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Florence Reed: A 1Confession of Judaism
By CHARLES D. ISAACSON.
I must describe one of the most re- I was living in the pale. My father
markable situations I have ever be- was ill in another city. The shock
held, in which the characters were of the news killed my mother. I had
Florence Reed, famous emotional act- to get to him. liut being a Jewess
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ress; Michael Morton, playwright; A. I couldn't leave the pale. I was told
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II. Woods, theatrical producer, Edgar that only the yellow ticket would get
Selwyn, author and manager; myself, me out. I applied for it. I didn't
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an audience of 2,500 amazed listen- know what it mean. I was told to
sign, and the police officers laughed.
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Let me try to reconstruct the scene I said I'd sign, gladly—I had to get
as it happened—so vivid is it in my to my father. They asked did I know
what I was signing. I read it, I didn't
memory.
I had invited Florence Reed to ap- understand it—I asked them to ex-
pear at my Educational Literary plain. Coarse, in the language men
Series, where I am attempting to Use with men, they told me. I was
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carry on a missionary effort in behalf never the same since that time. But
of books and plays, similar to that I signed. I had to get to my father.
which I have been doing for years in My . people mourned me for dead--
behalf of good music.. . At these lit candles,—but 1 did get to my
meetings we have heard Frank Reich- father, and he died giving me his
non. Glendale 4121
91.109 Soldon Avenu•
t r do "Hamlet" and have met Shake- blessing. Since then the police have
speare, George Sand, Francois Villon, been hounding me. They won't let
Charles Dickens, James Whitcomb me be a good woman, they want me
Riley, "Face to Face ;" Louis Mann, to live up to the letter of the yellow
I'hillip Moeller, S. Jay Kaufmann ticket."
I have not given the exact speech
have discussed plays and players;
Walter Pritchard Eaton, Margaret --only the context of it, as I remem-
Widdemer, Mrs. Joyce Kilmer, liar- ber it. Weeping, the actress bowed
'
riet Weems have read from their own to the audience, who madly recalled
and other poetry and have presented her. Iler eyes streaming, she went
e) bits from Dickens, Riley, Villon, Sand to the footlights and raised her hand.
Heart Confession.
I mention this to
and others. ..
"That is the speech in the play;
show you what the audience was
there for, and how unexpectedly and you have heard what Mr. Morton has
told you, but there's something he
dramatically came the confession.
doesn't know, something that only
"The Yellow Ticket."
Some years ago I had gone to the one or two people know .. .. and
theater to ace Michael Morton's play, I'm going to tell it to the world to-
"The Yellow Ticket." I had been day. Now. The confession of myn
thrilled, and the chiefest thrill, even heart!"
It was unexpected. The house went
including the splendid drama, was
the acting of Florence Reed. From still as death. It was more dramatic
that time forward she was a promi- than any play. It was life—some-
sent figure in my estimate of the thing vital which was to be enacted.
American stage, and I have always I eat cold on the stage; I am sure I.
placed her among the greatest emo- turned pale. Miss Reed was pale—
tional interpreters of our day. Since her beautiful, mobile face was white,
that time, I have seen her in other her eyes staring hard—her body
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plays, some good and some very bad,, rigid, her expressive hands raised
but always she has been a sincere aloft. Morton was trembling. I saw
portrayer of character. Through her the audience. They were open-
love for music and her own uncom- mouthed and mute.
"I am going to confess something.
mon ability as a pianist, we have be-
• I was in the hospital when I
come warm friends, and it has been
refreshing and enlightening to hear decided to play the role in "The Yel-
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' her views on current art. She has low Ticket." Before that I was re-
been a "rooter" for our Globe con- hearsing in "Under Cover" with the
certs, going out of her way to make Selwyns. Mr. Woods was in the the-'
, friends and supporters for our ef- ater every day, telling me he had the
forts, and has been one of the most greatest part for me—something
"Built of the
enthusiastic applauders when she has which would make me famous. I
come to the concerts. I have had but told him to go away, that I was un-
to ask Miss Reed to do this, that or der contract and contented, and I
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it at all, she has been more than But he insisted. And I told him I
wouldn't listen. Then I was taken
willing.
Hence, when I asked her to appear dangerously ill. I was rushed to the
Library
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she
hospital,
for a serious surgical oper-
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in behalf of the
Power, Beauty, Economy, Comfort
graciously accepted, and was instru- ation. The morning after my opera-
mental in inducing Michael Morton, tion, I was lying in a daze, when Mr.
5911 Woodward Ave. Tel. Glendale 7118 here in this country for a brief period Woods walked in and said 'I've
(he is staging his own "In the Night bought you from Selwyns, here's the
Watch" and "Woman to Woman") to contract for "The Yellow Ticket,"
and he read me the speech I've just
appear.
I said: 'I'll sign
I mention thes efacts to show you done for you.
JAS. H. FOSTER
how surprised I was—how bewil- the contract.' Weak and still ill, I
tiered the audience became—when went to rehearsal. The operating
the bomb was fired. doctors had done come things they •
The ball of the Boys iligh School shouldn't have done and I was para-
in Brooklyn was crowded to the lyzed from the hip to the toes on the
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doors, with hundreds standing. The left side. I played the first six months
Lincoln Society (with whom the with a brace."
"My God!" ejaculated Morton, "I
Globe is co-operating in this plan)
20 mile' to gallon of gas
with its 300 idealistic young men and didn't know that."
"I wanted you to know it—wanted
Instead of 10.
women were in their accustomed
12,500 miles to set of tires in
seats. The musical program had been you to know how much it meant to
stead of 10,000
completed, the poems of Riley had me. .. But there's something else
been recited by the little Sarah Bern- much more important....... Listen.
50°. Blower Depreciation
hardt, Aida Armand, I had given my Born a Jewess.
In
"I was born a Jewess. You didn't
"Face to Face with Riley." ..
W. J. DOUGHTY, 3745 Cass. Tel. Glendale 4669. Tel, Glendale 5585.
expectancy the audience awaited know that. I was. My mother was
Jewish. My father was a great actor
their big star, Florence Reed.
—he created Koko in "The Mikado"
Mr. Morton Speaks.
In my very best manner, I intro- in this country. He was a famous
But listen."
duced Michael Morton, as one of the artist... .
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' most disinguished playwrights in the The actress was herself now, she
English-speaking world. Mr. Morton, was breathing heavily, supporting
who is evidently of Hebraic persua- herself at a chair.
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"I lived in the Jewish rites until I
aion, came upon the stage and de-
livered a masterful speech. Ile told was 16, going to synagogue, observ-
E•st Grand Boule vard at Oakland.
how "The Yellow Ticket" came to ing our holidays, following the kosh-
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, be written. Ile mentioned a publi- er diet. . At 16 I went on the
cation "In Darkest Russia" which was stage, and came under certain influ-
edited by a fearless gentleman, de- cares and was converted to Catholi;
spite the censors, who evidently "got cism. For several years, I was Catho-
him." Mr. Morton declared that he lie.
"When the part in "The Yellow
was intensely interested in Russian
atrairs--this was some 18 years ago. Ticket" came to me, I was nothing.
In the course of scanning the col- I was in a maze, with nothing ethical,
umns of "Darkest Russia" he came religious, spiritual to guide me. I was
upon the account of the yelow ticket unable to pray to any spirit. ..
and its uses. . .. The Jews were I was wandering, lost! Then came
permitted no liberty except within this play. I went into the part, with
their own pale of the settlement.' a fury, played it as if it were my
They might not go from town to life. Girls came back to my dressing
town. Especially not the Jewish room, Jewish girls, and showed me
girls and women. Unless they carried the yellow ticket,—the real one. I
a yellow ticket. realized the suffering of the Jewish
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This was the most liberal kind of race. I realized what was in them.
passport—with it one might go from Something else, I began to real-
any city to any city. But the yellow ize what I was.
"I knew that I was Jewish. Once
ticket was given only to the public
prostitutes, the women of the streets. a Jew, always a Jew. I felt my heart
To these venders of vice, freedom of crying in me. I returned to what I
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movement was accorded. Thus many was. I became a Jewess again, I
Jenish women, in order to free them- had never been anything else, except
selves from the tortures of the pale, what I imagined.
"That's what "The Yellow Ticket"
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order to procure the badge of liberty did for me. It made me happy,
and of shame... ... When he read showed me the light, pointed the God
about these conditions Mr Morton in heaven, the God of my forefathers.
Yes, that's what I wanted to
, couldn't believe that they were true.
But investigation brought out the say."
Weakly she bowed her way from
facts that the real affairs were worse
than anyone might put in print or the stage. There was nothing theatri-
public speech. Thinking in his own ea now. It was a real soul that had
idiom, the stage, Mr. Morton was spoken.—American Hebrew,
moved to transcribe a play which
would arouse the English-speaking
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nations to the outrage on decency
and morality. Thus came "The Yel-
low Ticket."
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NEV YORK.—Ilene Zoltner, a
Signs Contract.
In America, the commercial man- lower East Side Jewish youth of 15,
ager, A. H. Woods, a Russian Jew, is a Jewish pioneer in the realms of
read it and signed a contract, saying: cycling.
sh O
thnat Awporuilld 1 hav
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duce that play for a protest against successfully completed a 100-mile bi-
cycle run through Long Island con-
the Russian-Jewish catastrophe."
The play was produced, It made a ducted under the auspices of the Cen-
great success, and the greatest ale- tury Road Club of America. In ad-
meat, said Mr. Morton, in that suc- dition to battling a field of sturdy
Florence Reed, who came competitors, inclement weather and
. from a sick-bed to play it, and did it slippery pavements, young Henry
as if it meant her life. ..
.. Shortly . was indisposed physically.
But in
afterwards, the yellow ticket itself sPite of tbhu;sde
went out of existence. The play had bore his
enhaannddicaup•ass hoenestoo ifeatihlye
I done its work.
five that were capable of finishing
At this point, Mr. Morton turned the distance required in order to ob-
to an analysis of the play, and led fain a medal.
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DR. BERKOWITZ RESIGNS
PHILADELPHIA PULPIT
the Rodeph Shalom Congregation for
thirty years.
Before coming to this city Dr. Et-
telson, the newly elected rabbi, was
III Health Compels Retirement After for almost eight years rabbi of the
NEW YORK.—Before sailing for
leading congregation at Hartford,
29 Years of Service; Rabbi
Europe, Samuel Untermyer, who
Conn., and also filled a similar posi-
Ettelson His Successor.
heads the American Board of Trus-
tion in Fort Wayne, Ind.
tees of the "Reren Ilayesod", paid a
remarkable tribute to Dr. Chaim
PHILADELPHIA.— At the last
Weizmann, President of the World
meeting of the board of directors of
Zionist Organization, in a letter
the Rodeph Shalom Congregation, a
which he addressed to Judge Bernard
letter was received from the Rev. Dr.
A. Rosenblatt, member of the Admin-
Ilenry Berkowitz announcing his re-
istrative Committee of the Zionist Or-
tirement as Rabbi of the congregation
JERUSALEM.—General Gouraud,
ganization of America.
this action having been recommended the French High Commissioner of
Declaring that he was most anxi-
by his physicians owing to the deli- Syria, was attacked near Deraa on
ous to avail himself of the opportun-
cate state of his health. It was with the road to Tiberias while making e.
ity to participate in the "Deserved
deepest regret that his resignation trip by auto Palestine to return Si,
Tribute" to Dr. Weizmann for whom,
was accepted by the board, to take Herbert Samuel's recent visit to him
he declared, he has "unbounded ad-
effect October 1, 1921.
in Beirut. Bedouins sh u t at the
miration and respect", Mr. Untermy-
At the same meeting Associate speeding auto from afar and wound-
er wrote:—
Rabbi Harry W. Ettelson, who has ed the governor of Damascus, .vho
"lie is a born eader of men and
efficiently performed the many func- accompanied Gouraud. One of the
ranks in my judgement as the fore-
tions devolving upon h•m during the bullets passed through the general's
most Jew of our time His courage
absence of the senior fabbi, was un- Sleeve.
and self-sacrificing spirit in the cause
animously selected as rabbi to fill the
On being informed that the whole
are an inspiration to the cause and to
vacancy caused by the retirement of road was infested with Arab bandits,
our race. My great fear is that by
Dr. Berkowitz, this action to be con- lying in wait for him, Gouraud re-
giving so much of his apparenty in-
firmed by the congregation at its an- turned immediately to Damascus.
exhaustible energy to a cause that, is
nual meeting in the fall.
so dear, we may lose him when we
The announcement of his resigna-
have most need of his splendid talents
tion
was made to the congregation by
and inexhaustible enthusiasm."
"Dr. Weizmann's visit to this coun- Dr. Berkowitz after he had finished
giving the blessing to the confirmants
try has been productive of gratify-
ing results", was the announcement Ile announced that he asked the
made at the meeting by the United board to be relieved of his duties as
RIGA. — Soviet authorities an-
States Bureau of the Keren Hayesod. active rabbi and that his resignation nounce that during the last six
"In less than three months, five mil- was to take effect in October. This months 125 carloads of food, clothing
lion dollars have been pledged by action was taken, he said, after ear- and medicine sent by the Jews of
Jews in this country towards the nest deliberation and on the advice of the United States and Canadia have
Hundred Million Dollar Fund, which his physicians. Dr. Berkowitz spoke been distributed in Russia and the
the World Zionist Organization is en- freelingly of the beautiful relation- Ukraine, 125 additional carloads hav-
deavoring to raise in five years for ship which had existed between him ing arrived in Baltic ports.
constructive work in l'alestine. Dr. and the congregation for upward of
Weizmann is expected to take with twenty-nine years. Ile expressed his
him $500,000 in cash, with which the deep appreciation for their affection
World Zionist Organization will and considerateness shown him by
found a Mortgage Bank in Palestine the officers and members throughout
and finance the beginning of a great hiss illness and the period of enforced
absence, and paid a warm tribute to CENTRALLY L 0 C A TED — Near
irrigation scheme. In addition, the
Jewish physicians in this country are Dr. Ettelson for his work with the
congregation. Dr. Berkowitz gave Woodward
avenue;
nice private
furnished
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bath,
en-
9 & private
collecting one million dollars for the
trance. Reference required. North-
Medical Department of the proposed assurance that his love for and inter-
est in the congregation would contin-
way 95.
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Among the messages to the meet- ue and that he hoped to be able, even
ing was one from Mayor Moore of though living in Atlantic City, to keep FOR SALE — Seven-room mode—
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Philadelphia who sent a letter with the personal ties unbroken.
Dr. Berkowitz was born in Pitts-
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Mr. M. Levy and other Philadelphians
He was the
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"greatly interested in the success of burg, March 18, 1857.
the Zionist Movement and of whom fourth of seven children. He was
TWO young business men desire LAT,
are admirers of Dr. Weizmann", and graduated from the Pittsburg Central
rooms; private family. Must be 1n,•
in which the Mayor expressed "appre- High School in 1872, and attended
fashionable section of city. Can
ciation and good will" towards the Cornell University from 1872 to
furnish beet references. Phone
1873.
Ile
then
entered
a
law
office
in
Zionist leader.
Silverman, Cadillac 680.
The Independent Order Brith Sho- l'ittsburg, but when the Hebrew Un-
ion
College
at
Cincinnati was opened A PHARMACY STUDENT desires
lom telegraphed its assurance of
he enrolled as a student. Ile was
position in drug store. Will work
hearty support of the Keren Ilayesod
graduated from the University of
and the upbuilding in Palestine.
all day in summer and after school
Cincinnati in 1881 and as a rabbi at
in winter. Box 784.
Greetings from Keren Ilayesod
the Hebrew Union College in 1883.
Committees in Philadelphia, Worces-
lie acquired his degree of doctor in FURNISHED ROOM for gentleman,
ter, I'ittsburgh, Cleveland and Bos-
1887. His first pulpit was in Mobile,
northwest section, near Hamiton.
ton were also read. The Young Is-
Ala., in 1889. In 1888 he went to
Garage if desired. 1477 Bailie
rael Synagogue of 229 E. Broadway,
B'nai Jehuda, Kansas City, Mn., and
avenue.
announced that their members had
he has ministered to the Rodeph She!
pledged to raise ten thousand dollars
em Congregation in Philadelphia INTELLIGENT PERSON wanted by
for the Keren Ilayesod.
since Dec. 2, 1892. Dr. Berkowitz
first class Jewish institution for
has been for years a member of the
soiciting and collecting. Excellent
board of governors of the Hebrew
proposition. 665 Wilkins.
FIRE RAZES TO GROUND
Union College and was one of the
2 PALESTINE COLONIES founders and first secretary of the YOUNG MAN wants furnished room
in a refined Jewish home; Jeffers
Central Conference of ' American
son avenue preferred. Box No. 650,
JERUSALEM. — Delayed reports Rabbis. in 1893 Dr. Berkowitz found-
Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
in ed the Jewish Cautanona Society.
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