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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Questions and ANSWERS

We publish today the second of
several letters with accompany
ing answer in connection with the
discussion in this department on
Oct. Is on the question Of what is
the correct attitude for the work.
ing class on interharriage be-
tween Negroes and whites. We
are printing only those letters
taking exception to the position
of the revolutionary vanguard on
this fundamental question.
Editor, Daily Worker:
On page 7 of the Daily Worker
Of Oct. 18th are a question and an
swer which are of very great i'm
portance. Now I am not a party
member. I have, however, been a
reader of the paper and a follower
Of the party theoretical line for a
long time. I therefore feel at lib
erty to disagree most empkatically
with the reply to that question.
You say in many words that if
a white person expresses himself as
being unwilling to marry a Negro,
then they are white chauvinists"
and therefore not good Communists.
cannot see why you should tie up
the party to a course of that kind.
Communist theory says absolutely
nothing about whom one should
marry, and why you should commit
the party of Lenin and Marx to the
policy of definite intermarriage Of
the races is more than I can IN
derstand.
The conrade who asked the ques-
ton was no chauvinist. He was a
broad individual, with honest opin-
ions, honestly expressed and if he
had a personal preference for his
own race in sex relationships, I
think you are entirely wrong in con-
demning him -.
Your answer could turn thousands
and thousands away from the party.
The party line could be only one
thing in this respect; Intermar-
riages are not to be condemned, nor
encouraged either. Children Of
these marriages naturally are TO be
accepted as equals as well as the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
M u S [ C.
Satire on Fentinisnt


PRINCESS IDA, Gilbert and SuIli-
van operetta, presented by the
GOyIey Carte Company, at the
Martin Beck Theatre.
WE are warriors three
W Sons Of Gamma, Rex,
Like most sons are we
Masculine in sex.
Politics we bar
They are not our bent
On the whole we are
Not intelligent"
This delightful ridicule of the pro-
fessional soldier runs through the
whole of Princess Ida," the Gilbert
& Sullivan operetta played last week
at the Martin Beck Theatre. The
story is parody on Tennyson's
Princess" and satirizes the extreme
phases of the then growing feminist
movement.
Prince Hilarion, engaged to Prin-
cess "I-I-I-I-da" at the extremely
early age of one" comes to Ida's
university for man-hating women
and finally wins her from her I'M
becoming, emancipated pursuits. But
there Is lots Of fun in the process.
The rollicking scene where seal
ing party of hand-picked tenors in
vades the castle of the thoughtful
virgins, is especially we'll done. The
entire cast acts and sings very well;
the utter gravity with with they
carry out this farce is very funny,
Gilbert and Sullivan were both of
middle-class parentage and back
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parents. But the party could not
possibly command such intermar-
riages under penalty of being called
white chauvinists.
NJ. KING.
Answer: The Communist Party
does not command intermarriage Of
Negro and white persons, and GER
tainly there was nothing in the An
swer published in the Daily Worker
Of Oct. 18th that could lead to such
an erroneous impression. The Party
does not say that a Negro must
marry a white person, or vice versa.
1t does say, however, that all re-
Strictions to the freedom of the in
diyidual in the matter must be
broken down in the interests of the
unity Of the toiling population,
white and black, against their COM
mon oppreSSors. 1t fights against
the ostracism of mixed couples
who have dared to defy the dictum
~ VIZ WA4AbC 4u44A4S NldSS Adllll-lll~
termarriage laws in some 80 states.
Without the sharpest fight against
all boSs-imposed restrictions between
the toilers of various races and ma
tionalities there can be no true in
ternationaism Any fight for Ne
gro equality that does not include
full equality in all social relation
ships could be nothing but hollow
mockery. A truly revolutionary
party cannot be guided by oppor-
tunist considerations that its posi-
ton on the Negro Question could
turn thousands and thousands away
from the party" but must boldly
state its position and seek to con-
vince all sincere white workers of
the correctness of its position. This
the Communist Party is doing with
increasing success, even in the
South, the stronghold of the white
chauvinist poison Of the imperial
lists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Contest by the Neev Dance Group

NEW YORK-The New Dance
Group is sponsoring contest for
the Workers Dance League. The
contest calls for a prize winning
dance script or scenario for ballet
or mass dance. One need not be
dancer or director of dances in
order to participate in the contest.
This is for workers, writers, poets,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

dancers who have ideas they would
like to see performed. Subject mat
ter must be suitable for May 1st
performance. The prize will be the
entire Little Lenin Library. Dance
scripts must be submitted before
January LIST, 1885 to the Dance edi-
tor, New Theatre, ia West l4th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

THE 1884 season continues to grow
duller and more insipid. Now
it is that little thing by Connolly
and Elser called so appropriately
The Farmer Takes a Wife,
Mother Goose fairy tale for the not
too grown-ups.
Quaint and growing quainter as
the play progresses, interrupted by
long, nostalgia signs, the unevent-
full drags on, while "canawlers" and
their cooks spend their time
quarreling and making faces at the
railroads.
And if the above reference to
canal cooks should stir in any
readers mind the possibility Of
something salacious. let us reassure
him at once that everything is
sweetness and light on the Erie
"Canawl," a lost Eden darkened
only by the threat of the iron horse.
1t is hard to get angry with the
innocuous little thing. The hero is
handsome and the heroine cute.
Perhaps it is only a growing dys-
pepsia caused by seeing too many
Broadway productions that makes
me cantankerous tonight. But as I
left the theatre, I glanced again at
the stubs Of my tickets presented
to us so graciously by the manage
ment). They were priced $3.50
apiece. by a coincidence, exactly
the amount which home relief fol-
lows grown man for two weeks
food.
Our readers can get the same
effect to be derived from seeing the
play by staying at home and eat
ing great mouthfuls of powdered
sugar. Like the play, it will get
into their nostrils and into their
hair.
To those so inclined, we recon-
mend the Farmer Takes a Wife"
as an effective soporific and an
excellent aid to the digestion-if
they are lucky enough to have a
meal under their belt. The tender
smiles with which the metropolitan
critics received the play raises
serious doubts in my mind as to
their virility.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

Contributions received to the
credit of David Ramsey in his
Socialist competition with Jacob
Burck, Mike Gold, Harry Gan
mes, Ann Barton, del and the
Medical Advisory Board, in the
Daily Worker drive for $4,000
Quota-S250.
Total to date ................... S28.24
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
FALL TERM ANALYSIS
OF Los ANGELES
WORKERS SCHOOL

We have just received a COM
munication from the Los Angeles
Workers School. A total of 200 stu
dents registered for the Fall term,
all Of whom are native Americans.
A large percentage of the students
are employed in light industry and
white collar work. The balance are
composed of basic industry work
ers, professionals, etc. a great
many students attending the school
are affiliated with the various
trade unions.
Several Workers Schools have
sent in reports on their activities
concerning the Sacramento terror.
We would like to hear from the
other schools.
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Graphic Description
of Lower Middle Class
Decay in Herbst Move

novel memorable was the clf
with which Josephine H
shWed us that Joe TreXler's d.
fall was not an individual d
but the defeat Of a class, and
the set-Up Of American societ.
such as could spell only enor
waste and corruption Of energy
ability and ordinary human de
for the middle-class.
Now The Executioner
picks up the threads ".
first novel left of. Mrs.
is Joe's sister. Her husbs
lost his business and has e
work for a larger firm that
to take away his business. h,
in other words, become a me-
Of the proletariat while still
ing in large part to his bourE
theology. But Herbst is clear enc
in her own mind to show us The
economic forces are in themselves
determinants Of character and that
it is not mere chance that Wendell
does not look with hostile eyes on
the I.W.W., whereas his son-in-law.
who is thoroughly saturated with
the capitalist boss psychology.
should portray all the SYMPTOMS Of
incipient fascism.
IN THE same way, the two Wendell
1 daughters, Rosamund and Vic
toria, in rebellion against the
American dream which has turned
out such a dud for them, are en-
tirely in sympathy with the Wob-
blies, who symbolic the revolution
airy possibilities of the American
people on the West Coast and in
the Middle West in the early days
Of the World War. Rosamund and
her husband, who returns from the
war unable to adjust himself in the
social pattern, are typical Of those
members Of the lost generation
who didn't have the opportunity to
drink and fornicate their way
around Europe in the early TWEEN
ties. They are crushed by adverse
economic conditions. Victoria and
Jonathan. who has also broken with
his middle clsss heritage, set up
housekeeping for themselves in a
rural community,
Here again it is not by chance
that Herbst shows Victoria and jon
athan living in sort of island cut
off from the mainland Of Ameri-
can society at the time. But the
mainland itself is changing rapidly
and before the end of the book,
with the shadow Of the depression
falling first upon the farmers. the
two young people find that they
have sought and found their own.
There is work to be done among
their new neighbors and friends,
the embattled farmers.
I have written elsewhere of the
fine soil quality Of Josephine
Herbst's prose, which is perhaps
seen to best advantage in the oc-
casional "1ash-aheads" in the pres
ent novel, those excellent word pic
lures of different sections Of the
United States in the grip of the
depression. Josephine Herbst de-
serves to be much more widely read
than she is. $500
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Contributions received to the
credit of Del in his Socialist
competition with Mike Gold,
Hardy Cannes, the Medical
Advisory Board, Ann Barton,
Jacob Burck and David Ramsey,
in the Daily Worker drive for
$4,000. Quota--S500.
Van Dermoien ..S so
j. Edwards ........... LOO
Previously received ..o.. 103.8S
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East Side Post No. 191 of the
work erS Elk Servicemens
League, feeling a close comradely
bond with Uncle John, have
written him asking him to do
his buddies a favor. The Post
needs a radio, D. G. currents
badly but they can't pay for one.
Would some sympathetic soul in
possession of such radio turn it
over to the Post? It should be
sent to 50 East Bird Street, New
York City. P. S. The Weasles
promise to credit all collections
for the Daily" to Little Lefty
(They say this isn't bribeD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

I HAVE guilty conscience and might we'll talk it
all out and get it and done with.
This columnist has sternly avoided all the tricks
with which bourgeois coumnsts fill their space He has
rarely talked about himself his views caulifower
pajamas and similar trivia But today he must talk
guilty It happen
again
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
CHANGE
THE
WOR RI D!
By MICHAEL GOLD

HAVE guilty conscience, and might we'll talk it
all out and get it and done with.
This columnist has sternly avoided all the tricks
with which bourgeois columnists fill their He has
rarely talked about himself his views caulifower
pajamas and similar trivia. But today he must talk
he guilty conscience 1t
again
Pangs of Adolescence
IT They
the readers this column, of the
of letter that makes one feel like skunk one doesn't rush to
typewriter and send an immediate reply
from young with bad problems
out of work going through bwderng love affair
they by always
solution youth nnegnt
Many them Communists haven't
adjust their personal lives to the great struggle advised
the hitch star" but isn't always
guilty long comradely
these of them need Spartan
discipline They going through the adolescence
that why of their relatively problems
to them But good dose of social with the
criticism and that activity
Of the rotten spots.
only yourself
work with others and how to act 1t better than all this harg
this self-doubtng this bourgeois introspection.
Only penalties too
of 1t destroy But better
than perish the morbidity
has funciond lived And in the life action
glorious moments and adventures that the trapped jewellers the
dungeons of ntrospection feel
Action Intelligent Communist action world
that gives one roots in life
Vast Social Neurosis
RUT know this kind seneazins will satisfy
personal
problems nobody
world capitalist
merely reflection only
another variety of mpotent reformi and cannot the
evil AS fast victim helped this capitalist system sends
the
Yet must all determine to be WE'LL
unemployment oppression this
happen The that
need sympathetic physician.
who
made physically and mentally sick by the chaos and horror
Daily Medical doing splendid JOB
all this is drop in the bucket
Those Haunting Letters
THOSE letters piles repeat they haunt
but what's to be done7 I only
much work to do speak several times
be lecture tour for MONTH
Middle West must write daily column about the
haven't yet written get dozens phone calls
all kinds of who things I
this neuroc city, eating trying get
nights occasional
picket line
try keep this know that
what am doing is nothing how of leaders
wok-Ea Browder, Hathaway the
sacrifice time health the every
for the movement without expecting even wanting anyd
But those letters Something in
week For months tried
down the job 1t is really days itself and
time for other work So don't try
haunt Who is to help all these workers
ntangements? But this capitalism Of
over Mr. Rooe
ves America and renews bitterness against his
system of profit and poverty
And hope the writer's try understand my
predicamen and forgive u.s. seem to have personal problem
here almost bad Of those
TO be solution for it.
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competition with Jacob Burck Ramsey Harry Cannes
Barton Advisory Daily drive
for 100000 Quota-S50c.
oauc Iionahuer SLVV
Patients Of Exp T. Home ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100
previously received 2S227
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ofbe
THEATRE

MOHtHfHLs of Powdered
Sugar
THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE
a play in three acts by Frank B.
Elser and Marc Connolly, pro-
duced by Max Gordon, at the
46th Street Theatre.
Reviewed by
LEON ALEXANDER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

parents. But the party could not
possibly command such intermar-
riages under penalty of being called
white chauvinists.
NJ KING
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Young Actor Explains.

TOHN BEAL insisted on having q
y clause inserted In his film contract
which permits him to return to the
stage for q period each year.
Beal is the young Broadway actor
who surprised Hollywood nearly a
year ago by refusing q f1lm contract
and several fiattering offers after his
first performance before the cameras
In Another Language" He returned
to the New York stage and played the
lead in "She Loves Me Not"
He recently completed with Ricardo
Cortez and Barbara Robbins the ro-
mantle drama HAT. Coat and Glove, "
new R-K-O Radio picture. The
agreement which he signed Is unique
in that it allows him to spend his
Winters on the stage.
'I feel that the stage is the place
to learn to act" Beal explained. in
pictures you put into practice what
you know. I want to learn all I
possibly can. BY dividing my time
between stage and screen I can store
I'D an invaluable background of we'll
rounded experience.
"On the stage you have more time
to develop q Characterization. During
long rehearsal periods you get to the
bottom of a characterization. Then,
while the play runs. you have the
opportunity to experiment q bit-try
a piece of business one way a certain
night and another the next and note
the audience reaction. You pick up
new bits of technique, add constantly
to your knowledge Of characterization,
and increase your confidence as you
60 along"
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Recital at Auditorium.

AN EXTREMELY interesting recital
"A of violin and vocal music was
enjoyed by a large gathering at the
Washington Grove Auditorium Friday,
August 10. Pupils of Carl Jaspan,
well-known violinist, and Louie
Thompson. prominent tenor, being
the soloistS Artistry was displayed
in the convincing manner with which
each master work was presented. Two
songs written by Louie Thompson
were much appreciated. There were
numbers by Bach, Martini, Donizetti,
Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Saint
Saens, Mendelssohn, Burleigh, Mozart
Schneider, Coates, De Bero-t, Louie
Thompson, Nachez, yucca and Lalo.
Those who performed we're Lisette
Thompson, Samuel Cohen, Randolph
Lewis. David Epstein. Albert Nelson
Herbert Fisher, Grace Ella Hobley
Paul Linder and Matthew Mezzanote
The accompanies who gave sympa-
thetic support were Dorothy Hobley
Ruth Pryor and Theodore Rosenfeld.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
In Local Music Circles

ter. Duets were played by Harry De-
maree, Doris and Donald Demaree
Miss Callahan is vacationing at pres
ent throughout Western Ohio and
Indiana and will visit the Century OF
Progress Exhibition at Chicago She
will resume her classes in piano study
September /.
Mrs. Dudley c. Jackson presented
Jean Louise Wilson in a piano re-
cital last Thursday evening at Miss
Wilson's home in Takoma Park.
Warren F. Johnson, organist, will
play ''Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in
c Major" by j. S. Bach, before the
evening service at the Church of the
Pilgrims today.
When the Roadside Theater pro-
duction of The Drunkard" opens
Tuesday night, it will be embelished
as were the first two melodramas, by
piano accompaniment by Louis Ma
lone, young composer. Mr.. Malone
graduate of Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, this past May. has writ
ten a number of the interludes for
The Drunkard," particularly the
mad" music for Agnes and we'd
ding march. While at Peabody, he
had four scholarship, based on his
ability in composition and writing
music. While studying at Peabody
he did radio work, both solo and as
accompanist.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Wanted-Billie Burke.

WHERE is there an actress who
w looks like Billie Burke did 20
years ago? Miss Billie Burke would
like to know. william Anthony Nc
Guire would like to know. Universal
Pictures would like to know. They
would all like to know in order to
give her great opportunity in pic
lures, the role of Mrs. Florenz zieg-
field In "The Great ziegfeld," which
Universal intends to produce as soon
as it can find the players 1t needs
for the very exacting parts in this
production. Universal is finding it
more difficult to cast this produc-
ton than any which has been made
at Universal City IN the last 20 years.
The only cast selection so far made
has been eminently satisfactory.
william Powell will play the role Of
the late Florenz Ziegfeld. But who
will play Billie Burke? Who will
play Anna Held? Who will play
Marion Davies? Peggy Hopkins
Joyce, Helen Morgan, Marillyn Miller,
Ann Pennington, Gladys Glad, Doro-
thy Knapp, Gilda Gray, Mary Eaton,
Ina Claire, Nita Naldi, Dorothy Nc
Kaill, Billie Dove, Ruby Keeler, Mae
Murray and a host of others whose
names have been put in electric lights
by the great glorifier.
The last girl that Florenz ziegfeld
chose was June Knight, and In all
probability she will have a part in
the picture herself She is busily
engaged in "Wake Up and Dream"
being featured in this Universal pro-
duction with Russ Columbo and Roger
Pryor.
Not only are Billie Burke and VIII
liam Anthony Mcclure searching for
this exacting cast, but Patricia Zieg-
field, daughter Of Billie Burke and the
late Florenz ziegfeld, has taken a
Job In the production ofnce at Uni
versal to work with MCGUIRE, who
Is going to make the production. Her
efforts at present are concentrated on
picking out a chorus which would
conform with the ziegfeldian stand
ards, the keynote Of which Is 'intelh-
gent beauty. william Harkrider Is
designing the sets.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Spirit of Fun

Passion" Is 90 per cent amateur. Oh,
they're actors and actresses Of note,
all right. Claude Rains, Whitney
Bourne, Margo and the rest have all
made their mark on Broadway. But
they're all practically new to the
movies.
Ben and Mac felt that they had TO
have Plastic Material Tin capitals) to
mold their ideas, so they rounded up
players who were natural and hadn't
absorbed any Of the standardized
tricks Of Aim actors, which makes so
many Of the latter stilted, phoney and
unnatural.
New players are the only ones who
are really natural, except for the really
great screen players, and we couldn't
afford those for our initial venture"
explained Macarthur. Besides, how
many geniuses have we in American
Don't answer. You might not men
ton me-"
It's q sheer delight to watch the
HechtM Macarthur team do its stuff
II the spirit strikes them, they may
hold up q scene In order to play a
game Of Backgammon ON the set.
When Margo or Claude Rainx goes
out to repair ravages in their make
up the producers Immediately raise an
awful row. Then, when the alarmed
players dash back on the scene they
likely as not are sent out again TO buy
sandwiches, sodas or what have you.
Despite these antics, or more prob
ably because Of them, the whole tech
nical crew has caught the infectious
spirit, and the studio huns like q bee
hive whenever the fooling stops. As
the result Of this, Crime without
Passion" was completed In 28 working
days, something of a record for people
who absolutely refuse to take working
days seriously.