THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Organizations

B'NEI B'RITH PISGAH
LODGE NO. 34.
The first of the series of
monthly open meetings and en-
tertainments recently inaugurat-
ed by the local chapter of the or-
der was held last Monday even-
ing at the lodge rooms at Cass
and Warren, and proved to be
an inspiring success. The au-
dience of fifty members and their
friends present listened with ap-
preciation to the delightful vocal
solos of Miss Charlotte Mary-
mont, to the beautifully rendered
interpretive recitations of Miss
Ethel Goldman, and last but not
least to the eloquent address of
Mr. Louis James Rosenberg on
"The Ideals of the B'nei Writh."
Refreshments were also served.
The officers and members of
the Pisgah Lodge of the Order
of B'nei B\ 'rith take this oppor-
tunity of dordially inviting the
public to attend the monthly
musical and social entertain-
ments given by it. The dates
of these functions will appear
from time to time in these col-
umns.

The city hospitals, Kansas
City, Mo., have appointed six
ministers of the protestant faith,
the Franciscan Fathers, repre-
senting the Catholic faith, and
Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen to min-
ister to the spiritual welfare of
the patients of the public hos-
pitals.

A Suggestion As To Memorial
Tributes.
The suggestion has been made
repeatedly that much good would
result if, as a worthy tribute to
departed friends, gifts of money
were sent to the Charities equal
in amount to what is ordinarily
spent for flowers to be laid upon
the coffin.
The giving to charity in mem-
ory of the dead is in line with
Jewish tradition. It represents a
lasting and a worthy tribute to
departed friends and loved ones.
It builds a living monument,
which, unlike flowers, shall not
perish in a day.
To carry this suggestion into
practice the Charities
will
acknowledge Memorial Tributes
of whatever amount, both to the
donor and to the family of the
deceased by means of a neatly
printed card as follows:
THE UNITED JEWISH
CHARITIES.
Gratefully acknowledge re-
ceipt of a sum of money
from
M.
As a Memorial Tribute to
the late

Secretary.
Detroit,
, 191..
Does This Suggestion Appeal To
You?
Contributions sent to any offi-
cer of the United Jewish Chari-
ties, 239 E. High Street, will be
promptly acknowledged.

COLLEGIATE CLUB.
Smokes, eats, drinks, oratori-
cal eloquence and jolly good fel-
lowship will be found in riotous
profusion at the smoker of the
Collegiate Club, which will be
held at the I lute] Stotler on Sat-
urday evening, April 1. The en-
tertainment committee which has
the affair in hand, announces a
varied and interesting program,
Nvhich will be featured by an ad-
dress on "The Pre-Congress Con-
vention" by Mr. A. Lapin Cohn
vho attended the Philadelphia
conference.

YIDDISH THEATRE IN
DETENTION CAMP

After we read the heart-break-
ing news of expulsions, starva-
tions, cruelty, it is a relief to come
across an occasional pleasant
piece of news, which tells of the
efforts made by the people in mis-
ery to teach themselves for the
time being-, to put their unhappi-
ness out of mind. In one of the
large detention camps in Ger-
many, there are over 1,000 Jewish
captives from the Russian army.
Some months ago, the camp
\vas stricken with an epidemic, and
many- of the captives died. When
the efforts of the German author-
ities to stop the plague had final-
ly succeeded, and the sanitary
conditions were made more en-
durable, the attention of the cap-
tives turned to lighter things.
The French captives collected a
fairly complete orchestra, and
gave regular concerts.
Among the captives, there ;vas
the Rtissian Jew Fabischeff, or
as he is known on the Yiddish
stage in New York, Warsaw and
London, Fabow. He conceived
the idea of having a Yiddish thea-
ter, for the 1,000 Yiddish ,,speak-
ing Jews that were in the camp.
He obtained permission from the
authorities, and started to work.
At first he had no one to help
him, since there was no one there
who had any knowledge of acting,
or any particular familiarity with
the text of Yiddish plays. Fabow
proceeded to train various volun-
teer actors, writing their parts
from memory. The orchestra of
the French prisoners promised to
play for him every Saturday even-
ing.
After a month of rehearsals,
Gordin's well-known play, "Bar
Kochba," was given. There were
about 600 persons present, includ-
ing many German officers. At
the next performance there was
a presentation of the tragedy,
"The Destruction of the Temple."
These tragedies were followed by
comedies in a lighter vein, de-
picting typical scenes from Rus-
sian Jewish village life.
And so the theater has become
a regular. institution at that par-
ticular camp, and serves very well
to take the mind of the unfortun-
ate soldiers from worrying con-
stantly over what has become of
their wives, children and parents
whom they have left behind them
in the land of the czar.

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