LETTERS To the Editor
LETTERS To the Editor An Open Letter to Louis Waldman on the Election and the Threat of Reaction from ADOLPH WARSHOW Adolpk Wartkow it e Vetera* of mart than forty year* activity in Ik* Labor...
...There is room for many good dance groups...
...His color films were shot with-k out sound, but the pleasant person and whimsy of the photographer gleam through the running fire of his remarks as we watch the travelogue film...
...Hurok as our leading promoter of the dance has been flung by the Marquis de Cuevas, sponsor of the new movement...
...but this is more than a matter of personal promotion...
...Miss Field is expected, to come east early next month, following the completion of her new picture which is based on the hit novel "Hold Autumn in Your Hand," directed by Jean Renoir...
...tober 14 leading editorial...
...Two of these films have been brought here by M. Blanchar, who will shortly return to Paris, where he heads the film division of the Department of Information...
...The sooner we subscribe to the Willku sentiment of "One World" the better...
...I refuse to «eli*ve that you are so naive...
...If she wen willing to be policed by an internationil air force controlled directly by the world council, we should have agreed to beinf thus policed ourselves...
...This is true even if the United States Senate agrees to go along with Senator Ball of Minnesota...
...Th Dumbarton Oaks' conference dissolvti without finding a solution for keepisj the Big Five themselves in order...
...In this your position is sound...
...And, a* t et* firmed reader and admirer of The In Leader, I can heartily approve its fit...
...That you should support Dewey as against Roosevelt, notwithstanding your previous Socialist affiliation and your present claim to Liberalism, is a privilege that cannot be denied to you as a citizen of a democracy such as ours...
...M. Blanchar was not only the "voice of resistance" on the underground radio, but a leader in the organization of the underground film, six units of which were united into a single motion picture service for the French resiatance...
...With a range from the classical to the surrealist (Sentimental Colloquy with music by Bowles, choreography by Eglevsky, drop by Dali), the possibilities of ballet art should be widely explored by the new company, which has settled down for six weeks at the International Theatre...
...Who need policing more, big fan toting pistols and tommy guns or alarmed citisens ? By the same token th* Big Five,* armed to the teeth, art far mote likely to promote another and infinitely mora terrible global war thai any of sixty odd little nation...
...scenes and allusions were inserted it wst hoped the Nazis would not understand but the French would...
...LETTERS To the Editor An Open Letter to Louis Waldman on the Election and the Threat of Reaction from ADOLPH WARSHOW Adolpk Wartkow it e Vetera* of mart than forty year* activity in Ik* Labor and Socialist movement...
...Betty Field to Succeed Margaret Sullavan in "Voice of the Turtle" Betty Field, who is in Hollywood completing a picture, has just been signed by Producer Alfred de Liagre, Jr., to co-star with Elliott Nugent in John van Dru-ten's comedy hit, "The Voice of the Turtle," when Margaret Sullavan leaves the cast af the Morosco Theatre, December 16...
...f„ postwar transportation...
...In your Saturday Evening Pott and World-Telegram articles you attack the PAC for its affiliation with the Communist controlled ALP...
...Ballet International starts with enthusiasm, variety of artists in the various fields — choreography, costume and scene design, performers—and competence...
...It might conceivably prevent another war "in our time," but wasn't it Nevilk Chamberlain who used words tike that after his return from Munich...
...The come and Its players have been the i cipient of many awards during t paat year...
...Nugent a Aurey Christie in tha cast...
...In your Saturday Kvening Post article you attack the present Administration for the bureaucracy in government and mainly for permitting numerous Communists and fellow-travelers to occupy key positions in important Departments...
...If Russia is a "fly in the ointment," a your good editorial hints, there is still time to convince her leaders of our owi good faith and intentions...
...sidering tha impetus which will he r|vM to research in nuclear physics after tha war by great cyclotrons and betatron*, man's utilisation of the prodigast ma...
...This is the Ballet International, the first expression of the Ballet Institute, a non-profit organization for the promotion of the arts of the dance in America...
...It is brought to New York by Pierre Blanchar, whose pre-war acting in "Pique Dame" is now on view at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse...
...It is too bad, that your hatred of Communists and Communism, which many of us share, should blind you to the real and momentous issues of the campaign and thus land you in the company of the greatest collection of reactionaries with whom you have so littl* in common...
...Put in terms of personalities, ona might say that the first serious challenge to the enterprising Mr...
...I concur with the statement that "a, good thing" has come out of th* Da*, barton Oaks' conference, although, to*, sidered aa a preventative of World Wit III, that conference was a nasca...
...Recently it was sold Warner Brothers, at ona of t highest prices ever to be paid i film rights, and Mr...
...Electing Dewey and placing his crowd in th* position of shaping the future of America is decidedly not one of them...
...It rationed materials, permitting the companies to ' picture what they pleased—with censorship, suppression and possible punishment after the film was made...
...Seeing that Under-Secretary of Suti Stettinius declares that the Dumbarton Oak*' plan is only "tentative" and "exploratory," nobody should hsvs th* lean hesitation about pointing out it* dt-ficiencies...
...Like yourself I dislike th* Communists ind would bar them from every position in and out of Government...
...There is the developed harbor, costing many millions, cut forever from use by a newly-formed sand-bar...
...IGGER AND MITER BALLET The third of this country's big ballet companies has opened its "first season at the beautifully redecorated International Theatre (formerly the Cosmopolitan) up on Columbus Circle...
...There is an afternoon of unusual entertainment with Robert Triers, colorful an his film...
...The final break of Paris to freedom was filmed by this unit (shots of scenes shown here were lent to news films...
...There is the simple stir of the peasant, the depth of the silver mine, the glory of the Aztec...
...MEXICAN HOLIDAY" FILM FoR a few more Sundays (Carnegie Hall...
...gies within the atom may come within ten, or within five years...
...The Voice of the Turtle" h been a smash sellout from the fir with its full quota of standees every performance...
...If this plan doesn't marry the "dove of peace" to the "brass hat" of militarism, the language in which it it written is incomprehensible...
...who would themselves be exempt fro* the rules they would administer...
...One Wor/cf a Needed to Halt World War III From HERBERT M. MERBILL To the Editor: ^ SuBE, "Its the same Old World,*MI diacovered when I quitted a causa J American Air Line representatives th broadcasted from Schenectady riiUL gentleman who could see no bjMntS way of substantially reducing ft...
...Of count, th* illogical attempt to reconcile a world organization for preventing war with t retention of absolute national lovereifntj was one of the things which Wendell Willkie ridiculed...
...Despite this uncertainty, chances were taken...
...I do not, of course, claim that Dewey shares their views but I do insist that these ara the people that at present control the destinies of the Republican Party and will guide its future policies...
...She has completed making "Tomorrow the World," which will ba released shortly...
...Granting that you are right, and I am of the opinion that you are, do you honestly believe that their substitution by people that will be more to the liking of the Girdlers, Pews, American Firsters and 111111 a I ¦ r« kii/nai 7 iwivn, in ...» >f Dewty'i •lection, will be «n improve neiit on tha present condition...
...There are occasions when compromising with principles is expedient and even justified...
...0m of Britain's "Noble Lords," speakinr ii Parliament recently, put his finger a this sorest of all the "sore spots" of th Dumbarton Oaks' plan...
...the full picture is one of the three films Pierre Blanchar has brought to the United States...
...But, unlike rou, I consider them less of an immedi-ite danger than the control and domi-lance of our Government by the Tafts, Nye*, Gerald Smiths...
...de Liagre w produce the picture, which will released sometime in 1946...
...6:30 p. m.) Robert Friers will carry amused and engrossed audiences from his Michigan days through colorful Mexico...
...The other two films are "legitimate," for the Germans allowed the motion picture industry to continue...
...Think it over...
...About the Theatre FILMS IN FRANCE Out of liberated Paris comes the story of motion pictures during the Nazi occupation...
...It will be interesting to see how the motion pictures have helped the cause of French freedom...
...Lord Winitn characterised it as an "organization fa keeping small boys in order by monitor...
...Do you -eally think that bureaucracy, which is infortunately everywhere a part of rovernment, will suddenly be eliminated >y the election of Dewey...
...The classic and successful trade union movements in politics in Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and other countries are eloquent examples of the wisdom of labor's participation in th* political fields...
...When Miss Field steps into the 'cast df "The Voice of the Turtl Monday evening, December 18, t comedy hit will have begun its * ond year at the Morosco Theat It opened last December 8, wi Miss Sullavan, Mr...
...Mere posses d vigilantes—and national quotas of srmei force are just that—could be withhtM from serving the Security Council, whet desperately needed, by some futun President, Premier or Russian dicttttt until it is too late to prevent anothef war...
...The moods vary, from the peace snd Shangri-la beauty of golden spots, to the lava grandeur and destruction wrought by the two-year-old Paricutin volcano...
...There are the lads that dive 130 feet from a cliff-ledge into turbulent waters...
...You ara likewise correct in your evaluation of Communist treachery, double-dealing and diahonesty...
...Thot* win have read that one of Britain's "earth-quake bombs" will devastate an srm *f 80,000 square yards should multiply thst figure by 30 or 40 million, for uranium 235 and note the result in squar* milts...
...McCormicks, Pat tersons, American Firsters, Coughlinites and similar sinister forces, who, notwithstanding thair present silence, are working and planning in the dark to undermine our form of government and to introduce oppressive measures ind racial bigotry...
...When, however, you attack it on the ground that labor, particularly organised labor, has no business in politics, you are repudiating your own life-long convictions and the position of not only the Socialist movement but of all forward-looking people the world over...
...What I do question is the wisdom of your reasons for such support...
...For twenty yeait he woe President of the Sew Leader Board of Directors until kit retirement last year...
...If, as Geoffrey Crowther put it, the destruction of Coventry was "implicit" when th* Wright Brothers' plane left the ground at Kitty Hawk, the extermination of out human species in World War III w*J presaged when the effect of slow neutrons in producing a chain effect i" uranium 236 was first observed in laboratories here and abroad...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 45
