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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10

determination for the Negro MAORI
ties of the Southern BLACK Belt"
The response of the white workers
has been enthusiastic.
Mass Delegation In Demands.
A mass delegation of representa-
tives from all militant working-c class
organizations in the city visited the
city manager today to demand the
immediate release of the workers ar
rested Tuesday night when the UNI
employed workers defended them
selves against the police attack. The
delegation also demanded the with
drawal of the armed police forces
which have been thrown into the
Negro section in an attempt to ter
rorize the colored workers and crush
their resistance to the bosses star
walton program. The delegates de-
manded stop to the reign Of terror
against the Negro masses and placed
full responsibility for the massacre on
the entire city administration.
The police reign Of terror continues
today, with numerous arrests Of mill
tant Negro and white workers
Throughout the city and with delib-
crate attempts to split the working
class and ineite to race Iioting. The
police have confiscated thousands OF
leaflets issued by the Communist
Party and the Unemployed Council
calling for solidarity Of white and
Negro workers, and have broken up
all gatherings of Negro workers on
the streets.
Bosses Whitewash Murderers.
While the workers are, preparing
the mass funeral for the two muir
dered Negro workers, the city au-
thorities and the boss press are fran
tically trying to whitewash the police
attack The mayor and the chief of
police have both rushed to defend
their police thugs, justifying the
shooting without even the usual pre-
tense OF an investigation. Following
the example of the Chicago author1-
ties after the massacre Of Negro
workers in the eviction fight on Au-
gust The city authorities are mo-
bilizing he local Negro Uncle Tom
reformists for work in quieting the
anger Of the Negro masses and dl-
verting them from the necessary rev.
dictionary struggle against starvation
and national oppression.
Wounded Denied Hospital Treatment.
The four wounded workers arrested
Tuesday night are still refused hos
pital treatment although two of them,
Henry White and Davel Novels, are
critically wounded. They are held in
the prison cells, along with eight
other workers who have been arrest
ed in ten police attempt to whitewash
their crimes against the working
class.
Several Of the police murderers
have been identified by witnesses
and reporters for the capitalist press.
The International Labor Defense,
supported by other workers organiza-
tons, has demanded the immediate
removal Of the wounded workers to
the hospital and the release of all the
arrested workers.
Workers VIII Answer Boss Terror!
The workers Of Cleveland will an
swer the murderous attacks of the
police agents of the bosses with a
tremendous demonstration at the
mass funeral Saturday and with a
further development of the struggle
against starvation and evictions,
against imperialist war preparations,
directed especially at the Soviet
Union, and for unconditional equal
rights for the Negro People.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10
1900 WAR VETS TEAR
UP LEGION CARDS; TO
MARCH TO WASHINGTON
Support Worker Ex-servicemen's League In
Fight for Full Payment of Bonus
Pledge to Lead Struggle of Workers For I'm
Unemployment Insurance
Disabled Soldiers Home, Dayton, o.
Daily Worker:

Disabled Soldiers Home, Dayton, O.
Daily Worker
We wish to inform you that longer misled by
the American Legion Fifteen hundred members of the Amer
lean Legion have their cards this home in the week
and several hundred of marching to Washington and
demand the payment of the graveyard bonus
We trying to get hundred thousand veterans to
march with us and would be very glad to hear from the
Sercemen League We wish advertise our march through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10

SMALL CHILDREN DRAFTED TO
STATE FARM WORK

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Young chill
dren between the ages of 9 and IA
are being mobilized and shipped to
work on the state university farms
at Davis, California. The Pacific
Greyhound State Line carried large
crowd of these little ones off to
slavery last week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10

Is it possible that someone wants
to get rid of him?
The adjusted compensation act
would not have originated in any 9TH
er mind than that Of Ninety Day
Wonder"
But the Ninety Day Wonder" is
in class by himself. If his genious
isn't appreciated he'll do like he did
during the war: take the crowd out
and drill the tail off the puppy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10
VETS PAGE sUsPENDED-No
FINANCES.

The special feature page Of ex-
servicemen's correspondence which
was prepared for this edition had
to be suspended due to a lack Of
finances to publish the regular SIX
page Saturday Daily Worker this
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

and the initial declines in prices
have let loose forces which now
bid fair to lead to disaster unless
checked
The bankers have one other reason
sor the initiation and that is to in
crease their profits The journal OF
Commerce also points this out
openly:
This action Is expected to i'm
prove the level of bank earning
power. especially In the big CEN
ters where the bansk have an espe-
cially large proportion of their
portfolios in bills and other COM
n,itments the yield on which will
rise sharply with the upturn in the
rediscount rate"
While this initiation may mean in
creased profits TO the capitalist class
it will mean a terrific attack on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10

One way to help the Soviet
Union is TO spread among the
workers "Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10

Build workers correspondence
group In your factory, shop or
neighborhood. Send regular letters
TO the Daily Worker.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Washington
Players

THE OTHER WISE MAN" Today.
rTHE OTHER WISE MAN" with five
new features added. will be pre-
sented today, tomorrow and Tuesday in
the afternoon and evening at Luther
Place Memorial Church, ON Thomas
Circle at Fourteenth and N streets.
For the first time, an interlude pro-
cessional Of the Three Wise Men" will
be inserted and sung by group from
the choir of St. Andrews Episcopal
Church, under the direction of Mar
guerite Allen Ross. The three wise
men" will be Samuel Gray, Sanford B
Wells and Eugene Kressin. They will
be accompanied by a group of six ORR
entail attendants and will sing the carol
I'VE, Three Kings of Orient Are"
Entrance to the church for the pub
lie will be at Fourteenth and N and
at Vermont avenue and N doors Of the
church,
Evening star., 1931-12-27

been waiting for just such a pic
ture.
Maurice Chevalier-The last of
the singing comedians, and the
best.
Sylvia Sidney-Most promising
OF the young actresses and one
who has prepared herself for what
should be (for herr an interesting
new year.
The Four Marx Brothers
Whose form of humor is plain
idiocy, which doesn't pretend to
be anything else, and isn't.
The dual combination of Gable
and Dunno, who between them
have reduced many female audi
ences to hysterical chickering's. In
other words, the two most per-
sistent personalities of the season.
A GLANCE at the above and
some will no doubt blush
crimson with indignation. "Where
is Ruth Chatterton?" How about
Constance Bennett?" you might
have mentioned Marlene Diet
rich" Bob Montgomery should
be among the winners" where's
Cantor, Davies, Joan Crawford,
young Doug Fairbanks and the
sad-eyed Tallulah?"
To each of these we will
reply: Miss Chatterton, promi-
nently placed as one of last years
winners, has this year suffered
from poor stories and one or two
performances which have not been
up to scratch. Constance Bennett
has never been, nor ever will be,
one of our first actresses. Marlene
Dietrich will probably go a long
way when Paramount wakes up
to the fact that she isn't Greta
Garbo, but a pleasing personality
in herself. Bob Montgomery is
said to be knocking them dead in
Private Lives" but he slipped up
on one or two others. Eddie Can
tor hasn't done anything startling.
Marion Davies hasn't shown any
particular signs of fire. Joan
Crawford has been mostly excel
lent, and so has her husband, and
so has Tallulah-but there's a few
feet between them and the top.
And so it goes, except that Will
Rogers deserves a special niche
for himself in the hall of fame
But he's so busy doing other
things besides pictures that it's
hard to remember him chiefly as
a screen celebrity. Others who
ranked high as true artists were
Robert Williams and Robert Ames,
two veteran trouperS, whose sud-
den death left Hollywood much
Sadder place; such players as
Marjorie Rambeau, Zazu Pitts,
Roland Young, Lilyan Tashman,
Una Merkel, Stuart Erwin, Give
Brook, Doris Kenyon, Charles But
terworth, who never fail. to be
convincing whether their roles are
large or small, and such new and
old comerS as Colin Give and Mae
Marsh, who gave memorable per-
formances, each in single pic
ture.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Laugh of My Life.
BY CONRAD NAGEL.

WE were working on the old Lasky
w lot in a scene of Cecil De Miles
Fools Paradise" which required me to
Jump into pit of alligators to pick up
lady's glove.
The alligators weren't particularly
tame and I wasn't relishing the stunt
to any great degree. Just before It.,
however, q Negro workman slouched on
the set.
He said to me, "Wut's them things,
mister?" (The alligators were very still
and harmless looking. Their eyes were
closed and they looked like blocks Of
wood)
replied, Those are alligators-I
have to Jump down in that pit"
He grunted, Huh, you picture fellas
sure earn yuh money easy!"
Just then one of the gators yawned,
exposing miles of sharp teeth.
mot so easy!" amended the Negro,
jumping back. about feet.
After that the scene didn't seem quite
80 tough!
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Cinema Makes Impressive
Showing During Past Year
Large Number of First-Rate Pictures, Despite
Financial Worry in the Industry-Pickins
Most Important Photoplay of the Year.

Street Scene" Omitted Artists
earned many more laurels for King
Vidor, as well as for its author, Elmer
Rice. 1t was magnificently moving
picture, possessed of rare and ad-
mirable dignity and almost uniformly
well acted.
Monkey Business" (Paramount) was
the best of the three comedies that the
Four MarXeS have contributed to the
vocal screen.
"Tabu" (Paramount), the last work
Of the director of The Last Laugh"
was one of the screens loveliest adorn-
ments, picture to- be cherished by
those who care for pure visual beauty
and who revere the memory of great
and idealistic German, F. w Murnau.
"A Free Soul' metro -Goldwyn) was
superb production of Adela Rogers
st. Johns story, directed by the de-
pendable Clarence Brown and acted to
the ultimate gasp by Lionel Barrymore,
aided by Norma Shearer, Clark Gable
and Leslie Howard
waterloo Bridge" (UniversaD brought
glory to its director, James Whale, and
to its leading lady, Mae Clarke. Mr.
Whale has augmented his fame with
the recent box Office sensation, Frank
enstein."
Touchdown" (Paramount) was not
only the best of all the foot ball pic
lures but also one of the most cour-
ageous comments that the normally
tlmid cinema has ever made on a cur
rent evil Touchdown" dared to ques-
ton the sanctity of the gridiron racket,
and have no doubt that it has helped
a lot to influence the public to adopt
more sane viewpoint toward a situa-
ty7 80
provement.
THE Guardsman" and "The Sin of
Madelon Ciaudet" (both Metro-Gold-
wynn were not conspicuously great pic
lures. but they gained importance by
introducing to movie audiences three of
the stages Worthiest celebrities-Alfred
Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Helen
Hayes-all OF whom will reappear on
the screen next year.
There have been other pictures to be
cited in any annual review, including
"An American Tragedy" Trader
Horn," THE Royal Family of Broad
way" Dance, Fools, Dance" Min and
BILL" "Huckleberry Finn" "The Mil
lionaire," "The Smiling Lieutenant ''
Smart Money" Bad Girl" and "Ar-
rowsmith," of which more anon.
The screens showing for 1881 is un-
queStlonably an impressive one, and
particularly in view of the fact that
such large proportion of the more
successful pictures have been serious,
even somber, in quality. After years of
adherence to the glad role of Polyanna
the cinema has at last begun to show
some courage in facing the fact that
life also has its less rosy side, that
sometimes Jack and Jill fall down the
hill and don't live happily ever after.
May Hollywood display similar wis
dom and honesty in the face Of its own
present troubles.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star., 1931-12-27

T isn't just a question of peo-
| pie asking, Who are the
| ranking stars of the films to-
day?" They always add, "And
why?" And it is that which
throws many a neophyte reviewer
into a quandary. For although he
knows perhaps which lady and
which gentleman he prefers, he
may not have a definite reason.
The trouble seems to be not
with the actors, but with their
material. They necessarily have
to get judged by their pictures.
If, for instance, player OF un-
common ability (such as Miss
SWanson) prefers to throw in her
lot with entertainment that seems
unnecessarily dubious (although
reports on her new film, Tonight
or Never" indicate that she has
begun to climb upward AGAIN. =,
then, even if she is endowed with
the face and the temperament of
a Cleopatra, she must suffer for
it. Miss Pickford has suffered;
Miss Norma Talmadge has suf-
fered, and Miss Lillian Gish-how
she has suffered! And thus, al
though they once held secure
position of their own in the cine
matte world, that position is now
trifle nebulous-a trifle too
much of the past and the beyond
to include them in any serious
list of the best that is at our
elbow.
Hollywood is a land Of come
backs and fadeouts. Here to-
day and gone tomorrow" applies
handsomely to it. 1t takes fame
pretty seriously and forgets it just
as seriously. It hasn't much pity
on old age, in spite of the fact
that it hasn't had time to see very
much of it. 1t is fond of youth
and it is always on the lookout
for novelty. But its chief claim
to glory is its continual flux and
ref1ux-its gambling on personal
ity; and this makes today's list of
headlinerS about as permanent as
yesterdays tides. And so those
who object to the following lis
should remember that it is based
only on the events of one fleeting
year, and that next weeks new
year may wipe the slate clean and
start all over again.
These are a tentative, a very
tentative, assemblage of names
today (and not tomorrow or the
next day. that stand at the top
of the cinema industry:
Marie DresSler-"Queen Marie, u
for she's been crowned that, and
she deserves it. She can make
people laugh and she can make
them cry, and She hasn't tried to
make herself beautiful.
Greta Garbo-There'S no deny
ing her. She has everything-a
reStfulneSS in acting and not
enough standardized beauty to
make it monotonous.
George ArliSS-The most pol
iShed actor in the films.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon-
tanne-Who proved in a single
picture, "The Guardsman," that
anything they do Is worth seeing.
Jackie Cooper-The youngest of
the great actors.
Norma Shearer-Who always
gets the cream of the stories and
handles them accordingly, and
who isn't afraid TO surround her.
self with actors who are as good
as she is-and sometimes better.
Lionel Barrymore-Proves the
last three words of the above.
Ann Harding-Who in "Devo-
ton" endeared herself perma-
| nently to a large public which had
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Boneless Dancing.
CTAGEDoM's foremost exponent

GTAGEDOM'S foremost exponent OF
~ comedy eccentric boneless dane
ing, Linberlegs Edwards, is prominently
cast in Fanchon & Marcos Sketches
idea, the current stage show at the Fox.
His unique routine Is said to be based
upon three or four key steps which he
has been doing since childhood, Linn
berlegs discovered his dancing ability
quite by chance and has never had q
lesson in eccentric dancing In his life,
and yet natural talent, perseverance
and practice have made him one Of the
top-notch eccentric dancers of the stage.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Juvenile Appetltes.
THE candy bar, chocolate matted M

THE candy bar, chocolate matted milk
and ice cream soda business
doubled at the First National studios.
The rush in trade, as reported by the
manager Of the studio cafe, was due to
the dozens Of youngsters appearing in
"Penrod and SAM" Booth Tarkington's
great story now showing at Warner
Bros. Metropolitan Theater.
Among the children In "Penrod and
Sam" are Helen Beaudine, Nestor Aber,
Billy Lord, Margaret Marquis, Betty
Graham, and the two colored boys who
play the twins Herman and vernAn.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow.
Why It Is delicious.

HnEIICIOUS," the Fox melody ro-
nance co-starring Janet Gaynor
and Charles Farrell, presents kaleido-
scopic cross-section of virile immigrant
life in the steerage of great ocean
liner, including their colorful costumes,
their quaint folk dances and their ir-
repressible good humor and joy in living.
Among the nationalities represented
in the singing and dancing are the
Irish, with reels and "camollias;;" the
Italians, with their harps and golden
voices, Germans, Swedes and Hunga-
rians, not forgetting Chauve Souris
troupe from Russia with. whom Janet,
as waif from Scotland, makes friends.
Evening star., 1931-12-27

TIME operative theater, time
out of mind, has always
had its superstitions. To it
certain periods Of the year
are lucky and others are simply
doomed in advance to be unpro-
pitious for any great undertak-
dngs. This is probably true of
Christmas week and of the week
preceding Easter Sunday. During
those times the playhouse is
temporarily darkened, and the
manager calmly awaits the COM
tng Of better days. Not infre-
quently, if some cheap attraction,
likely to yield a profitable return,
with a due amount of ballyhoo-
ing, be available, a chance is
taken and the gods of luck are
cajoled in the hope of doubtful
reward. The probability of this
was apparent in Washington last
week, when both the legitimate
theaters closed their doors and
lapsed into darkness, while the
talking palaces, not yet thorough
Iy imbued with the superstition,
took a chance, at least in some
of the houses, and with more or
less success. The people were
spending their money for the an
hual gift exchange. Why not give
Them the opportunity when the
mood was at it's flood? And so,
the movies again outwitted the
legitimate In the struggle for
wealth. X X
THE lull in the activities of the
! legitimate, however, served as
IA period for the lovers of the
flesh and blood to have their in
hings, and some of them availed
themselves of the opportunity,
with a vengeance, to express their
views on drama in general and
some phases of it in particular.
Passing the charge of dropping
the quotation marks that prop
erly belong with extracts from the
Bard of Avon, when his wisdom
Is borrowed for a literary flourish,
the remorse of the writer of this
column was thoroughly aroused
by a shot at his comments on the
Balief "Chauve Souris," an at
traction of a week ago, The ac-
cuser handed a vicarious Wallop to
t'the rest of Washington's dramat-
tc critics" and knockout blow on
our own chin for "the absurd
judgment that Balieff fell down
on the Job in his most recent dis
play at the BelaSco." Further
more, came the Scathing rebuke,
tThis is the first time he has pro-
duced anything that would at
tract a moments notice from
people of intelligence and good
taste. The misfortune is that
good work is not recognized and
that, because he happened to be-
come a fashionable vogue, his
earlier shows were praised to the
skies by people who did not stop
to examine them critically and
to see that they were perfectly
awful-let that be a lesson to
you" It is. Indeed, it could not
have been delivered with more
asperity by a blood relation o1
Balieff himself. And, further
more. it establishes bevond the
peradventure of doubt that there
really can be two sides to an ar
Rument, a fact the average human
Is so won't to forget when he has
b strong opinion of his own.
X X
NEVERTHELESS, being out il
= "the Sticks" while the tai
trees obscure the view and the sac
winds of Winter sing their songs
I'm a liberty-loving sort of way
some of us are apt to become "sot'
in our notions, and quite as otter
our opinions do not agree with
those of the intelligentSia in th'
lighthouses and whatnots of ou
Evening star., 1931-12-27

Hungarian OF Las
zlo Fodor. It is the
tenth consecutive
starring vehicle for
these distinguished
stars of the Amer
ican and London
stage, a n d a ! S 0
marks the return
of Paul Streger as
a producer in the
legitimate theater
after two years
a b S e n C e in the
film industry.
Although Buda =
pests most prolific
author, this is the
first year that any
Of Mr.. Fod o RS
plays have reached
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Holiday
Attractions

BELASCO-"Jewel Robbery"
TAUL STREGER, tomorrow even
u ming, will present at the Shu-
bert-Belasco Theater, prior to a
i New York engagement, Mary
Ellis and Basil Sydney in new
comedy entitled Jewel Robbery"
adapted by Bertram Block from the
Evening star., 1931-12-27
EAST WASHINGTON PLAYERS.

THE East Washington Community
Players Of East Washington Com
munity Center have organized for the
1892 season and elected officers for
the coming year, including Edward Fin
layson, president; Edwin Rice, vice
president; James Walther, secretary,
and Newell Lusby, treasurer.
At meeting last week at the center
three short plays were selected for
presentation in the immediate future.
The plays are RED Carnations" in
which Edward Finlayson, Edwin Rice
and Madeleine Duncan will appear;
Pearls by a cast of players, compris-
ing Elizabeth Arnett, Janet Walther,
Chester Jones and william Davis, and
Fog" with william Heintz, Hazen
Shea and Newell Lusby.
All three plays are now in rehearsal,
and the players will take part in the
annual One-Act Play Tournament in
March, conducted by the Community
Center department, with the co-opera-
ton Of the Drama Guild of washington.