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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
STATE OFFERING
 TRIPLE PROGRAM
Gambling Lady" With Barbara Stanwyck Fea-
 ture Cinema

A triple unit program! That is the rare treat in store for patrons of Warner Brothers State theater to-day, to Wednesday. A remark able plot, unusual and gripping, replete with fast, thrilling action and filled with powerful dramatic situations and romance in its sweetest sense is Gambling Lady" starring Barbara Stanwyck which is presented as unit number one on this marvellous bill.
 Gambling Lady," success from the moment of its Holly wood preview, has {. record of praise from the seyerest motion picture critics, and the reason was cledrly shown in the intense inter- est with which the audience fol- lowed the career of the heroine, a young lady who gambled for a liv- ing, but never compromised with her own code of honor either in life or love.
 Miss Stanwyck is always a con- summate actress, and has given many notable performances in such pictures as Ever in My Heart,p Baby Face" "So Big" Illicit" aHA OSlSEcs III SdHlDlluS Lduy, she has a role that calls for the best of her genius for role DOT trayal.
 Making a convincing character out of Lady, who is by profession a card shark, but who will cheat neither at cards or love, who will stake her life's happiness on the turn of a card, yet is willing to relinquish 1t to keep her word to an unscrupulous rival, who bears the buffets of fortune with a smile and who can take good luck and bad with fortitude, is surely a diff ficult task for any actress.
 Barbara Stanwyck rises to the occasion with unsurpassed artistry and thereby has, in a few short weeks, added to her fame as one of the outstanding stars of motion pictures.
 Joel McCrea, playing opposite Miss Stanwyck for the first time, gives a brilliant and virile per formance and Pat O'Brien shares honors with him.
 Claire Dodd gives to the role of g homebreaker a convincing quai- ity.
 The entire cast is excellent and includes c. Aubrey Smith, Phillip Reed, Philip Favorsham, Robert Barrat, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Robert Elliot and Willard Rob ertson.
 Unit number two presents Lee Tracy, favorite with Waterbury theatergoers, in "I'll Tell The World, a typical Tracy whirlwind comedy romance. Lee is as superb as ever. Always the master show man, the dyed-in- the-weol artist who knows what his public wants and proceeds to give it to them in masterly fashion. He is supported by an excellent cast including Gloria Stuart and Roger Pryor. Unit number three presents Joe Penner, the nasty man of radio fame in his newest comedy hit Gang Way"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
ALHAMBRA BILLS
 JIMMY THE GENT
"I Am Suzanne" C0nnpan- ion Feature CofflfnenC-
 ing Tomorrow

The Alhambra heads their Sun- Monday double feature with T Am Suzanne" starring Lillian Har- xey and Gene Raymond.
 The romance of q Am Su- zanne!" has a simplicity and rap ture that bring to mind the unfor- gettable romance of Seventh Heaven" The story is. that of a young dancer who falls in love with the youthful representative of a family of puppeteers. She leaves the stage to join the puppet show so that she may be near her sweetheart. The puppeteers are successful, but the young star is unhappy because the boy seems to prefer her puppet to herself. In- furiated with his thoughtlessnes of her, the young girl destroys the puppet and returns to the stage. The lovers, however, find them selves together again when her producer engages the puppeteers for the same show. The stars manager, fearing that his young dancer will ruin the show because Of her inambition, pleads with the young man to profess his love for her. The youth finally realizes that it is the girl he loves- and not her puppet, and his confession of this love inspires the star to give a magnificent performance that as- sures the pair of successsand hap piness.
 The companion feature is fJim- my the Gent" starring James Gag ney and Bette Davis. The picture is based on the hilarious comedy romance by Laird Doyle and Ray Navarro and concerns two crooks who are both trying to expose the other to impress the girl they both love.
 The story unveils in humorous vein the unique racket of heir chasing, that is, the hunting down of lost heirs in order to inherit unclaimed estates. And the two no-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
MANHATTAN CAST
 BUSY NEXT WEEK
Troupe to Present Only 3S" for Three Days
 Starting Monday

After a weeks absence, due to previous bookings at the Water bury Women's Club on Central avenue, the Manhattan Players will return again on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, April 23rd, 24th and 18th in a delightful romantic drama "only SS" by the well known author A. P. Thomas.
 Is a woman old at 3s? This is problem which is cleverly han dled by the talented Manhattan Players under the direction of Frank Lyon. Peggy Coudray is perfectly cast as Mrs Stanley, the minister's widow, who is torn be- tween the love of her children and her deep affection for Prof Gid- dings, played by Frank Lyon. subtle and human story and just enough humor to insure an evening of perfect entertainment.
 Miss Coudray and MT Lyon will be supported by the popular Grace Carney, who made such a hit in Tanned, and Howl; also John Hampshire, !. Harrison Taylor, Roger Beirne and others.
 Due to the crowds which have attended the Tuesday and Wednes- day performances, Mir Lyon and MT Palmerton have decided to in- augurate a three day policy and will continue this schedule until further notice. Reservations should be made early by phoning the box office or by calling at the box office after 9:30 a. m. on Mon- day, Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
''LET'S BE RTTZY'
 OPENS AT STRAND
Paired With Death Takes . Holiday Beginning
 Tomorrow

Paramount's sensational dra. matic hit "Death Takes Holiday" heads the commendable double faa- tnre program opening tomorrow at Warmers Strand theater.
 splendidly cast with Fredric March and Evelyn Venable in leading roles, superbly- mounted by Director Mitchell Leiseh, and written for screen presentation by such capable scenarists as Max we'll Anderson, Pulitzer prize win ner, and Gladys Lehman, Death Takes a Holiday" merits all of the praise thus far conferred upon 1t.
 The picture is based upon the famous drama of eternal romance by Alberto Casella, adapted to Eng fish by Walter Ferris. The screen play retains all of the dignity and beauty of the stage production, and one can detect the matchless writing of Maxwell Anderson in several extraordinarily beautiful love scenes.
 1t was on battlefield that Alberto Casella first wondered just what would happen if Death should take surcease from his eternal task and come to the world for a mortal holiday. The translation of that provocative idea into the pho fopiay was an ambitious task. but one which Paramount has proudly accem plished.
 The picture tells how this n1ys- terious shadow changes his shape and form, becomes, for a three- day holiday, a gay, dashing, TO- Ia n Q e. pariy. concealing his identity from every one but the host, who in- troduces him as a friend.
 Az a charming cavalier. Prince Sirkl, the guest searches for life's thrills, seeks to learn what man loves in life that he must fear It's end.
 But the games. the pastimes of the crowd bore him. Toid that Love is the one big thrill in life, that is proffered him is all too sell fish. until in the arms of beauti- full, young girl, he finds love to De the one thing in life that man lives for.
 And, with his holiday almost completed, he finds now that he IS like any mortal man who IS in love, afraid to love life, dreading the thought of parting with the beauty he has found.
 The cast is excellent, featuring such excellent screen players as Sir Guy Standing. Kent Taylor, Katherine Alexander, Gail Patrick. Helen Wesley. Henry Travcrs, G.. F. Huntley, Jr., and Kathleen Howard.
 The companion feature is Lets Be Ritzy," a story of modern mar ried young couple trying to make both ends meet, its action taking place in 8 one-room apartment in which they eat, sleep and enter tain. Just what happens to Lew Ayres, who is starred in the picture and Patricia Ellis, his wife, when they decide to take the advice of a friend and go ''ritzy'' supplies plenty of laughs, and something to tlSink about, too.
 fA -AG l~ sSx Nta< vfay yrd f1 l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
"SON OF KONG" AT
 LYRIC TOMORROW
"I Am Suzanne' Compan= ion Feature on Varied
 Program

Lillian Harvey and Gene Ray mond are starred together in the new Fox film, T Am Suzanne" coming to the Lyric theater on Sunday.
 "I Am Suzanne!" is the story of a young stage star who falls in love with youth who is the rep resentative of a declining family of puppeteers. The young star leaves the stage to join the puppet show. The show is a success, but she discovers that the love and praise of her sweetheart is lav- ished upon her puppet rather than upon herself. Infuriated by his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21

Marie Provost, former actress, was $60 richer today.
 She won a court award for that amount from Tom Gallery, fight promoter and former husband of Zasu Pitts, on the ground he broke up china and glassware in her Beverly Hills home which he rented.
 Miss Provost had sought $252, claiming greater damages. Among other uncomplimentary things she said of Gallery's housekeeping, was that she found a toad in the base ment and feas in the bathrooms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21

The "bird' Tor "Bropx cheer" will be scrapped from the repertoire of film sound effects, it appeared to- day.
 The Hays office has issued an edict against further use of this labial expression of contempt, holding that it is one of the 'in- decencies" that is being criticized by film critics. First to feel the brunt of the Hays order was Bill Gargan, purportedly the champion raspberry" elocutionist of film land. A scene in which Gargan demonstrated his prowess was eliminated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21

torious heir chasers, James Gag ney and Alan Dinehart, do not stop at bribing persons to act as heirs and coaching them into per jured testimony.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
Theatrical Directory

PoLrs-Today TuesdayMen in White" and "You're Tell
 ing Me" sTATE-Today wednesdayG Lady,. "In Tell the and "Gangway" with Joe Penner. STRAND-Sunday Wednesday-"Death Takes Holiday" and
 Ritzy." - CAMEo@sunday Monday-"voice in the Nsht' and q CAp1ToLwsunday and Monday-"Bolero" "Jimmy the
 
 GARDEN-sunday and Monday-"You Buy Everything ALHAMBRA-Sunday and Mohday-"I Am Suzanne' and
 Jimmy he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21
BENEVOLENT GROUP
 TO GIVE CONCERT

Tomorrow evening at o'clock the choir of the Swedish Lutheran church of Naugatuck will present a concert at the local Swedish Lutheran church on Cherry street The entertainment vii lbe under the auspices of the Swedish Benev- olent society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-21

Cosmetic sales in England indi- cate that three-fourths of the wo- men are brunettes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Sacramento Frdme>Ub
Must Be Defeated

CALIFORNIA capitalists who used their
" courts to frame up Tom Mooney and
keep him in Jail for the past seventeen
years despite overwhelming proof and of
fetal admission of his innocence are today
engaged in monstrous attempt to railroad eighteen
workers to prison under the notorious California
Criminal Syndicalist Law.
Perjured testimony, tampering with the jury,
whipping up of nti-Communst sentiment with
fantastic tales of kidnapping of a prosecution wit
ness" Qater exposed as hoax perpetrated by the
District Attorney, lies about death threats" to
jurors everything and anything goes with the
degenerate crowd Of stool pigeons vigilantes and
fascist agents of the bosses gathered in Sacramento
at the trial of these eighteen militant workers.
The attempt to railroad these workers to long
prison terms for their working class activities is an
attack on the whole working class Directed first
and particularly against the Communist Party in
the nation wide and-working class campaign initi
ated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the
reptile Hearst press, the arrest and prosecution of
these workers is challenge to the rights of all
workers and their organizations. The Sacramento
trial is prelude to further and sharper fascist at
tacks on the toilng population of this country. 1t
arises directly out of the vgilane raids workers
organizations during the strike struggles on the
West Coast-raids that were organized and designed
by the bosses to throw terror into the working class
and smash its struggles against the program Of the
Roosevelt New Deal, with its arbitration in the in
terests of the employers its wage sashng and
drive to Fascsm and imperialist the capital
lists way out" of their growing difficulties
The attack be beaten back by a united
working class, and these framedup workers wrested
from the hands of their alers 1t is the class duty
Of every worker, Of every working class organiza-
unconditional release of the defendants. Send pro-
test kilograms and resolutions to Governor Frank
Merriam Judge Dial M. Lennon and District At
torney McAllister all at Sacramento, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
The War Plans and
Section Ia

THE war plans of the government, now
L being discussed before the Senate NUM-
lions committee, include the scrapping of
even the pretenses in section IA of the
NR.A, and the dictatorship by the gov
eminent to wages, and conditions of labor. This
was admitted in testimony of War Department Of
hcials Friday before the committee.
The testimony of these Roosevelt government Of
ficials gives additional proof that the NR.A as at
present set up, is paving the way for fascism and
imperialist war Under the MIRA, fascist measures
have increased The fascist company unions have
grown tremendously under encouragement of NR.A.
boards Strikes have been prevented at the terms of
the employers by the MIRA. compulsory arbitration
boards The unions have been attacked through
blacklist and discrimination The terror of national
guard troops and police have been thrown against
picket lines and unemployed demonstrations. War
preparations have been speeded up and billions of
dollars poured into them.
The plans for the next war include the dicta-
ton by small government board or by the Presi-
dent himself as to wages and working conditions.
No labor" representation will be allowed, War De-
partment officials said.
The deInagogy which is now surrounding MIRA.
will be dropped according to these war plans Sec
ton A. ambguously worded, has been used against
tne workers organizations ana IN favor OF the COM
pany union. But Section A has been hailed by
the Roosevelt government guaranteeing the rights
Of the unions to collective bargaining" But in
the coming war, these demagogic promises to labor
will be dropped, the War Department admits
Wages will be cut and the unions fasciszed at the
convenience of the government in order to make
more billions in profits for munitions makers.
I'm time of war you can have only one boss"
Colonel Harris said in approval of dropping NR.A
when war comes.
The open dictatorship of the bankers and the
munition makers, the open rule of the employing
class is being prepared for the mperalist war now
being plotted by the Roosevelt government. The
demagogc trimmings Of Section IA and the like
with which Roosevelt covers his rule for the
bankers, will be given up Fascist terror will take
its place.
These war preparations, which include prepare
ton for the destruction of all of labors rights and
destruction Of the workers organizations, must be
combatted now by the broadest united front of the
workers against the capitalist war preparations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
From the Workers Pockets

WHILE workers groups throughout the
W country continue to array their forces
for the mighty National Congress for IN
employment Insurance. Secretary of Labor
Perkins, speaking over a radio hook-up
Saturday, gave the key to the plans of the Roose-
welt regime in its efforts to head off the fight for
genuine unemployment insurance.
The chief role of the Federal government Perkins
said, will be to establish uniform rates in various
state reserves" schemes. She reiterated all the
platitudes of the infamous Wagner-Lewis Bill and
declared that in any event any projects scheme
mlnistration will give not one penny to the present
unemployed. Such a scheme, she said, will only
tide the worker over seasonal ayos" under Con
ractual" set-up to which he will contribute.
For the aged, sick and inf1rm Perkins put for
ward the Roosevelt plans to have the present en-
ployed young workers build up reserves during their
working years'-a sort of mutual savings fund from
which they can later draw
Clearly it is evident that any genuine system of
unemployment insurance, such as is embodied in
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, can
only be wrung from the Roosevelt hunger regime
by the mass weight of the workers organized behind
the tremendous mass movement of the National
Congress for Unemployment Insurance.
The task before the Communists in the trade
unions and unemployed and mass organizations must
be to move these groups into united action in sup
port OF the coming National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Hedrst's Lynch DriVe
PenetrateS Schools

THE flood of fascist filth which the
L multi-millionaire William Randolph
Hearst has let loose in his newspapers all
over the country against the Communist
Party is now penetrating the schools.
Hearst like well-trained follower of the Hitler
Goebbels methods, is sending his agents into the
schools with the purpose of drumming up a nation
wide anti-Communst lynch hysteria.
New York readers will remember the recent
bullying Red scare" attack which Hearst launched
against the New York schools in an effort to pave
the way for more wage cuts in the school system
But Hearst's fascist plottings not going with
out resistance. group of university professors
headed by DR.. George S. Counts of Columbia Uni
versity has just requested the Dckstein Committee
investigating "un-American" activities to open
drastic inquiry into Hearst's under-cover campaign
to foment typically fascist Red scare" in the
schools.
The low, degraded methods of this ulti-million-
aire vulture who makes millions on the opium he
peddles in his dirty press rightly denounced by
the liberal educators as similar to Hiter's which
will reduce American universities and schools to
the ignominious condition of the German schools
and universities under Hitler"
This is true. Hearsts anti Communist campaign
is sinister to every standard of intellectual
honesty and progress in the schools. Hearsts lynch
campaign with its lies, its distortions and gutter
journalism pandering will turn the schools into
hateful prison houses of intellectual prostitution in
true fascist style. Hearsts anti Communist ncite-
ments will befou the atmosphere of every school
room, laboratory and study in the country, if his
campaign is not smashed by the organized protest
of the workers and intellectuals of the country
Therefore the protest of the university profess
sors is welcome and deserves support of all workers
and anti-fasciSts.
One word of warning. The Dickstein Committee
will not fight Hearsts vicious lies The Dickstein
Committee itself has taken its part in arousing anti
Communist hysteria The protest of the professors
and all nteectuals must be joined by the mass
protest Of the workers in meetings and denonstra-
tons This will be the most effective way to block
the rottenness of Hearst.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
TUESDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1894
The Gilt Is Wearing
Off the NepV Deal

A GROUP of liberal social investigators,
"A headed by DR.. Harry F. Ward of Colum-
bia University, declare in report just
issued that Roosevelt's New Deal policies
are bringing new degradation to the
masses, new profits to the Wall Street employers,
and are rapidly paving the way for fascism in this
country.
The clever mixture of social promises and re-
dictionary economic policies which characterize fas-
cism all over the world is also characteristic of
Roosevelt, the report, issued in the name Of the
Methodist Federation for Social Service, states. THE
same mixture is in the minds Of Mussolni and
Hitler" DR.. Ward says.
quoting Moley's recent declaration before the
National Association of Manufacturers, "Basicaly,
the New Deal was an effort to save capitalism" the
report finds that this is the purpose of fas-
cism elsewhere Mlssolini talked about giving capt.
talism TRANSMISSION of blood. Hitler is less articu
late, but big business subsidized his movements
when it was waning, by way of heading off Com
munism"
Coming from group of liberal investigators this
conclusion is of great significance. For it was the
liberals who swallowed Roosevelts honey with such
complete abandon and faith when the Communist
Party alone of all political groups stressng the
fact that Roosevelt's New Deal was Wall Street
trap for the masses.
The report of DR.. Ward indicates that the gilt
is rapidly wearing off the New Deal The reaction
airy capitalist reality, pointed out by the Commu-
mist Party from the beginning is showing itself to
ever increasing numbers of people.
1t is now eighteen months since the New Deal
began in cloud of the most rosy promises ever
made to toiling population made wretched by four
years of capitalist crisis.
And now we can estimate the results in cold
economic figures taken from the capitalists them
selves.
To quote from the report just issued by DR..
Harry F. Ward in the name of the Federation:
THE price of retail food is % per cent higher
than the low point reached in April, 1888.
1884 corporate interest and dividends will
probably reach s63OOOoOOOO TRIPPING the total
of 1918.
NET profits of SOC companies rose from $751;
100000 in the first six months of 1888 to 100000
900 for the same period this year.
Thus, the New Deal has accomplished its major
purpose thus far, to grind more profit out of the
masses by intensifying the exploitation OF the
masses.
This reactionary economic policy has been, and
Is being, increasingly accompanied by growing fas-
cst measures of repression violence strikebreaking,
labor movement as whole.
The warning of the Communist Party that the
menace of fascism comes right from the White
House must be sounded through the whole country.
Every liberal group, every group of honest
persons realizing that the reality of the New Deal
is the trend toward fascist reaction and mperialst
war must be brought into one mighty united front
against these two monsters bred by capitalism.