The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
By n. BUCHWALD

(Ddlly HOrker correspondent
UQLOW your trumpet, Gabriel, the
- world is coming to an end!"
shouted the hero Of Gorky's new
play C'Egor Bulichev and Others'')
at the stirring conclusion of the
magnificent second act, and the
audience leaped to its feet. The
magic of Gorky's artistry, the wis
dom of his character portrayal and
the vigor of his revolutionary spirit
had overwhelmed them.
THE DYING ORDER
Then Gorky himself appeared on
the stage. He had been noticed
among the audience and, finally
yielding to the continuous stormy
applause, he stepped to the stage
to acknowledge the ovation. Grey
and somewhat stopped, but still
sturdy in appearance, he bowed
awkwardly, obviously embarrassed
by all this fuss about himself. He
did not make a speech, and it was
hardly necessary for him to add
anything to the play. For two acts
the audience had been witnessing
a mastery portrayal of the decay
of capitalism on the eve of the
october Revolution. In the person
of the INSCRIPTIONS, greedy mer-
chant, Egor Bulichev, the audience
recognized the composite portrait OF
Russian capitalism, and in his
agony of body and spirit (Bulichev
was dying Of cancer) one could
easily read the doom of the old
order. The crafty charlatan Cav
rila Gabriel. who undertook to
cure Bulichev by the simple process
Of blowing the trumpet and thus
eXpelling the bad air" from his
decayed vitals, blew with all his
might, the orchestra caught up and
augmented the ominous sounds of
the trumpet, and with the fall of
the curtain one felt as If the very
walls of the old order came tum-
bling down.
Undoubtedly, the effect Of the
play was heightened by the circum-
stance that throughout the Soviet
Union preparations were going on
for the celebration of the fortieth
anniversary of Gorky's literary &C
tiYity. Indeed, the premiere of
"Egor BulicheV and Others" was
given on the very eve Of the formal
Gorky celebration at the Bolshoi
Theatre where the working class
representatives of the Party, the
government, the trade unions, the
Red Army, the literary and scien-
tific societies of the workers and
peasants republic paid glowing
tribute to the great talent and the
equally great revolutionary fight
ing heart of the veterans of prole-
tartan literature.
IN the 25th of September, when
" the celebration at the Bolshoi
Theatre took place, most of the
Soviet papers were filled with ar
ticles on the Gorky anniversary.
Throughout the land of workers
and peasants the proletarian press
acknowledged the great service
rendered by Gorky to the working
class and it's struggle for emanci-
patton. High praise, expressed in
words of human warmth and af-
lection, came from the workers,
from the Central Committee of the
Party, the Council Of Peoples Com
missars, the Revolutionary Military
Council, the Commissariat of Edu-
cation. To these were added per-
sonal greetings by Comrade Stain,
who wrote;
II heartily congratulate you
and firmly shake your hand. l
wish you many long years OF life
and work, to the joy of all toll
ers and to the fear of the enc
mics Of the working Glass;
Among those to greet Gorky was
the immortal leader Of the work.
ers' revolution, Lenin. The papers
featured Lenin's high opinion of
Gorky as a proletarian writer. At
The time when the Mensheviks
were trying to belittle Gorky as a
proletarian writer and were show
ering upon him the slanderous
praise of being a writer for all
classes" Lenin wrote lin 1910 !:
IN. Gorky is undoubtedly the
greatest representative Of prole-