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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Bootleg Coal
Miners Form
Association

SHAMOKIN, Pa.-The bootleg"
miners, who number thousands in
the lower anthracite fields have
been attacked by the Coal and
Iron Police, who threatened to blow
the holes smut. The terrific unam-
the lower anthracite fields, have
ployment in this part Of Pennsyl-
vania has put the miners in a posi-
ton of paupers and they are not
provided with enough relief to keep
their families from starvation. For
over year they have been taking
the coal out of the mountains and
in this manner were able to make
few extra dollars a week to sup
plement their measly relief.
These miners have decided to or
ganize THE INDEPENDENT COAL
MINERS ASSOCIATION OF SHA-
MOKIN for the purpose of fighting
against the attempts of the coal
company to drive them out of these
holes, Over two hundred miners
joined the above association last
night. They unanimously agreed
to affiliate to the National Unem-
ployment Council and to use The
Councils books and initiation and
dues stamps.
The Unemployment Council Of
Shamokin was the first organiza-
ton to respond and sound tbs
alarm to the bootleg miners wher
the CoaI ard Iron Pclioa att7mTt c
c--,-cd by the a3ovs body are:
Tom Snyder, Rec, Sec; Jacob Yost
Fin. Sec; Elmer Goss, Treasurer
The next meeting of the above o.
ganization will take place on Friday
August 18th at the Unemployment
Council Headquarters, Shamokin
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Meeting viii Protest
Assaults on Militants

NEW YORK-A mass meeting to
protest the attacks on Smiley
Blu-nenthal and Sol Lipnacl1, left
wing shop chairman, by strong-arn
supporters Of Charles Zimmerman
has been called by the Left Wing
group in Local % Of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union for tomorrow, 5 pm, at Irv-
ing Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
Fifteenth ST.
The two were beaten last Thurs
day at a meeting of shop ehairmen
in Mecca Temple, when they voiced
their opposition to the unit system
of price agreements which Iimmer-
man. HICKMAN and other officials
S1.cS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Kansas City S.P. Local Votes
to Join With C.P. against Var
Arrests of Keith and Berlin in Alabama
Denounced AS Part of Terror Campaign

NEW YORK-In telegram to w. Downs
of Birmingham Ala, the the Defense of
Political Prisoners yesterday denounced
Berlin part persecution
against Negro and white workers state
The telegram points to the libel
noted playwright correspondent Daily Worker as part
of the terror drive aimed ouwng the press
Party militant organizations The telegram
follows:
Commissioner w. o. Downs
Birmingham, Alabama:
Arrest of Fred Keith and Israel Berlin
organize press involving
issues Lawson libel This Committee including
and writer's all country will pubze
dismissed
"(Signed) Alfred H. Hirsch Secretary, Com
mitee for the Of Political Prisoners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Nazi Amnesty
q
Hit as Fraud
By Committee
By Del

NEW YORK.-In a statement re-
leased yesterday the National Com
mittee to Aid Victims ofs German
Fascism, which is carrying on the
campaign to Hbecate all anti-fas-
cists in Hitlar's dungeons, warns
workers, intellectuals, all individ-
uals and organizations opposing the
Hitler fascist regime, not to be
"sidetracked' by the recent an
nouncement Of Hitler that 10000
pacifsts, Socialists, Communists,
Jews are to be given their freedom.
"Hitlr is quoted specifically as
saying that those prisoners who
have committed treason or are ac-
cused of grave offense will not be
freed" stated Alfred Wagenkmecht,
secretary of the National Commit
tee, This means that Thaelmann,
Torgler Hugo Graef, secretary of
the wa veterans, and thousands of
the most courageous fighters against
Hitler viii continue to be tortured
in the concentration camps and will
eventually be tried by the People S
court.
This gesture for a general
amnesty has been wrung from the
Hitler regime as a result of the
world protest movement against
German fascism and for liberation
of the tens of thousands of anti
fascists Hitler has imprisoned. Our
movement to free Thaelmann ana
all those whom the Nazis have &C.
cused of tree or must 90 or, n7g,t
er o t77-a 7- ~1 ~
j nh and O., -
leading anti-fascists to the list of
those that receive their liberation. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Three Negro Women
Whipped and Branded
With Irons In South


SHREVEPORT, La, Aug. H.
Peonage charges have been filed
against Bruce Darby, his wife and
son, Sabine dairy operators, on be-
half of three Negro women who
were held in virtual slavery on the
farm.
The women were stripped and
whipped, branded with hot irons,
tortured with electric wires, and
forced to work without pay, fed
eral investigators admit. The women
testify they were not permitted to
laave tie farm except in the COM
pany of one OF the Darbys, and
that when one of them escaped she
was brought back forcihly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Trial Of III in Ambridge
Postponed When LID.
Brings Many Witnesses

AMBRIDGE. Pa, Aug. 12.-The
trial of eleven Anbridge workers
who were arrested in a police raid
on an international LABOR Defense
meeting in Sokol Hall, Aug. 2, which
was scheduled for Wednesday night,
has been arbitrarily postponed I'M
til next Tuesday by Burgess P. j.
Caul. The action was requested by
Police Chief Andrew Biers. who was
somewhat dismayed by the appear
ance of an I. L. D. attorney and
representatives. and enough wit
nesses from the raided meeting to
secure the discharge of all eleven.
Sylvia Schlessinger, I. L. D. at
tcrnev, represented the workers.
The raid on the I. L. D. meeting
and the breaking up of an anti-war
rally the night before for which the
burgess had issued permit, are
simply the continuation of tine reigr
of terror that has been in force In
Ambridge since the picket line mas.
sacre last October wherein Adam
Pietrusiski was murdered by depu.
ties and many strikers wounded.
The workers are charged with
assembling without a permit"
1t is we'll known that no permit.
are reuuired for membership meet.
f--~r- IF ~Lr-1-- .-,--, '---.st---- $3.50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

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such a borough ordinance exist it
is direct violation of constitu-
tional rights to free assembly.
An I. L. D. branch meeting was
held nearby at which preparations
were made to mobilize for the trial
Tuesday and to fight against further
terrorization of working class organ
izations in the town.
Evening star., 1934-10-14
Picking Flaws in Cinema
Becomes a Favorite Sport
But Grace Moore Picture One Night of Love,
Offers Difficulties for the Critics-Civil
War Staged Realistically"
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

ICKNG flaws in the cinema has become of the popular
- recreatons of the day Patrons as they bounce their
think to themselves NOW let's see
meaning by that dollars doughnuts they will able
something with it. So they SAIL full
argument and explode possible it
to therf lends
Evening star., 1934-10-14
"Jayhawker Opening.

TOMORROW evening at the Ma
tional Theater, Henry Hammond
will present Fred Stone in jay
hawker," a new drama by Sinclair
Lewis and Lloyd Lewis. Sinclair Lewis
is currently represented in the New
York theater with Sidney Howard S
dramatization of his novel, 'DodS-
worth" Lloyd Lewis, in addition to
being a distinguished biographer, is
dramatic critic of the Chicago Daily
News. This is the first time that
either of these writers has written di-
rectly for the theater and the first time
that either has collaborated with any
one.
"Jayhawker" Is a richly satiric por-
trait of an uproarious politician of
Civil War days, who is painted very
much in terms of today. Fred Stone
plays this role and in it makes his
debut on the legitimate stage after
many years of intense popularity on
the musical comedy stage. Fred's
youngest daughter, Carol, appears op-
posite him. Walter c. Kelly, remem-
bered from Both Your Houses" is
featured. Others in the company of
35 are Edward Mcnamara, Paul Gull
foyle and Ralph Theadore.
"Jayhawker" was directed by Joe
LoSey and its settings designed by
Walter Walden. 1t will stay at the
National for one week, then go to
Philadelphia for two further weeks
before establishing itself at a theater
in New York.
Evening star., 1934-10-14
Next Week $ Films

4 MOS M ANDY, those perennial IA
vorites of the air, in person, to-
gether with their announcer, Bill Hay,
and an augmented stage show, to-
gether with the screen feature, Have
a Heart" co-starring Jean Parker and
James Dunn, in a tale of young love.
is the entertainment slated for Loew's
Fox the week of Friday. October 10.
"Pursued,"a colorful love drama Of
the tropics, is the attraction that on
Friday, October 19, will occupy the
Loews Columbia Theater screen. In
the cast are Rosemary Ames, Victor
Jory, Pert Kelton and Russell Hardie,
with George Irving, Torben Meyer and
others in support.
Irving S. Cohb'S famous Kentucky
Judge and his quaint Civil War cronies
are brought to vivid life by Will Rog-
ers and notable cast in the humorous
Judge Priest" which is the attraction
starting October 19 at Loew's Palace
Theater. Tom Brown, Anita Louise,
Henry B. Walthall, Frank Melton, Da-
vid Landau, Stepin Fetchit and others
provide the Oklahoma sage with his
largest supporting cast.
With Maxine Doyle, Guy Kibbee
and Paul Ash heading a group of
so entertainers on the stage Warner
Bros. Earle Theater will present its
fourth anniversary vaudeville frolic the
week beginning Friday. October 10.
Joe E. Browns tenth anniversary pic
ture, "Six-Day Bike Rider" will be
the screen feature on this special pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1934-10-14
Local Players.

THREE recent Broadway hits and a
mystery melodrama have been Sc
lected by the Montgomery Players for
their 1934-35 season. The first play,
1.-THE Late Christopher Bean" will be
presented on the stage Of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School Friday and
Saturday nights. The two leading
parts are being played by Jane
Plummer Rice and Irving Day. The
supporting cast includes Betty Moore,
Martha Roberts, Guy Kinman, Mrs.
Helen Devereaux Pyle, Randolph Pugh,
Harold Norton and William j. Mac
Intyre The set is being designed by
Ralph S. Fowler. AS second produc-
ton the Players have chosen The
Black Flamingo," a Sam Janney play
of French Revolutionary days. This
will be followed by "Springtime for
Henry" the Ben Levy comedy which
delighted Broadway audiences for
many months, and Counsellor at
Law" Elmer Rice's drama in which
Paul MUM starred for nearly a year.
Ralph S. Fowler is stage manager
for the 1934-35 season, and ]. A.
Bishop is business manager.
Under the direction of Dr. Frederick
v. Rand, president, and Miss Wilda
Kilbourn, production adviser, the
Mount Pleasant Players, dramatic unit
Of the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, will open their formal season
of performances October IS. Their
first presentation will be a one-act
comedy sketch, to be given in Fish
burn Hall. A three-act comedy, "Skid-
ding" by Aurania Rouverol, on No.
vember 16, will be followed by a
Christmas play, on December 20, both
to be given in Fishburn Hall.
The Pierce Hall Players announce
their first play of the season. Mildred
Curran will direct and produce Quail
ity Street" by j. M. Barrie, Thursday
and Friday nights, November l and 2,
at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Har-
ward streets. This play is one in
which Maude Adams appeared for
many years. 1t was first produced in
Washington, with Miss Adams in the
lead, in 1901, under the management
of Charles Frohman Miss Curran
has directed Quality Street" for
other groups in New York and Phil
adelphia. She is a graduate Of Bar
nard College, Syracuse University and
the American Academy of New York,
and has studied under the personal
guidance Of Lucy Ann Rogers, also
Evening star., 1934-10-14

climax to the film. Henry Hathaway
directed this new production and the
supporting cast includes Sir Guy
Standing. Charlotte Granville and
Henry Kolker.
On the stage program Irene Beasley
presents popular songs in the manner
which won her the crown of radios
queen for the year. Others on the
bill are Barney Grant, rural come
dian; the Kitaros, sensational ORR
entail entertainers, and Virginia
Bacon in Rhythm Moderne," with
Tommy Monroe, the Andrews Twins
and De Carlos and Grenada.
x **
WASHINGTON fans like their Mae
West pictures so we'll that seven
days at the Earle and seven DAYS at
the Metropolitan did not satisfy them.
So Mae West in Belle of the Nine
ties" will remain until Tuesday aft
ernoon at 5 o'clock. At that time
Mae will vacate and in her place on
the screen will be found Grace Moore
in "One Night of Love-" The first
unreeling of this film will be at
$3.50 pm.
X X X
REGINNING with today's matinee at
the Gayety Theater, the Paris
Nights" company will appear for a
one-week stay. The featured come
dian with the Paris Nights" show is
an old favorite Of burlesque, Billy
Arlington, who was featured for years
on the old Columbia circuit.
Supporting Mr.. Arlington are Eddie
Lloyd. an eccentric comedian; Searbee
Hayworth, eccentric comedian, who
always is good for many laughs;
Margie White, soubrette with an indi-
vidual style; Nora Murray, prima
donna; Wilma Horner, Conny Ryan,
juvenile straight man; Charlie Schultz,
Joan Collotte, Joyce Breazelle and
Condo and Allen.
Evening star., 1934-10-14
Prince Camps" in Car.

Determined to camp" when he
could not obtain accommodations at
a popular Black Sea resort near Bu-
charest, Prince Nicholas of Rumania
sidetracked his private car and made
his headquarters there The camp
was less than 100 yards from the at
tractive bungalow being built for him
as gift from the government. The
prince is an open-air enthusiast.
Evening star., 1934-10-14

Of New York. While in New York
Miss Curran directed plays for the
West Side Players.
The Columbia Players will open
their thirteenth season on Novem-
ber and with presentation Of
Lula Vollmer's "Moonshine and Hon.
eysuckle."
Aurora Poston is directing.
The play will be given in Pierce
Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets
northwest. Tickets are on sale at T.
Arthur Smiths Concert Bureau in
the Homer L. Kilt music store at 1880
G street northwest.
Evening star., 1934-10-14

There is no question but thaC very
often the screen needs to be picked
apart. When, for instance, Marion
Davies make up her mind that she
will play The BarrettS of Wimpole
Street." then it seems logical to re-
mind her that such an act would cause
more pain than pleasure. And when
you see in some magazine that our
own successful local dance prodigy,
Dave Gould, is to create dances for
David Copperfleld," then it doesn't
seem impolite to ask if Hollywood is
planning a series of Fokine ballets for
David. or if he is merely going to do
one Of those water and mermaid num-
bers in imitation of the Warmers IA
nous dances with which Busby
Berkeley beguileS spectators
When, however, some one comes to
us and begins to say thus and so
about a picture like "One Night Of
Love-" then We can only yawn and try
to think about other things.
For, no matter what anybody says,
we still maintain that this Grace
Moore film is a genuine triumph for
all concerned and that its success is
distinct indication that the public
can warm up to something good.
Even If Miss Moore isn't quite up to
scratch as Carmen" even if no
Italian singing teacher ever put books
on his pupils stomach even if they
don't starve their pupils in Italy, and
Miss Moore's Butterfly costume is
more like Mrs. Astor's costume ball
than Farrar'S one-time bath robe, We
can only say that we don't care a fig,
and that they can keep right on put
ting books on pupils stomachs, doing
second-rate "Carmens," and looking
better than they should as Butterfly"
and if they're still Grace Moore and
"One Night of Love" we shall use
that much abused word and say it's
swell"
Asst week the theater initiated us
to a section of our land with which
we are little acquainted. The Erie
Canal came out Of its mothballS and
was presented by Marc Connolly in the
sort OF language which only a crafts
man may use. "The Farmer Takes a
Wife" was not a bombshell so far as
entertainment was concerned, but it
was theater-colorful, nostalgia and
sentimental. 1t revived many mem
ory for those whose families had
claims along these lakes, and it stirred
many a romanticist into thinking of
what time and change can do to this
little world
Again this week the theater will
familiarize us with another link in
hictnrU-fIn CiyriI l., ;ol.
will be presented, as John Peter Too
hey, who has read the script. said, for
the first time realistically" Mr..
Evening star., 1934-10-14

Toohey reminds us that the stages
treatment of the South has invariably
been of sentimental and fictitious
nature. That no one has come along
and swept of the varnish in order to
dig under and find out the real truth.
The Messrs. Lewis are said to do this,
prying into the ebb and flow of this
native conflict with the eye of the
realist as well as the eye of the show
man. Since neither of them have hit
the boards before, the outcome of all
this is by no means certain. Mr..
Toohey said, however, that so far as
reading it is concerned, the play speaks
for itself and is grand.
X X X X
THE return of Harold Lloyd to the
screen makes the imminent ap-
proach of Charles Chaplin something
to speculate about. The lesser sages
having expressed themselves mourn
fully over Mr.. Lloyd, claiming that
his hey-day was done, and that he
would reappear only in half a shell,
are handsomely thwarted in The
Cats Paw"-the film which brings
him back into the spotlight. Although
it is no "Cavalcade' or Night of
Love-" although it will not roll you
in your seat the way perhaps some
of the earlier Lloyd films did, 1t Is
definitely funny, definitely good and
definitely worthwhile entertainment.
Mr.. Lloyd having thus come back
into the open with a bang, it does
not seem impossible for Mr.. Chaplin
to do the Same-he, in the mean
time, having spent sleepless nights
over his workings and intending to
spend many more before his new pic
ture is completed.
The question of whether he will or
will not talk is still in the air, authori-
nothing he will at least let out an
occasional squeal or two.
X &*
4 GAIN and again we have been
asked not to write any more
about a certain young lady who used
to say Thank you" at the Earle and
who this week comes back to do con-
Siderably more. But this we shall
say: That no story of the year has
more of touch of the Cinderella to
it-that no young lady has worked
harder or been a better sport about
certain shortcomings-that no young
ster ever deserved the hand that she
will undoubtedly get here on Friday.
Lacking a little of this and a little
of that, possessed of no wild talent,
she has, nevertheless, done what she
has wanted to do through sheer will
nicer lesson to teach the young than to
show them that it is the trying that
counts-that success doesn't come all
in a iiffY.
Evening star., 1934-10-14
Kaufman PLAY Coming.

GAM H. HARRIS and George S.
kaufman are sending their new
est opus, Bring On the Girls" to the
National Theater for the week of Oc-
tober %, Immediately prior to its pres
entation at the Morosco Theater in
the metropolis.
Bring On the Girls" is not, as its
title might indicate, a musical show,
but wild and, according to the pre-
liminary announcements, somewhat
cock-eyed" farce. 1t was written by
Evening star., 1934-10-14

For the record, let 1t be said that
Green's play revealed the child animal
in man with vigor, and its abrupt de-
mise left us fearful.
4 n
60 FAR as Manhattan Island is
concerned, France has substan-
tally reduced its debt obligations by
sending Lucienne Boyer over here to
charm theater-goers with her singing
1t is Mile. Boyer who gives to Cont
mental Varieties" its chief distinction,
though the champagne cocktails served
ION the house" during the intermis-
sion are not without merit.
Next to the little French actress,
we would rate De Roze, the magician
who turns water into authentic cock
tails and brandies and Whiskies-
whatever the audience demands-end
then sends them back through the
theater for whomever cares to imbibe.
Escudero and his Gypsy ballet pro-
vide another entertaining feature of
this variety show, which has been put
on at the Little Theater, glittering
and gay in new paint and original
decorations.
X + X +
TN DIVIDED BY THREE" Judith
Anderson, as a New York sophis-
ticate, tries to divide herself fairly
among a weak husband, an adoring
son and a demanding lover, tax on
the emotions of any lady, but one
which the emotional Miss Anderson
meets full measure, if not to the en-
tire appreciation of the audiences at
the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Hedda
Hopper, as the sister Of the unhappy
wife, provides moments of gay relief,
and James Rennie, as the lover, is his
usual handsome and what you might
call dynamic self. The authors of the
play are Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer MAR
garet Leach, the novelist) and Mrs.
George Kaufman.
Copyright. 1934 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-10-14

the indefatigable Mr.. Kaufman and
Morrie Ryskind.
1t is whispered that the new farce
is humorously concerned with certain
aspects Of the New Deal, more partic.
ularly the activities Of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. The play will be
staged by Mr.. kaufman.
Heading the large company Of fer.
ceurS which will present the new ulav
here will De Jack Benny, popular
comedian and radio star.
Evening star., 1934-10-14

It begins IN the Glasgow OF 1867
with q medical student who is tav-
ern brawler and a sot, strutting
peacock of q man, given to resound-
ing frenzy and vile unkindnesses.
That Charles Cameron's saving grace
was his mind, whose brilliance he
used to chisel his way to the brink
Of a discovery which would have ad-
vanced medicine 20 years. Cameron's
path entwined with that Of Harriet
Cameron died Of a tubercular hem
orrhage induced by burst of rage and
| and left Miss Marshall with an ille-
gitimate child.
The child grew into Wilhelmina
Cameron. Her heritage was her
fathers eager curiosity, his tumultu-
Gus cruelty and his bursts of rage.
From her mother, who knew what she
wanted, had got it and then had
sought practical way out, she got
an ability to calculate that tempered
her vicious recklessness Of spirit.
These are not happy qualities and
they did not bring her happiness.
Her uncle's clerk, when he stood in
the way Of happy marriage, she
poisoned. The murder was made out
suicide and Whilhelmina was left
in official peace to bear twins and
plant the bar sinister across our own
generation.
It is one of these twins who is the
genius-a doctor who, In a sadly
cheap climax, discovers the cure for
a disease that IS exterminating the
world. We see enough of him in the
closing scenes to realize that the
| cruel, reckless determination which
goaded his grandfather to death and
his mother to murder are, in him,
balanced by the method and prac-
ticality of that first unhappy grand
mother and the luckless father who
held in his hands a bursting dam and
thought to the last agonizing moment
1t was a Summer shower.
1t is a vastly interesting play. Along
| the way, Dr. Mavor hits out the
| sound idea that evil can become genius
when it is directed properly. But,
more magnificently, he shows that, in
the genius, there rests all the capacity
for evil that brought his ancestors to
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tunity.
4 4 \
THE clanor for seats to "Merrily We
Roll Along" the George S. Kauf-
man-Moss Hart play now approaches
the realm Of panic. Night after night
deeply attentive audience crowds
every seat and stands in two tense
rows in back to listen to this piece,
which obliquely berates audiences for
making trash successful. 1t also
breaches, not quite so obliquely, that
art is its own reward and that the
reward for trash is trash.
| y X
A FTER absorbing this message the
spectators did not descend en-
masse upon the Cort Theater. where
Paul Green's Roll, Sweet Chariot"
held forth to empty seats. In fact,
they stayed far away in droves, and
Roll, Sweet Chariot" a profoundly
forceful drama, came to its final rest
before this could be rushed into print