The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

EARLIEST days of the Russian Revolution. The skies
rined blood and the Volga the nterventionsts had
created of the most horrible famnes in history
Primitive civil war decimated the fruitful lands The
fanthearted whmpered that the workers was lost
1t then great announced his fantastic" for
the echcon of Russia And he found time to also this
proarn and genius the artists "of all the arts the
most important for is the cinema"
Today rapidly being electrified equipped with
the giant machines will shortly make land Of aassuxu
And its the world The Soviet
ndstas began their labor during the famine days. the men of
the theatre desperate performed the act of
faith Yes it all began with Notwithstanding but the proeasn will
Some of the miracle taking place under noses in
America today this famine period with the workers literally
fighting for the right to live every sector of the nation the begin
ming Communist Party apparent-dipined mature
And the period be noted the rise Of
workers theatre such have never believed possible in America
Theatre and Movies As Weapons
IN DISCUSSING here may indulge personal memoirsa
that theatres and movies the
effective tools could next to the newspapers for workers
education believe the first revolutionary movie criticism
appeared Most of desped the movies heartily
then that confess having like admitting that
one had slept with prostitute
In the theatre there had been STRINGS of decency
conscience Provncetown abetheare Greenwich Viii
ag founded by John Reed Floyd Dell Mary Heaton Worse George
Cram Cook and group of bourgeois writer's was an honest attep
to go the and to edeover the real America Carl Sand
path great Socialist anti
at the time When the to democracy had
been all these attempts restore bourgeois
democracy in life and the arts had been wrecked.
three onesct plays for the old Pvneetewn This
still dirty capitalist
hours day. It introduction to the world of the theatre
plays which produced
Broadway and by the New Playwrights Theatre,
New Theatre Energies
WAS stage-sruek, but did plays
Five years ago UP play manuscript working
and write anoher enter theatre Three
months finished the first draft Of to be offered the
committee of Theatre Union find that have fallen
theatre the filthy gold
learned hate brief experience with
appeared Iowa clear-eyed,
husky beautiful sometimes darling
demonstration of the hasn't miserable
drop tanned commercial blood bodyho laughs starv
who fights who works hard and dreams nobyes
Workers Theatre.
always the
little This especially of the
culture Their generally
bourgeois content out of the old
tragedies theory
preetarian theatre had not yet crystalized,
the pre-war attempts establish
workers theatre English
coaboaors smeared greasepaint
evening one-acters
against the other remember it, boudoi
tastes the Wilde "The Happy Prince
of the Infanta"
That entertainment the
ice visit to the 1t weapon
the strong hands that must build better
confusion degradation not
Conceived in this cky womb of yellow socialism without
OF oletarian pride honor vision wonder nothing
all these haheared attempts The
perhaps but they not stirred to loyalty After two
performances, most of these theatres lay YEARLY
Today there perhaps these theatre groups
under Socialist conservative trade auspices
An Audience of Two Million Workers