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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Jewish Woman Is
Author of Play
To Be Given-Here
MUSIC NOTES
By Herman Hoexter,
("Bedouins," by J. G. Iluneker. A
Review.)
Mrs. Anna ■ Nathan Meyers, Member
of Old Family in Detroit
for Rehearsals.
-
Mrs. Anna Nathan Meyers, of New
York city, in Detroit during the past
week to supers Ise the rehearsals of
her new play, "The Advertising of
Kate," by the Bonstelle company, is
distinctly [Komi of her Revolutionary
ancestor, Rabbi Seixas, first Jew to
act as trustee of the famous old
King's College, Cambridge.
When the storm of the Revolution
was brewing the Rabbi was warned
by the Tory leaders that unless he
chose to pray for the welfare of King
George his synagogue would be
closed. Without a word of dbsent
Rabbi Sri xas lushes' the temple doors,
choosing for himself and his people
rather to obey the dictates of their
conscience than receive protection
through subservimee to the enemy
of the colonies.
It was, doubtless, to some degree
the spirit of her ancestor which led
Mrs. Meyers to foresee the conse-
quences of the world war as early as
the invasion of Belgium.
Throughout the four years of strug-
gle Mrs. Nleyers performed an im-
portant part. She gave the tirst ben-
efit for the Belgians in New York
city in 1914, obtaining for their relief
nearly Ift Becoming actively en-
gaged in war work NIts. Meyers was
made chairman of the Emergency
Committee of the Home Economies
Association, the organization which
gave such splendid service prior to
the appointment of Herbert Hoover
as bead of the governmental work in
the same field.
Nothing daunted NIrs. Meyers. She
hired the hall room of the 'tote' As-
tor and bringing experts from all
over the country gave a series of
demonstrations and lectures on can-
ning and dehydrating foodstuffs. Ex-
perts on canning and preserving and
preparing foods were Sim to the
Jewish settlements to teach the
dwellers in New York's cast side the
best methods of buying and preparing
food.
"I saw very soon," said Mrs. Mey-
ers, "that constant raising of wages
would tint take care of the problem,
but would merely create the so-called
vicious circle. The poor had to be
taught the purchasing poster of
money and to get the greatest pos-
sible value front the smallest possible
expenditures."
Mrs. Meyers caged war against the
practice of sending to the garbage
pail, food left-ovens which might
readily be converted into tasteful
dishes. She had a motion picture
made to illustrate her theories and
to show the resources left to the
housekeeper with regard to ends and
leftovers of food. This proved ex-
tremely popular and went at once on
an extended circuit through the coun-
erature, James Gibbon Iluneker le the
true superman, and "Bedouins" adds
another golden sheaf to his glittering
wreath of myrtle,
DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR
GIVEN AT BAY CITY
YOUNG PEOPLE OF
SHAAREY ZEDEK TO
GIVE MOONLIGHT
Kahn of Bay City entertained 19
Airs. Phil Koffman and Mrs. Alex
"Bedouins", the most recent volume
of carded :old delightful Pesos from
the workshop of Jittnea Iluneker-
ride, fabler, inventor of %%lent fan.
Despite the fact that the evening of
Boles, intermitter of the seven arts,
August 17 seems afar off in the dis-
and the Boswell extraordinary of all
tant future. it is being awaited with
tome:min:try musically big - wigged impatience by members of the Young
Johnsons - must appeal to the elect l'eople's Association of Congregation
who will rejoice in its pages, not only Shaarey Zedek, who have chosen the
for the rich fare compressed between slate for their moonlight boat ride.
Harry Satovsky and !stilton Gor-
the covers, but for the brilliant style,
the astonishing vocabulary, and the don, heading the committee on ar-
rangements
announce that the steam-
original manner with which each s oni-
position is entrusted with a profound er Pitt-in-Bay has been chartered for
the occasion, dance music provides',
thought, eminently ilunekeresune.
and tickets for the affair already in
The book is dedicated Its Miss Vary
the hands of the printer.
Garden,"t he Garden," "t he most beau.
A song, written especially for the
tiful, the most good, the most in occasion by Seymour Simons and
the author's gallery of demi-gods and Josh Sarasolm, joint authors of "Let
goddesses. Much in praise of our 'er Flicker," has been promised. A
Garden" has appeared before in the large attendance is confidently ex-
New York dailies, the "Times" forin- pected.
t rly, now in the "World". But we in-
The death is announced at Man-
Wr•sted not so much In what Mr.
lluneker says, but in how he says R. chester, Eng., at the age of 74, of Mr.
Joseph
Hyman, a member of the
Richard Strauss and Claude lk.bussy
used the Identical twelve tones or Council of Founders of the New Syna-
gogue and Beth Hamederash and for
the chromatic mole that served Bach
three years vice-president. Mr. fly-
and Beethoven and 'trams; but the
ntan founded the "Chem Ntislina"
arrangement of these tones In new and was governor of the Jewish Hos•
scales and novel chords has lead to pital.
the development of a new school of
composition, which, casting the class-
ical proprieties to the winds, has
brought forth a language that Is as
Interesting and as commanding as it
to unique and arresting. Mr. Ilune.
her palms in prose much in the same
ay as the modern French and Itus-
Flan composers do in tome. His lines
vary in style and texture le word ar-
rangement and syntax, in a manner
quite as characteristic as the har-
monies and cadences of Ravel and
Sat ie, of Komigold and Schonberg, to
mention a few of the anarehs of
musical art to Whom the author pays
tribute.
Mr. Iluneker has the art culture of
all Furope at his fingers' ends, with
a penchant for all that is French, in-
nattly Gallic. Poets, litterateurs,
painters; nnisicians, sculptors, nein-
1 ° ,, s; dramatists and critics—their
essence is expressed In a sentence, a
line, by this versatile American ar-
tist.
!tut I repeat; we are Interested here
principally in Mr. linneker's ho•".
We note the following at random front
pages often thlekly strewn with brit-
Rant (and sometimes brittle, caustic)
vents of epigram and metaphor. Ile
speaks of Miss Garden: "a line of
Pater's prose, the glance of one of
Da Vinci's strange ladles; a chord of
Debussy; honey, tiger's blood, and ab.
sInthe", She is the teinearnation of
- Louise, Gismonula, and Violetta, all
those subtle, sonorous sinners" of op-
eratic fame. "She sounds the shud-
dering semi-tones of sex" in Thais
try.
and often pictures the "Infernal Fent-
Four years ago, when her present
inint--a vase exquisitely carved con.
play was in its vague and incipient
mining corruption --sculpturcd
stage, Mrs. Meyers lectured before
of Massenet's Cleopatra: "Musically
the Drama League of Detroit and the
theories of stage craft expounded at speaking. nothing happened in Act I;
that time she has sought to put into licsis following in Act II; while Act
III was a glittering triumph of vacu-
practice.
ity"! II is in this same third act
Iler play, "The Advertising of
that Miss Garden appeared as the
Kate," deals with the problem pres-
Queen
"attired at once so sonorously
ent by the modern "business woman."
l'Itysically, says the author, the 1■ 11Si - told exquisitely," wherein "all she had
In do was to look beautiful and turn
IICSS woman has arrived, but emo-
tionally she has not. The woman in on the full voltage of her blandish-
business life seeks to retain her Ito, ments."
ininity and to use it effectively :old
Debussy is described as "a compos.
to good purpose wherever passible. er of nuance, of half-hinted murmur•
but she also seeks an equality with dugs, of the rutliant faun with his
snen in the same field of endeavor.
metaphysical xenomania, of musk
As Mrs. Nleyers succinctly put it.
overheard, and of mirrored dreams"--
"The business woman wants to be a
prose as rich, almost as evanescent as
woman on every day in the week but
the bizarre harmonies of the coin-
pay day, and then to lie a man with
a will and a vengeance." The play is ismer which Mr. ituneker delights in
tss he produced for the first time at describing.
the Garrick theater by the Bonstelle
In what category of chords. normal
company next week.
or Inverted, of standard construction
Mrs. Meyers is the wife of Dr. Al- or still unelassibed, shall we place the
fred 'Meyers, consulting physician at following from "The Artistic Temper-
%milt Sinai Hospital, New Yssrk, and ament" , "They still toted despite
lung specialist for the Jewish 'Fuller- the poignant promiscuity of matri-
sodosist Hospital in Denys r. Colo. !mini." (This might be the Debussy-
‘Vhile in Detroit Mrs. Meyers will be an chord of the tenth. or one of the
the guest of Mrs. Truman IL Nest -
Inversions thereof; the words could
berry.
never Le made to lit to the gracious
@TEMP
his hulks of the familiar classical eons.
posers of so:1qt. F'urther along We
f11111: "It is easy to love fervidly; it
la hard to hate intelligently"; "Famlh
isuity may breed contempt, but contig-
Custom Work Only.
tiny breeds": "The noblest art is the
Measurements Taken For The
triumph of Intlgination over tempera.
Uncorseted Fig.lre
inent"; and then at the end of this
Fifth Floor
brilliant, biting expose of the vagaries
TRAUGOT-SCHMIDT BUILDING
of artists, we have the story of the
213 Woodward question put to George Bernard Shaw,
Phone Cherry 1849
-St. George" by the grace of our au-
erafallEroMIEfrafe
thor
"Mr. Shaw, do you think a woman
can be virtuous in the theatre? - And
guests Thursday afternoon at the Bay
City Club. Winners of prizes offered
in the card games were Mrs. I. Korn,
Mrs. F. Pearlman and Mrs. A. R.
Gelbard. At 5 p. m. a dainty lunch-
eon was served in the main dining
room. Out of town guests were Miss
Sherry and Mrs. Katz of Chicago,
Mrs. Glucksman of Cleveland, Miss
Levy of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Paul
Kanter and Mrs. Sam Kramer of
Detroit.
NORFOLK, VA., TO HAVE
JEWISH HOSPITAL
NORFOLK, N'A.—The efforts of
leading local Jews is to be highly
commended for the establishment of
the first Jewish hospital in Virginia
State. The hospital for which a fund
of $200,000 has been pledged, is to be
(neatest in the beautiful home of the
Lowenburg's which has already been
converted for that purpose. The hos-
pital starts off with 60 beds and will
be conducted on a strictly kosher
basis 'Flue following compose the
Board of Directors: Spiegel, Krakin,
Margolies, Wester, Friedberg, Glaser,
Berlin, Levy, Brenner, Kerr and Mrs.
1) Feiman.
BICUR CHOLEM JUNIORS.
The next meeting of the organiza-
tion will be held on Tuesday, July
27th, 1920, at 8:00 p. tn. at Shaarey
Zedek.
The musical program will he headed
by an all-star introduction of various
vocal solos. William Abramson,
character singer, has promised enter-
tainment of rare ability. Miss Hilda
Fein, talented pianist, will elaborate
on touches not heard before. Miss
Elvira Ranks, vocalist, will offer num-
bers of merit. As stated above other
numbers of like talent will participate.
As the moonlight is drawing nearer,
members are specially requested to
extend their energy in the sale of
tickets.
Refreshments will be served, and all
attending will be well cared for.
Dancing will follow the program,
with Miss Helen Krause at the piano.
CHILDREN OF PALESTINE
THOROUGHLY "BARBERED"
ganization of America.
.\ staff of women washes and mas-
sages the children' heads in the
Nchools, while native barbers are en-
hot mg an unfit ceedented business in
hair-cutting at one piaster or live
cents per head. All the work is done
in the schools, which has developed
into one of the most important phases
of the unit's stork in Palestine and
has been no successful in Jerusalem
!that school examinations and treat-
ments are to be extended to the other
cities, Dr. Rubittow stated
! Fer the benefit of native doctors,
to educate them in the most modern
medical methods and to rhow them
, the salve of the co-operation of spec-
bi-weekly scientific meetings
are held, where demonstrations of
cases are shown, according to Dr.
Rubinow. A splendidly equipped
polyclinic has been opened in Jaffa,
the best polyclinic in Palestine, he
said, while six physicians are work-
ing outside the cities in the colonies.
JEWS FORCED TO
Hair cuts, shampoos, tonics, mas-
DEFEND VILNA
sages and all the other tonsorial
blandishments which glib barbers
LONDON—We are informed by
thrust upon customers who ask only
for a shave, are being given to the our Paris corespondent that in an
school children of Jerusalem free of effort to meet the approaching Red
charge by the American Zionist Med- forces, the Polish authorities in Vilna
ical Unit, in its attempts to cure the are forcing Jews to dig trenches and
children of skin diseases with which do other work of a purely military
nearly 50 per cent is affected, accord- nature. The correspondent adds that
ing to a report from Dr. I. ht. Buhl- the masses of Vilna are evacuating
the city.
now, its director, to the Zionist Or-
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the playwright's answer.
"Why should she he?"
lie speaks - if Rodin as the sculptor
who "dared to shiver the syntax of
stone"; of Spring as a "tender, trem-
ulous virgin"; of the American Poe's
creations as "the shadow of shadows,
the incarnation of Silence, set forth
In spectral speech". The critics are
flayed In a humorous composition
"Calico Cats", which Mr. Iluneker
makes the sign of their nocturnal.
negative trade. 'Singers," he writes,
"are very human, wbo is private be-
hare like their butchers and bakers.
and candle-stick makers". There fol-
lows an intensively interesting dis-
closure of the various methods of
voice development practiced by some
of the New- York maestri, the article
labeled, "Sing and Grow Voiceless";
and finally a series or original tales,
as horror-laden as the best of Poe's,
and as full of human interest, poignant
and appealing, as the finest short
stories of the representative modern
French and Russian masters. In the
field of contemporary American lit-
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