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TILE DETROIT JEWISH CIIRONICI.E and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

MANAGING DIRECTORS OF
"THE ROMANCE OF A PEOPLE"

The Geniuses Who

Created the

Pageant

ISAAC VAN GROVE
Production Director.

MEYER W. WEISGAL
General Director.

"In bringing 'The Mini o n,. of
a l'eople f to Detroit, one of tie.
things that gives me the greatest
pleasure is the association I have
had with the young people here.
)I ere than 1 2,0ml young men and

women have joined casts of 'The
Romance of a People' from its
first presentation in Chicago until
today, Mils( of these have formed
permanent organizations to inark
the ceming of the pageant to
their city, 41 11,1 I 'MOW that they
have liven highly enthusiastic. Bill
hell . ill Detroit there 0001110 It
he all even greater enthusiasm
among these who are singing, act-
ing and dancing in the pageant.

I want to take this opportunity

1.1 expressing my deep gratitude

111

fie, and its summit in making this

production of 'The Runlanee of a

People' probably the outstanding

one of all we have had. There was

a spirit of real eagerness to fee

operate that made ,.vary one Of

re

us 011 the production l , tatf

double our own (doll,: 01 Ina oll1

a banner production !Weal', we

knew that oar teat'llillg, %Vett' he-

1
. 11).; appreciated.

"I feel sure that the cast itself

"I'roiatbly this is hroughl about
hoTalISI , !Jetfoil. IS Stich a COsIllo-
politall oily maybe it is just the
spirit found here, but anyway,
there is here in this city a feeling
of 1.1 11 iVerS111 our-IleSS that makes
toe feel I have met all of these
people before and they are all my
old friends."

•

10 010 east fur its unstinting et-

is getting a great deal out of the

production—in learning how thea-

ters on a large scale can by con-

ducted and in adding to their

knowledge of dancing and el

dra Mat les. "

Directing Heads of

Detroit Pageant

KURT PEISER
Executive Director.

t

-One of the most amttzinv and
interesting eXilt•riellVeS of my en-
tire life in contacting the puldi ,
instrumental ,
has C0111•
Ihnaigh the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation. in bringing 'The Romance
of it People' to Detroit.
"I feel that it is env of the
which
greatest accomplishments
tilt . Fedor:atoll has 116•11,
41 11 11 That through it will come a
deeper inter-racial sympathy and
understanding than Detroit has
over known. Needles to say. I
;MI happy to he aide to make this
contributein of illy energy 11 1111
limo lo ameliorate the intolerable
cendition of our persecuted co
religienists in Germany.
- The response which I 101roll
showing a 11114 demonstrates the
impatience of the general public
with the inhuman attitude of that
small hand of narrow - minded
bigots now inenacimg the tran-
quility of the world."

Committee

HON. ALEX J. GROESBECK
Chairman of Pageant Committee.

"It is indeed a pleasure for itic

tu be :1551/elated in till:, venture•

of bringing to Detroit the World-

famous dramatic pageant, 'Tlic

Item:ince of a Peopl•.'

think

and the

that

the organization

liel,f111fol, rreiIIi

for 1 Is canting

hie

are to

he highly commended for doing

in dyed of great civic betterment

both artistically and from the

.tandpoint of cementing the fe•l-

ing of universal hrOl1WIlloolf

au happy to have had a part in

t his undertaking."