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Evening star., 1927-05-21
BUILDING PERMITS
DROP Upper CENT
Reports from SOB Sources
Show Decline in Figures for
Month of April.

Building permits for April in 502
places reporting to the s. W. Straus
& Co. national monthly building sur
vev showed a loss from April, 1926. ut
nearly 13 per cent. The April total
for these places. representing more
than 40 per cert Ct the population OF
the country. was S391.179,762. com
pared with $449.1411S7 in April, 1926,
and SS99 4S6,27 in March this year.
With the fourth month Qf the year
thus showing the same proportion oi
loss which was revealed in January,
the building permit volume for the
first third of the wear develops a
shrnllage Of between $4,000 600 and
5000 600. 600 from the first third Of
1926.
The - leading cities which for the
first quarter Of the wear were slightly
ahead of last year. in April showed "a
loss Of 10 per cent from April, 1926.
and an IS per cent decline from April
1925. The group also declined per
cent from March this year.
Washington Shows Loss.
Among the cities in the first group
which showed April losses We're De
troit, Philadelphia. Los Angeles, san
Francisco. Washington. y. G.; Boston,
Newark. Baltimore. ST. Louis. Pitts
hurch. Evanston. Ill. and Columbus,
Ohio The April loss in Greater New
York was SIT ,605.000, about II per
cent with a decline also from March.
this year. of per cent. New York $
loss for the four months is 50 ,659, ,259,
Chicago continued TO gain. as it has
since November, 1926, and reported
an April increase of 6 per cent. Chi
cagos gain for the f1rSt four months
is S29.751.900 Other cities in the first
group which showed April gains liz
clude Milwaukee, Cleveland. Cincinnati
and Flint. Mich, in the Central West;
Buffalo. Yonkers, Louisville Miami
Birmingham and Portland. Greg, and
Seattle in the Pacific West
Material Prices Decline.
The downward trend in building
material prices continued in April
Softening of the market was espe-
cially pronounced in lumber. The
mississippi River flood. however. has
curtailed the production of Southern
timber, and it is expected that this
will affect the price. Common brick
declines were reported at Los Angeles,
Seattle and Detroit
Stabilized wage scales with practi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
With the OrchestYus
PHILHARMONIC

The Philharmonic Orchestra, Will
lem Mengelberg conducting, will give
its first Brooklyn concert tomorrow
afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music. The soloist is E. Robert
Echmitz, the French pianist.
The program: Schelling, Victory
Ball; Bach, Concerto in F minor; De-
Falla, Nights in the Garden of Spain;
Tchaikovsky, pathetic" Symphony.
The program on Thursday and Fri
day at Carnegie Hall, comprises
Cherubini's Overture to "The Water
Carrier" Dopper's Gathic Chacon-
ne, Rubin Goldmark's Negro Rhap-
sody and Brahms First Symphony
Following this the Philharmonic will
tour Akron, New Haven, Chicago
Columbus, Indianapolis, and Cleve-
land. On Sunday November 6, the
orchestra returns for its concert al
the Metropolitan Opera House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
The Neu Plays

CALL" musical play based Arizona, will
Majestic Theatre Monday evening" presented by the
Shube The is by Sigmund Romberg Edward
book Harry B. Smith, the lyrics. The
principals include Alice Fischer Berna Deane Charles Law
Beatty, John Barker John Rutherford Barry
Iupino Joseph Macauley and Violet Corlson
"THE HORNETS Stanley Adelaide Matthews,
open Tuesday Walack Theatre The cast Includes
Frank Mccormick, Beason Alfred Phillips, Dorothea
Fowler Rosemary King, Gertrude Clemens,
Louise Sydmeth and Richard Gordon
"FHE TANNING OF THE SHREW," Dress with Basil
Ellis the chief roles will the of
the Garrick Theatre Tuesday
also includes H. K. CrokerKng, Betty liney,
Ouspenskaya, Reginald Bach, Leslie Barry Gerald
IIamer Maurice Cass, Juus Matthews, Robert Vivian and
Berresford Lovett.
will be presented Tuesday night at
Little Theatre by the Managers formerly the Grand
Foies Payers The cast Includes Albert Carroll Eva
Condor, Bugakoff Otto Hucius, Lily Lubel, Walter
Kngsfod Margo Lester Paula Trueman Harry Green Marc
Loebell and Alice Moffat.
"THE MULBERRY BUSH" comedy by Edward KnoblocE will
Republic Theatre Wednesday evening presented
Charles Dillingham; and A. H. Woods. James Rennie and
Colbert featured Others in the nclude
Nicander Isobe Esom Ruth Lyons Stanley Har-
rison.
Gasworthy will have its premiere
Booth Theatre Wednesday night under the direction of
Winthrop with Leslie Howard in the leading role The
Henrietta Goodwin Lois Heather
ley Macready Viva Tattersan Lily Kerr, Ruth Vivian
Cyrena Smith and Geraldine Koerpel
Immoral ISABEILA?" satirica comedy by Lawon Camp
a playwright, opens the Bou Theatre Thursday
with Starr featured Reginald Mason, julius
Edward Rose Patricia Barclay
principal roles The play deals in lighter vein with
leading to the discovery of the New World.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

A FUNLESS COMEDY
"Skin Deep" at the Liberty Got Under The Hide
of The Audience

CHRYSTAL HERNE as the homely'
y and unhappy wife of Parrish Wes-
ton, the composer that no producer
cared to know, carries the white
woman's burden bravely in the lead
ing role in the alleged comedy now
laundering at the Liberty Theatre.
The show is a flop but this is not
Miss Herne's fault who plays the
role of the self-sacrificing wife who
sees her husband about to be snatched
away from her by a stout prirnn
donna who would make a good singer
if she only had voice. Marian
Warning Manley as seen from the
seventh row did not look like a seri-
Gus menace to the sanctity of home.
She is fair, fat and over forty. Her
role is rather tough on her but people
must make sacrifices for food, cloth
ing and rent.
This is the story: Parrish Weston
was unable to find a producer to
stage his opera which required more
elephants than the mechanical equip
ment of the theatres and the pockets
of the producers could bear. His old
flame having returned from Homo
lulu, Weston falls in love with her
again and is about to start for South
America with her when his wife puts
up the cash for the production of his
opera. The flight was off.
The only husky laugh extracted
from the audience during the show
was when the emotional Spaniard
who made his living as accompanist
for the diva, offered to go upstairs
and strangle his employer. No doubt
the audience had murder in it's heart
and was grateful to him for his good
intentions.
One of the mysteries of the play
was the introduction of a young fell
low to tune the piano in the begin
ming and his absence without trace
for the rest of the performance.
Chrystal Herne was cordially re-
ceived; indeed the audience was in a
receptive mood and the cast finished
its labors without suffering reprisals.
The guilty persons are, Lynn Starl-
ing who wrote the piece and Bertram
Harrison who staged it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
',,<apa,-.' NJ u S | C'~%sp'@~
A Stravinsky Opera
In Latin

IN recent issue of the Leningrad
''Yskusstva" there appeared an i'm
teresting interview with Stravinsky
regarding his new opera "King Oedi-
pus," which will be produced this sea-
son at the State Opera in Vienna.
The opera will be presented in Latin.
Igor Stravinsky was interviewed by
the Russian music historian, Leonid
Sabancev. He asked him why he
chose a Latin liberetto for the work.
Stravinsky answered that for long
time he had intended to compose an
opera to the words of a dead Ian
guage. "But ancient Greek is too
dead" he said, land, besides, it is
badly pronounced. So thought Latin
the fittest language" When asked
whether Latin would not give the
opera a certain clerical and Catholic
atmosphere, Stravinsky reptile d ::
THAT characteristic Of Latin doesn't
matter; to me Latin is the language
Of science, medicine, the LAWN
short, the most exact and unalterable
anguage."
To the suggestion that the style of
he new opera meant sudden change
and return to the style of Bach the
composer said that he did not know
anything about it. He wanted to
solve several musical problems in
opera, after having solved some in
instrumental music. He declared
"Oedipus" to be the largest of all his
works, and he believed that his style
in it had reached the utmost simplifi-
cation and the greatest similarity with
the ideal style to be found in Glinka's
Life for the Tsar."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Russian Revolution"
Film Ready for Showing

The perturbation of the Russian
Revolution is almost ready. M. Elm
stein, the director who made the
'Potemkin" film, is almost ready to
release the picture, which will be done
on November Z, the opening of the
tenth celebration of the Russian Revo-
luton.
In this screening it was necessary
to secure two men as doubles for the
principal characters. The director
selected two such men who are start
ling doubles of Lenin and Kerensky.
Some of them were recently pub
lished in London papers, and they
show remarkable likeness.
The picture also shows the storm
ing of the Winter Palace at Petro-
grad, and the cruiser Auror
bombarding the Winter Palace and
other parts of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Richard Crooks viii sing the fol
lowing numbers at Carnegie Hall,
Wednesday evening" Recitative and
Aria from "Acis and Galatea," Han
del; Uebesfeier, Weingartner; o,
komm i'm Traum, List; Staendchen,
Freundliche Vision, Zueignung,
Strauss: Aria-Le Reve, from Manon,
Massenet; Aria-Recondita ammonia,
from "Tosca," Puccini; and a group
in English.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
NEW YORK SYMPHONY

Fritz Busch will conduct the New
York Symphony Orchestra in Mecca
Auditorium this Sunday afternoon.
He will repeat the program given
Friday evening in Carnegie Hail.
Symphony No. in B flat by Bee
thoven and Symphony No. 1 in G
minor by Brahms.
There will be three other concerts
during the week,-Thursday after
noon and Friday evening in Carnegie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The Russian Symphonic Choir will
give its only local concert Thursday
evening, Oct. q, at Town Hall. The
program will include many new num-
bers, among them choral arrange
ment of Rachmaninoff's prelude in c
sharp minor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Hall and Sunday afternoon, October
so, in Mecca Auditorium. Albert
Spalding will appear as soloist at the
Carnegie Hall concerts. The program
follows: Symphony Variations, Dvo-
rak; Concerto in D for violin with
orchestra, Brahms; Symphony No. A,
D minor, Schumann. Nine. Margaret
Matzenauer will be the soloist at the
Sunday afternoon concert in Mecca
Auditorium.
The first of the Symphony Con-
certs for Children will be held in
Carnegie Hall Saturday morning, Oct.
90. The entire series as well as the
Symphony Concerts for Young People
will be under the direction of Walter
Damrosch.
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October" will be the title under
which the film will be released. The
part of Lenin is played by Nikandrov,
worker from the Urals; and M.
Popoff, who works at the Leningrad
Art Academy has the role of Keren-
sky.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Walter Kirchhoff, German tenor of
The Metropolitan Opera will make his
first American appearance in concert
next Saturday afternoon at Carnegie
Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Doris Niles, assisted by her sister,
Cornelia, and group of dancers, will
give her dance evening in Carnegie
Hall Tuesday evening. The program
will be a suite based on the Life of
Joan of Arc, a dance inspired by
Poe's "The Raven" and new Russian
and Spanish creations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

"The Belt" Paul Sifton's industrial
play, which opened at the New Play
wrights Theatre Wednesday night,
will be reviewed in Mondays edition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Dyla Josetti, the Brazilian pianist,
will give a recital Tuesday afternoon,
It Town Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The concert at the Capitol Theatre
this Sunday morning, will have as
soloist, John Charles Thomas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Francis Macmillen, violinist, will
give a concert Monday evening at
Carnegie Hail. His program will in
clude: Allegro from the Bach
Concerto in E; Carl Goldmark Con-
certo in A minor; Respighi's Au-
tumnal Poem and Music of Lii Bou-
LANCER, Revel, and Saint-Saens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The Cameo Theatre will show be-
ginning tomorrow Secrets of the
Soul" the psychoanalytical UFA pro-
duction. Werner Krauss plays the
chief role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Nora Drewett de Kresz, pianist, and
her husband, Geza de Kresz, violinist,
will give a joint recital this
ling at the Guild Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
=MusiC Notes.

The Don Russian Quartette, a group
of singers who have been appearing
in London and Paris, will make their
American debut at the Selwyn The
atre tomorrow night. The quartette
consists Of Igor Keldich, Basil Ev-
glevsky, Alexis Alexandroff and Ellie
Golovine, and their program will con-
sist in the main of Russian songs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Back to Gods Country" will come
to the Colony Theatre beginning
this Saturday. This is an adaptation
of James Oliver Curwood's story.
Renee Adoree plays the leading role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Socrate Barozzi, Roumanian violin
list, will give his recital at Town
Hall Wednesday afternoon. The pro-
gram will include: Sonata in d minor,
Brahms; Concerto, Mendelssohn; In
trada, Desplanes; Malaguena and
Tango by Albeniz- Kreisler; Caprice,
Wieniawski; Largo Expressive, Pug
mani; En- bateau, Debussy; L'Abeille,
Schubert; Nocturne, Chopin. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The Bijou Theatre, and not the
Theatre sque, as previously
planned, will house Immoral Isa-
bella 2" the satirical comedy in
which Frances Starr has the leading
role. The theatre is made available
by the closing tomorrow night of
Murray HILL" which will go on
tour. The Lawton Campbell comedy
opens next Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Curtis G. narrower, pianist, and
Jean Harmon, soprano, will give a
joint recital Monday evening at Stein
way Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
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BASILE KIBALCHICH, director
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Jean Gilbert has completed the
score of Soldiers of Fortune the
operetta based on "Under the Red
Robe" for which Harry B.. Smith has
written the book and lyrics. The
Messrs. Shubert are now making
plans for its production.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

Walter Hampden who is now ap-
pearing at his own theatre in Ibsen's
"An Enemy of the People" will stage
the Don Marquis play, "Out of the
Sea-" for George Tyler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The farewell tour Of Schumanu-
Heink, the return of Heifetz, after an
absence of two years, and another
tour by Paderewski are the oustand-
ling features of the plans of George
Engles. He will have five other ar
sists under his management during
the present season-Paul Kochanski,
Ignas Friedman, George Barrere and
his Little Symphony Orchestra, Emilio
de Gogorza and Elena Gerhardt.
The Shuberts' will present Edna
Leedom in breakfast in the Sum-" a
play with music, adapted from the
French. The score is by Dave SIAM
per and Harold Levy, and the Lyrics
by Cyrus Wood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Needle Trade Defense

The book on the history of the Min
cola frame-up that the Joint Defense
Committee of the Cloakmakers, Dress
makers and Furriers is publishing for
the defense bazaar will contain a list
of names of those who are actively
participating in the defense of the
nine furriers who were convicted in
the Mineola frame-up.
Mobilization Meeting.
Next Tuesday mobilization meet
ing of all friends and sympathizers
of the Joint Defense Committee will
take place at the Labor Temple, 18th
st. and Second Ave. The activities
of the Defense Committee will be re-
ported and future activities will be
discussed and outlined. Louis Hyman.
j. Boruchowitz, and Chas. thinner
man will report on the present situa-
ton in the needle trades. Ludwig
Landy, manager of the Joint Defense
Committee, will report on the activi
ties of the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
W. Thurman, Negro
Critic, Talks Tonight
At the Workers School

Wallace Thurman. Negro critic,
who was editor of Fire" magazine
of arts and letters, will lecture at the
Workers School, 108 E. 4th St., to-
night at o'clock on "Negro Litera-
ture in the United States.
This talk will be part of the series
on Social Forces in American Liter
ature" being conducted by Joseph
Freeman and Floyd Dell.
Thurman has written extensively
on Negro life in this country. In ad-
dition to his literary activities, he is
an actor and is at present playing in
"Porgy."
Among others who will appear in
this course are John Dos Passos and
Michael Gold, of the New Play
wrights Theatre, w E. Woodward
and Paxton Hibben.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Stachel Begins Course
For Functionaries at
Workers School Sunday

A special course for Workers
(Communist) Party functionaries
will be given at the Workers School
on Sundays at II a. m. with Jack
Stachel, national organization secre-
tary of the Party, as instructor. This
course will have it's first session this
Sunday 1t is entitled Communist
Party Organization"
All section, subsection and unit
executive committees are urged to as
sign representatives of their commit
tees to take the course. If necessary,
units, sub-sections and sections should
pay the required fee of $3.50 for the
course.
The field to be covered in this
course will range from the everyday
detailed task of the functionary to the
larger problems faced by the section
and city officers of the Party. How
to keep books, run meetings, organize
conferences, start drives and put the
work of fractions on a sound basis
will be discussed. The class will be
laboratory in which concrete problems
facing party functionaries will be
analysed and studied, according to
David Benjamin, assistant director of
the school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Man Who Killed Doctor
May Have Second Trial

The possibility of another trial for
first degree murder faces Francesca
Caruso, who killed Dr. Caspar Pen
dola in fit of rage when his 6-year
old son died while under the ply
sieian's care. The Court of Appeals
has reversed Caruso's conviction. The
physicians widow is reported to have
commented bitterly on the reversal
and on the fact that "all the SYM
pathy goes to the Caruso family.
Mrs. Pendola has become the pro-
prietor of sanitarium since the ply
stefan was killed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Diary With Secrets
Of Tory |ntriguGs
Burned by zaharotf

PARIS, Nov. 24.-Fearing that
secrets of backstairs diplomatic deal
ings of the greatest political i'm
portance might some day become
public, Sir Basil zaharoff, one of
the richest and most powerful indi-
viduals in Europe yesterday burned
his diaries.
Zaharoff, who owns vast holdings
of coal, oil and munitions, has been
connected with many diplomatic af-
fairs of the greatest international
significance. He was knighted in
England during the world war for
services the nature of which were
never made known.
Zaharoff's diaries are believed to
have contained accounts Il ..... GU,
Of the greatest significance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
linn, Bernstein Meet
To Be Held Tomorrow

To welcome Arthur linn and Max
Bernstein, garment cutters recently
released from Welfare Island prison,
where they served over nine months
for their participation in the cloak
makers strike, the Cutters Welfare
League of Local 10, International
Ladies Garment Workers Union, will
hold a mass meeting tomorrow at
p, m. at Stuyvesant Casino, 40 Sec
ond Ave. Important trade questions
will also be discussed at the meeting.
The meeting will be followed in the
evening by banquet in the same
hall for the two released workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Another Wreck in
Japanese Merchant
Marines OS Call

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. "a
Frantic S Q S calls from the Jap
anese steamer Tenpaisan Maru,
which radioed that it had gone on
the rocks off Gras Harbor, on the
coast Of Washington, shortly before
8 o'clock this morning, hive been
picked up here. The Dorothy Alex
andal and the Emma Alexander
have gone to the ships assistance.
The coast is being buffeted by
heavy gale, weather reports said.
The average of wrecks among
Japanese ships is very high, as the
government, pursuing a policy of in
creasing its merchant marine at any
cost, makes very little pretense of
enforcing any safety regulations or
in any way discouraging or placing
expense upon shipping capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Militant Girl Student
Did Not Carry Flag as
Stated in Local Press

A denial that Gertrude Bilef-
stein 10 year old pupil at Public
School 1873, Coney Island, carried
the American flag into the assem-
bly, room Wednesday was made
yesterday to TIE DAILY WORK
Err by her mother.
Last Monday, Gertrude refused
to salute the flag at the regular
assembly session. She was sent
home by the principal, Leon S.
Kaiser, who complained to her
mother. Tuesday she again re-
fused to salute, but yesterday due
to the pressure brot to bear upon
her by the school authorities she
saluted with the rest of the assem-
bly,, it is said.
"The statement appearing in
Thursdays New York Times and
New York World" said Mrs. Bilef-
stein yesterday, "to the effect that
Gertrude saluted the flag Wednes-
day is a lie! She returned to
school Wednesday, went to the as
sembly with the rest of the pupils
and saluted at the same time that
the others did. This does not mean
that Gertrude has changed her
opinion. She still believes that
the American flag is not the sym
boil of the American working class.
When Gertrude refused to salute
the flag on Monday she told the
school principal that it is not the
emblem of the workers. "My flag
is the working mans flag" she
said.