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The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-03

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The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-03
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

VOU win enjoy good deal Of the
\ first act in this musical play. You
may or may not enjoy the rest.
The first act opens with a tavern
scene. Vagabonds, crooks and hold-up
men make as colorful a crew OF sing
ing cut-throats as you could wish to
see. Francois Villon, poet and vaga-
bond kind OF this motley crew, is
played by Dennis King. You will not
get a Characterization Of Francois VII
lon you had hoped for, but there's a
dash to the performance Of the actor
that literally sweeps you along-for
a while. 1t is Villon, Frenchman,
but without French dressing, perhaps
You can blame the authors Again
they are not concerned so much with
Intelligent Characterization as they
are with the kind that they feel ''the
public wiH like" And they do like it!
The ladies "just love it" and 1t is
well the music is good
Dennis King leads the company in
"The Song of the Vagabonds-" They
sing It often thruout the night, and
can assure you they do it with a dash
and whole heartedness that will send
you home singing it If there is a sin
gle note In your throat The music as
a whole has life and lifting gayety.
You'll surely like it The singing is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

of this, and expresses his horror that
a white man should hold a colored
woman in his arms.
Up to this point the play has de-
picted correctly the feelings OF the
white southerners towards the Negro.
But this indignation Of the general at
sexual relations between white men
and colored women is completely out
Of character. The white man of the
south, both during slavery times and
afterwards, has considered the Negro
woman his lawful prey. Where did
the thousands of mulattoes and even
lighter-skinned Negroes come from,
anyway? The typical white southerner
has @ horror only Of miscegenation
between white women and coiored
men. and OF legal marriage between
the two races, which is expressly for
hidden by statute In southern states. =
Richmond, finding out that John
Darr has loved Cleo, strikes him a
heavy blow. The blood of the south
ern white men is up; they gather
rope and torch; the bloodhounds are
heard baying off-stage. A little later,
the sheriff comes back with the news
that Richmond has been hanged in the
middle Of ~niggertownis q collar
about HIS mock proolaims chat No
struck white inani-
The azthor Of thss play. willard
Robsrtsoh, has been busfiy trying to
deSsnd hlmeeh irop ne charge Of
lracs pss5raice. haA shseryssv h The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
~AcRoss THE PACIFIC"

TN our search for good pictures we
1 were obliged to see many that were
simply awful--so awful we thought
that here at last was the worst. But
now we have come upon one that for
pure, unadulterated rot is the greatest
crime ever perpetrated on the motion
picture art Attempting to cash in
on the wave Of patriotic revival and
gloriication of American history due
to the Sesqui-centennial, this is a pic
ture clarifying one of Americas great
achievements" -the conquest of the
Philippines.
Around the history of the event they
have built a cheap melodrama that
will prove difficult even for a 100 per
cent klu-kluxer to swallow. So siren
uously do they work the patriotic
racket in this picture to cover its abb
solute lack Of a single redeeming fea-
ture that one is reminded Of the old
days when George Cohan sent his
chorus girls out in red, white and blue
tights to draw applause from a soured
audience. Monte Blue plays the lead
ing role-and few others contribute
acting that is bad enough to be suited
to the picture.
The story deals with the capture OF
Aguinaldo. His aids are fighting a
Chinese villain and another who looks
like a German. In the fighting Tin
which scenes are stolen from "The
Big Parade" and done stupidity an
American soldier makes this apprecia,
ton of the Philippine people in his dy-
ing gasp: Come on out in the open
and fight, you yellow-bellied rats"
And to prove the valor Of the fighting
American soldier he is shown thumb
ing his nose at the enemy as he dies.
l swear, comrades, that for sheer side
splitting stupidity this is unequalled
in the history of motion pictures the
world over. Four critics of Chicago s
papers lin which paid advertisement
for the picture appears) were loud in
their praise of this inexcusable no
KUN. To these four (who are not so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

Chicago Defender September II he is
quoted as saying that he wrote "Black
Velvet" because che was disguised
and ashamed of conditions in the
South and his motive was to expose
thru the play the hypocrisy Of the
white man" And it is true that GER
tain portions Of the play are delight
fully ironical. ! am thinking particu-
larry of the generals conversation
with his former slave, Calhoun, in
which he recalls how he sold Cal
huns wife to a trader, but gave the
money to Calhoun himself-for the
sake of sentiment(D. And there are
other bits in the play equally reveal
ing.
But why. Il Willard Robertson Is
friendly to the Negro, does he show
every one of his Negro characters as
either subservient or loathsoma3
Why Is Cleo, the only colored girl IN
the play. depicted as lazy, loose,
slouchy and entirely lacking in pride2
Why is 'Yeller" Richmond, the chise
Negro character besides Cleo, shown
as bestial and uncontrolled, at one
moment engsged IN a brutal '1ovsH-
making, at the next moment INDUCING
IN cocaine, and then turning to assault
O man with fist and knife7
y is Just ponsible that Willard Rob
ertson IA really friendly to the Negro
race" All can say Is, no has cor
tainly bit upon o most remarkable
method Of showing his friendship"
Edith Black.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
THE THEATER :
~THE VAoABoND KING"

fine. Dennis King does more for the
play than the poor thing deserves.
In the second act there's little
gem we want you to watch for if you
go to see it Eat the Great Northern in
Chicago. The police are coming!
The tavern full of Dragging, singing
scoundrels becomes quiet. AS the po-
lice pass they sing a little song with
out accompaniment about "a rope
around his neck" Of you recall your
history, "necking parties" were quite
popular in 18th century France.) The
song is not listed in the program, but
we'd give lot to learn it. There's a
dash and irresponsible swing to both
words and music.
Rudolph Friml wrote the music for
this play. 1t is music well worth hear
ing. The play is based on the story
'If l were King"
Business is business. The theater'
art can go hang for all the producers
care. All the music, the splendid
song, the scenic artistry and beautiful
costumes are but hand-maidens to the
box ohice-not to intelligent pleasure.
This musical play is but added proof
Of the fact, altho it is by no means
without a good deal of pleasure. But
Shakespeare was wrong, comrades
dead wrong. "The Pay. Is the Thing!''
W. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
"BLAcK VELVET"
BY Willard Robertson.

RLACK VELVET: from the dra-
matio viewpoint, a sloppily con
structed, melodramatic piece of work
In content, a foul, loathsome play,
reeking with race prejudice and writ
ten and presented in a spirit well
calculated to produce race riots and
lynchings-
%Black Velvet Is q good piece Of
work only In that it reflects with some
accuracy the prejudices and Hmita
lions OF the mind of the typical white
southern planter So befuddled is the
play With racial feeling, so low the
4 opiAions expressed Of the Negro race,
that some of the audience were under
the impression that the scene of
~Black Velvet" is laid before or i'm
mediately after the Civil War. Only
by pointing out the type of costumes
worn by the actresses was able to
convince the ccmrade who was with
me that the date of the play Is 1926,
and the conditions it depicts are the
conditions which prevail today in that
swamp of ignorance, our southern
states.
The scene of the play is the garden
of General John William Darr, the
owner Of q plantation in the yellow
pine" belt of the South (This belt
runs thru Georgia and South Caro-
lina.) The plantation seems to have
been little affected b. the Civil War
and the reconstruction; the land is
still poorly cultivated. the timber only
half utilized; the region is peopled by
the children and grandchildren Of
those who had been General Darr's
slaves.
When the play opens Patricia Har-
per, a northern girl, Is visiting Alice
Darr. the generals granddaughter.
Patricia is the type of young lady who
graciously excuses herself and deli
cately futters away whenever the
gentlemen" discuss business matters
or matters not too pleasant" Cup
to last Saturday l had thought this
type Of young lady extinct, even on
the stage.) Mr.. Harper, Patricia's
father, northern capitalist with a
large paunch and a mouthful Of
phrases about the ideals Of bust
ness" and the vision of industry" Is
arranging with General Darr to set
up a sawmill on the plantation and
cut down the timber General Darr's
grandson, John william, is ins love
with Patricia, and Is attempting to
get rid of his former mistress, mu-
iatto girl, by name Cleo. (This is
the BLACK velvet" woman who gives
the play its name.) Cleo is portrayed
as a sloppy, slouchy, lazy woman who
cares for nothing but to attract the
caresses OF this, that, or the other
man. Later on we meet Calhoun Darr
once the generals slave, now local
PREACHER typical Uncle Tom
damn the whole tribe Of Uncle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Playhouse Theater.

Toms! )-slavish, serTile, docile and
devoted to his white "mas'r's" inter
ests; "Yeller" Richmond, a mulatto
from the North, Of whom l shall have
more to say later on, and Smith, an
INSCRIPTIONS labor agent, recruiting
Negroes for work in Northern cities.
The keynote Of the play is the re-
mark of the Northern girl, Patricia
Harper, that in spite of all the beauty
Of the South she is constantly OPP
pressed by sense of something hor-
rible and loathsome, cooled up and
ready TO spring. This leads to a con-
Yersation with the General, who ex-
presses his conviction that the white
man is the master, and must remain
so;" that terrible things" would hap
pen in such communities as his, where
the blacks outnumber the whites, If
the white man did not constantly as
sert his mastery over this race of
children and gori1las." This belief is
constantly reiterated turnout the play.
The play begins to move when Mr.
Harper, the Northern capitalist, comes
in with the news that a labor agent is
persuading the Negroes Of the plan
tation to come North with him, prom
Using them steady jobs at $40 day.
The Negroes, Harper reports, are very
much excited; they are preparing to
leave Immediately, vacating their
houses, piling their possessions on the
streets. (This description is correct
just such scenes as this took place in
hundreds of southern towns during the
great Negro migratiOns that began IN
1850 The northern capitalist is wor.
ried about possible shortage of labor
for his sawmill, and the general, pre-
tending paternalistic interest in "his
people," interviews the labor agent
Smith, asking him where he is taking
the Negroes and how long his Job will
last. Smith answers that the Negroes
will know where they are going when
they get OF the train; that the iot
will last about six weeks, and that he
doesn't give hang what happens to
them afterwards.
At the same time 'YeIler" Rich
mond, the northern mulatto, has come
to town to visit Cleo, his former
sweetheart. This Richmond-who, Il
is fair TO assume, was intended By
the author TO typify the northern
Negro-has the face OF a beast ol
prey and the walk of q gorilla. he
makes love to Cleo by the gentlt
method of Selling her by the throat
Richmond finds out that another mar
has been living with Cleo, and deter
mines TO have his revenge Il he fndi
out who 1t rs.
John William, in tho meantime. hat
been making ardent love 30 Patricia
but she (pure maidenI) b frightened
by the thought Of anything more thai
a kiss, and John William Is driven int
the arms Of Cleo. Tho general learn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

1.-THE PAssAIc sTRlKE"-Don't
miss it or you win never forgive
yourself.
'fVARIETY"-Splen (RooseyelD
CHARACTERIZATION.
"MARE NoSTRUM" Abonin-
able stuff
Junk.
"MANTRAP'-Yes and no.
"SON OF THE SHlEK"- Valen-
tino's last one.
1.-THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN"
Good photography, well acted
North Shore)
"TIN oDs"-Interesting Cen
trail Park
HUP I'M MAeEL's ROOM" A
comic in a Chemise.
nLA BOHEME" Worth while.
"THE BAT"-speoks-if you like
them.
Note: Only Chicago theaters show
ing a program for one week are
listed. Pictures Of current week
changed Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
aALoMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS"

"ALoMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS"
MOTION, not emotion, is the fea-
1f1 ture Of this picture Gilda Gray,
former Follies girl, dressed in dainty
brassiere and a heavy coat Of tan,
proves herself good actress-when
she dances. The Charleston made
the shimmie less profitable and this
shapely maiden pursuing art where
she pays" has become a movie &C
tress. / should not say become" Not
yet.
You know the story. They took it
off rack No. 10 marked South Sea
Stuff" and had Glide shimmie her
(e)motions thru a stirring drama"
where the heart-broken white-man
goes to the islands after losing his
lady. He drinks everything. In fact,
he goes thru a happy "pie-eyed" exist
ence until Aloma, the coy native
maiden, spoils all the fun for the poor
fish. And that's that.
The scenery will make you terribly
homesick for Los Angeles. So will
Gilda Grey. If you have ever seen
the South Sea Islands, don't go to
see this picture. You are likely to
burst rib laughing at it.
In Person.
Together with a Samoan group of
singers and dancers, Gilda Grey ap-
peared in person before the showing
Of the picture at the Chicago Theater.
She appears in person and in very
little more. Brother-she dances! 1t
is easy to understand why the college
boys have gone raving mad about her.
The lights are dimmed, Gilda does
her stuff" and you go away convinced
more than ever that this little movie
actress should be in the Ziegield Fol-
lies. w. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
A PEEK EACH WEEK
AT MOTION PICTURES

stupid but who know where their
wages come FROM and to the Droduc-
ers, the Warner Bros, we award a
delightful bouquet of decompostng
onion tops, for the production and the
promotion Of the worst picture ever
shown in Notwithstanding none.
w C.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
$4,000 MORE
TO FOUNDATION
Smith Estate Income Avail
abIe-Win Tax Fight.

Approximately s12O, 900 of accumu-
lated income from the estate Of
Delavan Smith, former Indianapolis
News publisher, has become avail
able for use of the Indianapolis
Foundation. the Fletcher Savings
and Trust Company, executor under
Mr.. Smiths will. announced to
foundation trustees today, .,a
At the same time it was stated
by trust company officials that they
believe litigation over the Smith
estate practically. has come to an
end. Miller. Daily and Thompson,
attorneys for the trust company,
We're notified this morning by the
Supreme Court of Illinois that that
body had overruled a petition for
rehearing of the inheritance tax
case against the Smith estate,
brought by the Attorney General OF
Illinois.
Overriding of the petition brings
to an end the attempt Of the State
of Illinois to assess a tax of approx
imately $780, 900 against the residue
of Mr.. Smiths estate, about $500, 900
held in trust perpetually by the
Fletcher Savings and Trust Com
pany as trustee for the Indianapolis
Foundation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
BURY BURBANK
AT SUND0M WIN
No Orthodox Funeral SerV-
ice at Grave.
BIZ Unified Press

BIZ Unified Press
SANTA ROSA, Cal, April 14.-As
the sun sinks beyond the hills Of
this peaceful valley today they will
bury Luther Burbank, beneath the
huge Lebanon Cedar in the garden
before his home.
Only "A small group Of relatives
and intimate friends will gather
around the grave. dug in soil which
the kindly naturalist turned so often
with his own hands
The widow will be there. also Mrs.
Emma Burbank Beeson. a sister
Judge Ben e. Lindsey Of Denver, the
Rev. Caleb S. S. Dutton, who
married the Burbanks ten years ago.
Wilbur Hall. short story writer. and
a few more intimate friends will
compose the little party at the
graveside.
There will be nothing Of the
orthodox funeral service as Bur
banks body is lowered to it's final
resting place Neither will there be
at the public memorial two hours
earlier in Doyle Park. "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
BIDS ON ROAD
WORK ARE Low
More Than $4,000 Under
Engineers Estimates!

Low bids received today by the
State highway commission on APP
proximately 245 miles of penetration
roads and road-surface treatment
fell more than $4,000 under
engineers estimates unofficial tabula-
tons showed
Low offers on the six projects
totaled $198079, against an estimated
cost of $249, 1914, Assistant Main
tenance Engineer lie Roy f. Wertz,
said.
l.. s. Tobitt OF Tiffin, Ohio, was
low bidder on several road sufacinS
jobs in central Indiana, including
work on STATE Roads ! II and SO,
in Marion County. His offer was
$25.651 against an estimate of
$33,434. Other low bidders:
The Barrett Company. Chicago. S37 50l
on work in northeastern Indiana estimated
at S4S. 727. and on State Rd ~. between
Lebanon and Frankfort and state I'd. 81,
north OF Charlottesville. S15.0s7 against
dianapolis. S64 80 on work in northwest
ern section estimated at S74.399: Hayes
Construction Company. INDIANAPOLIS. $50,
500 on work in southeastern section. esti-
near Paoli estimated at o44 1913.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
FINE OF
S100 is given
Man Alleged to Have Sold to
S. H. S. Students.

Lucius Wilson, Negro. 527 n.
Talbot St, charged with blind tiger.
alleged to have supplied liquor to
several students of Shortridee High
School. was fined 500 today by
Special Criminal Judge John f. Rob
bins. Wilson, who appealed from
city court also was given a
suspended sentence of thirty days in
Jail.
John Kern, defense attorney.
asked for change of venue from
judge on grounds his client could
not get fair hearing before Judge
James A. Collins. Wilson was also
to be tried on an indictment charg-
ing specific sale to Charles A. Nc.
Murray, Negro, former Shortridge
student, and maintenance OF a pub
lie nuisance. The case was passed.
because McMurray could not be
found. 1t was reported he had
moved from 523 n. California ST.
Robbins ordered that McMurray
be found and set the trial for Friday
morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
JOCULAR WILL
IS DISR EGARDED
IOviaI PaIIbearer Request
Denied.
BV Tailed Press

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April To-
The will of Frederick Leander Van
Crit, rs, Kansas political writer,
where in he set forth elaborate plans
for his own funeral, will be disre-
garded by his family on the grounds
that it was written in a facetious
mood.
This decision was announced fol
lowing VanGrift's death and the
discovery of the jocular instrument
by which he proposed to direct mis-
own burial.
The document, written more than
twenty five years ago. set forth:
That the undertaken be humble
and modest, swing the corpse n
chance for public attention--its last
chance
The paJ1bearers are not to be Ia
beled. They will be distinguished
from the corpse by the fact that
they will be alive and their duties
will be understood without wearing
a printed sign.
The hearse horses must not wear
any signs OF mourning---for all
loads look alike to horses; tomorrow
they may be drawing "a swill cart.
Tho undertaken is not to wear a
plug hat or a diamond stud, or a
dressy Prince Albert coat, or in any
manner seem as if he had been
snatched for a moment from u ban
quet to bury the dead.
The pallbearers must be good fel.
lows-bright fellows, and are re.
.auested to beguile their way to the
grave with cheerful anecdote Of their
dead friend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-14
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