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The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Bal Masque Concert
For Russian Church

Outstanding Russian artists OF
the opera and concert stage will be
heard in the concert and Bal
Masque to be given Saturday night
of next week, January "a, at the
Willard Hotel, for the benefit OF
the tiny st. Alexander's Church
in this city.
Nina Koshets, internationally
known singer, formerly Of the Rus
sian Imperial Theater may be re-
garded as the bright, particular
star in the galaxy which will like
wise feature such splendid Rus
sian artists as Lebedeff, Russian
tenor, whose patron was the late
Car of Russia; Ouzdanoff, the cele'
brated impersonator in Caucasian
and Russian dances; Giro de Ritis,
Italian baritone Of the Chicago
Opera; Emanuel Zetlin, Russian
violinist, and Henry S. Gregor, con-
cert pianist, the two latter Of this
city.
In the ensemble which Nine
Nina Koshetz will bring with her
to this benefit, will be included
such outstanding Russian artists,
as Marie Koshetz, contralto of the
Philadelphia Opera; Doubinsky, Of
the former Russian Imperial The
.ater, and Gabriel Leoneff, likewise
from the former Russian Imperial
Theater, all of whom will come
down from New York city with
Nine. KoShetZ for this concert.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

FOX-Dorothy Mackaill ir
"Once a Sinner" At 1880 a. m.
2:l5. 4:47, 1888 and 1905 p. m
Stage shows at 1875, 4:07, 6:5G
and 9:25 p. m.
R-K-O KEITH'S-Lowell Sher
man in "The Royal Bed" At
11:42 a. M, 1:42, 3:42, $40, TAO
and 9:40 p. m.
PALACE-Evelyn Laye in zone
Heavenly Night" at 11:40 a. m,
1855, 4:4O, 7:25 and $50 p. m.
Stage shows at los, $50, 6:35
and 9 p. m.
EARLE-Vivienne Segal in
"Viennese Nights" at 11:30 a..
m, 2, 4:40, 1880 and 1905 p. m.
Stage shows at los, 1886, 6:35
and 9:05 p. m.
RIALTO-C onrad Nagel in
"Free Love-" at 11:45 a m,
1:45, 3:45, 5:45, TAO and 9:40
p. m.
4 COLUMBIA-Ruth Chatterton
IN THE Right to Love-" at 1925
a. M, 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35 and
9:40 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
LATESTSTAGE
NEWS FROM
NEW YORK

The Theater Guilds produc-
ton of Much Ado About Moth
ing" in which Alfred Lunt and
Lynn Fontanne were to have ap-
peared, has been definitely post
poned for this season, it is an
nounced. The production was to
have been presented in alterna-
ton with Maxwell Anderson s
Elizabeth the Queen" The lat
ter drama is being performed
eight times a week and re-
hearsalS on the ShakeSpearian
comedy were extremely difficult
to arrange under this schedule,
according to the Guilds state
ment. Elizabeth the Queen"
will be sent on tour early in
March.
The New York opening Of
Frank Merlin's play Hobo" be-
ing produced by James Elliott,
has been postponed for several
weeks. The drama will be pre-
sented in Wilmington, January
20, in Atlantic City during the
week of February 2 and in New
York a week later. Dudley Glenn
ents, Gwyn Stratford and Victor
Kilian are new additions to the
cast.
The ShubertS announce that
they will present a series OF
popular operettas at the Jolson
Theater within a few weeks. The
opening production is to be "The
Student Prince" one Of the most
popular operatta presentations Of
recent years. It was last pre-
sented here in 1924.
Lewis Innerarity, vice president
of Pathe, announced yesterday,
and with emphasis, that Con-
stance Bennett had not been re
leased from the employ of Pathe.
The New York offices Of Warner
Brothers announced last week that
Miss Bennett had been hired by
that firm for a term of years and
that her services would be exclu-
sive to them.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Queens Husband Is
Drama Guilds Next

Three acts filled to the brim
with a delightful, subtle satire,
done in Robert Emmett Sherwood's
best manner, are offered to the
playgoers of Washington, in THE
Queens Husband" to be presented
as the midwinter attraction Of the
Community Drama Guild on Fri
day and Saturday nights Of next
week, January % and "a, at Wash
ington's civic playhouse, Mckinley
Auditorium, Second and T SITS.
N. E.
1t will be presented by a cast Of
strong local favoriteS who may be
counted on for a deft handling of
the character roles supplied by
the author, Grace Peters johnson,
Eleanor Hall Wagner, Nell Childs,
Frances Bingham Cole, Harry Wei
ker, Maurice Jarvis, William E.
Bryant, Thomas Cahill, DR.. Charles
R. Gordon, Paul Alexander, Ed
ward Roy Mckenzie, B. P. Wheat
ley, Bernard Barton, MannlX
Walker and Herman P. Riess.
Reserved seats for both Friday
and Saturday nights, now on sale
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
GabrilOwitsch Will ,
Conduct Tuesday

The Philadelphia Orchestra will
give it's third concert of the sea.
son at Constitution Hall on Tues
day evening at 8:45 January 20.
OsSip GabriIowitsch will con-
duct this concert as well as play
the Schuman Concerto in A minor
for piano and orchestra. During
this number Alexander Small
lens will conduct the orchestral
accompaniment. The program
will open with the overture,
"Euryanthe. The second num-
ber is Beethovens Symphony No,
in A flat major.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16

dancer. Yvonne Georgi was at
her best when dancing with
Kreutzberg in Rural Dance"
and waltz" She is possessed
of infinite grace.
The dance team was handi-
capped somewhat by the Consti-
tuition Hall stage which is ILL
fitted for a dance recital. An
adequate back drop, better light
ing effects and a more intimate
auditorium would have enhanced
their performance considerably.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
LARRIMORE'S
PLAY HALTED
: BY ILLNESS

Francine Larrimore, popul r
star of many Broadway successes,
last night attempted to leave a
sick bed at the Carlton Hotel to
appear at the National Theater
where she has been playing in
"Storm Song"
The stage tradition that "tke
play must go on" was overruled
by DR.. Sterling Ruffin and a
nurse, and she was ordered back
10 bed.
Miss Larrimore, whose name has
been emblazoned in Chicago"
FIet Us Be Gay" and other stage
The Washington times., 1931-01-16

Do You Know
That Josef Won Sternberg used
10 be a motorcycle racer in Eng
land?
The Washington times., 1931-01-16

hits, has been under treatment for
q severe cold since her arrival here
Sunday night to play at the Ma.
tional. 1t was contracted in Phila,
delphia.
wednesday night she collapsed
after the performance ended, and
yesterday was said to be threat
ened with pneumonia.
Holders of tickets for last nights
) show had their money refunded
and the engagement for the rest
Of the week was cancelled.
The petite actress first appeared
here at the Belasco in Chicago" g"
q crime play, which later had a
successful Broadway run.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Before Fame

Ruth Chatterton, playing in
Paramount's production, "The
Right to Love-" at Loew's Colum-
bia this week, lived with her
mother in New York city for
more than six months on a
weekly stipend of $40.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Rushing Rogers

The Fox is making every ef-
fort to again offer Americas S
Congressman-at-large, Will Rogers
in his latest picture, "a Con-
necticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" before the present ses-
sion Of Congress ends. The pic
ture is in the final stages of
production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

Many disabled British officers and
men and widows and parents of men
killed in the World War have given up
their pensions to help their country's
finances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
Cupid Uses Toy Balloon.

AS the result Of Hungarian chorus
gi1l's message set by toy balloon, she
and young farmer are reported to be
engaged During a performance in
Budapest three balloons were used, and
the girl and stage hands were permit
ted to take them away from the theater
a1terwaro: One of the girls wrote on
o piece of paper: The writer of thesa
lines Is young. dark girl, said to be
pretty. and she asks the finder of this
balloon to communicate with Margaret
Il. by letter or verbally" and tied It to
the balloon, which she released. It
was found by the farmer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
KENTUCKY MINERS STARVING TO DEATH IN HARLAN JAIL
Release Mooney!

TOM MOONEY prison years. become symbol
of capitalist Justice"
the time demand
Valley the Cenraia victims the Scots
bo the Kentucky miners the miners in Pennsylvania Ohio
and Virginia.
Following appeal
intensified for MONEYS release
prisoners organizing demonstrations and
the road possible basis OF mass
the has already modified tens OF thousands
workers demonstrations
But evidently not all those empowered Mooney
agree MONEYS appeal to mill
revolutionary united front struggle bring
capitalist system An
lack Of understanding is shown by the activities OF Mr.
Mooney ModerS DEFENSE COM
weeks He had instructions
Minor who has from the beginning
Mooney fighter Mr. Kelo did not see fit
with the socialist
them the authority of the Tom Mooney
committee headed by the Rev Norman
Sidney Han, Cohen and Forrest Bailey
the outfit that this Byrd Kelso thinks should lead mass struggle
against capitalist "justice!"
sptooneaners the LovestoneGitow
group learning
presented this united
allow these be present
They the drte fighting against
the meantime Thomas and Music kicked Mr. Gow
knowing that he will back tomorrow.
bad that the of Mooney should be connected with such
buesqe the united front 1t understood that Mooney
held responsible for such activities
workers will not be ned by They only
suggestion struggle against capitalism
gentlemen themselves at the head order to be-
all tied with thousand ties to
l. which the main responsibility for Moo
tied with thousand ties the ruling class They
than all fighting movement OF the work
doing and will everything in their
power to prevent growth of movement
independently these traitorous
and all ass-war
the International Labor Defense last week gives
delay behind the confer
o International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
CALLS FOR FIGHT
TOSAVE YOKINEN
L.S.N.R. Committee
Visits Ellis Island

NEW YORK.-A committee from
the City Council of the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights yesterday
visited Comrade August Yokinen who
is held for deportation on Ellis Is.
The committee consisted Of Mary
Adams, Flora Douns and Harold
Williams, district organizer of the
L. S. N. r.
The City Committee at the same
time it elected its visiting committee
issued a statement denouncing the
attempt of the boss government to
deport Yokinen The statement
pointed out that Yokinen has lived
in this country for many years and
that the government did not con-
slider him an undesirable citizen"
until he repudiated the race hatred
poison of the boss class and pledged
himself to take a leading part in the
relentless struggle for Negro rights,
lead by the Communist Party.
The City Committee of the LS.NR.
calls upon all workers organizations
to increase their protests against the
governments efforts to send Yokinen
to fascist Finland to probable death
or imprisonment. Send wires of pro-
test to Secretary of Labor Doak!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Chile Govt Fears New Rising;
Threatens Death for Reds

NEW YORK.-Fearing the hungry
masses of workers and peasants, the
Chilean government has been driven
to threaten immediate death for all
Communists who are caught at
tempting to organize the workers for
better conditions.
At the same time. army and navy
court martials are being planned for
the leaders of the naval mutiny.
Some of the capitalist news services
report that several of the leaders
"have committed suicide
With the economic crisis in Chile
growing worse all the time, the ex-
listing government is forced to turn
to the Soviet Union for trade
agreement. A United Press cable
from Santiago states:
THE ministers of industry and
foreign relations discussed a pro-
ject for a commercial agreement
with Soviet Russia, which would be
designed to improve the Chilean
economic situation. The foreign Of
flee cabled the minister in Paris
asking him to undertake prelimin-
airy conversations with the Soviet
commercial agent there.
THE Chilean government would
seek 4 pexuaaneut barter Of Chilean
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
9Th UPHOLSTERY
SHOP STRIKE WON
Chorast Shop Boss
Talks Settlement

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Another up
holstery shop, the Hirsch and Frank
Upholstering Co. acceded to the de-
mands of its striking workers and
granted union conditions in set
Element with the Furniture workers
Industrial Union.
The Morris Chorast shop, one of
the biggest in the industry, is now
negotiating for a settlement with
union and shop committee repre-
sentatives.
Organizing Committee.
The General Strike Committee of
the upholsterers have organized the
various committees for a militant
strike in the remaining shops. A re-
lief, finance, defense and other COM
mittees were set up and will start
working at once.
A meeting of the Furniture Work
ers Industrial Union YVES well at
tended yesterday and steps taken to
consolidate the growing strength of
the orgarA1tion
The General Strike Committee has
addressed an appeal to all furniture
workers and sympathizers to aid the
strikers and to turn out today at $50
am. at headquarters, Ten Eyck and
I6oyipnsr So Sax organization work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
RALLY FOR FOOD
FOR CHILDREN
Demonstrate B eff re
Board of Education

Hundreds of working class parents
and children throughout the city are
taing naolsiAzed- behind the demand
of the Young Pioneers and the Com
munist Party for free food and cloth
ing to school children of the unem-
ployed. Indoor mass meetings will
be held in all sections to mobilize for
demonstrations before the Board of
Education and the Boro Halls in
Bronx and Brooklyn.
A meeting in the downtown Sec
ton will take place on Wednesday,
September Is, at SAB Eighth Ave. In
the Bronx, the meeting will take
place the same day, at Ambassador
Hall, Third Ave. near Claremont
Pkway.
At these meetings, delegations of
workers and children of the unem-
ployed will be elected to present the
free food" demand. Plans will also
be made for parades and demonstra-
lions at the Boro Hall in the Bronx
on September 18.
The opening on September % of
the city's public schools will bring
Sharnlv to the fore the terrible con-
ditions among the children in work
ing class neighborhoods. Thousands
of children go to school without
breakfast. In these sections, as many
as ten children in school have been
known. to faint in one day. All work
ers should attend the indoor meet
ings in preparation for the parades
and demonstrations. Demand free
food. and clothing in school for the
children of the unemployed!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Millionaire Lawyer Straavn in
Demand That Wages Be Slashed

NEW YORK.-Silas H. Strawn,
millionaire Chicago lawyer and close
friend and adviser of President Hoo
yer, in a nationwide radio broad
cast on Wednesday night put for
ward the policy of the leading bosses
and their government against the
workers Strawns speech was given
wide publicity by the capitalist papers
as they regard it as the announce
ment of Hoover's policy toward wage
cuts and unemployment.
Strawns speech dealt mainly with
two points. He proposed first that
all efforts at establishment of unem-
ployment insurance in the United
States be quashed by the govern
ment. He declared the rich would
not feed the jobless out of their
swollen wealth, and went so far as
to deny the billionaires and million
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

been in Jail since last April on
starvation diet and manage to keep
alive, when they are fed on beans
and cabbage. which is practically the
only. food given them since they were
thrown into jail. The wives of some
Of the prisoners manage to bring a
little food once a week if they can
beg apples or vegetables from the
poor local farmers. Mrs. Jessie
Wakefield, the I. L. D. representa-
tive imprisoned on criminal syndi-
calist charges, is near collapse, as
the prison starvation diet is break
ing down her health. Most of the
miners must sleep on the bare con-
crete floor.
The miners have been rounded up
since May 5th, the day on which they
defended themselves at Evarts, Ken
lucky, when. four auto loads of gun
men sped by, letting loose volleys of
bullets on the miners picket line
Thirty-four of the most militant
strikers were charged with murder,
arising from this and following at
tacks. More than a hundred others
have been charged with criminal
syndicalism, banding and confeder-
ating. Judge Baby Face" Jones
said if any evidence is found against
the miners charged with criminal
Syndicalism he hopes they will re-
ceive the maximum sentence of q
years in prison.
The unity OF Negro and white mir
ers is one of the sore spots for the
tCONTIN UED ON PAGE THREED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
.B'kLN MASS MEET
TO FIGHT EVICTION
FRIDAY SEPT. 18th
Mother of s Penniless,
To Be Evicted

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Ida Fostoff,
1873 Manhattan Ave, mother of six
children, pennyless, without a piece
of bread in the house, has been
summoned to appear in court Friday.
September II, at pm, where the
judge will decide that she is to be
evicted at the instruction Of the
Flescher Realty Co.
The husband of Fostoff left the
house about a month ago and never
came back. He being unemployed for
about six months could no longer
stand to see his children starve and
took the way of least resistance.
This poor women unable to find
any work in her line (dressmaking)
has been getting 10 cents worth Of
bread every two days from Jewish
charity society.
For the whole summer she could
not obtain work. She is three months
in arrears in her rent. The landlord
has decided that she must be thrown
out of the house.
The Williamsburg Tenants League
will represent her in
court, however, and steps are being
taken to mobilize the tenants to
fight to keep her in the house.
The Williamsburg Unemployed
branch has issued leaflets for a mass
meeting Of thu unemployed and en-
ployed workers for fight to prevent
the eviction of this poor working
class family.
All unemployed and employed
workers are called upon to come to
this meeting to help fight against
eviction of the unemployed workers
families by the landlords and their
courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

turns down hundreds of workers.
many Of whom commit suicide be-
cause they face death by starvation.
Walter Winchell Broadway writer
for the New York Mirror, reports that
Mayor Murphy is visiting all the dives
and speakeasies on Broadway, spend
ing money freely Recently Mayor
Murphy got a loan of $35,00O,O0O for
Detroit from Henry Ford and Wall
Street bankers with the express pro-
viso that unemployment relief should
be cut down. Mayor Murphy cut 49,
900 families off the relief list and
since then the Daily Worker has
printed at least 90 suicides directly
traceable to this action.
Mark Hellinger, another Broadway
scribbler, tells of meeting Mayor
Next to Jimmy Walker writes
Hellinger, Frank Murphy is my ia
vorite mayor" In other words, this
Broadway roue could find no better
comparison for the slick faxed Of
Detroit than the Incompatible New
York CRATER, Mayor Walker, whose
latest escapade was handing 100000
to the French government for a lot
of graft and little medal as COM
mander of the Legion of Honor"
Mayor Murphy is in New York
blowing himself to the best in town
so that he can tell the Detroit work.
ers to go>and eat garbage this winter
or to shoot themselves when they run
out of food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
FACING HUNGER
ON A PART-TINE
JOB, KILLS SELF
Call Workers at Otis
Elevator to Protest

YONKERS, Sept. 9.-James Doug
las Gilmour, 81, an electrician at the
Otis Elevator Company's plant, who
was on part-time employment, faced
with the prospect of slow starvation,
killed himself Monday The Metal
Workers Industrial League here has
issued leaflet to the Otis Elevator
Company workers calling them to
demonstrate against starvation on
the job. The leaflet says:
This suicide is the direct result of
the misery into which fellow worker
James Gilmore was driven by our
bosses through cutting his wages,
speeding him up and part time work.
" While we know the torture that
Fellow Worker James had to go
through, suicide is not the way we
workers will better our conditions!
Fellow Workers! Not by suicide
but by organizing ourselves will we
force our bosses to pay us a decent
living wage! The bosses must answer
for the blood of fellow worker James!
All out on Larkin Plaza Thursday,
September II, IL pm.
Demand shorter hours with no re-
duction in pa! Smash this damnable
part-time system that drives workers
to suicidel Demand safe conditions
in the shop! Demand that the wild
ow of fellow worker James Gilmore
shall be provided by the bosses of the
Otis Co. with means to live!