The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
FLASHES and
CLOSE-UPS
BY IRIS
Batting for Lens)

the vicious Nazi movie is still play
ing at the YorkYille Theatre, s6th
st. and Third Ave.
CLOSEUP IS. A. Mann
Brand" exposed by the Film and
Photo League as a disgusting at
tempt to glorify the Nazi Storm
Troopers and to prepare world opin-
ion to submit to the torture and
execution of Thaelmann, leader Of
the German workers. The NaZi film,
failing TO land in a Broadway The
atre due to the protests and picket
ing at the Bavarian Film Co. Office
on 489 Fifth Ave, has finally landed
in Yorkville dump. The Nazis have
chosen none other than a Jewish
theatre owner to assist them in ex-
hibiting this anti-semitic, anti-work-
ing class film. Mr.. Scheinmann,
owner of the theatre, says that
Nazi dollars are like any other dol
lars. The Film and Photo League
and the anti-Nazi Federation Of
Greater New York have been expos
ing this film almost every night
before large crowds of German and
Irish workers who attend the street
corner meetings in Yorkville. Work
ers indicate more and more deter
mination to show Hitler and La
Guardia that Yorkville does not be-
long to the Nazis,
THE local sheriffs and deputies of
1 California continue their imita-
ton of Storm Troopers. Having
used every means in their power
in an attempt to crush the ir-
repressible revolutionary Cannery
and Agricultural Workers Indus
trial Union, they now arrest and
imprison a young worker who
dares to show workers newsreels
depicting the real conditions in
California. Lester BalOg of the
Film and Photo League Of San
Francisco Is held in the almost
airless Jail Of Tulare, California,
less than two hundred miles from
Hollywood where the most de-
PRAYED, the most distorted movies
Of life under the New Deal are
produced to be released without
being censored. Send wires of pro-
test Immediately to the mayor of
Tulare, Cal, demanding the re-
lease of Lester Balog and demand
that the police keep hands off the
showing of workers movies.
FLASH! from Hollywood.
M.G.M. threw away over 100000
when it threw away the practically
finished film Operator 49," directed
by the white-guard Richard Bole-
slavsky. Along about the end of pro-
duction somebody decided they bet
ter do it over again. Marion
Davies, the favorite actress and en-
tertainer of William Randolph
Hearst is to be featured in the new
Operator 49," The finished film
will cost 100000.
FLASH! Fox Films at con-
vention in the Waldorf Astoria in
New York, announce that Laur-
ence Stallings will be editor of Fox
Newsreels.
CLOSEUP Stallings Is the
editor of book of war pictures and
the author of several "pacif1st'
films. His book has been sold to the
Nazis with permission for them to
adapt for their own purposes. Nc
accident. We've always believed
that he would wind up in an out
and out machine for war and fas-
cism like Fox Films.
Somehow or other the Chase Ma
ticnal Bank and Fox Newsreels de-
cided not to sue the Film and Photo
League for libel. They threatened
They sent agents for copies of the
leaflets issued on May Day to tbs
workers of Fox Films. Their legal
department had it on the boards
But somehow or other they are moi
ready to invite an exposure of the
charge that Fox Newsreels have
been carrier for more Hitler prop
uganda than any other newsree
company. That Fox is working
with the Nazis on a swap arrange
ment. Fox makes films in Ber-
lin. 4. Fox sells the Nazis Holly
wood films and Fox distributes Naz
newsreels.