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hesitation that Shakespeare and
Moliere were always like beginners,
compared with Ibsen, in valuation of
the human mind, in faculty of insight
and in the fundamental genius of the
story teller" said Mr., Shaw.
He compared the pre-1bsen woman
with the post-Ibsen woman, and said
that Jane Auten, George Eliot and
Charlotte Bronte were not real wo-
men. but only stage women, playing
parts and living up to the ideal of
womanhood. Continuing Shaw said:
81 have my dreams of the past and
when I think of the women l loved |
see nothing like the present-day
Noung person with legs, but / see a
woman with long skirts and ample
bodice. But We knew the real animal
was there all the time.
"Ibsen broke the Jane Austen spell
eoA smashed the stage figurine, with
the result that the next generation of
women came up as real. They came
IN almost exactly like new"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
100000 SUIT OF
KHAN DISMISSED

PITTSBURGH. April 13.-Federal
Judge W. H. S. Thomson this after
noon dismissed the 100000 damage
suit of the Ku Klux Khan against five
banishad Pennsylvania members, pla-
cling the costs of the cases on the
Khan.
Hiram A. Evans, imperial wizard
of the Khan, had testified earlier in
the day that as the head of "a pa
triotic organization, military in FORM ?
he never made anti-Catholic speeches,
nor inspired the riot at Carnegie, Pa.
several years ago in which one man
lost his life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Zweig's renamed characters, Leone
(the Lion), the son of the Raven, who
calls the Sbiri. These Venetian style
cops, dressed in blood red garments
are nevertheless acting naturally
enough like the modern bluecoats
They are guzzling in tavern when
Leone begins to yell. Leone, captain
of the fleet, is Disguised at the at
tack on Colombia, and still more at
being disinherited. In court he is abb
solutely at the mercy of Voltaro, and
loses his case. Volpone is acquitted.
and Leone placed in the stocks.
The greedy rivals give the game
away when they rage at Mosca after
the pretended death of Volpone, and
the judge, called in as witness, de-
clares that if the Fox were still alive
he would have him skinned and nailed
to the gallows.
So Mosca gets the inheritance, for
Volpone can't come to life in Venice
and must flee the country. Mosca
hurls Volpone's treasure to the multi
tude, the police and the clerk of the
court join the rabble and grovel for
chance gold pieces as Mosca showers
them out.
Fine lines abound throughout the
play, notably in the court scene,
where justice is particularly warped
The honest but low-browed judge him
self sets the tune when he thunders
at the abashed and weeping Colombo
that "Justice knows no shame" 1t
is also made clear by the lawyer in
the beginning that "a rich man is
generally innocent"
Alfred Lunt as Mosca and Dudley
Digges as Volpone carry off the
honors, but the rest of the cast is
good. The whole of the action is in
blatant, rip-roaring, clownish tone
something of the free and easy wide
ness Of gesture that seems typical
of the modern German stage is pre-
served here, and is in keeping with
the plot. ". S.
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Notes

Tamaki Muira, Japanese soprano
will make her only local appearance
Saturday evening, April % in Car
negie Hall. Her program will include.
Puccini, Mozart, Grieg, Schubert,
Schumann, Debussy, and also num-
Der of Japanese folk songs.
Doris Humphrey and Charles Weld
man, both formerly connected with
the Ruth st. Denis and Ted Shawn
troupe Of dancers, are giving dance
recital at TIE John Golden Theatre
this Sunday evening. They will be
assisted by dancers of the Denishawn
School, by three pianists and an or
chestral ensemble. The program
ranges from Bach to Scriabin and in
cludes novelty "Color Harmony, a
symbolic dance by Clifford Vaughn.
Sigismond Stojowsli, pianist, and
Paul Koehanski, violinist, will give Q
Joint recital next Thursday evening
! In Town Hall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
IBSEN ASSAIANT OF
BOURGEOIS PHILOSOPHY

/ Master Builder" are magnificent as
pictures of those half crazy genuises
of capitalist individualism. Men such
as Leverhulme or Henry Ford, who
set their mark upon one phase, OF
capitalist society, are characters
made for an Ibsen.
In pillars of Society" and "An
Enemy of the People" his criticism
of society hesitates on the verge of
plunging deep into the future, of
recognizing the force which in time
was to sweep away all the folly and
hypocrisy he flayed and hated so.
But the time was too early. He drew
back unable to see the constructive
apart from the destructive genius Of
the working class.
Ibsen's Achievement.
Nevertheless the real greatness Of
Ibsen is in that he, first of all, the
prophets of the nineteenth century,
recognized the tremendous signifi-
canoe of the changes wrought by the
new monster of capitalism. He saw
chat with it's coming humanity was
on the march to tremendous future.
The agonies and passions of this
changing society are the stuff of his
plays,
He lives in our remembrance today
IS. one OF the most damaging assail-
ants of the bourgeois philosophy that
the last century produced; as a past
master of the playwright's art, and as
a fundamentally honest man whom
neither scorn nor misery nor cant
could hound into silence.
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freely adapted from Ben Jonson."
The Guild has this German comedy,
"clawed back into English" with the
Jonson title restored, but other al
terations remaining-much to its i'm
provement.
Jonson's production was morality
play, rank and filth as are always
the preachments of most effective
preachers. 1t was the story of a
clique of Venetians scrabbling for the
chance to inherit the wealth of a
supposedly dying Levantine, Volpone
(the Fox). Those squabbling for Vol
pone's probably ill-gotten gold, jewels
and houses include representatives of
most of the ruling classes of Repub-
lican Renaissance Venice, and there
fore have their counterparts in mod
ern capitalist society.
Voltore (the Vulturel is an advo-
cate, rich in ways and means of evad-
ing the law. His black cloak and
bird-like chatter and croak were most
successful parts of the play. Corvino
(the Crow is capitalist, fat as his
money bags, but with desires unlim-
tied for further wealth. His jealousy
over his pretty wife, Colombia 1.-THE
Dove) is something amazing, but not
greater than his eagerness to sell her
to Volpone for a chance at the in
heritance. Corbaccio (the Raven)
cheerfully disinherits his son, Leone,
for a chance to inherit Volpone's
wealth. Gamma italian dictionaries
needed!) is willing to marry either
Volpone or Corbaecio-her intentions
are on the inheritance.
All shower Volpone with gifts, to
win his affections and get the inherit
ance, while Volpone, fox-like, pretends
to be on the point of death, in order
to stimulate them. Such grooming
wheeling, gasping bed-ridden old in
valid when any of the givers are
around, and such fleeful, skipping
hard drinking and heavy eating viii
liam when they go out! How he
gloats and smacks his lips over the
way he is looting his anticipating
friends, cheating and deluding them
and gaining more and more from
them. 1t is a grewsome drama of the
rich mans death bed.
Mosca (the Gadfly) bond slave of
Volpone, is one of the most unusual
characters ever produced. His origin
seems to be related to that of the
Shakespearean clown, but his phil
osophy is that of the latter day cynic.
He is jolly and misanthropic at once.
the cleverest adviser of his master.
and his greatest enemy-wiIling to
ruin him but too timid to have him
killed. 1t is probably in character
that he should have contempt for
money. Most of the Fox's tricks are
suggested by the Gadfly, and in the
end he leads Volpone, with impudent
warnings meanwhile, to enjoy a last
huge joke, that of pretending to die
and having his will read to the greedy
friends-with Mosca entered as bene-
ficiary instead of any of them.
However, first of all there is q
little trial. A lewd scene in Volpone's
bedro"m is interrupted by one of
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SSSAAS
his "Volpone" is be-
ing done in a rather
remarkable way at
the Guild Theatre.
A certain Herr
Zweig wrote a very
good play, on the
modern style, for
presentation in Gen.
trail Europe, in Ger
man, of course, and
called it San I'm
charitable Comedy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Katherine Bacon will give her sec
ond recital of pianoforte music OF
Schubert at Town Hall this Sunday
afternoon. The program: Sonata in
C minor, Op. Posth.; Sonata in A ma
jor, OPP. 100; Four Impromptus, Op.
JAP; Sonata in A minor, Op. LAB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Anna Robenne has postponed her
farewell dance program announced
for the 48th Street Theatre on April
is. It will be given instead at the
Gallo Theatre, Sunday evening, April
20.
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ion of Henrik Ib-
sens work as a
dramatist in com
parison with Moliere
and Shakespeare
In his lecture he
pointed out that
Shakespeare a n d
Moliere were far
below Ibsen in dra-
matte art.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Belle Friedman, pianiste, will make.
her bow to New York audience
Tuesday evening, April IL, in a pro-
gram of Bach, Scarlatti, Paderewsld,
Chopin, Debussy, Medtner and Rach-
maininoff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Shaw Ranks IbsenAbove
Moliere andShakespeare

CPEAKING before large audience
y in London during the recent cele-
bration of the Ibsen centenary,
George Bernard Shaw gave his opin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
"VOLPONE" WELL DONE
BY THEATRE GUILD

ANOTHER play ''by one of those
IA Englishmen," this time dead one,
"Rare Ben Jonson," talked about for
centuries but not acted very much in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
THE LAST MOMENT" TO BE
SHOWN ON CAMEO SCREEN

Paul Fejos' "The Last Moment, y
which comes to the Cameo Theatre
this Saturday has received high
praise from the National Board of
Review, national film bodies, who
have enthusiastically endorsed the
first screen effort of DR.. Paul Fejos
"The Last Moment" is unique in
theme and in treatment. 1t brings
psychology and the most advanced
motion picture technique together
The picture is made without sub
titles, it shows the thoughts that
flash through the life of man in the
last moment before death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Leonora Sparkes, soprano, will in
clude the Jewel Song from Faust in
her Steinway Hall program Thurs
day evening, April 26.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

The film version of Anne Nichols
"Abie's Irish Rose" will have it's
premier at the 44th Street Theatre,
Thursday, April 10. Nancy Carroll
and Buddy Rogers who play import
ant roles in the picture will appear
in person at the opening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Emil Jarnings is almost finished
on his latest film, "The Patriot" g
story based on Ivan, the mad car c.
Russia. The Paramount organizatics
is turning it's attention to Janning's
next, scheduled to follow "The Street
of SIM" This will be "The Man Who
Never Missed" adapted from Mildred
Grams magazine story, "The Feeder"
The star will play a veteran trouper
in four-a-day vaudeville. Lothian
Mendes will direct.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Martha Graham, assisted by Louis
Horst, will give an entirely new pro-
gram Of dance at the Little Theatre
I, Sunday evening, April az.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

"The Ladder" will omit it's Monday
and Tuesday night performances next
week, and reopen next Wednesday
evening at the Cort Theatre, where it
will move over from it's present quar-
ters in the Belmont. The policy of
free seats will be continued at the
Cort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

A cinematic study of reincarnation
is Beyond the Wall" a UFA film,
which features the program at the
18th Street Playhouse beginning this
Saturday. The picture was directed
by Fritz Lang, with the role por-
trayed by Lii Dagovor, the German
actress and Rudolph Klein-Rogge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Edith Wynne Matthison, Walter
Hampden, George Abbott and Louis
K. Auspacher will be the speakers at
the Augustin Duncan tribute Monday
night at the Klaw Theatre. The
tribute will be held at the close of
the opening performance of "The
Breakers" J. c. and Elliott Nugent's
new play, which Duncan has directed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Reno Bufano will give an extra
performance of his Marionettes at the
Laboratory Theatre this Saturday
morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Universal has purchased Jacques
Futrelie's mystery story, "The
Diamond Master" for production as
a chapter play. Production is sched-
uled to commence May / under the
direction of Jack Nelson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Phyllis Kraeuter, cellist, and l<ar
Kraeuter, violinist, will appear in joint
recital at Town Hall Monday eve
ming, April 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Screen Notes

Love Hungry" a new Fox produc-
ton, is the screen headliner at the
Roxy Theatre this week. Lois Moran
is the featured player.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Broadway Briefs

Eva Clark with Dan Caslar and
the Croonaders form the chief fea-
ture on the vaudeville bill at the
Broadway Theatre beginning Monday.
The Colleanos featuring Maurice Col
leanos; Russ Brown and Jean Whitak-
er; Gilbert and French; Frank
Wheeler and Dorothy Sands, and
Palermo's trained dogs are other acts
on the program. "The Crimson City,"
a drama of the China coast, featur-
ing Myrna 10y and John MILAN is
the screen feature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

"Take the Air" Gene Bucks musi.
cal comedy, will move from the Wal
dorf to the Earl Carroll Theatre
Monday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

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rising capitalism. Such plays as the
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14

cation In any investigation OF alleged
diploma mills" favored the bill now
before Congress providing for q moro
severe penalty for convicted kidnap-
ers in the District. and opposed the cleo
ton of members Of the Board Of Edu-
cation by popular vote.
Resolutions approving the Zihlman-
Capper bill. providing for more strin-
gent laws governing lunacy cases. and
o bill now before Congress, which would
enable Police Court judges to hold sus-
poets for extradition to the States were
also adopted.
Another resolution adopted favored
erection of brighter street lights on K
street between the Plaza and Fifteenth
street northeast Evan S. Tucker, pres
dent of the association, presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
FLAMES TAKE COLLEGE
DORMITORY IN CHINA
Congregational School at Foochow
Loses Second Building, Mis-
sion Board Hears.

b the As&oalatcti Pfets
ceived yesterday by the American Board
Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
reported the destruction by fire OF
cormitory al Foochow College. China,
one Of the educational buildings of the
Congregational churches in the United
States. None Of the students vas in
jured.
Three months ago the Junior Middle
School Of the college was destroyed by
fire, attributed 10 an incendiary. Rob-
ert E. Chandler. secretary in charge Of
China work said that several attempts
nave been made To burn buildings.
Foocilow College. founded by the
American board in 1853 has a staff Of
3 American and 80 Chinese teachers
ana 332 studenta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
EXPLAINING |DEA|
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
Committee of Nine Endorses
Modern Methods in Re-
port on Survey.

City planning, based on the most
modern developments in planning
methods, brings in its wake enhanced
property values. better living Condi-
tons. better business and a more at
tractive city. committee OF nine
nationally prominent business and pro-
feSSional men has concluded in an i'll
vestigation announced today by the
Commerce Department. The conclu-
SionS of the committee are based OF
personal observation and analysis OF
experiences Of hundreds of American
communities, seeking to find how city
planning actually works out i'll practice.
City planning" the committee said,
encourages better distribution of
centers of employment, and thereby
reduces the number of employees who
must live near the business center. BY
providing All adequate co-ordinatlne
street system it reduces delays i'll
transit and so makes wider areas for
dwellings available within a given time
for travel between home and work.
Hence the success with which the auto
mobile enables city populations to
spread out depends largely OH good
city planning,
While some broad avenues and wide
streets are necessary 10 care for through
tial district, minor streets with narrow
roadwayS and inexpensive pavements
are adequate for the traffic serving the
immediate neighborhood. A narrow
paved roadway need not lessen the dis
lance between the houses on the two
sides of the street. It permits wider
grass plots. and thus makes the streets
more attractive At the same time
development of the land is cheaper and
more families are enabled to own their
homes"
The committee urged provision for
adequate parks and Fairgrounds and
proper public recreation facilities.
Summing up its findings. the COM
mittee said: American cities have
found that following we'll considered
city plan is far superior TO the usual
haphaZard growth. The cost of pre-
pairing such plan is so reasonable.
and its advantages are so great. that
the arguments for ii are unanSwerable."
Five ways Of supporting city plan
by the citizens were enumerated by the
committee as follows
To consider the broad features of the
plan in selecting and developing sites
for various purposes
Support adequate appropriations for
preparation Of comprehensive plan.
Support the city council in measures
to execute the plan.
Encourage other property owners to
conform to the plan.
Personally advocate city planning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
NORTHEAST CITIZENS
URGE MIDCITY SITE
Oppose Other Plans for Farmers
Market-Improved Lights
Asked.

Reiterating its previous stand in favor
of locating the Farmers Market on
the Midcity site. the Northeast Citi-
zens' Association at a meeting in Lud-
low School last night oppose1 the pro-
posed lexington, Southwest, Patterson
tract and New York avenue sites for
the market.
The association also went on record
as approving the Gasque bill, providing
for the immediate purchase of the Pat
terson tract for a public park
ISOLATION diSapproved the Capper bill
providing for the erection in the Dis
trct of three incinerator plants for the
disposal Of garbage and waste: opposed
the Interference of the Board Of Edu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
GAS KILLS "MAYORESS"
OF GREENWICH VILLAGE
Aimee Klein, Is. Earned Title
Through Dances il Cafes of
0uarter-Was Artists Model

Be- the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February l4.-Aimee
Klein. 10, known in Greenwich Village
as Aimee Cortez. and hailed as its
"mayoreSs," is dead.
Her body was found in bare, gas
filled room in the village and today the
inhabitants Of that famous quarter are
mourning the girl whose twinkling toes
they applauded as she danced and sang
in cafe on Sheridan Square.
She was elected ''mayoress" Of the
village in vote taken in its various
cafes last May She had been an In
habitant of the village since she was
IA. serving as model for many artists
in addition to her work as an enter
tainer and waitress.
Although others might take her title
as a joke. Aimee took it seriously and
engaged in a hair-pulling fray with
another claimant to the title last
January.
Police list her death as a suicide,
Friends say 1t was an accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NatiOnal-NO aCtfaCtlOn TINS week.
Polis-Washingto Opera Company
In "Werther," at $3.50 pm.
Belasco-"Broadway." drama. at $40
pm
Keith's-Count Berni Vici, vaudeville,
at ais and 8:15 pm.
Ga-cty-Jerry McCauley's Revue,
burlesque, at 2:l5 and 8:l5 pm.
Metropolitan-"Helen OF Troy" at
ll:25 am. 1925. 1925, 5:25, 7:25 and
9:2S pm.
Palace-"The Dove" at 1l:15 am,
so, 4. $50. TAO and $50 pm.
Earle-"The Gorilla" continuous.
80 am, to IL pm.
Fox-"My Lady of Whims," continu-
Gus. Il m. to II pm.
Rialto-"A Hero for Night" at ii
am. 1920. lao, 3. $50. TAO and
$50 pm.
Columbia-"The Last Command"
tsecond week., at IL am, 1855. 8.
sos, 7:05 and 9:55 pm.
Little Theater-"Blood and Sand"
continuous. l to ii pm.
Tivoli-"The Desired Woman at
$50. AIS, Cos. 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Ambassador-"Thc Gorilla" at 6:15.
and $50 pm.
Central-"DreSs Parade" at 1880. :,
3: 80. 5, $50, 8 and $40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14

Glasgow officials have decided to in
stall upholstered instead OF wooden
seats in some of the street cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-14
Files Bankruptcy Petition.

Sophie r. Cahill, trading as Sophic's
Delicatessen, 1884 Fourteenth street, has
filed petition in voluntary bankrupt
cy Debts are listed at 5000 and
assets at S2.385. Attorneys Burkart
and Quinn appear In the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-26

The warm days OF January fooled
the blue-crowned night herons at the
Zoo.
They have no calendar to consult and
the only way they can tell when Spring
is here is by the feeling of things in
general When there are four or five
warm days in succession. and the other
birds are singing and the buds are
sprouting they think Winter Is over
and can't be argued out of 1t.
Two Of them proceeded to build their
nests. lay eggs and sit on them. The
Snowstorm and cold weather came.
but the persistent birds chung to their
nests in the big outdoor flight cage
and did not let the eggs get cold.
Snow covered the rims Of the nests
but never touched the eggs.
This week the patience of both birds
was rewarded and two broods Matched
out. All the young birds have survived
thus far and probably will remain alive
despite the unreasonable time Of their
birth
Ordinarily. according to DR.. William
NJ. Mann. director of the Zoo. the blue
crowned night herons do not come SO
far North before March or April
The Zoo lost this week one of its
oldest inhabitants. an African crane
which came into the collection in 1905.
It was an adult bird. possibly or s
years old. when II was received. This
is an unusual. but not remarkable
record for a bird. according TO Zoo
officials. Some live a very long time
once they become accustomed to cap
tivitv and eat regularly. In the wild
state their lives probably are much