The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-30
TRANSLATED BY LYDIA GIBSON
Synopsis Of previous instaIments)

where The tn: ds oS spend tss4 ntsp Is.
ern coast Of france There we Tsd Hubert %ien
y0uns avIstSr and carla beagtfg girl whom he
an enormously wealthy hnancier and Industrial cap
factories are many workers who live in misery and
10 the barons Laboratory in Experiments with ter
6e new poison p gas and new explosives for warfare
make a mysterious afraid on China Allen goes
asylum she warns hin nysterously q the ''raoe
sod before the time for his ntendsd aht aa TO
Ghina. Allen enters into an altitude contest to win
poets to marry CARA before leaving France. The
ether ether eq"tsstants eaDsizs Allen t6s S%y
covers the banaar ms and s uTK 70 Aen e as
sSsndsts"d il Ta@ss "' sGs the
the grandstand and on the hyfne-AeId are sitting
strange postures Of wax GUINNESS gVerS h h a
they Stand e o % IN ttt ssae So dc
they were alive, The poisoned gas has been turned
been Killed Aen alone sSsy %as
shas sight strikes into his 8 .0 Inc
GREAT H to dt nd cSs Allen bushes nt9 the
eSnfronts him. He enters into the private rooms
youns couple whom he had known and who had
death BY suicide pact before the ethal gases were
as Marx the gay in life
two old ,%rsspsetablss. Of ROYALTY stricken dead
SaTs ~ 'SsG rn9 .S General pay:
eer-he symbolizes the golden eaIf." Aliens dis
vile realities Of the upper classes are unveiIed~
the paythines Of their passions, waIowine in wealth
Ss it to tie s.s IN ss' tst ory
ment was his. war medal, had been hsstsned to
Starving wives. bsssrsa ehdPsn q tSs suG fses q
charity siss1 ~ Il ss' "s
ssrr 81 ,b Snd plays soldier in the street
he Re ga ca t. S them into the hear,
the universe has this Iivinsdeath penetrateda
AN tired out sink down anywhere NJ
eyelids close, hypnotized by a theater poster
Revue-Apotheosis in the Cast.". A low
vide -humming assaiIs my ears van, ,ov.
sleep. see people and things move again i
line and space. Recompense, joy! Illuminatio
ind color, am in the midst of a crowded theatel
varm shimmering, sitting with the bad perfun
ID smell of the elegant public.
On the stage is a martial scene: the handsome
victorious officer makes an eloquent, fiery speec
% the soldiers, who are painting to be at the Gel
nans thru shell-fre.
Suddenly man stands up in the audience, il
he first row of the balcony. poor shabb
nan, but the whole audience see him. thin as Dol
luixote, his face pitted with death itself, dresse,
n dangling blue rags dragged from the blood,
aud; soldier from the war. He speaks; no, h,
oughs. He fumbles in his knapsack which make
round bulge on his thin shoulders. He throw
ntO the audience hand grenade which bursts
see the diamonded hands of the ferocious women AM
he efeminate young men who had been applaudin
he butchery of the soldiers, fly up in fear.
The thunder of the sudden explosion in my head AM
q my breast wakens me
The dream that cried in the silence is gone. Lift
as not returned. The physical cessation Of every
hing, everything, surrounds still.
think of the theater reminded of it by that night
1are. go to the Casino to see, even tho empty tn
all where my dream whirled on its fiery pivot Tn
oise Of my feet on the sidewalk is queer.
The hall is not empty as 1 supposed People ar
rouped on the stage others massed in the first row
t seats which are covered with shadows.
1t is the ghost of a rehearsal. What were they re
earsing this morning at the moment of the catas
rophe? The famous Revue, so long heralded: tn
rand finale which they were just running thru! "A
he Summit Victory" scaffold is built up to max
ifferent levels the STAGE it is unfinished and tn