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VERA GORDON GETS
HER KNEIDLACH AND
DINES ON PASSOVER
How Jewish Actress Accepted Inuit..
lion of Wisconsin Governor to
Dinner and Upheld Traditions.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Mothers are the dominant figures
of the day, and the "Mother of the
Movies" is the heroine of the hour.
Vera Gordon, the most "natural"
mother, is the topic of discussion
wherever theater-goers are, and in
the Jewish circles in particular, the
woman who made the mother role
dominate the movies is receiving a
"Boruch Ilaboh."
Officially, Mrs. Gordon is appear.
ing at the Broadway-Strand Theater
in her movie, "Your Best Friend."
But unofficially she is the guest of
Detroit Jews. And the bargain is
proving a mutual one. For Mrs. Gor-
don's talks are enjoyed by her audi-
ences, and the honors that her hear-
era shower upon her appear to be
appreciated.
The Men's Temple Club was the
first body of local Jews to hear her
and these "Republican" Jews—the
Mother of the Movies has coined this
name for the Reform Jews—will long
remember Vera Gordon.
Loves Traditions.
Let Fatima smokers
tell you
half of her earnings for charity. She
has adopted 25 orphans in New York
and supports them all.
In her suite at the Wolverine Hotel
Mrs. Gordon produced a picture of
her aged mother and her grand-
mother, who died recently at the age
of 86, and she pointed to it with pride
as an example of a beautiful family
in real life, loving and worshipping
the mother.
Mrs. Gordon's appearance in De-
troit was marked by a family re-
union. Her husband, Nahum, and
son, William, a big fellow of 17 who
plans to enter Columbia University
next semester, came from New York
to spend two weeks with wife and
mother. The daughter, Nadya, al-
ways travels with her mother.
The son spoke with pride of his
mother. "My mother wants pictures
to be a force for education," he said,
and his mother nodded consent.
Mrs. Gordon is to appear at the
Broadway-Strand Theater for an-
other week beginning Sunday, and
during her stay here will be enter-
tained by numerous Jewish societies.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Shaarey
Zedek, the local B'nai B'rith lodge
and other organizations were for-
tunate to secure Mrs. Gordon as
speaker.
FATIMA
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR
SYMPHONY REPORTED
MOST ENCOURAGING
This time she spoke not of the
mother role, nor of the movies, but
The condition of the subscription
of the people she likes beat—her own for next year's symphony concerts is,
people. She spoke of her people's to say the least, most encouraging to
traditions—and "love" was the term the supporters and friends of the
she used in expressing the way she Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
felt for her nation's customs and
The formal prospectuses for the
"minhagim."
season were mailed only the past
Vera Gordon was speaking of Mat- week and up to last Saturday and
zoth on Pesach and fasting on Yom Sunday, owing to delays which ine-
Kippur—and she won her point. Her vitably followed on the change of
children will be "Republicans"— management, no definite announce-
surely; they will be good Americans ment had been made of the plans
—undoubtedly. But they must never- for next year other than the fact
theless remain good Jews; they must that there would be 14 pairs of con-
deep down in their hearts retain the certs and a brief announcement some
spark of Jewishness that has kept the weeks ago of a preliminary list of
people alive.
soloists. Despite this, renewals of
It was a smoker that the men of subscriptions for the Thursday even-
the Temple were gathered for, and ing concerts total to (late about 80
for entertainment was Mrs. Gordon per cent of the subscription of last
called for. But combined with the year, which is an extraordinary high
entertainment a Jewish actress average for the spring and one which
preached her religion and her sin- tills the directors of the orchestra
cerity won her converts.
with much hope for next season.
"A Big Subject."
The list of soloists for next year,
"I'll starve for a day, I'll starve which has already been published,
for two days, but Matzoth on Pesach seems to meet with very general ap-
I must have." And evidently Mrs. proval, especially the fact that the
Gordon gets her Matzoth on Pesach, management has avoided a feature
because she is, in her own words, "a I which came under such general criti-
big subject." (Her plumpness, how- cum the past winter—an over-per-
ever, doesn't seem to worry her a centage of pianists. As already an-
bit.)
nounced, only three so far have been
"I was on the road during the en- engaged for the coming seasons, and
tire eight days of the last Pesach," they are three very great artists-
she was saying, "and I got my Mat- Rachmaninolf, Samara' and our own
zoth. When I couldn't get my Mat- Gabrilowitsch. There will probably
zoth, I lived on eggs—hard boiled be one more added to this list later
eggs. And my daughter has no ob- in the Re118011.
jections to hard boiled eggs, either—
A most interesting development
on Pesach."
during the past week has been the
Mrs. Gordon believes in proving confirmation of the coming to De-
everything she says. So she asked troit next winter of Bruno Walter,
her daughter to show herself, and who will conduct, as guest conductor,
pretty 16-year-old Nadya was there one pair of concerts. lie comes to
as a confirmer of her mother's state- this country directly on invitation of
ment that not only (lid she eat eggs Walter Damrosch of New York and
when there were no Matzoth, but that for him is to conduct in New York
they didn't hurt her a bit. She took three concerts of the New York Sym-
after her mother.
phony Society. Ile has also been
That wasn't all Mrs. Gordon had engaged to conduct certain concerts
to say about Matzoth. For Matzoth of the Minneapolis orchestra. Mr.
she was ready to give up honors, so Gabrilowitsch, who has long been a
when the governor of Wisconsin ex- friend and admirer of Walter, is in
tended her an invitation to dinner on the main responsible for his coming
Passover—but let Mrs. Gordon tell to America. Bruno Walter is one of
her own story.
the great conductors of Europe. Ile
She Gets Her Kneidlach.
is of a younger generation than that
"What do I do? I refuse! He may race of giants which counted such
be the governor of a state, but I am men as Nikisch, Mottl, Richter, Levi,
just Vera Gordon, and I must have Mahler, Muck and Weingartner, of
my Matzoth on Pesach. So what do which all except the last two named
they do? There is a very fine Jewish have been gathered to their fathers,
family In Madison, Wisconsin, by the and he is in a sense a direct descen-
name of Sinaiko. So they managed dant, professionally speaking, of Gus-
to get Kosher dishes and a good tav Mahler. lie first came into pub-
Kosher Pesach meal—and Vera Gor- lic view when he went to the Royal
don ate with the governor.
Opera in Vienna as one of the young
"There were some Jewish women conductors under Mahler and in 1901
at the dinner with me who ate Cho- became one of the first conductors of
metz. I had kneidlach and the best that institution. Ile left Vienna in
of Passover maacholim. Now, I ask 1914 to succeed Mottl as conductor
you, who was better off, those ladies and intendant of the Court Opera in
with the dried bread, or I with the Munich: This post he resigned last
kneidlach?"
winter.
Equally as important in her re-
Ile was born in Berlin in 1876 and
gard, says Mrs. Gordon, is her Yahr- went into the theater almost imme-
zeit and Yiskor and the fasting on diately after he left the conservatory.
Yom Kippur. She follows these tra- Before going to Vienna he was con-
ditions religiously and, it may be for ductor in the Opera of Cologne, Ham-
this reason, she is worshipped by the brug, Breslau, Presburg, Riga and
Jews. Wherever she goes she is given Berlin. While in Vienna he was one
a royal reception. B'nai B'rith lodges of the conductors of the famous Phil-
in Seattle and Winnipeg have made harmonic Orchestra of that city. lie
her honorary member. Jewish wom- is best known, however, to traveled
en's societies have showered honors American music lovers in Salzburg
upon her and members of both sexes and in Munich as conductor and di-
have flocked to the theaters to see rector of Mozart's Festival. Alto-
her pictures.
gether his coming to Detroit next
"Humoresque" "Made" Her.
winter will be an event of most ex-
Mrs. Gordon is best remembered as traordinary interest.
the mother in "Humoresque." Al-
though she has been on the Yiddish
and English stage for a number of GIVES INTERESTING TALK
ON THE JEWISH MOTHER'
years prior to that, this picture
"made" her. And now she is the
greatest mother of the screen. Mrs.
Included in the various celebra-
Gordon told several local newspaper- tions by the Department of Recrea-
men that she owes her success to tion on the observance of Mothers
Fannie Hurst. The well known au- and Daughters' Week, was an un-
thoress interceded for her with stage usual program at the Trowbrgde
managers and Mrs. Gordon thus was School, Forest and St. Antoine
given the chance of "proving her- streets, Tuesday evening, May 9.
self." Mrs. Gordon also appeared in
In addition to an excellent musical
two other movies, "The North Wind's program, Miss Mary Caplan, educa-
Malice" and "The Greatest Love."
tional director of the Jewish Insti-
In "The Greatest Love" Mrs. Gor- tute, delivered an inspiring and il-
don acted the Italian mother and luminating talk on "The Jewish
there proved her worth not only as Mother."
a Jewish mother, but as an interna-
She said in part: "Jewish custom
tional parent. An Italian church in bids the Jewish mother, after her
New York lights a candle for her preparations for the Sabbath have
every Sunday in appreciation of the been completed on Friday evening, to
manner in which she portrays the kindle the Sabbath lamp. That is
mother-role.
symbolic of the Jewish woman's in-
And Vera Gordon doesn't dis- fluence on her own home and, through
criminate. She likes oppressed na- it, upon larger circles. She is the in-
tionalities. "If I only wouldn't be spirer of a pure, chaste, family life
afraid to express my opinion, I'd nay whose hallowing influences are in-
I like niggers. But I am afraid," she calculable; she is the center of all
said.
spiritual endeavors, the confidante
Mrs. Gordon doesn't use rouge and and fosterer of every undertaking.
has never been a paint addict She To her, the Talmudic sentence ap-
makes the appearance of a sedate plies: 'It is woman alone through
matron. Her hair is combed straight whom God's blessings are vouchsafed
back and her dress is plain and neat. to a house.'"
"I am just plain myself," she says,
"that's all."
MAKES CITIZENSHIP EASY
Believes I. Charity.
REVAL.--(J. C. B.)—Residents of
Added to all her qualities, Mrs. Esthonia since Nov. 26, 1913, will
Gordon is a great believer in ehhrn, sutomatically become citizens if the
Charles Schwab, her manager, says bill ;ntroduced by the government in
that Mrs. Gordon gives up more than Parlia(nent becomes a law.
CIGARETTES
Always higher I. price Mae
also Tarkssh Blood cigarrites bat —
just taste the difference/
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SOVIETS CATALOGUE
BANDIT MASSACRES
Russian Delegation at Genoa
Presents Claim for Jewish
Sufferers.
GENOA.—(J. T. A.)—The claim
for reparation in behalf of the Jew-
ish communities and individuals who
suffered at the hands of the various
leaders of the insurrectionary' bands
to be presented to the conference by
the Soviet delegation will include the
names of 300 places in the Province
of Kiev alone that have been peg-
rommed, members of the delegation
inform the J. T. A.
The catalogue of murder, rape and
plunder includes exhibits showing
that there were 200,000 so-called
"direct" victims of the pogroms,
mostly aged people, women and chil-
dren. In some of the towns the pog-
roms were repeated as many as 20
times, none being visited under three
times. In many places not a single
woman was spared, while hundreds
of persons were burned alive or had
their heads and limbs severed. In-
stances of towns that were razed to
the ground are cited and the grue-
some scenes of the massacres are
fully described.
The statement will show that the
number of "double" orphans is 40,-
000, which is exceeded by the large
army of "single" orphans.
Fleeing these massacres, the refu-
gees succumbed to epidemics, the ac-
tual number of Jews dying in this
way being greater than the victims
of the actual outrages, the reports
show.
Continuing, the report recalls that
500,000 Jews fell at the hands of
Petlura and his band in the Province
of Wohlynia, and that 400,000 refu-
gees died of cholera and typhus epi-
demics.
• • •
per cent of the German delegation to
the Genoa conference is disproved by
reference to the list, showing that
there are six Jewish experts and not
12. The Jewish experts are: Kremer,
editor of the Vossische Zeitung;
Bernhard, a contributor to the Voss-
ische ; Professor Bonn, Professor
Deutsch, ex-Minister Cugenheimer
and Director Goldschmidt. There are
three other experts of Jewish origin:
Professor Wolff, Schwarz and Gagers.
HARDING DISAPPROVES KLAN
MEDFORD, Ore.— (J. T. A.)--Fol-
lowing a recent declaration here by
a speaker describing himself as a rep-
resentative of the Ku Klux Klan,
"that President Harding was friendly
to the organization," Mrs. Frank L.
Applegate of Medford recently wrote
to the President asking concerning
the truth of this statement.
Mrs. Applegate said she received
a reply from George P. Christian,
NOT AS MANY EXPERTS
secretary to the President, stating
AS THEY THOUGHT
that the President "heartily disap-
GENOA.—(J. C. B.)—The allega- proved of the organization and has
tion in the German Reichstag recent- repeatedly expressed himself to this
ly that Jewish members constitute 33 effect."
An
Understandable
Statement
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FEDERAL
RESERVE
BANK
At the Close of Business May 5, 1922.
I.—Cash
(Gold, Bank Notes and Specie) and with legal de-
positories returnable on demand.
II.—Checks on Other Banks
1,257,141.26
149,077.42
These checks are payable in one day.
III.—Loans to Individuals and Corporations
6,896,765.50
IV.—Mortgages on Real Estate, and Bonds
4,272,629.65
This is the amount we have loaned (after a thorough
investigation) to individuals and corporations on
their notes and against approved collateral.
These are salable securities issued by the U. S. mu.
nicipalities and other corporations of first quality;
also first mortgages on high class real estate.
V.—Stock in Federal Reserve Bank
VI.—United States Securities
45,000.00
309,393.75
VII.—Branch Banking Houses and Furniture
and Fixtures
478,516.92
This includes U. S. Government Bonds, War Savings
Certificates, Revenue Stamps and United States Cer-
tificates of Indebtedness.
Thirteen of these branches, all located in the city of
Detroit.
VIII.—Other U. S. Government Securities
569,050.00
Left with us for safekeeping.
Total Assets
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Deposits Entrusted to us May 5,
1922
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Bills Payable and Rediscounts
450,000.00
Other U. S. Government Securi-
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fund upon which we solicit new deposits and retain
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