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Bruce, but she had to live, didn't she?
Or did she? She wondered If she did.
Yet she went ahead grimly with her
plans, and was packing her divorce
trousseau for the six weeks in Reno
door, home at an Unexpectedly early
hour. He had nearly caught her going
over his letters and snapshots, prepar-
ing them for the moderator by drip
ping tears all owe them. She managed
to hide the bundles of obsolete love un-
der a fur coat before he came in. He
was laughing and that was an aston
ishment. She stared at him in sur
prise at his laughter and at a sudden
realization of how much better looking
a man he really was than that Marley
cad. But she smiled:
"Why the innocent mirth and I'M
holy glee? Why the glad Homecoming,
sweetheart, at this early hour?"
IT was laughing at the grand joke
MI. Dryden got off at the office to-
day."
"Old A. j. got off a good Joke? High
time! What wa tiff it's fit for my
ears"
1T isn't really, but you ought to hear
it."
"All right, I'm braced. What was the
joke, Mr.. Bones, that MI. Dryden got
off at the Officer"
Me"
"You?"
me. He got me off the pay roll"
"That old beast actually fired your"
Nothing so inspiring as that. No
fire. He just put me on ice. I take a
| three months vacation without pay,
then I come back on the pay roll, If
any, at a twenty-five per cent cut"
Heavens on earth!"
"HellS on earth!"
But what about a divorce?"
II got one. The office named old
Gen. Depression as correspondent"
But what about my divorce?"
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Reno is n of the few places still
open for business"
"You don't object to it them"
Under the circumstances it will
come in very handy to cut down my
staff by one wife,"
But the money!"
1.-THE what? Did you say money? O,
yes, that quaint old fashioned word
used in costume plays. Let's not go in
to period stuff. It dates one"
THE money for my divorce! the all
mony! what about it? Do I get it?"
How do I kow The world Is before
you. But you don't get any from me.
I have declared a moratorium and a
suspension of all reparations. I don't
know whether I'm going Bolshevik,
Fascist, or Nazi; but I'm on my way.
There has been a complete revolution
in the Jones empire. Old Gear Bruce
kewitch has been thrown off the throne
and deported to Siberia. Where the
Czarina Coralski goes is her own bus
mess"
"But-my God, what's to become of
me?"
what, indeed? I haven't a cent ex-
cept debts. I'm not going to get a cent
for mumps and mumps. As for the
divorce, I can't even put up a contest
unless you can pay me for it. I'd con-
test almost anything for a nickel"
where would I get any money for
a divorce? You know that papa and
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fake. but everything's fake in this faky
world. I will put up any kind Of fight
your lawyer desires. As for the ali
mony, I car only say that I will go on
paying you far more than I a af-
ford"
Every gallant of you, I'm sure, Sir
Launcelot. I will leave you free to
become the second Mr.. Roscoe"
mi. Roscoe?" he mumbled. He had
actually forgotten the woman for the
moment. He remembered. 20, yes,
Mr.. Roscoe. Well, so long, Mrs. Mar
ley. Thanks for a very pleasant little
marriage"
Coralie went to an old friend who
was a lawyer and he expressed a proper
regret at the breakup of a romance
ono so promising, but he could hardly
conceal his delight at picking up q
much needed fee, for there was a de-
cded slump in litigation, even to
divorce cases..
Coralie could hardly wait to tell Mar
ley the glorious news. When he called
that evening and she told him Of her
impending journey Renowards, it SEEM
ed to jolt him perceptibly. She was
shocked by his failure to give three
CuecIS dIlO b Tiger 1OT Inc
next morning he called her on the tele-
phone and said:
I'm terribly distressed, my dear, at
not being able to take you out for the
ride We vel to have had today, but
I've Just had a telegram calling me
away On vitality important business. I
can't say Just when I can return, but I
shall always remember DUR charming
friendship. What good times we have
had together! Haven't we? Ha, ha,
hal"
His laughter sounded to Coralie like
the three has Of q Mephisto making an
exit in Q grand opera. She managed
20 say Haven't WEI" and to laugh ha-
hah-hahtily; and to hang up the tele-
phone before she went into mysteries.
It was Coralie's nature to grow more
toplofty than ever when she was at
~. And she was certainly right up
against II nov. She would almost rath-
e have died than take aNlmony from
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to her trunk, knelt by it and began tt
lay in it what was on the floor.
What are you up to-down to now?'
he said.
I'm packing to CO."
"Where?"
IT don't know"
ITO Reno?"
If you want me to. And of course
you do"
throat and spread another dress across
the trunk. He dropped to his knees by
her side and took the dress out. She
took it from him and put it back. He
took it out. She reached for it again
He said:
cts a nice game, but how do you
score it?"
She sat back on her launches.
Bruce, I have been a rotten wife"
ITO a rotten husband"
ITO an angel"
Typographical error for angle
worm"
II don't deserve your love. You don't
deserve the burden of my-O, God
what's to become of us?"
Gas the question is not addressed to
me, I will not butt in, especially as I
have no answer. All I know is that
the two can starve cheaper than one. !
intend to hang on to you and perish
with you."
He finally convinced her that they
could afford a divorce even less than
married life. Then he pulled off a strip
Of the tissue paper about one of her
dresses, tore it into bits and, holding
his hands high, sifted it over their
heads.
whats that?" she asked. "Snow?"
Not at all. Don't you know anything
about nature? That's autumn leaves
and those r robins in the air. We are
the two Babes in the Wood waiting for
starvation to overtake us, and the bird
les are trying to get us out Of sight,"
speaking of robins" she murmured,
IT we could only 60 back to u desert
island! How happy we were there"
THAT was because we had only each
other. We still have that much. And
this apartment will be a desert island
before long as the furniture gradually
returns to its true owners, or vanishes
in the pawnshop."
Bruce went first to his landlord and
told him a story of no particular nov
city, as the large number of empty
apartments Of the building showed:
Tive brought you one more little
empty cell in your vast honeycomb,"
said Bruce. 1.-TWO not so busy bees
one Of them a son of a bee-are going
to move out, unless"
"UnleSs?"
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I'm TWO PARTS-PART TWO)

Inc.
Copyright: 1884: BY RUPERT HUGHES
I'M TWO PARTS-PART TWO)
Coralie took to entertaining more and
more. She hardly realized that this
was because other couples mt by one
had to quit entertaining. Bruce, anx-
NOUS about the future, called his apart
ment a speakeasy. His raw pride stopped
him from confessing his alarm. Yet he
permitted the woman who was ruin
ing his life and her own to go on rath-
or than say the things he would have
said at once to her If she had been
helping him. Pride is a madness that
makes us treat our enemies better than
we treat our friends.
Husbands are never SO generous with
their wives as when they are disgust
ed with them. Bruce pretended to be
secure financially rather than risk a
look of scorn from Coralie. And she
method of selling short" She did not
know much about the market, but she
knew that if you sold short and prices
went down you made money. Prices
were certainly going down, SO Bruce
must be making scads of money.
OF course, in their country and in
their circle, the inevitable finish to such
q wedlock was divorce. She mention
ed it often, and once too often. He
snapped up the proposal with a sar-
donic gallantry:
"You always know what I want most
for q Christmas present"
She was shocked by his acceptance
without a struggle, but she snapped
back all the more %viciously:
1T will be Christmas every day when
you are out of my life"
He became the perfect knight in an
inverted sense
But you can't divorce me, my dear,
unless I make a contest. It will be a
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Society people of London are back
ing a plan to establish there a school
of Scottish cookery.
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Published by Special Advancement with The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate,
The daily worker., 1934-02-24

and Photo League sent a delegation
up to the headquarters Of BaVarian
Films, Inc, Tuesday afternoon, but
discovered that the officers Of this
Nazi stronghold are merely using the
impressive address Of 499 Fifth Ave.
as a front to cover up their real hide
out, which is unknown. A small desk
space and a telephone operator, who
receives messages, represent the Ba-
varian Films, Inc. The heads Of the
company are rarely to be seen, al
though at an informal interview with
a representative Of the Motion Pic
ture Daily one Of the officials admit
ted that IS. A. Mann Brand was a
fine film"
Spokesman Of the League left a
message with the operator to be
handed to Mr.. Hernitz, manager Of
Bavarian Films, Inc, saying they
would be back to picket the building
The slightly beWildered operator re-
piled that she would not only tell
Mr.. Hernitz but inform the police as
well.
1t is known that hundreds Of pro-
test letters and kilograms are being
received from all parts of the coun-
try by the Bavarian Films, Inc, at
489 Fifth Ave, which have caused
them to hesitate about showing the
film in New York. The 1ard-
ment should continue until Hernitz
withdraws the film.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
WORKERS IN PORTLAND
SCORE HITLERITE FILM
BY DAVID PLATT

The Nazi anti working class and
anti-JewiSh film, IS. A. Mann
Brand" which is being distributed by
the Bavarian Films, Inc, 4S9 Fifth
Ave, New York, was shown in Port
land, Ore, recently, where at the
opening night it was greeted by
mass demonstration Of workers who
stormed the Taylor Theatre and
howled down every scene Of this Hit
lerite movie, Portland police at
tempted to smash the picket lines
that had been established in front
of the theatre protesting the per-
.fomance, and as a result many
workers we're clubbed, arrested and
fined for disturbing the peace"
Originally IS. A. Mann Brand" was
turned down by the Censor Board of
Portland for it's strong anti-Jewish
taint, but upon appeal by the man
agement OF the theatre and repre-
sentatives OF the Bavarian Films,
permission to show the film was
granted on the pretext that there
was nothing in the film which
might start riot as reported by the
censor board" This In view Of the
fact that the film contains numerous
scenes Of bloodthirsty Nazi lynch
mobS shouting Hitler's infamous war
cry-Perish Jewry (Juda Verrecke) 4.
In the meantime the film is sched-
uled for showing in Boston and
on Broadway, New York. The Film
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
Urge Cooperation With
National Theatrical
Festival in Chicago

.CHICAGO-"To all working class
groups who are building With your
own hands and voices a theatre
which expresses your own struggles
and vision, we extend revolutionary
greetings. The Midwest District of
the League Of Workers Theatres well
comes each new brigade of shock
troops for the cultural front We
urge you to affiliate with this coor-
dinating body and to take part in
the National Festival and Competi-
ton Of the League of Workers Thea
tres to be held in Chicago, April 10,
IA and 15.''
This is the call sent out to sixty
workers theatre groups in the Middle
West by the Chicago secretariat.
Preparations are under way for the
Second National Festival, at which
working class dramatic companies
from the West to East coast will
meet in socialist competition and the
exchange of experiences. The con-
ference and contest will be held in
Chicago at Turner Hall, $40 North
Clark Street. There will be perfor-
nlances by Theatre of Action, or Agit-
prop groups, Stationary Workers
Theatres, and foreign language
groups.
At present sections of the League
of Workers Theatres throughout the
country are holding preliminary COM
petitions to determine the groups
which will represent them at the Ma
tional Festival. In Chicago this con-
test will be held March 25 at the
Peoples Auditorium, 2457 w. Chicago
Ave. In the afternoon, five English
speaking Theatres of Action will
These are the Blue Blouses,
Workers Laboratory Theatre, Nature
Jewish Workers Club Youth
group, and Ukrainian Youth group.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
Eight Workers in the
Home of a BrickIayer

70 80 cents q week per rooms o. IS
a month, because wages have been
doubled"
Generally, mill and other industrial
workers, white and ColoTed, feel that
conditions have improved quite
little" What they mean by improved
conditions is We get little mort TO
eat, but that's about all, IS one
worker explained.
EROM them and from business men
/ With whom I talked, the opinion
was unanimous that things have I'M
proved. The business man transmits
to the worker, in direct contact and
through the newspapers, the sense
that things are picking up, a feeling
Of optimism. What those who have
found Jobs and those without jobs do
not realize is the C.WA- money, go
ing to several thousand men and
women, has brought this increase b
business to the small business man
especially.
Three OK four thousand persons re-
ceiving government money necsx-
sarily spend Il In local stores, This
accounts for the mueh-taiked about
increase In local business. C.WA- has
brought q measure Of relief 10 the
small business man and few thou
sand workers. So far as the over
whelmirs majority Of workers are
concerned, they are az deep, If not
deeper. in poverty and want as thes
ever were.
A 20 per cent increase In business
and 80 per cent increase In mil
productivity (also due 10 demand
for goods traceable TO C.WA money
throughout the country finds cheer
ful comment In local newspapers and
general emphasis that business is
picking up. To the workers they see
in these announcements that their
own lot Is about to be improved.
What do you think viii happen
when C.WA. money stops coming n
here7" I asked.
They shook their heads.
''I wish we knew" said one.
Il guess the Salvation Army will
pick up where they left Of" said an
other. CThe Salvation Army and the
Family Service are the two chief re
lief organizations in the city).
Wages will come down" q third
guessed brightly.
They'd get some more someway,
another said confidently. Roosevelt
amt going to let US starve,
Half Of us would perish"
wed go back to the farm"
But suppose you have nothing TO
live on while you work the farm o.
the government does not find some
way to keep the money howing?"
They remained silent There was
no sign that they understood what
to do OF how to do it.
IF it comes to that" one old man
said slowly, I'm tellin' you I'm go
ing to eat and SO are my children
There's some way We got 10 find
even if we have to steal"
Ali OF their answers were indivi-
dualistic. They would fight for their
Hu'ilies-even if they had TO steal
That was the extent to which they
would go. There was not the slightest
perception OF concerted organized
action.
Ito Be COntinued)
The daily worker., 1934-02-24

/ was an attitude
OF acuuiescence TO things as they are
and hopes that they would improve.
ONLY when I brought up one subject
was there an excited vehemence IL
their answers, q seething, unanimous
strong feeling. In everything else,
| there was the acquiesence Of those
oppressed for so long that they ex-
pect it and know Of no way to avoid
it.
From the mill workers gathered
[ that in most Of the mills the GUS
tom Of paying the weekly wage in
scrip has been abolished since the
NR.A. code though the N.RA itself
| is not directly responsible for 1t.
Until last year scrip had to be used
in the mills comnissary or at some
specified store in which the company
| had an interest. At the end OF the
week when the purchases had been
totalled, the worker found that he
owed the mili-or the storekeeper--
money.
workers confronted with scrip and
low wages were helpless" as they
expressed it. There was nothing else
we could do. If we kicked we'd be
told to move out Of the company
house and where'd we gor We were
told II we didn't like 1t we could get
out"
Much Of this changed during the
past year. Only few mills still oper-
ate company stores where worker
can get credit against his weeks
wages. Since this always means over
charges workers usually try to avoid
it and since the advant Of the $I2
minimum weekly wage, even though
it means twice as much work, they
are now able to buy in other stores
and, wherever possible, do.
Money For Company Stores
Some mills still find the running
Of company stores profitable because
many workers are forced to seek
credit against their weekly wage for
the moment until pay day; and once
they start charging things in the
min store they have to keep 1t up
because they rarely manage to get
enough ahead to start trading else
where. 1t is a trap into which many
workers fall and from which they
cannot wriggle out II two in family
are working it is possible to get
enough cash ahead to trade elsewhere
but not otherwise.
During the past years and even
now many mills charged their work
erS an extra 81 month for light and
water which goes with the company
owned house they rent. The light is
supplied by the mills power plant
and this charge usually paid for the
mills operating power and water bill
Rent for mill shacks was usually
charged at rs cents a room per week
or 81 a month for four room house.
There is talk now OF raising the rent
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
n. S L. Opens
School Soon

NEW YORK.-A school In which
students decided which teachers
should teach, what courses should
oe given, where there are no pre-
requisites. no compulsory assign
ments and no credits, is being start
ed next week for the first time in
The history Of the American student
movement by the New York District
.of the National Student League, ia
W. 14th st., which opens its classes
on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Courses consist of problems con-
fronting Che student and society to-
day, and will be taught by instruc-
tors from the various colleges in New
York.
Economies Of the New Deal" viii
be given by DR.. Addison T. Cutler.
instructor Of economies at Columbia
University, who is also a militant
fighter In the anti-war movement.
A course IN The Revolutionary Ap-
proach to Modern Literature" wln
be given by Professor Edwin B.
Burgum, OF the English department
in New York University. "The Phi
losophy Of DialeticaI Materialism. /"
will be given by Rubin Gotesky of
Long Island University. Professor
Meyer Schapiro will give an illus
trated lecture on THE Interpreta-
ton Of the History Of Art" Profes-
cor Mcconnell, Of the economics de-
partment in New York University
will teach a course in American
Imperialism Since the World War"
and course in Social Forces in
Early American History will be
given by DR.. H. B. Parkes, instructor
Of history at N. Y. U.
These courses are open 70 all stu
dents OF all schools, and any student
can take any number OF courses
The fees are SO cents per course
each course being of eight weeks
duration, one lecture week. The
only exception is Professor Schapiro's
course which extends for only four
weeks beginning March %.
Glasses take place at the headouar-
terS OF the National Student League.
ia ". 14th st. Students may regis
ter by mail or through an execu-
tive OF their local school chapter OF
the NSL. Registration at the head
quarters from 4:3O to 8 D. m. or from
Z to $3.50 p. m. daily.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
Foreign Drama Clubs
viii Compete Tonight

The New York Competition OF
Foreign Language Workers Theatres
takes place tonight at pm. at the
Labor Temple, 242 East 14th st. Par
ticipating groups include: Coney Is
land Workers Club Dramatic Group,
Jewish; Prolet Buehne. German.
Ulrainian Dramatic Circle; Browns
vile Workers Club Theatre, Jewish;
Esperanto Theatre; Turkish Theatre,
East New York Workers Club The
ming groups will compete In the finals
atre, Jewish, and others. The win
for participation in the National
Theatre Festival in Chicago.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
Workers Theatre of
Chicago Will Present
Anti-W ar Play Tonight

CHICAGO.-The opening night Of
the Chicago Workers Theatres anti
war play, Marching Feet this Fri
day evening. is for the benefit Of the
victims Of Fascist terror, it was an
nounHed today by the Chicago Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of German
Fascism.
Marching Feet" presents q ring
ing Indictment Of imperialist war.
The Chicago workers Theatre which
is producing the play, will be re-
membered for its outstanding success
Of last year-"Precedent," a play
about the Mooney case.
Marching Feet" will be shown
three nights only, Feb. %. "a. and
25, at Hull House, 800 S. Halsted st.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
|. L. ID. Bazaar Offers
Varied Entertainment

NEW YORK-Among the talent
performing at the fiYe-day annual
bazaar Of the International Labor
Defense Of the New York district
now taking place at Manhattan
Lyceum, 66 z. 4th St., is Rose
Nanny, singer Of Russian songs.
The program to be presented to-
night and tomorrow night are Of
special interest, featuring dancers,
gingers and theatrical troups. The
two halls at the bazaar present
a brilliant and color4ul scene. In
addition to the entertainment,
dining, and dancing, everything is
on sale from candy to lamps and
from cigarettes to spring coats.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
SiqueirOs Will Speak
on Future of the Film
at Symposium TOnite

NEW YORK.-The Film and Photo
League will hold a Symposium on
"The Future of the Film" tomorrow,
at IL East 17th ST., $3.50 p. m.
Among the speakers will be David
Siqueiros, noted Mexican mural
painter, Nathan Adler Of New Masses,
Meyer Schapiro, Columbia University,
Leon Dennen, John Reed Club,
Nicholas Bella, late of Hollywood,
Evelyn Gerstein, and others. Tom
Brandon of Film and Photo League
will preside.
This is the first Of q series Of open
discussions on the film that will con-
tinue during March and April.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
Last ''Strike Me Red''
Presentation Tonight

NEW YORK-"Shine, shine, shine
your shoes" is on everybody's lips.
This song comes from Strike Me
Red" the famous kids operetta writ
ten by Harry Alan Potamkin. The
final performance of this operetta
will be given tomorrow evening at
7:30 pm, at the City College Audi
torium, 23rd st. and Lexington Ave.
Tickets are only 35 and so cents.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
WABC-86O Kc.

7:00-Michaux Congregation
7:30-Serenaders Orch; Phil Cook, tmpsr-
sonations
T:45--Jcnes Orch.
s00-45 Minutes in Hollywood
s:4S-scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot,
SONGS
Philadelphia Studio orch.
s;l5-Alexander Woollcott-The Town Crier
J:30-Paige Orch; Kay Thompson, Songs;
Male Trio; Black Rhapsody Choir
0:00-Rebroadcast from Byrd Expedition;
Music from New York
o:30-News Reports
1.45-LeRders in Aetion-H. V. Kaltenborn
/ 1 I:00--Lombardo Orch.
II .30-Portland symphony Orch, Willem
van Hoogstraten, Conductor
1890 AM.--Davis Orch.
1:00-Hopkins Orch.
The daily worker., 1934-02-24
TUNING IN
TONIGHTS PROGRAMS

WEAF-660 Kc.
7:l5-Reiigion in the News-Dr. Stanley
High
T:30-To Be Announced
7:45-Martha Mears, Songs
]:00-Olsen Orch.
s;20-Boston Symphony Orch, Serge Kous-
seTitzky. Conductor
1o:0O-Rolfe Orch; Men About Town Trio:
Robert L. Ripley
1l:00-Ralph Rirbery, Songs
1l:05-Madriguera Orch.
l1:30-One Mans Family-Sketch
l2:00-Hollywood on the Air
1880 AM.-Filson orch; Eta Moten Songs;
Tommy Harris. Songs: Ryan and No
blette Comedy: Hillbilly Group