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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Stage and Screen
"MdriOnettes," Newest Soviet
Take in Americana Premiere
At Acme Theatre TODAY

"Marionettes," the newest Soviet
talkie. will have its first American
showing today at the Acme
Theatre. The picture is being re-
leased by Amkino.
The picture is a festure-length
comedy, a brilliant and humorous
satire on courageous government.
The film, which is now being
played In no less than four of the
leading theatres in Moscow, to
crowded audiences, is full of sparkle
and polish. 1t ridicules in opera
bouffe style the political machins-
tions of mythical buffer State
called "Bufferia."
'fMarionettes" was directed by
Protozanov, one of the few So
Wet directors whose cinema ex-
perience dates back to pre-revolu-
tionary days" 1t is the first really
hilariously funny sound film
to reach the Soviet screen" was
the cabled report to the N. Y,
Times by its Moscow film CORES
pondent
The cast is headed by many Of
the well known stage and screen
artists Martinson, who plays the
lead is in spite of his foreign
sounding name Soviet stage idol
who can wear boiled shirt with
the best Of them. Other leading
roles are played by Tokarskaya
and Ktorov. The film has an orr
ginal musical score by S. Polov-
inkin, and was produced in the
Soviet Union by Mezhrabpomfilm,
The LIE Vita Trio. known also
as the Degeyter Club Trio and
the Nitgedaiget Trio, will give o
concert on Sunday, May 6, at
the Lester Concert Hall, As Flat
bush Ave, Brooklyn (near Nevins
st. Station. In addition to the
Haydn's Trio No. 6, and Dvorak's
Trio Opus 30 "Dunky," a trio by
A. Drosdow, Soviet composer, will
be performed for the first time
in New York.
The Embassy Newsreel Theatre is show
ing May Day Around the World, beginning
Saturday, May at II a. m, to continue
through Friday, May IL. The cities in
cluded are New York. Boston, Philadel-
phia, London. Paris. Berlin and Moscow.
The Moscow pictures were made by Am
kino
In addition, the Embassy vii show the
heroic rescue by Soviet airmen Of the
ship Chcluishin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
TUNING In

TOO WEAF-Ba seball Resume
WOR-Sports Resume
WJz-Description, Kentucky Derby,
Churchill Downs
lS-WEAF-Religion In the News-Dr.
Stanley High
WOR-Talk-Harry Hershfeld
so-wEAF-Himber Orchestra; Demarco
Sisters, Songs; Eddie PePabody,
Banjo
WOR-Robbins Orchestra
wJZ-Bestor Orchestra
WABC-Serenaders Orchestra; Paul
Keast, Baritone; Thelma Goodwin,
Soprano
g:45-WABC-Jones Orchestra
Goo-w EAF-Teddy Bergman, Comedian;
Betty Queen, Contralto; Bill Smith,
Baritone; Stern Orchestra
wOR-City Government, Talk
WJz-The Hudson River School and
It's Heirs-Sketch
wABC-Rich Orchestra Morton
Downey, Tenor: Mary Eastman,
Soprano
5-wOF-Velvetones Trio
-wJzr-Bavarian Band
3o-wEAF-The Part That Steel Is Play
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
<IRrOken Promises So Net Truck from PhiIa
! Result of the New Deal to See @Steuedore"

NEW YORK,-The Theatre Union
receives a great many letters from
workers expressing their apprecia-
ton Of both Peace on Earth" and
the current play "Stevedore. The
following letter from an 7. L. D.
Branch in Philadelphia illustrates
the profound effect "Stevedore" pro-
duces on all workers fortunate
enough to see it.
Dear Comrades:
We are a group Of workers IN
the International Labor Defense
Of Philadelphia. One Of our com
rsdes saw your production. Steve
dore," and has returned filled with
inspiration to have us, his com
rades, see this stirring play. He
feels it to be Of great educational
value to us. We are Negro com
rades, most Of us unemployed.
living on relief when we can get
it. We are struggling 10 build an
I. L. D. Community Center in
Philadelphia-the first undertak-
ing Of its kind any place in the
country we have many Difficult
ties and discouragements. Our
comrade feels that your play will
give us new courage and strength
and reveal to us more wildly the
vital factors of the class struggle
as we, Negroes, must need to
know 1t today.
We will arrange to have truck
bring "a of us (the trucks capa-
city, for a matinee performance,
Saturday May IL. The truck
driver, comrade, will do this for
the minimum cost. Can you CO.
operate with us in our efforts to
get to New York to see Steve
dore": If you can give us special
prices for group of "A, or supply
a portion Of unemployed tickets,
we will greatly appreciate your
help
Long live the Theatre Union and
plays like "Stevedore" which mean
new life FOR the masses
Comradely,
GLADYS HEATH, .secty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

dividual qualities. Each Of them is
typical yet none are stereotyped. AS
a result, they have a special kind of
reality which makes them extremely
effective in the theatre effective
and convincing. They act on the su-
dience and the reader not only
through the underlying soundness
of the laws argument but through
the emotional logic Of the dramatic
medium. in the sense that while the
characters remain altogether cred
ible in terms Of the strictest actu-
atty the author lends them at the
same time certain picturesqueness,
an extraordinary theatric colorful-
ness. Hence, without obvious exag-
geration, coarse melodramatics, or
sensational phrase-mongering, the
play achieves something beyond
conviction: 1t becomes eloquent with
an eloquence that does not seem to
derive from the playwright but
from the characters themselves and
the situation. In other words, if this
play is effective propaganda, 1t is
largely because Wexley knew how
to shape his material into good the
atre. There are not many Ameri-
can social dies Of which this can
be said.
They Shall Not Die" must live
longer than the ten weeks Of It's
Broadway run. The struggle for the
Scottsboro boys is still to be fought
to successful finish. And as part
OF that struggle, If for no other
reason, this play should be derived
and performed wherever there IL
company that can possibly do 1t.
The Theatre Guilds production was
competent, but with a few excep-
tons, 1t lacked fervor and that Vi
brancy OF emotion which only
revolutionary group to whom the
play is more than just another
show" can bring to it. They Shall
Not Die" should not be allowed to
pass away with the rest Of the
Guilds repertory. 1t has perma-
nent value for the proletarian
IS we'll as for the Aneri-
can theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

ON OUR WAY. BY Franklin D.
Roosevelt. New York: John Day &
Co. $3.50.
Reviewed by DAVID RAMSEY
IN the book under review President
! Roosevelt, to quote his own words,
without argument and without ex-
tended explanation seeks to set forth
simply the many significant events Of
a very busy year" It is the record
of a year of "the redemption Of
pledges to the people of America
and the consummation of the hopes
of the many who looked forward to
a better ordered common life" In
stead of attempting to refute the
official pap that Mr.. Roosevelt
dishes out, it will be interesting to
list a balance sheet Of his accom-
plishments during the first year Of
the new deal
Promises
by drastic measures to elm
mate special privilege in the control
of the old economic and social
structure by a numerically very
small but very powerful group Of in
dividuals so set in authority that
they dominated business and bank
ing"
2-"To seek a return Of the swing
of the pendulum which for three
generations had been sweeping to-
ward a constantly increasing con-
centration Of wealth in fewer and
fewer hands-a swing back in the
direction of wider distribution Of
the wealth and property Of the ma
ton"
3-"Furnish jobs and adequate re-
lief for the unemployed.
4-"Peace may be assured through
practical measures of disarmament
5-"To drive the money changers
out OF the temple Of our, national
life"
Results
IA much closer fusion Of the
State with big business than existed
before, and the steady development
towards Gerard Swope's plan for the
open dictatorship Of big business.
2--Dividends and interest pay
ments during 1888 reached their
highest levels since 1881. Large in
comes increased considerably; small
incomes fell. The real wages Of
workers was sharply cut by the
rising cost Of living, The concen-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
WE'LL SEND THE DAILIEs WITH
PLEASURE

syracuse, N. I,
Dear comrades:
I am twelve years old and mem
Der OF the Junior International
Workers Order branch. I want to
try to sell the Daily" Would you
please send me three papers every
day and five on Saturday? I am
sure that I can take care of them
and pay my bills.
Comradely yours,
III. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Carlin to Lecture on
Theodore Dresser in
Philadelphia Tonight

PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-Sender
Garlin of the Daily Worker staff
will speak on THE Evolution of
Theodore Dresser" Saturday night
at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine ST., under
the auspices of the John Reed Club
Of Philadelphia.
Garlin will discuss Dreiser's nov
els as well as his sociological writ
ings. his support of the revolution
airy movement during 1892, and
his recent public utterances in ia
vor of Roosevelt's regime and the
MIRA.
Questions and discussions will fol-
low the lecture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Labor Missing in Levy's
Novel of the Northwest

fight against it, which developed
some Of the most heroic episodes in
American labor history, appear on
the scene. The class struggle comes
only indirectly and by implication,
and the effect upon workers minds
Of boom psychology is not touched.
Furthermore, the exploiters are
romanticized; the days Of their
greatness are pictured as days Of
glory, an epic era; and we are made
10 feel that there was something
colorful and dramatic in their form
Of exploitation. and that the more
efficient and later forms Of eZ-
ploitation were drab in comparison.
And in the ruin Of the exploiters at
the end the reader is stirred to un-
revolutionary emotions-to pity for
them, rather than citation over the
organization Of the workers.
FINALLY, a purely literary crlti-
oism. Melvin Levy, as We all do
in our ambition to be revolutionary
writers, has tried 10 strip his style,
to make it direct and clear and cut
away eloquence and lyricism. He
happens to be writer with
natural bent for eloquence and lyri-
cism. He has pinched them out Of
his style only to have them bulge out
in his characters. Unconsciously
he had made all his chief characters
picturesque people so that he might
put in their mouths the strong
metaphors and lyrical excitement
that he cut out Of his narrative and
description. while this adds
glamour to the story, it gives the
characters, frequently, an air Of un-
reality
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

tration Of banking and industry
went ahead at an accelerated pace.
CAll Of these facts are admitted by
government statistics.)
3-There are still over 16 million
workers without employment. The
average relief stipend all over the
country is only about eighteen dol
lars a month for a whole family. In
the South and West it often runs
as low az seven and eight dollars
a month. In addition, relief ad-
ministrator Hopkins has announced
that he intends to drop 1-3 to Y
Of all those now on relief rolls by
August.
4-The expenditure Of a bou
81 500, 0OO,OO for war preparations
during the current fiscal year
5-The 100 largest banks have in
creased their resources from 40 per
cent Of all commercial deposits to
over So per cent.
THE llSt OF Such broken promises
l could be extended indefinitely,
but they all boil down to the fact
that the new deal like the old deal
means the sharing Of greater profits
by the rich; and the sharing Of
more misery by the workers. It Is
an ironic Joke on Mr.. Roosevelt that
his publisher had to change a typo
graphical error which read private
party TO private property" This
is precisely what Mr.. Roosevelt has
done so well. He has defended the
interests Of private property against
the rights and well being Of the
workers. There has been new deal
for the big bankers and industrial
lists in that their super profits are
being restored. On the other hand
the new freedom for the workers
has meant that they are starving
to the tune of bigger and better
ballyhoo than Hoover gave them.
Mr.. Roosevelt claims that we are
on our way. He does not add that
his way is the road to hunger, fas-
cism and war. But millions Of Amer
lean workers, farmers and intellec-
tuals in fighting against the N, R.
A. and the feverish preparations for
war by the Roosevelt regime, and
in fighting the development Of fas-
cism in this country, are determined
to turn the American people off on
to another road and start them on
their way to socialism and peace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
John Reed Forum to
Hear Doctor Stern on
''Nazi Racial Theories

NEW YORK.-Bernhard J. Stern,
assistant editor Of the Encyclopedia
Of Social Sciences, and lecturer on
anthropology and the social sciences
at Columbia University and the
New School, will speak on Modern
Race Theories and the Nazis," on
Sunday, May 6, at the John Reed
Club, 43O Sixth Ave, at $50 pm.
DR.. Stern will discuss the NaH
myth Of Nordic superiority and its
practical consequences in the new
sterilization laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Dance League Forms
Percussion Orchestra

NEW YORK. A percussion in
strument class has recently been
formed by some Of the members Of
the Workers Dance League, meet
ing every Monday night from 7:30
to $50 at 1Os W. 14th st. It has
as It's purpose the development Of
workers percussion orchestra,
trained in dance accompaniment,
to assist the various proletarian
dance groups.
In addition Dalcroze group has
been started which meets at the
same address, from $50 to $50
p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
New Soviet Music Will
Be Feature of Eugene
Nigob's Piano Recital

NEW YORK, - In addition to a
program of Beethoven, Mozart, Cho-
pin and List, Eugene Nigob, dis
ttnguished pianist, will play new
revolutionary Soviet music at his re-
cital at the New School for Social
Research, 66 w. 18th St., on Sun
day evening, May 8. pm. Tickets
may be bought THE Workers Book
Shop, so E. 18th St., and Nigob's
Studio, 1872 E. 23rd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
RAISE $50 FOR DAILY

ENDICOTT, N. Whore than $50
was raised for the Daily Worker at
banquet held jointly by the In
ternational Workers Order of Bling
hamton and Endicott
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Satire on War at
Film-PhotO Saturday

NEW YORK.-A special perform
ance of the film, Hands Up" an
uprosrious satire on war, starring
the brilliant comedian, Raymond
Griffith, will be given at the Film
and Photo League, u E. II St.,
Saturday, night, at $50 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Reviewed by
ISmOR SCHNEIDER

THE PEOPLE in this book are
imaginary. So is Puget, the city.
Indeed, on the spot which I visual
lie as its site, there Is another and
different town"
When a statement such as this ap-
pears in front Of a novel, It is
usually a notice that the characters
are drawn from actual personalities
and the events from history. The
Last Pioneers has already started
one Of those literary guessing games,
that critics and knowbodies like to
play. Is Puget intended to be Seat
tie? Is Herman Nero the founder Of
famous department store dynasty?
And so on. The actual town or the
real name hardly matter, except to
local p What matters is
whether have in this novel a
typical )m town, and in its build
ers, ty Al boomsters.
Am "a. after the Civil War. saw
pee arly intense type Of capital
list imperislist expansion, Reckless,
Adventures, often trained in the
gamblers school Of long chances,
found themselves in the path Of
destiny A rich virgin country lay
before them. In the process Of eX-
tracing riches from it and from
their careless neighbors, they piled
up cities and industries. In this in
cidental manner, these last pio-
neers," many Of them immigrants
accustomed to living by their wits,
gamblers. saloon keepers from the
mining camps, became builders and
organizers.
1T is such q group that Melvin Levy
shows working out their strenuous
careers, In The Last Pioneers. There
is Herman Nero, who began life as
Chain Chemsnski, son of a poor
shoemaker, in Russian village,
Small, shrunken, weak and a de-
spised workers son, he learend to
respect power. to want power above
everything else; and to realize that
indirect forms Of power we're best
money and influence which kept
their wielder unexposed. Gold drew
him to Alaska, but, like other
shrewd ones, he let other men en-
dure the hardship and the risk, and
laid traps for them, with women,
liquor, cards and swindles, to relieve
them of the treasure they returned
with. From Alaska, he made his
way to Puget, a center Of the young
lumber industry. There. Paul Dex-
ter, an enterprising Harvard man,
had bought most Of the land, opened
bank, and waited for the inevitable
expansion.
II has, however, several short
comings which must be noted, It is
almost exclusively, the story Of the
exploiters; the exploited workers
neither in their misery nor In theil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
The Making of John WexIey's
Play on the Scottsboro Case

THEY SHALL NOT DIE. A Play on
the Scottsboro Case. BY John
Wexley. New York; Alfred A..
Knopf. 1871 pages, 50,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

THE LAST PIONEERs-by Melvin
Levy, New York. Alfred H. King.
$3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

ON OUR WAY. By Franklin D.
Roosevelt. New York: John Day &
Co. $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

WELL the economic future of the seems
" assured long proud Estate like the
Times and Tribune continue to be in the p
Evening star., 1934-04-25

your grocer's shelf? You can when you
buy Chase & Sanborn' 's-the coffee with
wonderful dating system.
Dated Coffee is rushed to your grocer
with the delivery date clearly marked on
every pound. This is done so that we can
tell just when the grocer received it and
how long he has had it. We see that no
can ever remains on his shelf more than
10 days.
No doubt at all about it-Dated Coffee is
fresh and you know it. The date on the can
tells you its flavor is rich and full-bodied-
its effects are stimulating and healthful.
From now on-ask your grocer for Chase
& Sanborn's Dated Coffee!
Evening star., 1934-04-25
MAIL BIDS FACING
EQUIPMENT TEST
Firms May Lose on Ground
Planes Are Unfit for
Service.

Some of the low bids for temporary
airmail contracts, to be awarded with
in day or two by the Post ONCE
Department, probably will be rejected
on the ground of faulty or inadequate
equipment. it was learned unofhcially
today.
Thorough study of the condition
and suitability of flying equipment is
being made by the Commerce Depart
ment aeronautics branch, while the
Post Office and Justice Departments
are going into questions of company
structure and responsibility.
Officials Are Silent.
The Commerce Department is COM
pleting the preparation of a prelim-
mary report on the flying equipment
OF the low bidders which, 1t Is under
stood, may form the basis for rejec-
ton of one or more of the bids. While
officials refused to discuss any of the
details of their report, it was said
unoflcially that some of the equip
ment will not be o. KID"
Eugene L. Vidal, director of aero
nautics Of the Commerce Department,
to whom the Post Office Department
made its request for detailed inspec-
ton of the equipment, returned to
Washington today from q trip which
took him into the territories of sew
eral of the bidding companies and
was N conference for some time with
Secretary Roper. 1t is anticipated the
conference will be followed by sub
mission to the Post Office Depart
ment of the preliminary report, pos
sibly by tomorrow or Friday.
Austin Makes Charges.
After disclosure yesterday that one
Of the low bidders had purchased five
airplanes condemned nearly a year
ago by a former airmail contractor
and held in dead storage since last
July, charges that several other COM
panieS also are planning to use un-
suitable equipment were made on the
floor of the Senate yesterday after
noon by Senator Austin of Vermont.
Senator Austin voiced the opinion
that officials of the Post Office Depart
ment are either putting up a bold
front" or else they are still so much
in tine dark about the technical side
of carrying airmail that they do not
realize tflat the tragic experience of
the Army will be repeated if these
hastily organized airmail bidders ac-
tually begin carrying the mail
Evening star., 1934-04-25
SUSPECT IN BANK
HOLD-UP RETURNED
Prisoner Brought Here From Bos-
ton Was Acquitted of
Charge There.

John H. Carroll, alias James Cur
ran, 81, wanted in connection with the
hold-up of the Washington Mechanics
Savings Bank, Eighth and G streets
southeast, April 6, 1898, when the rob-
bers got away with $3.50, was re-
turned here from Boston yesterday
by Detective Sergts. Frank O. Brass
and Floyd Truscott.
The prisoner. said to have served
terms in prisons for minor offenses,
was acquitted of charge of participa-
ton in a bank hold-up in Boston
some time ago and, it is stated, an
other similar charge against him there
is pending. He also is said to be
wanted in Philadelphia to answer a
charge of participation in the hold-up
Evening star., 1934-04-25

House, would require liquor dealers
to pay their taxes by purchasing
stamps from the District, just as the
Federal tax is handled. At present
the dealers file reports at the Dis
trict Building to show the amount
Of taxes due.
Under the taxicab liability bill, cp-
orators would have to take out in
surance or a bond for the protection
OF persons who may be injured.
The usury bill would place limita-
the interest charged on loans in the
District. The committee decided not
to make any changes in the small
loans law, which is separate from the
uSury statute.
Evening star., 1934-04-25
TWO MARINE COLONIES
HONORED BY ROOSEVELT
Congressional Medals Given to
Pair for Heroism in Philip
pine Uprising.

Two Marine Corps colonies were
presented with the Congressional
Medal of Honor by President Roose-
velt today for extraordinary heroism
during the Philippine Insurrection in
1901.
These decorated officers are Col.
David D. Porter and Col. Hiram I.
Bearss. The presentation ceremonies
we're in the Office of the President
and were witnssd by Col. Roosevelt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Maj.
Gen. John H. Russell, commandant
of Marines, and members of the fami-
lies Of the two honored men.
Evening star., 1934-04-25
THREE LOCAL BILLS
FAVORED IN SENATE
Liquor Tax Methods, Taxi Liabil-
ity and Usury Measures to
Be Reported.

Favorable reports will be filed In
the Senate today on three bills ap-
proved by the District Committee
yesterday, changing the method of
collecting liquor taxes, requiring
financial responsibility of taxicab op-
orators, and amendments to the law
governing usury in the District.
The first bill, which has passed the
Evening star., 1934-04-25
R. w. CHILD FORECASTS
PROSPERITY IN FRANCE
every One Wants Currencies
Stabilized" Economic Observer
Believes After Survey.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 25.-That France is
driving toward "ney stability and
prosperity" was the conclusion of
Richard Washburn Child today after
week of interviews with ministers,
bankers and business men.
Child, in Europe as an economic OBJ
server for Washington, left for Berlin,
where he will continue an investiga-
ton of trade possibilities.
Renewed confidence in France
should make it easier to conclude a
trade treaty with the United States, i"
he said.
Although he discussed the situation
only vaguely, the American diplomat
said every one wants currency sta
bilization to reduce international un-
certainty"