM, will appear again this Sunday at the Guild...
...Paul Haakon his graceful best...
...and Second Ave...
...Women-.' Committee...
...Councilmen sod AsseBassW f man will deliver short grestasjk § between the acts...
...La Traviata" on Thursday evening (December 30th), presents Norine Greco as Violetta, Giovanni Gurrieri als Alfredo, Mario* Cozzi as Germont, with Mildred Ippohto, Gina Castro, Enzo Mollo, Alfredo Neri and Fausto Bozza in the lesser roles...
...Molly Picon and HI well-known cast of artists wjfi Z pear in a new musical corneal, A.L.P...
...at our headquarters...
...At Chicago, IIL, four S.D.F...
...Sharing the screen is Rex Beach's "The Barrier," with Leo Carrillb and Jean Parker...
...It was less a recital than a gala demonstration of the ballet in our times, as still fresh, and basic in the dance...
...Refreshments will be served S. M. Neistadt, Secretary...
...The moony production of "Antony and Cleopatra" that has already closed should not keep one from this production of "Julius Caesar," by long odds the best, most effective, most up-to-date play, of the season...
...A talk with Thomasites while on a visit to Gary, Ind...
...first lady" at strand "First Lady," the screen version of the stage suecess, starring Kay Francis, is current at the Strand Theatre this week...
...The matinee bill will .be "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci...
...Chairman Cox, Aaron Sawsssy and Lena Morrow Lewis were esssV ed an observation committee ts report back the activities oi 4s* movement to establish a Labor Party in the state...
...Brisk or send bundles to Room 505, 7 K. 15th St...
...Indiana and Q|fB&>«n eluded the western parts of Pennsylvania and New York V covered a penoa oi tnree years...
...If that is impossible, 1st us know and we will call for your bundle...
...The genera) exhibit (25 cents till 4 p. m., 40- cents after) is a wide display, with movies of dances, primitive and our own latest, from all the world Afternoons in the Rainbow Room, dancers from many lands display the native folk rhythms—one wild "devil" from Cuba balanced a glass of water on a spectator's head . . . with splattering fall...
...There is truth in the thought that man has not attained harmony equal to the rhythm of the spheres...
...of Chicago...
...Orson Welles, by a sensitive and bold readjustment of the play, produced against bare brick walls, where modern uniforms are met ¦ i with men in collar-turned-up coats —men who might be gangsters, or racketeers, or strikers, or underground plotters planning a couphas given history and drama new life as a modern problem, bravely met...
...Last Sunday, at the Center Theatre, came an evening of ballet Paul Dra.per does some effective work, tapping the classics...
...One of the world's worst rackets —;the smuggling of aliens into the United States—provides the plot for "Daughter of Shanghai," starring Anna May Wong, who heads a cast of players, including Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Cecil Cunningham, SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION NEWS News and Activities of State Branches Throughout the United States and the National Office in Washington, D, C, at 814 Albee Builcfcng...
...Reiss as state corresponding secretary, and J. W. Wilder financial secretary...
...At Detroit, Mich., there was a Weil attended meeting, presided over by Larry Davidow, member of the National Executive Committee, of the Social Democratic Federation, and addressed by the National Secretary...
...eteetad Henry J. Cox of Rutherford stats chairman, Dr...
...Indications ait that Ohio will soon have a state organization...
...The associate attraction added especially for the children, but enjoyable to adults as well, is Jane Withers in "45 Fathers...
...New York Theatre Benefit The splendid advance sale si tickets indicates that our Theatre Benefit to be held on Thurssne, Dec...
...for what Shakespeare shows of Caesar becomes a grim foreshadowing of what Mussolini or Hitler may find in the...
...Comrades are asked to reserve the 9th for the meeting . Sympathisers ana leader* of The New Leader are eordimflr invited...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 52
