_V_oL_._X_V __ II_I,~N_o._2 ______________ ~C_O~N~T~E~N~T~S--------------~JA=N~U~AR.Y7, 1936

Editorial Comment . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Victory for the Guild. . . • . . . • . . . . . . . . • . 6

Are We Right to Demand Sanctions? John Strachey 8

Germany's AI Capone ..... John L. Spivak 9

Dark Days in Sunnyside ...•.. John Stuart 14

Concerning the English .•. Robert Forsythe 18

To Our Comrades ...••.•..... Peter York 19

"A Cause Not Their Own" .. A. S. Collins 20

Correspondence ....•.........•...•..... 21

Review and Comment Singing Workers ....••.. Emjo Basshe 23 Canal Building "Aristocrats"

,Samuel Putnam 25

Future Case History .. Isidor Schneider 26

Socialized Medicine Without Socialism H. N. Fairchild 27

Brief Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 27

The Dance For Those "Not Interested" in the

Dance .......... Stanley Burnshaw 28

Current Theater. . . . • . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . 29

The Screen "Frontier" ........... Robert Stebbins 29

Between Ourselves ..................••.. 30

Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, A. Red­field, William Gropper.

VoL. XVIII, No. 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 14, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 We See Daylight in 1936 .•• John Strachey 6 "Here Is Your Jew" .•.... John L. Spivak 8 Sinclair Lewis Visits a Strike •• Jack Wilgus 10 John Reed and the Jingo Press

Granville Hicks 12 Three Poems .......... .Stanley Burnshaw 15 An Answer to Ernest Boyd .. A. B. Magi! 16 The American Students Unite

Celeste Strack 19 Correspondence . . . • . . • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Review and Comment:

By Way of Review ••. Isidor Schneider 23

Case History .... Alice Withrow Field 24 The Million Words of Mr. Barnes

Arnold W. Bartell 25 Miner vs. Fink .......... John Mullen 26 Murals in Fiction ...... Ann Rivington 27

The Theater: Two New Yiddish Plays

Nathaniel Buchwald 28 The Screen:

Tale of Two Cities ...... Owen Burke 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings:

Limbach, Hainsly, Cronback, Lipchitz. ~ ------ --~---~ --- ---

VoL. XVIII, No. 4 CONTENTS JANUARY 21, 19?6

Editorial Comment .•..•....•........... No Blank Check for Roosevelt

Michael Gold 6 Economic Prospects for 1936

John Strachey 8 j. P. Morgan Loves His Country

Joseph Freeman 9 Georgia Nightmare ...•..... Edwin Rolfe 10 Mussolini's Soldiers Are Deserting

John L. Spivak 11 The People vs. War ....... Bruce Minton 13 The Soviets Transform the Village

Joshua Kunitz 15 Starve, Peasant! ........... George Dixon 17 An Open Letter to Romain Rolland

Waldo Frank 19 The European Spirit ..... Romain Rolland 20 The Marble Strike in Vermont

Sarah Cleghorn 21

Correspondence ...................••.•.. 23 Review and Comment

More Than Style .... Josephine Herbst 24 Salvation Through Delirium

Victor Burtt 25 A Decade in Review .. Granville Hicks 26 Brief Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 That's Their Story

Margaret Wright Mather 27 The Theater:

Poison at the Booth-and an Antidote Stanley Burns~aw 28

The Screen: "Riffraff" ................ Owen Burke 29

Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 30 . Drawings

by Peggy Bacon, Russell T. Limbach, \Villiam Gropper, Charles Pollock, Anthony Colin, Lou R. Mad.ean.

VoL. X~t!I, No. ·s CONTENTS ]ANUi\RY 28, 1936

Editorial Comment • • . . • • • • • • . . • • . • • . . • • 3 Lenin and Leadership ••.••. Michael Gold 6 The F:tltmle of British Monardly

John. Strachey 8 The Attack on ·West 'Coa-st Labor

Amy Schechter 9 Ireland Breeds a Serpent ••. Brian O'Neill.ll Poems of a Farm-Hand ..•.. H. H. Lewis 13 Sugar •..••.••. .,. ••..•••••• Nathan Asch 14 The New Masses Prize Title Contest. . . . • 16 \Vilsolfs Ghost, Morgan's Power

Joseph Freeman 18 Correspondence. . . • .• . • • • • . . . .• . . . . . . . • . . • 21 Review and Comment

The ·world lUid the Artist Edited by Angel Flores 22

A Marxist on War ••..••••. Harold Ward 23 A Queer Business ...•. Donald Hemsley 24 Old Rqguery ••.••.••. lsidor Schneider 25 Housing for the Landlords

Albert Mayer 25 That's Their Story

Margaret Wright Mather 27 The Theater

Serious Laughter .... Stanley Burnshaw 28 The Screen·

"The Ghost Goes West" .•.. Peter Ellis 29 "Grain" ......•........•• Owen Burke 29

Between Ourselves. . . . . . . . . . • . • • . . • • . . • . 30 . Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Gardner

Rea, Anthony Colin, Abron Ben Shmuel, Paul Meltzner.

VoL. XVIII, No. 6 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 4, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 3 Brown Derby Into High Hat............ 6 Hitler's Road: East or South?

John Strachey 8 "Fortune" and the Jews ... Joseph Freeman 9 The Shooting of Ozie Powell

Michael Gold 13 "Scottsboro Country" •..•.... Blaine Owen 14 Rockefeller Forecloses; •...••. John Stuart 15 From the Anthracite •• Robert Allison Evans 16 The Unions Expose the Shipowners

Amy Schechter 18 J. P. Morgan-Art Racketeer

James Swanson 19 Correspondence • . . • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 22

Review and Comment Record of a Generation ... Nathan Asch 23 They Got the Prize

John Howard Lawson 24 Return After Flight .... Kenneth Burke 26 The Oneida Commune •. Granville Hicks 27 Brief Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . 27

The Theater U. S. State Department-Drama Censor

Stanley Burnshaw 28 The King Dies, But Hope Remains

Kenneth Fearing 29 Current Films.......................... 30 Between Ourselves ........••••..•...••.. 30 Drawings by William Gropper, Russell T.

Limbach, Gardner Rea, Crockett John­son.

VoL. XVIII, No. 7 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 11, 1936

Editorial Comment • . . • • . . . . . . . . • • . • • . • . 3 The Present Capitalist "Boom"

John Strachey 6 "Forget the Rich" ••••.•••. Harold Ward 8 Poland's City of Little Tailors

John L. Spivak 9 Martial Law Grips Indiana

Ruth Crawford 12 Speech to Those Who Say Comrade

Archibald MacLeish 13 Unhappy? Troubled? Undecided?

Edwin Seaver 14 The Untouchable ...•...•. James Neugass 15 The Klan Rides Again ................ 16 The Croppers Prepare .•...... Myra Page 17 "Work with Song" ••.••... Joshua Kunitz 18 Mercy Sentence ...•.••.... Mary Mitchell 20

Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • • • • . . • . 22 Review and Comment

Eliot and Our Times .. Granville Hicks 23 Tragi-Comedy ........ Walter Wilson 24 Working Knowledge .. Isidor Schneider 25 Montaigne ......... Norbert Guterman 27 That's Their Story

Margaret Wright Mather 27 The Theater

"Paradise Lost''-An Obituary Stanley Burnshaw 28

The Screen Artists in Last Year's Uniform

Kenneth Fearing 29 Between Ourselves . . . . • . • . • • . . • . • • . • . • 30 Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Mackey,

Eitaro Ishigaki, William Sanderson. ---------·-----------

VoL. XVIII, No. 8 CONTENTS FEB. 18, 1936

Editorial Content. • . • • . . • . . . . • . . • . . . . . . . 3 Bills to Fight and Support. • . • • . . . • . . . . . . 6 The Tilting Balance .••..•• John Strachey 8 Pekin's General Strike ••.••• Carl Haessler 9 Portrait of a Bachelor Broker

John Vincent Healy 10 In the Polish Cemetery •••• John L. Spivak 11 Little Orphan Annie, Fascist

Ralph McKinley 14 Elmer Rice Answers Raskob .•........... 15 The U. S. Army Finds an Angel

Seymour Waldman 16 True Bilt Clothing Shop .•.. Arthur Pense 18 Money for Art. •..•.....• Ralph Pearson 19 The Artists' Congress. • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . • 20 Correspondence • . . • . • • . • • . . . • • • • . • • . . . . 21

Review and Comment Papa Partisan and Mother Anvil

Michael Gold 22 California Battleground

Walter Ralston 23 Huey and His Hooey ..... A. B. Magi) 24 The Students Teach Themselves

Joseph Cohen 25 The Theater ...•...... Stanley Burnshaw 27 Art

William Gropper ...... Louis Lozowick 28 Chaplin in "Modern Times"

Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . • • . . • • • . • • . • • 30 Drawing by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Vincent Van Gogh, Mitchell Siporin.

VoL. XVIII, No. 9 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 25, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • • 3 Paris Defends Leon Blum .. Raoul Damiens 6 Gov. Landon Gets a Haircut

DeWitt Gilpin 7 The Battle for Art ••••... Joseph Freeman 8 A Pinch of Salt ••••..•.• John L. ,Spivak 11 "It's Smart To Be Thrifty" .. Irving Enray 13 The Trumpeter ••...•....... David Wolff 14 Two Million Black Voices

Richard Wright 15 Toward a Doctors' Union .. Daniel Summer 18 The Protector ......•..... Marcelo Salinas 19 Jersey Judges the Home •..•• Blaine Owen 20 Our Readers' Forum .....••............. 21 Review and Comment

A "Case" for the Classics Rolfe Humphries 23

Old Time Tales .... Sterling A. Brown 24 Moody's Letter.s ...... Granville Hicks 25 Books in Brief Review .....•.... Isidor

Schneider, Peter York, Jay Ger­lando, Tony Clark. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Theater First "Theater Union Night"

Stanley Burnshaw 28 Music

The Phonograph and Labor Gareth Ross 29

The Screen Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves .......•....•......... 30 Drawings

by Serrano, Russell T. Limbach, Wil­liam Gropper.

VoL. XVIII, No. 10 CONTENTS MAllCH 3, 1936

Editorial Comment • • . • • • • . • • . • • • • . . • • • . 3 How Spain Went Left.......... . • • . • . • . 6 Letter from a Hearst Striker. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Poland's Masses Prepare ... John L. Spivak 10 Why I Broke with LaGuardia

Rep. Vito Marcantonio 13 What is the Doctors' Future?

Thomas J. Peterson 14 Angelica Arenal, Ambassador .. Mike Gold 16 Organizing War Terror

Seymour Waldman 17 Crowther and the Cherry Tree

Kenneth Fearing 19 Our Readers' Forum .•.•..•.••...••....• 20 Review and Comment

John Dewey, Marxism and the United Front .......••..... Cor !iss Lamont 22

Fascist Arithmetic .•...... Dale Curran 23 From the Inside .•... J. MacMurrough 24 Flight and Return •..•. Samuel Putnam 25 Marxis't Method ...••.. Walter Ralston 25 Gentility Gone Rough ... Eva Goldbeck 25 Cat Calls ...........•.•. Robert Coates 26

Music The Development of "Swing"

Henry Johnson 27

Current Films ........•.....••......•.•• 28

Relief from Boredom ..... Robert Forsythe 29

Between Ourselves •......••.......•...• 30

Drawings by Francisco Goya, Russell T. Limbach, Gus Peck, Ernest Hainsley.

VoL. XVIII, No. 10 CONTENTS MARCH 10, 1936

Editorial Comment • • . • • • . . . • • • • . . • . • . • • 3 Is Japan Ready for Fascism?

Joseph Barnes 6 Is Rome Ready for Peace? •... Carlo Zucca 8 Is the U.S. A. Preparing?

Marguerite Young 9 Worker, Scholar, Banker ..• John L. Spivak 10 Heil Furtwaengler! •••..••. David Ewen 11 "National Republic" ••..•.•• Alfred Hirsch 13 Goodyear's Big Happy Family ,

John Buchanan 15 At Last, a Negro Theater? •. Michael Gold 18 Three Years of Hitler ..•••. Rudolf Breda 19 Our Readers' Forum ...••••..••..••••.•• 20

Review and Comment Here Are the Answers. Isidor Schneider 21 Outside the Home Office •• George Seldes 22 They Find Strength .•. Joseph Freeman 23 In Brief Review. . . • • • . • . • . . . • • • • • . . 25

The Theater Subsistence Love: British Style

Stanley Burnshaw 26 A New Strike Play

Charmion von Wiegand 26 Let it Happen No More .•. Robert Forsythe 27 Between Ourselves • • . . . . . . • . . . . • • . . • . . . 28 Drawings

Jose Clemente Orozco, WiJliam Grop­per, Russell T. Limbach, Gardner Rea.

VoL. XVIII, No. 12 CONTENTS MARCH 17, 1936

Editorial Comment . .. • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3 Stalin Speaks........................... 6 Revolutionary Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Shall We Be Duped by Hitler?

John Strachey 11 Elevator Strike:

The Meaning of the Fight William F. Dunne 12

Six Days of Struggle .... Bruce Minton 13 Ezra Pound, Silvershirt ................• 15 Again, 0 Pioneers ...... Eda Lou Walton 16 Siege of the Mills ........ John L. Spivak 17 Emancipated Educators .•. Paul L. Morris 19 · Our Readers' Forum .•..•.•.••......•..• 21

Review and Comment Whose Bad Taste? .... Isidor Schneider 22 The Hunger Fighters' Next Battle

Harold Ward 23 The Impartial Young Man

Christine Stead 24 Brief Review • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • • • • . 26

Current Theater .................... S. B. 26 Music ................... Henry Johnson 27 The Screen

'"Three Women" ........... Peter Ellis 27 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Drawing by

William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Ernest Hainsly

VoL. XVIII, No. 13 CONTENTS MARCH 24, 1936

Editorial Comment. • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • 3 An Historic Opportunity. • . • • . . . • • • • . • • 6 Can Britain Keep Peace? .•• John Strachey 9 Smash the Sedition Bills

Seymour Waldman 10 God and the Gorillas ••••..• Dale Kramer 12 They Killed My Son ••.. Harrison George 15 Chain Gangs in Palestine ••••.. Ellis Sax 17 Our Readers' Forum. • • • • • • . • • • • . • . • • . • • 20 Review and Comment

MacLeish and the Critics Isidor Schneider 21

Round the Elephant and Back Again Jack Conroy 22

The Novel That Came Too Late Louis Ferris 23

Duranty and the U.S.S.R. •• Paul Novick 24 Art

. Walter Quirt .. Charmion Von Wiegand 25 The Theater

Hirsch Lekert ..•. Nathaniel Buchwald 26 The Screen ....••....•.. Kenneth Fearing 27 Between Ourselves • . . • • . • • • • . • • • • • . • • • • 28 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Scott Johnson, Serrano, Mackey, re­production of paintings by Walter Quirt and . Eitaro Ishigaki.

VoL. XIX, No. 1 CONTENTS MARCH 31, 1936

Editorial Comment . .. . .. . . . .. .. .. • .. .. • 3 McSwain, Disciple of Hearst............ 6 Shall Britain Remain Hitler's Broker?

John Strachey 8 Pittsburgh's Flood: No Act of God

Bruce Minton 9 A Generation is Stirring .• James Wechsler 12 In the Name of the Great Jehovah

Rockwell Kent 13 Ridder Urges Violence ••.... Martin Field 15 Spain: 1931-1936

Drawings by Helios Gomez 16 Taxi Dance .•.•..••..••••. Nathan Asch 18 God Pity the Others !. .... Robert Forsythe 19 Program for Professionals .. Carl Haessler 20 Our Readers' Forum ................... 22

Review and Comment Sex, Opium of the People

Isidor Schneider 23 Science Faces the Dawn .. Victor Brinton 24 Divided Philosophy .... H. N. Fairchild 25 Bedroom Revolutionaries

James N eugass 26 A Civil War Diary .... Walter Wilson 26

Music ' New Recordings .....•• Henry Johnson 27

The Theater "Case of Clyde Griffiths"

Stanley Burnshaw 28 The Screen ................... Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves ...........•.••.••... 30 Drawings by William Gropper, Serrano,

Gardner Rea.

VoL. XIX, No.2 CONTENTS APRIL 7, 1936

Editorial Comment .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . • .. 7 Middle Class and a Farmer-Labor Party ·

David Ramsey 10 United Action for Security

Mary van Kleeck 12 Middle Class and War ..... Michael Gold 13 The Mind of the Middle Class

Lewis Corey 15 Pipers' of Reaction .......... A. B. Magil 17 The Passion for Liberty •• Stanley Burnshaw 19 The Negro Middle Class .... Loren Miiier 20 White Collars Organize .•. John Buchanan 22 Some W h i t e-C o I I a r and Professional

Workers' Strikes .................... 23 "A Challenge to the Middle Class" ...•.• 24 Artists and Trade Unions

Francis J. Gorman 26 The Ideal We Share ...... Herbert Agar 27 The Appeal to Reason .... Corliss Lamont 28 The Menace to Culture ... Granville Hicks 29 Architecture and the Architect

Meyer Schapiro 30

The Middle Class Today and Tomorrow: The Old World of Capitalism

Anna Rochester 31 Under Fascist Barbarism .• Harold Ward 3 3 The New World of Socialism

Joseph Freeman 35 Review and Comment

Books the Middle Class Reads Isidor Schneider 37

Middle-Class Attitudes •. David Ramsey 39 Veblen and Revolution .. Walter Ralston 41 Clerks Become Workers ... Lewis Corey 42

Letter from America .•.•. John Beresford 43 Current Theater and Films .•••...•....•• 44 What God Hath Wr0ught!

Robert' Forsythe 45 Between Ourselves . . . • • . . . . . . • . . • • . • • • • 46 Drawings by Jacob Burck, A. Redfield,

J. Gower, Mackey, Gardner Rea, Lim­bach, Scott Johnston, Crockett Johnson, Ned Hilton, Georges Schreiber, Serrano.

VoL. XIX, No.3 CONTENTS APRIL 14, 1936

Editorial Comment ............ , ....... , 3 Tampa's Political Murder .. , , . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Two Danger Zones ......•.. , .J. F. 8 Republican Rough-Rider Knox

The St. Paul Convention Hy Kravif 9

Elizabeth Adams 11 Which Way, Lawyer? ...... S. M. Blinken 13 Jesuits Back Fascism ...••.. Bruce Minton 14 "Those Dumb Hunkies" .•.•• Keith Sward 17 Death and Profits .•... Seymour Waldman 18 Negro History: Sonnet Sequence

Owen Dodson 21 Sailor's Ballad of Mooney .... John Malta 21 Our Readers' Forum .•.. , ............... 22

Review and Comment "Neither Forward Nor Back"

Isidor Schneider 23 The Carrel Virus .•.••..• Henry Hart 24 War and Jitters ........ Harold Ward 25 Winning of the West

Charles Washburne 26 Sentimental Journey .•. Walter Ralston 27

The Theater "Bitter Stream" ..... , .John L. Spivak 28

Music ...••.•......•.•... Henry Johnson 29 Between Ourselves ...... , .....••.••.•.. 30 Drawings by Russell '1'. Limbach, William

Gropper, Serrano, Crockett Johnson, C. A. Johnson, Jack Markow.

VoL. XIX, No. 4 CONTENTS APRIL 21, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . 3 Students Against War.................. 6 The Tax Hearings..................... 6 Thomas Jefferson. • . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 8 They Call It "Mutiny" ....• Bruce Minton 9 Minnesota Acts ......... C. A. Hathaway 12 "Challenge of Chile" .•..•.•. Albert Cross 13 Song of the Bridge .•.. T. Conger Kennedy 16 Song for Geneva .......•..•. Owen Burke 16 Casualties Among the Young

Edward Newhouse 17 When Ireland Revolted .••. Brian O'Neill 18 Our Readers' Forum .•••.•.••••...••..•. 20 Review and Comment

Writing for Writers .•• Isidor Schneider 21

Der Tag .......... Seymour Waldman 22 Bourbon Radical. ....... Philip Horton 24 Friendly-and Unfriendly-Voices

James Wechsler 25 Renaissance Man .......... Tony Clark 25

The Theater: Mankind Is Standing Up

· Stanley Burnshaw 27 Reisman's Paintings ...... Isidor Schneider 28 Mencken, Nathan and Boyd

Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . 30 Drawings by:

Serrano, Limbach, Malcolm Chisholm, Goya, A. Rethel, Reisman, Grosz.

VoL. XIX, No. 5 CONTENTS APRIL 28, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Labor Spies and Jew-Baiters ......... :.. 6 Good Neighbor Wall Street............. 6 Blood in Palestine...................... 7 Who Is In Danger? .•...•.• John Strachey 8 Are Teachers Seditious? ... Byron N. Scott 10 How Wilson Fought Lenin

Joseph Freeman 11 Accent on Youth ..•...••...... Gil Green 14 Satevepost and Revolution .. Michael Gold 15 Poems:

Longshoreman's Song .... Elsa Gidlow 16 Return .............••. Martha Millet Sharecropper ......•• Lawrence Gellert Reds of Szechuan .... Kenneth Porter

An American Course in French Faseism Alfred Hirsch and Roger Beauchamp 17

This Way, Lawyer! .•...•• S. M. Blinken 19 Our Readers' Forum ••••.••..•...••...• 22

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Review and Comment The New Civilization

Isidor Schneider 23 Revaluation of the Drama

Barrett Clark 25 Social Insurance

Mort and E. A .. Gilbert 25 The Theater

The Government in Show Business Stanley Burnshaw 27

Art: Ishigaki's Two Traditions Charmion Von Wiegand 28

The Screen "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"

Peter Ellis 29 Music ................•.. Henry Johnson 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . • . • . 29 Drawings

William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Aime Gauvin, Adolf Dehn, Robert Cronbach. ·

VoL. XIX, No. 6 CONTENTS MAY 5, 1936

Editorial Comment. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • 3 The President's Philosophy. • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 Trenton's Hunger Lobby... • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 Cable from France •• '.................. 8 Germany's Strategic Plan •••• Karl Radek 9 Victory on the Pacific ••••. Amy Schechter 11 Mr. Roper Sees the Seamen

Marguerite Young 13 Greeting from Mexico •••• V. L Toledano 14 The Umbrella Strikes Again

Edward Newhouse 15 Fifty May Da}'ll ••••••••• Joseph Freeman 16 Science and the Scientists

· Mark Graubard 18 The Stairway that Leads Nowhere

Joshua Kunitz 19 Communist Street Speaker

Isidor Schneider 21 Our Readers' Forum. • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 22

Review and Comment ''Race"-A Tragedy of Errors

Harold Ward 23 The Brown Spider .•• Josephine Herbst 23 The Greatest Since Benedict Arnold

Hy Kravif 24 , The Mystic Dilemma •• Ruth Lechlitner 26

"Clubmen" ••.•••••••••••• Si Gerson 26 The Screen

A Voice from the Past Kenneth Fearing 27

Art Against War and Fascism

Russell T. Limbach 28 The Radio

Radio and Its Public •••••••• R. Peters 29 Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • 30 Drawings

by Russell T. Limbach, Scott Johnson, Malcolm Chisholm; cover by William Gropper.

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VoL. XIX, No. 7 CONTENTS MAY 12. 1936

Editorial Comment • .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .. .. • 3 Ethiopia and World War. ,Joseph Freeman 6 Who Won at Trenton? ..... Bruce Minton 9 A Budget of Poverty and War

John Strachey 12 Palestine Under Britain's Heel

Alter Brody 13 Hearst Headline Blues .•. Richard Wright 14 In Time of Hesitation .•.. Martha Millet 14 Behind the French Elections

Raoul Damiens 15 America's Biggest May Day .. Michael Gold 17 The Ghost Goes Left .•.. Robert Forsythe 19 American Artists Today .•.. Peter Blume 20 No More Overcoats .... Kenneth Fearing 21 Our Readers' Forum. . • • • • . . • • . . . . • . . . • • 23

Review and Comment Mass Writers Wanted

Isidor Schneider 24 The Missionary Trail

Anna Louise Strong 25 Babel in the Ivory Tower

H. N. Fairchild 26 Social Laboratory ..•...•... I. Eastfield 28 The Millionaires' Mite .. Harold Ward 28 Hearst Psychoanalyzed •..• Hy Kravif 28

Music: The A.F.M. and the Broadcasters

Henry Johnson 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . • . . . • • • . • • . 30 Drawings by

Mackey, Robert Cronbach, Adolf Dehn, Jack Markow.

VoL. XIX, No. 8 CONTENTS MAY 19, 1936

Editorial Comment .. . . . . .. . . . .. .. • .. .. 3 The Baby Drought.................... 6

Tories and Taxes. • . • • • • • . • . . . . . . . • • • • . 7 Bernarr Macfadden:

From Pornography to Politics John Stuart 8

Labor ,Spies and Killers Francis J. Gorman 11

Faking Ethiopian News .... George Seldes 13 The Definition of Song

Genevieve Taggard 14 A Disaster and a Triumph .. John Strachey 15 Four Lithographs ............ Adolf Dehn 16 The Ship ............ Maria-Teresa Leon 18 Stupefy and Conquer ........ Michael Pell 19 I have Forgotten Beauty ... Mollie Prager 21 Our Readers' Forum .................... 22

Review and Comment Class Honors ........ Isidor Schneider 23 American Song, Revised

Ruth Lechlitner 23 The New Deal Takes Stock

Horace B. Davis 25 Autopsy of Liberalism

Edwin B. Burgum 26 Soviet Medicine .... W. Horsley Gantt 27

Art: Artist's Union Convention Russell T. Limbach 28

Dance Congress and Festival Stanley Burnshaw 29

Current Films .....•.......•. Peter Ellis 3 0 Between Ourselves ...........•......... 30 Drawings by:

William Gropper, Scott Johnston, Rus­sell T. Limbach.

VoL. XIX, No.9 CONTENTS MAY 26, 1936

Editorial Comment • . . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . • . . 3 Leon Blum's Government. .Raoul Damiens 8 What Is the People's Front?

George Dimitrov 9 Spain Advances .••••..• Ilya Ehrenbourg 11 Sense of Humor ...•.••.•..• H. H. Lewis 13 False Dawn .....•..... Stepan Stepanchev 13 "It Can't Happen to Me" •. Bruce Minton 14 Senator Borah's Ledger ...• Betty Millard 16 Social Credit: 2+2=5 .••.•..• Will Blake 18 They Think They Win ••. Robert Forsythe 20 Our Readers' Forum. . . • . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . . 22 Review and Commeht

A. E. Housman .....• Rolfe Humphries 23

Banana Power ...•.••. Charles Wedger 24 A Time to Praise .... Isidor Schneider 25 Strikers in Uniform ...• Harold Ward 25 The Years of Darkness .. N. L. Rothman 26 Santayana's Asides .... Katherine Ellis 27 Brief Review • • • • . • . . • . . • • • • • . . • • • . . 27

The Theater: Theater Critics and Audiences

Stanley Burnshaw 28 The Screen ....•....... Kenneth Fearing 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . • . . . . • . . . . . 30 Drawings by:

James Dugan, Scott Johnston, Limbach, Mackey, Mendez, Gus Peck, Serrano.

VoL. XIX, No. 10 CONTENTS JUNE 2, 1936

Editorial Comment ...•••••.••.••••••.• , 3 America's Newspaper Guild............ 6 The Socialists Clean House

Joseph Freeman 8 Sea-Travelers, Beware! ... John Buchanan 11 Hearst Corrupts the Youth •... Porter Niles 13 "Such Interesting People You Meet"

, Robert Forsythe 14 Memorial Day, 1936 ....... Michael Gold 16 Spain and Revolution .... Ilya Ehrenbourg 18 Vice Ring Goes Round and Round

Isidor Schneider 20 Our Readers' Forum .................... 22 Review and Comment

Robinson Jeffers: Poet of the Setting Sun Bill Martin 23

Salvage the Earth ••. Moissaye J. Olgin 24

The Liberal Looks at Europe Harold Ward 25

Insurance Wisdom .•....•. Will Blake 25 Wanted: A Marxian Book on Labor

Grace Hutchins 26 Malraux and the Revolutionary Hero

Samuel Putnam 27 The Eighteenth Century ..•• Peter York 27

The Screen "We Are From Kronstadt" .. Peter Ellis 28

The Theater W. P. A. as Historian, Reporter and

Dancer ......... Stanley Burnshaw 29 Between Ourselves •.........••.••.••.•• 30 Drawings by

Limbach, Gropper, Gus Peck, Robert Joyce, Mackey, Markow.

VoL. XIX, No. 11 CONTENTS JUNI! 9, 1936

Editorial Comment .......••..•...•..•• A National F.-L. P. in 1936

William F. Dunne 6 That Man Landon, That Man

W. C. Kelly 8 Who Backs the Black Legion?

John L. Spivak 9 The Socialists Hesitate .... Joseph Freeman 11 Cane Knives ........... Walker Winslow 12 Roosevelt's Record ........... A. B. Magi! 13 The Shostakovich "Affair" .. Joshua Kunitz 15 Spain's Enemies ......... IIya Ehrenbourg 18 Why Is Portes Gil in New York?

Arnold Reid 20 Our Readers' Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Review and Comment

The Other Europe ... Jacques Marechal 23

Art for Life's Sake Russell T. Limbach 24

The Most Fruitful Friendship in History ......•...• Isidor Schneider 25

"I Would Speak to the Hard-Working People" ........•........ John Yost 26

Debutante Revolution .. Sebastian Stone 27 Brief Review •....•..•..••.•.... J. S. 27

Music: Recent Recordings •• Henry Johnson 28 Current Theater ....••..••.•••..... S. B. 28 If You Want Immortality .. Robert Forsythe 28 Current Films. . . . . . . . . • . . . . • . . • • . • . • • . . 30 Between Ourselves ...•.....••••..•.•.... 30 Drawings by

Robert Cronbach, Limbach, Scott John­ston, 9us Peck, William Gropper.

VoL. XIX, No. 12 CONTENTS JUNE 16, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . • . . • . • . . • • . • • 3 The Communists in France

Raoul Damiens 6 Our "House of Lords" •...•. J. L. Peterson 8 Who Back the Black Legion?

2. Henry Ford's Duke of Michigan John L. Spivak 9

Spain's Collective Farms llya Ehrenbourg 11

The Guild Goes to Town .• S. W. Gerson 13 Jottings on a Salesbook .... Albert Morton 13 Social Work Comes of Age

Simon Doniger 14 "Life Is More Joyous" •... Joshua Kunitz 16 "Hands Across the Tracks" .. Paul Villard 18 Elephant into Fox ....• Marguerite Young 20 Their Books .•.......•.. Isidor Schneider 21

Our Readers' Forum ........•..•••••...• 22 Review and Comment

John Reed .........•. Joseph Freeman 23 Our Oppressed Nation •• James W. Ford 25 Facts That Work .....•. Harold Ward 26 Two for Truth, One for Hearst

Beatrice Kinkead 27 The Screen:

"Fury"-Anti-Lynch Film Kenneth Fearing 28

This Land of Ours ••..... Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . • . . • • . • • • • • • • . 30 Drawings by:

Ned Hilton, Limbach, Gropper, Herb Kruckman, Wiliam Sanderson, Eugene Morley, Gardner Rea.

VoL. XIX, No. 13 CONTENTS JUNE 23, 1936

Editorial Comment ••••. • . • • . • . . . . . • • • • 3 The New Soviet Constitution........... 6 Where is the G.O.P.?

Republican Platform .. Joseph Freeman 8 The Cleveland Plot .. Marguerite Young 9 Hearst's Happy Landon .. Bruce Minton 11

Le Regal de Sweckey .... Robert Forsythe 12 Who Backs the Black Legion?

3. The Mysterious Dickinson, Stooge John L. Spivak 13

Culture . . . Culture ... Culture ... Joshua Kunitz 15

"Questionnaire',' ...•...................• 16 Accident? ............... David Shreiber 18 What Is "An American"? .. Rockwell Kent 19 Salesman Wilson ..••.•••.. Joseph Martin 21

Our Readers' Forum .•...•.......•...... 22 Review and Comment

Sectarianism on the Right Isidor Schneider 23

Imperialism at Battle Stations Harrison George 25

Negro Songs of Protest .. Lan Adomian 27 Music:

Music Manifesto ••.... Marc Blitzstein 28 The Theater:

The Beginning of a Tradition Stanley Burnshaw 29

Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . • • . • • . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

Scott Johnston, William Gropper, Rock­well Kent, Limbach, L. Soifertis.

VoL. XX, No. 1 CONTENTS JUNE 30, 1936

Editorial Comment . . • • . . . . . . . • • • • • • • • • 3 Who Backs The Black Legion?. • • • • • • • • • 6 Homage to Maxim Gorky

Moissaye J. Olgin 6 Collective Security for Peace

John Strachey 9 Jim Farley's Festival. •• Marguerite Young 11 The Arkansas Terror ..• Josephine Johnson 12 The Harvesters, California

Marie de L. Welch 14 Doctors and War .•.••..•... Joan Shields 15 "Inciting to Riot" .•........ Sandor Voros 16 Romantic Lovers of the Revolution

Joshua Kunitz 17 Rather Shall We .•••••..•••.. Peter York 19

Armed Camps in Steel. •.•.. John Mullen 20

Our Readers' Forum ..•..••.••.••••••••• 23

Review and Comment American Writers Look Left .•...•••• 24 Anti-Semitism: Fascist Poison Gas

Alter Brody 26 Heroine by Accident .......• F. Dupee 27 Brief Review . . . . . • . . • . . • . • . • • • • • • • 28

The Radio: Microphone Politicians .•...• R. Peters 29

Current Films . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • • • • . • • • • • 30 Between Ourselves . . . . . • . • • • • . • • • . • • • • • 30 Drawings by:

William Gropper, Serrano, Russell T. Limbach, Joe Jones, Harry Gottlieb.

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Editorial Comment . . .. . .. . .. • .. .. . . .. • . 3 Unfavorable Balance................... 6 Wings Over Ethiopia .. Col. J. C. Robinson 8 Through Liberty to Socialism

Joseph Freeman 9 Roosevelt's Convention

Marguerite Young 11 Two Lithographs .. ,, ..... Elizabeth Olds 13 Myth of the Free Public Library

Jean Simon and Paul Reynolds 14 Letter from Spain ............. Jose Diaz 15 Remnants of the Past .... , .Joshua Kunitz 17 The Volcano .....••...... Louis Ginsberg 20 Interview ..........•..•• Ruth Lechlitner 20 Aerograd ......••••.•.•. Philip Stevenson 20 Theirs Is the Kingdom .• Charles Bradford 21 Our Readers' Forum ................... 23

Review and Comment Of Love and Other Things

Isidor Schneider 24 Life Liberalism and Revolution

' Granville Hicks 25 The Creators and the Possessors

Henry Cooper 26 Classless Education ...... Victor Burtt 27 The Decline of a Traitor .. Jack Conroy 28 Jefferson, Dead or Alive

Walter Ralston 28 Music

Sold-for Less than a Song Henry Johnson 29

Between Ourselves ..................... 30

Drawings by William Gropper, Ernie, Russell T. Limbach, Gus Peck, Kelly.

jULY 14, 1936 CONTENTS VoL. XX, No. 3

Editorial Comment • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • • 3 Adieu to Gorky ••.••.•... Romain Rolland 6 The Negro and the Parties.............. 7 Who's Who in the Liberty League

Avery Wood 9 Too Many Years of Grace

Robert Forsythe 11 Dirty Work in Camden

Alexander Kendrick 12 Youth Closes Ranks ••..•..•. Roger Chase 13 Police Terror in Harlem ...•.........•.. 15 The Communist Election Platform ....... 17 Poland-Then and Now ... Joshua Kunitz 19 Our Readers' Forum ..•••..•......•.•.•. 22 Review and Comment

In Defense of James Farrell Granville Hicks 23

Science and Society ...... Harold Ward 24 Power and Grace ..... Samuel Putnam 24

The Gentle Art of Pamphleteering Hy Kravif 25

The Worker as Conqueror Isidor Schneider 26

Poet's Progress .....•.. Maurice Gates 26 The Case for Modern Music

Marc Blitzstein 27 Politics on the Air ..••..•.••..• R. Peters 28 Poetry

Avowal .........•. W. D. Trowbridge 29 Third Avenue L ............ Carl Fox 29 Alarum ...••..•....•..... John Malta 29

The Screen: Paramount and Pinkerton .. David Platt 29 The Current Films ........ Peter Ellis 29

Between Ourselves ..............•..•..• 30 Drawings by

Redfield, Art Young, Darryl Frederick, Gardner Rea.

VoL. XX, No. 4 CONTENTS jULY 21, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . • • . 3 The Elephantine Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . 6 The A.F. of L. Council Meets.......... 7 Fiddling While the Great Plains Burn

The Neros of the New Deal A. Roger Paxton 8

The Farmers Face a Crisis Meridel LeSueur 9

Steel Gets Hot. •...•... Marguerite Young 11 I Work for Hearst ... A Hearst Sub-Editor 15 These Shall Survive ...... Caroline Slade 16 Poems ...•.•....••....•..•.•••••.•••••. 17

To My Students ... Genevieve Taggard At the Open Hearth

Stephen Stepanchev The Armed Multitude

Marie de L. Welch Democracy .........• Arthur Rimbaud

A Viennese Operetta ..... IIya Ehrenbourg 18

North of the White Mountains Jack Wilgus 20

Our Readers' Forum •.....•.••••••••••. 22 Review and Comment

Samson as Symbol. .•• Granville Hicks 23 American Oligarchs ..•. Louis Colman 24 Muscular Mysticism ... David Shreiber 25 The Scapegoat Heritage

Isidor Schneider 25 Brief Review .•........ Stuart Greene 26

The Cow-Barn Drama .. Blake Thompson 27 Current Films ...............• Peter Ellis 28 The Case for Modern Music-11

Marc Blitzstein 28 Between Ourselves . • . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • • • • 30 Drawings by Ernest W. Hainsley, Colin,

Aime, R. Joyce. ~----------------------------------

VoL. XX, No. 5 CONTENTS jULY 28, 1936

Editorial Comment..................... 3 Spain Defends Democracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wolves in the Fold..................... 7 Whither Townsendism? .... Celeste Strack 7 Steel-Town Politics .... Marguerite Young 10 Odets's First Film .•.•... Sidney Kaufman 12 Britain at the Crossroads ... R. Palme ·Dutt 14 Nineteen Years After ......... Lev Yaskin 16 The Artist in the U.S.S.R. .. Louis Lozowick 18 Do I Hear a Voice? ...... Robert Forsythe 20 The Sheriff ..•.....•.......... Ben Field 21 What Thaelmann Stands For

Arnold Zweig 22

Our Readers' Forum .•.•..•••..••...••. 23 Review and Comment

Left-Wing Literature in Britain David Roland 24

The Travels of Lester Cohen Robert Gessner 25

Historian Looks at History Addison T. Cutler 26

Flight from Boredom ..•• Obed Brooks 27 Brief Reviews . • . . . • . • • . • . • • . . . . . • • . 27

The Case for Modern Music-III Marc Blitzstein 28

The Screen ................... Peter Ellis 29 -Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . • • . 30 Drawings by Ned Hilton, Helios Gomez,

George Price, R. Joyce, Serrano.

Vol. XX, No. 6 CONTENTS AUGUST 4, 1936

Editorial Comment • • • • • • • • • . . . . . . • . . • • 3 The Meaning of Spain. • . • • • • . .. . . . . .. . 6 Strength Through Joy ••.. Robert Forsythe 8 Steel's G. 0. P. Vigilantes

Marguerite Young 9 Gorky the Artisan .• ,Archibald MacLeish 12

Headlines from ,Spain ..•• James Neugass 13

Police Photos Vindicate Mooney Robert Holmes and Bruce Minton 14

Devil's Dictionary a Ia Hearst ... H. L. Stone 16

Britain at the Crossroads-11 R. Palme Dutt 19

Nineteen Years After ........ Lev Y as kin 21

Our Readers' Forum ••.••••.••••.••..•. 23 Review and Comment

Advertising as Literature Isidor Schneider 24

The Revolutionary Fringe J. G. Conant 25

Wanted: A History of Russia Alexander DeRore 26

Economists' Snug Harbor Addison T. Cutler 27

Hopes for Poetry •...•••. David Wolff 28 Brief Review ••...••.••.•• Peter York 28

The Theater ...••..•.. Alexander Taylor 29 Between Ourselves • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • . 30 Drawings by Daumier, Gardner Rea,

Scott Johnston, Jack Markow.

VoL. XX, No. 7 CONTENTS AUGUST 11, 1936

Editorial Comment • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 Spain the Tinder-Box.................. 6 Lindbergh in N aziland ...•.• Leslie Reade 7 Cuba Stirs Again ........• John L. Spivak 8 Camden's Lawless Courts

Alexander Kendrick 11 Who Backed the Spanish Revolt?

Weirton: Feudal Domain Roger Abbott 13

Marguerite Young 14 Student Unity on a World .Scale

Richard Pack 17 FoUT Years of Nazi Drama

Winifred Smith 18 How Free is America? ..... Ken Crossen 21 Mexican Idyll ..•...•. Emanuel Eisenberg 23

Poems Renunciation ...•. Maxwell Bodenheim 26 Memory of His Wife the Rag-Time

Piano Player ....•..•. Hector Rella 26 0 People Misshapen

Genevieve Taggard 26 The Middle Class and the Election

Joseph Freeman 27 What the Parties Promise .. M. R. Bendiner 29 Who Pays the Bills? ........ Avery Wood 32 Roosevelt ....•.•.......•.. Bruce Minton 34 Landon .................. DeWitt Gilpin 35 Lemke ...........••.... Thomas Bromley 36 Thomas .................... AI Richman 37 Browder.: ............ Alexander Taylor 38 Review and Comment .•..•••........... 40 The Screen ................ 1 .. Peter Ellis 45

VoL. XX, No. 8 CONTENTS AUGUST 18, 1936

Editorial Comment ••.••. , • • • • • • • . • • . • • • 3 Hands Off Spain!. • . • • • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • 6 Pogrom in ~eptember! •.••.•• Po~ter Niles 8 Viva Espafia Libre!. • . • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • . 11 How Drought Relief Works

Meridel Le Sueur 14 Harlem Shows the Way •••• Frank O'Brien 17 Nineteen Years After, III .•••• Lev Yaskin 18 The Uneasy Mind ..•••. Robert M. Coates 20 Our Readers' li:orum •.•.•••.....••....•. 21 Review and Comment

A Novel of Spain .•.• Granville Hicks 24

In the Far East ..•••. Isidor Schneider 24 Eliot's Poetry .•...... Rolfe Humphries 25c A Land of Log Shacks .• Katherine Ellis 26 Skoal and Farewell! ••.. Harold Ward 27 Our "Foreigners" ••.• Bernhard J. Stern 28 Brief Review .•.•.•...••• D. Manners 28

The Screen ................... Peter Ellis 29 Theatrical Note •.••••••..••••.••••••••• 30 Between Ourselves ••••..••..••.•...••..• 30 Drawings by Redfield, Gropper, Serrano,

Mackey, R. Joyce, Kruckman, Helios Gomez.

VoL. XX, No. 9 CONTENTS AUGUST 25, 1936

Editorial Comment . . . • . • • . • . . • • . • . • • . • . 3 Distorting the Popular Front. . . . • • . • • . • • 6 The Coughlin Convention. . . . . . . . . . • • . • • 6 The Blind Man and the Wolf's Cub

Hugo Gellert 7 15 Leading Jews Marked for Death !

/ Michael Hale 8 Teachers Fight for Unity Malcolm Winter 12 Steel's Frankenstein Monster

Marguerite Young l3 Cuban Labor Underground

John L. Spivak 1S Fourth-Estate Fascism •••. Joseph Freeman 18 Is Europe a Success? ...•. Ilya Ehren bourg 19 One of Many .•..• , .......•. Len Zinberg 23 In Memoriam: August 22, 1927. • . • . • • • • 24

From a Letter .••. Bartolomeo V anzetti They Are Dead Now .. John Dos Passos

Justice Denied in Massachusetts Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Condemned ...•••• Witter Bynner Review and Comment

How · Spanish Intellectuals Reached the Masses ........... Roger Abbott 25

More "Men of Good Will" Samuel Putnam 26

From Parnell to Connolly Maurice English 27

This Final Crisis .•.•.••. John Darrell 27 Fifty-Five Men .•.••.. Louis B. Boudin 28 Brief Reviews .•..••.•••••••.•••••••. 29

Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . • • . . . • . . . • . • 30 Drawings by Bonnicksen, Hugo Gellert,

Gropper, R. Joyce, Mackey, Gardner Rea, Thelma Kathan, Correll, Dan Rico.

VoL. XX, No. 10 CONTENTS SEPT. 1, 1936

Editorial Comment • • • • . . • • . • • . . • • . • . • • 3 The Last Refuge .•..•.... Robert Forsythe 7 Liberty Versus Death in Spain

"We Shall Conquer," Says President Azafia ...••......•..... Paul Nizan 8

Spain Calls Forth the French Front James Hawthorne 8

Barcelona on the Barricades Muriel Rukeyser 9

Mabel Luhan's .Slums ...... Michael Gold 11 Hearst and Anti-Semitism .•• James Walsh 14 Teachers Unite Against Reaction

Malcolm Winter 17 The Equilibrists and Mr. Keynes

Edward Mount 18

Lost Prairie .....•...••••••. Nathan Asch 20 Our Readers' Forum ••.•...•••.........• 22 Review and Comment

Socialism and Solitude .. Milton Howard 23 The Tradition of the People

Archibald MacLeish 25 Wisdom and Insight .. Granville Hicks 27 Two Views of Imperialism

lsidor Schneider 28 Brief Reviews . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 29

The Screen ........••••......• Peter Ellis 29 Theatrical Notes . . . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . • . 29 Between Ourselves . • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by Sanderson, Joyce, Mackey,

Kruckman, I. Klein, Ernie, Russin, Thompson, Serrano, Semyon.

VoL. XX, No. 11 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 8, 1936

Editorial Comment • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 3 The Diplomacy of Desperation.......... 6 The Kansas Trilby .....• Joseph Freeman 8 While Spain Defends Her Own

A Militiaman's Diary .. Enrique Lumen 10 Three Interviews ..... I. W: de Rivera 10

In Defense of a Free Spain ............. 11 Lincoln Steffens ............. Ella Winter 13 Duclos: Worker-Statesman

Raoul Damiens 15 The Equilibrists and Mr. Keynes-11

Edward Mount 17 Willie Gallacher, M.P ...... John Drellan 19 "Don't Tread on Me!" ... Daniel Murdock 20 Chant in Praise of the Land

Clifford Gessler 21 Call It Your World ... Marie deL. Welch 21 Our Readers' Forum. . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . .. . . 22

Review and Comment In Memoriam: Henri Barbusse

Sonja Hartwig 23 Anima N aturaliter Marxiana?

Rolfe Humphries 24 A Scientist Finds Himself

Walter Ralston 26 Not Ambassadors ..... Isidor Schneider 26 Design for Lying ...... Sebastian Stone 27 On Social Security

Mort and E. A. Gilbert 27 The Theater .•..•..... Alexander Taylor 28 The Screen .................. Bob White 29 Music .................... Henry Johnson 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by Joyce, Gropper, Art Young,

Serrano, Thelma Kathan, Lydia Gibson, Scheel, Fritz, Ajay, Mackey, Ben Yo­men, Rappe, Kruckman.

September 15, 1936 VOL. XX. NO. 12

Britain and Spain by R. Palme Dutt 3 Ancestors A Poem by Isidor Schneider 6 Savonarola of the Ritz by Alexander Kendrick 7 Thrinacia A Poem by f. V. Healy 9 Cement Photographs of Isamu Noguchi's sculptured wall 10 Conning the News . II The Cadillac from Wisconsin by Edward Newhouse I 3 We're Writing a Book by Naomi Mitchison IS The Line-Up in Spain by John Sterling I8 Editorial 20 Readers' Forum 2 I

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Smirnov's "Shakespeare" by Milton Howard Laski and Liberalism by George Dangerfield Prize Novel by Albert Halper Recent and Current Books

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

The' Screen by Edward Newhouse Music by Henry Johnson . The Theater by Bob White Sights and Sounds Checklist

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Drawings by Rockwell Kent (cover), William Sanderson, Anton Refregier, A. Ajay, Aline Fruhauf, Pearl Binder, Gardner Rea, Elizabeth Olds, Art Young, John Mackey, Darryl Frederick, A. Sopher, Soriano, A. Redfield, Scheel, Erica Volsung, Ade Boysen.

September 22, 1936

VOL. XX. NO. lS

Three Spanish Catholics by lames Hawthorne 3

The Waterfront Marches Inland by Bruce Minton 5

Conning the News 9 Landon Comes Out for Rain by W. C. Kelly I I

• "Merry England" by Ilya Ehrenbourg I3

Noon Lynching by ] o Sinclair . I 6

I Have Delicate Hopes ... A Poem by Israel Dubinsky I 7

Readers' Forum I9

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

Aragon's "Bells of Basel" by Samuel Putnam Portrait of a Prairie Town by William Phillips

The Reviving Tree by Isidor Schneider

When in Rome ... by George Seldes Stuart Chasing Rainbows by A. Roger Paxton

A Book to Remember by Henry Hart Also Published This \V eek Recently Recommended .

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The Screen by Edward N ewlzouse and Peter Ellis

Fine Arts Sights and Sounds Checklist

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Art work by Louis Lozowick (cover), H. Glintenkamp, Strom, Serrano, William Gropper, John Mackey, Raphael Soyer, James Boswell, H. A. Blumenstiel, A. Sopher, George Grosz, William Sanderson, Victor James, Soriano, Adolf Dehn, Ade Boysen, W. Milnus, Bill James.

September 29, 1936 · VOL. XXI, NO. 1

Harvard's Tercentenary by John Darrell 3 Spain's War Economy by lames Hawthorne 6 Conning the News . 9 Doubting Thomas by M. R. Bendiner II

Southern Labor Organizer A Poem by Maxwell Bodenheim I2

The Changing Dominion by John Hyde Preston I3 The Road from Rome by Robert Forsythe IS Mencken: A Portrait in Shadows by Isidor Schneider I 7 What Do You Answer? A Poem by Blanche Macksoud I8 The Muddle Way by Sarah Carlton I9 Readers' Forum . 2 I

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:REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Harvard Class of I9II by James Wechsler Dead Souls by Walter Ralston Looking Backward by Granville Hicks Little People by Josephine Herbst Negative Liberalism by Peter York Though Not Marxists by Stefan Heym Brief Reviews Also Published This Week Recently Recommended

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The Screen by Edward Newhouse Music by Henry Johnson Sights and Sounds Checklist

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Art work by Darryl Frederick (cover), William Sanderson, Jim Kelly, Elizabeth Olds, Dan Rico, Picken, Maurice Becker, Scott Johnston, W. Milius, John Mackey, Robert Joyce, A. Ajay, Jean Foster, Herb Kruckman, Theodore Scheel, Ben Yomen, Anton Refregier, Redfield, Bill James, Gardner Rea.

October 6, 1936 VOL. XXI. :1'."1>. 2

Lettuce on Fire by Robert Holmes 3 In the Citadel of Steel by William F. Dunne 5 Call It Death of the Bourgeoisie A Poem by Samuel Putnam 7 Conning the News . 9 Hard Knox by Harry Thornton Moore II

Spain is a Republic by lames Hawthorne I3

Here Lies Hearst by Groff Conklin 14 Lady Nicotine's Debut by Rufus Colfax Phillips I8 The Death of the Craneman A Poem by Alfred Hayes 20

Readers' Forum 2 I

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

Sarah Cleghorn's Autobiography by Dorothy Canfield 23

A Saga of Rubber by Anna Rochester 23

Half-Ways Out by E. C. Dean 25 Professor Ross's Story by Bernhard 1. Stern 26

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

The Screen by Edward Newhouse and Peter Ellis Sights and Sounds Checklist

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Art work by H. Glintenkamp (cover), E. Volsung, Art Young, Gardner Rea, Theodore Scheel, Scott Johnston, John Mackey, Maurice Becker, H. M., J. Vogel, John Groth, Zack, Fritz, Cornin, Robert Joyce, Ben Yomen, Donga, Russin, Dan Rico, Herb Kruckman.

October 13, 1936 VOL. XXI. NO. 3

Spam and History by John Strachey . • 3 The Negro and the Parties by Loren Miller 7 Conning the News . . 9 Browder in Birmingham by Beth McHenry II

The Cult of Joshua by Robert Forsythe 13 "On the Record" by Grace Hutchins 14 Frankwood E. Williams-\Vorker by Mary van Kleeck 15 Soda-Pop and Southpaws by Edward Newhouse 17 Editorial . 18 Readers' Forum . 19

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Hindus's Moscow novel by Stuard Greene . 20 The Good Prince Rudo by Franklin Folsom .' 20 California the Dread by E. C. Dean . . . 21 The Life and Death of Lodz by Isidor Schneider 22 Intimate and Revealing by Charles Talbot 23 Too Many Ghosts by Marjorie Brace . 23 Phony Make-Believe by Kenneth Patchen 24 De Delta Lan' by Robert Gonyne 25 Recommended for Children 25 Also Published This Week 26 Recently Recommended 26

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Music by Henry Johnson . . • 27 The Screen by Charmion von Wiegand and Peter Ellis 27 The Theater by A.W.T. 28

Art work by Robert Cronbach (cover), William Sanderson, Theo­dore Scheel, J. Maranty, Art Young, H. M., Hugo Gellert, A. Ajay, John Mackey, Robert Joyce, B. Hall, Serrano, Robert Rus­sin, Rappe, Helen A. Blumenstiel, Thelma Kathan, Dau, George Schreiber.

October 20, 1936 VOL. XXI, No. 4

The Moscow Trials by Joshua Kunitz . . . . 3

Answers on the Air An Interview with Earl Browder 6 Conning the News . . . . • . . 9

Stiffening the Militia by James Hawthorne I I

Spain, I873-4 A Poem by Walt Whitman . II

To Miguel de Unamuno by Ilya Ehrenbourg . I4

Coach Passengers Up Forward by Sherman Graff 15

What's Wrong With Milk:? by Bruce Minton . I7

Onslaught of Retreat A Poem by Alvin Foote I 8 Editorial . . 20

Readers' Forum 2I

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Revolution in Spain by Pedro Grullo . 22

Sex in the City Room by Marguerite Young . 22

World Politics and War by Milton Howard 23

Mourning for Aristocrats by Guy Endore 24

Poetry Against Death by Maurice English 25

Brief Reviews . 26

Also Published This Week 26

Recently Recommended . 26

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The Theater by Nathaniel Buchwald and A. W. T. 27

The Screen by Peter Ellis and Edward Newhouse 27

Music by Henry Johnson 29

Sights and Sounds Checklist . 29

Art work bv William Sanderson (cover), Hugo Gellert, Frank

Horowitz, Theodore Scheel, Janet Darnell, A. Aj ay, Rockwell

Kent, JV1aurice Becker, Ben Yomen, William Hernandez, Marion

Greenwood, Soriano, John Mackey, Darrow, Anton Refregier,

Fritz, A. Sopher, John C. Rogers, Polakov.

October 27, 1936 VOL. XXI, NO. 5

Issues False and True by I oseph Freeman We Are Plowmen by Ernst Toller Three Years A Poem by Maxwell Bodenheim Spain at Gettysburg by Gil Green . Conning the News . Seeds of Counter-Revolution by Joshua Kunitz The Press Places Its Bets by Betty Millard The Bankrupt Fourth Estate by H. L. Stone Block That Kick! by Robert Forsythe Editorial Readers' Forum .

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Joseph Freeman's Autobiography by Robert Morss Lovett 20

Spain in Transition by Katherine Ellis 21

Liberal Jurist by Osmond K. Fraenkel 22

Tough, Reasonable, Witty by Rebecca Pitts 22

Order Limited by Isidor Schneider 24 Science and Society by I ohn Darrell 24 Also Published This Week 26 Recently Recommended . · 26

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The Screen by Robert White The Theater by A. W. T . . The Fine Arts by Sidney Kaufman

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Art Work by Benton Spruance (cover), Art Young, Theodore Scheel, Morton Goldsholl, Maurice Becker, Richard Correll, Herb Kruckman, Peter Stark, Anton Refregier, Max Berg, Dan Rico, Adolf Dehn, Aime, ]. K., Haas, Rappe, ]. A. Cornin, A. Walko­witz, Robert Russin.

November 3, 1936 VOL. XXI, NO. 6

That Man Marcantonio by Bruce Minton . 3 Spain's "Famous Fifth" by James Hawthorne 6 Somosierra Charge by Eugene Schachner 7 Conning the News . . . . . . . . • 9 Terre Haute: Second Round by Marguerite Young II Getting in Deeper by Joshua Kunitz . • 13 Letter to My Parents A Poem by Willard Maas . 15 How Not to Waste Your Ballot by Joseph Freeman 16 Pax Americana by Clyde 0. Hunter 19 Readers' Forum 21 Editorial 22

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Lincoln Steffens's Last Book by Rockwell Kent The Social Conscience by Milton Howard Freedom for Press Fakirs by George Seldes Without Malice by Isidor Schneider . A Literary Event by Rolfe Humphries Women's Supplement by Marjorie Brace Proletanan without Gloom by Leane Zugsmith Brief Reviews

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The Theater by A. W. T. 29 The Screen by Peter Ellis 29 The Dance by Owen Burke 29 Sights and Sounds Checklist 29 Art work by John Mackey (cover), C. A. Johnson, Herb Kruck­man, A. Sopher, T. W. Bonnicksen, Harry Gottlieb, Dan Rico, Fred Ellis, Hugo Gellert, John C. Rogers, Aime, Bill James, Robert Joyce, Art Young, Tromka, Soriano, Bennett Buck, \Villiam Sanderson, William Hernandez, Maurice Becker, Mary Gordon, Polakov.

November 10, 1936 VOL. XXI, No. 7

Liberal Individualism by Stephen Spender 3 Officers and Gentlemen by Ilya Ehrenbourg . . . . 6 Proclamation to the Troops by Francisco Largo Caballero 7 Conning the News . . . . . 9 The Nation and Trotsky An Editorial I I

To Gilbert Seldes A Poem by Slater . . . . I2 Showdown on the West Coast by Bruce Minton I4 The Ghost at the Banquet by Rob F. Hall IS The End of the Road by 1 oshua K unitz I 7 Is God a Capitalist? by Louis Lerman I 9 ~~~- w Readers' Forum . 2 I

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Sherwood Anderson's Progress by William Phillips Nazi Anti-Semitism by Eleanor Shoemaker In Search of Pure Art by Isidor Schneider Black Capitalists by Ralph ]. Bunche . In Quest of Integration by Granville Hicks Too Pretty by Tom Kromer Out of the Embers by F. !F. Dupee Brief Reviews of Fiction Also Published This Week . Recently Recommended .

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The Theater by A .W. T. 29 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 29 Music by Henry Johnson 30 Sights and Sounds Checklist 30

Art \Vork by J. ]. Lankes (cover), E. Morley, Rappe, Anton Refregier, Robert Russin, Liston Oak, Jacob Burck, Haile Hen­drix, M. Chisholm, Crockett Johnson, John Mackey, A. Walko­witz, Soriano, Richard Correll, Robert Joyce, Pearl Binder, Jim Kelly, A. Ajay, Dan Rico, Gardner Rea, Albert Pross, Theodore Scheel, Maurice Becker, C. C. Allen.

November 17, 1936

VOL. XXI, NO. 8

Thunder in the West by Robert Holmes 3 Echoes in the East by Bruce Minton • 5 The Stakes at Tampa by J. F. Miller 6 Conning the News . . . . . . . 9 The Meaning of the Elections d n Editorial I I Sharecropper d Poem by Sterling d. Brown . I2 Writers Disturbing the Peace by Jack Conroy I3 The Exiles of Lisbon by Ralph Fox . . . . I4 The Negro in the Jazz Band by Henry Johnson . I5 Western Writers Make History by Isidor Schneider I6 Reverse English by Robert Forsythe I 7 Readers' Forum . I9 Editorial 20

REVIEW AND COMMENT

A French War Novel by lsidor Schneider A Strengthening Undertone by Bernard Corey Humanity Instead of Hate by Sterling d. Brown Fables in Modern Dress by Crockett Johnson A Biography of Some Worth by Stuart Greene The Truth About Mexico by Charles Wedger The Technique of Warfare by Walter Wilson Sins and Synonyms by lames dgee Also Published This Week Recently Recommended

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Concert Music by Robert D. Darrell The Dance by Owen Burke The Screen by Peter Ellis . Sights and Sounds Checklist

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Art work by Scott Johnston (cover), M. Chisholm, A. Ajay, J, A. Cornin, William Sanderson, Russell T. Limbach, Soriano, Robert Russin, A. Sopher, Theodore Scheel, Serrano, Zach, Eugene C. Fitsch, W. Milius, John Mackey, Herb Kruckman, Anton Refregier, H. Dornblatt.

November 24, 1936 VOI •. XXI, NO. 9

Catalonia in Civil War by Sylvia Townsend Warner 3 The Soviet Constitution by 1 oshua K unitz 5 Conning the News . . . . 9 Ye Compleat Profession by Robert Forsythe I I Bombers Attack A Poem by Valentine Ackland I2 Three Years of It by Walt Carmon I3 Three Poems by Rafael Alberti I4 What Price Palaver? by A1alcolm Haskell I5 No Crops; No Relief by Clyde Johnson I7 Editorial I 8 Readers' Forum I9

REVIEW AND COMMENT

William Faulkner and Destruction by Philip Rahv 20 Portrait of a Patroness by Granville Hicks 2I Essays in Exhortation by Henry Hart 22 Not Propaganda by JF alt Carmon 22 A Group of Poets by Isidor Schneider 23 Integrity Needs Integration by Alexander Taylor 24 Romantic Fantasy by Obed Brooks 24 Brief Reviews 25 Also Published This Week 26 Recently Recommended 26

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The Theater by A.W.T. 27 Mus1c by Henry ]ohnso7t 27 The Fme Arts by Groppn 28 The Dance by Owen Burke 28 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 29 Sights and Sounds Checklist 29

Art work by Rockwell Kent (cover), Fritz, Elizabeth Olds, Frank Horowitz, Jack .\!Iarkow, Jacob Burck, Polakov, Haas, Helen West Heller, A. Walkowitz, Serrano, A. Ajay, H. M., Theodore Scheel, Herschel Levit, Anton Refregier, H. A. Blumen­stiel, ]. A. Cornin.

December 1, 1936 VOL. XXI, NO. 10

Spain's Darkest Hour by lames Hawthorne . . . . . 3 Stand Up, the Lovers of Spain A Poem by Robert Gessner 6 Lynch town-A Mass Chant by Paul Peters and George Sklar 7 Conning the News . . . . 9 The Issues at Buenos Aires by Liborio Justo I I Modern Heroes Poems by Michael Quin I2 Property in the U.S.S.R. by ]osh,ua Kunitz I3 To Whom It May Concern

A Poem with Decoration by Gardner Rea I4 Women and the New Masses by Rebecca Pitts I5 Life Is Like That Biographs by Serrano . I6 When Japan Goes to War by A. Kantorovich I7 Strike Call at Sea by M. A. Oathout I 9 Editorial . 20 Readers' Forum . 2I

REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Art of Pushkin by Isidor Schneider . 22 Commercialism and the Artist by John Thayer 22 And Now Danny O'Neill by Fred Dupee 23 Two on War by Walt Carmon . 24 Twenty Years of Liberalism by Samuel Putnam 25 Brief Reviews 25 Also Published This Week 26 Recently Recommended 26

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The Theater by A.W.T. Music by R. D. Darrell The Screen by Robert White The Dance by Owen Burke

Art work by Louis Lozowick (cover), Raphael Sayer, William Gropper, Dan Rico, Aaron Sopher, William Sanderson, Soriano, A. Ajay, Gardner Rea, Ade Boysen, Ben Yomen, Serrano, John Mackey, Getz, H. A. Blumenstiel, Theodor Gilien, Helen Kathan, Theodore Scheel, Tamayo, Herb Kruckman.

December 8, 1936 VOL. XXI. NO. 11

The German-Japanese Pact by Karl Fitch 3 The Struggle in the Federation by Vern Smith 5 Winter's Ghost Plagues Them A Poem by Edwin Rolfe 6 Love and War by Robert Forsythe 7 Conning the News . . 9 Factual Fascism in Brazil by 1 ames Waterman Wise I I No Surrender on the Waterfront by Robert Holmes I3 "Let Us Educate and Explain" by Upton Sinclair I5 The Great Quarter-Century by Robert Minor I8 Polemic in the Trenches by Pablo de la Torriente-Brau I9 Readers' Forum 2I Editorial . 22

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Vivifying Economics by 1 ohn Darrell Spiritual Imperialist by Walt Carmon Jews in Germany by Robert Gordon . The Legion and Liberalism by Henry Cooper In the Deep South by A. Roger Paxton Brief Reviews Recently Recommended .

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Art work by William Sanderson (cover), David, Sid Gotcliffe, Ben Yomen, George Picken, Russell T. Limbach, Robert Russin, Berdecio, A. Sopher, Malcolm Chisholm, A. Ajay, Burchess, Maurice Becker, Soriano, Getz, John Mackey, Jack Markow, John Groth, Georges Schreiber, Adolf Dehn.

VOL. XXI December 15, 1936 NO. 12

Old Fervor and New Discipline by Joseph Freeman 5 "Like the Good Deed" by Theodore Dreiser g Not Victory Alone by Earl Browder IO

The Zero Hour by John Strachey 1 1

Conning the News . 13 Greetings • . . I 5 Main Entrance by Robert Forsythe . . 16 A Good Character for a Novel by Rex Stout 17 Grandfather and Grandson by John Dos Passos 19 A Red Village Is Occupied by Agnes Smedley 20

The British Are Coming by Granville Hicks 23 Subterranean Echoes by George Seldes 25 Capitalism Has Made It Plain by Upton Sinclair 26 Migratory Intellectuals by Michael Gold 27 Belief in Man by Sherwood Anderson 30 Two Dictators by Vincent Sheean 31 The King Is Dead ! by Albert Hal per . . 33 The Crisis in the Theater by John Howard Lawson 35 Good-by by A !bert Maltz 37 Maturing Civil War in Europe by Scott Nearing 41 Editorial 42

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Against This Culture by Maxwell Bodenheim 18 Winter Ballad by A !fred Kreymborg 18 Black Sea Rest Home by Genevieve Taggard 22

Old Habit and New Love by Richard Wright 29 Frontiers by lsidor Schneider . 34 White Man by Langston Hughes . 34 Darkness by Sarah N. Cleghorn 34 Freedom by Louis U ntermeyer 34 Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay 34 The Tide by William Rose Benet . 36 Death Be Not Proud by Eda Lou Walton 38

REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Nature of Liberty by Morris U. Schappes 43 Fact ( ?) and Folklore by Edward R. Kent 45 Art for What's Sake by James Agee 48 The Cartoon and Art Young by Robert M. Coates 50 The Truth About Haymarket by Milton Howard 51 An Item of Autobiography by lsidor Schneider 53 Model Illustration by I. Eastfield 55

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The Screen by Peter Ellis 57 The Theater by A. W. T. 57 Concert Music by R. D. Darrell 58 Recorded Music by Henry Johnson 59 The Dance by Owen Burke 61

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Lynd "\Vard (cover), Aime, A. Ajay, Maurice Becker, Ben Benn, George Biddle, Arnold Blanch, Simeon Braguin, Jacob Burck, Adolf Dehn, Donga, Mabel Dwight, Darryl Frederick, Wand a Gag, Hugo Gellert, Lydia Gibson, H. Glintenkamp, William Gropper, George Grosz, John Groth, Ned Hilton, Ellison Hoover, Eitaro Ishigaki, Scott Johnston, Joe Jones, Herb Kruck­man, Russell T. Limbach, Louis Lozowick, John Mackey, Eliza­beth Olds, Jose Clemente Orozco, George Picken, Walter Quirt, Gardner Rea, A. Redfield, Anton Refregier, Dan Rico, Boardman Robinson, William Sanderson, Theodore Scheel, Georges Schrei­ber, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Aaron Sopher, Soriano, M. Sayer, Harry Sternberg, William Steig, A. W alkowitz, Art Young.

December 22, 1936 VOL. XXI. NO. 131

The Fascist World Offensive by John Strachey Sea-Strike Scene by Rhoda Holmes Conning the News . . Blackshirt Theater by R. W. Wiley Militarism A Poem by Joseph Eliyia . Roosevelt and the W.P.A by Theodore Draper Freud's Error by Jack Lindsay . Walter Lippmann's Logic by A. B. Magi! Editorial . Readers' Forum .

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Marking Time? by William Phillips . . . . 23 A Master of Marxist Criticism by Isidor Schneider 24 Sidney Hook and Marxism by H. N. Fairchild 25 Brief Reviews . . 27 Recently Recommended Books . 28

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The Screen by Peter Ellis . 29 The Dance by Owen Burke 29 Fine Arts by A.T.J. 30 Sights and Sounds Checklist 3 I

Art work: by Robert Cronbach (cover), George Grosz, Darryl Frederick, Ben Yomen, I. Marantz, Gordon, Aline Fruhauf, Hugo Gellert, Georges Schreiber, John Mackey, J. Vogel, Anton Refregier, Getz, Maurice Becker, Gardner Rea, Aaron Sopher, Sid Gotcliffe, Scott Johnston, Soriano, A. Ajay.

December 29, 1936

VOL. XXII, No. 1

The Chinese Chessboard by Theodore Draper 3 Mr. Sullivan's "Racket" by Rhoda Holmes . . 7 The People Vote, I936 A Poem by Robert Gessner 8 Conning the News . I I

Sunrise in the Northwest by Cole Stevens I3 Writers and a People's Front by C. Day Lewis I5 Half-Heard Air A Poem by Rolfe Humphries I6 Student Unity at Stake by James Wechsler I7 Maxim Gorky A Poem by Paul Engle I9 Editorial . 20 Readers' Forum . 2 I

REVIEW AND COMMENT

English Men of Letters by Granville Hicks Shrines of Unreason by Isidor Schneider Studying Culture by ArthurS. Johnson Society Notes by George Milburn . Massachusetts Agitator by F. W. Dupee Old Wine in New Bottles by Addison T. Cutler Brief Review . . . Recently Recommended Books .

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The Theater by Alexander Taylor Concert Music by R. D. Darrell The Screen by Peter Ellis . The Dance by Owen Burke The Radio . The Art Galleries

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Art work by J. J. Lankes (cover), Darryl Frederick, Georges Schreiber, John Mackey, Scott Johnston, M. Goldsholl, Arnold Blanch, George Biddle, Herb Kruckman, John Lonergan, Aaron Sopher, I. Marantz, Art Young, Lester Polakov, Jacob Burck, Theodore Scheel, I. March, Rockwell Kent, Helen Ludwig.