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January 17, 1936
Tebeth 22, 5696
The World Is Challenged
carried through with success, in the first
instance, without the direct co-operation
of the British Government. Questions that
have to do with the transmission of funds
from one country to another may involve
violation of laws which may have to be
modified in order to meet the difficulties
of a large emigration of Jews, if they are
to take some part of their hard-earned
property with them. There are questions
of balance of trade, tariffs, economic re-
ciprocity, that are connected with this
tremendous job.
"Nor can the Jewish people ever give
its consent to a procedure with regard
to the Jews of Germany, involving the
abandonment of their fundamental human
rights and involving also an intimation
that similar barbaric treatment of Jews
on the part of other nations may follow
the line of precedent. Coupled with any
largs-scale emigration of Jews from Ger-
many must be assurances by governments
of their interest in, and concern for, the
protection of the human rights of Jews, no
matter where they may reside. Nor can
we Zionists concede that we propose the
building of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine, and the development of our
right in that land, upon a voluntary re-
pudiation of our hard-won human rights
in Western civilization."
This editorial sums up the situation in
a spirit in which it must be accepted by
the average Jew. While Palestine can and
will be built with Jewish efforts, Great
Britain must facilitate its reconstruction
in a co-operative rather than obstructive
spirit. World public opinion must encour-
age and facilitate efforts for the settle-
ment of Jews in free countries. Further-
more, no Jew, whether he is a Zionist or
an anti-Zionist, can possibly consent to a
program which would secure Jewish en-
dorsement of schemes to abandon our just
rights whereever we may reside.
The issues arising as a result of this
crisis in our history is a challenge to the
non-Jew as well as the Jew. It is not Jews
alone who must tight for equal rights and
privileges, and who must help build new
havens for the refugees. It is also the re-
sponsibility of the nations of the world to
welcome these refugees and to legalize
their status as exiles from the most bru-
tal government in history.
Lights from
Shadowland
DON'T ROCK THE BOAT!
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Reproduction in part or whole forhid•
den, without perrnieelon of the Seven
&T.* theIturere Syndicate, CopYrightera of
This Community's Unified Program Must Not be Disturbed
by Untimely Schemes
MUSIC BOSS
Alfred Newman, director of
music for all Samuel Goldwyn
Studio l'roductions, who has been
given a new five-year contract at
a higher salary to replace his pres-
ent contract which still has two
years to run, was born in New
Haven, Conn., March 17, 1901. He
started studying piano at the age
of seven and became proficient to
rapidly that he made a public ap-
pearance when he was only another
year older, playing, among other
things, Beethoven's "Waldstein
Sonata." He contiued his studies
in New York, as pupil of Sigis-
mund Stojowski and later with
Paderewski.
Newman was awarded two gold
medals within two years during
his student days, one for piano
and the other for composition.
Before he was 16 he was much
in demand as a soloist with various
symphony orchestra throughout the
same time studying lighter music
and musical comedy composition.
HIS FIRST BIG JOB
At the age of 16 he was offered
the position of musical director
for one of New York's big musical
shows, the first of George White's
"Scandals." For the next few
years remained as conductor for
the Shuberts and for the George
Gershwin musicals.
Newman is at present on a loan
to Charlie Chaplin's studio and en-
gaged in scoring the famous come-
dian's new picture. Newman also
provided the musical background
for Eddie Cantor's latest film.
Since assuming his present posi-
tion at Goldwyn Studios Newman
has done the musical scores for a
number of the biggest and best
known United Artists productions ,
featuring such stars as Charlie
Chaplin, Miriam Hopkins, Edward
G. Robinson, Wallace Beery, Eddie
Cantor, Merle Oberon and others.
A GUEST CONDUCTOR
Varying his duties at the studio,
he served several times as guest
conductor with the Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra, the American
Orchestral Society of New York,
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orches-
tra and the Hollywood Bowl Or-
chestra.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Detroit's Jewish community is fortunate in
having acquired, through the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, the Detroit Service Group and the Jewish
Welfare Federation, what may be termed the
closest approach to unity.
While there is division of opinion in many
American Jewish communities as to the advisa-
bility of "splitting" forces for foreign relief and
reconstruction work, as a result of the recent
breaking of the partnership between the Joint
Distribution Committee and the American Pales-
tine Campaign, Detroit has no such problem be-
cause our organized community has no intention
of "splitting" local ranks.
In view of the horrors which are perpetrated
against Jews in European reactionary countries,
thus demanding constantly increasing efforts for
the raising of relief funds, it is important that
Detroit Jewa should appreciate the commendable
achievements of the Jewish Welfare Federation
which lets no opportunity go by without an effort
to cement Jewish unity here.
for the Aged. The agitation for an Old Folks'
Home had its inception in a very temporary ef-
fort to force the building of a Jewish hospital.
The sponsors of this movement, realizing the
futility of a hospital movement at that time,
changed objectives and began to agitate for an
Old Folks' Home — a cause which many leaders
in the Federation had long recognized as an es-
sential need in the community.
Only the first steps have thus far been taken
in behalf of a new structure for the aged, and
much effort and sacrifice will yet be required to
realize the goal of giving Detroit's Jewish aged
an adequate and suitable home. But this evi-
dently does not concern another group of men
who have already started a new agitation for a
Jewish hospital. Evidently Jewish unity does
not concern them. Evidently, also, the senti-
ments of an important group which is engaged
in completing efforts which are only half rea-
lized fail to disturb them. Here is a chance to
capitalize on an issue which might arouse en-
thusiasm in some quarters, and that is all that
matters to those responsible for the renewed
agitation for a Jewish hospital.
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhe re
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(copyright. WC a . A.
INSIDE STUFF
)
They aren't saying anything for
public consumption but it's a fact
that Non-Zionists have not aban-
doned their fight for parity in Jew-
Agency Executive ... It is under-
stood that they are threatening
non,-cooperation in all Agency
activities unless their demands are
satisfied ... We hear that the re-
volt against the present Z .0. A.
administration, which has found
expression in the organization of
the New York Zionist Club, has
spread to Brooklyn ... When Sir
Herbert Samuel arrives in this
country to lay before American
Jewish leaders that plan for a mass
exodus of German Jews he will
stay at the home of Felix M. War.
burg ... Incidentally that Jewish
news agency's report that Sir Her.
bert has contributed $500,000 tow-
ard the proposed fund to finance
the exodus is plain cockeyed .
Sir Herbert hasn't got 500,000
pennies . . . An observer at the
recent annual meeting of the
American Jewish Committee re-
marked that the Committee's meet-
ings are like annual shindings if
the exclusive Gridiron Club in
Washington • • Reporters are
never present as reporters but only
as gentlemen ... Press representa-
tives at the meeting were there as
the invited guests of the Committee
, .. The report of Morris D. Wald-
man, secretary of the Committee,
created quite a stir .. • The Bu-
reau of Jewish Social Research
will be officially abolished at the
forthcoming meeting of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds and its
work merged with that of the
Council . • . Is there any truth in
the report that the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress may be liquidated?...
Although the report of proposed nego-
tiations with Nazi Germany for the trans-
fer of from 100,000 to 250,000 German
Jews to other lands proved an exaggerated
bit of reporting, it is serving an important
purpose.
Primarily this news report, which shook
the conscience of non-Jews throughout
the world, is serving to challenge public
opinion everywhere, and to demand hu-
They Dare Not Rock the Boat
mane consideration for the solution of the
For those who take an active interest in
problem of a people that is being crushed
local Jewish affairs it should be unnecessary to
under the heal of Hitlerism.
place emphasis on this attempt to create unity.
One thing is clear in consideration of
"Don't Rock the Boat"
They are undoubtedly well aware of it, and
the points that were quoted in the reported
This is a long but a necessary introduction
should recognize it in every effort undertaken to a warning. This community is faced with
negotiations for the transfer of Jews and
by the Federation.
their property from Germany: Under no
many responsibilities. The Jewish Old Folks'
Unfortunately, there spring to the fore, from Home project must be completed. The German
circumstances will world Jewry consent
time to time, people who either are unaware of and Polish Jewish tragedies demand great sacri-
to pay ransom to the Nazis. It is evident
this spirit of friendship and co-operation that is fices on our part. At the same time, the en-
that the Ilitlerites are anxious to secure
being created among the various Jewish groups tire Jewish community structure must continue
foreign currency, and that they will, if
necessary, invoke Jewish tragedy to come
in Detroit, or who have axes of a selfish nature to function uninterruptedly. Another building
to their aid in securing the funds they
to grind. It is this group that must be told that project may cause the entire community struc-
need with which to carry on their pro-
they dare not rock the boat in a period of trag- ture to crumble, and we feel a community re-
REICH FACE
edy in Jewish history.
gram of crushing democracy and creating
sponsibility to warn Detroit Jews against it in
You can expect to read a hot
a powerful military machine. The answer
interview with Hitler on the Jewish
The Federation, being as nearly the all- advance.
question any day now ... A lead-
to such a demand will naturally be in the
inclusive community agency as could possibly be
We maintain that those who at this time ing American writer is now getting
negative and Jewry's honorable response
expected to function in Detroit until now, is the undertake to inaugurate a Jewish hospital move- hie notes on that interview into
must—as we believe it will—be that we
guarantor for the most important local agencies ment are disrupting unity in our midst and are final shape ... Despite the boycott
refuse to deal with kidnapers who threat-
and for the leading foreign relief funds. There
Germany was still the chief source
threatening the success of the Jewish Old Folks'
en even severer torture for Jews unless the
is reason to believe that other agencies—local,
Ilome movement, as well as the continued func- of American imports from Conti-
nental Europe during 1935 ... The
ransom demanded for them is paid.
national and international--which were not here- tioning of efforts in behalf of local existing
Department of Commerce reports
The publication of all the facts in the
A Comparison
tofore included in Allied Jewish Campaigns, will agencies and relief for those who are today suf- an increase of 5 per cent in Nazi
case, in spite of the subsequent proof that
WEARS CURLS
soon find a place in the unified Detroit Commu- fering under the yoke of Nazism in Germany and imports ... Peter Yust, who was
Comparisons may be odious, but they BENNY
When Benny Baker, the newly- nity program. To assure the continuation of this
Jews had no hand in dealings with Nazis, tell interesting stories occasionally.
Endekism in Poland. It is our sincere belief that Ilitler's sergeant major in the
wed comedian of Paramount pic-
serves to hurl a challenge to the nations
army during the World
We draw upon figures in a single day's tures, completes his current role program, the Federation must be strengthened only the most uninformed and unconcerned could Austrian
War, now runs a tailor shop in
of the world. A haven of refuge must be experiences for the current comparison.
he says he will heave a sigh of re- rather than weakened; its leaders must be en- possibly launch a Jewish hospital movement at
Madison,
Wisconsin . . . German
found for German Jewry, and the various
Last Sunday afternoon, exactly 17 Jew- lief. Not that he doesn't like the couraged rather than belittled and .condemned.
this time. All those who encourage such a move- aircraft salesmen in this country
nations must provide that haven. A simi- ish physicians, out of a total of about 300 part, but because he has to wear
An Old Agitation Renewed
ment—whether they be social leaders or directors are offering South American pros-
curls, Tish, Tish! You can imagine
lar challenge was sounded by James G. Jewish doctors in Detroit, responded to
Last year the Jewish Welfare Federation of radio hours—will be partners in a threat to pects free passage to Germany if
joshing from his fellow players
they will give Nazi planes the
McDonald in his letter of resignation as call to form a local branch of the Ameri- a the
succeeded
in
enlisting
the
co-operation
of
a
most
that he has been subjected to on
disrupt the community and to hinder progress once over before examining Amer-
High Commissioner for Refugees from can Jewish Physicians Committee for the the lot. Benny has just returned important element in the Jewish community in in
uncompleted projects.
ican goods ... New York's Nazis
Germany. Since then the League of Na- purpose of aiding the work of the Hadas- from Yuma with his new bride. behalf of the Allied Jewish Campaign. It was
Our warning, therefore, to those who. under- are going in for politics in a big
Baker's real name is Zifkin and he
tions has not only heard a recommenda- sah Rothschild Hospital in Palestine.
achieved
as
a
result
of
the
propaganda
inaugu-
way
at the November elections ...
take
to
sponsor
this
movement
is:
is a native of Nebraska.
tion for the selection of a successor to Mr.
A complete ticket including candi-
rated at the time for the building of • new Ilome
(Copyright. UK ik A. F. a.)
That very evening, more than 800 men
Don't rock the boat!
McDonald, but has also been urged to con- and women turned out for a keno party
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAO/CI
vene an international conference to evolve in a local synagogue.
plans for the protection of German refu-
Indeed, it is odious to make this com-
gees by world powers. This refugee re- parison.
port of the League of Nations prompted
It is odious to draw upon such vastly A Jewish Who's Who of the Current American Theater Introducing Joseph Gollomb
the London Times to write editorially:
Josephus, Archetype of Jewish Self-Deception
A Product of the Ghetto
differing appeals and figures to prove
"Representatives at Geneva may be sure wherein lie the interests of the masses of
By BERTRAM JONAS
By HENRY MONTOR
By MEYER F. STEINGLASS
that public opinion in almost all nations our people.
will support them in any constructive ef-
In
this
informative
review
of
the
first
half
of
the
theatrical
season,
In
.this
elme
up
of Joseph Gollomb. Flavius Joseph's., historian and man of the world, has been made the
But it is especially odious to think of
Mr. Jonas tells as of the Jewish playwrights and producers
..icurnallet, teacher and aothor, Mr.
fort toward a solution. Probably for sev- keno in terms of the synagogue.
subject for • fascinating trilogy by Lion Feuchtwanger. The
*lethal., glow ue • reow/Ing pic-
who are making stage history and reveals what would happen
eral months to come measures can be no
reviewer of the latest volume in the biography comments
ture of • tliqIngulehed literary fig-
Such comparisons are, indeed, nauseous.
to • Nazi theater-goer on Broadway.
ure. who row from the ghetto to
upon
the startling resemblances between events in the time
more than temporary.
Prato..
of Josephus and those of our own day.
"They will none the less be deserving
Although the weather bursa u! whose settings for this play have
Picketing Nazi Dealers
declines to concede the end o f been acclaimed as the most mag-
because of that, and it may be hoped that
There is enough dime-novel,
The problem of the worldly Jew Rome and the unhappiness of his
winter before March 21, it's al nificent in a generation. Since a pulp - thriller excitement and who still wishes to retain his iden- personal life. But
at length strips of territory may be re-
Mrs. Stephen S. Wise recently demon- ways
even in moments
a sure harbinger of sprin S Broadway season would hardly be
tity with his people is as familiar of deepest despair he could think of
served—inquiries already have been made strated that no station in life is too high when Broadway
color
in
the
life
of
Jos-
begins speculatin g complete without a George S.
today as it was 18 centuries ago, his own destiny only in terms of
in South America — where refugees with for a self-respecting person to join in con- as to the potential winners of th e Kaufman
eph
Gollomb
to
make
Hor-
opus, it is scarcely news
when Flavius Josephus was torn Roman preferment. If he went to
an apitude for land may settle. Negotia- demnation of those — particularly Jews — Pulitzer prize for the year's bee t that "First Lady," a clever sa- atio Alger fade into little Boy between the alternatives of Rome the
river to join other Jews in
tions for such territory could not be made who continue to deal with Nazis, whether play. When talk of the Pulitze ✓ tire on Washington society, co- Blue or Fauntleroy of the silk- and Jerusalem--and decided that casting
out his sins during the 11
prize begins to be heard along authored by Kaufman and Kath- en curls. There's a distinctly the two could be reconciled. What
without the full authority of the nations in a business or social way. Mrs. Wise the
days
preceding Yom Kippur, it
Rialto it is taken for granted
Dayton, and starring Jane
he lived was not merely a personal was only because he felt a sense of
assembled at Geneva and they would fall personally paraded in front of a Jewish- that the theatrical season has al erine
prognathic
jaw
full
of
challenge
Cowl, is packing then in nightly.
but an experience that guilt for the unhappy fate of the
through in the end unless supported by owned store in New York as a picket in ready run half its course. Tha t Only the fact that the Pulitz er and defiance to prove it. But tragedy
comes at some time to every Jew
born to him of a Jewish wife.
public opinion and public money."
protest against this store owner's purchase being so, custom demands tha t, pundits have decided not to give explore in a northerly direc- who is confronted with a choice be- son
He was filled with pride to know
we take stock of the theatrica I ' their accelade to the same play. tion and you come upon a pair tween his own future and that of that
his was the only bust of a
It is important that public support for of German-made goods.
to date and compile a who' s l wright twice eliminates the Kea-
Jewish writer to be placed in th
As a sequel to Mrs. Wise's action comes season
of eyes reflecting the whole of his race.
projects to settle German refugees be se-
who among Jews on Broadway. ; man play from consideration.
Lion
Feuchtwanger,
who
has
Roman
Hall of Fame, without le-
cured at once, and that at the same time the instruction issued to all lodges of the
With Kaufman out of the run- his turbulent and fascinating shown a bravery possessed by few fleeting that Titus would impose
If Herr Hitler or any of his
public opinion should influence Great Bri- Independent Order of B'rith Abraham to disciples came to New York they : sing that hilarious farce about existence as a battlefield where other contemporary novelists, in some
grave hardship on Jewa in
tain to act more favorably toward facili- volunteer as pickets in front of shops deal- would find it difficult, if not im 1 Hollywood, "Boy Meets Girl," the trials of youth in the seeth- pursuing a theme fraught with order to show the Roman populace
possible, to select a show which George Abbott's presentation of ing, steaming life of the ghetto dangers from the point of view of that he was nu, really as great a
tating the settlement of Jews in large num- ing with German goods. These instruc- would
the
joint
product
of
Bella
and
be 100 per cent Aryan
bers in Palestine. The official 'attitude of tions are part of an oflicial order from either in authorship, production or ' Samuel Spewack, the only suc- of the East Side, where the Popularity and complexity, has Jew-lover as might be suspected
in "The Jew of Rome" from that act of patronship.
the Zionist Organization is well expressed this national Jewish organization provid- jpersonnel. On the strength of cessful married team of collabor- muck and darkness of the slums written
(Viking Press) a book of far
How skilfully Feuchtwanger
in the New Palestine this week, the leader- ing for co-operation with the American the mason's offerings thus far the ating playwrights in captivity, were conquered by an invincible greater significance than "Joseph. portrayed
Josephus, how scrupu-
stage, which means the stands as good a chance as any spirit elevated and refined by us", the first volume in his trilogy
ship, referring to the Jewish exodus from Jewish Congress in its renewed anti-Nazi Broadway
lously impartial he has been in
of
winning
the
Pulitzer
laurels.
American
stage,
presents
a
pic-
of
the
life
of
Joseph
ben
Matthias.
that
struggle
and
conquest.
Germany in an editorial under the head- boycott efforts.
presenting his features is eviler;
ture which must be very painful High on the list of prospective
Evidently there are still many Jews who to the exponents of so-called Ar- Pulitzer winners is also Maxwell
That spirit forms the link be- There are bypaths of introspection in the fact that one cannot foretell
ing "Whence Comes Our Salvation?"
"The Jew of Rome" which divert the judgment that the novelist wet
fail to honor humanity's call to boycott yan culture. At this writing New Anderson's poetic drama, "Win- tween the wide-eyed boy gazing in
stating in part:
interest from the simple chrono-
theatergoers have a choice terset," thanks in some measure out on the bleak landscape of logical narrative but they reward render upon Josephus in the final
The freedom of the Jewish people Germany. Picketing their stores is in- York's
volume of his trilogy, which is eas-
of 29 productions, six musicals to Anatole Winogradoff, a former
the
reader with their revelation of ily one of the greatest works in
Russia
from
a
rumbling
train
must be won through the sacrifices of the sufficient: they should be ostracized from and
23 1 only four of which star of the Yiddish stage, who
the literature of the Jews. As
Jews themselves. The land of the Jewish Jewish life. Perhaps the experiences of could possibly meet the rigorous gives an unforgettable perform- at St. Petersburg, and the eager Jewish motives and difficulties.
Flavius Josephus, who won the citizen of Germany who has learn. .1
hope must become the National Home of those who have already been humiliated specifications of Aryanism. Before ance as the old rabbi, whom the youngster of Allen Street who
id
condescending
favor
of
Vespasian,
with 500,000 others,
author
has
made
his
mouthpiece,
the Jewish people through the organized will teach those lacking in self-respect to the month is over there will be 11 and to Jo Mielsiner's superb set- sold newspapers after school. conqueror of Jerusalem, by pro- that common
the world does not always wel-
more productions holding forth on
Th ose eyes held the explanation phesying that he would become
determination and constructive ability of mend their ways and to avoid the necessity Broadway
come
the
eagerness
of the Jew :
Em-
but only six of these ting. "The Children's Hour," last
the Jewish people themselves. No free- of action by their fellow-Jews against would be included on a Nazi white year's hit by Lillian Hellman, is for the revolt against the life peror, gained progressive fame by absorb its culture and its way
a
them.
repetition
of
the
same
sycho-
Feuchtwanger may be using Jo•-
still going strong and continues of • school teacher, the flight
list of plays.
dom is worthy of the name unless it is
phantic attitude toward Rome. So phus as a target for the blisterin:s
achieved through the efforts of those who
Broadway appears to have to o pour a stream of gold into the to adventure, and the eventual friendly did he become with Ves-
satire of a disillusioned assimils•
made
it
tough
for
a
conscientious
return to the fundamental stir- pasian and later, with h is son tioniet. But Feuchtwanger, thouel
appreciate the unmanliness and the hu-
Autocracy vs. Democracy
Nazi to me • show this season only two Jewish newcomers among
miliations of servitude. Jews must break
J
could events: filled with a pride in Jewishnes•,
Dr. Frank Bohn, chairman of the Emer- without getting a one-way ticket the season's playwrights are Al- rings of "unquiet" that were Titus, that Josephus
the ferment of his coming of ally write • bode about the Jewish has in his comments en GermasS
bert
Bein,
whose
"Let
Freedom
the chains that shackle their spirit and gency Committee to Aid Political Refugees to a concentration camp or com-
wars
of
which
it
could
be said refused to be embittered abeut
Ring,"
a
challenging
drama
of
age.
their rights. They must act for themselves. from Nazism, has said:
promising with his Nazism, let's
that it did not offend the Jews and civilization as a whole. Josephu ,..
what a good Nazi is miming life in the South, is set for a long ORDEAL OF FIRE
"But the time is coming for the nations
"There is not a single man or woman in see
yet
pleased
the
Romans.
Whether
run
under
the
beneficent
aus-
then, may be his conception of the
of the world to appreciate that the free- Germany who can whisper a protest in the way of entertainment Any- pices of the Theater Union, and At 53 Joseph Gollomb has en- in Jerusalem when he yielded to "reason" with which the Jew must
one who hasn't been to Broadway
the
Romans
or
in
Rome
where
he
tered
the
ante-room
to
a
career
dom we are fighting for requires a field against Hitler and live."
Irving
Stone,
author
of
last
year's
reconcile his own word), aspira-
since the last theatrical season
best-selling novel, "Lust for Life," that he pursued all his life. was raised to the nobility, he al- tions with the disabilities impoersi
for the exercise of our powers, a world
Compare this condition in the Reich— would find comparatively few new- whose
ways
rationalized
his
motives
and
first
play,
"Truly
Valiant,"
upon him by an indifferent, if me
When he stood in awe before : his
in which at least a semblance of justice and in other countries ruled by dictators, comers, either among the authors brought Gustave Blum back
deeds. Ile convinced himself hostile, world.
to
the roaring presses of the old that success for hint meant happi-
prevails. The crimes that are committed Italy and Russia ineluded—with the right or the producers. The old faces Broadway after an absence of two
Personal A ggggg dimmest
and the old names 'till retain
against the life and property of the Jew- to express opinions in this country, and we their hold on the public. The hits )'ears.
New York World, when he pas- ness and peace for Israel. So MI-
It would be
however, if
Work of Non-Aryans
sionately pleaded with its grow- ! merged was he in his own fate that Feuchtwanger, strange,
ish people in Germany, and in other lands have the contrast of two extremes: autoc- of the year are credited to peek:-
who predicted the
In a season already notable for ling editor, Charles Chapin, for , he pressed Titus to permit Paulus,
tically the same group of play-
can no longer be perpetrated without cracy and democracy.
triumph
of
Fascism
in
Germany
Josephus' son of a Greek mother, to
wrights and showmen who were having made Broadway regard the
before the ballots were count-
bringing evil consequences also to those
The criticisms leveled against the Presi- responsible for the stare successes depression as merely a bad dream, the jai of copy-boy, while he become • Jew, without realizing long
ed
in
1033,
who
wrote
that
mem- •
was
still peddling papers on that he thereby changed the course
lands whose doors seem to be closed to the dent since the delivery of his message to of the past two or three seasons. twq Jewish personalities contrib-
uted far-reaching novelties to the the Bowery, Joe Gollomb had of Jewish history, since Titus im- orable indictment of civilized jus-
forms of injustice and cruelty that have Congress provides ample proof that demo-
Most Talked of Production
tice
in
"Success",
who
pilloried
the
stage. Billy Rose came forward alreayd fallen victim to the en- ! mediate), banned circumcision of
been adopted in anti-Semitic lands. The cratic rule persists in this country and that
Clifford Odets, the young find
the gargantuan "Jumbo," • chantment
aliens to counteract his friendli- Jew Suss in "Power" because the
efforts of the Jewish people to extricate the most sacred right of freedom of ex- whose "Awake and Sing" was last with
of
reporting
and
its
latter misunderstood the relation.
ness to one Jew.
musical circus which is not only
ship between his private success
themselves from the difficulties that have pression remains guaranteed under the year's sensation, is back again making Rose the number one mature big brother—writing.
Symbol of Perplexity
with another play, "Paradise showman of the town and re-
and his public effect on the Jews—
arisen in Germany spill over into various Constitution to all Americans.
City
college
was
hell.
It
And even at the end (of this
Lost," which, as staged by the
storing the Hippodrome, which pushed newepaperdom farther novel), when Josephus must per- if Feuchtwanger should renounce
lands and create difficult questions that
It is for this right that all Americans almost exclusively non - Aryan houses
that code of elementary ethics and
the titanic production, to
can be solved only with the co-operation must fight to the bitter end.
Group Theater, is not only a its former glory, but is causing and farther out of reach. Of t, ern the degrading and humili- racial salvation by enhtloing Fla.
smash hit but the most talked of peop le to forget Rose's
of the enlightened governments of those
course, there were the comforts ating act of walking beneath the viva Josephus for acts of treachery
production of the season.. Re. complaint that he's known only of extraordinary companions, Arch of Titus as • symbol of the which he misinterpreted as sacri-
lands. If they are not ready to raise their
Nazis. who accept Christ, have• made
defeat of the Jews, he feels that fice.
to the Bronx locale of
arms to bring to a halt the inhumanity of the claim that Jesus was a non-Aryan. turning
"Awake and Sing," Odets has Os "Mr. Fannie Brice." George' boys with whom he had played he is helping to avert catastrophe
There are in America as in Ger-
whose music has done prisoner's base, with whom he from his fellows instead of realis-
the German Government, then they must Father Coughlin, with whom high finance fashioned a provocative play on Gershwin,
so much for Broadway, contrib.'
that he has merely added many—as in other lands probably
unite in order to protect themselves is a mania, and who dislikes the memory the theme of the tragedy of the uted a new type of musical play, had grown out of his short ing
—Jewish
leaders who because of
to their other burdens.
against the consequences that flow out of Alexander Hamilton, labels this first middle clam and has given such "Porgy and Bess," the Theater trousers. There was Eddie Can- shame
In Josephus, Feuchtwanger area their eminence are able to conceal
distinguished actors as Stella and Guild's magnificent production
—not
only
from those far below
tor of the goo-goo eyes and the a symbol of the unending Jewish
of the situation that will be created out- American statesman who proposed a cen- Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky
but even from themselves—
side of Germany by the persecution and tral bank as a person whose original name and Elia Kazan, a vehicle suited of Du Bose Ileyward'e play of eh - goodness -gracious-am-l-glad perplexity: nationalist or citizen of them
that their sage counsel is merely
Negro life, directed by Reuben
hand-clapping, there was Mor- the world? There is only one fal- self-deception, that their battle for
dispersion of the Jews of that land.
was "Levine" and therefore by innuendo to their talents. Also ringing the Mamoalian, the Armenian Jew.
lacy in Feuchtwanger's posing of Jewish
"The liquidation of the Jews of Ger- calls him a Jew. Moral: it all depends on bell again is Sidney Kingsley, au- Among the musical shows there ris Raphael Cohen, destined to the
rights is in reality • strug-
question
insofar
as
Josephus
of the 1933 Pulitzer prize
gle for self-preservation. Men of
many is a matter that cannot be carried how deeply one hates, and if the dislike thor
winner, "Men in White." who has isn't one in which • non-Aryan become one of the country's himself is concerned. For the great immeasurably smaller talent and
out solely by Jews. The emigration of is deep-rooted enough you can make an set the town talking with "Dead hasn't a hand. Moss Hart, lib- foremost thinkers and philoso- historian of the Jewish people was vision
than Josephus, they may be
satirist extraordinary, heir pher& Mots,
100,00 or 250,000 Jews to Palestine is Aryan out of a Jew and a Jew out of an End" a story of poverty on the relict,
always had his only indirectly • nationalist He sincere in failing
to understand
th e hills and valleys of
East Side, produced by Norman apparent to George Kaufman and nose deep in some highfalutin
not a matter that can be undertaken and Aryan.
rear's hit "Ac
I Palestine cnly when his spirit was that what they propose as right
Bel Geddes, the stage designer, author of TI last
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