Word: cattaro
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...Manhattan theatre season just ending produced an unparalleled number of social justice dramas, including: Odets' Awake and Sing!, Elmer Rice's Judgment Day and Between Two Worlds, the Theatre Guild's Rain From Heaven, the Theatre Union's Stevedore, Sailors of Cattaro, Black...
...laity how the other half lives by staging exciting instances of social injustice; 2) to impress some of the broader party policies on Communist comrades by dramatic examples. Stevedore was supposed to demonstrate that black and white workers should and could present a united front. Sailors of Cattaro emphasized the need of centralized direction in Communist organization. Black Pit, another class drama, preaches the need for stern sacrifices to the cause...
Sailors of Cattaro (by Friedrich Wolf; Theatre Union, producer). In January 1918, a section of the Austrian Imperial Fleet cowered in the Adriatic's Bay of Cattaro. Superior British warships had knocked the Austrian seamen groggy every time they ventured out to fight in their decrepit craft. Bad food, bad news, bad treatment had utterly demoralized the sailors at Cattaro. Encouraged by food riots and strikes by the War-weary proletariat ashore, the seamen mutinied. Playwright Wolf, a German Communist whom Adolf Hitler chased into Russia, has built a strapping propagandist melodrama out of the Cattaro incident. And, like...
...rose rapidly, was transferred to the General Staff, became a naval aide-de-camp to Kaiser and Konig Franz Josef. In the early part of the War, he proved himself as brave and loyal an officer as ever the Emperor had and, when the Germans crushed a mutiny at Cattaro, he proved himself astute enough to take the credit...
Many buildings collapsed at Sarajevo (Bosnia) and the sea-coast towns of Cattaro and Ragusa ( Dalmatia). A tobacco factory was destroyed at Mostar (Herzegovina). No reports have been received as to the number of lives lost...