Pace Four

PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

# - Qctober 8, 1937

BOOKS
and
AUTHORS

RAINBOW FISH. By Ralph
Bates. Jonathan Cape,
London.

Reviewed by T. L. Hodgkin

EHOPLE are inclined to
: argue that it is a handi-
cap. for an author to have
definite political beliefs;
that in his treatment of
human affairs he is more
liable to fall into the faults of
over-Simplification and aridity than
writers who are politically inno-
cent.

Ralph Bates gives the lie to this
theory. For appreciation of the
complexity of individuals and their
relationship,
and quickness of perception, I do
not know of any political virgin
whose writing reaches Bates’ level.

Bates’ social philosophy never
obtrudes itself in the form of
dogma, nor leads him to treat in-
dividuals simply as representatives
of social groups. But it gives a
shape, a firm outline, to his pic-
tures of individual character. :

A perfect example of this kind
of treatment is the portrait of
Pepita and her family in Death of
a Virgin—aitself the most complete-
ly satisfying of the four short noy-
els of which Rainbow -Hish is com-
posed. Bates’ writing has the same
detached and penetrating
whether he is writing of Petita—
the devout, sSex-terrified Spanish
girl who has to cut Sacred Hearts
out of paper as a penance for the

_ sin of uncharity toward her Uncle™

Sezismon—or of Segismon, the
“misanthropic hippopotamus” who

sat at table sighing, “Ay, Mother
Mine,”’ and ‘Ay, Jesu,’’ and “Ay,
Holy Virgin,’ over his food, and

after every sigh he closed his eyes.

But it is a mistake, perhaps, to
stress character in this way, as
though Bates were a writer who
thought solely in terms of char

acter. Characters are for him
completely fused with events; they
are the distinguishable forms

which mark the surface-of the
Stream of events.

So, if you ask what Death of a
Virgin is about, it is as much about
the launching of the fishing boats,
the night with the fishing fleet
when the dolphins brok® the nets,
the death and expensive burial of
Aunt Garmela, as it is about Pepita
or Uncle Segismon or the Catalan
revolutionary through whose
mouth the story is told.
uals are represented not as dis-
tinct portraits, but as episodes
within the larger picture of the
lige of a family, a village, a-
people. :

The complexity of the life of a
group and the complexity within
an individual character seem to be
the driving ideas behind Bates’
writing. In the last story, Dead

End on the Sky, this technique is

most fully developed.

Partly, I suppose, it is Bates’ ab=
Sorption with music that makes
him pay such close attention to the
pattern of the story. Dead End
of the Sky is almost like a piece
of music in the intricacy of its
eonstruction.

Tt is a passion for truth and ob-
jectivity—tor including in a work
of imagination all that is relevant,
so that the personal interests of
the author are not allowed to foe
oer distort the picture—that is the
outstanding quality of Bates’
stories. i

It is, I think, on account of his
intense effort to perceive the ac-
tual and to subordinate the per-
sonal that the events and charac-
ters which he describes have all
such a sharp and definite appear-
ance,

e :
TELLING instance of the hu-
mane and constructive side of
war as waged by Spanish loyalist
farmers, workers and fighters is
described by Ralph Bates, author
of Lean Men and The Olive Wield
and officer in the International
Brigade. Bates has just arrived
in the United States on a speak-
ing tour.

Battle had swept the village ot
Villarejo, near Madrid, and left a
jot or orphans but not a house to
jive in. Americans in the 1ith
Brigade dug into their pockets and
furnished money. Shock brigades
of workers, mostly old men, com-
muting from Madrid, contributed
their labor after work hours and
during week-ends: The biggest
house in the village—it was also
the least damaged—was rebuilt as
a home and hospital for orphans.
Members of the Federation of Field
Workers, also in off hours, plough-
ed, planted and cultivated acres of
truck gardens about the house.

An officer of the International
Brigade made a speech in French,
which was translated to the ehil-
dren by a Spaniard whose knowl-
edge of French was vague. A little
gir] made a speech in reply, ren-
dered into French by the same in-
terpreter. The parties to the col-
loguy looked bewildered at the
speakers, but the spirit of the oc-
casion came through nicely.

The home is no longer in the

fighting zone and it houses some
60 orphans. Similar co-operative
efforts have been completed else-
where and still others are under
way. .
“Ajd to the loyalists, even if
only in terms of resolutions by
trade unions in other countries, 1s
boomed in headlines throughout
all loyalist Spain,” Bates said.
“The coming of the International
Brigade has moved Spanish work-
ers and peasants profoundly”

range of sympathies

quality ~

Individ- -

N our last issue the New

York Times Herbert L.
Matthews described the sig-
nificant Loyalist offenswe
in. which Ouinto and Bel-
chite on the Aragon front
mere taken from tle fas-
cists. This week we print
another despatch from Alat-

thews in which he reveals
the story behind the Fas-
cists reeent attempt to

severe the vital Madiid-V a-
lencia highway by driving
upon it from Teruel.

UENCA, Spain.— The
‘open door’ of the
Teruel front is now shut
tight and barred so strongly
that the Fascists would have
to Jaunch an offensive far
greater than any yet at-
tempted in Spain to break
through to the coast and
V alencia.

Wo other conclusion is possible
after the careful and relatively
¢horough study of this front during
the last three. days that the writer
and Ernest Hemingway were per-
mitted to make. Other foreign
newspaper men have visited the
sector at Teruel itself, but we were
the first to have an opportunity to
cover the entire front. get

In this part of Spain as in Ara-
gon, there was a surprise for us in
the discovery that an advance ot
considerable depth that had not
been advertised at all had occured
simultaneously with the Aragon of-
fensive. It netted the government
- something like 400 Square kilo-
meters (about 160 square miles) of
ground, carrying the whole north-
~erm part of the line forward to a
“powerful chain of positions atop
the Sierra Palomera, overlooking
the highway to Calatayud. :

*K
EST of all, from the Loyalist

standpoint, it was perfectly
timed to catch the large wheat
erop in that neighborhood just be-
fore it was to be harvested, and
as a result Loyalist Spain is richer
by 3,000 tons of much-needed
grain.

However, it must be stated that
the offensive was only partly suc-
cessful. The objective was to cut
the Calatayud highway at Santa
Bulalia and Torremocha, but those
towns were found to be very
heayily fortified and, as the gov-
ernment was employing only a
division of troops, there was noth-
ing to do but consolidate on the
mountains alongside the road and
make them into powerful jumpins-
off positions for a future drive.

The Teruel front is one of the
most spectacular in Spain from the
viewpoint of scenery, which is tan-
tamount to saying that it Is ex
tremely difficult terrain in which
¢o work from the military stand-
point—easy to defend but hard to
conquer. Not so long ago, however,
it constituted one of the greatest
dangers the government faced, and

there was talk for many months

of a Fascist drive down the high-
way to the coast.

That talk was not in vain, for a
reason that was more political than
Military: The front was held by
the old-fashioned type of Anarchist
militiamen, who did at Teruel
what the POUM did in front of
Fiuesca—they just stopped and en-
joyed themselves. —

At some points mess kitchens
were beyond the first lines. Fas-

cists and Anarchists played foeot-

ball games together. Militiamen in
Jarge batches went to Valencia for
weekends.

Tt was a lovely war—the only
ikind of war that particular type
of militiaman wanted—but it was
not what the government wanted.

Tae chief culprits were the An-
archists of the misnamed “iron
columns,” and after a near dis-

A Woman’s

pees most of you were
shocked as I was to read of
the girl-mother of thirteen in Duck,

Take, Sask. When
A Mother pepe

= the case of a
At Thirteen young child-

mother was brought to light down
South, all the world was up in
arms, but many people no doubt
thought, “Thank goodness, that
sort of thing doesn’t happen here.”

“Now we have a case of a youns
girl, forced to go out to work to
help feed the family of eleven,
being taken advantage of by one
of her employers, and on top of
it all, having venereal disease
passed on to her.

And the RCMP didn’t want her
father to take action against the
man!

°

OW we have embarked on the
joint press drive to build up
the circulation of the two prosres-

Women And Sive papers in

Z Ganada. We all
The Drive mow what an

important part these papers play
in the fight for fair labor condi-
tions, and so each one of us must
do everything possible towards
increasing their circulation, which
is necessary if we are to keep the

press £o0inge ahead.

Women can and will play a big
role in: the drive for funds, because
everybody knows there is no refus-
ing a woman when she sets her
heart on getting something. So go
to it; you of the fair Sex, and live
up to your reputation!

From Teruel to the French Border Loyalists Have Won Consistently
On All important Eastern Fronts Ever Since July

aster in April they were disarmed,
pulled back and put to more useful
work. The line was partly strength-
ened but the government had other
worries for some time and left
most of the front unchanged.

Then in July occurred what ali
military observers on this side re-
garded as an absolutely inexcus-
able defeat when the Fascists,
usin= a small foree, broke through
at Albarracin and started gather-
ing in a large area.

Tt was mountainous territory,
where a handful of determined
men could hold up a brigade. Yet
the Anarchists gave it up without
a struggle and it was not until the
wrathful general staff in Valencia
sent up some real troops that the
Trascists were easily and thorough-
ly stopped.

That was the last straw, and
some Six weeks of complete reor-
fanization made the Teruel front
a truly powerful one that will be-
come increasingly stronger be-
tween now and November, when
heavy snow and bitter cold will
make any operations impossible.

We went over the northern part
of the front Monday with the new
ecommander-in-chief of the Army
of the Levant (as it is called),
Colonel Juan Hernandez Sarahia,
one of Spain's revolutionary
heroes.

At several towns in back of the
front we stopped to wateh him re-
view two battalions of troops that
had spent twenty hard days in the
offensive. They were relatively new
troops who had learned to be sol-
diers in battle, not on the parade
ground.

* ;

HEY were not smart, but they

were youn and strong and
proud; they swaggered past and
their faces were beaming and con-
fident. :

Qne battalion had lost 150 men,
including four captains, so a lieu-
tenant had to Jead them by. The
other had had eighty casualties. In
any country these would be good
troops, and they told us more than

People |

ERE, Joseph North,

correspondeil in Spain
of the Daily and Sunday
Worker, New York, and the
Wester Worker, San Fran-
cisco, tells what is happen-
ing behind General. Pran-
co's lines. Despite a reign
of treror hidden by aw rigud
censorship. the people are
successfully employtng
guerrilla tactics, necessitat-
ing maintenance of large
garrisons with @ consequent
weakening of the Lascists’
front lines.

ALENGIA, Spain. —

Spain today is invaded
by 50,000 Germans and 200,-
000 Italians.

Most of the invaders are
located in the Biscay prov-
inces. Not all of them are
in the army. Many of them have
been imported to man the factories,
since most of the trained workers
in this area have been murdered
by the Fascists, impressed into
army service or have fled as refu-
gees to Loyalist Spain.

Resentment mounts behind

Talking about the art of cajolery
reminds me of a conversation z
had with a man recently on the
same idea, He said, “You women
know very well the power you
have over a man, and the subtle
means you have of getting your
own way, but why don't you use
that power for other things as
well as for your own personal
needs?”

Through the vague morning, the heart pre-

occupied,

A deep in air buried grain of sound
Starts and grows, as yet unwarnins——

~ publicans are selling

any number of words could that
Spain’s new army is fast becoming
one of the strongest in Europe.

Later we drove out with Colonel
Sarabia and his aides along the
road that had been the original line
before the offensive. This was an
important highway that runs di-
rectly north from Teruel through
Alfambre and Perales.

As the colonel explained it, point-
ine out positions that stretched in
front of us, the operation was rela-
tively simple. ‘

Qn August 24, the same day the
Loyalists moved north from Hijar
to take Quinto and Belchite, a divi-
sion of troops swept forward all
alone the line te a range of hills
about ten miles west—incidentally
this operation was effected from
beginning to end by Spanish sol-
diers and officers, no intermmationals

- taking: part.

The first day's objective was
{taken without difficulty, as there
were only a few Fascist positions
there. On the second day another
successful push was made without
trouble up and over the Sierra
Palomera, which is, for the most
part, 5,000 feet high.

*x

HUS far the Fascists had been

‘caught completely by surprise,
and they correctly decided to make
their stand in the already heavily
fortified towns of Santa Hulalia
and Torremocha: So when on the
third day the loyalists moved
down from the Sierra they met
stiff resistance.

The next sixteen days provided
an exhausting and steady period of
fightine in which the Loyalists ap-
parently fought up to the towns
but could not take them. On Sept
12 the attempt was given up and
the troops fell back to the heights,
from which they “have the Cala-
tayud Road under artillery fire-

They had gained valuable farm-
ing land with its wheat crop and
were in the strongest possible posi-
tions along that front, so on the
Whole they were satisfied.

When we asked Colonel Sarabia

many a shopkeeper’s door in
Fascist-controlled Spain as the
area is transformed into a German-
Italian colony. Many a former
Franco adherent is reported Shiit-
ing his allegiances and observers
forsee a yiolent explosion.

In fact. it has already begun.
In the mountains of Huelva, in
Viana del Bolia, in the province
of Galicia, many thousands of Re-
their lives
dearly in scores of guerilla raids on
Fascist outposts. .

[Three thousand fishermen of
Wiana are making life miserable
for the IWascists’ at Vigo, Corunna
and Pontavedra.

A company of Moors and Pha-
langists recently sent to stamp
them out left half of its number
dead in the mountains. Only half
of them returned from their ex-
pedition into the hill country.

Two thousand more Republicans ©

in the mountains of Buema, who
fled Malaga, Rio Tina and Seville,
crept down from the crags and
smashed the enemy who had come
to mop them up-

Jn La Ciana Prieta,
suburbs of Ardeles and the neigh-
boring villages of Galicia province,
numerous Spaniards who escaped
from Malaga and Casarabonela
have been attacking Fascist garri-
sons With great success at Chore
de] Agua.

Diary

Well—why don’t we?
©

MET a woman yesterday whose
husband works for one of the
biggest companies in Canada. She
told me he was very
Company sick, but had to keep
Unionism working, as the firm
would not provide any sick pay.
The doctor had told him that he
must take six months leave of ab-
sence to have treatment, other-

Bombers

The tremor of baited deep-sea line.

Swells the seed, and now tight sound-buds
Vibrate. unholding their paean flowers
To the sun. There are bees in sky-bells

droning,

Flares of crimson as the heart unfolds.

Children look up, and the elms spring-gar-

landed

Tossing their heads and marked for the axe.
Gallant or woebegone, alike unlucky—
Earth shakes beneath us: we Imagine loss.

. The important thing,

ise In

in the.

why the advance had not been
publicized, he replied:

“We are not looking for pub-
licity. It was enough to do it.”

The most important part of the
front is, of course, Teruel itself
and the highway that runs down to
Sagunto on the coast. We spent a
whole day studying the situation
there, for if General Franco ever
drives to the sea it will be down
that highway.

Tt may be stated in advance that
the Fascist positions are actually
impregnable to frontal attack.
Irrom the defensive viewpoint
Teruel is much stronger than
Huesca or Sarazossa.

>.<

W the first place, there is a high

hill dominating the entire ter-
rain to the east of the city. It is
known as fhe Mansueto, and like
Garabitas Hill in the Gasa de
Campo outside Madrid, it has been
converted into a powerful fortress.
That is the key position to Teruel.

In addition, the Fascists hold a
pass leading into the city at Kilom-
eter Fourteen along the highway.
There they have a strong line run-
ning back on both sides along
easily defended heights to the
north and south of the city.

In short, Teruel would have to
be cut off and taken from the rear
if it were to be taken at all.
however,
from the government’s viewpoint
is that the Loyalist positions across
the road are now also ‘extremely
powerful, and though for obvious
reasons it is not possible to
describe them, they were not at
all strong until the reorganization
took place under competent, ener-
getic direction. a : :

Taking into consideration the
fact that the whole terrain down
to the coast is rough and steep ex
cept! a stretch about twenty-five
miles from’ La Puebla de Valverde
to Barracas that has a relatively
gentle slope, it seems safe to pre-
dict enormous difficulties for any

- offensive down that way. A hope-

Jess flank would be exposed in
short order and the yarious passes

Fascists’

2 Ries garrisons have received re-
inforcementS Six -or seven
times, for any slight letup means
the end of another band of Fas-
cists. :

Reports here tell of an imtense

-attack on the suburbs of Ardeles,

in Galicia, which netted the Re-
publican forces 20 cases of dyna-
mite, 1,200 detonators, 410 rifles
and numerous horses.

As they left, the anti-lascist
irregulars hurled bombs at the
garrison of Phalangists and ciyil
guards, killing 50 and wounding
twice that number, i

In most villages practically every
family has at least one member
who has been killed by the Fas-
cists. Z

The conditions behind the FPas-
“cist lines are indescribable. TI
spoke to a man who had escaped
from Fascist-held Galicia,
who saw these occurrences.

x
ERE are part of his iist of ob-
servations. Hitler’s techni-
cians are teaching the Fascists
Military tactics and how to build
munition plants.

The Phalangists—sort of “un-
controllables’ of Wascism—make
life a reign of terror eyen among
the well to do.

Many teachers, professionals and
individuals, who have not the
slightest social sympathies, have

CFO

wise he would face the prospect of
TB. Already the man has been
carried home from work, where he
collapsed, three or four times. Yet
what can he do? The family must
eat.

Were is an example of what
could have been done for that man
and his family had the union been
organized for the. benefit of the
workers instead of the company.

Black as vermin, crawling in echelon
Beneath the cloud-tloor, the bombers come:
The heavy angels, carrying harm in
Their wombs that ache to

be rid of death.

‘This is the seed that grows for ruin,

The iron embryo conceived in fear.
Soon or late its need must be answered—
In fear delivered, and screeching fire.

Choose between your -child and this fatal

embryo.

want

Shall your guilt-bear arms, and the sons you

Be condemned to die by the power you paid

for

And haunt the houses you never
__C. Day Lewis, in New Frontier.

built ?

and

ar Amid the Mountains

in any case are easily defendable.

QREOVER, from November

to May snow and bad

weather will make operations al-
most impossible.

The terrain’s rugged character
was particularly impressed upon
us this morning when we climbed
Mount Lazaro, thirteen miles west
of Teruel, to study that part of the

~front. It was alone there to the

north that the Fascists advanced
in July, considerably widening
their salient and permitting them
to fortify the towns of Bezas and
Campillo. -

The ground is so rough and high
that it is easily defendable with
small forces, so it would scarcely -
be worth trying to regain. How-
ever, it works both ways, so the
Loyalists have now settled them-
selves strongly along the positions
that defend the Cuenca road
against any possibility of such 2
misfortune as occurred in July.

The front there and im fact
everywhere except at Teruel itself
is composed of positions—strong
points—not trench lines. Warfare
there requires an entirely different
technique than on the Madrid
front, but the government has
demonstrated in recent weeks that
it can do better in such fighting
for the-present than in a war of
movement requirine larger and
costlier operations.

‘The position on Mount Lazaro
for instance, is so far from any
road that we had a full hour’s—
horseback ride to reach it from
the nearest point to which our
autemobile could take us-

Were in Cuenca all talk is of the
new and thus far successful opera-
tion taking place to the north
from Huesca, where the Loyalists
have made just such an advance
as was made on the Teruel front.

The entire line, in fact, from the
French frontier to Teruel has had
to be radically altered on all maps
after the three recent offensives.
ach has been successful up to a

‘point and none has been met as yet

by a Fascist counter-offensive.
Nobody Knows just why this is
so, but they do know that General
Franco will have to moye soon
somewhere, for the war in the
astern half of Spain, which is an
all-important part, has been goins
against him’ever since early July.

been “bumped off’ because at one
time or another they expressed
hostility to certain conditions.
Many moderately wealthy land-
owners have been killed for pro-
testing confiscation of some of
their goods. :

Gonseription in the Wascist army
begins at the age of 18. All classes
have already been called upon
from 1929 to 1939.

The Phalansists are despised by
the officers and the Requetes
(Carlist monarchists). These in.
turn are hated by the Germans
and Italians. The entire Fascist
rearguard is a keg of dynamite.

*
RANGO is hated by the army
‘as well as by the civilians, who
realize that he has become a
puppet manipulated by Hitler and
Mussolini. :

“The soldiers,’ the Republican
observer told me, “are never
armed until they are placed in
the train and sent to the front.

“And even then there have
been constant uprisings in Galicia
such as recently when officers
were killed by soldiers who tool
over the train.”

The Wascist propaganda service
‘has worked overtime. Their latest
tale is that the children evacuated
by the Loyalists from besieged
cities are being sold in foreign
lands in exchange for munitions!

by Victoria Post

HEN lunches have to be made
up for the children every
day, it rather taxes one’s imagina-

Lunches For tion sometimes to

= give them some-
Children thing which is

nutritious and tasty, and yet at
the same time maintain a well-
balanced diet.

Lettuce, or tomatoes or celery
provide that extra tastiness which
makes sandwiches more intezest-
ing, and whenever possible these
should be packed separately.

For instance, cheese sandwiches
packed as usual in waxed paper,
and lettuce, rinsed in cold water
and carefully dried on a clean
cloth, also “wrapped in waxed
paper, make a lunch which is
nicer than if the lettuce had been
put into the actual sandwiches.
In this way, it keeps its crispness
and flavor.

Tomatoes are much nicer if used
in the same way, as tomato sand-
wiches are usually a soggy mess
unless freshly made immediately
before they are ready to be eaten.
Celery heads can also be wrapped
in waxed paper and packed sep-
arately-

Peanut butter and honey are
two good standbys for winter
Junches, as they both contain
plenty of nutritive qualities, par-

ticularly honey, as it provides
warmth.
For a change, try bananas

washed up with walnuts—the wal-
nuts used for cooking are quite all
right te use for these sandwiches.

“Newsreel material showing re-arm-

“Crown Prince of the House of

STAGE
and —
SCREEN

OW the New Film Alliance
sizes the new pictures up:
DEAD MARCH: Re-reyiew.

ing, past and present undeclared:
Wars and horror scenes of the
World War, accompanied by the
commentary of Boake Carter. Ig-
nores the economic causes of wars,
does not point out the obyious guilt
of Fascist aggressors, calis the war
in Spain a “war of hunger’—
hunger of Franco’s men, but does
mot mention hunger of Hitler and
Mussoiini for iron, naval ports, ete.
An attempt to commercialize on
the public’s genuine anti-war feel-
ing. :

LIFE BEGINS AT COLLEGE:
The Ritz Brothers are fast becom-
ing established as laushmakers ~
Nos. 1, 2 and 3. This is all about
football, college life, campus sheiks
and belles. Some good songs.

HIGH, WIDE AND HAND-
SOME: Hodge-podee of history re-
lating to the discovery of oil in~
Pennsylyania. Merely an expen-
sively-produced western.

e
By JOHN R. CHAPLIN
OLLYWOOD. — Screen Play-
wrights, Incorporated, has filed

a libel suit for $200,000 against
the Sereen Writers’ Guild, because
the latter, in a membership cam-
paign letter, charged the play-
Wrights’ outfit with being a com-
Pany union. Lhe Sereen Directors
Guild, turned down flat by the
producers in itS attempt to gain
recognition, is ready to appeal to
the National Labor MRelations
Board. All the euilds are girding to
put up a real fight against the
International Alliance of Theatri-—
cal Stage Employees’ demand for
jurisdiction over them. And Holly-
Wood each day srows more labor-
conscious in a struggle which
promises to be an epic of a type
thé films haye never yet screened:

The week of October 24-30 will
be nationally observed as Eddie
Cantor Anniversary Week, com-

ememorating the 25th anniversary

of Eddie’s rise from a singing
waiter to a stage entertainer. The
committee is headed by Wall Hays,
James Farley, Louis B. Mayer,
Paul Muni, Governor Merriam of
California and Joseph M. Schenck.
The honorary committee includes
a 00d eross-section of the biggest
names in the country, with only —
Some liberal and progressive
names perhaps lacking. Eddie, who
has been a prime mover in the or-
sanization of all actors the country.
over within the past quarter-
century, has played a real role ine
jabor’s strides in this field. He was
first president of the Screen Actors
Guild.

Among the personalities who
have signed their names to the
two ambulances for Spain, which
are accompanying Heart ‘of Spain

in its cross-country tour (wateh for ~

it in your community), are: Fran-
chot Tone, Naney Carroll, Fred
Keating, Dorothy Tree, Florence
Eldridge, Betty Furness, Sylvia
Sidney, Lionel Stander, Gale Son-
dergard, Stella Adler, Robert
Benchiey, Luise Rainer, Wredric
March, Paul Muni and James Cag-
ney. Writers and directors are
equally well represented.

Hollywood is much upset about ©

the presence here of Vittorio

Mussolini, but as yet there have ~

been no open demonstrations,
Wight before his arrival, an anti-
Nazi. meeting branded him as

Death’? and the
baby-killer.’

“Duce’s favorite

RWIN SHAW’S movie script of
“The Arabian Nights,” in which
Sylvia Sidney will star and which
Walter Wanger will produce,
translates the story into modern
political terms. The Caliph of Bag-
dad is a liberal ruler who sym-
pathizes with his people.

icdihianne Dols

The

Fascists, led by the military clique, ©

seize power—and the Caliph, sup-

ported by the masses of the peo-—

ple, leads a
them. The funniest scene is where
the shopkeepers in the bazaar
stage a sitdown strike, and the
Caliph joins them and is compli-
mented on his talent for sitting.
so —
FTER years of struggle the
American Federation of Musi-
cians has been successful in wiping
out some of the effects of techno-
logical unemployment by forcing
the radio stations affiliated with
the major networks to agree to
spend $1,500,000 more for living
music during the year from Octo-
ber 1 last. ;
Faced with the threat of a strike
that would cut off practically all
revenue, the broadcasters agreed
to give aid to musicians who haye
watched their employment oB-
portunities lessen through increas
ing use of recordings, electrical
transcriptions and, music hookups.
Jos. N. Becker, president of the
AF of M has set a goal of $3,000,-
000 additional to be spent on liye
music by broadeasters during the
next year. He expects to get the
other $1,500,000 frbm key stations
of the networks and from inde:
pendent and unaffiliated stations-
After that Weber will tackle tht
movies. He wants the film com
panies to stop using tracks mad
for one picture over and ove
again. Then ‘he is going to see i
the movie companies won't hir
more muSicians in theatres to ré
compense for the thousands 0
job lost to musicians by use 9
synchronized music. At one tim
employment in theatres was th
ereatest source of revenue to mus}
cians.

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