The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-25
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
THE:
A Great Revolutionary Play
BY MICHAEL GOLD

Great Revolutionary Play
NEW "sevedore" just opened
New York and of the the
drama that has yet appeared country.
1t story a
how the militant Join
fighting lynchng exciting May Day
onstaion picket line and New York worker should
profound they great
revolutionary lesson by driving deep into bones Working
audiences tanning theatre nightly till the
almost explodes have anything like it. will
say the
play been reviewed in the Daily Worker
review of for the New Masses weekly which will be the
stands Friday.
At point however say
the bourgeois newspaper critics who reviewed the play
Their reaction always interesting spectacle feeling
trying to disguise itself objective criticism.
Most of them forced play
since it was obviously good play from the technical viewpoint
critics sesqupedaan
shower zegd FoIes mostly brief and tmd in their
ment "stevedore 1t really tcsh situation
them How can you praise Lennm in capitalist paper even when
in the form of strong intense work of at7
better to hem suter
most OF them did One really felt for them
The only critic allowed
him and to but out his rage was one might expect the
Journal in New York John Mason the Evening
ANE of the best things proeaan
eshetes" liberals" They lofty dog
they Judge enely
mountain of the eshete and begin to squeak and bber like any out
ragged matown banker and Republican
fond that politics. suddenly
drop their false smpernq masks and become intensely political
1t better fight enemy open
than when he hides behind the skirts
bourgeois theatrical ought equipped blackacks
not pews when they to plays like steydore In their
hearts they really the cultural policemen capitalism
listen the esthc
he opens his attack "stevedore":
with the Theatre angry
old playhouse Fourteenth Street. those New pray
such thing console themselves
have Theatre Of the Barricades
NO up Square
mfamnatoy harangues which honey their Union
boxes speehihers
convenience these indignant
without fear of rain become agitated as they please
Such his lines workers
this esthe
unemployed goes
squar TO express the misery and injustice of time.
This vefed tmeserng protected liberal
meal in his life watched manutrion
would probably like guns sweep Square drive
out the who there Ito hear the nhmmaty
are honey to their ears
supposed criticism fascist blast
the working popagandistS
champion of ar Thanks you
and to hell with you and art cciSn We will continue with
of ynchng and and tyranny
CWA get you one of these days!
THIS great Republican goes on admit that several scenes
the play have tension to them nerve-vracng"
and here the eshete attempts impress he trouble with
dramatic reband Steve
which they aredy by
ing to chdsh simple devices Their jobs
by the nature of the audiences which pander"
Yes the Theatre Union panders" the revolutionary working
class This eshehc crime pander Brown
the people who the Mny blesaue
praised often the up bourgeois
Broadway
and skar do not bother TO
think their problem through pleasure
the flames they rather
ladder In the phrase which their white applies
hero they They
putting salt into old wounds than in csueng them
compassion and indignation but very little else"