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Evening star., 1928-11-18
American Opera Company

This brings us to the Washington
debut last December, followed by eight
weeks in New York City, with the press
and public alike quite aware of the un-
usual qualities of the performances.
For these people act as we'll as sing.
The young women in tho American
Opera Co. will compare very nicely with
Mr. ziegfeld's front row. Many of the
men have been good halfbacks in their
college days.
At present the company is on its first
Southern tour. 1t will reach Washing
ton today for three performances
during the week
The aims of the American Opera Co.
are to present opera as music drama,
sung and acted by American singing
actors in English; to bring beautiful
performances to the public at popular
prices; to encourage American COM
poserS and to provide eli outlet for
American talent: to standardize English
speech; to eventually establish a ma
tional opera company on sound finan-
cial basis that will be recognized
throughout the world for Its representa-
ton of the culture of America.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
BelaSco'S New Play.

David Belasco is sending the original
New York cast intact to Washington,
the same that gave "The Bachelor
Father" for an entire season at the
Belasco Theater, New York, to the
National Theater for one week, opening
Monday, December 8.
June Walker, c. Aubrey Smith and
Geoffrey Kerr are the featured players.
The supporting cast selected by Mr..
BelaSco with great care is one of dis
tinction, including Rex O'Malley, Har-
riett Lorraine, Adriana Dori, David
GlasSford, George Riddell, Viola
Roache, Philippa Bevans, Doria Belli,
Howard Bouton and Thomas Reynolds.
It is a serious and trying undertak-
ing to prepare for playgoers a perform
ance that conforms to Mr.. Belascos
ideals. Artist as he Is, he is no ollie
tante director, for he knows values
and how to get them, and there is no
detail of work in the mechanical prop
erty or electric branches Of the stage
that he cannot perform as well as, or per-
haps better than, the experts he en-
ployS and who have served him faith
fully for years. The great wizard of
the stage never tells himself that
everything will be all right at night.
until he has proved to his own COM
plete satisfaction that all is right nov,
The theme of The Bachelor Father
is one that has wide appeal from the
gallery to orchestra chairs. The PLAY
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Pictures Ahead.

A MoNG the attractions coming to
= the Little Theatar, the Motion Pic
ture Guild announces. are THE Mar
riage Of the Bear" the first Russian
mystery thriller, produced by Sovkino;
"Tol'able David" the prize-winning
photoplay in which Richard Barthe1-
mess made his first success; youthful
Ecstacy," satire on the antics of
modern youth, in which one-half the
action is supplied by human actors and
the other half by insects acting like
humans; Two Brothers. in which
Conrad Veidt is said to play a remark
able double role; "The Station Master" f"
perturbation of the famous story by
PuShkin, filmed in Russia.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Dix to Make Talkie.
ICHARD DIX will make his r

p ICHARD DIX will make his next
AN picture at Paramounts Long Island
studio, beginning about December Is.
Dix went to New York about two
weeks ago directly from New Mexico
where he had been on location for
"Redskin," natural-color film dealing
with modern Indian life. He has been
in conference with Mr.. LaSky and
Monta Bell, production chief of the
Long Island studio. and has been given
voice tests, which, it is said, proved him
He will return to California to attend to
personal business before beginning work
j. G. Bachman, who will supervise, is
now in the East making preparations
for the new Dix picture, which will be
directed by Victor Schertzinger.
Dix was an actor on the stage before
he went into the moving pictures.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
FILMOGRAMS

ing over $2OO,00o,oo0. are yearly en-
tered into between distributors of mo-
ton pictures and exhibitors. according
to a statement of C. C. Pettijohn, head
of the Film Boards of Trade, made to
the Hays Office in New York.
The Dixie Jubilee Singers, six men
and three women, who have been ap-
pearing on the concert stage, have
joined the King Vidor "Hallelujah" Co.
and will take part in some of the vocal
sequences of the picture.
CoIvin w. Brown has announced that
all Pathe pictures will contain dialogue,
and Mr. Brown is executive vice presi-
dent of Pathe.
S. M Eisenstei!', the director of "Po-
temkin,' is coming to America in few
weeks to make a picture for Joseph
M Schenck OF United Artists The
great Russian director speaks excellent
English and has definite, profound the
cries of cinema.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

= ILENT actors in the movies are
not alone to find their voices in
the "talkies" In the Vitaphone
~ picture "On Trial" for the first
time in movie history, the di-
rector gets a chance. He does it in the
reel used in theaters to advertise the
picture in advance, stepping to the
front and telling the audience all
about it.
Bebe Daniels wants to make a
"talkie" and Paramount plans seem 70
stand in the way, so that, it is reported,
Bebe now seeks to buy her release from
Paramount.
The film industry of Belgium is to
propose the establishment OF a World
Film Federation at the International
Cinematographic Congress to be held
in Antwerp in 1880.
David Selznick, assistant to B. p.
Schulberg of Paramount, has been
handed large Job, the development
Of writer's" bit he will drop his duties
as associate producer"
More than SOC. 300 contracts, involv-
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Jim the Penman" Revived.

GEORGE C. TYLER announces that
~ he is placing in rehearsal Sir
Charles Young's famous comedy-melo-
drama Jim the Penman," as his third
revival of the season.
William Faversham, Cecilia LOTUS
Jacob Ben-Ami, Charles Richman,
Reginald Mason, Vernon Steel Ceeile
Dixon, Lawrence dOrsay, Edward
Emery, Fuller Mellish. Frank Hearn.
Helen Lowell and Margaret st. John
are included in the cast.
Jim the Penman" was the first of
the great gentlemen crook plays. and
! was by far the most successful Of the
old Madison Square Theater offerings
1t was first presented in the early
| eighties. There has been no revival
since William A. Brady reproduced the
! play in 1910.
Edward Emery will direct Mr. Tyler )
| production. 1t will open a the Err
! langer Theater. Philadelphia. Novem-
ber 26. and at the National Theater,
Washington. the week following.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

brings together a group Of people who
other. How this changes the Course
Of their lives and eventually brings
them unexpected happiness IA told in
a novel ana enjoyable manner.
Tt1nis p. Dean, business manager for
Mr.. Bclascc, is now in the rity arrang-
ing with Manager Cochran the details
Of the engagement.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Edeson S First "Talkie. "

LQGSOn ElrSt dlAIGs
TT was with Lights of New York.
that Warner Brothers produced the
first all-talking film. They had been
gradually working up to that point,
went one better in "The Terror" which
had no titles or captions of any kind.
Bryan Foy, Eddie Foy's son, directed
the third of this unique type of picture,
The Home Towners," an adaptation of
George M. Cohan's play, and it may be
seen and heard at the Metropolitan
Theater this week.
Robert Edeson, who is one of the dis
tinguished cast which Warner Brothers
assembled for "The Home Towners,"
has such long history in the theater
and in the films that it would take a
column or two to tell all about 1t.
One thing certain-Edeson always
gives a good performance. This is his
first appearance in talking pictures and
with his wide stage experience and his
fine resonant voice he is a genuine as
set to this new medium.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
NATIONAL-"Whoopee." !"

A switch in booking arrangements
will bring to the National Theater for
the week beginning Monday, November
26, Florenz Ziegfelds "Whoopee," in
stead of George c. Tyler's THE Beaux
Stratageln," which will play a week S
engagement here beginning Monday,
December II.
This will give Washington theater-
goers a chance to see Mr.. Ziegfeld's s
first production of the present season
before it reaches New York.
"Whoopee," starring Eddie Cantor.
has been musicalized from Owen Davis
farce, The Nervous Wreck" by William
Anthony MacGuire, who did this same
work for Mr.. ziegfeld in his productions
of Edna Ferber's SHOW Boat" and
Dumas "The Three Musketeers."
The Washington engagement follows
the premier performance in Pitts
burgh and weeks engagement in
Cleveland. 1t goes from here directly
to the New Amsterdam Theater, in New
York.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Coming Attractions
sTRAND-"Bowery Burlesquers. !"

0ANhNA- DUWtTy buTIeSqUtTS,
Next weeks attraction at the Strand
Theater is entitled "Bowery Burles-
quers," featuring Billy Foster and Marty
Semcnd. assisted by Evelyn Ramsay
and talented cast, as we'll as a chorus
of dancing, rrancing Broadwayites.
This years edition of "Bowery Bur-
lesquerS" is entirely new in gags, seen
cry, costumes and effects.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

Film Daily reports that William re e
is planning Fox Follies,' to b. e1t"1
annually along the lines of Ziegfeld's
Follies, for Movietone production.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
PIONEERS ACTIVE
IN DOMAIN OF THE
LUMBER KINGS.
Jobless Hear Young
Fighters
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE (By MaiD The Skid
Road, where the drifting lumber
workers meet, where the unemployed
get together, where you see all the
hunger and misery of the West
Coast. where workers meet to dis
cuss The events of the hour, here
the Young Pioneers of Seattle held
a meeting.
1t was quite heartening sight to
see the young ones, the future lead
ers of the working class, get up and
tell of their experiences and their
impressions Of this system of So
ciety.
They were greeted by an enthu-
siastic crowd, who vowed to support
the Young Pioneers of America
whenever called upon to do so.
Among the speakers were Alex.
Achif, who spoke about Child La
Dor in the United States; Tom Hob
son, who spoke on the School Sys-
TEN in America, comparing it to the
school system in Soviet Russia;
Mike Achil and Raymond Fifer, who
spoke on the Pioneer movement,
what it means to the workers chill
dren, the activities Of the Pioneers
in mass work, and so on. Mignon
Hobson made a little summary talk,
winding up with the need for fl
nances to carry on the work Of the
pioneers. The collection was 500,
which the Pioneers will use to print
leaflets with.
The Pioneers were asked to come
and speak again, and will do so as
soon as the weather permits.
T. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05

young fellow. With him I discussed
the race question. "Well, sah," he
said, Segregation is an evil, but
we've got to have it because the
Negro is a lower human being and
besides it is very hard TO get along
with him."
81 guess you're wrong, man, you
can get along with him." l said.
"The Negro problem won't be
solved in our day, anyhow" he an
swered.
at sure will, whether we want it
or not. With the industrialization-
Of the south it is bound to be solved
some day." I replied.
"Well, that remains to be seen in
the future" said he as we parted.
While waiting at the Richmond
depot for the train to Petersburg,
Va, l asked q young man what was
the sense of segregation.
'It is the Jim Crow law. This ira
dition is very strong one among
us. Some day l hope we will do
away with it.
]. A r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
Recently while walking on the
street, felt a touch on my shoulder.
1 turned around, and to my great
surprise l saw my old hometown
Enthusiastically. looked at
the pale-face of my comrade and my
thoughts carried me back to Russia
to the years of 191S-1919.
Russia at that period was inRthe
midst of the civil war. The Soviet
Union was fighting its enemies,
both internal and external. 1t was
at that time that the call to defend
the revolution reached also the
youth in a small town. Smirnovsky
and five of his comrades gave an
oath to each other to join the Red
Army for the defense of the revolu-
ton and to try to stick together as
much as possible.
After a short military training
they were sent to the southwest
Ukraine front to fight the counter
revolutionary forces of the famous
so-called anarchist, Machno.
Armed with revolutionary spirit,
with rifles on their shoulders, they
marched right into the battlefield.
In one of the many clashes that
lasted for nine hours, the Red Army
was driven back. Thirty-eight were
taken as captives by the enemy; the
"Six" among them.
AS was usual, they were tried by
court-martial, sentenced to death,
with the sentence to be carried out
Immediately. Due to the youth of
the "Six," Machno gave them the
choice of either joining his ranks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
Is Necessity Workers Radio Fad01e Get 14 Weekly WQg
5000 Mexican Workers
Strike u. S. Planters
Holding at Vera Cruz

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. A.
Demanding that the Di Giorgio
Fruit Company, connected with the
United Fruit Company and a cul-
tivator and market corporation
dealing in bananas, comply with the
agreement made between the agra
rian union on the plantations of the
company in the Hule region, 5000
workers are now on strike.
The agreement with the company
provides that the company must
choose superintendent of the work
from among the members of the
union. 1t did not do this and re-
fused to remedy the grievance,
whereupon the workers walked out
The company is demanding that
the government intervene to break
the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
Plan Many Features
at Daily, Freiheit
Soviet Costume Ball

The Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball
to be held at Madison Square Gar
den on Saturday night, Dec. Is, will
be the first combined Soviet cos
tune and colorlight ball held in the
United States, it was announced at
the business office of the Daily
Worker last night.
One of the features of the baH
will be parade of the 104 nation
alities comprising the Soviet Union.
These will be in native costume.
At last years ball, more than 49,
900 were present. This year an even
greater rush for tickets is expected,
and those who intend to go are ad-
vised to apply for tickets at the
business office of the Daily Work
er as soon as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
SIERRA PLAY TO OPEN NEW
ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE

The opening of the new Ethel
Barrymore Theatre on 47th St.,
west of Broadway, has been an
nounced by the Shuberts for Mon
day evening, Dec. II, when Ethel
Barrymore will be seen in "The
Kingdom of God" by the Spanish
playwright, G. Martinez Sierra.
The play was adapted by Helen and
H. Granville-Barker. The new the
atre will have seating capacity of
about LOO.
"The Kingdom of Cod" which is
at present playing in Boston, has
been appraised as one OF the finest
plays of the Spanish dramatist.
"The Cradle Song" another of his
well-known plays, has been a popu-
lar and successful item in the roper
tory of the Civic Repertory Theatre
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
THE '"SIX";; A STORY
OF THE REVOLUTION

and fighting the Bolsheviks, or be-
ing shot like the rest of their COM
radeS.
They were given five minutes for
deliberation. The meeting of the
"Six" was short. For the sake of
the revolution they decided to pledge
allegiance to Machno. At the same
time they expressed their regret for
their former allegiance to the Bolsh-
eviks. Machno was pleased. He
warned them that they would receive
the worst punishment under the sun
if they betrayed him.
Weeks passed by. Minor clashes
occurred here and there. News was
spreading that a strong detachment
of the Red Army was approaching.
Machno was alarmed. Meanwhile
the "Six" were on the job. 1t was
through their efforts that the ad-
vancing army was aware of every
thing that was going on in the
enemy's camp.
The Red Army was rapidly adj
vancing, mysteriously occupying the
most strategic positions. Machno
was puzzled. He saw that he had
been betrayed. He decided that no
longer would he take any chances.
While retreating, he gave the order
that the "Six" should be hung.
Of these "Six," Smirnovsky was
the only one who was afterward
saved.
Here are Smirnovsky's own words,
describing those last few minutes,
while hanging on tree, next to his
five comrades:
Somehow the knot on my neck
was a little loose. The slightest
move gave me the greatest pain. My
thoughts were running fast. Shall
I keep it up until help comes? Are
my comrades dead? Or perhaps
are they -?
81 distinctly heard shooting near.
by, closer and closer. Was it the
Red Army or the enemy? Suddenly
they came into my sight. Hurrah
1t was the Red Army, my comrades
pursuing the enemy.
81 felt I was losing my strength
Will they see us? VIII they save
our lives :? I concentrated my
last bit of strength and shouted
Comrades
"My call was heard. Hundreds
of hands reached for US. The ropes
were cut. l felt as though in a
dream,-how gently I was handled
81 woke up in the hospital. The
Order of the Revolution, gold
medal, was on my chest. Music OF
the revolutionary funeral march
penetrated, in through the open
window. From the nurse found
out that it was the last honor being
paid to the fallen fighters for the
Revolutionary cause.
"My five comrades were among
them"
S. B.
Written By q member of the
Worker Correspondence Glass M
the N. Y. Workers SchooI)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
Patrons Undisturbed
as 2 Hotel Workers
Are Scalded; | Dead

William Miller, of Jersey City,
was scalded to death, and Robert
Clark, of 1874 E. 193rd St., was Sc
verely burned when the casting blew
off steam pipe in the engine room
of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, at SO E.
46th st. yesterday.
The wealthy patrons of the hotel
were not disturbed, those on the
upper floors not even hearing the
escaping steam from the pipe in the
sub-basement. Clark was taken to
Bellevue Hospital. He and Miller
were engine room workers at the
hotel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
LAYOFF is XMAS.
Gift FOR men At.
FRESHMAN PLANT.
Speed-up, Low Wages,
Stool-Pigeons
by a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
/ happen to be one of the hun
dreds of young workers employed
N the Bronx plant of the Freshman
Radio Corp.
The majority of the workers en-
oloyed are young boys and girls be-
tween the ages of 16 and 20. These
young workers are forced to work
under the most unfavorable condi-
tions, as regards both health and
industrial conditions.
The salaries paid these young
workers for 48-hour week is Sl4
to $25 per week. Very few workers
are able to obtain that much sought
after $25 per, most of them getting
S18.72, and the wages paid the girls
FOR an equal amount of work is $14.
In order to obtain these magnificent
wages a workers must put in full
4S-hour week, but at the present
period of continued Coolidge pros
perity" the Freshman workers re-
ceive about four days work each
week.
The workers are continually under
the pressure CT tie speed-up. Every
worker is placed upon a standard or
quota. This means that he is re-
quired to produce his allotted stand
ard Of material each week. Failure
to do so mans dismissal, and as
the majority of us are unskilled
young workers having no ether
means of earning a livelihood, we
are forced to keep along with the
regve-racking standard require
ments. The only cnes benefitting
from this system are the foremeD
and supervisors who receive an an
nual bonus if their departments do
not fall below the standards. The
Bronx plant normally carries force
Of about 800 workers. This year due
to the placement of new machinery
and increased speed-up there are
anly about 500 workers employed.
Girls are also being employed at II
to replace the men workers.
This is possible because of the in
stallation of simple new machinery.
About this time of the year the
Freshmen workers receive their an
nual Christmas gift, the lay-off.
Spies are hired to spy on the work
ers and if they prove to the salts
faction of their foremen, their capa-
bility in such work they are made
supervisors. To earn this reward
they spy on workers who may in the
privacy of the Mushrooms or dur
ing lunch time engage in smoke,
thus breaking the no-smoking rule.
They see to it that no worker washes
up before the second bell, and re-
port any worker who may in any
way speak disrespectfully of the
boss. This is the method by which
the company forces certain workers
to act as lickspittles of the company
against their fellow workers IN re-
ward for temporary economic secur-
ity.
This is only a small picture Of
the sort of conditions that the
Freshman workers have to contend
with. They are also forced to absorb
the patriotic propaganda put out by
the company on its bulletin boards.
The workers being unorganized have
70 means of reacting against Their
conditions and the propaganda Of
the bosses. The crying need through
out the entire radio industry is or
ganization. Only by organizing in
a militant manner will we be able
to better our conditions.
FRESHMAN WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
House. Organ Items
By SAMUEL GRIERSON

Dick Bailys wife has had child
Congratulations, Dick!
We're sorry for department eight,
Ten workers are out sick.
'Tis rumored on the shipping floor
That little Eddie Bond
Was seen on Wednesday of last week
With very dashing blond.
The president of our concern
Is touring the west
The happy workers in the plant
Send him their greetings, best.
Young Tom Molone and Bessie Sharp
Who work upon the books
Were married in the Grey Stone Church
Tom picked a wife with looks.
The girls who work for Miss Levy
Had delightful party
On Monday last and at the home
Of jolly Miss McCarty.
The good will of our firm is safe
When men like George Bowling
Come in each day, all joy and smiles;
You never see George scowling.
And so it goes from start to end
It's filled with bunk and mush.
What Someone asking for raise!
Hush /. Hush .. Hush.