A merica ffettish Pedalled Coder CLIFTON AVINUt - CINCINNATI 10, OHIO PAGE SEVEN 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. 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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- spa......_ sAl --- • • se •.1. iffpg off ► sr/ ""CriCart e., / -O0