The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
FLASHES and
CLOSE-UPS
BY LENS

0fOuS ue1enucE Oh ultAeLlStls GAch
husband, Baron van der Decker, ar
rived in Hollywood q few days ago
and Is under the wing of Paramount
Studios Of which Emanuel Cohen Is
head. Van der Decker Is an editor |
on one Of the moro Important Ger
man film papers and high In the
propaganda department OF Goebbeis.
It appears that It is next to impos-
sible to even approach the NaA rat
for an interview and we hereby ven
ture the opinion that Mr.. Cohen, the |
Jewish capitalist, is deliberately hid
ing and protecting himl Class solid |
arity, Mr.. Cohen? What Is Van Der !
Decker doing at Paramount Why |
the secrecya There's something be-
meath all this we'd like to know, Mr..
Cohen.
And here's q little promise, Para
mount. Well expose your marriage to
Hitlerism and your support OF his
agents in this country until Van Der
Decker and Dorothy Week are driven
out Of Hollywood. And maybe you're
wondering how Grade Song" will
be received?
An anti-TIitler film made in Bel |
GUM has been lying around in New
York for three months without find
ing single bidder.
Bravo, G. w. Pabstl... The di-
rector of "Westfront" and Kamerad-
schaft" has turned down the first
story submitted to him by Warmers
:. An idiotic yarn for Ruth Chatter
ton. Round One: Pabst carries 1t
on points so far. Round Two: Will
he weaken, will he weaken?
Interesting comment on bourgeois
film critics in Variety:
The great majority of misjudg-
ments appear in ratings of pic
lures as fair when they were out
right bad in box-office experience.
There do not seem to be any more
hard to please critics, and the COM
PLEASANT attitude toward screen
quality was particularly untimely
during the summer just passed.
The moral of this being: Don't be-
lieve the (capitalisD papersl
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Spring" the film directed by
Kaufman which will open the series
of Soviet film showings at the New
School for Social Research on Nov.
18, under the auspices of New Masses
and the Film and Photo League, con-
tains some of the most remarkable
anti-religious sequences ever filmed
:. Kaufman is one of the foremost
artists of the documentary school
of the cinema in the Soviet Union
and Spring" which has never been
shown in this country before, is his
outstanding work. -.
Children are keeping away from
the movies in such impressive num-
bers these days that movie houses in
large cities have withdrawn their
special children's rates. And little
children shall lead us. The exhib-
itors say they're satisfied, inasmuch
as kids create noise and disturbances
in the movies which tend to scare
he elders away" .Sauergrapes.
If Ruth Chatter (box) ton still re-
tains her rep as great actress after
her bit in Female" this particular
department will fold up for good or
go in for gardening or potato racing
or bridge or Somethin' III print the
names of all my readers who fail to
see it, on my honor roll. .Lemme
know
Max Baer owes the Associated Oil
Co. of Los Angeles $35 for gas and
Gil If you've seen the guy in "The
Prizefighter and the Lady" you'll
realize that the boys honest, though
He's returned a million times that
much oil to movie audiences to square
himself, I guess.
Diego Rivera has endorsed Coo
teau's film, 1.-THE Blood of Poet"
and Wen be looking for his name on
Ex-Lax and Feenamint ads, hence
forth. THE Blood of a Poet" rep
resents the ultimate in the intellec-
tual and artistic decadence. of sec
ton Of the French bourgeois intel
ligentsia. Cocteau Is an avowed dope |
fiend and 1.-THE Blood of a Poet"
should have been entitled "The
Nightmare of a Dope Eater in the
Final Stages of Cerebral Disintegra-
tom. One of the cultural puspools |
Of dying world. -.
The Film and Photo League of
New York is growing by leaps and |
bounds. literally. The Photo Sec
ton has doubled its membership in |
the last month. Its exhibition,
opening Wednesday, breathes with |
the fire OF workers struggles and |
makes the pink-ribbon Photographic |
salon displays of the bourgeois gall
leries look like the last stage OF per-
nicious anemia. The Film Section |
now has so students in it's school, all |
of whom have signified their inten-
ton to remain In the organization |
as active members upon the compile |
ton Of the course. Production on an |
important film starts In a few weeks |
...Soviet film showinss on the 18th |
Of the New School for Social Re- |
search. ."And you amt seen nothin' |
yet" says Tom Brandon, secretary.
81 FROM HARLEM ORGANIZER