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lumbia University forcibly re-
quested his departure because he
wrote something they didn't like
in the campus mag. . . . Today
this same university's board of
trustees proffers him the Pulitzer
Prize on a silver platter .. for
co-authoring "Of Thee I Sing,"
New York musical show.
Did you know that Jack Demi,.
sey has • strain of the Yehuda in
his blood? It's reported that
some time in the dim past he had
a Levy ancestor. He's been buzz.
ing around the studios lately just
in case . . . but fight pictures
aren't so popular.
• •
It's a fact: AI Jolson, Eddie
Cantor, Weber and Fields, and
Fanny Brice all got their start
in burlesque.
• •
A Pittsburgh reader writes to
inquire whether Norma Shearer,
Clark Gable, Bebe Daniels and
Conrad Nagel are Jewish. Our
genealogical research department
catalogues no suspicions of Jew-
ishness concerning Clark Gable or
Conrad Nagel . . Bebe may look
it, but she's said to be Spanish and
a Catholic. As for Norma, she
adopted Judaism on becoming the
wife of Irving Thalberg ... the tie
was welded by a rabbi.
Buster was adopted by his step-
father, William Collier, Sr.
• • •
Slightly exag—maybe a little
stretched—but a typical Marx
Brothers' story:
In the early days of their vaude-
ville career, they received the
bountiful salary of $50 a week
for the four. They were all un-
der 17, so Mama Marx was their
manager and traveled with them.
It took split-fraction arithmetic to
pay all expenses, including rail-
road fares, for five out of that
60. To make ends meet the boys
wore knee-length trousers and
talked falsetto so they could
travel half-fare. It worked, but
the mother never forgot the sar-
castic tone of one conductor who
came to inform her that one of
her "children" was puffing a cigar
in the smoker and another was
shaving in the washroom!
• • •
Another day . . . another col-
umn.
SCHOLARSHIP MEDALS AWARDED AT BETH EL HIGH SCHOOL
HYDE ADDRESSES
ZIONIST MEETING
Erwin Ellman, valedictorian (left) ; Jean I,eipziger, with 13 years' perfect attendance; Nettie Go d-
hol and Jack Art, winners of scholarship medals, were among those honored Sunday at the graduation
exercises of the Temple Beth El High School. Dr. Leo M. Franklin (center) presented the scholar-
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur ship awards.
M. Hyde, one of the leading fig-
ures in the Hoover Administration
OUR LETTER BOX
and a member of the recently
formed American Palestine Com- (Continued from Preceding Page.)
mittee, was the principal speaker
The Wayne County Association
at the meeting launching the Pal- India, go in search for Jews, and
the Order of Eastern Star, com-
estine fund-raising effort in Phil- when you find some, please send of
prising
a membership of 60 0. E.
adelphia on May 18.
me a post card telling me so."
S. chapters in Wayne County, on
The visit of Secretary Hyde to
How I wanted to relate a few May 9, honored Mrs. Ann Wein
Little Orphan Annie, the news-
paper cartoon, will be picturized Philadelphia is expected to give a incidents that Dave told me about.
substantial impetus to the success But I didn't want to waste time,
. Mitzi Green to be Annie.
• • •
Singing Society to Celebrate
of the American Palestine Cam- as there were some excellent
That accident of Chico Marx paign there. Judge Leopold Glass speakers. As I do not know Rabbi
Concert's Success at
happened when he was driving is chairman and Dr. Cyrus Adler, Fram personally I ask The Detroit
Banquet May 28.
down Wilshire boulevard, study- honorary chairman. Robert 51. Jewish Chronicle to print this in
ing both sides of the street for a Bernstein is chairman of organiza- order to relieve Rabbi Fram's an-
Before an enthusiastic audience
shoe store . . . Well, it relieved tion of teams. Miss Hortense Levy xiety.
w hich tilled the large auditorium
him of buying new shoes for a is chairman of the women's di-
My brother, Dave Racoossin, re-
of the Detroit Institute of Arts to
vision.
while.
lated
to
me
that
the
first
week
he
•
The launching of the campaign went to a movie. Being tired he
capacity, the Detroit Halevy-lia-
zomir Singing Society, in the tra-
'Pon my word ... Jesse Lasky, in Philadelphia conincided with the dozed off—the movies being silent
ditional manner, made its seventh
well-known picture exec., was once function tendered to Felix M. War- at the time. Of a sudden he was
brug in Chicago on the same day. awakened by a voice which spoke
annual appearance on Sunday eve-
• cornetist.
ning, May 16, under the direction
Mr. Warburg consented to the din- in Yiddish: "Mame, kook oifen
of Prof. E. Zaludkowski, accom-
Oh, yes . . . about Buster Col- ner, inasmuch as the proceeds go tzwilling." ("Mama, look at the
panied by Samuel Shpargel at the
lier, Jr. . . . His father's name to the American Palestine Cam- twins.). Ile looked around and
piano. The concert was free to
was Charles Funkenstein Gall. paign. The dinner was a $100 per- saw a mother and daughter con-
the public.
His parents were divorced and reservation. event.
versing in Yiddish.
The program of the concert was
Another incident Dave tells
a varied one and embodied several
about was when a big bronzed In-
aspects of Jewish music. Between
dian walked into his office dressed
the inspiring "Motto," which
in Indian garb and said: "Mr. Ra-
opened the program, and the fra-
coosin, I'll have to stay out next
ternal "All for One," the closing
week." "Why," asked Dave. The
signature
of the choir, the audi-
Indian explained that ehe will have
Under Management of W. D. Sanders
MRS. ANN WEINBECK
ence enjoyed the compositions of
to celebrate his New Year. "You
such
well-known
Jewish men of
just celebrated your New Year beck by electing her as president.
not long ago," Dave protested. This is the highest honor ever be- music as L. Low, M. Posner, Z.
Zilberts,
M.
Gelbart,
L. Lewan-
"Yes, but this is the Jewish New stowed on a Jewess in Eastern
dowsky and others, as well as sev-
Rates $2.00 up—Free Parking
Year," the Indian explained, and Star circles in Wayne county.
eral
piano
solos
by
the
well-known
Dave felt that he was standing
Purity Chapter No. 359 of East-
next to a brother in far-off India. ern Star, of which Mrs. Weinbeck Mr. Shpargel.
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rabbis.
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Your Sincerely,
the only Jewish chapter in the members. Although this appear-
MRS. ANNA LOPATE.
group. Purity Chapter is now in ance brought out the best efforts
oft the chorus, and consequently
twenty-fifth year.
Editor's Note: A series of ar- its Mrs.
Weinbeck, besides being proved an event of greatest inter-
ticles in The Detroit Jewish Chron- past matron of Purity Chapter, is est to the organization and its fol-
icle two years ago presented an a past mother advisor of Purity lowers, Detroit Jewry has had sev-
interesting picture of Jewish com- Rainbow for Girls and is the pres- eral other opportunities to hear
munities in India.
ent most excellent chief of Great- the choir during the past year, the
Bombay has a well-organized er Detroit Temple No. 52 of latest being a half-hour radio con-
cert over station WMBC in behalf
community and support's a Jewish Pythian Sisters.
monthly magazine, printed in Eng-
of the Allied Jewish Campaign,
Mrs. Weinbeck was the recipi- Wednesday, May 11.
lish, "The Jewish Advocate," which
is a monthly visitor to the office ent of many beautiful baskets of
The climax of the organization's
of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle. flowers in honor of this occasion, social season will be reached in an
In a recent issue, we congratulated both from various branches of this elaborate banquet and dance which
the Advocate editorially on its fraternal organization as well as is being arranged for Saturday
from her own chapter.
first anniversary.
Mrs. Weinbeck was an untiring evening, May 28, celebrating the
worker in the Allied Jewish Cam- seventh anniversary of the organ-
ization's existence.
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Editor, Detroit Jewish Chronicle:
We hear no many suggestions of ZIONIST CONCLAVE
late in regard to cultivating good-
SET FOR JULY 3-4
will between Jew and Gentile and
yet not one of these has presented
(Continued from Page One.)
the idea of making the Hebrew
language accessible to the Gen- Palestine, the Jews outside of Pal-
tile. I am of strong conviction estine face the common world
that an introduction of the He- crisi s , ha u nd bt e h ee n support y rferductehids
brew lanieguage in our colleges wor k
will crystallize into a sympathetic Palestine Jews are giving a good
understanding and appreciation of account of themselves. It remains
Judaism, and Jews.
for the Jews outside of Palestine
We are very often confronted to
fulfill their obligations as ade-
with the argument that Hebrew is quately. This matter of financing
a dead language, and that a study the continuance of our work is one
of it will nt reap any satisfactory of the most important to come
results. To those who argue before the convention at Phila-
thus I safely say that they are delphia."
ignorant of the Hebrew language,
Among other matters that must
its vast storehouses of modern
literature, and its constant use as be taken up by the convention is
a living otngue. Peretz Smolens- a reconsideration of the functions
kin, Shalom Abramovitch, Judah and relations of the parent Zionist
Leib Gordon, Abraham Maim are Organization of America and its
only a selected few who serve as affiliated bodies. A committee is
now working on this problem and
exemplars.
Jews have also produced mod- will report to the convention.
ern poets—Tchernowitz and Bia-
lik being among the foremost. To
study the Hebrew language and will find ourselves only following
merely read these poets would be what has long been accepted in
worth while. In these two crea- larger colleges and universities
tive towers we can look for the such as the University of Chicago,
emotions and feelings of the Jews Columbia, Pennsylvania, to men-
who have spent 2,000 years in a tion only a few. But what is even
despicable and contemptible dias- more revealing, some of the high
pore. Who can read such poetry schools of this country have
and hate Jewry, who can taste already accepted it as part of the
such work and fail to be impressed curriculum.
with its genius?
But there is another important
Yes, Hebrew is alive, very much reason for initiating a study of
BO. I need but refer to its fre- Hebrew at the City College. It is
quent use in some of our smaller high time we began to take stock
communities of this country, not of ourselves. Let us begin with a
to speak of the larger ones—New personal inventory and see how
York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, De- many of us, as Jews, know He-
troit and others.
brew. It will be a surprisingly
But this argument gets us no- small number. With Hebrew in
where. We are not particularly the college we will find many Jew-
interested whether or not Hebrew ish students enrolling in the course
is spoken in this country or others. for credit. To prove this conten-
The fact remains that it is • living tion I might mention only a few
language in constant use. The facts which will substantiate my
only angle we are interested in is: view. The United Hebrew Schools
Will its study create an under- have a great number of its stu-
standing of the Jewish people, its dents at the college interested in
spiritual creativeness and self-ex- taking advanced Hebrew work.
pressioin? One cannot but answer The Temple Beth El has two adult
in the affirmative. How can one classes in which Hebrew is taught.
read Ached Ha-Am and fail to Being one of the instructors I
sense the Jewish spirit? Who can might, in passing, mention the pro-
read Shalom Aleichem and miss found interest which is manifest-
his unique humor? Who can delve ed in the study of this language.
intelligently into the Midrash and Young Israel of this city has or-
Talmud and not grasp the depth of ganized Hebrew classes while the
emotion as expressed by the Y. W. H. A. has done likewise. 1
rabbis? This is all genuine Jude- am, however, assured that even
ism and to my mind will help re- without the registration of these
move anti-Semitism and synthetize students two or three classes could
into a better appreciation of Jew- easily be formed of those Jews
ish life, customs and Institutions. who attend the college at present.
In a city like Detroit, with a How long will apathy and In-
population approximating 1,500,- difference predominate? I sug-
000, including 80,000-odd Jews, geld that all those interested in
I deem it • transgresaion not to prolonging the life of the Jew and
have the Hebrew language in its perpetuatine his spirit write the
elementary and advanced form Board of Education. not asking
taught at the City College of De- that Hebrew be Introduced but
trek. With an introduction of demanding its immediate intro-
Hebrew we have an opportunity duction.
Thanking you in anticipation of
to educate the Gentile in Judaism
and dissipate unfounded preju- seeing this letter in print in your
next issue. I are.
dices.
WALTER FARBER.
With the initiation of Hebrew at
2047 Hazelwood, Detroit.
the City College of Detroit we
Strange Case of Lesser Ury.
(Continued from Preceding Page.)
ODORLESS
there were piles of paintings,
etches and drawings, all of great
value.
In short, it was plain that Leaser
Ury had not died in poverty. The
tragedy of Lesser Ury was a
greater one than that. Slowly it
dawned on his friends that Ury in
the latter years of his life had be-'
come the victim of a monomania. i
To the few visitors he received he
always complained of hard times'
and distress. But he never ac-
cepted help or comfort. Once In
a while he stood on the Nollendorf
Plats in his threadbare and
patched clothing watching the
limousines and taxis flit by. Hun-
dreds of Berlin Jews driving by
and recognizing the forlorn and
bedraggled figure invited him into
their cars, but he always indig-
nantly refused. He complained
that he could not pay street-car
fare. Yet the marks lay piled up
in his studio. Ile was frequently
takers for a beggar, but in his
wardrobe was found a splendid fur
coat and a collection of lounge
suits, dress coats, beach apparel,
and virtually new clothes for every
occasion. There were neat piles
of underwear. All of it unused!
Feared Poverty.
Everyone knew him by sight In
the neighborhood of his studio.
But nobody knew his famous
name. Nobody realized in the
populous quarter where ho dwelt
that this individual in his paint-
smeared smock was the greatest
living impressionist, the founder
the Sezession movement. lie
told the shopkeepers in the neigh-
borhood that his name was Leh-
mann and they took him for one
of the pathetic social wrecks who
abound in post-war Germany.
Rather ostentatiously he walked
from the grocery shop with a
chunk of bread and a piece of
sausage under his arm, but on the
other hand he had the scrub-wo-
man occasionally go and fetch the
finest and most expensive dishes
in the renowned llahnen restau-
rant
The tragedy of Ury was that he
was simply overwhelmed with a
tremendous unreasoning fear of
poverty.
It Is said that Charles Chaplin
once seemed to be heading for
perdition impelled by • similar
fixed idea. A month before Ury's
death he visited the home of a
Berlin collector who had just pur-
chased one of his paintings. The
chased
collector had agreed to pay his
10,000 marks, but while writing
out the check he reminded Ury of
the days when they were both
penniless young students, who (re.
quented a certain Bohemian ar-
tists' hangout in Unter den Lin-
den: Upon hearing the reference
to his penurious past, Herr Ury
flew into a violent rage. Ile in-
sulted his friend with the reproach
that he reminded him of his past
with the sole object of hurting
him and threw the check back in
his face after having spat upon it.
Subsequently there was a fight
when Ury tried to slash his own
painting in the millionaire's home.
Persecution Mania.
With the fear of poverty came a
persecution mania. He always
felt that he and his work were dies
criminated against. On the other
hand, he never recognized the mer-
its of another artist, nor had he
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ever a generous word for fellow
painters. Ills monumental paint-
ings were praised by the critics,
but few had ever seen the painter.
Once he charged that requests for
an exposition of his works was
prompted by his enemies, who
wanted an opportunity to make
fun of his art. Ile did not re-
ceive the title of professor and
was not elected to membership
of the Academy of Art.
Ury's latter years were embit-
tered by the knowledge that his
rival, Lieberman, another Jewish
painter, wan loaded with honors
and received the acclaim of so-
ciety. The rivalry and bitterness
was mutual, however. When
somebody wrote of Lieberman's
paintings once that in reality they
were made by Ury, Liebermann
replied: "It is better that people
say this of me than that they
should say that I made those
worthless things of Ury."
Ury's tragedy still deepens when
we know that artistic Berlin in-
tended to honor him on a truly
grandiose scale. A monumental
exposition of his work was to have
taken place in November. He was
scheduled to become professor and
his election to the Academy was
assured. Thousands of admirers,
among them several of the pon-
tiffs of art in Germany and other
European countries, had grouped
themselves to make the occasion
of his seventieth birthday a mem-
orable one. They were deter-
mined to show their admiration
for the master so conclusively that
he would never again feel that he
was neglected or unrecognized.
Only Ury never saw the day
that might have brought back the
light to him. He died in bitter-
ness against the world and him-
self, in fearful dread of poverty
alone, almost an outcast. A "Son-
derling," the German papers
call him. True, but a "Sender-
ling" of genius.
ORDER SHAKE-UP
IN COMZET WORK
Dismias Government Officials
for Discouraging Kahn.
indorf Conditions.
MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)—Charged
with the effort to abolish Kalinin-
dorf, as a specific Jewish region,
two high government officials of the
region were dismissed. The dis-
missal of these officials came as a
result of the decision by the Ukrain-
ian Communist Party and the Cen-
tral Comet to carry out a complete
shakeup in the Kalinindorf regional
Soviet. The suggestion that the
region be converted into a non-
Jewish section is particular de-
nounced.
A serious situation, it is shown
officially has developed in Kalinin-
dorf, where the Jewish occupants
have dwindled down to 360 fami-
lies, where'1,916 prveiously existed.
In this connection, the All-Ukraln-
ian Comzet is charged with failure
In affording the colonists proper
supervision. Henceforth the All-
Ukrainian Comzet will not be per-
mitted to work indepednently. It
will be placed under strict control
of • Central Comzet in Moscow.
The Ukrainian Comzet in con-
junction with the Moscow Comzet
has appealed to the Central Gov-
ernment to dispatch immediately to
Kalinindorf, 600 horses and 15
tractors. A request is also made
that the Zik appoint a new regional
Soviet and that a special Commis-
sion of investigation be sent down
in order to determine how to bring
back there that have left the colony.
In order to assist in catching up
with the spring sowing the Com-
munist party has ordered demobili-
zation of the Communist youth for
some intensive field work.
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