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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Pacifist Is Silenced
On College Campus

CORNWALLIS,s Sore, Jan. 20.-The
Methodist Church of CORVALLIS re-
Gently was thrown open to Kirby
Page, pacifist, after faculty pressure
had been brought to bear resulting in
the cancellation of his engagements
to speak on the campus of the Oregon
State Agricultural College, according
to information sent the American
Civil Liberties Union by Roswell P.
Barnes of the committee on militarism
in education.
Two professors who had planned
to have Mr.. Page address their classes
were advised to cancel the arrange
ments. They complied, as did also
a committee composed of the Y. M.
C. A. secretary, the Y. W. C. A. secre-
tary, and two student pastors, who
had arranged for the meeting on the
campus. Many students attended the
meeting in the church.
It is charged that persons connected
with the college not only secured can
collation. of Mr.. Pages engagements
to speak but made every attempt to
suppress news as to how and why the
cancellation took place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
M u SIC
American Opera Will
Present Cadman's "Sun-
set Trail" This Tuesday

Charles Wakefield Cadman's "Sun-
set Trail" will be given its local
premiere by the American Opera Com
many Tuesday evening, on a double
bill with Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci."
The same bill will be repeated, with
several changes in cast. on Thursday
md Saturday evenings. Mozart's
Marriage of Figaro" will open the
week Monday evening and be repeated
n Wednesday evening and on Satur-
lay afternoon. Gounod's Faust"
vill be given Wednesday matinee and
on Friday evening. Frank St. Leger
and Eugene Goossens will conduct
next week.
"The Sunset Trail" was given its
first operate presentation in Roches-
ter last December under the direction
of Vladimir Rosing. The text is by
Gilbert Moyle and has altogether to
do with redskins. Clifford Newdall,
George Fleming Houston, John Gil
bert and Frederik J. Roberts are the
principal singers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
REPLIES TO DOS PASSOS
ON INTERNATIONAL"

WORKER, announcing "The Interna-
tional" as the ''first Communist play
to be produced in an American the
atre." Besides, if, as you now assert,
the play is burlesque, then suggest
that you had better get actors who
speak their lines with less passionate
earnestness.
However, l see that you want to
have it coming and going. The play
is supposed to be not only a bur
lesque and melodrama and a broad
cartoon but "a very personal and
subjective emotional outburst express
sing one mans feelings under the
impact of our world today" In which
case why don't you permit another
one man to try to express a few
impersonal, objective, and unemo-
tional observations about something
rather a little smaller than the whole
world today?
Granted that the technique in 1.-THE
International" is interesting and sig
nificant, what would you have me do
if I am convinced that Lawson has
employed it poorly in this particular
play? (The opposite, incidentally,
was true in his professional" and
Loud Speaker.D
Your remark that seem ito imply
that the New Playwrights' Theatre
is a bogus enterprise" is certainly
not justified by anything I said in
my review.
Now, if you had advertised the
play as a fantasy by John Howard
Lawson, all right! But if you are at
liberty to advertise it as Communist
play, then I am at liberty to dis
agree. Besides, tho I am only a
newspaperman I know enough OF the
history of dramatic criticism to
know that every serious playwright
from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill
has his plays criticized on the basis
of his ideas. If John Howard Law
son wishes to be exempt from this
criterion, I wish he would announce
it publicly, in which case l will at
tend his future plays in the same
spirit in which I attended Edna Fer
ber's musical play, "The Show Boat"
SENDER GARLlN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
The New Plays

DER LEBENDE (The Living Tolstoy will
Monday Cosmopolitan Theatre the final
the Renardt Mssi and Helene Timing
will play the leading roles.
"CARRY play by Davis will the Theatre
Monday with Berton Churchill Beatrice Terry and
Flora Sheffield in the cast
1--WE NEVER Daisy Wolf the Eting Theatre Mon
day night Wnwood Elizabeth Risdon and Charles
Trowbridge in the cast
.CAPONSACCH" by A. Palmer will be
Walter Hampdn Tuesday night at Hampdens Theatre
THE QUEENS HUSBAND" comedy by Robert E. Sherwood
the Playhouse Wednesday Roland Young heading
ESQ AM l." a comedy Selling, Italian
Scoa will open Thursday night the Comedy Theatre
cast includes: Betty Lney Vernon Steele Louise Carter
Kingsford.
1.-THE MYSTERY MAN" melodama by Morris Ankrum and Vim
cent Duffy at Bayes Thursday night.
57 BOWERY by Edward Locke Thursday night at Waacks
Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

This Sunday evening, at the Gallo
Theatre, the Fay Foster Trio viii give
a concert Of costumed songs and bal
lads, assisted by the Harry Fagin
String Quartette.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Notes.

Mildred Dilling, harpist, will give
her recital at Steinway Hall, Tuesday
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

Lear, is the most
difficult part
written by the
Bard of Avon.
None but the
most resourceful
a n d technically
trained histrionic
artist ought to
assay the role.
The number of
first rate Shy
locks of the past
century can be
counted on the
fingers of one
hand-yvith some
to spare. Booth
Irving, Mansfield
have stood alone
as S u c c e S S f I'll
Shyloclls - until
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

ward Elgar. The program will be
repeated on Friday afternoon at Car
negie Hall.
Sunday afternoon, January 20, the
orchestra, under Toscanini, will play
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

The noted Scotch comedian, Harry
Lauder, begins an engagement at the
Knickerbocker Theatre on Monday
night, January 30. This is again to
be his farewell tour.
The Shuberts will bring Mitzi back
to Broadway during the week of JAN
uary 30, in her musical comedy, "The
Madcap," which has been on tour
since April. Maurie Rubens wrote the
music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

Leon Goossens will make his debut
in an Oboe recital at the Guild The
atre this Sunday afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
u DRAMA, tn
Arliss as the Jew of Venice
Superb Performance of One of Most Difficult
of Shakespearean Roles

IT has been said that Hamlet is ac-
tor-proof; even the worst actor can
get something out of the melancholy
Dane. But Shylock. next to Kirc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

The Stringwood Ensemble will give
it's only local recital at Town Hall
Tuesday evening. 1t will present the
Beethoven clarinet trio in B flat ma
jor, the Taneiew string quartet No.
2. the Goossens suite, impressions by
Militia Stillman and Prokofieff's
sketch on Two Jewish Themes.
Evening star., 1928-03-25

/ Lindbergh's record at the Army flying
! school was nothing remarkable. The
| record OF man who is able 10 keep up
! TO the standards set there never is. The
/ only records causing any remark arc
/ those OF the men who have difficulty
! in keeping up. The purpose Of the
| school is not u develop agility in the
/ air or TO turn out stunt flyers, but 90
| bring an entire class up 10 high
| average Of ability.
| The same spirit pervadeS the air mail
! service, in which Iindhergh was pilot
when he took up his project of q flight
| To Paris Bring the mail through" Is
| the slogan Of that service. Government
| flyers in all branches are brought to q
high level of efficiency. but are not en-
couraged i'll the spectacular. The service
and not the individual is emphasized.
1t Is the man who comes through day
after day with his daily task. efflcient
without attempting any grandStand-
Ing, who nils the bin most acceptably
Lindhergh always did his DAYS work
and did IL according TO the rules. He
finished the job that lay before him and
took up the next, This was the ideal
OF the service he was III. and IindberSh
met IT, II he had 10 take to his para
chute when carrying the mail ne al
ways shut OF his engine and cut of the
gasoline nrSt TO save the mail nom
destruction by fire when the crash
came. The mail came first always.
-
ONCE, when practictng aerial gunnery
IN formation above the clouds
Lindbereh'S plane crashed into that OF
another pilot, Both men had 10 Jump.
A few minutes later one Of the in
StructorS landed in the field where the
planes had fallen Slim was standing
there, his parachute bundled up ready
TO go,
DO YOU want 10 nv back or 50 In q
carf" his instructor asked him.
Captain" replied iindhergh I'D
rather ny eaeS-it YOU have another
parachute"
The crash was closed incident so
far aS Lindhergh was concerned lie
was prepared To start all over again.
lie flies beautifully, inStinetively. He
never over~eontrolS in correcting for
bumps, He climbs his ship normally.
lie makes his turns smoothly. without
skid or slip, Tie glides at a normal rate
Of speed and lands carefully. Every de-
tail Of fiight Is handled with beautiful
and natural perfection, lie always is
concentrated upon the problem iname-
diateH hefofe him and his Judgment
enables him always 10 handle II With
view OF succeeding problems.
The conpASure which Ii a part of his
perfect pcise has given rise TO the opin.
ION In Some quarters that l4lndhergh
has no personality, that he Is cold and
nninteteSling Nothing could be farther
from the truth A man like that could
not hold the lmelight as he has held
II, whatever his achievements might
be, A man Ike that, unknown AS Lind
eetRh was IN the early months of 1927,
could mot have Ven sound business
men IN st Louis, experienced in the
ftyins game, to his support IN trans. |
Atlantic nigha
Evening star., 1928-03-25
By LIEUT.. LESTER ]. MAITLAND, U. S. A.

| Secretary Dawson did not press him.
| He knew. as did everybody who knew
| Col. Lindbergh. that ne would 20 by
a1rplane. But II he were 50 anxious TO
keep his plans secret. Secretary Dawson
was not the one 10 demand detailed
| information.
And Lindbergh did go BY airplane.
But ne did not land in Albany He
landed in Schenectady, where there Is
good field, which was virtually de-
serted at the time. He left his plane
and hustled over 10 where three or four
! taxicabS were standing and Jumped
/ into the first one ne came TO.
Take me TO the DE Witt Clinton
Hotel In Albany" he said TO the driver.
The latter contemplated his paSsen-
ger for moment
Say" he said, you're Lindy. amt
your"
YES" replied Col. Lindbergh. but
| don't tell anybody You drive me 10
the hotel; that's all you've got to do"
A few hours later he was looking from
a top floor window Of the hotel al a
street which vas packed with people
WHO had heard that Lindbergh was
| inside
Il see no reason" said Col Lind
| Dergh. almost plaintiyely. why every
/ parade. Crowds certainly are strange
things. One crowd forms 10 see what
! another is doing and 10 find out what
! it's all about"
had IN mind the vivid picture Of
I Col Llndbergh leaving the White House
luncheon and saying with conviction
that he was through. was not sur
prised. therefore, when he said:
No matter what 1t costs. am going
70 retire. have got 70 get away
from II"
And 1 knew that behind his quiet
statement was the same spirit of de-
termination that put him safely across
the Atlantic
Crogds-senseless msddlng crowds
have thrust toward MIN from every
side ever since that day last May when
he landed st Le Bourget Field He saw
the thr0ng then dimly through hts
windshield rushing toward him from ALL
directions like wolves conyefging upon
! their quarry. He wag afraid, almost, 70
leave the cramped quarters Of the air.
| plane The crowds ciamoT drowned his
query for q mechanic II carried him
| on bodily and from that day 10 this
/ he has been in It's hands.
! They were waiting for him al Croy~
| don. They lined the banks Of the
/ Potomac when he came sailing back IN
state upon cruiser; they lay In wait
for the vessel In motor boats. In the
dead of night he Was awakened In his
stateFoom by the rauc0us remarks Of
those who circled the cruiser in small
craft. They burst through the lines Of
the marines In the Navy Yard ~ Wash
llgton. They lined Pennsylvania ave-
niue from curb 10 building line. They
suTged across the grass al the cere-
monies ~ the Monument Prom the
very hour Of his success Slim hss
known no privacy.
II was astounding 1t was weaTying
II was gratifying 10 him only because
the public interest In Lindbergh meant
also 3 public interest In aviation ia
that exLent has Was pleased lie meant
10 90 what he could for aviation II
this wss Tie way 10 arouse interest Ia
il he would aGquiesGe,
He accepted ms fate with per-
feet grace. liz had lanca with TIN
Evening star., 1928-03-25

President. He submitted himself to the
populace of New York, to the populace
Of st. Louis and San Diego He visited
the Fairgrounds of millionaires. He was
entertained at country clubs on Long
Island. He made an air tour of the
United States At q time when por-
tentuous events seemed TO be simmering
10 the South he made tour OF Mexico,
Central America and into South Amer
ica, turning up at Havana during the
Pan-American Congress.
Everywhere there were crowds
Crowds OF yacuous faces. Crowds Of
thruSting shoulders and trampling feet.
Were they inspired by interest In avia-
ton, by good viii for the United States?
So far as Col Lindbergh could tell, they
were inspired only by the desire 10 see
and 10 lay hands upon the man who
was the most advertised individual In
| the world. II might be that interest
In aviation could be developed thus.
that good Will for the United States
might 50 be fostered. but the results
were almost impercept!ble and the
method was harassing. 10 say the least.
He had become the most public OF
public characters. He scarcely could
say that he had an inner sanctuary OF
his being In which he could retire In
spirit. His every moment was occupied.
He has not been able 10 open his
mail In ten months. The thousands OF
letters that come 10 him have TO be
handled by an organization and 1t has
been difncult TO sift from the mass
those letters which really were messages
from old friends.
Sometimes he succeeded In obtaining
degree Of privacy IN the homes where
, he was guest, sometimes he did not.
] nave been told that on one occasion,
when guest in a private house, Col.
Landbergh emerged from his morning
bath clad mostly In a towel and found
his host and two strangers In his bed
room. The two. friends OF his host.
mad dropped in before breakfast. hear
Ing that Col. Lindbefgh was there. lie
had to SHIFT the towel 10 hts left hand
and shake hands,
After his whereabouts had been de-
tscted In one house on Long Island
| where he had been resting quietly for
~ hours one enterprising young man
rushed up 70 the door and told the
maid Col Lindbergh had been burned
10 death In an accident and got from
| the surprised girl an admission that
the colonel was safe and In swimming,
| which was exactly what the crowd
wanted. That ended the peace OF that
week end
His hostess at house on Long Island
| took Col Lindbergh and few OF her
| friends 10 country club In the vicinity
| for dinner, No announcement OF their
intention had been made, no precauti0n
had been taken tO guard the party from
intrusion, II was not considered neees-
sary IL was an exclusive club. It's
members were not the kind 10 lose
| their heads nor forget the courtesy
| due guest.
Nevertheless there vas l0t Of head
| turning and neck k.craning and whtkpef-
Ing ~ tbs word e0t around that the
Evening star., 1928-03-25

tall young man was Col Lindbergh
Gradually people began TO leave their
tables TO saunter close TO that at which
Llndbergh sat. They hovered close be-
hind his chair, watching every mouth
full, listening for every word. His
hostess asked Col Lindbergh II he
would prefer to leave. Col. Lindbergh'S
courtesy would not permit him To
acknowledge 1t. II would be all right
he said, II they kept their hands of.
Hardly had he uttered the words
when plump matron rushed across
the room TO his table, flung her arms
II Just had TO kiss you." she gushed
"for have a boy OF my own who says
he's going TO be an aviator like you
when he grows up"
Col. Lindbergh rose with a sudden
ness which disconnected her and threat
ened the stability OF the table. He and
his party started TO make their way
10 their cars. On the way a bevy OF
young women surrounded Col. Lind
bergh, who was rescued from their
clutches with some difficulty by his
companions
/ HAVE been told of another house
party Oil AoIb AaihIlu WHSTG tlic
valet who was assigned to Col. Lind
bergh's room reported after unpacking
the aviator's belongings that he was
quite destitute OF linen.
Send some one 10 town." advised
the colonel's hostess. and bring back
some shirts for him"
Later In the day Col. Lindbergh dis
covered the new shirts and made an
explanation TO his hostess.
You see" he told her, II can't keep
any shirts. send them to the laundry
and that's the end OF them, Some one
takes them for souvenirs"
Comment has sometimes been made
upon Col. Lindbergh's appearance with
out a hat, Souvenir hunters. and not
a new fad OF the colonel's, are the ex-
planation OF his bare head. lie has
gone into some OF the best clubs OF the
country, only TO find his hat lost"
when he was ready to depart. Every
thing that he puts down, and some
, things that he doesn't put down, are
taken by souvenir collectors.
The most phlegmatic and Relf-eon-
tanned man OF the world would come 10
the end OF his patience at this daily
persecution.
Everywhere he goes there Is q guest
book To be signed. Almost everywhere
there are photographs 10 be signed or
more or less courteously concealed at
tempts 10 obtain autographs. II ell has
been most difficnlt for young man
who does not like 10 have fuss made
over him, whose JOY In night Is that
OF swallow, not that of the butterfly.
Hardly for moment while his feet
were on the ground could be shake on
this shell Of public character which tho
| world had clamped upon him and
which he had accepted Aimply because
he thought IL might be good advertis-
Ing for aviation because he
thought the keen edge of public In
teTest In him soon would wear on.
Evening star., 1928-03-25

Very few people know what . hard
fight Lnadbergh had 70 make 20 geG
backing He vas a mail fiyer, threat
ened with dismissal for his persistent
habit or daring storms 10 put through
the mail The law of averages had
prompted his SupsrlOrS 70 fear that he
would come 10 grief IN one Of his daring
flights, He made the rounds of the
usual hopes" Of ayiatorS and he visited
men and newspapers with regulations
for backing aviation He even went 70
the makers az r famous cigarette and
asked them to finance the flight 70
Paris III q plane bearing the name Of
their cigarette,
He knew he could ser through. and
was determined 10 do it, u IS char
acteTiStic of him thar he finally sal
down and studied the field quietly and
selected q group OF important men az
ST. Louis who were known for their
civic pride When ne gor them together
he had coined the phrase, The spirit
Of st. Louis" and he had given them
picture OF the Importance of . record
breaking fight III The name Of their
city.
lie is not cold Or unmtereSttig, nor
does he lack personality, He Is the
KreiSler of the air. the man who Is at
tuned To his special mechanism IS the
master musician is attuned 80 his. he
is a master pilct and rs Well has . pro
found respect for the MECHANISM he
controls. which amounts almost 20 al
lection. He would never think OF at
tempting any Sudden move which would
put an undue strain On any part II It.
l have seen him take hiS plane
through n storm. when most pisctA ~
StinetivelS would try ASht back. GanaeAS
resolved to buck the power BY sheer
physical eXertlon. i1sNdher&hS han
ding Of his plane was IS easy IS
though he WAS sailing through cloud
less Summer SKY, His opposition 70 the
forces of the storm Was aGrutt, not
abrupt, he nurSed his plane through Il
as = Sktllpal driver With \ gavorite horse
might guide the animal through be-
laooFtnE hailStcrnA. he treated his
plane as though IL we've sentimental
being and dear e. him &C that. No
man With that feeling for thing COM
pounded of metal can ee cold or even
lack personality or interest,
SO St1ong Is the ecad " sympathy
between Lindeeyga and his metal Steea
that he seems to ee aluacSt pgeSeient
IL, There are few natural
mechanics who can tell ey some sound
70 others, ey SenSitiveneSS
20 the rhythm af machinery IN actton
as by some other peculiar quality et
their own, when something Is wrcaa. al.
though there may he no apparent Slgn
o1 trouble. l have seen such man
stand "a feet away nom a plane
whose engine seemed - es running aS
SweStly as \ spinning tpgN. shake his
head and nNtter that Sonsethtag MAS
Wrong. M instrument revealed the
slightest defect nor could the closest
scrutiny discover st bNt 90 minutes
later that ship had g. make a toreed
IAncing Lindh2rgA has thas pIeSeleNee
Nhsre meters are coaeeTAed
Evening star., 1928-03-25

But up to the present there have been
no signs OF It's wearing of II any
thing, the reverse has been true. Only
few weeks ago, when Col Lindhergh
was in New York, some one saw tall
young man enter shop on Fifth ave-
nue just above Forty-second street
Word spread that Col. Lindbergh was
there. A crowd of 90 or 80 persons
assembled II grew to two or three
hundred The sidewalk was booked
More stopped and craned their necks,
anxious TO find out what was up They
fingered there for three hours or more,
with two policemen herding them
y %*
TT is no wonder that avoidance of
crowds has become an ohsession with
Col Lindbergh. have seen him when
his back was mass of black and blue
bruises from the Iostling he had re-
ceived In crowds. His one relaxation,
aside from flight, Is to get away from
every one except few flyers whose
hearts are In their work and talk shop
with them
When he was In Dallas. Tex on his
tour OF the country. Jealously guarded
from contact with every one except Mr..
Love. the representative of the Depart
ment of Commerce. who was his COM
panion on the tour. the latter met
Lieut. Odas Moon, an instructor at
Kelly Field. who had been an instructor
of Lindbergh's at the army school,
Lindbergh, to whose presence even
Lieut.. Moon had not gained admission
learned that the pair were In room
In the hotel and broke in upon them
Unexpectedly They talked until 2 a M
al Aau at Il sAlI
four or flve hours probably were the
most pleasant that Lindbergh spent on
the entire trip
II Lindbergh we're an older man ne
might be more inclined 10 yield 10 the
fiattery OF concentrated public atten~
ton, But he Is young man, with his
purpose in life firmly fixed In his mind
and Arm determination To achieve II
All the attention which he receives be-
comes an obstacle. to his mind instead
of being. as an Older man might con-
slider It. an end In itself Col. Lind
bergh insists upon retaining his indi-
viduality. He refuses 10 pour himself
into the mold of professional hero which
the public has SO kindly prepared for
him, For that very reason, probably,
the public. which tires quickly enough
OF a professional hero, declines to re-
linquish the reluctant Lindhergh
So insistent Is Lindbergh upon remain
Ing himself, a perfectly normal young
man with the appetites and pleasures
OF youth, that he actually has taken
pains somewhat 10 see that his picture
Is taken In pose which will tend to
prevent any uplifters from placing an
unwilling halo on his brow and hold
ing him up 10 the public view as an eNr
ample OF the effect ot the particular
reforms they advocate
The camera, by the way has become
another OF Llndhergh's aversions II Is
10 him an emblem of that distasteful
publicity he so deiesis 80 pronounced
has the prejudice become that recently.