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LEWISOHN WILL HEAD
HEBREW SCHOOL STUDENTS WHOSE MASTERY
DRIVE OF ORT FUND
OF JEWISH LORE CREATED WIDE IMPRESSION
Banker Named Honorary Chairman
of Campaign.
NEW YORK. — Adolph Lewisohn,
banker and philanthropist, will be
honorary chairman of the Jewish lie-
construction Fund, which is being
raised under the auspices of the ORT,
during the American campaign, ac-
cording to an announcement made at
the headquarters of the fund in this
city.
At a meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the fund held July 15 the
plan for the campaign was presented.
It includes a series of trips to be made
by representatives of the organization
throughout the United States, in an
effort to interest local Jewish leaders
and to stimulate activity. Dr. !Ivory
Moskowitz, Senator Nathan Straus,
Jr., Berman Bernstein, Dr. Leon
Branson, Pavid Mosessehts Judge
Jacob Panken, F. Rosenblatt, A. E.
Rothstein, Dr. S. Ellsberg, the newly
appointed executive director of the
011T, Abraham Shohan and others
are taking part in the preliminary ac-
Ten girls and five boys received their diplomas from the United Hebrew tivities.
Schools after completing a five-year course. Graduation exercises, presided
over by Naomi Buchhalter, one of the graduates, who spoke in Hebrew
throughout, were held at the Kirby Center, Wednesday evening, July 16. Frances White, in Children'
Addresses were delivered by E. Rabinowitz, president of the United Hebrew
Roles, Features Bill at
Schools; Bernard Isaacs, principal, and Aaron D. Markson, instructor of
Keith's Temple.
the graduating class. At the public examinations, held prior to the com-
mencement, the graduates displayed a knowledge of Hebrew, Bible, Jewish
Frances White, musical comedy
history and Talmud that profoundly impressed the rabbis and well-informed
star, will head the vaudeville at
laymen who were present.
Keith's Temple Theater, beginning
Monday afternoon. Miss White brings
with her a cycle of her own original
songs and dances. in which she im-
personates little folks in rompers,
sandals and a nert pink hair ribbon.
She will sing "Mississippi,' 'the child
song that made her famous. Others
listed for the week include Ted Claire
in "Snappy Bits," with Anton Lada's
Supreme Syncopators; Low Brice,
brother of Fanny Brice, who offers a
medley of songs and steps which he
calls "Stick to Your Dancing;" Ar-
thur Angel and Violet Fuller in "Mu-
sic and Chatter;" Ann Gray, harpist
and vocalist, who taught harp in
Sacred Ileart Convent in New York
By SULAMITH ISH-KISI1OR
and is a niece of Mary Anderson, the
famous actress; Al and Emma Fra.
bell and the Pickfords.
While he was studying at the uni-
Well, Abrahamovitch, it is your
versity, however, his old craving to
turn to read!"
Max Reinhart, producer of "The
AhrahamPwitch started, and looked act came back on hint. Ile would not
Miracle," and recognized the world
at his friend Borissoff, who sat a few act anywhere or anyhow, as before,
over as the boldest innovator in the
but
accepted
only
roles
which'
pleased
seats away.
him, and in the company of actors realm of dramatic art, has returned
"I've forgotten the place!" he whis-
whom he respected for their art. to the stage after 15 years spent in
pered.
There was a large theater in Kharkov, producing some of the most distin-
Borissoff shook his head helplessly.
and another in Odessa, and he went guished stage spectacles of the pres-
He had forgotten it, too.
back and forth, (rem one to the other. ent century.
"Well?" thundered the directsir
the school, who was examining the At last he was invited to go to Mos- VisICIAValfX9MS:WiliSWANIa.Val1N,
cow to act there. That was like being
boys.' •
invited to act in New York! Ile wait-
"You've lost the place again! I ed until he was graduated as a law-
wonder what's yer,—for he had continued his studies
the use of admitting
confounded Jews to high schools?" all this time,—and he went to Mos-
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BORIS BORISSOFF
`The
Shamrock
Pharmacy
The boys sat still and silent for a " w '
He became better and better known
moment, then a roar of indignation
all the time, and soon people began to
went-up from Borissoff.
"Oonfounded yourself! Don't you call him ' The Laugh King," for al-
inSult my people!" though his tragic parts were so won-
silow dare you answer me? Our dello!, there was no one who could
you go!" The director strode to young make people laugh as much as Boris-
Borissoff's desk, seized his books, and soft lie was happy, and composed
scattered' them all over the floor. music and wrote poems, some of which
became very popular; perhaps you
"Out!"
By the end of the same day, Boris- yourself have played hiS "Romance."
We
se had been.dismissed from the high Then the revolution broke out and
ourtrous Service.
Snappy and C ourteous
school, and-his dismissal had been ex. lierisoff came to New York where he
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that
he
would
has
been
singing
and
making
everyone
pressed in such A
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He came sadly home to his father,
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who was a lawyer, well-known and mount atstep in choosing a friend.
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much-respected in the town. When he
explained, his father said:
"Well, Boris,. you may have been
ribt to defend your people, but both
you boys were wrong in not knowing•
your lessons, I 'always told yea that
you spent too much time with your
Would Deny Offices to Jews acting and reciting; it is very nice
to be able to sing and act well as you
And Expel Those Coming
do, but it should not have been allow-
Since Decade Ago.
ed to interfere with your. school-work.
Well, that's done now. s I will try to
NEW 'YORK.— Reports in Ameri- teach yOu at home whatever I can."
can newspapers that have come from
So for several years Boris Borissoff
Berlin concerning the plan of the an- studied at home and went on spending
ti-Semitic Volkisshe extremists of Ba- most of his time at his beloved acting.
varia to revert to medieval practices, He read over the works of his mother's
as far as their treatment of the Jews father, the well-known Jewish writer
is concerned, indicate that the Jews of Eichenbaum, and acted out the parts
Bavaria face a perilous situation. The of the heroes; Ile was a short boy,
program of the extremists exceeds and his plump taco was always ready
anything as yet proposed. in other to smile, so that the friends and ac-
countries dominated by hate for the quaintances of the family loved to
Jews. The Bavarian Legislature has hear him tell jokes and sing funny
before it a hill which would bar all songs, but he also could bring tears to
Jews from holding government offices, their eyes with his tragic acting.
forbid thins to change their names
When he was 16, his father decided
and prevent them from acquiring land. that Boris should learn a profession,
The bill further calls for the expul- and for three years the boy studied
sion of all Jews who settled in the dentistry. At 19 he received his di-
country since 1914 and the confisca- ploma, and was ready to begin prac-
tion of all the property they acquired tice, when his father died. Borisoff
since coming to this country. It also grieved deeply for his father, and the
demands that the number of college whole town grieved with him. But,
students he curtailed and that Jews after the first pain was over, he re-
be ineligible to become high school alized that he had only studied dent-
Goods on Display
Tuesday Evening,
teachers.
istry to please his father; he had no
The Bavariad Nationalist party, wish at all to be a dentist: he wanted
6 to 9 P. M.
while not in entire accord with .the to be an actor. ills mother died when
program of the Volkische party, is in be was sin; so there was on one to
substantial agreement with it as to try and .hold him hack. Ile felt that
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the need for reducing the Jews of Ba- he had a career before hint, and he
varia to a •c-ndition of helplessness. went into acting with all his heart.
The change in the status of the Ba-
He traveled to Poland, and went
varian Jews cannot, however, be ef- about from town to town, acting first
fected without alterations in the Ba- with one company, then with another.
varian constitution and approval by Did they need a tragic actor? Borisoff
the German Reichstag, which is' con- took the part, and made everyone
sidered unlikely.
weep. Did they need a clown? Boris-
1
snff was the clown and everybody
Nero's Long Rule of Tyranny roared with laughter. Or else he
danced, or sang, or told funny stor-
Will Be Portrayed in
ies.
Stadium Pageant.
Within a couple of years he was
well-known, and very popular wher-
Ancient Rome, at "the height of its
ever he went. But, although his am-
glory" under Nero, will be the scene
bition was being satisfied, there was
of a dramatic spectacle to be show
a restlessness and pain in his heart.
at the Grotto Stadium Aug. 2 to 1
Everywhere he went, he saw that the
by the,World Amusement Service A
people of the stage were mean, cruel,
sociation. The life led by the nobles
immoral, selfish. Not the great ar-
and courtiers under the reign of this
tists, of course! He had not yet met
tyrant will he nresented in detail,
any great artists. He had only seen
concluding with the burning of Rome,
the failures and the actors who acted
one of the many acts of the hated
s
simply as an easy and lazy • way
o f
king. A chariot race, in which 20
horses will take part, is another inci- earning a living, who had no ideals
of
art
or
of
behavior.
Borissoff,
son
dent in the life of Rome which will
of such good parents. never smoked
be executed.
Nero became King of Rome at the or drank or did anything that would
age of Ifs after being tutored for his have made his father ashamed of him.
position by the greatest teachers of He grew disgusted with the life he
the day. Ile had the "artistic tem- saw about him, and decided to give it
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Declares Excessive Taxation
The men who have declared them• interests are conducted, efficiently,
Is Menace and Urges
selves in favor of immediate reduc- with real economy and 'with a deter.:
Retrenchment.
tion of taxes are not prompted merely mination to keep down expenses to a
"High taxes, taxes that are not jus-
tified, taxes that tend to make it ditli-
cult, if not impossible, fur those taxed
to pay, constitute a warning that
something is wrong with the entire
system of government."
Thus recently declared Hal H.
Smith, candidate for nomination on
the Republican ticket for United
States senator. Ile echoed the words
of President Coolidge. Mr. Smith,
with other lenders of his party, has
pledged himself to the reduction of
taxes.
The man whose property is taxed
unjustly," lidded Mr. Smith, "feels
that he is not secure in his property
rights whether that property is but
a little cottage in a tiny village or the
largest plant in a metropolis. It is
failure of the constitutional guaran-
by a desire to secure votes but their minimum for such services as are re-
stand is taken because they know the quire,d for the proper functioning of
dangers that lie ahead for any nation govermental activities."
whose citizenship is unjustly taxed.
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Britain, was the down-fall of untold
Series of Light Operas.
kingilems and governthents, and con-
tinued unjust taxation would indicate
"The Mikado," the famous Gilbert
that America, as a government, is, a
and Sullivan light opera, will open a
failure.
"Taxes can and shall be reduced. week's run at Orchestra Hall next
It is the greatest problem facing the Monday evenitig. It will be present-
nation and once it is solved many ed by the Ideal Opera Company, an
other problems will right themselves. organization composed of Detroit
President Coolidge has said he is for racists under the management and.
economy, and after that he is for directorshpi of M. Victor Reynolds,
more economy. Ile believes that is a showman of many years' experi-
his greatest service td the people. ence. It is promised that ''The Mi-
Economy in goVernment expenditures kado" will be the first of a series of
mean lower taxes. I, therefore, am similar presentations at Orchestra
also firmly in favor of governmental Hall, including several more by the
retrenchment. Governments today two gifted Englishmen.
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perament," studied music, painting,
sculpture and poetry and soon forgot
the stern upbringing he had received
and led a life of pleasure and selfish-
ness. He sent his mother and wife.
in exile because they refused to obey
him. The stories that centered about
Nero will be portrayed in the pageant
which will reproduce the days of
2,000 years ago for the people of
Detroit.
up A craving for learning came over
him now. Ile could not go to high
school, but he could go to the univer-
sity if he could pass the examination.
He bought all the necessary books,
mathematics, history, science, lan-
guages, and practically shut himself
up in his room for many months, to
study. He would not act nor go out
visiting; he was busy. And in eleven
months he had learned all the work
The fourth annual convention of which he had missed in high school—
the Federation of Young Judaea of five years' work. He took the exami-
Canada was held in Montreal June 28 nations, passed brilliantly and was ad-
to 30.
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