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Evening star., 1934-05-24
Leroy H. Thayer

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Audience Reused by Theatre Union Production of Steuedore"
Injunction Sought to Bar Performance Of Ner0 Duncan Dancers
Has Monopoly on
Name, Hints Irmd
Duncan in Suit

NEW YORK.-A court order to
prevent the New Duncan Dancers
from performing at the Workers
Dance League Recital at the Brook
lyn Academy of Music tonight was
sought in Supreme Court yesterday
/ by Irma Duncan.
The case came up before Judge
Aaron Levy in Special Term, Part /,
of the Supreme Court yesterday
after Mignon Verne and Julia Lee
vine, members of the New Duncan
Dancers, had been served with q
summons ordering them to show
cause why an injunction should not
be issued restraining the defend
ants and each of them, their agents,
servants and employees, from pro-
ceeding with the dance recital at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music on
Friday, April 90
In her complaint, Irma Duncan
declared that she alone had the
right to the use of the name Dun
can" whereas the defendants de-
clare that Irna Duncan has no
monopoly on Isadora Duncan's
| name.
Both defendants are former
pupils of Irrna Duncan. Mignon
Verne toured the Soviet Union dur
ing 1881, and was for a time asso-
ciated with the Isadora Duncan
Dancers at the Park of Culture and
Rest, as we'll as dance critic of the
Moscow Daily News,
The defendants point out that
the Isadora Duncan School Of
Dancing is in existence under the
direct supervision of the Commits
sariat of Education and is training
thousands in the mass dance.
Irma Duncan, who is not related
to Isadora Duncan. came to the o..
S. in 1928 with a Duncan group,
consisting of II girls between the
ages of IS and 10, some of them
orphaned by the Revolution.
After the expiration of the period
set for the group to perform here,
it was learned that Irna Duncan
had sought unsuccessfully to get
the children to renounce their So
Wet citizenship, and urged them to
accept music-hall contracts here.
When the Russian children re-
fused to renounce their allegiance
to the Soviet Government, Irma
Duncan refused to pay them $1,000
due them, and left them penniless.
The day before they were to leave
the U. S. she seized their costumes,
curtains, ETC., that Isadora Duncan
had provided when she founded her
Moscow studio. Moreover, through
court order she attached the
trunks of the young dancers, and
had them seized on their way to
the boat, but the trunks were later
recovered.
The Duncan Dancers from
Moscow created sensation
when they came to the U.
S, in 1928. At the fourth ami
versary Of the Daily Worker, thou
sands of workers crowded into the
Manhattan Opera House in New
York TO witness their performance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

sented; the good" Negro whose
refuge and gospel is the bent back
and the cringing acceptance of
every humiliation the white en-
ployers impose; the playful Negroes
who are content to laugh and sing
everything off in the way certain
white dilettantes most enjoy to pic
ture them; the slow-thinking Ne
groes whose minds are still IN
formed but in whose arms and
hearts there resides great power
and heroic deeds-and the increas-
ing minority who are aroused to
consciousness by militant union
organizers as well as by the stir
rings of their own pride and I'M
derstanding. The native humanity
and decency of this seething group
Of people is outraged by the saw
age "man-hunt" that follows the
barbsric cry of Rape" and the in
eviteble pressure of events acts as
a lever to hoist them to the level
Of defiance and resistance, led by
the class conscious Negro and aided
by their Comrade -wallopers"
from the union.
IF "Stevedore" has no other scene
in it but the one in which we first
meet the colored workers during
their lunch hour on the wharf, it
would still be a distinctive addition
to American drama. The whole of
the Negro situation is lucidly, en-
tertainingly, unforgettably drawn
there. 1t contains the most crea-
tive work in the play and easily
ranks as one of the leading pieces
of dramatic writing in our steadily
growing revolutionary literature.
EXCEPT for the closing moments
Il of the play-of which we have
already spoken-and the general
lustiness of temper which the scene
represents, nothing quite touches
the peak of the first dock scene.
Some of the weak spots here and
there, we believe, could be elm
mated by cutting-occasions1 sacri-
flee should be made Of speeches too
obviously stating thoughts which
have already been demonstrated in
action. Also there is q tendency to
achieve both suspense and comedy
relief by funny lines in the midst
of tense dramatic developments.
These comic moments-some of
them at the very end completely
right-defeat their purpose. They
halt the action and produce an eff
feet similar to the use of an emer-
gency brake on a speeding train;
they also dissipate the tone of earn
est reality which the play must
never lose, for when it does it be-
comes theatre" in the conventional
sense of the word. Finally, in the
scene before the last, the concern
with the Negro who is being pur-
sued for the crime he didn't COM
NIT is almost completely dropped
from the play, which diminishes
the soundneSs of its plot.
The cast is good; some of it
we hate to mention names in a
fundamentally collective effort
magnificent. And the audience on
the opening night with its pro-
longed cheers and eager enthusiasm
must have been liberal educa-
ton" to the critical gang" from
uptownl Altogether very en-
coraging occasion in the history of
the American revolutionary theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
TUNING In
BELOW 200 METERS
Ry SHORT WAVE RADIO CLUB
OF AMERICA


Tuning in on the Short Waves for the
last two weeks, We came to the conclusion
that the IS meter band will be the best
band for foreign reception this Spring.
Experimenting for two days on the Is
meter band, we had very good reception
from $50 am. to pm. The best Sta
ton heard was FYA Pontoise, France
It's signal was steady with plenty OF
volume England, Germany and Italy were
not bad either
There will be very little 10 say about
Moscow until they change their time and
wave-length. We suggested to them the
50 meter Wave and the time should be
from 8 to 10 pm. THE same time Ger
many comes in on the 40 meter wave).
Sunday, April Is. at am. IN Y. time)
we heard the Moscow Station RNE re-
broadcast through the MIC Station wEAF
The reception was especially directed AZ
New York
The reception was fair, but after 10
minutes Of the Soviet broadcast WEAF
cut them of. We listened to the Moscow
program up TO 9:45 am. and it seems
that RNE did not know that they wers
so abruptly cut off, as they kept on an
nouncing to the American listeners
This is another argument in favor Of
our Clubs policy that We should have
our own Short Wave Receivers, for con-
tinuous Soviet reception, and no fsvors
from MIC, or any other company
According 70 the NBC plan there should
be another re-broadcast Sunday, April z.
and also Sunday. May 6. Consult with
the newspapers for the time and Station
The Technical Bureau Of the Short Wave
Radio Clubs Of America is ready to give
technical assistance to all Of the Radio
Clubs and branches. Address all mail to
the Radio Editor. care Of the Daily Worker,
50 E. 18th ST., N. z. O. If lecturer or
code instructor is wanted, requests should
be sent In week or more in advance.
All those who are interested in Sound
and Public Address Work, should send in
their names and addresses and also the
time they are free for such work to the
Radio Editor Of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
BY JOHN L. sPIvAK

FRESNO, Cal. - ''The In
| perial Valley Anti-Commu-
nists have somewhere between
5000 and 10000 members,
expecting to reach the lat
ter strength by next week,
and It is to be hoped that they
do. II must not be forgotten
that the Communists drive is
not a labor disturbance but the
genesis of a revolution; It is not i'm
proved wages, hours and working
conditions which are the ends
sought, but the overtUrn Of the gov
eminent and that from a Commu-
mist standpoint it is better to lose
strikes than to win them, since to
lose q strike promotes discomfort
and bitterness. The workers who
are dupes of the agitators do not
understand this, nor is it explained
to them. For this reason, defensive
organizations against Communist
sgitstors is absolutely necessary.
The San Joaquin Valley folk,
who were plagued with the Com
munists last summer, and the VAL
encia orange growers, likely to have
similar affliction soon if steps
are not taken to prevent it, will do
well to form similar defensive or
CARNATIONS
The action that is needed is to
get rid Of the Reds in the most
expeditions manner. Disputes as
to wages, hours and working coudi-
tons can be compromised. No com
promise with Communism is pos
sible."
This from an editorial in the
vicious Los Angeles Times,
IT is quite apparent that the hint
l to use armed force is present in
this editorial; and the organization
Of q true fascist body which as
sumes the powers of the state is
apparent in this Anti Communist
Association.
In the news columns all anti
Communist activities by state,
county or the vigilante committees
are chronicled with big headlines,
especially the current tendency to
pass local ordinances prohibiting
meetings, ordinances admittedly de-
signed to sotp organizational activ-
tiles among the migratory workers.
As an illustration, both of the
way news is presented and exactly
what these ordinances prohibit, I
quote one story from San Jose
paper:
Santa Clara County orchardists
today were armed with legal
weapons to combat recurrence this
year of Communistic agitation.
striking and rioting in Valley fruit
orchards, which we're feature of
last years pear harvest.
Two county ordinances, one
regulating the holding of parades
and professions on any public high
way, sidewalk or alley in the UNI
incorporated area of the county,
ana Che other regulating the eS-
tablishment of camps on county
ranch properties outside the in
corporated limits of cities and
towns, were adopted by the board
of supervisors.
The ordinances were prepared
with the cooperation Of the Santa
Clara County Pear Growers As
ISOLATION.
THE first ordinance makes it I'M
lawful for any persons or groups
Of persons to sit, loiter or stand on
public highways, alleys, sidewalks
or cross walks in the unincorporated
areas of the county so as to obstruct
free passage Of persons or vehicles
or to create an annoyance.
TT further provides that 1t is UNI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
STAGE AND SCREEN

Rockets have important roles in
the production.
Beginning Saturday, the Jefferson
Theatre will show The Lineup, -
with Marian Nixon and william
Gsrgan, also Hold That Girl" with
James Dunn and Claire Trevor.
Lou Holtz in School for Ro-
nance; THE March of Champ
IONS, a Grantland Rice reel, head
the screen program at the Trans
Lux Theatre this week, The pro-
gram also presents "Jest of Honor"
a Sogolow cartoon, and the News
reels, which includes Ambassador
Troyanovsky welcoming the first
Soviet crew to enter this port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
When Editors Urge
Action Against Reds

lawful for any persons or groups
Of persons to OostuIct the passags
in any church, hall or theatre en-
trance, or any other place of public
/ assembly.
To hold a parade, procession,
musical program. address or debate
in any public place or park or on
a public highway in the unincor-
| porated county area. a permit must
/ first be obtained from the board Of
/ supervisors.
The second ordinance provides
that it is unlawful outside the cor
porate limits Of a city or town to
operate a camp in the area Of ons
I acre housing ten or more persons
or two or more families living IN
or occupying autos, vehicles, camp
wagons, tents, temporary buildings
or any other types Of temporary
shelter, or without shelter. These
provisions DO not apply to the
operation Of auto camps licensed
under the state law
The only way in which such
camps may be operated under this
ordinance is by the issuance Of 2
permit by the board of supervisors
to an applicant who submits. in
addition to his application, q GER
tifcate signed by three or more re-
putable citizens attesting to his
good moral character.
Violation OF either ordinance Is
punishable by fine of $500 OF SIX
months in jail"
Organizers, apparently, will be
permitted to breath the free Gala
fornia air.
The Silver Shirts have been and
still are trying TO gain a foothold
in this new organization but with
little success. The Legion in the
more spsrsely settled areas Is quits
active, The Red Squads, especially
that under Capt Hynes Of the Los
Angeles Police Department, Is much
more successful in working with
these vigilantes, I assume it is be-
cause the viglantes either know or
sense that the Silver Shirts Is a
racket for the leaders.
This sense of racket comes over
even those not thoroughly familiar
with their work The past activities
Of some Of these fascist leaders has
been made public and the vigilantes
look with sskance upon them. For
instance, the following are the OUT
standing fascist leaders in this hot
bed Of fascist development:
Capt. Eugene r, Case. leader Of
the Silver Shirts of California, a.
soldier of fortune who obviously
does not care a whoop about the
Silver Shirts or anybody else's shirt.
He's in it for the "coconuts" as he
calls the money received from col
lection plates and donations to the
noble work
DR.. Weber, Silver Shirt national
orator; formerly an evangelist.
Evangelism did not bring In the
proper returns so he became a mers-
Der of the Ku Klux Khan. When
the Klan was shattered he lined Up
with Policy and the Silver Shirts.
DR.. Dequer, once an organizer for
the Socialist Party. When the Tech
nocracy craze swept the country he
became a Technocrat. When that
petered out he became a Silver
Shirter and now earns a comfort
able living hating Socialists, Jews
and Communists.
TO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

al l1ClSS, Leu IL SutllGH lut the
moment to say that it is an
intensely exciting, thoroughly
rOusing, and in every respect pro-
vOcative play. Argue about it as
one may, pick flaws here and there,
it has a steadily mounting dramatic
line that reaches a climax to which
no one can remain Indifferent. To
put 1t mildly, it gets you.
The special merit, moreover, of
this play is that for almost the first
time in the recent history of our
social drama, We are presented with
the image Of successful revolt in
Immediately fife C tive, plausible
American terms. The spectacle of
temporary defeat from which one
may derive a bitter determination
to carry on the struggle is, Of course,
the natural and realistic ending to
most plays which set out to describe
the beginnings of any revolutionary
movement. But there comes a time
when an audience in the theatre
demands the even more inspiring
picture Of the struggle at the mo-
ment of high hope, direct action
and concrete advancement: the mo-
ment which symbolizes for them in
the most inescapably graphic terms
the possibility of achievement, the
break from suppressed discomfort to
the flame of combat and triumph
The final scenes of "Stevedore" and
the whole spirit of the acts which
precede them have forward
rhythm, a forceful movement toward
what, one feels, cannot but be a
decisive conformation Of issues with
the sense Of victory in the very act
of that conformation. The spirit
Of "Stevedore" is young, aggressive,
almost gay. 1t laughs with the con-
fidence of fresh power. It shows
the proletarian movement (and in
cidentslly the new theatre) moving
onward with the assurance of I'M
deniable strength, This is Steve
dores' first contribution.
It's second is its expert treatment
of the Negro problem as part Of the
vaster problem of the working class.
It's purposes, one might say, is the
embodiment of Earl Browder's
statement, THE cause Of the eman-
cipation of the Negro from their
special oppression is inextricably
bound up with the cause of the
emancipation of the working class
from the oppression of capitalism"
No play that we remember has so
clearly dramatized this connection
between Negro persecution and the
economic causes for that persecu-
ton.
FIRST one sees q white girl beaten
by her lover, and in fear that
her husband might discover her in
fidelity, takes refuge in the safest
lie that she can think of: Negro
attacked her We then see the
brutal, wholly illegal methods by
which the police try to fasten the
imaginary crime of rape" onto
almost any Negro whom they can
possibly brand with it. Finally, we
are introduced to the Negroes place
of work-the New Orleans docks
and we are shown the utterly slave
like condition in which the white
bosses resolutely keep them. All
sorts Of Negro workers are pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
"The Mikado" Returns Mon
ddQ For Another Week

The Gilbert and Sullivan players
at the Majestic Theatre. where
Trial BY Jury" and "Pinafore" is
now playing. will revive The Mika-
Go" again for one week beginning
Monday, William Danforth, Roy
Chopper, Herbert Waterous, Hitzi
Koyke, Vivian Hart, Vera Ross and
John Cherry head the cast. 10
lanthe" will be the fourth produc-
ton in the current revivals and will
open on April 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Theatre Guild TO Present
Zig iSdU" On ApriI 30

Jig Saw" by Dawn Powell, will
be the sixth and final Theatre Guild
production of the current season
opening at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre April 80. Helen Wesley.
Ernest Truck, Spring Byington,
Cora Witherspoon and Eliot Cabot
are the principal players.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
"Stdnd UD And Cheer" New
Film At Radio City

Warner Baxter and Madge Evans
head the cast in Stand Up And
Cheer" the new Fox musical film
now showing at the Radio City
Music Hall. Other players include
John Boles, James Dunn and Aunt
Jemima"
Impressions of Spring. directed
by Leonidoff, a fantasy in four
parts, is the chief stage item this
week. Caroline Andrews, Lucille
Page, Mildred and Maurice, and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

speaks at the John Reed Club
Forum, 43o Sixth Ave, this Sunday
night.
John WeXley, author of Steel"
and They Shall Not Die" will act
as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
John Howard Lawson To Discuss PLAYS at the
John Reed Club Forum Sunday Night

NEW YORK.-The dying Broadway
theatre and the growth of the revo-
lutionary theatrical groups will be
discussed by John Howard Lawson,
author of Professional" Success
Story and other plays, when he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

Greet your fellow workers this
May Day through the columns of
the DAILY" All greetings mailed
to us before April END will
positively appear in the May Day
edition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
JOHN EMMETT

Irish worker difdnty handed poem little
n ago when I speaking in Boston.
Technically ehetcay and politically the poem
But it precious thing does
Nay spirit pro
letarisn struggle.
they come again And
they their they again they
wiser stronger the drowned blood
It's teaches victory
The spirit of the undveoped Irish is this little
heroic impulsive emotional inddualic
material which
today there
steel into weapon against capitalist imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

win your name appear in the
May Day edition Of the Daily?
Make sure that 1t will. Send
your greeting today. Address.
Daily Worker, 80 z. 18th St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
CHANGE
TIE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

TO THE FAUGH BALLAGH BOYS
Feed me steel
The hot steel of revolt
Let me eat the pigs
Cri&r and glowing in the mold
Let me lead the demonstration
Put me in the front of the ranks
And when the cops come
On the run
Looking for easy meat
Feed 'em to me
l am O'Shaughnessey-
Winner of a thousand brawls-
I'm hungry
And I've just walked up!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Play of New Orleans
Negro Longshoremen
Seethes With Struggle
''Steyedore" Ranks High in Revolutionary
Drama; Outstanding Negro Cast
BY HAROLD EDGAR

There are TOO many important aspects to the prOduc-
ton of Sevedore the play by Paul Peters and George Sar
which the Theatre Union opened on Wednesday night to deal
with adequately in first review We shall probably have
occasion to back to many times the course of future
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
The Usual SelI-Out

THINGS moving fast in old Ireland The British imperiass
thought they had neatly seved the situation 1922 when
result of the epic struggle Of the Irish Republican the
workers and peasants united behind them the British established the
Irish State.
It the se-out the did the fighting
but the borgoe took the spos at the conference table
happening the accept
similar betrayal,
And the Irish satisfied hypo
critical treaty and sham Free State They knew they
nothing from it, for time, Valera able
feeling and last ride into But
De Valera the de Cespedes Of the Irish
last Irish Communist the field
imperialism and Irish fascsm 1t growing every day.
world history of these days