The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
The Movies They Don't Satisfy
PART 8.-oNE PICTURE WITH PROMISE

work for cabarets and jazz bands.
His artist-sweetheart is helping him. A friendly
physician gives him the advice "to marry for money
which would enable him to devote himself to serious
creative work fancee is at hand it is pupil of the
composer. the daughter Of Millionaire.
The composer visits the Millionaire the family of the
latter return the visit typical family of upstairs.
The daughter-hysterica the son--a degenerate and
hypochondriac; the mother-a vulgar gum-chewing wo
man; the father-a man who every minute interrupts his
"soca" conversation, to take up the telephone to buy
TO SELL watch the stock market and to add to his
billions They have luxurious palace with scores of
lackeys silly, inspid ornaments, and player piano
which is winding off the latest jazz pieces.
All this presented in caricatural form, provokes
the disgust of both the spectator and the composer
However, under the influence of the physician and his
sweetheart who self-sacrifcngly renounces her own
happiness the composer offers telephone his hand
and heart to the blionares daughter and is accepted
Great Dream.
Altogether tired and unnerved the composer falls
asleep on his chair terrible crazy dream follows
This is $50 per cent of "Lake Liul" and Meyerhold
plus the American chapter of Maiakovskys 100000
OOO," multiplied by Bedam and Coney Island
1t is impossible to describe the entire dream. One
only single out particular details In his dream
the composer has married the biionaire's daughter,
and is drawn into the whirlpool of the disgusting life
Of bourgeois phistnism which is presented even
more foolish, noisy and empty than it is in reality.
The cigar and the telephone of the father-in-aw as
sumo improbable proportions; and does the fooshly
shaped necbte of the degenerate son, well the
tasteess ornaments of the daughters dress. Instead
Of scores, there hundreds of lackeys.
The fatherln-aw draws his sonn-laW into his office.
In the middle of the against dark background
there appears rectangular platform, straight in the
air; above it elevators running up and down; but
the elevator into which the fatherin-law and his
n-law enter is motonless; the CONFERENCE.-The
ing instead.
conference of the directors of the enterprise. The
composer is telling instructive tale of how he has
worked up from worker to a millionaire satire
upon the widely autobographes and interviews
Of American get-rich-quick millionares.
Bad Conditions.
The composers hopes for quiet life and for bearabe
conditions for his work after his marriage with the
bionaires daughter vanish. There is neither time
place to work-he has to make money" to receive
scores of his wifes great aunts and nephews he has
him to give him opportunity to devote himself to art.
And when his wife has torn to pieces the unfinished
manuscript of his symphony the composer DECIDES upon
the advice Of his friend the physician to kill his wife
and her family There is weapon at hand-his own
paper knife that had assumed improbable dimensions.
lie swings the knife Che only swings it and does not
actually slash would have been done in ordinary
American production at every of his tormentors.
The crime is discovered Policemen start out to chase
the murderer; the is empty there is only one
spot band of policemen is running it waving their
clubs in threatening way; they running but re-
main the spot.
Capital Too Stupid To Die.
The screen is empty again; the composer is fleeing,
after having committed the crimes he is running-but
remains the place.
The forces of the composer give way the screen
shows both spots presenting him and the policemen
they catch and drag him to court.
The setting of the court is fantastic The judge-that
is the father-n-law with wig his head, sit
ting high platform; the cigar and the telephone
right by. The jurors-a jazz band in silk hats. The
witnesses-the mother-in-law the wife, her brother.
They have not died from the blowscapitalsm remains
alive.
Would Offer Proof
The composer defends himself: if they only would
hear his symphony, they would understand. But he
cannot produce his symphonythe manuscript has been
torn he will show them at least his pantomine The
jurors pull out their pillows and Indignantly lie down
IN sic he -
the screen shows the pantomine.
The pantomine has been concluded The court de-
elared the composer guilty
He is indignant:
Il am going to appeal to the higher court"
All Courts Alike
This is very simple. The floor with the billion
are fathern-law rises that is the superior court The
composer is finally declared guilty and is condemned
to life term of hard labor in jazz factory.
Next we see the jazz factory. Iron cages like in
menagerie Wheels moving under the ceiling
mission belts flying, the factory is in full swing
The cages occupied by artists poets musicians One
of them houses the composer. The spectators-again
the Millionaire and his family Upon their request the
artists compose for sale "artstc" products while the
public is looking But when the composers turn
comes he refuses to write jazz music; he has to finish
his symphony some time. In vain This is the revolt
Of a weak human being behind bars. They tell him.
"You have to work here to your very death!'
The Sun Appears.
so Then he prefers to die Immediately. This is
easy The physician 1.-THE before and his sweet
heart ready to help him. The familiar paperknife
appears. It has become larger still.
1t flashes through the air. Not knife-a thousand
knives.
that had penetrated the studio through the window.
Tho dream is The rays have awakened the
composer.
After that-everythng happens as it ought to happen
in respectable American film. The daughter Of the
Millionaire refuses marry him, the sweetheart returns
the composer gets from somewhere, check for con-