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COLONY IN CRIMEA VIENNA.—(J.
environment, accustomed as he is
T. A.)—The 10-1 (Continued
Page One.)
NOW ON
DISPLAY
from
to the lonely, vast reaches of the
year sentence imposed by the Inns-'
bruck court upon the Jewish stu- ! Anna Leipah, Frieda Wolf, Evelyn desert sands.
i covered with sweat,
Bessie
Kaftan,
Edith
latt,
att,
herald,
dent
Philip
Halsmann
on
the
Blatt,
A
A uera.t.,
that the other visitors in Russia
conies running in, announcing the
seemed to overlook?" he suggest- charge of patricide was annulled Fischer.
by
the
higher
court
in
Vienna,
Boys
of
lIlizpith
will
be
Irving
approach
of Jephthah's army
ed. "The pioneer women and chil-
dren of these new Jewish colonies which reviewed the case here. De- ' Isaacs, Robert Braun, Eugene bound homewards. At once a bus-
spite
the
request
of
the
defense
Kraft,
Isadore
Stein,
Aaron
Su-
tie
of
preparation
ensues; the
that have been building up rapidly
house is decorated with garlands
me t e ,
during the past few years are play- that the revision of the trial take
Soldiers
of
Jephthah
will
be
and
flowers,
and
Sheilah
and her.
ing a dramatic and romantic part place in Vienna instead of Inns-
bruck, re-trial was ordered in Inns- David Cohen, Harold Kopel, Mil. friends prepare to receive the con-
in this renaiasance to the soil. If
cour
e
r
gh
t,
it
being
ton
Fischer,
Julian
Cohen,
Isadore
quering
heroes
with
song
and
you have the courage, and I be- bruck by the hi
the custom that the court holding pf,,tr or , Allan Sumetz, Samuel dance. Soon Jephthah, Gilead, his
lieve you have, why don't you live
the previous trial review the case. Ilarwith, Theodore Soretzski, father, and Aniiel appear, followed
with these people—work with them
Anti-Semitic prejudice among Louis Rosenbloom, Herbert Fort- by the troop that had just won
on the soil, put up with their hard-
the jury in the court of Innsbruck, gang, Oscar Colter), Morris She- victory over the Ammonites.
ships, suffer with them—and then
of
On the thres o
a city known as a nest of anti- vitz.
t hat
II have a .
you
house his daughter suddenly comes
Jewish prejudice, as It is one of
Synopsis of Play.
the hearts of the men and women
est,
the strongest Ilakenkreuzler cen-
A synopsis of Mr. Isaacs' play, into view, attired in her
of America."
tern in Austria, was one of the which is being staged by Morris smiling and ready to extend a cur-
As he paced up and down the grounds presented by the defense W. Kirsh, follows: dial welcome to her father. The
The drama opens in the nomad old warrior halts in his tracks and
floor, trying to inspire me to do in asking that the higher court re-
camp of Jephthah, a Hebrew out- with a shriek of despair puts an
an unusual piece of work, I saw view Philip Halsmann's case.
ISW expatriated by his household abrupt stop to all the joyful pro-
the humanist in him, the man who
loved all men as brothers, pleading
for the world to know this story efforts were helping make possible in Gilead, and forced to wander ceeding'•
Sheilah, too, remembers the oath
hi s in the country of 'lob. Sheilah,
which had never been told before. a new life to thousands
Time and time again I thought brethren in Russia, whose name, his daughter, her maiden corn- sworn in the land of Tob. Jeph-
of him, during my wanderings in even in the remotest provinces, panions, and Shamah, a lame old thah is filled with black despair as,
Russia, in the many days and brought a ray of hope—the prom- warrior, await the return of the he realizes the tragic import of his
brigand chieftain from desert war- hasty action. Gilead, his father,
of man's humanity to man.
weeks that I lived with the cold- ise Eagerly, in silence, these hardy fare with the Ammonites. Sheilah upbraids him for his rashness.
nists,
carrying
out
to
the
letter
the
suggestion made to me in the men and women listened to my can scarcely conceal her impati- Jephthah replies with heat that
midst of his family circle on that rather limited and sketchy word ence and anxiety at the delay in ultimately the blame for this ca-
picture, which started with his her father's appearance at first, !amity lies on the heads of his
eventful
Friday forget
night. to visit the early beginning as a poor boy and but Shamah and the girls soothe Nailer and the elders of Gilead
d don't
"An in the Crimea that the cols- his gradual rise in the business her fears. She is immensely re- who had exiled him and would not
colony so graciously named after world until he became one of the lievcti and overjoyed when the rug- accept him as their leader unless
over Amnion.
w on vi
ged warrior b and finall y arrives
nista
Amiel, enamored of Sheilah, rises
me," he added. "I haven't seen it giants of industry, at the same laden with the spoils of victor y. ,he'
' time giving himself to every hu-
Amid,
the
handsome
and
valiant
in
fury
against
the
reiterated
since the early stages, when the
dicta of the p riest that the vow'
h t h a h,
eute nant of .1 e p
settlers still lived in dugouts. I man cause.
"Skollko lett llerr Brown?" bht back from the battle the must be fulfille d. With the disre-
have kept close touch with it since
Brown ? )
sacred garment of a Judaean Bard of the primitive man for all
then and know something of its (How old is Mr.
I shrugged my shoulders, not priest,
rie t known as an ephod. Sha- the rituals and necessities of a
development. Bring them a mss-,
ahinfers that the Ammonites had complex civilization, he defies the
knowing exactly, but told them liroug
sage of my deep interest."
Jephthah of his '
boundlesa
energy
of
mob
his is the
this booty in a raid on priest, reminds Jephthah
in the M•n.
Int
Sheilah for
give hi
some
Hebrew settlement west of
Though that was a year ago, his youth combined with understand.
wife;
and
even
attempts
to abduct
last words came back to me as I ng of the ages, and how the Jews the Jordan, and deplores the evi- promise
drove into the David Brown col- of America are amazed at the ease dent calamity that has overtaken Sheilah by force. He calls u' i in
' to
ony, and wan met by the leader with which he assumes the respon• his countrymen. Amid retorts Jephthah, upon the soldiers,
and his little band of helpers. sibilities and burdens which would that the fate of the Judaean set- defy the sacerdotal mandate, but
After they made me comfortable wear out any three average men. lees in general, and of the inhabi- all in vain. The shadow of the
o 'Will you tell him about us?" tootsof Gilead in particular, priestly law is upon them all. Shei-
'1
I delivered the greetings from the
man after whom their colony was they asked. When I assented, the should be of no concern to either lah, mustering all her womanly
named. women began begging me to visit Jephthah or his troop, inasmuch courage, requests that the vow be
"You know David Brown?" he their homes. The men suggested as the revered outlaw leader has executed at once. Then it is that
asked in surprise. that I see their fields. The chit-' suffered much humiliation at the a prophet of God out nothing, as it '
't dren shyly spoke of their school- hands of the Gileadites. This leads were, springs up in the midst of
"Yes," came my reply, "d on
you?" house and the colony leader insist- to an argument between Jephthah the crowd and orders the sacrifice
The le a d e r shook his head. ed I visit their cheese-factory and and his lieutenant regarding the, stopped, "for God toveth not sac-
house, policy to be pursued towards the! rifice, not the blood of rams, but
"When he was in Russia, in 1925, their general community
os t o ffice, medical envoys from Gilead who are ex- obedience." The lofty words ring-
I was still in Kiev. No one in this which includes p
colony had the luck to meet him. and instruction station; and also petted to come seeking aid against ing in this the h r o
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the godfather of this settlement. their meat market, and to get up once cast out from their midst. the priests. But Jephthah's vow
Dr. Rosen told us a little—but he at 3 any morning to see the cart- Amid insists that his comrades must be kept and so Sheilah, an
never speaks much about anyone. loads of milk being delivered to spurn their request in retaliation unwed recluse, goes to the moun-
for all the suffering they have, tains for the remainder of her
Lubarsky idolizes him, but silently, the city.
but Jephthah, of a days. In acquiescence to this ex-
And because his house was near-' caused him.?
because ho can't talk English and est, and his two golden-haired more forgiving mood, is willing to pression of the divine will, singing
Brown doesn't know Russian."
11110 Evidently word had been passed daughters clung fast to my arm, I lend his assistance to his brethren, her song of departure, she leaves
.
around that a visitor had arrived found my first visit in the home and actually proffers it when the for In
the
hills.
the
third act, years later, we
p in the colony, and one by one the of Colonist Nechomofcky, until envoys appear shortly after. The
' hot-headed Andel attempts
attempts to dis- find Sheilah a recluse in the hills.
.
.
'
‘isi
,
ama
am
settlers began streaming into the
Ile was one of the original 50 suede his chief from accepting Jephthah
e room. When they learned
heir terms, but is cowed into sub- but they find that some mysterious
little
of
body
I
brought
greetings
from
families
who
developed
this
3,000..
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mood
and
ntered
the
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A rapid-fire questions.
w oa m
y atiTt'
wtif3e ii, awsams ilwinogrkei yn egdaw
Jephthah and Shamah
withdraw.
"When is h coming here of flaibsou
e
a sewing machine, whose whirring moment of rashness makes a vow
again?"
"What part of Russia is he ceased at our entrance. Her aged to sacrifice to God the first crea. Amid enttrs, still nursing the old
mother, who had been slicing ture leaving the door of his dwell- love for Sheilah in his heart. Ile
noodles in the kitchen, joine d us. ing to meet him upon his return plans to take her away to the
from?"
Is he really one man? "
I from the battle. The first act then wastes of Tob. She meets hint at
Their
Happiness.
""Happy
here?"
her smile was closes with a military march and the door of her tent, but it is as
0
Does he know he's in our pray-
the troops leaving for the though he were non-existent. She
song, fiel
ors everyday ?"
is engrossed in the resuscitation of
"Wh is he so wonderful to us?" the answer. Suddenly her old 1
Crushed and
altso!" (wait, mother broke out in Yiddish ac - !
The second act takes place in a wounded bird.
The
azdhyte
,
posh
/
cents:
"I
can't
tell
you
how
happy'
the
teeming
streets
of
Mizpah.
awed,
Amiel too retreats.
, to stop the
please) 1 exclaimed,
l
Sheilah
gazes
out
toward the
flow of questions, and then we all I am. It's something more than a Again Shamah, Sheilah, and the
and as in a dream the
sund
that I can ' girls await Jephthah s return. sunset,
. sees
' sat clown the group of colonists roof over my head and
•
,o ld en
a
d ys without fear o Shamah engaged in moulding
an swirling g
• and I, and talked of the man whose face my"
ends dancing to far off strains.
clay, feels
hunger.'
earitihen j g out o
images
vanish,
so
does
Sheilah.
in
eginning t o believe again
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PALESTINE DURING CALLED MONUMENT
FIRST EIGHT DAYS TO JEWISH GENIUS
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find that in so short a period of
Billikopf banquet consists of Wil- time as eight years, over half a
liam Friedman, chairman; Miss million trees have been planted
Hattie Gittleman, Mrs. Abraham on an area of 762.5 acres.
"In some cases there are beau-
Cooper, Mrs. Sidney Stone, Mrs.
Charles Hamburger, Mrs, Abraham tiful avenues, windbreaks, as well
Srere, Mrs. Max Dushkin and Mrs. as regular plantations, which en-
Philip Broudo, Mrs. Julius Berman, hence the value of the colonies in
Miss Rose Lipstiz, Mrs. Abraham which they are situated.
"The very good planting, with
J. Levin.
its very few failures, and planta-
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ANGLO-JEWISH
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VOTES TO JOIN AGENCY
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—With does not expect perfection. Never-
only one dissenting vote, the Coun- theless these plantations come as
cil of the Anglo-Jewish Associa- near that as any practical man
tion at its meeting Sunday decided could wish and most foresters
to participate in the extended Jew- would be glad if they reached the
ish Agency for Palestine. Four same standard under similar cli-
delegates to the forthcoming Jew- matic conditions.
Monument to Jewish Genius.
ish Agency conference which will
"In Palestine, the achievement
tie held at the Scala theater on
of
building a complete new 100
April 21, were elected. They are
Sir Matthew Nathan, Sir Meyer per cent city of over 40,000 in-
Spielman, Harry Lewis and Elkan habitants, replete with eve ry mod-
conven ience ,
ern comfort
Adllehr e
loom s large in the public eye.
. only dissentant when the
'Nevertheless as a forester I
vote was taken on the a.sstsoation's consider that these new planta-
participation in the Jewish Agency, Lions are a wonderful sign of the
was Dr. Moses Caster, head of the awakening and virile movement
Spanish and Portugese eongrega. amongst the Jews, and will be a
Dr. Caster declared that lasting monument to their genius
lions.
Zionism sacrifices the idea of a and work in Palestine.
rebuilt Jewish national home for
"I cannot pay too high a tribute
the sake of the Jewish Agency. to the very painstaking, careful
Without minimizing the good will and systematic work put into them,
of the non-Zionist philanthropists. and the very great amount of
11r, Caster asked why they are not thought, energy and continual in-
doing the some as Edmund de spection expended on them by Mr.
Rothschild, and let Zionism go its Weitz in his lofty endeavor to
way. make them grow into fine forests
Participation of the Liberal Jew- in the shortest possible period of
ish Synagogue, the most important time."
Liberalcongregation in England,
in the forthcoming Anglo-Jewish
conference on the Jewish Agency,
is precluded since representation at
such a conference would indicate
the expression of a desire to play
a part in giving effect to the Brit-
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ish mandate for Palestine. This on Brown, dramatic critic and ed-
was the conclusion of the Liberal itor, who will lecture on "Broad-
Jewish Synagogue of England way in Review."
which, at a meeting held Sunday,
Mr. Brown knows the American
decided to inform the Zionist or- theater from its infancy to its
ganization that it would not par- plans for the coming season, and
ticipate in the conference called is as intimate with the current Eu-
by the Board of Jewish Deputies ropean stage as with last year's
to indicate Anglo-Jewry's support productions on Broadway.
for the extended Jewish Agency.
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