PAGE ELEVEN THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE dancer, but she is also a supreme . tor. Her technique is marvelous. But it is classic. Every move is defined (Continued From Page Eight.) slid circumscribed -restraint being the from whether writing for the slake ot • 'Inman - aim. Some few years ago as for the magazines. Ills characters in a super in a number of tier productions all American literature, no matter of I was constantly astonished by her pro- what age they happen to be, evoke the • digious efforts toward perfection. I • interest that the average clever group ! was often amazed to see her go through if college boys evoke They are "smart," esercises that would have taxed a NO matter how noisy, talk smoothly and glibly and shampion athlete. bane a rip and gu about their make-up, many times she has danced and acted that arouse admiration and stir a spirit a pine, you will find her long before of ❑onsradery on the audience. But they the rise of the curtain going through lack that finer, soberer tone that comes fantastitc movements, limbering toes and • with living, with thinking. with feeling, arms, wining hands, and spinning blood- with a the air , with the understanding of man and na• through lure- that comes with the reaching out curdling speed. As a result, you far, far into the depths of time and are entranced by her the first time, space and brings to the audience a throb charmedwith her the second, and do I of the universe, as is done by some of not care to see her the third in the Because of that classic ' aloe great masters. His first drama was same piece. written away back in the eighties. Some rigidity of hers, sloe lacks the abandon IIf his better known are "La Belle of the newer dancers who are in re- lent:se:I "Hearts of Oak." "Nleti and hellion against the set forms imposed Women," "The Girl of the Golden upon life and all But she nevertheless M est. I he last is a fine piece of work. still remains the foremost dancer in the , It has chants atmosphere. Thor story world. I has been set to music and produced on These are a few of the foremost Jew- the grand opera stage. "The Return of ish actresses. They sit enthroned on Peter Grim," conic about half a decade Illy loftiest peaks of stagehand. But later and shows a good deal of the there are many, very %cry many more palywright's ripeness of years. without whom the Whole histronic art would be barren—would not make pos- sible the Bernhardts, the Nazimovas. The Jew as Producer. Ilelaseo holds no less a plan, on the For in acting. like in all other arts, \ nierican stage as producer than as it is not the few first magnitude stars to playwright. He has presented to our that ma' • up the firmament. The stars thrater - goers some of the world's great- of lesser brilliance are just as indis- of things-lesser est stars. Ile has made and unmade a pensable in the sch•me vast number of America's foremost w- ones whose burdens are perhaps as oner- ous, whose toils as interminable, whose ary and actresses. trilitilataitms as disheartening. But their ( - hark , : lintliman is another Jew who has made and unmade some of the stores are rarely told, their tasks talent oil the American stage. Iiis :nil: wetted perhaps among their, im- The Jew in the Drama. Fursl. At Marks' you will find the most :omplete and finest selec- tion of furs and fur coats in Detroit- ou will find lie pays to y of the tvhkers. H. & B. MARKS Manufacturers Retallers—Wholesalers 212414 Michigan Avenue CARPETS - and - RUGS Cleaned by Us Means Thorough Cleaning and Money Saved Oriental Rugs are Given Special Attention Detroit Rug Works academic education went no further sunhats' surroundings ey es, s uch stars as David War. than gramma school. But he had ac- quirts.' a wonderful knowledge of men field Bertha Kalisch, 51:ithilde Cot- and life while selling tickets in theaters teeny and many others are far, far and reporting on a newspaper. His first ahier the mediocre multitude, even as experience as a theater manager was judos-! brunt the serious point of view acquired with a traveling show. Before the au deserves, Barney Bernard 'Yos- hi , thirtieth year he had organized what es powers sufficient to entertain an subsequently became known as the ;ffidiell e for a fees nenings in slicers- Charles Frolinian Stock Company. Then sion. Then there is a host of others. he became manager of half a cloven dd. - far atom being a discredit to any pet,- ferent theaters in New York the lito- ilea though they arc not the leaders on pine, the Criterion, the Lyceum, the the stage. Among theta is Louis Mann. St:mirk. the Savoy, the Knickerlocker. lesaffiler Carr, Foist Nlarinciff, Leo As his influence grew he transferred Ile trielodein, Morri3O11 Weber, Fields, Phone Market 2090 P. ch Ito nl to as art sh ai tE 29 m . alp 'bet sdl tar, ring this end. dit• non art:. Sac- stra- ■ sepli /en's a and the :ion. as to ad. o thr was skeet dined Skot 0 id• sin Se at nse the a . hu. a l el sados ter S ► 2100 nr of wh ing Iris In d: floc k orde in err o n, he it Ind g of fit' tee ft g m rte ion nunitio Inseho d • sesse sonnet an tun [ions It se la :ern ft uh ha mst ft tans two s act able Multi fir nd t NEW PRICES F. Lipman -Cohn part of his activities to England. where Sam Bernard. "Al" Jolson, and George Solney, lean Samuel Grt•enfield, whose s in "Welcome Stranger" has l'urk's Theater. the Globe, Adelphi, of London. \\ ben he went down with pl.wed him in the front rank of present Of course, we also the Lusitaitia he was motinits1 by the day comedians. But show uric testses• our hue theatrical world of two contment•. Daniel Entitles:in, the oldest of the the family nn ithuut a blank sheep. the Screen. Frolimati brothers survived the swinger On had acquired most of his ethic, I In the lam dozen rears mot pictures tali as an office boy on d nehValn , l!a, r reached the dignity of alit art— from there lie drifted into the theatri- a high art. \tatty things possible on the screen are absolutely impossible on the c.il world, 1111l. rt . he StIkelilICIltIV -ante manager of half a dorm different stage. So far the screen has not pro- theaters in New York , •-Fifth i\ venue diced a literature of its own to speak Theater. Madison Square, Lyceum. of. It is still in the borrowing stage. Like his brother he was also In this field the Jew is found more , a 1,0,1a,, than as an a d o ," A s ide r manager of theaters iu London. be became manager of the Duke hind. \Viten Charles went down with from Reinhardt, Nazimova, kalisch and the Isissitania. Daniel took over twist of a few others of the great stars, there his brother's numerous theatrical enter - are few Jews acting for the scsreen. . In the last few sears, howeser. Theda prises. in e I fammer. Sam Harris, for years the associate ltara, Al ma R ub en , Ela of George Cohan Inot a Jew I is an- stein, daughter of the famous grand other Jew among the hog figures in the opera impresairo, Carmel 51yers, daub- He was ter of Ralik Isidore Myers of Los American theatrical world. \'era Gordon and a few others i born in New York in 1841 and is pear- \ f -educated. •\ t eleven lie ryas has e made a place for themselves in ticallY • thrown on his own resources. At seven- this field. 4th FLOOR UNIVERSITY BLDG. • teen lie entered into the management of ' Among America's photoplay produe- I Various athletic enterprises. His first ere few names stand out with such 19 Grand River Ave, East efforts for the stage was a comedy en- , prominence as those of William Fox, DETROIT titled "Gay Morning Glories." After h Carl Leammele, Lewis J. Selznick, Mar- i some years he became the joint pro- ens !stew, .Nelolph Ztikor, and Jesse is poster with George M. Cohan of the Lasky. By right the vaudeville stage, too. ( ohan and Ilarris Theater, and of the Bronx h ies Howie, New York. and of should find a place here. But I must I the Co lisn's Grand Opera House. OM leave it for another time. Suffice it to say that the Jews have acquitted them- cag TIffingh not essentially a producer of selves oil it as creditably as nil the dramatic stage and the screen. dramas, Oscar Hammerstein deserves a Ile Was born in Berlin, place here. Germany, in 18-17, and came to the is; Unite d States i n 18(si. His activities for the stage first began to manifest themselves round plays% riling. Before that he had invented a number of labor- saving appliances. He wrote three one-' I Abe W. Flueberg, Mgr. act comedies in German and they o. - ere all produced in New York. Then he I Hastings at Napoleon Cherry 5817 took to the business of managing, first Residence, Northway 6997.R of the theater and then of the grand opera. It was he who built the Harlem • Opera House. Then he became presi- 'h dent of the Hammerstein Opera Com- I ' parry. And if newspaper reports arc correct I we shall soon have another great few- , ish producer in America—Max Rein- " board of Berlin. Reinhard is a man of unusual powers and of very, very high ideals. Let us hope that he will do for ' . the American theater what Hammer- stein has done for the American grand opera. Of course, these are not all the names of the Jews engaged in pro- ' Liming and managing. There are %leg- I field, Woods, Udder, Al !layman, Wil- • liam Ilarris. Marc Klass. . A. H. Er- ' Lin. 235 VanDyke & D. T. 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Corner Lamed and Bates Streets It is the actor who has to put it One block from Electric Depot across the footlights. And in this DETROIT, MICH. extraordinarily difficult fleld Jews are found in large numbers. The "Divine Rates 8ingle—$1.50 to SM. Sarah" has kept the world entranced for half a century. She is still the pride, the darling of the whole cis dized Maloney-Campbell part of the earth. There is hardly a cisilized man or woman in whose Realty Co., Inc. memory her voice does not BLDG. PRESS 604 FREE remarkable her on W110111 linger, General Real Estate, insurance, powers of mind have not had a pro- Choice Homes, Two-Flats, In. found influence. Her extraordinary vestments and Store Property pathos and realism in portraying death PHONE CHERRY 1195. ./ scenes have left a life-long impression on all those who ever saw her, Sli• is a Jewess of Dutch-French parentage, baptized into the Catholic church at twelve years of age. She educated in a convent and to this DETROIT'S EXCLUSIVE HATTER Was day is a devout Catabolic, though she ' 49 6RATIOT AVE. that the reason she works so hard says I COP. LIBRARY AVE. is because she does not believe in any other life and has to crowd her efforts WOULD EXCLUDE JEWS. I in this one. She is also an artist and VI EN NA. —T he anti-Semitic parties sculptor of considerable merit, having have issued a special appeal plead- received honorable mention at a number ing for the expulsion of all Eastern of exhibits in Paris. She claims that Jews and demanding that the she wont,' have contented herself with frontiers be closed against all new- much less renown in any of these fields, as it would have left her work behind COMO'S. A report from Budapest states that her, whereas now she would leave only somS very stormy scenes were wit- a ItIcasant memory. Alla Nazimova brings to the West- nessed in the Town Council during the election of city officers. Deri ern world a wealth lif Orient:11 fire and ' mystic charm. She is a Jewess born in who was vice-Mayor, was not re- elected because lie is a Jew. The Crimea in 1879. The debt America owe: her is for her parts in Ibsen. Ibsen members of the liberal party kit the sitting in disgust. • had been tabooed in England as a "high- brow," a sociologist, a reformer, a philosplter-- everything sale what he JEWS' EXECUTION RE- really is--a master drarnastist of giant PORTED. powers. From England his had reputa- tion was brought to .\ merits. The result PARIS.—A report has been received , was that no actor or producer flared from Odessa stating that the Polshe- I have anything to do with him. Nazi- vtlei recently executed the following mova came to ,America and played lb- on the charge that they were counter- ; sen and packed theaters for weeks on revolutionary and speculators end. She showed us that Komi work Shachars Itzkovitch. Simon, Golden- , , is letter than trash—for in literature . ring, Ehiasburg. Greenberg, Yephin j this alas! leas to be shown. Scher, Groppelinan, Fogel. Snail and PaVInnah, another ktissian Jewess is Pozar. Comfort and Service at HOTEL FRANKLIN YT ITATTER THE LIBERTY RESTAURANT A FAVORITE PLACE FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GOOD FOOD AND MUSIC. 921-923 WOODWARD AVENUE Special Music—Dancing and Entertain- Daily Club Lunch, 11:30 to 2 P. M. Special Marbks. Dancing Floor. Accomo- dating 500 People Sunday Dinner, 11:30 to 8 P. M. ment, 6 to 8 and 10 to 1 Telephone Glendale 6337 JAMES L LOUIE, Manager