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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

The ' Jewish Woman

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Carmel Myers, Y oungest Jewish Movie Star

The Jewish school girl, being no
whit different from all other school
girls, has no doubt developed a tre-
mendous interest in the artists of the
films. And for many reasons she—
and perhaps numbers of her co-relig-
ionists—will be eagerly interested in
the career of Carmel Myers. For Miss
M vcrs was but recently a Jewish
schoolgirl herself, and is now regis-
tering the gamut of human emotions
before a motion picture camera. She
was born in San Francisco over 16
years ago, the (laughter of Rabbi and
Mrs. Isidore Myers, now of Los An-
geles. Her mother is at present di-
recting her career and incidentally
writing an occasional scenario for her.
When the Myers family moved to
I.os Angeles the little lady entered
school there. Later, at the Los An-
geles high school, Carmel was identi-
tied with most of the school activi-
ties, serving also on the editorial staff
of the regular weekly paper.
Perhaps the most unusual happen-
ing in her life was her election as a
delegate to a state convention of wom-
en's clubs at the tender age of 13—an
event made much of by the older dele-

gates and the press. She was then vice
president of an auxiliary to the local
Council of Jewish Women, her moth-
er being president of the parent or-
ganization. At the Panama-Pacific
exposition, in 1915, in connection with
the many school pageants then held,
little Carmel was chosen by Miss Ruth
St. Denis to impersonate the "Spirit of
Youth."
It %vas only last year that mother
and daughter decided that the girl's
unusual dramatic ability be given ex-
pression on the stage. An opening
was found immediately at the Fine
Arts studio, under Air. Griffith. Later
the fair star joined the Yorke-Metro
company, and she is now under a two-
year starring contract with Bluebird
features of Universal.
Miss Myers, like all movie stars, has
her favorite diversions. They are
chess, tennis, swimming, dancing and
motoring. She drives her own car and
designs her own gowns.
What is most important of all is that
Carmel is intensely loyal to her own
people, and is said to be even more re-
ligiously inclined than her mother and
her grandmother, both of them wives
of rabbis.

A TRIBUTE TO ROSE KAPLAN.

RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF IN-
TERNATIONAL JEWRY

William C. Hornblower, the Brit-
ish commissioner of refugees' camps
in Egypt, paid a glowing tribute to
the remarkable work done by Rose
Kaplan, the Hadassah nurse who gave
her life to her people, and the report
of whose death has already been pub-
lished in these columns.
Miss Kaplan was a victim of can-
cer, her last year of life was one of
suffering, borne without a murmur of
complaint, while she heroically went
on with the work of caring for the
health of the Jewish refugees who had
fled to Alexandria from Palestine.
Mr. Hornblower writes:
"Her one worry was her work, and
who will carry it on; it was at her
special request that I cabled asking
for some one to replace her. She is
so anxious that Hadassah may con-
tinue the work that site has carried
on so successfully that I most sin-
cerely trust your association may con-
sent.
"How lovingly and capably she has
carried out her mission here, it is
needless for me to accent. Site has
been a true friend to the refugees in
every sense of the word and she has
made herself loved and respected by
every one with whom she has come
in contact."

JEWISH WOMEN IN THE RUS-
,
SIAN REVOLUTION.

Interesting statistical data was re-
cently published indicating the large
share taken by Jewish women in revo-
lutionary activities in Russia. From
1901 to 1903, Jewish women formed 52
per cent of all political prisoners;
from 1906 to 1911 they formed 12 1 /3
per cent of all political prisoners. In
1905, the number of Jewish women
was nearly double of the number of
Russian women revolutionaries.

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Judaism is neither ghettoism nor
Yiddishism, nor even Hebraism.
Judaism is the religion of the Jew.
It is the expression of the soul of the
priest people Israel. It is the main-
tenance of the covenant, to which the
sons and daughters of Israel are to
remain loyal, by means of faith in
God, by Jewish holy (lays and observ-
ances, by Jewish spiritual culture and,
above all, by the Jewish life, realiz-
ing- in character and in conduct the
ethical idelas of justice and human-
ity. Judaism and humanity arc, in a
sense, synonymous terms. Judaism
aims at bringing out the highest pos-
sibilities of human life. Judaism is a
conscious service of the Father of
mankind. And it is a ministry by Is-
rael in the world to a larger humani-
tarianism. Judaism is a spiritual
force to call forth the best in man.
Judaism can and must learn from
many environments. And it has a
function, a mission, a destiny to teach
many environments. When the Jew
is loyal to his own covenant he is
doing the greatest service to his fel-
low-man. Judaism, by its "benevo-
lence, brotherly love and harmony"
within Israel, will help bring about
benevolence, fraternity and harmony
between all men, so that the light re-
vealed at Sinai to the covenant peo-
ple will become the light to lead the
world. We claim the right to live all
over the world for that light. And it
is our duty so to live, as to make it
illumine the whole world, until the
time conies when all humanity shall
have entered the covenant and there
be one God and one human brother-
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