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President Roosevelt's New Deal is not radical enough to suit U. S. radicals. To Communists the NRA appears as just one more capitalist plot to grind down the proletariat. To Socialists it seems like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they believe, offer workers "an exceptional opportunity to organize as a fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party...
...Felicia Metcalfe, produced by Elizabeth Miele). The carefree spontaneity of this home-folks comedy, pat for stock company production, had to overcome Manhattan audiences' familiarity with too many identical predecessors. Situation: a slovenly Baltimore family with one respectable relative are happily starving and avoiding the eye of Work. Plot: a daughter gets an Italian count and the uncle gets $25,000 in the stockmarket. Then they lose the $25,000 in the stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running...
...Waters, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert) is a repetitive comedy about a strumpet who can narrow and widen her eyes. Situation: into a country-houseful of friendly weekenders is insinuated a deceased playwright's baby-faced mistress, representing herself as a grief-shattered widow (Queenie Smith). Plot: she drills unremittingly into the head of every man visible that he is a big strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife, and a theatrical producer...
...after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame...
...Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion. Subplot...