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The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Quick GlinApSes

Lyle Talbot is scheduled to leave
the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
today. Report is he received more
wires from more different girls
than any patient the hospital ever
had. One of the major studios
is spending $1,000 on the teeth of
a screen newcomer who draws
only $50 a week salary. Nearly
every new player, you know,
spends the first week at the den
lists.
Ida Lupino was squirrel to Elsie
Janis dinner by Jack La Rue.
Wonder what's happened be-
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Promising PLAYER

Dorothy Burgess, who plays in
Ladies Must Love-" now at the
Rialto Theater, started her stage
career in Dancing Mothers.
Her last picture was Hold Your
Man" with Jean Harlow.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
GUILD PLAY PREMIERE TONIGHT
Mdryof Scotland
Opens Tonight
At National

Mary of Scotland" Maxwell
Anderson's new play, will be given
its world premiere at the National
Theater tonight by the Theater
Guild, prior to it's New York open.
ing.
Helen Hayes heads the large
cast in the production. Miss
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

school suffered
through certain
reflections here
on the rowdy
c on d u C t OF
students in q
downtown the
alter last Thurs.
day night. She
writes:
1t W q s
shock to see
that the ig-
n o m / n / GUS
c o n d u ct of
certain pu-
pills necessi-
tated the ex-
plOitatiOn of
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

by the fact that occulists have
ordered her to wear glasses to
correct a marked astigmatism.
The redhead still is undecided
what to do with her vacation.
One plan is for her and Rex
Bell to go to their ranch on No
vember /. A second is a trip
to Honolulu at about the same
date. If Hawaii wins out, Rex
probably will remain in Holly
wood.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
MORTON DOWNEY

MORTON DOWNEY
ports that the most popular song
in the Irish songbird's program
this season is THE Rosary"
Beats all the new hits for ap-
plause. Mons. Downey included
it as an encore at first but was
compelled to make it the big
number of his regular repertoire.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Screen Stars Drop Alterations
When Visiting Home Town

Davis was censured by sedate
friends of the family who objected
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

Miss Jerry Massey, of Western
High, is embarrassed because she
feels the good name of her
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

It's an Ordi-
nary story but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Shirt Workers Under N RIA Earn
Weekly Wage of $40, Survey by
i. S. Labor Department Reveals

ated 4S hours or more a week"
Information gathered on the num-
Der of children under 16 among
these slave workers, was mot con-
elusive" the report continues. But
it does say that "at any rate, one
per cent Of all the female workers. {.
were reported by the management to
be under 49,"
After enduring these conditions for
three years, under the eternal terror
OF no-work, the turner's, the
cuff-makers, the Stock-room boys, all
the workers began to develop what
the report calls "a new temper. ="
They began to strike. Big strikes, in
the spring of 1888, in Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. Some followed attempts by
organizers to unioniZe, but many, the
report naively contributes, "were ap-
parently spontaneous uprising S
against intolerable wage conditions"
Many of the strikes we're Settled
often through the strike breaking
intervention of the Labor Depart
ment's "conciliators."
Work, work, work, while the cock
is Growing aloof," Thomas Hood
wrote in his past-century Song of
the Shirt" And work, work, work,
till the stars shine through the roof"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Stage and Screen
Clare Hummer Comedy, "Her
Masters Voice." Coming
to Plymouth Oct. %

"Her Masters Voice" Glare Kum-
ner's new comedy is announced for
Monday, october % at the Plymouth
Theatre. Roland Young and Laura
Hope Crews, who have been in pic
lures the past few years, will play
the leading roles. Others in the cast
include Elizabeth Patterson, Frances
Fuller, Frederick Perry and Francis
Pierlot.
Divine Drudge" a new play by
Vicki Baum and John Golden, will be
presented by John Golden on Thurs
day, Oct. 26 at the Royale Theatre
with Mary Christians, Walter Abel,
Tamara Geva and Minor Watson in
the principal roles. The play will be
seen this week at the Boulevard
Theatre, Jackson Heights.
Walter Hampden and his company
are playing this week at the Majestic
Theatre in Brooklyn in his new pro-
duction, "Ruy Bias" a new version Of
Victor Hugo's play. Brian Hooker
made the adoption. Hampden plays
dual role.
Maurice Schwartz will present his
new production, THE Wise Men Of
Chelem," fantastic comedy by Aaron
Zeitlin at the Yiddish Art Theatre
this evening. Schwartz will play the
leading role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
THE NEW FILM
BY IRVING LERNER

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY
THE VIII, a screen drama by Lajos
BRO and Arthur Wimperis; directed
by Alexander Korda, made in Eng
land by London Film Productions;
presented by United Artists at the
Radio City Music Hall, with the fol-
lowing cast: Charles Laughton, Rob-
ert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Elsa Lam
chester, and Franklin Dyall.
"The Private Life of Henry the
VIII" proves several things: that
Charles Laughton is one of the finest
character actors of the SCREEN; it
also establishes the fact that films
of high technical merit can come
from England; and it strengthens our
conviction that we have little to
hope for in the way of an honest
and realistic historical film from a
bourgeois studio.
1t is not a new thing for Alex
ander Korda to present the private
lives Of famous historical characters.
In 1927, he made for First National,
the film version of John Erskine's
1.-THE Private Life of Helen of Troy"
Korda's stay in Hollywood was prof
liable for. him. He learned how to
make slick movies. He learned how
to avoid reality and apply instead
the technique of superficial sophisti-
cation. 1t is for these reasons that
this present film has the advantages
of a finished Hollywood production
with all of the decorative atmosphere
and elaborate settings, good photo
graphy, Western Electric sound re-
cording, and witty dialogue. While
it is true that Henry the VIII" is
funny and amusing (only as joke
or cartoon in The New Yorker
is funny, it is far from being the
wonderful movie that the critics of
the capitalist press would have you
believe. '.is
1t is no argument that this film
only is concerned with Henry's pri-
Yate life and that it does not pre-
tend to be a historical chronicle of
England in the 18th century. Even
as production of Henrys private
life it is false. The film attempts
10 explain the monstrous and tyranni-
cal despot as kindly and much
misunderstood person. 1t wants us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

to believe that it was for the good
of England that Henry the VIII acted
as he did. There are one or two
weak jabs at high politics and poll
tical speeches, but they are lost in
the jungle of Henry's mistresses and
numerous wives-his private life"
There is not a single frame, not
a single title, about the important
political, economic, and social events
during the reign of Henry the VIII.
Outside Of the people in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the palace, we
do not even get a glimpse of the
masses. AS a matter of fact, one
gets the impression, from this film,
that there were no other people in
England at the time.
Hundreds of feet of film are spent
on showing us how Henry belched
and guzzled his food, but not a foot
about the foundation Of the Anglican
church; the struggle between the
Pope and the English clergy. At
least one reel is spent on showing
us in detail the execution of Henry's
second wife, and not scene of the
War of the Roses, the foundation Of
Tudor rule in England, and the
changes in the political map Of
Europe.
There is a good reason for max
ing these historical films so vague
and flimsy. Even Elstree (the Eng
lish Hollywood and Hollywood know
that historical film is more than
a chronicle of days gone by. 1t is
precisely in such times as these that
films like Korda's are valuable to
the ruling classes. Imagine what
the effect would be on the English
masses if the studios would have pro-
duced an honest and sincere film of
the life of Henry the VIII. The
type of historical film I'm abiding
to is being made only in the Soviet
Union. Compare the superficial
Henry the VIII" with the Soviet
Gear Ivan the Terrible" A pro-
found film that did not exploit the
mad and barbaric debauches Of Ivan
but showed the relationship of the
monarch to the people and the social
forces of the period.
1t is impossible to apologize for
this film on the grounds of good
entertainment" 1t simply doesn't
satisfy. I saw it twice. The second
time by accident. The first time I
was amused and entertained" by
Laughtons acting. The second time
the entire thing was flat. Even the
acting left no impression. If the film
is to mean anything at all as an art
and healthy social instrument then
we've got to demand something more
than this kind of disguised entertain
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Screen Notes

Irene Dunn in Ann Vickers" based
on Sinclair Lewis novel, is the screen
feature at the Palace Theatre this
week. owen McGiYney in "The
Manor Murder Mystery" heads the
vaudeville bill.
"Too Much Harmony" featuring
Bing Crosby and Jack Oakie is new
showing at the State Theatre. Dave
Apollon and his new revue, Sur
prises of 1885," is the principal stage
act this week.
The short subjects at the Trans
Lux Theatre this week include Clark
and Mccullough in 1.-THE Gay Nine
ties; Screen Snapshots; a new
Mickey Mouse cartoon, THE Me
chanical Man; Three Little Pigs"
and the Newsreels.
The Paramount is now showing,
I'm No Angel" Mae Vests new pic
ture.
Saturdays Millions" with Robert
Young and Leila Hyams is the new
screen feature at the Roxy.
Before Dawn" with Stuart Erwin,
is the new film now being shown at
the Mayfair Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Earnin gs Disclosed
Lower Than Fifty
Years Ago
By MARGUERITE YOUNG.

WASHINGTON. - Stitch,
stitch, stitch, in poverty, hun
ger and dirt
Thus in the early 1905
Thomas Hood described the
plight of the British shirt-sewer.
And today, in lines less poetic but
more stark, the United States Depart
ment of Labor reports that things are
precious little different for the Amer
lean Shirt-seWer of MIRA. America,
1893.
Stitch, press, wrap in cellophane
"Median weekly earnings of $40
were found" reads the official publ
cation of the results of an investiga-
ton covering 10000 workers in nine
states last June. Many worked for one
nickel per hour. One manufacturer
boosted CTS per cent of his employees
were girls fresh from school,"
There was a reason for the Labor
Departments undertaking the survey
of shirtworkers' wages, and it WASH t
that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot were all worked
up over the workers condition. 1t was,
as the Labor Review puts it, that re-
ports were coming to Washington
showing great restlessness among the
employees"
These notices made 1t important
for the Department to assemble some
information for the use of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Admins
tration." So official inquirers Jour-
neyed into Massachusetts,, Connect
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Indiana
and Missouri,
They learned that "22 per cent of
all workers-men, women and chill
dren-earned less than SIS week, "
and that "of the 1900 women and
girl workers, only "a per cent earned
as much as $40 week and IS per
cent earned less than S."
With respect to actual hourly earn
ingS of the workers, the investigators
had great trouble getting the facts.
ut is significant that the shirt fac
tories keeping time records are like
ly to be a selected group in which
general conditions, including wages,
are above the average" the report
noted. And yet the investigators veri-
fled the scents per-hour wage in the
case Of at least per cent Of the wo-
men workers in four states. They
found that about per cent of the
women workers earned 10 cents an
hour"
They had trouble, too, in determ-
lining the actual numbers of hours
each worker put in during the pay
roll period covered. Exact figures
could be obtained Sin only 81 plants
about one-fourth of those visited"
because most of the plants. did
not keep records of actual hours
worked. Even in the two states where
the hours f-labor labor law required
that actual hours worked be recorded
for each woman worker, many en-
ployers failed to keep such a record,
giving as their excuse that most of
the women were pieceworkers who
came and went according to the
work to be DONE"
In other words, thread-clippers,
examiners, markers - speeded-up,
stretched-out, put first on too long,
then on too short time. what were
reported to be the regular hours of
work F.. ranged from 40 to SIS per
week." but "over half the plants, en-
ploying about $4,000 women, or n
per cent of the total number, oper-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
W I q Y
q =
WOR r.
~Arfa Maroo;' from shantytown Sketches
By Michael Gold

ARIA MarOO; from Shantyt0Wn Sketches
THE year miserable of the
without New York. the familiar landscape
garbage dump shacks by river.
meled like the Others of and melancholy great White
earth hoked with
skeleton of dressmkers model The
gred abandoned boiler the hung with red
the velvet dark passing tugboat pulled and oaned
boxcsrs for three
tired to
cinderple under the stars good enough
the shantytown, hunting in the
garbage society magazine
Shiny brushed clean stuck it for chest pro-
pillow Then he made the real fnd
with months of heavenly tears
nailed sgnpost reading Head
nearby of coke cnke the
boy pulling the mattress him for warmth
frosty flashing with bright clarity like
in loomed the
skyscrape this city, this
wanted sleep
a party of the shack Men
bowling singing of demons they shrked like murder
really impossible to sleep.
Walt found himself remembering That night for instance at the
fophouse the walls announced in big
the
little God would also
matted milk Then socko the boys found
kicked the street this wecack
Louisville Kentucky jngles the old
the kids there Davenport
Iowa. long
to Toledo
amt just buns" But the judge vagged them
tootled
then devils bowling
opium hypnotd like
ball. The flowing cleaned with white the
Iowa Kid asleep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Nine States Covered in
Recent Probe of
Conditions

And the Labor Review of today
says:
Although New York shows both
the highest median earnings and the
largest proportions in the higher
wage groups, the earnings disclosed
by this survey are lower than they
were almost so years ago.
an 1886, when strike and lockout
tied up 10000 workers in the shirt
and collar factories of Troy, N. Y,
the State board of arbitration that
wages of the women and young girls
employed ranged from So to $l8 a
week, with an average of $40. Even
at that time, the settlement called
for wage increases Of as high as 25
per cent"
Today, the official report stated,
95 per cent of the workers-men,
women, and children, learn less than
SIS week" And strike settlements
which the Labor Department helped
to bring about usually included
wage increases of five to ten per
cent"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Mary SteUens, MD" NoU
At the Jefferson Theatre

MARY Stevens. M. d., with Kay
Francis, Lyle Talbot and Glenda
Farrell is the screen feature at the
Jefferson Theatre. Another film,
Devil Mate" with Peggy Shannon,
Preston Foster and Ray Walker is on
the same program.
George Arliss in "Voltaire" will be
the screen program beginning We'd
nesday. Doris Kenyon and Margaret
Lindsay play leading roles. A second
feature, Life in the Raw" with
George O'Brien, Claire Trevor and
Greta Nessen is on the same bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
ARIA Marco!

IT woke the kid seepy them.
McMurra flung out twisted somesau landing heavily
his face! -
looked like STILL lifted pain
fully Sobng groanin he like
his bleeding
his open gasping
Fascinated, melancholy gorilla
oppressed
mysterious hearbreak being Throwing
wild the gorilla howled
Aria mroo! he walled There in it that Walt could
words nothing the
maroo!"
wounded The Kid interfere
trouble that
any call for help Primitive and strange it could not be
McMurra him coming and slowly
And then Walt caught the CLEAN in the madman
regret his mistake.
He started to but it late Dripping blood
bated bull McAdura charged the boy
thick and fell Kid
solid nobody
help.
the city the jobs
the defeated In the melancholy shaks
checkers booze Others
knife and thought Of
stories optimism dreamed
sItay A Finn ground his broad sailors
The Kid finally Inconsistencies
the There
like junk in the putrd shacks Marco!
Marco u Hunger horror and holy ghost Marco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
HELPING MICHAEL GOLD
TO WIN

The following contributions came
in yesterday in response to Michael
Colds challenge to DR.. Luttinger and
Edward NeWhouse to a Socialis IN
petition to raise ST. 900 in the Daily
Worker $4,000 Drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

You need the revolutionary move
ment. The revolutionary move
ment needs the Daily Worker. The
DAILY" needs funds to continue.
Help the Daily" with your inn
mediate contribution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

Henry T. Hunt, general counsel. Federal
Emergency Public Works Administrs-
ton; Professor Charles Z. Merriam,
University Of Chicago,
7:45-Dog Chat-Don Carney.
S:00-Chost With q Mask-Sketch.
Bundesen.
a;45-Billy Hillpot and scrappy Lambert,
songs.
s:oO-Alics Mock, soprano; Edgar G,est,
poet.
9:S0-Beethoven - musical and dramatic
sketch.
10:0O-Ortiz Tirado, tenor; Concert Orch.
1030-Jife of Richard Harding Davis
Sketch; speaker! Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson.
1100-Leaders Trio.
1l:15-Poet Prince.
1130-Whiteman Orch.
12:00-Harris Orch.
1880 A.M.-Dance Orch. o..
WABC-860 Kc
TOO PM.-Myrt and Marge
El5-Just Plain Bill-Sketch,
7;30-Trappers Orch.
7.45-News-Boake Carter.
8:00--Elmer Everett Yess-Sketch.
8,l5-Singin' Sam.
s.30--Voice of Experience.
s:45-Kate Smith. songs.
9.oo-Californa Melodies.
9:3o-Nino MARTINI tenor; Symphony
Orch.
1O:oO-Legend of America-R ,iatization.
I0:3O-Bo3well Sisters, songs.
10;45-Symphony Orch.
1l:l5--News Bulletin.
11:30-Jones Orch.
12:00--Lopez Orch.
1890 AM-Haymes Orch.
l:00-Hopkins Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

Every dollar you send to the Daily
Worker is a blow in the face. of
Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
WHAT'S ON
KednesddH

FILM showing Of the World Famous So
Wet Yilm Fragments Of an Empire" at
williamsburg Mansion, act &c. 5th st.,
Brooklyn, at $40 pm. Auspices Williams-
burg Br., F.S.U. Admission is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
TONIGHTS PROGRAMS

WEAF-660 Kc.
ZOO P.M.-Mountaineers Music.
7:15-Billy Bachelor-Sketch.
7:3o-Lurn and Abner.
745-The Goldbergs-Sketch
8:00-Juls Sanderson and Frank Crumit,
songs.
8:30-King Orch
9:00-Bernie Orch.
s:so-Voorhees Band; Eddie East and
and Ralph Dumke, comedians.
10:00-Lives at Stake-Sketch.
10:30-Beauty-Mme. Sylvia.
1o:45-Rcbert Simmons, tenor; Sears Orch,
l1:o0-King Orch.
11:15--Meroff Orch.
11:30-Davis Orch
Ia:oo-Vallee Orch
1890 A.M.--Childs Orch.
WOR-710 Kc.
TOO P.M.-Sports-Ford Prick.
7:15-News-.Gabriel Heater.
7:3o-Terry and Ted-Sketch
7:45-Demarco Trio, songs; Frank Sherry,
tenor.
3:0O--Grofe Orch; Jean Sargent, songs
8:30--Eddy Brown. violin; Symphony Orch.
9:00-Jack Arthur, songs; Gilman ard Ad-
den, piano duo.
9:15-Tom- Blaine. songs
9:3o-Tammany Hall Rally.
1l:00-Weather report.
II :o2--Moonbeems Trio.
1I:30--Nelson Orch
12:0o-Trini Orch.
WJZ-760 Kc
TOO PM.-Amos m Andy.
Educational Credit for Local Needs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

For Unemployment Insurance,
Immediate Cash Relief Vote
Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
In the Mayors Shack

OUT in NcNdur shack they went bowling They had finished
- alcohol sold paint hard
labeled Poison"
solid and selfrespecting family
with the Wild black OF hair his
gered this shantytown
at their
orgies
pushed his hollow face like snake cNIurra and
yellow trenches
like Officers and a Short Line Casey, who'd
tapped his exactly like
head inhamed though with py heat
Monotonousy shTieed What did
dollars last Chuesday? Dat dolars?'
Incredibly politics played this shanty
this failed the
miserable loot Foul and hot the sfocatng 1t
and old putrid clothing and
ATcNIu1ra like Others bared junk anchor lay
Bundles of tnfo pulp roted under the bed
shack the colony floor was thick
potato Feelings The
Al Smiths smiling face pasted WALL the rooms
only decoration other than cobwebs
him in the lampght His brow wrnkled like
puzzled goa With lifted
hickory shrkng Casey
destroy him.
followed battle the mingled of bucered
the bulls Then all the hncmen formed
united front and threw their Mayor out of his shack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
WOR-71O Kc.
W.JZ--760 K(

TOO PM.--Amos m Andy.
Educational Credit for Local Needs
Evening star., 1933-03-15
INCREASE IN STOCK
PRICES FORECAST
Bullish Feeling Promoted in
Wall Street by, Clearing
of Bank Situation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March l5-Tte opinion
u growing that the market for specu-
lattve shares will be higher
The gradual clearing up Of the bank
ing situation, the Government economy
program and the pronounced change in
public sentiment that has taken place
both in this country and abroad all
combine to influence q more bullish
attitude toward common stocks than
has prevailed for months. The short
interest is known to be most uneasy
and such evidences as commission
houses have received from their regular
clients indicate a stronger disposition
to buy stocks than to sell them.
Debit Balances Small
One of the first limitations may be
. difficulty In borrowing money with
which to effect transactions. On this
point, however, it is to be remembered
that the debit balances Of all of the
Stock Exchange houses are small and
that they could finance a considerable
volume Of transactions on their capital,
which has had comparatively little en-
ployment for the greater part Of the
year. Undoubtedly there would be a
certain amount Of cash buying. but,
because of restrictions placed on the
withdrawal Of large sums by the saw
ings banks, the scope Of this would be
moderate compared with that at other
times, when the public was strongly
OF the opinion that stocks were rela-
lively cheap.
It is conceivable that we might have
period of speculative activity and
higher prices for common stocks in spite
OF statistical evidence that the earnings
and income on these stocks have con-
tinued to fall. Wall Street traditionally
discounts . change in the direction Of
business many months before this is
visible to the casual observer. 1t also
operates as much on sentiment as on
facts. Therefore, for time, while the
upbuildipg process seems to be slow,
the incentive derived from relief from
impending banking disaster and predi-
Gated on better times later in the year
could easily outweigh most adverse
factors in the business situation.
Need for Currency.
The outlook with respect to bonds is
of restored public confidence should
ton in fixed interest obligations, which
eliminated in demoralized markets for
Government and municipal issues and
for corporation bonds last month, grew
out of the necessities of banks to pro-
vide currency for their alarmed deposi-
tors: 1t also could be attributed to fear
that the United States would 60 of
the gold basis. These alarms have been
greatly modified and will be further re-
duced as soon as the economy bill is
passed by the Senate and becomes
law.
tCopyright. 1933)