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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
METROPOLITAN OPERA

Tristan and Isolde" win open the
last week but one of the MetropOli-
tar season next Monday with Easton,
Branzeil and Kirhchoff, Whitehill.
Other operas of the week;
"Boheme," Tuesday evening with
Bori, Guilford and Gigh, Scott. "The
BATTERED Bride" and ia Clara" on
Wednesday evening, the former sung
by Mueller, Hunter and Laubenthal,
Bohnen, the latter with Miss CALI
and Bonfiglio, Berger.
"Pelleas ct Melisande," Thursday
evening with Bori, Howard and John
son, Whitehill.
ode Meistersinger," Friday even
ing with Mueller and Laubenthal,
Bohnen.
"Mignon," Saturday matinee with
.Bori, Talley and Gigli, Rothier.
'I1Africana," Saturday night with
Easten, Morgana and Chamlee, De-
Luea.
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Rochester Opera Company at
The Guild Theatre, Next Week

Under the sponsorship of Eastman
Theatre and the Eastman School Of
Music, and with the cooperation Of
the Theatre Guild, the Rochester
American Opera Company opens a
weeks engagement at the Guild
Theatre, presenting eight perform
ances of opera in English.
The performances will be eOnduc-
ted by Eugene Goossens, conductor
of the Rochester Philharmonic Or
chestra and Emanuel Balaban.
The schedule of performances and
casts of principals follows: "The Abb
duction From the Seraglio," by Mo
Fart, Monday and Thursday evenings
and Saturday matinee, Ethel Codd,
Mary Silveira, George Fleming Hous-
ton, Albert Newcomb, Charles He'd
ley and Mark Daniels.
Madame Butterfly" by Puceini,
Tuesday and Saturday evenings and
Thursday matinee. Ceeile Sherman,
Helen 0elheim, Hedley, Allan Burt,
Marion Howard, Norval Brelos.
Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart,
Wednesday and Friday evenings. Sill
veira, Codd, Daniels, Houston, Sher-
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
u DRAMA III
New Lyric Bill at the
Neighborhood Tuesday

The Neighborhood Playhouse will
open its fifth production of the sea-
son, bin of Lyric Drame, next
Tuesday evening.
The program includes: A Connie
dia DELI Arte, broad comedy which
was improvised and presented by
Martinelli and his Italian comedians
in 1859 and now re-enacted by the
Neighborhood Playhouse Players.
Amelia Defries, translated it into
English and Ann Macdonald made
the acting version. The music, ar
ranged by Howard Barlow, is selec-
ted from composers of that period
including d. and A. Scarlatti, Pergo-
lese and Paisello.
Hungarian Folk Scenes arranged
to the music Of Bella Bartok's Dance
Suite.
Dance designs for "The White Pea
cock" and Tone Pictures-two COM
positions of the American composer,
Charles T. Critics. The entire pro-
duction is directed by Irene Levi
sohn.
The players include: Albert Carroll,
Otto Hulicius, Lily Lubell, Marc Loe-
bell, Ian Maclaren, Dorothy Sands,
Blanche Talmud and Paula Truenan,
George Heller, Selma Leigh, La
Ferne Ellsworth and Sol Friedman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
NEW YORK SYMPHONY

This week will bring to a close
Walter Damrosch's long career as
conductor of the New York Sym
phony Orchestra. 1t winds up a for
ty-two year leadership Of the orches-
ira which was founded by his father,
DR.. Leopold Damrosch, in 1878. DAM
rosch will appear next season as
guest conductor. He will also con-
tinue TO direct the Children's and
Young Peoples concerts.
Damrosch will conduct this Sunday
afternoon at Mecca Auditorium. Rob-
ert Goldsand, Viennese pianist, will
be the soloist. The program: SYM
phony in d Minor, Caesar Frank;
Hungarian Fantasy for Piano with
Orchestra, List; Fantasia on a
Theme by Thomas Tails, Vaughan
Williams; Catalonia, Albeniz.
A concert performance Of "Gotter-
damerung" will be given next Thurs
day afternoon in Carnegie Hall. The
soloists include Florence Austral,
Rudolf Lauhenthal, Frederick Baer,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

"Glamor," an English war play, by
Hugh Stanislas STANCE, is being
placed in rehearsal by A. II. Woods
and Al Lewis. Miriam Hopkins and
Ralph Morgan win have the leading
roles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Civic Repertory Theatre
Planning Tour in May

Eva lie Gallienne and her Civic
RepertOry Players will make a five
weeks tour at the conclusion of the
season, at the 18th Street Theatre,
opening in Washington, May 8. The
tour win also include Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Boston. The COM
pany will offer three of the current
seasons plays, "The Cradle Song"
ia Lacondiera" and "Three Sisters"
A fourth play, perhaps ''The Master
Builder" is being considered.
Upon completion of the road tour
the company viii disband until next
September, when it will resume at
the 14th Street Playhouse.
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With the OrcheStras
PHILHARMONIC

With a performance of Brahms
Requiem at the Metropolitan Opera
House this Sunday afternoon, the
Philharmonic Orchestra concludes its
eighty-fifth season. Wilhelm Furt-
waengler will conduct the Requiem,
and the soloists will be Louise Lerch,
soprano of the Metropolitan and Fra
ser Gange, baritone. The recently
organized Choral Symphony Society
will provide the choral ensemble.
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Screen Notes

Universal is presenting a new pro-
duction, "The Fourth Command
ment," at Moss Colony Theatre.
This was written by Emile johnson,
and the cast is headed by Mary Carr,
Belle Bennett, Robert Agnew and
Leigh Willard. A new Vitaphone
program includes Nine. Schumann-
Heink, who will be seen and heard
for the first time.
what Price Glory" the William
Fox perturbation of the noted stage
play, celebrates its 250th perform
anee at the Sam H. Harris Theatre
Monday.
"Till of The SOIL" a new French
film, is the current screen feature at
the Fifth Avenue Playhouse.
"The Price OF Honor" based on
Dorothy Howelps story will have its
premiere at Moss Broadway Theatre.
beginning Monday. Dorothy Revier,
malcolm McOregOf, Wllllam V. Mong
and Gustav Won Seyffertitz handle
the chief roles.
Monte Cristo," Dumas famous
novel, viii be shown on the Cameo
screen beginning this Sunday. The
part Of the Count is played by John
Gilbert.
The Metros production, "Tell it to
the Marines" will be the screen fea-,
ture at the Capitol, beginning today.
Lon Clancy, William Haines and
Eleanor Boardman play the leads.
The Hippodrome will show next
week "The Monkey Talks" Olive
Borden and Jacques Lener are
starred in the production.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
The Revolutionary
Motif in Fiesta"
BY ABEN HANDEL

Virtually all of the material for
"Fiesta," the drama of Mexico by
Michael Gold, which opens at the Sind
Street Theatre, Wednesday, April 6,
was obtained by the author during
rowing trip through that turbulent
country. Because he wove his pattern
from the threads of the life around
him, he retained so completely the
color and texture of peOn strivings
and aspirations, and produced a ma
turalistic work of creative art. And
through it runs a revolutionary mo-
tiff, for he not only witnessed, but par
ticipated in the dawn of new Mex
leo.
81 came into the country" said
Gold, during that transitional period
between the rule of Carranza and
Gales. The agrarian party was just
beginning to show its strength. The
peon was awakening. 1t was a ire
mendousiy interesting period in the
history of Mexico. Poems, who for
centuries had been no better than
serfs, subjected TO the tyranny of
feudal barons, were just beginning
to grow conscious of their rights and
their power, were beginning to throw
off the yoke which had kept them in
poverty and ignorance for so long.
"This was not an easy thing to
depict for the movement was not as
clear, as a statement of it makes it
seem. Leaders sprang up, would-be
liberators of their people, some sin
cere and honestly motivated, full of
the new idealism. But organizing the
masses was not simple thing to do.
"In Don Enrique, a character from
"Fiesta," try to show a little of Car
rama, a leader and idealist, but con-
fused by the conflict around him.
Actuated by the finest of motives, he
finds himself impeded by peon leth-
argy, ignorance, inability to grasp
yet, this force of liberation.
"In his brother, contrasted type,
we have the feudal baron of Mexico.
a petty tyrant, utterly selfish in all
his motives, living only to crafty his
own senses. He has no regard at all
for poems, believing that they are not
better than cattle, and no more likely
to progress.
an Chato, the young peon, / try
TO embody the hope of the new Mexico.
He represents the awakening serf, the
worker who glimpses the hope of the
future, the chance for a better, freer
life, for the rights that accrue to
every individual, and for the end of
these centuries of tyrannical rule.
''In the other characters, the ranch
foreman, the sheriff, the judge, Quad
aloupe and the other peon women,
try to show the effects of this slowly
moving revolution, and its influence
upon their lives.
"The Mexican poems were very much
like the Russian peasants before the
revolution. In some sections, they still
ploughed in primitive fashion, just
stick driven by oxen. But the poems
have a kindness about them that is
very beautiful. They are deliberately
courteous TO each other, bowling, snlil-
ing, considerate, even in rags.
"Their love life was natural and
casual, and in fact, marriage became
popular, only after the Catholic
Church reduced its marriage cere-
mony fees.
"Of course, the poems have been
gaining in strength and organization,
until to-day they constitute the
strongest union of Mexico"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian
cOntFalto, will give the last of this
seasons artists recitals of the Peo-
pies Symphony Artists course to-
night at the Washington Irving High
School. The program includes num-
bers by SCHNEIDER, Hageman, Martin,
Bizet and Duparc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Frederic Patton, Gitla Erstinn, Clar.
ibel Banks and Viola Silva.
The season will close with two
performances Of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony, with solists and a chorus
of three hundred, Friday evening in
Carnegie Hall and next Sunday after
noon in Mecca Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

The Metros production, %.
the Marines" will be the SCI
ttIre at the Capitol, beginnir
Lon Clancy, William Hal
Eleanor Boardman play the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Ruth st. Denis, Ted Shawn and
their Denishawn Dancers will give
four dance recitals at Carnegie Hall
next week, on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights and Wednesday
matinee. The program viii be spec
tally featured with dances of the
Orient, including dances of Java, Bur-
ma, China, Japan and India.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Maxim Sehapiro, Russian pianist,
will appear in a recital Tuesday
evening at Aeolian Hall, playing a
program of Bach, Sehumann, Medt-
ner. Prokofieff, Scriabin and Chopin,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Rena Pfiffer, soprano Of the Wen
ma Opera, will make her debut Mon
day evening at Aeolian Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

The Hippodrome will show next
week "The Monkey Talks" Olive
Borden and Jacques Lerner are
starred in the production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-04

Word has gone out from brigade
headquarters to unit commanders to
bring to the attention of members Of
their respective units the opportunity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-04

Ellis and Leslie G. Mulzer, First Lieut..
Frederick a. Schauss and Second
Lieuts. Freeman Alberry, Julian :.
Dexter. Robert /. HaZen, Roy ).
O'Neal. John H. Price and James +.
Walsh. During~ the next five years
there will be increases in the num-
her of Reserve officers called on active
duty at an expected number of 10
each year until the annual quota OF
Reserve officers on duty with the
Army Air Corps will be $50, as called
for in the expansion program.
The Reserve officers who now are
on active duty have been assigned to
tactical units, as distinguished from
school units, and they have been de-
tailed to assist on or the other of these
field duties. Therefore, they are not
only increasing their skill in flying.
but are also acquiring knowledge Of
an operation of tactical unit.
The end of 1927 will undoubtedly
see the termination of all wartime air.
planes. A few Curtiss JN-4s are still
in existence, and some of the wooden
fuselage DH.4 are being used, but they
are fast disappearing and are being
replaced with new type training and
observation planes. All the pursuit,
attack and bombardment planes are
of new design and construction.
There are at the present time 6.073
Reserve Air Corps officers. and this
number appears to he sufficient for
an indefinite expansion of the Air
Corps under the present program. An
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Civilian Army News

analysis of these figures shows, how
ever, that although there are 3,463
heavier-than air officers, only 10 per
cent, or 654, are rated as class "A"
pilots. officers who are qualified to fly
one or more types of service planes.
There are 1,007 under class B, Off
GERS who are competent to fly (solo)
in training planes. while the remain.
ing 1902 belong in class c, officers
who are willing to fly, but who cannot
fly alone.
Out of 557 Reserve officers who are
rated as airplane observers, only Is
in class sc" and 297 in class 3D." In
the lighter-than-air division, which
comprises the flying of balloons and
airships, there are two pilots in class
"A" eight in class "B" and eight in
class &C " OF those holding the light.
er-than-air observers. there are four
in class "a" II in class b 81 in
class CO and A in class d."
Local Reserve headquarters an
nounced last week the folling changes
in the assignments of local reservists
Second Lieut.. John II. j. Thomas,
Medical Administrative Reserve. is as
signed to the 18th General Hospital.
Zone OF the Interior, as mess officer;
First Lieut.. Ambrose II. Cook, Medi-
cal Reserve, is assigned to the seth
General Hospital. Zone of the Interior,
as assistant chief of the eye, ear, nose
and throat service. The following
second lieutenants. Infantry Reserve,
are assigned to the S0th Division
Donald c. Barber, Ashton Barksdale,
Charles p. Barrett, jr.: Dawson l..
Bates, Joseph F. Beattie, Anton
Benesh, William f. Bishop, Harry c.
Rlackman, Guy T. Bolton, jr.: Arthur
f.. Bonnet. Jean Fl. Brayton, Douglas
ID. Burnside, George S CARL, jr.; AL
fred II. Clark, Richard u. Cogswell.
Henry c. Conlin. Lee T. Corbett,
Joseph d. Cottrell, Allen r. Cozier,
Lloyd w. Creason, Thomas II. Creigh-
ton. jr.: Vivencio d. Cruz, John J.
Curry. Lester X. Bergey (Cherrydale,
W. First Lieut.. Charles e. Harp,
Infantry Reserve. having moved to
the 9Th Corps Area. is relieved from
assignment to the S0th Division.
Second Lieuts. Harry B. Lewis. Air
Reserve; John c. Mathisson, Engineer
Reserve; Charles r. Mccartney, Field
Artillery Reserve, and Carl Fl. West.
Engineer Reserve. are all assigned to
the S0th Division. Second Lieut.,
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Trailing the Buyers.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

FROM the FnlIadeipnla Ledger.
The manager of one of Manhat-
tans biggest hotels says the most
assiduous workers in the city's COM
mercial population are the men and
women who go in search of visiting
buyers. A buyer who might be
possibly interested in the wares they
have to offer must be unusually
clever if he wants to elude them.
The hotel man says it is not uncom-
mon for the trailers of buyers to
assemble in the lobby at o'clock in
the morning SO they may bag their
quarry the moment he sets foot in
the lobby. Informed in advance of
the coming of a buyer the repre-
sentatiyes of manufacturing and
jobbing concerns often greet him as
he steps up to the desk to register.
In some of the streets of midtown
Manhattan devoted to the cloak and
suit and millinery trade men and
women with an ability to spot buyers
are stationed at vantage points so
they may swoop down on the poten-
tial customeds whenever they VEN
ture into the district.
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they will not want to miss drill
The schedule is designed to keep
something new before the men at all
times. to prevent them being required
TO take the same subject twice. The
battalion has been divided into vari-
Gus classes and schools. with a graded
system of promotion, with graduations
from one grade to the other only when
the man has shown that he has mas
tered the subject of the class he is in.
The, following men. it was reported.
enlisted in the reserve during the
week. and were assigned TO the divi-
sionS noted after their respective
names: James f. Gray fireman, third
class. sos Third street southeast. Sd
Fleet Division; James NJ. Griffith. fire.
man third class. 500 Third street
southeast. Sd Fleet Division: Robert
NJ, Yeabower. fireman. third class. PA
I street. Sd Fleet Division: George II
Eaves. aviation ordnance man. Glen
Echo Md, I'd Aviation Division. VT
30 Squadron.
Two student aviators of the local
aviation division have successfully
completed their 90-day active duty
training courses. and have been com
missioned as ensigns in the unit. They
are Ensigns Gerardus E. Clark. 1883
Florida avenue. and Gustav o. Hog
lund. 2112 y street. These men took
their training at the Naval Air Station
at Hampton Roads. Va.
Reserve headquarters here reported
that the following seamen. second
class, aviation. had successfully COM
pleted their As days of pre.iI <Iary
training at the United States Naval
Reserve Air Station at Squantum.
Mass. and have returned to the city:
Robert Sanders. 2512 Tilden street:
Thomas W. Wagner. photographic
Office, Navy Department: John. j.
Klak, 2015 kalorama road: Philip NJ.
Neff, 1913 Massachusetts avenue
southeast. and Chester c. Ward. 1901
Girard street.
The last three named have been or
dered to the naval air station at Hamp
ton Roads. Va. for their As days of
advanced training. which. if they sue
cessfully pass, will result in their be-
ing commissioned as ensigns in the
aviation reserve.
Lieut.. George NJ. James. for many
years attached to the local reserve
battali as engineer officer. has re-
signed his commission in the reserve
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Henry w. Williams. Signal Reserve,
is assigned to the ed Cavalry Division
special troops; Second Lieut.. Paul A.
Chalupsky, Cavalry Reserve, is re-
lieved from assignment to the 3O6th
Cavalry. The following Medical Re
serve officers of Washington will be
on active duty for IA days at Carlisle
Barracks, Pa. effective September IL:
Lieut.. Coils. Walter A. FARMLAND,
Horace C. Dodge and Silvanus b.
Newton. and Majs. Harry l.. Richard
son and Victor e. Watkins
The following Washington Reserve
officers have been ordered to Ii days
active duty as follows: First Lieuts.
Joseph T.. Boudwin. jr., and Leroy J..
McCarty. Air Corps Reserve, to Boil
ing Field Anacostia, d. c., effective
September IS; First Lieut.. John w.
Mann and Second Lieut.. Harry Nick.
Hart. both Field Artillery Reserve, to
Fort Hoyle, Md, effective September
IS; Second Lieut.. Asbury 3. Ham
mond. Quartermaster Reserve, to
Camp Meade, Md. effective today:
Second Lieuts. Arthur Skarry and
Oscar P. Mast. both Infantry Reserve,
to Fort Washington. Md. effective
August o5, and Fort Howard, Md,
effective September 1. respectively.
Final figures prepared in the office
of the citizens military training camp
officer of the Sd Corps Area, on the
1927 G. NJ. T. c. procurement activi-
ties of the Washington area, shows
that of the 512 applications received
from young men residing in Washing
ton and vicinity to attend this Sum-
mers' camps, there were but 80 re-
jections and alternates, resulting in
the total figure of 474 attending the
1927 camps. Col. Andrew Noses,
f. A., senior executive officer of the
Organized Reserves in Washington
and under whose auspices the c. NJ.
T. G. procurement campaign was held.
is greatly elated over the fact that
though the Washington quota was
206. there were 329 young men from
the District Of Columbia who attended
FL of the Washington youths under
went their month of training at Fort
Eustis Infantry: 81 attended the
camp at Fort Monroe, Va. Coast
Artillery: SO went to Fort Hoyle Md
Field Artillery; "a were sent to For.
Monmouth. N. J. (Signai Corps: 8
received instruction at Fort Myer,
Va. Cavalry: 9 at Fort Washington.
Md. 0nfantry); at Fort Humphreys,
Va. Engineers), and l at Fort How.
ard Md Infantry The counties
nearby Washington which are in
cluded in the District of Washington
area and the number of men they fur
nished for this Summers training,
include: Charles County. Md, 5:
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A Language Entente.
rom the Philadelphia Ledger.


Word comes from France that
German is again being taught in
some of the schools of the republic,
a reciprocal reaction to the recent
announcement that the French
language has been added to the
courses of study in the German
schools. This is the application of
common sense to education and is a
proper reaction against the blind
prejudice which banished these Ian
guage studies from the schools, not
only of these belligerents, but even
from those of America. No salts
factory explanation, other than blind
passion and prejudice, has ever been
given for a refusal to permit the
training of the young in the Ian
guage of an enemy nation. One
would naturally think that it would
be great advantage to possess an
accurate knowledge of what an
enemy people were saying and doing,
and that the widest possible posses
sion of knowledge of the speech of
a foe would be the best means to
that end.
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which took effect on August rs, It was


Lieut.. George c. Miller, 500 Eight
zenith street. has been commissioned
in the volunteer aviation reserve for
general service.
Reports of the result of the recent
inspections of the local reserve bat
talon and divisions placed them some
distance down on the list of other re-
serve organizations of the country,
but there is an indication that they
will finish much higher when the next
inspections by the regular Navy Board
are made.
The last inspections came just after
the local battalion had been reorgan-
/ led and placed under Lieut.. Comdr
Smith. so that the organization had
not fully recovered from the condition
I into which it had been allowed to fall
! Since that time attendance had more
| than treb'ed, the training schedule has
been materially altered and other
steps have been taken to put it higher
on the list.
The I'd Fleet Division received the
/ highest rating. standing 81 on the list
of a total of 147 fleet divisions for the
entire country Its final figure of
merit was i4.92 per cent The Sd
Fleet Division was next. being 30 on
the list. with Il fire of 1870. and the
LIST Division was % on the list. with a
| figure of 71.21.
The Aviation Division stood 81 on
the list out of % aviation divisions.
with a percentage of 55.91, but this is
new unit. having been organized but
short time before the inspections.
The battalion as a whole stood Is
on list of 80 battalions in various
| parts Of the country, it's percentage
being 70.
! Lieut.. Robert w. Wilson, Supply
/ Corps. attached to the local reserve
battalion. has been ordered to the sup
| ply station. Naval Operating Base.
| Hampton Roads. Va. for Is days of
active duty for training.
| Ensign Gerardus 3. Clark has been
ordered to the Naval Air Station at
| Anacostia for Is days of active duty
for training.
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Tie "a I III v ~
Corps, has called
into active duty SO
r e s erV g officers
for a duty period
of one year. The
1928 appropria-
tons made it pos
sible TO send 10
Reserve officers on
continuous active
duty for one year.
and of this num-
Der SO vacancies
have already been
filled. The Reserve
officers who have
been called to ac-
tive duty at Boiling
Field. ID. C.. are
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