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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26


Why this decline for the last
two and half months?
At the last meeting of the Sec
ton Literature Directors, on Au-
gust IL. the following facts were
brought out in regard to Sec
ton 7:
I. No cooperation from the
Section Committee.
2. No cooperation from the
Agt-Prop.
%. The Section Committee
failed TO appoint literature
Committee.
4 Literature money was used
for rent and other purposes,
making it impossible to buy new
literature when needed.
AS a result of these four OBJ
stacles, the following situation
resulted:
L. Units were not visited by
the section literature committee
to explain to the unit members
the proper methods of literature
distribution.
2. Branches of mass organi-
nations were not visited to push
the sale Of revolutionary liter
allure.
3. No meeting halls Of union
ard organizations were covered
daily.
4. No attempt was made to
start house clubhouse routes.
5. No meetings of Republic
ans, Democrats, or Socialists we're
covered by our comrades with
literature.
Are the above shortcomings
m&ncl,lt to ovescone? Do they
nsed cuprhunxn cggapizat!opal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26
GAPS Disclosed in Literature
Front of NeeV York District

ability? Not at all. Just an I'M
derstanding of the political inn
portance Of literature. Just CO.
operation, of the Agit-Prop, just
cooperation of the Section com
mittee, just a continuous cam
paign of enlightment in the
units. Not very hard. Just the
desire really to work.
What applies to Section 7, ap-
plies to every other section in
District 2. On to mass distribu-
ton. Which means mass recruit
ment into the Revolutionary
Movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26

"You can't have that, YOU cam,
steal itP' She hung on to the bas.
with the grip of kind of death
she felt freezing her. Finally Mrs.
Wiggens wrencjled it loose. The
girls nails had torn the bag.
"Sow!" cried Mrs. Wiggens. see
ing the waste. She struck Lily Pur-
cell across the lower face with the
bag. The flour whited her face like
clowns. Her glasses fell off and
smashed. She screamed.
Shes killing me! She's killing
me! She's stealingl She's killing
mel She's stealingr' She was sob
bling, a gulping blubber that shook
her breasts.
Shut up!" Mrs. Wiggens her.
self screamed. Shut upl I'm sorry
I hurt you'll"
Picking up the baby, she ran out
Of the store. - i
.sss4s4a, ITO Be Conttnuedl
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26
Pennd. Farmers
Fight Tax Sales
by Farmer Correspondent)

HUNTSVILLE, Pa, Aug. 24.-One
hundred fifty farmers met here Aug
ust l, and organized Farmers Com
mittee for Action for this township.
Discussion centered around below
cost of production milk prices, "sur-
plus" milk, sheriff sales, gas taxes,
mortgages, interest rates and taxes.
Most of the farmers who spoke called
for unity between farmers and work.
erS expressed as follows; workers
and farmers must stick together as
both are being squeezed. "-"Don't
forget what we farmers are working
people. "-"Our interests are the in
terests of the working class"
A group of milk wagon were pres
ent and described conditions that
they must face in the city, fighting
the same enemy, the Milk Trust.
They told of wage cuts and deduc-
tons for breakage and bad bills.
The meeting endorsed demands for
one-half the retail price of milk for
the farmers, no gas tax, no evictions
or sheriff sales, cut in interest
rates from per cent to 2 per cent,
moratorium for farmers who cannot
pay taxes or interest.
The farmers around here are very
conservative, religious and peace
loving, coming mainly from the Ger
man peasants who settled here 300
years ago. Now for the first time
they are actually confronted with the
prospect of losing their farms on a
mass scale. The new situation re-
quires new approach. This they are
looking for.
These farmers organized under the
name Pennsylvania Farmers Pro-
tective Association" which now has
membership in four townships around
lKulpsville. Some of the demands,
particularly against taxes and fore
closures are similar to those of the
United Farmers League. These
farmers should consider affiliation to
the League, to get nationwide backing
for their struggle. National headquar-
tiers Of the League are in Superior,
Wis, P. o. Box "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26

Stop The billion dollar subsidies
to the trusts and banks. Immediat e
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense Of the government and en-
WVyeLM a4,is wg<
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26
By PAUL PETERS.

(The writer of this article, au-
thor of "Mr. God Is Not In,
Wharf Niger" ETC., was form
erly steel worker in the Pitts
burgh area and has frequently
written on the steel workers. VIM.
y. Foster, Communist candidate
for President, will shortly tour
the steel regions.l
CTRETCHING down the Ohio
y River from Pittsburgh and up
the Allegheny is the Kingdom of
the Steel Trust. Each city in this
region, known as the BLACK VAL
ley" because of its filth, dust,
smoke, cinders, and poison gases,
is centered around an enormous
steel mill with high concrete wall
like a fortress. Each of these
cities-Aliquippa, Ambridge, Nc
Keesport, Duquesne, Braddock,
Homestead, dozens of others-iS
a little absolute monarchy with
the Steel Trust as the government.
Enforcing the despotic rule of
the Steel Trust - the U. S. Steel
Corporation and its subsidiaries,
known as independents" - is an
army of state troopers under the
liberal" Governor Pinchot, an
other army of privately paid thugs,
uniformed and armed by the trust;
and third army of lickspittle
sheriffs, mayors, aldermen, and
police, all bought and paid for by
the steel barons. Over the whole
of this kingdom, only two weeks
ago, was appointed as Gar one of
Mr.. Hoover's cabinet buddies, for
mer Secretary of Commerce, Rob
ert Lamont.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

~ DING right by our Nell is
now one of the favorite
~ pastimes of the prosperous
M-G-M company. AS soon
as a player is Salted away from
one of the rival studios and tucked
under M-G-M's velvet hood.
things begin to happen. Women
suddenly assume undreamed-of
beauty, men learn what it is to
find themselves suddenly as they
really are and should be.
The most felicitous example of
this is Phillips Holmes, who up un-
til now has been handed rather
a sorry bunch of onions by those
whose duty it is to sort the cellu-
loid chaff from the celluloid
wheat. Mr.. Holmes, formerly
hailed as a budding John Barry
more, and replete with what were
said to be very blue eyes and very
curly hair, Jared not so we'll after
the initial bombs had burst
around him. After one or two
successful ventures he began TO
lose ground and through a long
and dreadful period scattered his
acting Iaurels to the winds.
Most famous of all unfriendly
gibeS presented to him land these
columns were not backward in
the gane) was the "one express
sion" taunt. Even his best friends
and fanatical female fans deplored
the fact that he was turning from
butter to stone. Relax, kid, re-
lax!" they cried at him. But the
ex-trouper of Princeton'S music
and dancing show (the Triangle
Club went around in a gargan-
tuan gaze and walked through his
roles staring rapturously at moth
ing.
The best of the seasons
dramatic roles were dropped at
his feet. He emotionalized oppo-
site Nancy Carroll and Sylvia Sid
ney. He was given the very great
privilege of drowning Miss Sidney
in "An American Tragedy; he
played the violin in The Man I
Killed" To no avail! He drowned,
he fiddled-all with the same
look. And when he grew mus
tache things began to get worse.
Mr.. Holmes, in other words, seemed
to be falling into the cold and
seer of life.
Now suddenly presto! - the
curtain rises and there is new
Phillips Holmes. You may see him
at his best in this weeks Might
Court" He has two expressions
three, four, five! For the first
time in what seems like a decade,
he smiles. Gone is his pained
look, his wax features, his frozen
eyes. He breathes, talks, laughs
and acts like a human. He even
seems to be enjoying himself.
When he gets punched in the
nose, his reactions are quite nor
NAL, and when he is beaten and
part way butchered, he doesn't
Squirm around with that "one eX-
preston" A bloody sight, he yet
is quite presentable with his new
set of manneriSms, and his happy
facility of being very much him
self. A complete transformation,
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Holmes Discovers Another
Expression, and Ais Well
Star of American Tragedy" Does Some Fine
Work In Night Court, Thereby Confusing His
Critcs-Other News of Movie World
By E. de S. Melcher.

the M-G-M firm may be certain
that it has a find" on it's hands.
Mr.. Holmes at this late date
isn't, of course, strictly speaking,
a find" He has entered, how
ever, period of acting rejuvena-
ton and should be counted on
for some of the finest roles of the
year. One of the few gentleman
actors who can shed tear with
out seeming sloppy, he can SEN
timentalize and emotionaliZe all
in the same breath. And, if his
proWeSS continues with the leaps
and bounds diScernible in Night
Court" he should soon be un-
leaShed opposite the leonine
Garbo, who, it is said, is planning
permanent Seclusion in a Swed-
iSh iceberg.
"NIGHT COURT" as matter
of fact, is the most brutal
picture on the market. Now that
Hollywood has disposed of anti
prohibition, it has taken up this
new form of Sermonizing. One
wonders, in fact, if the film will
be shown at near date tn a Ger
tain northern metropolis where
such troubles as are piCtorially
presented are said to be rampant.
Patrons described as 'lily-liv-
cred" are not advised to visit this
film with an idea of particular
enjoyment. Although it is strong,
melodramatic affair, handsomely
acted by Phillips Holmes, Walter
Huston and others, it is also full
of blood and thunder, and its
theme is not by any means a
children's lullaby. Such violence
as is enacted within its folds Is
likely to cause many Nightmares
among the populace, and the
sound of that poor infant wall
ing out it's loneliness is enough to
break many a mothers heart.
TT seems strange that Marlene
C"Shanghai Express") Diet
rich, James ('The Crowd RoarS"J
Cagney, and Josef (director) Won
Sternberg are at outs WITH the
cinema world. The news that
they are likely to be dropped by
the wayside is said to be further
proof that Hollywood will have
no more to do with temperament.
1t seems that Miss Dietrich
wouldn't come to the studios on a
certain Monday morning, that Di-
rector Won Sternberg didn't want
to do part of a film over and that
James Cagney wants $4,000 more
a week than he is getting.
Other news of the studios in
cludes the signing of Leslie Banks,
actor and director, to the R-K-O
fold; the beginning of the cinema
version of Blessed Event." under
way at Warner Brothers studio
with Lee Tracy doing the Roger
Prior act; the signing of w. c.
Fields by Paramount, to help
along Jack Oakie in the Olympic
games comedy picture, and the
starring of Paul Lukas by Uni
versal in the perturbation of Louis
Bromfield's "No. 55"-said to be
a SpeakeaSy saga.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Glen Echo Park Opens.

NEXT. Saturday may not be a red
letter day in the calendar, but
1t has all that Importance to Wash
ington and surrounding country, for il
marks the opening of Glen Echo Park
the playground for young and old
where every amusement desired can be
had for small sums
Most of the old favoriteS have been
improved; the Old Mill, while built
entirely new last year, this year boasts
new and grander scenic effects, with an
elaborate desert scene. The airplane
swings, big roller coaster, dodgem
rides, Skee ball alleys, shooting gal
leries, midway and other diversions
are all ready to spread the gospel OF
Joy to thousands who will make Glen
Echo Summer headquarters
Time and thought have been given
to the picnic grounds, now in shape
to accommodate capacity crowds The
entire park has been painted and
slicked up so that it shines like a
newly minted dollar.
OF extra special Importance is the
news that the magnificent swimming
pool will open on May % at noon
This year. also, MacWilliams and his
band will hold forth at the ball room
With the latest dance music, and from
the opening day the usual fine car
service will be in evidence. Plenty OF
parking space free as we'll as in the
protected area, where a small fee is
charged, will be available.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Manager and Musicians
Clash, But Show Goes On
National Players Dig Into Their Own Pockets to
Settle Diferences-Noel Coward Play
at the Belasco-Word and Music.
By w. H. Landvoiiet.

directly charge, that the lack of
musical fire and appreciation is
a sort of national failing in this
good old country of ours. 1t may
be that the catch comes in the
real definition of what is called
music" Even the most unpreju-
diced radio listener must confess
that some of the music" that
comes over the air from many of
the leading orcheStraS and en-
sembles of the New York hotels
and night clubs-perhapS, also
from those nearer home-leaves
an open argument as to what is
music" Shakespeare, of course,
hadn't a radio, so he could not
be expected to know if the germs
that linger in the system of some
of our modern musical artists are
basically music or something else.
HOWEVER, "all's we'll that ends
we'll" The motion picture in
dustry has hugged this aphorism
to its heart since the time when
the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary" hence "the happy
reached a time in the affairs of
men when selfiShnesS and self
preservation are engaged in a
battle to the death. 1t is often
difficult to identify the one from
the other of the combatantS. The
world is often hasty in its judg-
ments, and just as "all that gilt
ters is not gold" so "dogs are not
always as black as they are
painted" Patient forbearance is
virtue sorely needed and safely
reliable. When the smoke OF the
battle over music and musicians
has cleared away there will still
remain the shining glory OF the
little band of National Theater
PLAYERS, who, when prospects
seemed the darkest, gallantly
dug deep" and "coughed up"
from pockets not heavily laden
with "the long green" or the
shiny metal and made their sac.
rifice. "The show must go on!
Ancient tradition must be VIM
dicated. And who says that even
a selfish world will not reward,
as we'll as applaud, the heroes that
have made their sacrifice to main
tain it?
TT may be of interest to some
theater lovers in the National
CAPITAL to learn that Annie Rus
sell, once one of the stellar lights
of comedy on the American stage,
is now tackling Shakespeare S
Romeo and Juliet but as a pro-
ducer. not as an actress, in her
own theater, at Rollins College,
Winter Park, Florida, endowed
from the estate of the late Ed
ward Box, once the editor of the
Ladies Home Journal. Miss Rus
sell. the report states, is taking
complete charge of the produc-.
ton, including the supervision OF
the designing of the scenery and
the costumes. 1t suggests the
thought that, perhaps, woman
ultimately may rescue the Amerl-
can Theater from its sad plight
and lift it again to the pinnacle
where it belongs.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Now Comes With Speech.

0,THE MIRACLE MAN" one of the
great masterpieces when the
silent picture afforded respite for the
tired business man." now reappears as
a "talkie.'
Sylvia Sidney plays the girl crook,
hardened. cynical and scheming; Ches-
ter Morris is the two-flsted, brutal
leader of a gang of crooks, who scoti
at everything good; Irving Pichel is
seen as the atheist who defles God un-
til his own son is cured by miracle
John Wray. as The Frog, is an obvious
character who twists his body into
grotesque shapes; Robert Coogan is the
pitiful little cripple boy; Ned Sparks
the "dead-pan" pickpocket, and Ho-
bart Bosworth the beloved faith healer.
Boris Karloff, as the half-caste mem
ace; Virginia Bruce, as frail invalid
and Lloyd Hughes, as the millionaire
brother, provide important elements OF
the story, with Florine Mckinney as
the sweet, unsophisticated daughter OF
the hotel owner, the lone straight
part.
THE Miracle Man." as revived, is
now at the Earle.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Famous in Yiddish Art.

A NINA APPEL, star of the Yiddish
n art, for Is years has appeared at
the head Of one of the most select group
of stage artists in the world, the Yid-
dish Art Theater.
Yet this distinguished star saw her
name emblazoned on theater marques
for the first time for her screen debut
in R-K-O Radio Pictures Symphony
of Six Million" now at the R-K-O
Keith Theater.
Miss Appel was born in Bucharest,
Rumania, but with her parents, she
emigrated from the old world to Cana
da. At Is she was playing in a Mont
real stock company in classical plays
Her New York debut occurred with
Jacob Adler, in series of Tolstoi plays
later she appeared with Rudolph
Schildkraut, and then for is years she
played steadily with the Yiddish Art
Theater
Symphony of Six Million" Is her
first motion picture venture in Amer
lea, although she made silent film In
Vienna.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Z ATHRYN GIVNEY, back again with
the National Theater Players after

LIle NdllOlldl 1LlCdNI ldyCAo d4tCL
an absence of two years, has been
places and seen things" including some
of the celebrated spots of the earth.
Kathryn had one trip to Europe, also
a fight in the movies. Yet II you ask
her about either she will tell you there
was one thing she wanted more than
anything else" and that is to get back
to Washington and the National
Players.
Now, it happens also that Kathryn
Givney has had quite a creditable ca
reer in the theater. Between Broadway
and Hollywood she has played many
parts. She has been out with stock
and road companies, and has had all
sorts of roles. She believes, however
and Clifford Brooke, her present d1-
rector, who pays her high compl1-
ment, doesn't gainsay her-that the
best is yet to come.
Kathryn Givney has never yet turned
in a bad role-that is to say, she always
knows her part and plays 1t well. -Four
seasons ago this fact attracted the at
tention of Broadway producer. who
signed her for part In John Wray's
play, "Nightstick." In that play Miss
Givney returned to Washington after
its Broadway run in the role Of hard
boiled sister, known in the underworld
as a ''moll," the sweetheart Of a gun
man. 1t was much like her part in
"On the Spot" AS a result Of that fine
piece Of stage acting Miss Givney won
a contract with one Of the biggest film
companies in the business, and she
played the same sort Of role In the same
Evening star., 1932-05-01

undergoing the rude heckling of the
maniacal Blisses in Hay Fever"
OF the nine players who appear in
Hay Fever" all but one-Julia Hoyt-
are British born, but Miss CosSart gets
under the deadline by so short time as
nine months, for it was at that age
that her father, eager for exhibitions on
another continent, took her to Toronto
from his native London
Up until the hour that Patterson
McNutt produced Hay Fever" Miss
CoSsart's New York maneuvers in the
theater had been confined to a brief
moment in the Theater Guild S
Miracle at Verdun."
About Miss Cossart there is no i'm
pressive list of biographical notes, no
saga of amateur nights and stock COM
pany engagements and endless tricks
about managers Offices.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
PLAYER Without a Past

VALERIE COSSART, who presents a
convincing Characterization of the
lachrymose and bewildered f1apper from
Piccadilly Circus in Noel Coward S
comedy, Hay Fever" is the daughter
of Ernest Cossart, who can be located
in George Bernard Shaw's latest
comedy, TOO True to Be Good" Mr..
Cossart is one of the stalwarts of the
New York Theater Guild.
In extenuation of the fact that he is
not so profigate a contributor to
Equity's roster as George M. Cohan,
Fred Stone or Ethel Barrymore, Mr..
Cossart. as stage parent may say that
if his fatherly Instructions had been
considered Valerie would now be sit
ting before a piano in Carnegie Hall.
rather than on the stage of theater,
Evening star., 1932-05-01
As Folks See Them.
MARIAN MARSH and Warren v

MARIAN MARSH and Warren Will
w liam, who are featured in the
talkie version Of "A Church Mouse,
titled by the movie makers Beauty
and the Boss are said to bear a
striking resemblance to none other
than the famous John Barrymore ano
Dolores Costello, his wife.
Miss Marsh. who had her first big
chance as Trilby with John Barry
more in "Svengali," is said to have
been selected by the acutely critical
John because he was forcibly impressed
with her resemblance to his wife Do
loreS. Ard. be it not forgotten, she
was selected over a host of aspirants
for the Trilby role, some of whom
had fair reasons for believing they
were entitled to the preference.
While Warren William is thought by
some to resemble the great tragedian
OF the Royal Family of Broadway
there are others who think the re-
Semblance is rather accidental than
otherwise. But here again the fair
Dolores figures in the equation, for
William was Miss Costellos leading
man in Expensive Women" And
maybe that has something to do with
his looks.
Both Miss Marsh and Mr.. William
however. have amply demonstrated
that they have histrionic gifts all their
own which entered into consideration
doubtless, in both instances.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Kathryn and Her urge"

sort of play, on one occasion acting
alongside of John Wray, who has fur
nished the stage and screen with many
a thriller.
You know" says Miss Givney. II
have no disillusionment whatsoever.
But 1 do have the idea that acting Is
an art, and that a person who wants
to be successful at 1t must work hard
very very hard. 1t is not as easy as 1t
may look out front. 1 know, too, that
many women imagine actresses lead
idle lives
They ought to know the hard and
long hours that are put in at rehearsal,
the studying involved. Housekeeping is
a pleasant pastime compared to work
in the theater unless you have the
urge"
r There is a distinctly human side TO
Kathryn Givney, and that's why she
has SO many loyal admirers.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Prosecutors Standby.

CIRCUMSTANTTAL evidence comes
~ very close to sending a beautiful
girl to the electric chair in The Trial
of Vivienne Ware"
How she escapes and lands in the
arms Of romance forms the basis of a
very tense and interesting picture now
at the Fox.
Joan Bennett has the leading role,
supported by Allan Dinehart. Donald
Cook. Lillian Bond and ZaSu Pitts.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Truth and the Symbol.

BECAUSE Joan Bennett believes In
telling the truth to Adrienne, her
3h-year-old daughter. the youngster
does not believe in Santa Claus. 1t all
happens at the Fox Theater in The
Trial of Vivenne Ware" because the
mother believes that telling the truth
to children is the only way Of gaining
their confidence
"It isn't matter of volunteering In
formation" she says. but when q child
asks question 1t should not be nisled
by charming untruths."
But to annihilate Santa Clatai ..-
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

PALACE-Grl Crazy" Musical stage show featured) This
afternoon and evening. -Four times daily)
RIALTO-The Doomed Battalion" This afternoon and
ming
FOX-"Tra of Vivienne afternoon evening
EARLE-The Miracle Man" This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-Night Court" This afternoon and evening
and the Boss This afternoon and
evening.
KEITHs-" Symphony of Six Millions" This afternoon
evening
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