The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
DRAMA IN THREE
ACTS TO BE seen
AT CREEK BALL
Proceeds Go to Greek
Communist Weekly
tspeciaI to the oaIIy W0rIerl

NoptCIdt TO tHS Gdhy WOiNSiJ
NEW YORK. Nov. 6.-"The White
and the Black three act darma by the
foremost Greek contemporary writer
Spyros Melas, will be the main feat
ure at the grand entertainment and
ball given under the auspices of the
Greek Branch of the Workers Party
for the benefit Of EMPROS, the Greek
Communist weekly, the official organ
Of the Greek Federation.
Due to the popularity of the drama
which is a literary work of first magn-
itude, the entertainment and ball is
the most promising of the gatherings
that the Greek branch has ever held.
It viii be held in the beautiful Ter
race Garden at 57th street between
Lexington and Ord avenues on Mon
day evening, Nov 10.
Altho the drama will be staged in
Greek, the Greek comrades have seen
to it that the drama will not be all
Greek" to those who do not under
/ stand the language of the Olympian
gods. A brief synopsis of the drama
in English is given below.
The Drama
In the first act, young man, Axis
of a petty bourgeois family, comes
back from Paris, where he was sen
to study and become a physician
against his will, as he had ambitions
TO become a sculptor Altho an NJ
D. he refuses to put his science into
practice, deserts his career" ant
opens a dancing hall. This arouses
the wrath of the whole family tree
the profession being considered of the
most humiliating to the additionally
high standing of the family.
The second act deals in the begin
ming with Margarita, the elder daught-
en-, WHO has grown into spinsterhoood
Due to the petty bourgeois conven
tionalities, she cannot marry Andreas
a poor artillery officer, with whom she
has been in love for fifteen years. The
only thing left for the old lovers IL
tho nauseating Indulgence in the mem.
cries of their love when they were
young. Anthe, the 22-year-old daught-
err, who herself is NOTED with the
same false ties Of bourgeois psychol
ogy, falls a victim of Nicholas, a rich
young seducer to whom her mother
has surrender her, thinking that he is
an honest prospective son-in-law. This
young man, as Axis discovered from
his friends, is an expert seducer OF
young girls.
Axis, in bitter language hits the
old traditions and bourgeois conven.
tions. whips ruthlessly the present day
family morals. He tells them of hif
aspirations Of seeing a new form OF
family, a family in which all mem
bers will be bound by mutual senti
, ments and not by the false ones of to
day.
In the third act. Andreas, the Of
ficer-lover OF Margarita returns from
q mission 60 the young seducer Mich
olas, bringing the news that he failed
to convince the later to marry Anthe
Costas, the elder son, who after a
long struggle has succeeded in acquir-
r ing a somehow good position in a
| bank, and who is engaged to ricf
society girl, fears the annulment o.
his engagement. The first disgrace
caused to the family by his younger
brother Axis when he opened a
dancing hail. "a dungeon Of shame
and prostitution as Costas calls IL
was followed by the disgrace caused
by his younger sisters deliverance o.
her honor to Nicholas. Costas, in hii
effort TO save his position and prevent
the breaking Of his engagement by
! his fancos relatives, resolves that
II is necessary that his family honor
must he "whltewashed" in his sisters
. blood. lie persuades Anthe must com
NIT suicide, and dictates a letter &c
her mother, which he asks her "a
sign, and in which she explains.
A 9-piece orchestra will furnish
the music for the dance after the
presentation Of the drama. Tickets
arc sold at the Greek Branch, 345 w
seth street and special reduced rates
are mado to English speaking com
rades.