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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-07
GROVER WYNN BACK
 FROM SHORT TRIP

Grover C. Winn, local attorney, who left here the latter part of March for a business and pleasure trip to the south, returned home on the Alameda last night.
 During most of his absence in the south he spent in Seattle. Ju- reau's weather today, according to MT Winn, is a good sample of some that he experienced while away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Can the Eye Hear?

comedy scenes. and ne has arranged to
use it in the next picture he directs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

TOHN MCCORMACK, the celebrated
" tenor, recently took issue with all
and sundry on the point that the hu-
man eye is almost as important as the
ear with regard to what we hsar. Nc
Cormack is, said to be sound expert
by instinct, and has, in addition, a
necessary knowledge of audience psy-
chology. 1t was during the making OF
Song o. My Heart" that he precipi-
tated a polite row on the point.
He was discussing some Of his first
experiences as a professional singer, at
the age of %. in a small Italian city.
One of his arias called for d note 80
high that he feared he could not reach
it with good quality So when he came
to that part of the score calling Tor the
top note he opened his mouth but DID
not make a sound. The orchestra car
ried the melody along and the audi
ence. imagining it heard his voice, went
into prolonged applause.
The sound experts present when NC
Cormack told this story we're frankly
skeptical. So, to clear up the point and
also to see what value such a trick
might have for picture-making pur-
poses. Borzage, unknown to the sound
experts, had Mccormack repeat the
stunt before the Movietone cameras
and microphones. Then calling all par
ties to the argument to a projection
room, he had the tricky take" repro
duced And the sound experts filed out
of the room believing they had heard
all the notes they had seen" the tenor
sing. They were a chagrined crowd
WHEN the disclosure of the truth was
made.
Borzage, with characteristic thor
oughness, made further experiments:
After he had finished making Song o.
MY Heart" In which, incidentally, one
actually hears every note John McCor-
mack sings, even with his eyes closed,
he discovered that the trick of making
an audience hear through its eyes has
almost limitless uses in connection with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Happily Cast.

IN alias French Gertie" Ben Lyon
ought to have the time of his life.
Not only does he make love to the dark
eyed heroine with considerable gusto,
but the heroine, Bebe Daniels, happens
to be his fiancee outside the celluloid
studios. And, incidentally, this hap
pens to be the first picture in which
these two classical lovers have been
permitted to play Romeo and Juliet
before their screen public, Ben up until
this moment having been occupied with
the movie that has been unwinding it
self for the past few years under the
title "Hells Angels"
Bebe should be pleased, too. Not only
because she is proverbially making
hay" with her future husband before
the camera, but because ever since
Radio Pictures tucked her neatly I'M
der its wings she has been just about
on the crest of the talkie waves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

TAKING the initiative and welding IL
with the enterprise manifested by
the motion picture makers, Burlesque
is introducing new patterns in the web
and wool of its raiment.
I. H. Herk, hustling president OF the
Mutual Circuit, is going to organize
permanent choruses in the cities OF his
circuit which will remain in their home
town and be developed. Only the prin-
cipals of the burlesque shows hereafter
are to travel from city to city. They
will be preceded each week by stage
manager, who will rehearse and Irsln
the chorus for the coming show. The
advantage of this seems obvious.
Through advertisements inserted in
the newspapers, writer's for the .tage
have been invited to submit, before
June /, $50 short, original comedy
scenes each to run from to IL min
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
New Burlesque Kinks.

utes. also $50 songs, words and music,
except sentimental ballads, which APP
parently are to be eliminated in bur-
iesoue entertainment. Mr.. Herk has
stated that liberal prices will be paid
for those scenes and songs that are ac-
cepted. Already 1t Is stated. more than
500 sketches and songs have been sub
mitted.
Just how burlesque is TO improve its
principals apparently has not yet p+en
evolved, but reference 20 the noted
players of the stage, present aud past
who have been graduated from bur-
lesque seems to indicate that there Is
a purpose to seek out and develop latent
talent suitable for burlesque purposes
is making a novel and herculean effort
to uplift itself, or at least to improve
its quality
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
OklahOma'S Own Story.

talking screen. The director is now
under consideration. The cast will be
all-star and present plans indicate that
more assistant directors and camera
men will be used on this one produc-
ton than have ever been used on any
hitherto made for the talking screen.
THE production offers such tremen-
dous possibilities for the INSTALLATION
of q State in Its march to destiny" Mr.
LeBaron explains, that we feel a grave
responsibility in the creation Of this
epic and we will have to operate on
what is practically state of military
efficiency"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Joseph Urban Signed.

THE talented Joseph Urban has
signed a contract with Fox Films
which provides that he will design the
settings and act as supervisor of photo
graphic effects for two forthcoming
productions. This contract calls for
his working 10 weeks at the West
Coast studios, where he will be allowed
to play around with the new color
process that is about to be introduced
by Fox.
Mr.. Urban will leave toward the
end of June for the coast, where he
anticipates that a film version of "A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur
Court" will be the first Of his two
productions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Animals"On Their Own. y"

him. Dozens of bees were tested on the
set before the correct effect was OBJ
tanned.
I'VE have had little dif6culty in re-
cording voices OF animals" says Mar.
De Sart. technical director of sound at
the Paramount studios. Perhaps when
we are called upon to register the roar
of lion or the trumpeting of an ele-
plant we will find our light valves
bursting. The voices of animals usu-
ally record remarkably well, however,
because of their harsh and nasal quail
ity There is nothing In them Of the
high musical notes which often are lost
to the microphone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

WITH one swift and climactic move,
w William LeBaron shattered prece-
dent at the Radio Pictures studios and
lifted Richard Dix out Of parlor dramas
into the realm of two-fisted, red-blooded
leads when he assigned him to the star
ring role of Yancey in Edna Ferbers
"Cimarron," the drama Of the building
Of Oklahoma, from Miss Ferbers novel.
"Cimarron' will be included In Radio
its production are so big that LeBaron
Is creating what literally amounts to q
distinct producing organization under
his supervision for its fulflllment on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Meniou indicated.

A PPARENTLY Adolphe Menjou, who
"A last year quit Paramounts studios
after having been asked to terminate
his starring appearances for that COM
pany, hasn't sung his swan song at all.
The dapper Mr.. Menjou now seems
to be coming back again at the call of
the same company that wished him
across the seas. In other words,
Adolphe In two weeks time will be act
ing again at the Paramount Studios.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
HIS MASTERS VOICE is silent in
Hollywood studios.

His MASTERS VOICE" is silent in
Hollywood studios.
Animal and bird actors are wholly
ION their own" today, since they can
not rely on spoken orders from their
trainers now that sound has brought
silence to the motion picture stages.
Thus far domestic pets only have
been used in talking productions. Dogs
are naturally the most popular of ami
NAL actors. One of the best known dogs
of the screen is Mutt, the small white
canine now appearing with Moran and
Mack in "Anybody's War"
Moran and Mack's second picture
called for the use of 10 dogs In one
sequence. Even though keeping them
quiet was difficult, the scenes in which
they appeared were taken with a mini
mum amount of ruined footage. A
number of parrots also have proved sue
cessful talking picture actors and one
of the strangest animal actors in talk
ing pictures was employed in a comedy
scene of Moran and Mack's "Anybody's
War" The sequence showed Mack
asleep and buZzing bee awakening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Grimth's Lincoln. "

~ A BRAHAM LINCOLN" which D.
"A w. Grifith is making for United
Artists, has the largest cast of stage
and screen players and the greatest
number of sets in the history of motion
picture production. More than 125
well known actors and actresses and
thousands of extras will be seen and
heard in this picture.
Besides Walter Huston. who plays the
title role. the cast includes Kay Ham,
mond as Mary Todd Lincoln, Una
Merkel as Ann Rutledge, Ian Keith as
John Wilkes Booth, Hobart Bosworth
as Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Jason
Robards as Herndon, Lincoln's law
mariner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

David Wark Grifith has engaged
Helen Ware for a part in Abraham
Lincoln" Walter Huston plays the part
of Lincoln, and others in the cast are
Kay Hammond, Una Merkel, Jason
Robards. Henry Kolker, Otto Hoffman,
Edgar Dearling, e. Allen Waring. John
st. Polls and Jane Keckley. Nearly all
of the players have been prominent in
stock cOmDanieS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

Shown Today.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
FALL RIVER WORKERS
PROTEST PULEO ARREST

FALL RIVER (By MaiD.-A big
mass protest meeting was held here
against the arrest of Stephen Puleo
and at the same time against the
mass unemployment in Fall River.
Pu!eo was arrested a week ago for
speaking to the textile workers in
the name of the Trade Union Unity
League, calling upon the Fall River
workers to fight against all wage
cuts, speed-up and unemployment.
The workers responded to the meet
ing by hundreds in despite Of the
police terror in this city.
The meeting Friday had seven
speakers, Alexander and Kay for the
I. L. D., Puleo and Mccarthy for the
T. U. U. L., Rapport and Perry for
the N. 7. W. u. and Allan Ross for
the Communist Party.
Puleo, if found guilty by the cap
italist courts, will go to Jail for
three years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
RALLY TO DEFEND
five IN SCRANTON
Elect Delegates to the
Communist Convention

SCRANTON, Pa, July 8.-Work-
ers' organizations continue to rally
for the defense of the five workers,
leaders in the National Miners
Union and the Communist Party,
who have been arrested here and
charged with sedition.
Dozens Of delegates are being
elected to the Reading state con-
vention of the Communist Party.
The plan of the state officials and
the mining companies to drive the
Party and the union out of the field
is not succeeding. But the federal
government has joined the campaign
against the workers in this case
by sending, in addition to the secret
service man, Hickey, two more fed
eral agents, with the object to TAX
ing over the prosecution on war
time act, charging conspiracy.
fash, one of the defendants, was
released on $4,000 bail, and, on re-
lease, told of being beaten up by
the state troopers while held in their
custody.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
Steel AND AUTO
OUTPUT is DOWN;
UNEMPLOYED Up
Admit War Vets and
Families StarVe

As the auto and steel industries
continue to cut production at
steep rate, unemployment, already
over 100000, grows by leaps and
bounds. Steel production is already
below 60 per cent of capacity, as
compared to 100 per cent last year,
with thousands of steel workers
being laid off in Gary, Pittsburgh,
Youngstown, East Chicago and
Chicago.
The latest issue of the Financial
and Commercial Chronicle reports
nearly every textile mill in the
South and North closing down for
a week to ten days. Many of them
are closing down for longer. The
Union Cotton Manufacturing Cot
ton Co. of Fall River, one of the
largest plants in that district, is
completely going out of business
due to the sharpening crisis. In
Pawtucket, R. L, weavers are out on
strike against a Is per cent wage
cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
DUBOIS jAILED;
PLAN TO DEPORT
Editor Of Communist
Paper in Canada

MONTREAL, Canada, July s.
George Dubois, French organizer
for the Communist Party in Canada,
has been arrested in Montreal and
is being held for deportation.
Following brutal raid on the
Communist Party headquarters
came the arrest of Dubois, who has
done vitality important work with
the French Canadian workers,
rousing them to a recognition of
the bitter exploitation to which they
are subjected throughout the in
dustries of Quebec.
Dubois was arrested on June 80
by an immigration officer and de-
tective and has been held by the
immigration authorities since then.
Dubois is the editor of the French
paper "L'Ouvrier Canadien." All
the capitalist parties, the church,
and labor facists have united to
destroy the growing movement of
the French-Canadian workers, and
Dubois part in organizing working
class expression makes the hostil-
ity towards him so sinister and so
pronounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
SPAIN GETS A DOSE
OF MATTHEW WOLL'S
MOSCOW GOLD" YARN
Falling Value of Money Boosts Cost of Living
and This Causes Rising Wave of Strikes
But Police and Social Fascist Labor Union
Leaders Claim paid Agents of Moscow"

lice claim, without giving any con-
crete proof, of course, that The wave
of strikes are all Caused by Mos
COW agents, splendidly subsidized"
etc.
Naturally, strike which the po-
lice and bosses approve of would be
hard to find. Neither is it surpris-
ing to find both the Socialist" and
anarchist trade unions of the "Union
General de Trabajadores" and the
"Confederacion General del Ira
bajo" being announced as opposed,
in these moments, to any kind of
disorders in the country"
These social fascist Socialists"
and anarchists" have been opposed,
along with the police and the losses,
to "disorders" by which these So
cial fascists mean strikes, not only
Gin these moments" but in all mo-
ments.
Obviously, the workers of Spain
are learning who are their enemies,
and who are their real leaders, and
are turning to the Communist Party
of Spain for leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09

Reports from Spain tell of the
continuance of the economic crisis,
the fall in the value of the peseta
(the money unit) as forecast by the
Daily Worker at the time when the
economic collapse forced Primo de
Rivera to retire.
At that time the Daily Worker
said that the new regime of Beren-
guer not only could not solve the
crisis, which makes unbearable the
miseries of the masses, but that
the crisis would deepen and that
Berenguer would use the same fas-
cist machinery that Primo de Rivera
left, to try to hold down the masses.
This crisis, and the growing mis-
cries of the workers, due to mount
ing prices, have, as everyone knows,
led to a wave of strikes, in Seville,
San Sebastian, Malaga, Mad id and
other cities.
Now the Spanish bourgeoisie has
made a marvellous discovery, like
the Fish Committee and Matthew
Vol. Dispatches say that The po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
Private Property Exists
Only for Capitalist Class

But that tariff on manufactured
goods must be paid, if the goods
are not imported, Much more we
payl 1t sure does work for he big
boys, but dare any man to attempt
to prove where any import duty
will benefit the workers at large.
am not Communist by belief
or membership. | still hold to the
theory Of certain property lights
and the right of the individual to do
things of his own accord without
governmental restriction.
But a change is in order and l
enjoy reading your stuff, listening
to your arguments and shipping in
a quarter occasionally, for | am not
against you.
The tariff today is monop3istic
capital tariff of the monopolistic
trusts, to maintain high prices on
their commodities. There was a
time when each nationalist capitalist
group maintained a tariff wall for
protection Of "home industries"
! Editorial Note:-The overwheln-
ing majority a workers and poor
farmers in the United States have
no property. Private property ex-
lists only for the ruling bourgeoisie.
When the revolutionary workers and
poor farmers, under the leadership
OF the Communist Party, engage in
struggle for the overthrow of CAPT
talism it is to get the means of
production OF the necessities If life,
now the private property of para
site capitalist class, to be the prop
.erty of the producers of society
the industrial workers and farmers.
So we are for property rights" for
the useful members of society.
When 100000 workers are
thrown on the streets to starye, to-
gether with their families, we wit
ness capitalist government cestric-
ton of the struggles to fight it, but
no restrictions on their starvation.
But under the Workers Government
of the Soviet Union government
restrictions" guarantee food, cloth
ing and shelter to the toilers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
HerdChl1dYen
Who PeddLe
Into Prison
New York
Editor, Daily Worker:

New York,
Editor, Daily Worker:
The capitalist system has adopted
a militant policy of starvation for
the workingclass. Not only does it
force the workers out of the fac
tories through naturalization
schemes, and not only does it deny
unemployment insurance to those
workers who are infected by the
periodical disease of capitalism's
crises, but it also brands as crimi-
mails the children of workers when
they attempt to earn a few cents
for the support of the family by
peddling.
The capitalist police force acting
on the orders of the Chamber of
Commerce has always prohibited
peddling on the Coney Island Beach.
1t has tried intimidation, arrests,
fines and imprisonment for a night
to COW the young workers. The
law of the belly is stronger however
than capitalist Justice" so this
week the police tried a despicable
trick.
They collected about a dozen
young peddlers, all under sixteen
years of age, put them into one of
the modern department of correc-
ton wagons which have tiny Win
doWs in the rear for air, handcuffed
them along with some grown up
workers whom capitalism has made
thieves of and drove them to the
hell-hole of Brooklyn, the Raymond
Street jail. There the children were
finger printed, and kept all day
smelling the sewage and filth which
covers the walls of the fire trap
which serves as a prison in the
twentieth century. The parents of
the children were not notified and
it wasn't until evening that they
were released.
The crime for which these chill
dren were handcuffed and finger
printed is that of trying to earn
little money without being exploited
by boss and for not paying a few
dollars to crooked politician. The
Whales, the Cooleys, the Vauses,
the Whalens are honored officials
of the capitalist system, the hard
working children of the workers are
criminals who must be marked in
the courts. The sewage and filth
of this system smells worse every
day and the day is drawing near
when it will become uncomfortable to
the noses of the workers. Then
the capitalist system will be swept
into the sea.
JAMES LERNER,
Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
BOSSES
WANT TO STOP
ORGANIZATION
Arrest I. L. D. Rep in
Farrell, Pa.
Farrell, Pa

Farrell, Pa.
The Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
Just recently the Farrell repre-
sentative of the International
Labor Defense, Comrade NJ. Dizdar
was picked up by the Steel Corpora
ton cops and brought to the city
hall for questioning, and looking
over the literature which she was
selling and distributing.
First of all they asked her why
she is struggling to free all Class
War prisoners. Answer was that
personally she isn't, but is doing her
bit through the organization which
she represents. Il. L. d..
Comrade Dizdar spoke of the few
comrades which the l. L. D. has de-
Tended and won, also mentioned the
case of 7. Mooney and Billings, the
answer they gave her was, THAT
might be true but the truth is pro-
hibited to be known"
After about IL hours, when they
realized that they could not press
any charges against her, they were
compelled to release her, and upon
doing so advised her not to sell the
Daily Worker OF any literature to
the colored folks, which meant that
the workers should not unite. We,
of course know, that the capitalist
class does not want the Negroes
united with white workers as they
can exploit them more, and reap
larger profits and worsen the con-
ditions of the workers in general,
but the day is coming when Jim
Crowism will be buried forever, and
the workers will unite as a class
against the bourgeoisie to overthrow
the system of exploitation and es-
tabhsh a Workers and Farmers
Government.
Comradely yours,
WORKER CORRESPONDENT.