AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The- Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley Fuji rvvvBM tphb mart lntu-ltng wwat of U» * perhaps one of prophetic t^nmcmnce. Is the opening of the **8tl> Street film guild cinema--...
...The audience will cross-examine the witnesses and also render a Verdict...
...18th, at the Majestic Theatre...
...Du Bois is not acquainted with...
...So it's a gay party an around...
...One fact Dr...
...The Mother-Out-Law," a comedy by Fritz Gottwald, co-author of "The Command To Love," has been accepted for production this season by Henry B. Forbes...
...A mass meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb...
...The sum of 15 cents will be charged for admission which includes refreshments, also...
...Annual conventions and quarterly organization committee meetings are to be held in connection with spreading the Socialist message to...
...The play is now in its secend month at the Copley Theatre, Boston, at which house Mr...
...A bundle of the New Leader is received every week and a library is being collected...
...If the Negro more and more recognizes that his salvation, not only in the United States, but in the West Indies and Africa, lies in the public ownership Df wealth and the socialization of income, and if...
...And Blanche Yurka fills her silences with a sense of boredom, of fearful playing, as of the rabbit turned outwardly snake, to devour its enemies, yet knowing itself no more than hare...
...The former presents an account by John Dos Passos, just back from Russia, of the Moscow theatres, and the shiftings of Soviet dramatic art...
...Yet virtue is rewarded in the end...
...If it continues pith work equal to the promise and ichievement of the first program, the 'film guild cinema" will be the most important house in the history of the moion picture of our time...
...The comedy comes largely (literally) from Frank Mclntyre, not too intellectual for the TB.M...
...The action taken by the American Federation of Labor in regard to the Brookwood Collage was condemned as being unjust and not in accord with the principle of fair play...
...We find in America a growing unity of audience in the attitude toward labor and capital...
...she works with a general delicacy of touch that makes it a delight to follow the mental sh If tings of this woman who must amuse herself by helping mould some human destiny...
...The first impulse of a Socialist is to express surprise that the Socialist Party in America has so little support from American Negroes...
...So long as states like South Carolina, Georgia...
...While "Singing Jailbirds'' is still playing lo good houses...
...The effect of this disfranchisement in the United States upon the labor vote is exactly the same as the similar system in the German Reichstag before the war...
...our feelings invite them...
...The Guild Magazine, in addition to the interesting illustrations, has a number of searching articles...
...North and South, literally gave the Negroes work when white men refused to work with him: when he 'scabbed' for bread and Butter the employers defended him against mob violence of white laborers...
...Everything looks promising for a strong Y. P. 8. L. movement in Rochester, and consequently a strong party organization in the future...
...but Isolde's half dozen references to her first meeting with Tristan if multiplied to half a hundred by Wagner's pen would remain of -absorbing interest...
...1928...
...The play itself stands up beneath this handling like a thoroughbred proud of its mount...
...Because of his "constant development...
...It was the opinion of the group that the housing situation in the -working class districts where Negroes lived were especially vicious and needed the attention of the Socialists...
...orever over the Usher family and home...
...I Organization Is Formed The Young People's Socialist League' held an Eastern tSates Conference at Newark, N. J., Feb...
...and when you add Jeanette Mac Donald, whom you always admire (if you have any taste) even if you are not a tired business man, the evening is complete . . . Not quite—there must be mention of the excellent taste in setting and costumes, especially the shades-ef yellow and brown at the beginning of Act II...
...and adjacent areas, are listening to our message and joining in the class struggle...
...The general adoption of stringent ed to the organization of youth in industry as well as to the workers engaged in industrial warfare, the establishment of old age pensions was strongly recommended, as well as the defeat of the cruiser bill, the recognition of Soviet Russia, and the Immediate release of Mooney aod ptniwga with restoration of their full civil rights with remuneration for losses suffered during their imprisonment...
...and even when the fulldcdgcd Socialist movement came, the Socialists were afraid to make a direct appeal to the Negro vote because such in appeal would have militated against their chances of attracting white labor, North and South...
...He was supported by the two other Negro delegates and the convention was won to their point of view...
...His political power is growing He is ?oing to use it in no sentimental way...
...Costley especially resented special mention oi Negro workers in the platform as suggestive of the white man's patronizing attitude toward them.—Editor, The Nev...
...7 East 15th Street, Saturday Feb...
...Du Bois, "can be absolutely manipulated by the political power of reactionary capitalists and big landholders.Just so long the chance of\any third party, labor or ' Socialist, is practically nil...
...our pubuc life...
...Owing to additional time required ir preparing "Pleasure Bound" for Broadway, the premiere of this new revue ir which the Messrs...
...62 East 106th St...
...Hedda Oabler" most truly survives as a searching and potent drama, here superbly done...
...George H. Goebel, Director of the People's Institute, Newark, N. J., addressed the delegates at this affair...
...They contended that Negro workers were a part of the whole working class and that when the Socialist Party adopted a program for the liberation oi the working masses it carried with it the liberation of the workers of all nationalities, colors and creeds...
...Hiram Motherwell discusses the present financial situation of the Broadway theatres: Betty Shannon strikes a tangent from this, in a consideration of theatrical design as employed in commerce...
...Resolved:—That Recognition of the Russian Soviet Government by the United States is Essential to International Welfare...
...Not only in its study of Hedda and the persons she seeks to use, but in its slow, inevitable growth to the tragic culmination, an unerring power drives...
...This rather reverses the, usual stage story...
...The repetition of a story may be a torment...
...The Frog Princess" is an animated color airy-tale, delightful in its whimsy and lelicate, fantastical movements...
...Is the opening of the **8tl> Street film guild cinema-- Publicity makes its little call, of course, but the slight pretension of a first night can be discounted...
...The notion that the devil finds mischief for Idle hands rises, in this treatment of it, to the scope of a wide reflection upon humankind, deep in its implications...
...15th at the Community Church is drawing near...
...So long, therefore, as the logic of the Socialist appeal was simply justice to black workers, it played a comparatively small part...
...The question to be uiscussed is...
...Inactive members or children of Socialists who have never belonged to the Y. P. S. L. are urged to get Into the fight...
...Mon- j treal...
...Shubert Theatre, winner of innumerable beauty, prizes, and one of the most famous1 *how girls in trie theatre, will renounce I her secular life and enter a convent early...
...Rochester, !V...
...Brooklyn: Comrade Jack Kaufman will review Buchanan's "Story of the Labor Agitator...
...Clive last season produced "Murray Hill...
...Floyd Dell advocates the use of characters from novels, freely, for dramatic interpretation—re ha wiling Candida, say, or Anne Karenina, as Shaw reinterprets Caesar...
...A BUSINESS BOOM-BOOM...
...I want to record that the play is an excellently staged presentation of family life, as too often seen, but livened by good humor and quick fancy—one of Blum's, best ventures...
...Then we must know what theses can be presented with little or no preparation or support...
...Anne's Convent...
...The special problem of Negro workers was then embodied in a resolution which was printed and distributed as a leaflet throughout the country...
...at the Forum on Current Events at the Rand School...
...Dallas Anderson brings to his characteristic "Fancy That...
...Lester may be reached by writing to him care of Socialist Party, 308 5th Avenue Arcade, Pittsburgh, Pa...
...These are all American...
...vhich brings back the gymnastic comedy >f Chaplin at his best...
...Circle Six...
...Basshe said, "our policy this year of running two plays a season compels us to take Sinclair's play off to make room for our next production which is to be jo:m Dos r"assos' "Airways, Inc...
...One has only to search the utterances of the platforms of the Socialist Party concerning the Negro laborer to find that from 1872 to 1924 the Negro plight In the United States was never once specifically mentioned...
...Y. Reports The Rochester Yipsels, after several years of hibernation, reappeared full-oflife in October...
...Gadabout," by Fanny Todd Mitchell author of the book for "Boom Boom...
...next month...
...It would be well for those who wish for the widest success of the labor movement in the United States and for the advance of the movement toward the socialization of wealth and income to consider very carefully the historical relations of the labor movement in the United States and the American Negro...
...iremieres...
...Tired of Broadway and the white lights, j Peggy Udell, of "The Red Robe," at the...
...Our minds condemn unnecessary repetitions...
...IN BRIEF The latest addition to the Provincetown Playhouse is a smoking room upstairs, where cigarettes and coffee are served around two blazing fireplaces between the acis of "S...
...Editor of the "Crisis...
...eemed rather a groping toward art than ;n achievement...
...Shubert have accepted for production a three act comedy called "Mr...
...At the Casino Theatre, the Sbuberts are presenting "Boom—Boom," an ideal play for the tired business man...
...Leader...
...The chief activity is study open discussion of Socialist theory, history, economics and current events...
...The Civil War was the attempt of white laborers in the United States to get Western land and higher wages by confining Negroes to slavery and the South...
...The following week, February 17th, a mock trial, the Prosecution of Capitalism, will be conducted...
...Prom the moment the curtain rises upon Claire Townshend as Aunt Tesman, the arrival of each character brings pleased recognition of fit casting and sound interpretation...
...ZUKOR'S BOOST Chance labor readers of the Magazine of Business for January are pondering the boast of Adolph Zukor, movie magnate, that motion picture producers have taken the edge off the class war and consciously brought labor and capital together through the subtle influence of the scenes thrown on the screen...
...Circle Six, Manhattan: Seymour Goodman will speak on Labor Banking this Sunday at 8:30 P. M. at their headquarters...
...We have to take such things into account in measuring the expected emotional reactions of audiences to this or that scene...
...Criticises Party Platform "The sooner the Socialist Party braves the artificially encouraged race prejudice of white laborers in the South and comes out in speech and platform for democracy despite color, and for economic justice despite race prejudice" continued Dr...
...Henry 1 Jager, ex-Socialist New York Assembly- j man, addressed the first session on the 1 necessity of a social revolution which will be brought about primarily by the ac-: Uvities of the present-day youth, and the need of preparation for these responsabi- i lities...
...A Political Reporter" touches interestingly on plays' "interpreting...
...She is probably the highest paid show girl in New York, receiving one hundred and fifty dollars per week for appearing in "The Red Robe...
...The white employers...
...These are but some of the many aspects of the theatre surveyed or glanced at in the current issue of a stimulating periodical...
...of a poetic refrain or a melodic phrase, a high delight...
...I shall find time to write on this matter...
...Political Power of the Race "The labor movement was Imported into the United States by immigrant laborers, and these laborers from the earliest times found the Negro slave and freedmen as a competitor and tool in the hands of the capitalist...
...New York Citv Activities NEW LEADER DINNER: Yipsels who are going to the New Leader Banquet on February 12th should get in touch with Comrade Umansky by Monday in order to arrange for a Yipsel table or two at the affair...
...and 14th Ave...
...Two, Jays," the feature film, is the first pic-j ure genuinely (not with the melodrama if such works as 'The Red Dancer of I .loscow") to use the Russian Revolution j .s background for a personal story...
...Du Bois Sees Opportunity ForSocialistPartyProgress Among Negro Population Noted Editor Wants Party to Take More Vigorous Stand for Rights of Colored People WTfie denial of economic justice to Negroes by white laborer* is beginning to make justice to white labor impossible ¦ said Dr...
...If that is not possible, you can do so on the night of the affair...
...Old clipping books, framed costume designs, and old O'Neill manuscripts arc on view...
...The comrades were very pleased to have present a Negro youth who is doing good work for the cause of Socialism among his people...
...The official minutes are being sent out to all the circles this week...
...R. M. Briggs...
...it is an appeal to white workmen to stop cutting off their own noses to spite their faces...
...At the Forrest Theatre on Monday evening, February nth, E. E. Clive will present "The Whispering Gallery," a comedy mystery by Percy Robinson and Terrence De Marney...
...said Dr...
...Singing Jailbirds" closes tonight, "Airways, Inc.'' opens on the 19th...
...Bronx: Comrade Kaufman will speak on the History of the Second Internationl on Sunday at 4 P. M at 1167 Boston Road...
...This meant that the Negro before and after emancipation in self-defense was propelled toward the employing class and the employing class was quick to take advantage of this...
...The Kropotkin-Thomas debate to be held on Friday evening...
...Some of the resolutions will be printed in this section next week...
...The League for Industrial Democracy pamphlets are being studied...
...Morris Novik and Louis Raboniwitz, Chairman of the National Executive Committee and National Director of the Y. P. S. L., also spoke...
...its.] heme is the conversion of a father,' hrough the circumstances of his son's j leath, from a faithful servant of the old...
...Miss Udell has had a I colorful career...
...Resolutions passed by the Convention condemned the militaristic tendencies shown by various American youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts, denounced the Reserve Officers Training Corps and the Citizens Military Training Camps as being harmful to social progress...
...But today matters are changing...
...B. M. Steigman, in "The Most Kindest Cuts of All," traces the justification for the omissions made in Wagnerian- performances...
...Equally sugges- j ive were the various devices that cloud-1 d "The Fall of the House of Usher" with ts brooding, unearthly sense of doom, j uitil, as in Poe's story, the tarn closes...
...and other musical comedies...
...At least we have done and will do nothing to hurt it...
...A dance was held in connection with the Convention on Saturday Eve, and a banquet at the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark, N. J„ on Sunday afternoon...
...Articles ' on the general topic of "Why Join the Y. P. S. L" are to be not more than I5O0 words long...
...Kenneth MacGowan offers an explanation and a forecast concerning the , O'Neill sohlqsuy...
...I Essay Contest: The time for the essay ; contest has been extended to March 1st : by the Educational Committee...
...in addition to that, frankly and wholeheartedly, the Socialist Party stands for the rights of men in America without regard to race and color, Negroes must gradually s?e in the Socialist Party of America their next political step...
...cgime to a bitter rebel...
...I dropped in, the other night, to see Gustav Blum's production of "That Ferguson Family," at the Bijou, already reviewed by one of my able assistants...
...The Whispering Gallery" has also been seen in London...
...Miss Udell will apply for, admission to St...
...Shubert will star Jacl Pearl, Phil Baker, Aileen Stanley anc Shaw and Lee, has been postponed tt MonSay evening, Feb...
...Since coming here from Milwaukee I several years ago...
...This is the second of a series of meetings being held by this group on the history of the Labor Internationals...
...but many of the mass: novements, and the reaching of arms ram various planes, were most effective...
...Pictures, by depicting the true basic relations between capital and labor, have educated workmen to the fact that their functions are mutual and Inseparable...
...Du Bois, "the sooner will the Socialist Party begin to grow on solid foundations...
...In 1928, for the first time a stand was taken against the disfranchisement of Negroes but the theme was not developed and it was not shown bow the disfranchisement of half the laboring class of the South carries with it the practical disfranchisement of the other half: and nullifies to a large extent the political power of the laboring man in the North...
...W. E. Burghardt Du Bois...
...there was nothing' but the solid in the films themselves...
...S. Glcncairn...
...H l.\ MuX U AX CIS EDI 1 Ok Published Every "Week by The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League Eastern District Y.P.S.L...
...Matthew Simons, mistaking the reporters of our daily papers for critics, forcefully enough, if any need to be convinced, points out their failings in the latter capacity, and longs for genuine dramatic criticism...
...The best part of his article, however, the excellent caricature by Gropper that accompanies it Bernard Smith, in the other main article, discusses three important plays of the season...
...he views "Major Barbara"1 aa the most important of these recently shown, with "Wings Over Europe," "Gods of the Lightning'' and "Singing Jailbirds" as examples of producers' triumphing over playwrights, or at least, weaving but indifferent scripts into valid plays...
...Alabama and Mississippi...
...Zukor writes: "Increasing good-wilT* between capital and labor in America is apparent, I think, to any motion picture producer...
...Harry Rannacher...
...Princess Kropotkin and Norman Thomas wili be the debaters and the question is one of extreme interest and importance to everybody interested in Russia...
...Frank Manning, the young leader of the New Bedford txetile strike...
...a former member of the Young Socialsit League of Germany, addressed the second session...
...Her scene with Looborg over the photograph album snares an elusive nuance of feeling that reveals Hedda more fully than I have ever seen her before...
...This can only be done against the suggestion of a great many prominent'Socialists...
...In the o'd days the Rochester Circle was strong and active, due to the excellent leadership of Professor Kendrick Shedd, but the triple blow of the war, the split and the loss of the director was too much, and the movement diamtegrated and finally disappeared...
...Instead, however, of taking the part of the Negro and helping him toward physical mod economic freedom, the American labor increment from the Uegnnnng has tried to achieve freedom at the expense of the Negro...
...and for organizing, the young people in the shops and schools —this work to be effected by means of the radio, speakers, discussion groups and literature...
...Youth Publication Association: A meeting of the association will take place in the Rand School, on Wednesday February 13th, at 8:30 P. M. All members and Yipsels are urged to attend...
...The plot is sufficient excuse for a deal of good dancing, without the perfect finish—where a ruler could be laid along heads or toes—of Chester Hale's and other groups, but with excellent movements and trained steps by the chorus, with Cortex and Peggy very graceful together, and Nell Kelly triumphant In hoyden hilarity...
...Some of the stir, paricularly when titles attached a story to it...
...The reason why Costley and his two colored colleagues took this position was this...
...The Negro today is growing in intelligence...
...North or South, must be based upon the breaking down of the artificial power which the white employing South has gained by disfranchising of white and black laborers...
...he has a pithy word-sense, and a quick sarcasm, as well as apt analogy...
...This a little known, but . important period of the American t Labor movement, and the discussion should be rather interesting...
...Sunday at 8:30 P. M. at 167 Tompkins Ave...
...Motion pictures have speeded up this unity...
...He has a fresh cuff for every telephone number, a number for every fresh damsel...
...We must know what principles, what psychology a typical audience will accept as a starting point...
...an air of absorbed ingenuousness that makes Tesman a complete presentation of a scholar self-satisflsd, blind to the world...
...subdued, pleasant, unusual...
...A resolution waa also passed instructing the National Executive Committee of the Y. P. S. L. to have a referendum for the election of a new N. E. C. or to im...
...and in England before the Reform Bills...
...The evils, benefits, and possible changes in the economic system will be brought out...
...mediately set a date for a national convention...
...Wotan had better not hold forth again on all that hard luck of his...
...Cleveland Mass Meeting Is Called For February 13th The Cleveland circle held a "meeting Sunday to discuss plans for a drive for new membership...
...dealing with the History of the Knights of Labor, before this'group on...
...The present senior membership Is twenty...
...they gave him educational institutions when white labor would have left him in Ignorance...
...Everybody is in favor of justice so long as it costs them no effort...
...f American socialism cannot stand for the American Negro, the American Nejro will not stand for American socialism...
...The first number is a "ballet of Hands," n which, all the action is carried on by noving hands...
...Here all the delights of the man who has been working his life away for later leisure are pictured to his dreaming'a utmost...
...to them is added a revival ol he Charlie Chaplin "soliloquy," "1 AM...
...2. "Not only is the negro vote growing, but any successful appeal to the labor vote...
...Don't forget to get your tickets in advance, preferably...
...Circle One...
...A sales-girl can listen to the boyfriend's simple declarative sentence on the subject of love tune without end, whereas she will squirm impatiently if he tries to tell her a second time just what work he does in the office...
...a comedj farce of companionate marriage has beer selected as next starring vehicle for Re gin aid Denny, Universal star...
...Labor Temple and the Community Church...
...2nd and 3rd, with ! delegates from Connecticut, New York...
...decidedly good entertainment, as well as a valid picture of an American family...
...Morris Novik spoke on the history of the Y. P. S. L. since its organization n 1913...
...This has been manifested in the last three elections, and the appeal for justice which the black laborer is making today Is not simply an appeal for charity...
...Our Walking Delegate Under the gentle guidance of Comrade Shulman of Bromsville, orking for the Socialist Party, the workers of Pittsburgh, Pa...
...LASTING worth The validity of Ibsen's dramas impresses itself strongly upon one, while vatching so sympathetic a production and performance as WmnchwYurka'a of "Hed3a Gabler," at the 49th Street Theatre...
...The Messrs...
...PERIODICALS There come to the desk at the same time "Theatre 1929," the New Playwrights' monthly, and the Theatre Guild Magazine for February...
...Companionate Troubles...
...13 at 7:45 p. m. In the offiice of thfe I. L. G. W. U., second floor, Superior Bldg., 314 Superior Ave...
...They attribute this to the stupidity and backwardness of an undeveloped people who are not acquainted with the modern labor movement- This however, is snap judgment...
...Indeed, the opening program of the "film guild cinema" is unquestionably at the peak of present-day filmdom, as the house Itself is the ultimate contemporary expression of ctaeoa architecture...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young People's Seciaiist League 21 Essex Street, Boston, Mass...
...to grasp, and centering on the various phases of his activity When he goes, or wants to go "on a binge, and make boom-boom...
...It moves wlthj ound psychology, as well as the excellent ihotography for which the Amkino is aleady known...
...Indiana...
...A drive is being made to get the interest of high school youth, and over a thousand circulars have been distributed...
...Is not Frank Mclntyre (as Worthington Smith), both in weight of body and lightness of head, all that they could desire...
...In the first convention of the Socialist Party, ltOl, there were three Negro delegates, one from California anci two from...
...Socialist Party Office...
...This film paints a way...
...while Harry Welsh brings along the suggestive remarks the somehow Mclntyre leaves out...
...and the quite catchy music, that will float for some months around New York...
...a Junior circle has been organized and Is growing fast under the guidance of Comrade Clara Rothman...
...He pointed out the effectiveness of combining the social, athletic, and intellectual phases of the organization work, as is being done in Germany, The outcome of the convention was the formation of an Eastern District Organisation, comprising the represented states, and consisting of Rose Bush for Pennsylvania, Julius Umansky for New York, and Anne Pomerantz for New Jersey...
...Circle Ten Jrs., Brooklyn: A Package Partjr will be held by this group to-night at 8 P. M. at the Boro Park Labor Lyceum, 42nd St...
...New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...The platform committee reported a section singling out the Negro workers for special mention whereuxion Costley, the Negro delegate from California, made a strong plea against the proposal...
...Sumner Getchel, fat boy of Universal's "Collegian" pictures, was signed to playin the fourth series of the popular short subjects by Carl Laemmle Jr., associate producer...
...Tickets are on sale at the Rand school...
...Our Comrade is also organizing several Yipsel groups there...
...Dues of 5 cents per month and a report Comrade Umansky is District Secretary, on activities are to be sent to the secretary...
Vol. 8 • February 1929 • No. 4
