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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Gen. johnson Gives
War Expert Charge
OfIndustry
To Facilitate Quick
Survey of Plants
in War Period
SERVED WAR BOARD
Army Journal Halls the
Selection of a
Military Man
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

tDauy worker washington bureaul
WASHINGTON, Jan. IT,
To integrate the economy Of
the country for war, the top
administration machinery of
the Roosevelt N.R.A. is swiftly
establishing close tie-ups with
the War Department.
This was revealed today in the ap-
pointment by General Hugh S. John
son, N. r. A. head, Of Colonel Robert
Hester Montgomery as Chief of the
National Recovery Administrations
Research and Planning Division.
General johnson, who was respon-
sible for the direction Of the Gov
ernment's selective CONSUMPTION law
during the World War, described
Montgomery as a nationally known
attorney, economist and accountant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
More Mines Shut i'm Strike:
Maloney in Betrayal Move

The present danger Of the breaking
of the strike is seen in Father Cur
rams proposal for a truce. Although
Naloney states that the Convention
called for tomorrow was not be-
cause Of the proposals Of Father
Curran, he says that they will Of
course consider Monsignor Curran's
plan, that it looks good, as it vir-
tually provides for recognition Of
our Union"
The plan provides for the National
Labor Board naming a Commission
to make a thorough investigation Of
conditions in the District, this Com
mission to consist of representatives
Of the U. NJ. w. Of A., the U. A. M, p,
(Coatinasd on Page 81 ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

terminate. Hopkins expects the NIL
lions who VIII be absolutely destitute
en- May to go back to the farms"
and to be absorbed in industry
despite the continuing evictions of
poor farmers and the inability to do
anything about the many millions
now facing permanent unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
LAO Recruits Sail From
Brooklyn Army Base

NEW YORK. - LAO new recruits
for the q. s. army will sail from the
Brooklyn Army base today on the
transport Republic for service in
China, the PHILIPPINES, Hawaii and
Panama, as the U. S. government
strengthens it's Pacific outposts in
preparation for war with Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Two New U. S. Cruisers
Commissioned for Battle

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE new
U. S. heavy cruiser San Francisco will
be commissioned Immediately and
with the modernized battleships Mis-
sissippi and New Mexico added to
the U. S. Fleet, in preparations for
the manouvers in the Atlantic and
the naval review by President Roose-
welt scheduled for New York City In
June.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

James Casey's startling expose Of
the connection between Charles
Schwab, steel baron, General Har-
board, president of the huge Radio
Corporation of America. and the
U. S. War Department, viii be pub
lished in the Saturday issue of the
Daily. Watch for it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
SAUSAGE MACHINE INJURIES

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. IL
Two men were injured today when
compressed air in a sausage machine
blew q 200-pound weight through g
ceiling and struck them glancing
blows on the head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
In the Daily Worker
Today
Page 2
Sports, by 81 Gerson.
Page 3

o6C
Sports, by 81 Gerson.
Page 3
National Unemployed Convention
News.
Page
Letters From Farmers and Agri-
cultural Workers.
parry Life"
CDR. Luttinger Advises"
"In the Home" by Helen Luke.
Page
@Change the World" by Michael
Gold.
"FIashes and Close-Ups," by Lens.
"The Labor Press" by Stewart
Carhart.
Tuning In, Stage and Screen.
Page 6.
Editorials: Anthracite Miners,
Take the Strike Into Your Own
Hands; Against Hunger and
War; Let Them Know.
Nazi Outlaw Unions.
Foreign News.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Denver Unemployed
Reported Ready to
Seize Food Stocks

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 1.-THE
capitalist press reports that 400 I'M
employed workers in Denver are pre-
pared today to raid local grocery
stores and wholesale food warehouses
for food unless the state legislature
passes immediate relief legislation.
All relief was cut off on Jan. 2
when the state legislature failed to
pass relief legislation.
1t is also reported that one grocery
store was raided last week, when
400 workers seized the food, placed it
into trucks, and distributed it equally
to unemployed heads of families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

Fight for unemployment insur-
ance. Support the National Con-
vention Against Unemployment on
Feb. 3 in Washington, ID. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

(Coatin9ed on Page 81 Il.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

Rush Orders for January 2OtE
Special Lenin Issue
Evening star., 1934-06-23
| Where and When
lCurrent Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National National Players in
Sailor Beware" third week, at 2:30
and $3.50 pm.
Palace-"Change of Heart" at II is
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:40
pm.
Fox-"Hollywood Party" at 10 am,
1920, 2:45, 5, 7:35 and 1910 pm.
Stage shows, Joe Penner and his
revue. at 11:25 am. 1:50, 4:05, $50
and 9:l5 pm.
Columbia-"Such Women Are Dan
gerous," at 11:30 am, l:30. 3:35, 5:35,
7;35 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan Little Man, What
Now?" at 1875 am, 2, AIS, $50 and
9:15 pm.
R-KO Keith's-"The Life of Vergie
Winters" at 11:53 am, 1888, 1858,
5:53, 1853 and 9:53 pm.
EarIe-"Dr. Monica" at 11:20 am,
2, 4;45, 7:25 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows at los, $50, $50 and 9:10
pm.
Tivoli-"Sing and Like It." at 2,
4:05, 6:10, 7:55 and Gas pm.
Ambassador-"Half a Sinner" at 2,
4, COS, 7:55 and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
KAY FRANCIS
AS Il DOCTOR
IN THIS FILM
Big Stage Revue Helps
Bill at Earle: Picture Is
From Polish Play.

Maybe it is because somebody thinks
Kay Francis looks better in a hospi-
tai outfit than an evening gown, for
she is again famous female physi-
clan in a $3.50 film called ''Dr. Moni-
ca" which has more maternity than
merit about it as it graces the screen
of the Earle Theater this week.
Said to have been based on IA
nous Polish play. the picture fails to
give any of its good cast more than
minor opportunities, with the possible
exception of Jean Muir. The good
doctors philandering husband WAR
rem William) causes much trouble.
Other than that, the piece is helped
along by vivacious Verree Teasdale,
who is too good-looking by COMPARE
son to be placed in the same film with
Miss Francis.
When the doctor-wife learns at the
last minute that her friend is about
to have a baby, there crops up an
argument why women in general are
not suited for professional work, as
DR.. Monica heeds her emotions and is
about to leave the girl in her plight
rather than perform her duty as a
physician. A slap in the face by
Miss Teasdale, however, restores her
sense of duty so that she attends the
young mother during her illness and
then arranges to leave her husband.
The marital smash-up is averted
when the girl mother does a novel
suicide act by heading across the
Atlantic in an airplane in which
there is only two-hour's gas sup
ply. and DR.. and Mr. Monica decide
to adopt the orphan baby she leaves
behind.
Audrey Sieber is given a rest as
mistress of ceremonies this week
while Words and Music, Inc," 6
35-people revue. runs along without
benefit of introductions. Headed BY
Lester Cole, radio tenor, and his /:
Singing Soldiers of Fortune, who per-
form the notable feat of singing
while dressed in West Point hats with
straps under their chins and another
feat of singing three songs at one
time, the stage bill also offers Sally
Burrill, who has been tagged "tht
most beautiful girl on the stage"
two good eccentric dancers in Barr
and Estes, two swell dances by Alice
Kavin, who has her eyelids painted
green in one and wears little beside:
veil IN the other; Herman Hyde
and a partner as the comedy relic
and some Chester Hale girls for dance
routines.
The Universal news reel, featuring
Graham McNamee's baritone. severa
short subjects and the weekly Earle
orchestral prelude round out th'
| program. M. w. b.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
TROUBLES OF
WRITING MAN
ARE SCREENED

In one way the new starring film
for Warner Baxter, Such Women Are
Dangerous" which opened at the Co
lumbia yesterday, might be taken for
the pitiful tale of little Hoosier girl
poetess who came to New York under
the impression that great novelist
was her friend and with childish
dreams that he might love her, and IN
dissillusionment and the bursting OF
those dreams, which were based on
absolutely nothing, took her own life.
Rochelle Hudson plays the part of
this little poetess with such conviction
and with such fire that one cannot
leave the film without thinking great
deal about her. In this, the suicide OF
the girl, is carried the turning point
of the screen play which was based on
the story, odd Thursday" by Vera
Caspary, for in taking her life she left
much circumstantial evidence that led
to the arrest of Michael Shawn for
murder
Between being chased by a young
girl who was relentless in her pur-
suits, making love to an opera singer
who lived in the next apartment, and
holding up under the sometimes
scorching tongue of his very pretty
secretary, Michael Shawn (Warner
Baxter) idol of 100000 woman
readers, did have a bit of difficulty.
Mr.. Baxter, however, in his suave
manner of portraying a part, made
hi O convincing
one, as well as an attractive one to his
female admirers.
The little world that Michael Shawn
had built up for himself, centered
mostly around gathering material for
his love novels (Which incidently his
secretary did not like), suddenly fell
and broke into thousand pieces on
an odd Thursday. All in that day the
little girl became more difficult, he
found that the singer he had been
seeing so regularly not only was a
married woman, but also the mother
of a l0-year-old son. and also that his
secretary was very pretty woman.
Following this he went for walk
and attended a movie, thus leaving
him without an alibi when brought
to trial.
1t is through the efforts of his sec
retary that evidence is finally turned
up to free him and, of course. he
marries her, vowing to henceforth
write fewer novels Of the type he had
been doing and do something really
worth while.
All in all, had it not been for the
misfortune of the little girl poetess,
| this might have been better picture.
N H
Evening star., 1934-06-23

lies out OF LQe OdnSeT zone.
When Hal Rosson, estranged hus-
band of Jean Harlow, was stricken
with this malady, fear Travelled Ike
swift shadow across the surface of
professional Hollywood. The death Of
Abraham Lehr's lovely young daugh-
ter deepened the concern and sad
dened his many friends
Terror for Myrna 10y was rife when
that star came down with a heavy
cold and what appeared to be prelim-
mary symptoms of the disease, but
her indisposition turned out to be
Summer flu and she is well out of
danger now.
But these things are taking heavy
toll of the morale of picture producers,
who are just getting out of the woods
from one of the most stringent flnan-
cial crises they have yet had to face.
It's surely blue June, this 1884.
Carole Lombard says, "too many
fine actresses spoil their performances
by flinging their hands about" and,
except in the most hysterical scenes,
the hands should be used sparingly.
1Hey are, never IIlclcoc, AuBAly AHpOl
tant to dramatic art. Actually acting
is done with the whole body"
So much for the screen. AS to the
drawing room. young lady. ex-
ceptionally pretty, graced the occasion
of a Hollywood stars buffet supper
the other evening. There was slight
overcrowding because of the Holly
wood custom of rounding up any and
everyone.
The young lady in question had
cultivated series of tinny gestures as
her claim to attention. She sat,
tightly wedged in with several others.
on a long Chesterfield. They were all
trying to manipulate generous plates
of cold turkey, cranberry jelly. tomato
aSpic and other delicacies, while sery-
eral glasses of wine were rather per-
Evening star., 1934-06-23
AND
FARRELL IN
GOOD STORY
But With "Change of
Heart,'' at the Palace,
Hare Rogers & Dunn.

These Janet GaynQr- Charlie Far
rell films, though they do not take
the world by storm or win the high
est awards in motion picture, do have
a charm. And, when they are taken
from a novel of good sound serti-
ment by Kathleen Norris, with the
screen play written by Sonya Levien
and James Gleason, the latter an
actor as well as playwright, they are
excellent as that type of entertain
ment. You can also be assured OF
good many chuckles to relieve the
drippy sentiment in the lines fur
nished by the said James Gleason.
Woman patrons of the Palace
should by all means see Change OF
Heart" and they were certainly well
represented yesterday when elderly
lady No. l turned to. younger lady
No. 2 and exclaimed, my dear, aren't
they the sweetest coupled" getting
only an absorbed "Mmmmmm" In
reply.
In Change of Heart" the Gaynor-
Farrell duo is aided and abetted by
a newer one, but of an entirely dlf-
ferent order, that of Jimmie Dunn
and Ginger Rogers, who play just
the roles you might expect them to.
Jimmie is the lovable but conceited
young man who assures you that he
is a better singer than Rudy Vallee
ever thought of being, while Miss
Rogers appears as the flighty young
lady who desires to 60 on the stage
as well as desiring everything In
sight.
The -Four Little Injuns," as they
named themselves, embark from the
graduation exercise of a small West
ern college for New York, each to
conquer the big town in their own
way, Charlie Farrell to be New York's
most prominent lawyer; Miss Gaynor,
a writer; Mr.. Dunn, radios latest
sensation of the art of grooming, and
Miss Rogers, the greatest actress.
A great deal has been done in this
last film of the pair to keep it from
being all Gaynor- Farrell, and the PIC
ture picks up much speed by the &C
ton. In fact, Miss Gaynor is not able
to convince the love-blind Chris that
he loves her instead of Miss Rogers
until nearly halfway through the
film. And, then only because Chris
had disappeared after learning Ginger
had run to California to marry a
millionaire, and had become very Ill.
She nursed him and in the meantime
had obtained a job with 'Arriett 'Aw-
kins mending the clothes of the rich
to sell for charity. There she met
the wife OF Gerald Mockby and her
daughter-in-law and convinced them
to adopt a small child.
They were married when Chris be-
came we'll again, only to have the i'm
pulSive Madge (Ginger Rogers re-
turn with a divorce and plenty OF
money to try to get Chris to marry
her.
1t doesn't work, however, for Chris
has become struggling young lawyer
in Gerald Mockby's firm, and at the
close of the film has naturally just
been made the junior partner.
In the supplementary bill, of all
people to appear. up bobs an old favor
ite, who has dropped from the lime
light after making one or two fea-
ture films, we mean Buster Keaton
who wead-pans his way through a
comedy that is, as you might well
surmise, as keatonish as usual.
j. N. H.
Evening star., 1934-06-23

and some songs by Keller Sisters and
Lynch.
There are also the usual shorts.
y \ \
NO cursory review can convey to
you an adequate suggestion of
the poignancy and charm in the SIM
pie, rather desperate story told in
Little Man, What Now?" the pic
turization of Hans Fadala's novel
which has been brought to Warner
Bros Metropolitan this week for
its second Washington engagement.
Either the heat is softening these
veins, or the film yarn anent two
young and penniless lovers really is
one of the best admixtures of the
sentimental and the tragic ever con-
cocted in Hollywood. So it seemed
on first view yesterday as the camera
unfolded history of those gentle
people, swirled about in a world too
torn and confused to pause and help
them in piecing together the beaten
fragments of their fate
Set against the turbulent, bitter
background of postwar Germany,
Little Man, What Now?" tells of the
marriage of Hans and Lamchen, a
pair of engaging and impractical
youngsters, who Immediately en-
countered difficulties because Hans
boss had selected him for a future
son-in-law and fired him when their
choices did not coincide. After Hans
had struggled through fruitleSs days
of bounding the employment agencies,
he took his bride to Berlin to live
with his stepmother, a giddy demi-
monde, whose way of life was the
antithesis of their own. Neverthe-
less, Hans found work in a depart
ment store, and they stuck it out as
long as they could, then fled to
sanctuary in another part of the city
Hans lost his job again just before
their child was born, and after a
second sordid interlude of hopeless
ness, found another ere the curtain
rolled down, but these mere facts of
plot are insignificant in comparison
to the rich details, the fulsome char
acterizations and the splendidly
sincere lead-role performances of the
picture. Margaret Sullivan and
Douglass Montgomery. as Hans and
Lamchen, earn the major credit for
the films effectiveness, and receive
distinguished support from Alan Hale
De Witt Jennings, Christian Rub and
Catherine Doucet in minor parts.
The short subjects at the Metro
politan are numerous and lengthy.
r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-06-23

Y OLLYWOOD.-" Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch behind
the camera. Pauline Lord as
Il 4 Mrs. Wigs. Also in the
Paramount cast, zasu Pitts,
w. c. Fields, little Jimmie Butler,
who made such a hit with Margaret
(they call her Peggy here) SULLIVAN,
and little George Breakstone, who
made you cry in mo Greater Glory"
You would be overjoyed at the
Cabbage Patch set. 1t is just as
broken down as you imagined it was
in the book. There stands Mrs. Wigs
over her ironing board, surrounded
by her brood, her hair done up in
curl papers, her green spotted apron
hiding a shabby blue skirt, her faded
brown high-laced shoes half way up
her legs.
The scheme is as follows: One of
the smallest of the children says: Il
want to wear the glove" dts long
and black and old enough to date
from the Civil War;, whereupon the
children almost tear the glove apart
and Miss Lord, running over to them
says: There now. children, one of
you can carry the glove-and the
other take stocking-like this" (and
she hauls one out of an old wooden
box) ''and crumple it up in your hand,
that's etiquette, you know"
Il want to carry glove, too," says
another youngster as she flies out
from the wall, and almost knocks
Mrs. Wigs down.
Back to Childhood.
If you half close your eyes, and
fade those cameras and lights and
technicians and script ladies and Di-
rector Taurog. who is as big as a
mountain, out of your sight, you would
swear that you we're back in your
childhood, pouring over the books
pages.
But Miss Lord is having her trou-
bles. She's never been a bear on lines
anyway remember Distant Drums
in WaShington?) and has a habit Of
going up" on her lines.
Miss Lord definitely does not enjoy
Evening star., 1934-06-23

ilously perched on smoking table in
their midst.
Enter a famous director. And the
lovely little lady set about the business
of enchanting him. She tipped ges-
ture To the left of her and Holly
wood actor quietly and sheepishly re-
moved slice of ham from his waist
coat. A few gestures later. the little
lady carried glass of st. Julien right
down the directors immaculate shirt
front.
"Oh. pardon me-" she cried, what
naughty girl you must think mel"
The weary director eyed her sourly:
You're not a human being" he said
slowly, you're a semaphoreI"
Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-06-23

picture making. We have nice chat
with her in her private dressing salon,
a small two by four, box-like affair
stuck off in a corner which is hotter
than Hades. There she sits, her hair
an ocean Of white curl papers, a fan
trying to soothe her heated face. We
ask her how many pictures she is
going to make. "One more after this,
says she, they can't help themselves"
From that we gather that so far
the encounter hasn't been too happy
and that the ex star of THE Late
Christopher Bean" prefers tramping
the crowded blocks of Broadway to
the heated boulevards of Hollywood.
As she talks, Miss Lord seems to be
grateful for sight of some Eastern
soul. She fans her face vigorously
Evening star., 1934-06-23

and seems to be delighted at playing
Mrs. Wiggs-but would prefer to be
playing it somewhere else. The
lights, you know" she says. "are so
hard And it's so difficult to get in
TO the feeling Of the thing"
We suggest that after the manner
of Dorothy Parker (whom we have
Just heard is now Mrs. Alan Camp
bell, wife of that black-haired chap
you saw at the National in Design
for Living"-f1rst company. she is
running the gamut Of acting from
A to B." She smiles. We don't be-
lieve that she feels she is acting at all.
Miss Lords voice is. however, curl
ously satisfying on the set. 1t is
lower. more resonant than most any
player we have heard out here. Some
Evening star., 1934-06-23
STUDENT RECITAL.

Pupils of Wilma Benton McDevitt
were presented in piano recital at
the Arts Club last evening at 8:15
o'clock. The. students who played
were Eleanor and Wilbur Yocum,
Mary Martha and Virginia Lee Wood,
Norma Marie Elmer, Mcdonald and
Nancy Jane Schetky, Margaret Doo-
nan, Jane Gongwer, Kenneth and
Conway McDevitt, Lydia Frances
Ewing, Mary Johnston, Virginia Donk,
Helen Imogen Golden, Henry Lybrand,
Ellen Miller, Jimmie Campbell, Kath-
leen Johrden, Frederick Fryer and
Rae Alice Elmer.
Evening star., 1934-06-23

AS 1OI I1eII TSllLlSl, I4C ID ooAN w
be the most popular chortle provoker
currently in the broadcaSting buSi-
ness, and his performance on the
boards does not belle the reputation.
While there is nothing new or star
ting in his material, it is, like last
Summers electric fan, welcome
sight today or tomorrow or the next
day. He mumbles about crazily, f1ips
off all his best stock in trade from
Don't dooooo that" to You nathty
mani" fiddles, peddles his webfootS
Cor is it webfeets?) at no profit, and
in general manages to keep the cash
customers happy.
Hollywood Party" on the con-
trary, has a few sad moments, oc-
casioned principally by the unaccount-
able waste of Charlie Butterworth's
and Jack Pearls comedy talents. In
compensation for those losses the pic
ture pays off handsomely in one Of
Laurel and Hardy's top-form skits,
Jimmy Durante is around most of the
time and bats a fair laugh average
and Polly Moran shifts from the usual
tactics of hySteria to a moderate and
diverting success in song plugging.
Maybe it was rash optimism in the
first place to expect so many wags
to be funny all at once.
Hung on the traditionally slender
musical show plot, Hollywood Party
is a combination revue, extravaganza
end gag fest with some of the gags
Topping now and then with a dull,
sickening thud. Others are good, and
even the dudS can be borne SO long
as the film holds its swift pace and
the theater cooling system carries on.
Among other things. the Fox man.
agement is celebrating minor Old
Home week for its usherS, what with
the three Long Brothers (their stage
nameS--the real ones being Walter
Long, Ray Kearney and Paul Belt)
appearing in a deXtrous dance act on
the stage and Eddie Perkins singing
pleasantly in conjunction with the
Phil Lampkin overture. All three of
the dancing lads formerly belonged
to the Fox This way, please" cadets
while young Perkins still will show
you two on the aisle between his
numbers.
The remainder of the stage bill in
cludes Bernice and Emily, part of the
Long act; Joe and Jane McKenna,
jokeSterS: Monroe and Roberts, who
bounce around gracefully on a spring.
mattress version of the flying trapeZe,
Evening star., 1934-06-23
JUNIOR PROGRAM.

The junior pupils of Betty Place
will be heard in recital this afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock at the Battery Park
Club House, Md. The program will
consist of numbers by the Rhythm
Band Ensemble, the Cassidy Quartet
solos and duets. Those who will per-
form are Margaret Thatcher, Fred
Townshend, Bert Cleaveland, Alan
and Gerald Cassidy, Claire and June
Spencer and Margie and Janet
Cassidy.