SDF NEWS
SDF NEWS NATIONAL Item! Philadelphia: There wei en *xgfiisj nteetfeft l»»tJuBdey with Algerian Lee, national chairman, and August Qaessen* *» speakers. Isaac Smellow & chairman. A boat...
...H wiB ho the largest and meet attractive journal ever printed by Amerlean Socialists...
...A handsome lot of contrilajfions for the National Fund hare been received from comrades and friends in tb* Bay district...
...The less rigorous one* certainly would consider this arrangement by Stock one of the most acceptable...
...If we do a good enough job overground, we will never have to fight underground...
...HHnnnriimniiTiniiiiiiiiiiipiin.....mmmmmm.....................RM,M., Fending the Starving in Occupied Lands . . . Congress adopted a resolution a year ago calling upon our government to consult with Britain, Switzerland, and Sweden toward adoption of a plan to feed the starving people of countries occupied by the Nazis...
...A romantic piece on a broad scale, it has something of the sentimental appeal of Booth Tarkington's 'Monsieur Beaucaire," with more power...
...Admission is 25 cents...
...locals, branches and members...
...This Month in Records By GFORGE DECKER Only owing to their very cautious market policy the two big recording companies have been able to release regularly new records...
...At Freedom House, on Tueeday, May 9, Dorothy Thompson delivered a sharp-pointed epigram...
...Try Her Out at Dances" puts humor into the music...
...It is a picture of the begtnninge of democracy in old New Orleans, as a runaway French noble snd the daughter of s plebeian ship-owner take their crew to start a new land of freedom on an isle of the Csribbees...
...George Baldanzi, Executive Vice-President of the Textile Workers Union, will be chairman...
...Some detail* may be criticised, but the undying beauty of this music i* maintained and the recording as ¦uch is excellent While (peaking of the trbe gem* this reviewer first of all meant Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major for violin, viola and violoncella (Victor) played by such musicians as Jsscha Heifetz, William Primrose and Emanuel Feuerman...
...This was the period during which Mozart created his most blessed music...
...The American Archive snd Research Institute is located at the People's House, 7 East 15th St, N. Y. C. The exhibit at Freedom House continuea through June 8...
...The Wemea* Committee meets Wednesday, Mop 81...
...The plsy hue a goodly number of feeder lyrics: "The Girl On the Prow," "One Kiss,'' "Softly as a Morning Sunrise...
...The New Moon'' is a good play with which to launch the series...
...Other speakers will be Samuel Wolrhak, President United Retail, Wholesale and Dept.' Store Employees, CIO...
...Those who survive will be . . . unable to compete with the Germans in the reconstruction of Europe...
...Algernon Lee answers questions on international and national current issues every Saturday at 9:45 p. m. over Station WEVD...
...8%) Sifmund Romberg, Otcar Hamnutrttein 2nd, Frank Mandel and Lawrence Sekwab...
...The representation is first-rate...
...A |gsai .arrangements committee ia being sajactsd for the September National Carference...
...The last release was that of Opus 132 in A minor—one of the three Beethoven's Quartets presenting the greatest works of the whole Chamber Music...
...Daniel Bell, associate editor...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan Maaaryk, Matthew Woll and Adolph Held had spoken eloquently about the heroism of the underground fighters...
...But Churchill blocked the realization of any such plan...
...Howard E. Kershncr, director of relief in Europe for the American Friends Service Committee, warns: "Hitler's proud boast that the Germans are a superior rare will come true to the extent that we allow him . to destroy the freedom-loving people of Europe by starvation and to render those that are left, subnormal in mind and body...
...from trade Onions, fraternal, cooperatives and other organisations...
...Hitler wages biological war...
...The Divertimento was written by Mozart in September, 1788—in the same year as his last three symphonies, one year after II Don Giovanni and one year before the marvellous Clarinet Quintet...
...but the rest of the cast is routine...
...He who is chiefly interested in the work* of the old giants of music should pay attention to new records of Bach, Mosart and Beethoven...
...A new branch will be organised ia Berkeley...
...It is enough to say that the masterful performance duly conveys the greatness of the music...
...Lover Come Back to Me...
...The records released now, it should be remembered, were made before August 1, 1942, the day the recording ban came into force...
...Score* of articles, hundreds of greetings from S.D.F...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist leader...
...A boat $500 was raised far the National Organisation Fund...
...The performance is characterized by an extraordinary sensitiveness, by it* balance of tone and by the abundance of the finest details...
...The experience in feeding starving Greens proved that It can be done without aiding the Axis...
...It's a good ides to have a aummer series of operetta hereabouts...
...Now these summer excursions into the light opera field, war-bound, are held in the city's heart at the City Center...
...i CITY CENTER SERIES "THE NSW MOON...
...However those defects are not very significant in view of the excellence of the performance and to general quality of the recording...
...The Divertimento did not belong to the most important of those masterpieces, but nonetheless its six movements are infinitely enchanting by their pure caressing beauty...
...T*he reproduction on the whole is very good but the tone seems not always to be transmitted with sufficient correctness and with necessary balance from lack of which the first violin especially suffered in some places...
...Altogether, "The New Moon" gives generous provision...
...There, the unreserved pralso mu*t stop...
...An appeal "to start thoiiercy Ships before it is too late" waa sent to the President by Dr...
...Dorothy Kirs ten does s good job as Msrisnne, and Elizabeth Houston makes a merry wench as her maid...
...The occasion waa an exhibit of photographs and papers from the Earopesn underground movement arranged by the American Archive and Reeearch Institute...
...at the Labor Institute, 10511 Pasadena Ave...
...Strawberry festival and social gathering, Saturday, June S, 1:30 p. m , in the People's House, 7 E. 15th St...
...The New Leader...
...The Newark SJLF...
...Kerahner lost week, emphasising the importance of getting a supply of food into Europe before the invasion...
...Albert Gates, editor, Lebor Action...
...Local sustain* a grievoua Ions in lbs death of John Wilder, whose funeral will be held Sunday noon, May 28, at the Workmen's Circle Center, 179 Clintee Avenue...
...It was pleasant journeying off to Jones Beach to watch ttue spectacle and listen to the music beside the ocean and beneath the stars, and later to cross the river to the Randall's Island festivals...
...Ohio: August Claessens speaks Friday, May U, 8:30 p. m., on "After the War— What...
...l-a«t week's returns included $260 from the leunion of OM-Thners, a fine batch from California and Ohio...
...Cleveland...
...Presented by the Belmont Operetta Co...
...The Olympic perfection of the Heifetz' tone and phrasing is so to say a supplementary enjoyment...
...Charles Weidman, the modern dancer, prove* inept in his selection pf dancer* (except Peter Hamilton) and in his choreography, quite out of tune to the romantic sentimentality of the operetta—and in his attempts at satire (?) not even second-rate run of de Mille...
...admission free...
...San Francisco, Calif.: ¦fails Green, organiser, reports a splenHl bmcting with Gorhart Soger aa speaker...
...Bach is represented by a Victor Set comprising organ Prelude and Fugue (St...
...Roger Baldwin, Director, American Civil Liberties Union...
...Columbia continued its edition of Beethoven's Quartets, performed by the famous Budapest ensemble which actually has no rivals...
...East Flatbush Branch 2: Banquet and activity celebration, Saturday, May 27, 9 p. m , in Schor's Restaurant, 123 Second Ave., New York City...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses, Bronx: Picnic, Sunday, June 11, in Van Cortlandt Park, near the houses...
...CROC Meeting To A sir Release of IB Trotskyites A mass meeting, sponsored by the Civil Rights Defense Committee, will be held Thursday evening, June 8, 8:15 p. m„ at the Hotel Diplomat, 108 Weat 43rd St, to rail for the release of the 18 Trotskyites now in jail and to preas for the repesl of the Smith "Gag Act" The featared speaker will be George Novae*, secretary of the CRDC, who will report on a three months' tour en behalf of the prisoners...
...At the City Center...
...People who have eaten well sre indeed superior to those who are undersized and riddled with disease...
...Claes asns will be here Saturday June 3. . , . Baffale, N. Y.S Claessens speaks on "The Liberal Party and the 1844 Elections," Sunday, June 4, 3 p. m., in Mueller's Half aW Pearl St . . . National $10 See Panl: The Eighth Anniversary Journal, la which acknowledgment of contribuHans will be made, will go to press on Into 10...
...Thomas de Ix>renso, President,CAW (TO, Local 345...
...The absence „ of an exaggerated, over-accented pathetic may be stressed as a special advantage...
...Hurry in your responses, you last-minute man and women...
...Of course those records are only for the listener* who don't consider every orchestral transcription of organ works sn inadmissible distortion...
...Annual Excursion up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain Park, Saturday, August 5. Note this date...
...Anne) in E flat arranged for orchestra by the late Frederick Stock and performed under his direction by Chicago Symphony Orchestre...
...Then (Dorothy Thompson came to the microphone and said: "The underground fighters are great But we have our job to do her*, and so far, thank God, we are not fighting underground...
...Topic: "Social Drmoarats in the Scandinavias...
...NBW York CITY City Central Committee meets on Wednesday, June 7. Guest speaker: 'eVdherd Hansen, a new member of the Carman Branch...
...He seeks to destroy whole peoples and we play into his hands by doing nothing to save them...
...and there is not a college in the land which hasn't rung with the gallant strains of "Stouthearted Men...
...Chicago, III...
...S.D.F...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 22
