AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENT The Week On Stage by Joseph T. Shipley Civilisation Fails. Jlf "W.nga Over Europe," the new Theatte Guild play at the Martin Bees:. Robert Nichols and Maurice Brown apply a...
...MUTUAL AID A member of one of the Senior Circles, a young man of 19, who is seriously ill with consumption was in danger of becoming a charge of charity, owing to the...
...3. The Conference demands uniform selfgovernment for the whole of Poland...
...There will be no gym Dec...
...A Masquerade Party and Dance will | be held at the Center on Saturday eve-1 nlng...
...Robert Nichols, the co-author of the amazing Theatre Guild play, •"Wings Over Europe," who embodies In a long, slender frame this ideal com- ' blnatlon, is true...
...It Is not Impossible...
...Disillusioned perhaps about many things...
...You...
...It was your business to defend us against the attacks of the' bourgeois critics...
...Why does-the dramatic critic for a labor newspaper say that SINGING JAILBIRDS will appeal only to those who are Initially sympathetic...
...at the home of Alces, 190 McKibben st, Brooklyn...
...When Francis, the modern counterpart of "Stinker" Shelley, poet and lover of beauty and truth, insists on a program that will permit all mankind to benefit by his discovery, they pass a resolution urging him to destroy his formula and apparatus...
...But aware of what is going on In fields other than his own and still daring to hope for the further freeing of his spirit...
...Minnie McFarland of Oregon, Is esse . of those who And that watchful waiting gets results...
...Cohen, the editor, I says it will be the envy of the League...
...Two evenings later the Circle elected its officers...
...Mankind's answer...
...AMUSEMENT The Week On Stage by Joseph T. Shipley Civilisation Fails...
...PROGRESS AMONG SLOVENE WOMEN WORKERS On October 14th, the Second Congress of the Federation of Working Women and Girls was held In Ljubljana, nine local groups being represented by 11 delegates...
...The Congress was also attended by a representative of the Provincial organization of the Yugoslav Socialist Party...
...every idea in this paragraph, for Improving the production, was offered In conversation by one or more other radicals who have seen the play...
...Prof...
...The throw-back technique, which startled the theatrical world In "On Trial," is cleverly employed to carry the story across, as the reporter Is dictating it for i a late edition...
...Surely, no one can read the above without a feeling nigh to envy...
...He is hair-raising...
...At the end i if the debate the audience, by secret bal- I lot, chose the affirmative as the winners...
...Thinking this a singularly fatuous admission for so wide-awake a person I asked him about It and he said: "Oh, yes...
...I The New Playwrights are impatient...
...Hampden's gifted new leading woman, Ingeborg Torrup...
...The whole world 1a Changed overnight because an obscure technician invented the internal combustion engine...
...The "other man," instead of doling out his money, gives the lady enough in one lump to make her independent...
...The present production Is much below Basshe's best, and can be improved in several particulars...
...Members from other circles are Invited...
...It is decidedly worth while, prevocatlve, still (and for many years, I fear) timely...
...The East Flatbush Circle is busy pre- j paring its magazine...
...The part of Roxane will be played by Mr...
...but the answers of Prime Ministers have too often been given for us to doubt but that Lightfoot was wise...
...It shows the various activities of the Socialist women in different parts of the world...
...I 23, at 4 p.m...
...How to carry these plans out are now discussed by the Executive Board of the Section...
...The New Jersey Juniors, meeting at 351 York Ave., Jersey City, on Fridays, i has a new leader—Mr...
...Oh, so simple...
...and the condemnation of one aspect of his work (the social) seems more impartial when another phase (the technical, which is, conventionally, harmless) is given gracious word of praise...
...In "Wings Over Europe" he has given us drama without a woman in it...
...Do not the New Playwrights believe in propaganda...
...Let propaganda, if it be necessary, begin at home before we mount the soap boat It is disappointing, to say the least, to hear so many of the men comrades urge others to Join the party, but are quite content to let their families share in the glory they themselves are enjoying...
...George Playhouse will present a double feature attraction including "One Glorious Day," with Will Rogers, a comedy, directed by James Cruze...
...The annual dramatic contest will take place Saturday, Jan...
...Like a whole generation of young folk he is , seeking to find his soul...
...Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds" is a play I am urging everyone I know to see...
...Upton Sinclair is perhaps too prominent at the moment to be wholly damned...
...COMING EVENTS The Youth Committee will meet Wednesday, Dec...
...at the Little Theatre on Saturday night, Dec...
...The frequent plays of Edgar Wallace, In London, are at last represented here by "Sign of the Leopard," which he and Lee Shubert have brought to the National Theatre...
...Courier," who with most innocently accidental air manages always to be on hand at the crucial jnoment...
...The various scenes of Red's dreaming—the Chinese lunch stand, for instance—would rise more effectively If they flashed suddenly out of dark, as they do in the hero's mind, instead of being rolled clumsily onto the stage while the audience watches...
...Of course...
...Marion Phillips (England) on maternity, on "The History of Our Movement" op Bernard sihaws booKj "The Intelligent Woman's .Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" <by Edith Kemmls), and on our "Programme...
...The i-aily great are not politicians...
...The wages of .the women workers amount to only 50 per cent and those of a Juvenile worker to from l-8th to l-3rd of the wages of an unskilled adult male worker...
...FLOWER-GIRL "The Lady of the Orchids," from the French by E. Ray Goetz, now playing at Henry Miller's,'avoids the usual flow of the bedroom farce by placing the bedroom scene as Act I. From this, the play moves to the drawing-room...
...Registration is still open i from 2—4 for girls and 4—6 for boys...
...Interest TV the readers of the New Leader, especially the women...
...The campaign opened with an eloquent and inspiring article on "The Women's Disarmament Month" by Comrade Wlbaut, published in "Het Volk," the Dutch Social-Democratic paper...
...Alexander Klrkland plays the young sclenI tlst in the Marchbenks mode, a star; clear, star-hot temperament made to i glow before us...
...This, of course, means a complete revolution of mankind's living, much more so than the British Cabinet to whom he reveals his secret can at first recognize...
...f^urdattona of which haw been i.i t..s brain of a solitary man...
...What the mystery Is, 'twould be unfair to reveal...
...Nichols' play...
...But if anything should .happen to check the quick stride of Robert Nichols, the world would be the loser...
...on the contrary, said almost nothing about the play Itself and damned the direction...
...Nichols are not hair-raising...
...All clubs must send the name of the play, characters and director to S. J. Slotkln, 305 Stuyvesant Ave., Brooklyn...
...They have j arranged a program...
...WOMEN'S DISARMAMENT IN HOLLAND The women 8oclall Democrats of Holland since their return from the Brussels International Conference of Women, have begun an extensive campaign In their country on behalf of disarmament...
...Of course I'm sympathetic with the 1 aims of labor...
...In my review, I spoke of "The New Playwrights (keen of social vision) at the Provincetown Playhouse (bold in experimentation...
...Oustav Blum will present "That Ferguson Family," a comedy drama by Howard Chenery...
...Everywhere the Socialist women seem to know what they are about...
...Francis Lightfoot, most distinguished scientist of Great Britain, in the tomorrow that is the drama's setting, discovers the secret of the atom—how to transpose its electrons, how to harness its force...
...There Is another and a rather top-lofty Englishman now In our tolerant midst, who Is forever telling us that he is a ; European and hence "civilized...
...A dead man has made that possible...
...the Times said it was an example of "skillful organization and direction...
...For, of course, it is the pontificating dead who give us ninety-nine out of oar one hundred interviews...
...Henry Lifshitz and Ben Grossman were elected delegates' to the Central Committee...
...I Add to this an eager Interest in the progress of the labor movement here and abroad and you have a genius almost too good to be true...
...16, at 11 ajn...
...What is its moral equivalent...
...The affirmative was taken by Sarah Dubin, Anna Melsner and Abe Agranowitz of the Alces...
...These ears have heard him speak, i "large, divine and comfortable words...
...The New Playwrights are modest...
...Their letter falls to mention that the Times called their staging of the play superior to that of the Theatre Guild's production...
...20th...
...The Chair was occupied In turn by Comrades Kluszynska, Markowska and Woszczynska...
...The next meeting will be held Friday, Dec...
...j AT THE BRONX CENTER, 11*3 Boston Road | Last Sunday evening the clubs of the j Bronx Center heard a debate between two New York University teams on the | abolition of the jury system...
...Some day we Socialist women In America will have a chance to be heard on matters concerning women and children, and as In years gone by have even a paper of our own...
...The first number included an introductory article on "Our Alms and Objects" and articles by Dr...
...At the same time the Disarmament Month was devoted to canvassing for Socialism and was everywhere a great success...
...The cast includes Jean Adair, Halllam Bosworth, Marlenne Francks, Allan Ward, Arthur Kohl, Thelma Paige, Doro Matthews, Rita Paige, Spencer Binyon and George N. Price...
...A SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT WOMEN'S PAPER IN GREECE Comrades of all countries will rejoice at the progress announced by the women comrades of Greece...
...23r, at 1:30 sharp...
...Berger in Prance...
...I showed the Times review of "Singing Jailbirds" to the editor, and expected an editorial on the attitude of the bourgeois press...
...He Is thirty-six years old and married...
...Help them help one another...
...Discus-1 slon followed...
...The times are black, tut something there is that hopes...
...providing for the right to establish paternity and to claim maintenance from the father), for the punishment of fathers who desert their families, for civil marriage and divorce throughout Poland, for the protection of children against brutal or immoral parents, and for the assistance of poor families...
...Eisner, chairman of W. C. Branch 139, is very proud of the new Intermediate Circle organised Dec...
...then, with "her own money," she may honorably make off with her lover...
...Afros, director of the League, explained its alms...
...GLEE CLUB The Glee Club, under the direction of I Mr...
...E. J. Ballantine will play "Smltty" in the Provincetown Playhouse production of Eugene O'Neill's "8...
...It is a moral imperative...
...But it isn't just chance that almost every intellectual in Great Britain is in the British Labor Party...
...Jingoes are dangerous fools, in any movement...
...The proceeds will I be used to save the life of their destitute comrade 1 Committees are visiting various organizations...
...Overwhelmed by the greed and cowardice thus revealed , by this, the most representative body of mankind's elect, this new saviour of men j decides to destroy his power—and all , the spoiled human race—nature's failed j experiment—along with It...
...The decision was In favor of the East New York Circle...
...A whole generation uselessly wiped out," says he...
...THE NEW LEADER boosters keep est the lookout for renewals...
...Will they argue only with those who already agree...
...And they were damned good couplets, too...
...The is life, there Is Interest...
...The organization has in recent years organized a number of meetings, conferences and lectures for women...
...The New Playwrights (and the "esthete" reviewers, who have much to learn of the radical theatre) are incorrect...
...But what sort of intellectual honesty declares that I "found nothing good to say about the only radical theatre In America," because the mere thought that it is radical did not hush me into reverent 100% hymn of praise, or rouse me to a stalwart championsong...
...Juliet Cross, secretary...
...of the many more, Ern; est Law ford and Frank Conroy stand out rather by virtue of their parts than by their work, for the netlre company glovefits the roles...
...as with most great I inventions or scientific discoveries, the same secret has been found independentI ly, elsewhere, and the curtain falls with the Cabinet Committee, proven cowards, forced to face the issue they have Just murdered to avoid...
...Sice October they have had their own paper, published in Athens under the title "Socialist Life" and edited by comrades Athlna Gaetanu-Yannlos and Marie Botsi, both known in the International movement...
...The situation Is extremely interesting...
...there Is greater value in a play that will make any thoughtful person admit something is radically wrong with our social system...
...In the course of this research he collects heroes...
...I shall look for It In the columns of the New Leader...
...So a modern man looks at his world...
...Right now I'm working on a Don Juan drama and not so long ago the old Don himself came and talked with me, tn couplet,, too, by the way...
...Most delicately Is the analogy between the council table and the table of the last supper of an earlier saviour left to the Imagination...
...Our youngsters don't fleck to church .these days, because there lived an almost hysterical, i nervous, old man named Darwin...
...SPECIAL NOTE—All news to be included in this column must be in not later than Monday at 5 p.m...
...It's the coming government in England, although I'm under no .delusion about the Intellectual capacities of the rank and file...
...Afros will award the banner which was won in last year's oratorical contest to the Aloes (Chum) Circle...
...Dec...
...Take the matter of war that is so menacing today...
...After a thorough discussion, the following- resolution was adopted: "1...
...But we won't go Into that In the official biography of Nichols which appears In the program of the Theatre Guild, it is written: "He admits to sleeping ss his greatest recreation...
...Europe nros* have more faith...
...You see when I am asleep the characters in the play or poem which I am writing come and talk to me...
...22, 23 and 24, the St...
...The Commonwealth Opera Company, Inc., met for the first time since the election to the Board of Directors of Constance Towne, widow of the manufacturer of Yale locks, on Tuesday evening, Dec 11...
...Why does the dramatic critic for a labor paper say nothing about the labor implications of SINGING JAILBIRDS...
...She must give up either selfrespect or love, for her little law student cannot support her, and for her to support him with money another man is giving her would be base indeed...
...America Needs Doubt "We all owe humanity a life...
...and Richard Lockridge of the Sun said that "Em Jo Basshe, Manuel Bssman, Nancy Root and the rest who are responsible for direction and scenery and costumes and the like have done the Job surpassingly...
...are not yet members of the party, they will be invited to Join, and in this task we ask the full co-operation of the husbands in question...
...This dramatic feature depicts the fight to death between a mongoose and a hooded cobra...
...He fell into the sympathlc hands'of Sir Henry Head, wham he regards as one of the greatest present-day neurologists...
...These eyes have seen j him...
...of "Masse Mench...
...But all the elements of stir and stimulation are present, as well mixed as ] once was your favorite cocktail...
...The Conference noted the bad effects of clerical Influence on working men and the necessity of bringing women workers into the trade union organizations...
...This would be better symbol, and at the same time would leave the stage clearer for the action...
...Is It the business of a critic for a labor newspaper to worry about a non-labor "audience...
...Circle 5 Seniors of West New York will see "The Cherry Orchard" at the Civic Repertory on Thursday...
...The chairman...
...And he has gone •bead and trotted out on a New York stage a problem in physics which is causing uneasy nights for our most progressive scientists...
...OUR FAMILY IS GROWING...
...21, at the Labor Lyceum...
...S. Olencalrn" since 1916, and In such early O'Neill plays as "Ocod," "Where the Cross Is Made," and "The Ancient Mariner...
...4. The Conference draws attention to the danger of a split In the labor movement...
...Robert Nichols is on what Wells once called, "The Research Magnificent...
...The negative—Jack Blltt, Abe Yormack and Sidney Paley of East New York...
...It Is all very distingue, very frilladllly, and all that...
...Announcement of this alliance was made simultaneously today by Michael M'"d"n in America and by Mr...
...J. L. Afros and Hy Kaplan were the Judges...
...They, alas...
...We can well afford to learn a lesson or two from our comrades abroad...
...He has appeared in every professional production of "8...
...Jack Zuckerman, expressed the appreciation of the audience to the two teams and to their professor of public speaking, who was present...
...It was he who read "Lazarus Laughed" in the Provincetown's invitation performance not long ago...
...Hy Kaplan, in charge, an- i nounces that ttie gym can accommodate j many more...
...Walter Abel Is also in the cast...
...Artist and Scientist author of "wings offer europe" places faith in intellectual leaders of labor party by McAlister Coleman . rrinE combination of artist and lover ! ¦¦¦ of science is, of course, a«jare one...
...Prizes will be awarded to the most original costumes...
...What is the way out...
...The Conference also considered the problem' of the care of juvenile criminals and the drink question...
...Wings Over Europe" is one of the most valid fresh offerings of the Theatre Guild...
...Politicians can in 'the nature of things only run up a btiUdirr...
...The University of Toklo had him over to Japan to lecture on English literature and on his way home recently he stopped off at (God save the mark) Hollywood and wrote a scenario...
...2. The Conference emphatically protests against the attempts of the Government to curtail the rights guaranteed to the people by the Constitution...
...which is now running at the Provincetown Playhouse, is having his play, "Earth," produced by the Gilpin Players of Cleveland.* Saturday...
...You come away from an Interview with this astonishing young Englishman, your ! mind reeling a bit under the machine- j gun Are of his wide-ranging Ideas...
...When the world-shaking nature of his control breaks upon them, the first impulse is to harness it to conquer the world for England...
...The theatre will then be closed until the following evening when "Lucrezla Borgia," a new German film spectacle, will be given a gala American premiere at a special performance beginning at 8.30 o'clock...
...Robert Nichols and Maurice Brown apply a unique test to Civilization, and and tt wanting, a abat, sad a dreamer who has worked to make his visions actual, the two Infuse SBto their most novel thorne an Intensity that force it along at white beat, and with the exc e 11 e n t all-male cast and the moving direction the Guild s u p pi le s, make poetic symbol, at once, and stirring drama...
...the cell-circle on the floor would keep in our minds the fact that all is a vision;—end the bars themselves could then be of firmer stuff, so that, when Red Is in Jail once more, and leans against them, they would not sag and tremble...
...It was Sir' Henry who introduced him to Maxwell and the works of Pascal and the other eminent scientists and got him to reading Goethe— "the last world poet to have command of science," remarks Nichols...
...I am sure...
...It Is a leisurely mystery play, for it unfolds through the casual err - acter of Collie, a reporter for the "F...
...Mlndlin pointed out that arrangements were under way for an international congress of little film theatre directors to be held In Paris this spring under the auspices of the Soclete Universeue du Theatre, which is affiliated with the League of Nations...
...I have already mentioned that the final vision of Red Adams would seem more real and poignant if placed in a Jungle, and more complete if the radical minister were there...
...Alison Smith of the World said "they have grouped the figures and symbols of Sinclair's play with a skill which is amazing...
...A few circles are j preparing original skits...
...Besides the two features, Ufa's sensational "Killing the Killer," will be shown...
...It has—until "Oil" and "Boston" broke through—been my constant complaint against the Socialistic work of Sinclair, that the very ardor of his feelings limited his appeal, by making him seem prejudiced to all who are not ready to take his conclusions for granted...
...It is hard to forsee...
...A Lapse in Hollywood "Ardours and Endeavors" and "Aure11a," his first books of poems made the critics sit up...
...And having found it neither he nor they will "easily be contented" (to quote him again) "with gin and jazz and physical pleasures...
...6, 10j30 at the Forward Building, 175 E. Broadway...
...poverty of his parents...
...Brute force conquers^-the scientist, alert as he Is, in time to stave off the disaster...
...IN THE JUNIOR CIRCLES The Junior Circles are busy preparing for their Christmas Eve Party at the Rand School...
...Judging by the enthusiastic reception given her remarks, the men comrades are glad that women are stirring...
...At the general New York City party meeting last week Eleanor LeVinson reported for the New York Women's Section of the Socialist Party...
...Some of the things they are doing, and trying to accomplish are of more than ordinary Interest...
...Meeting, conferring, proclaiming, writing everything that makes for a lively movement Is contained therein...
...5, at 7 o'clock, at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St...
...He served with the gunners during the war and came back heart-sick over the destruction of younggenius that he had seen In France...
...Now go and see "Singing Jailbirds...
...GYMNASIUM A few score members of Greater New I York reported for gym practice Saturday j afternoon, at the Washington Irving High j School...
...And to prove it, he strode up and down the room reciting some of the Don's couplets...
...Young Circle News {the young circle clubs have been o formed by the h'orkmen's circle lo provide children of its...
...An explanation Is certainly due from you...
...We must cultivate heroes—the memory of great men who have been...
...EIGHTH SOCIALIST WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN POLAND Sept...
...Resolved, that the U. S. Recognize Soviet Russia" was the subject...
...12, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, at a meeting of members and their children...
...23rd and 24th the women of the Polish Socialist Party held their annual Conference In Warsaw...
...You go down a street...
...37 for a big League Event...
...The club elect- j ed Louis Mollot, chairman and Nettle I Jacobson, sec-treas., and decided to j charge a 25 cents membership fee for | the season...
...Or, if you prefer your excitement less liquid, as clear as a leopard's spots...
...The best propaganda is the whole truth...
...And of so many other exciting matters that you | haven't the half of them down...
...Towne reported to the Board on that evening that Charles Edward Russell, author and publicist., who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize this year for his book on "The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas," has joined the Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Opera Company mainly because tt is a nonpros table corporation and of Its plans to give grand opera la User York City at popular pnostv...
...There is value, to a radical audience, in a play that works with the underlying assumption that radical theories are correct...
...Circles are also being organized in Bensonhurst and in Rocks way...
...America more doubt...
...The wise man tries, at least, to learn his limitations...
...May i Z urge you Just in passing to hurry out and see Mr...
...The members promptly rallied to his aid...
...Each circle will provide a part of the program...
...The New Playwrights are shortsighted...
...A women's Socialist paper In Poland, In Greece, in Yugoslavia...
...The program consisted of a talk by Ben Grossman on• the Bolivia-Paraguay situation...
...Ben Grossman, treasurer...
...In Amsterdam and The Hague processions of women were organized, while public meetings were held in a number of places...
...You go to a symphony written by a dead man...
...Worry about" those who are not initially sympathetic...
...Shouting Jailbirds" The following Is a letter sent to the dramatic editor by the New Playwrights: "I wish to bring to your attention a number of excerpts from the reviews of SINGING JAILBIRDS...
...She sends in 3 yearlies and says, "more later on...
...The sheer biographical facts about Mr...
...Tartak will lecture on "Tolstoy, writer and social thinker," Sunday, Dec...
...the whole cage should be lifted and by manipulation of lights seem almost to vanish In thin air...
...Reserve Jan...
...Suffice It to say that the murderer Is not, naturally not, the man who must marry the girl, and even his criminal record Is safely erased before the final curtain . . . that, Incidentally varies from the American style close by falling to show the heroine wrapped In the hero's arms as It js falling...
...And then he wrote a book of prose fantasies, "Fantastlca" and here and there in England and America folks began saying that something new and fine was earning from the pen of a young English chap named Nichols...
...when lack of space forced its omission, I bad more to say the following week...
...The Conference therefore calls for a campaign In favor of the control of production by the working class, for increased wages, for equal pay for both sexes <equal pay for equal work), for the establishment of minimum wages, for old-age insurance, for the establishment of creches, for the construction of cheap dwellings, tor the abolition of the housing tax on oman dwellings, and the raiaj lng of the income tax limit...
...Comrade Brczarjeva one on birth control and Comrade Ajdlskova on the legal protection of women and the cooperative movement...
...To begin with, letters are to be sent to wives of the prominent Socialist men...
...Posner, begun work last Sunday at | 1:30 at the Rand School...
...The first international alliance of little film art theatres has just been completed between Michael Mlndlin, director of a number of avant garde cinemas in this country and H. Diamant Berger, the motion picture director, who recently undertook the operation of theatres of this type in Paris, Cannes, Deauville and other social centers of France...
...Too, as a •oeaaBst, gafled in your duty...
...Dancing and refreshments are also on the program...
...A number of authentic art objects purchased abroad by Harry Hlrschman, of the Embassy Art Galleries, for the New York production of the Messrs...
...members an opportunity for social and intellectual contacts in an atmosphere sympathetic to the ideals of the labor movement...
...Shuberts' forthcoming musical play, "The Red Robe," have Just arrived from France...
...The VTXIth Women's Conference of the Polish Socialist Party declares Its agreement with the decisions of the National Council of the Party concerning the maintenance of opposition to the present system of Government which is based not on the will of the people but on the authority of Marshal Pilsudski...
...S. Glenoairo...
...This Is not a theatrical review...
...The women Socialists publish their own paper "Zenskl list" (The Women's Paper I. Comrade Rakovceva submitted a report on the political situation...
...Women "Socialists Abroad j VTTHAT follows will...
...Last week I spoke of the plans which were accepted by the women's meeting...
...Robert Garland of the Telegram referred to the "Intelligent direction of Em Jo Basshe:" Bruce Gould of tke Wall Street News thought the play "strikingly and effectively produced...
...The Conference concluded by adopting a resolution In especially emphatic terms, drawing attention to the necessity for raising the moral level of party members, this being the only means of preserving the unity of the movement and the purity of Its Ideas...
...Demonstrations, large and small, have been held in 78 places throughout the country...
...Christine Cooper, of last season's "Lion," will play Pearl in the "Moon of the Caribees" episode...
...I am deliberately refraining, in these comments, from adding my individual suggestions...
...It Is an attempt to put down in cold black and white something of the vibrant color of a man who, I believe, will very shortly loom large on the horizon of such civilisation as we have...
...And once you have felt their greatness feeding you, you in turn must find your way of contributing your life to humanity...
...The first debate In the Junior Tourna- | ment as held Sunday, Dec...
...with doubting Thomas, and Judas, limned for our taking...
...The next meeting will be held Sunday, Dec...
...in brief ¦ "Unessy Money" will end Its run at the Little Carnegie Playhouse next Thursday night (Dec...
...Bella Lifshitz was chosen Chairman...
...Instead you went them, one further and found nothing good to' say about the only radical theatre in America...
...According to "Glos Koblet" (Women's Voice), the monthly magazine of the women Socialists, 60 delegates from 29 towns took part in the Conference...
...Nichols has done two notable things...
...Comrade Kluszynska submitted a report on the political situation...
...In other words you have met up with the unique experience of Interviewing a live man...
...The especial moment of height, the climax of dramatic irony, is attained when the ardent lover asks the expensive don, the tout-a-falt perfect pretty parasite: "Have you ever loved In a garret?** Contrast so no farther...
...It may -,--________ be the full expression of yaur Own jplrit or the elimination of the nearest stum...
...James Oneal laid down his editorial pen long enough to round up 7 sabs...
...Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the picture of luxurious selfdenial-of-naught, is faced at last with a problem that seems insoluble without sacrifice...
...I spoke of the Importance of enlisting the Interest of women in our organization...
...In both countries the sense of values is despicable...
...The New Playwrights are, I trust, sounder than this expression that comes on their letter-head, though signed with a name not on their- Board...
...Walter Hampden will reappear In the title role of Edmond Rostand's heroic comedy, "Cyrano de Bergerac," at Hampden's Theatre on Tuesday night next (Christmas night...
...At the same time, Mr...
...Em Jo Basshe, producer of Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds...
...Abuses in connection with apprenticeship are on the increase...
...You belong to a labor union made possible by some dead pioneer...
...You | look at your notes and find that you have j talked about Chekov and Clerk Maxwell, of Ramsay Mac Donald and Don Juan, ! of Aldous Huxley and John Jay Chap- . man—of James Joyce and Calvin Coo- j hdge, of Anglo-American relations and j the breaking up of the atom...
...The next Junior Convention will be held Sunday, Jan...
...Never before had I appreciated what sleep can do for a creative artist...
...An All-Man Drama In one moving play, Mr...
...but the movements of time are be| yond human control...
...Send all communications to director Young Circle League, 175 E. Broadway, N. Y. C. THE WOMAN SOCIALIST a department of news and views of particular interest to the women of the socialist movement...
...Campbell Gullan, who staged the play, takes the role of this Scotch newspaperman with delightful ease, and drifts pleasantly through its well-complicated mazes...
...J On the question of family reform the Conference adopted the following resolution: "A Social-Democratic Bill must be submitted to the Sejm for the protection of children born out of wedlock...
...After hearing a report by Comrade Preuss on Poland's economic situation, the Conference decided to draw attention to the Increasing exploitation of the workir<r class ard particularly of women and children...
...Practically every- New York critic praised without reservation the direction of SINGING JAILBIRDS while damning the social implications of the drama...
...Rosenthal...
...Sunday and Monday, Dec...
...Changing Spots...
...The aesthetes on the metropolitan papers hate our politics and ilka our meth~t* The reviewer for what is supposed to be a labor paper pays no attention to our politics and lata transcendental about our technique...
...But Mr...
...New York...
...In the solitary confinement scenes, when Iron bars do not make a case because Red Adams has freedom in his love of the cause and in his soul is free, a few bars bend in the middle and are slightly raised by wires...
...He hardly will be missed once the theatrical season is over...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 53
