LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Reader Stresses Need for FDR Vote, Says Thomas Vote Aids Dewey from MONA SHUS To the Editor: As a faithful reader of The New Leader for the past ten years, I cannot help...
...Recently the New York Times reports an alleged offer by Stalin to give Poland a section of Germany going as far northwest as Stettin and as far to the southeast as Breslau (in the United States such a section would correspond approximately to the Northeastern States as far south as New York, as far west ss Detroit...
...In the first place, this conservatism was caused not by Mr...
...French film from the story by Alexander Pushkin...
...Queen of Hearts •P-IQVE DAME" ("Queen of Spades...
...There is one way to insure a continuance of progressive social legislation In America, to insure a just peace and collective security after this war...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt has given to this country Social Security, a National Labor Relations Act, Low Cost Housing, The Tennessee Valley Authority, a safe and stable banking system, and hundreds of other laws which have been advocated by U.S.A...
...President Roosevelt has brought America "a greater measure of social justice than ev«r before in American history," as the New York Time* put it...
...This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Wfear Every Won.on Knows "/ REMEMBER MAMA...
...they are blessed by a baby...
...But Blanchar makes a quite seductive villain...
...to hear it...
...it is a sort of broader, immigrant "Life With Father...
...But the acting is superb...
...I Remember Mama" is a play Broadway will not soon forget...
...Shirer voices concern over the Army's refuial to reeducate German prisoners of war...
...Love, it seems, has little regard for virtue, in its choice...
...It is an Idyll of glorious motherhood combined with an American success story...
...The ' third aunt, the meek one, at forty-two catches a husband, an undertaker even less forward than herself...
...He can be expected to go forward with his policies after the war...
...Good for some things...
...ADAMS To the Editor: ^VlLLlAM L. Shirer recently devote* his weekly column in the Sunday edkios of the Herald Tribune to an attack o* th* tieue Volkoteitung...
...Rich...
...Thomas's adherents claim that this is a protest vote against some of the conservatism that has prevailed in Congress in recent years...
...It has dealt realistically with the problem of German probation and thorough reeducation...
...Howevr, this dots not mean we take an uncritical stand where criticism is needed...
...Only, in this family—and in many more, as every woman knows—it is mama that paves the way...
...There is a measure of tenseness in this tale of the 1830's...
...Joan Tetzel makes Kristin vary from the author looking back to the dramatic girl that lives always at high tension...
...Socialists in the past...
...It is not a play, so much as a series of pictures of a Norwegian family growing up in San Francisco...
...Playhouse...
...ize,t,,n* He claims that the paper is playing' Hitler's game by criticizing...
...Has Mr...
...Thus they struggle on, until Katrin sells her first story...
...That's like asking me if I'd want to be ten feet tall...
...A partition of Germany will only precipitat* new trouble and dissatisfaction...
...In view of the cataclysmic events here and in Europe during the last decade, this year becomes a year of decision...
...in vivid contrast is the patience and wise devotion of Mama, shining in Mady Christians...
...There is no doubt that the War Department can do an important job in trying to eradicate the disastrous notions which were inculcated in the minds of the young Germans who were recruited for* war of destruction and of whom onequarter -of a-million are now confined in this country...
...He calls particular attention to the fact that the Volkszeitung is fearful of noticeable Russian intentions to compensate Poland after the war with large slices of (German territory for its annexation of Isrge parts of Esstern Poland...
...taitomf has stated that German Nash and militarist* must be eliminated for all time to come...
...There' is quiet but observant Papa...
...the Committee of Free Germans, a United Front organization with participation of known German Communists...
...Now we find some of these Socialists, honest as they are, trying to put an end to this type of legislation...
...Shirer noticed the constant plugs in the German-American tor everything emanating from Moscow, th* paper's admiration for Erich Weinert or Wilhelm Pieck, th* latter a leader of the German Communist faction in the Reichstag...
...Roosevelt but by the simple facts that the Democratic Party has hot had a truly sustaining majority in Congress since 1942, and that party itself has always had its dissidents and reactionaries...
...All phases of the theatre unite to make "I Remember Mama" a most pleasant evening...
...Our editorial last week struck a balance sheet and recommended Roosevelt...
...New boundaries bring renewed disputes...
...It is a decision between a progressive, internationalist Roosevelt administration and a return to the economic isolationalism of Harding...
...The New Leader has run more than seven articles anahrinq Dewey'* record...
...She begins "I remember Mama"—but that's where we came in...
...Your paper, unfortunately, fails to stress the fact that there are only two alternatives, Roosevelt and Dewey, and that a vote for Thomas is a vote for Dewey...
...Their duty is to vote the Liberal Party ticket, to roll up a big labor vote in this election for labor candidates, so that the next Congress shsll have the interests of labor in their minds and in their hearts and so thst labor shall take its proper place in American politics...
...And what kind of a protest is a default-to Tom Dewey, the tool of archreactionary Herbert Hoover...
...English titles by Herman G. Weinberg...
...That way is to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Liberal Party ticket...
...and Coolidge and th* insecurity that went with it...
...Shirer, who in this country is considered some* what of an authority on Germany, h«a permitted himself to be blinded to such, an extent that he denounced the N«*«j Volkszeitung which he heartily endorss* only two-and-a-half years ago, and rH gards with favor a publication directed by those who in this country worked feverishly for the acceptance of tb* Hitler-Stalin Pact, and who excused the Soviet attack on Finland...
...Shirer, however, makes 'another point in his attack on the i...
...It fails again to realise that in Franklin Delano Roosevelt U.S.A...
...Editor's Note: In ite editorial last week, The New Leader asked its readers to vote for Roosevelt...
...By John Van Druten, from "Mama'* Bank Account," by Kathryn Forbe...
...But the struggles of the family are deftly caught...
...William Shirer, however, take* east...
...This is as near to sex as the play ventures (almost as though Van Druten is atoning for "The Voice of the Turtle" ); for though we watch Katrin and her two sisters through illness and the joys and pains of youthful years—from * rare ice cream soda to the graduation gift—no hint of a sweetheart brings color to the cheeks...
...Technically, the many scenes are managed well, witlv a little revolving circle of the stage on each side, and the main scenes in the center...
...lucky girl, to start that high...
...LETTERS To the Editor Reader Stresses Need for FDR Vote, Says Thomas Vote Aids Dewey from MONA SHUS To the Editor: As a faithful reader of The New Leader for the past ten years, I cannot help but express at this time my views on the coming Presidential election...
...ThIS is a heart-warming production...
...and if Lieutenant Hermann frightens her to death trying to wrest the secret from her, he is at least comforted by winning the Queen of Hearts...
...She reads from her.first published story, one about her own life, her own folks, and as she says "I remember Mama" the stage lights upon the family...
...The Neue Volksieitung, in arguing against such plans, is rendering * service to world peace and is by no means interested in furthering the preient Germany's nationalist ambitions...
...We know the final success at the start, for the author Katrin Hansen is reading in her journal...
...No serious student of history can deny that any such sola, tion, attributed to Stalin, would inevitably mean European unrest for decade* to come...
...The Aunts are delightful, in their wonderfully outmoded dresses...
...the family sit around (besides the J500 check...
...The current one, "Pique Dame," stars Pierre Blanchar, who has been the "Voice of Resistance" on the French underground radio...
...It fsils to impress upon its readers the record of Norman Thomas— an isolationist before Pearl Harbor and a foe of the President for many year...
...tion to the stand of th* Neue Velksmitung en the question -of postwsr Germany Time and sgsin the Neue Volk...
...Shirer in th* Herald Tribune again deals with another German-American weekly publication of New York City—this time with a paper called the German-American...
...At the hfh Avenue Playhouse...
...The breadline may become a thing of the past, if the President is re-elected and a progressive Congress elected with him...
...At the Music Box...
...They fail to realize that a vote for Norman Thomas is a vote for Dewey and a vote for Dewey means only one thing—economic insecurity and reaction...
...And ' most of us wonder what Captain Iretzky failed to do, to bring on his sad abandonment...
...In its feature page...
...A Note on Shirer and Volkszeitung From H.M...
...the curtain falls...
...bad for others...
...Socialist* have found the men who ran gut many of their ideas into law...
...Mama takes things as they come...
...In the film he "plays an equally grim but more sinister role, of the poor lieutenant that must learn the secret of La Dame de Pique...
...Shirer ever read the German-America*' It is most regrettable that Mr...
...the movement is by jerks rather than in a flow...
...It has warned the American public against • possible Badoglio policy in Germany, but the N*u* Volkszeitung also believes that a partition of Germany will solve nothing, and that no cause should bt given, if Germany is ever to become s democratic nation, for new nationslism and diasatisfaction to arise...
...Sentimental, tender, strumming a pollyanna tune upon our heartstrings, it is glowingly transmuted by the Van Druten writing and the loving performances of its consummate cast...
...And gradually we recognize—as does Katrin —that in her quiet way Mama is the guardian spirit of the brood...
...Despite the sentimentalizing, the picture of the Hansens is close to that of many a new-come American family, say at the last century's turn...
...Even at that, some of the episodes are too short...
...but the technique at times reveals the picture's age...
...On a recent Sunday, Mr...
...snd, except for the youngest girl's shouting, the whole large cast is attuned to the evening...
...In order to avoid future wars, friction aresi must be eliminated, not increased...
...Only Southern Democrat* and traditionally reactionary Republicans have tied his hands in the past...
...Oscar Homolka stumps about as the roaring uncle, like a well-meaning grizzly-bear...
...Staged by the author...
...The decision of th* American people in an important decision for the world...
...SoME of the French pre-war films not yet shown in this country are finding premieres at the 5th Ave...
...Has he read in the German-American the numerous articles oa Teheran or those in praise of Tito or those extolling the activities of the NaiiCommunist combine of the National Committee, "Freies Deutschland" «f Moscow, or for that matter has Mr...
...Presented by Richard Rodger* and Oicar Hammerttein, 2nd...
...And Katrin wonders whether her mother wouldn't like to be rich...
...There are the three aunts, the bossy one, the whining one—so they are characterized by Uncle Chris, s "black Norwegian" whose bark frightens them all, bu.t who turns out to have a golden spirit beneath his glowering form...
...This old Russian countess is supposed to hsve been given an always winning combination, by none other than the famous Cagliostro...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 44
