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centage of Jewish chilren from Keren Hayesod, in aiming to pro-
Germany to the freedom of Erez vide a sound• economic basis for
Israel, to let them learn to be ef- those whom it helps, rather that
Laemmle created motion picture I
ficient and contended workers on stopping short at temporary phil.
FROM PAGE GNP)
history by sending a company to (cot, itooti,
the land, and finally, when they anthropic aid, proves itself to
,CONCLUDED (rota EDITORIAL PAGE1 and purposes must now be added
England to film "Ivanhoe in its
/ ..V .M1NERAL BAD!'
are fully trained, to settle them a true source of help and construe
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)
the new one of settling the youth on land of their own. If this is tive work.
original setting. This led to the aspect of Nazi propaganda that
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establishment of the film exchange happens to come your way and along different lines, and will make aliyah's one-time wards on the done for them, they will surely
the most colorful pages of movie in England. He has always been you will find in it the two ele- demands on the national means, land. The Keren Hayesod must
find opportunity of bringing their
history.
in the van of the film screen's ments of force, that is, of intimi- i. e. on the Keren Hayesod. This and will take on this task, but will parents to Palestine in the end, so
When Laemmle established his progress. He made the first sensa-i dation by threats of violence and of is not a measure to be carried out only be able to carry it out sue.
that they may spend their later
film exchange he found that the tional picture. He made the first fraud, that is, of intimidation in one stage, but a task to be per- cessfully if the necessary means
MORE PEOPLE
life in contentment after their
Motion Picture l'atents Co. mono- million dollar picture. Ile has in- based upon lies and delusions. But formed continuously for a number are forthcoming.
years of privation. Youth aliyah
ARE CHANGING TO
polized the American film industry troduced more outstanding stars many Jews, past-masters of the of years, in accordance with the
Opportunity for Children
offers a systematic solution to the
and he rebelled against the limita- than any other producer. '
tricks by which they can keep their' steady stream of "discharged"
et
There is no knowing how the problem of the German Jews' emi-
you th .
tions of production, distribution
Laernmle is an active member of comfortable indifference and lazy
I will try to give briefly some emigration of German Jewish gration, and does not put the older
and exhibition. For a year he the Wilshire Boulevard Temple of inertia, defensively stamp as tam.
families
to Palestine will develop generation of with unfeeling
account
ccount of this new task which
is Angeles, the Standard Club of tics and as what it has become the
Keren Hayesod will have to during the next few years. It de- phrases about "natural decrease,"
silly fashion to call "mere pro- the
Chicago
and
the
Harmonic
Club
of
undertake.
pends
primarily
on
how suitable but instead offers them, too, a ray
b'amoas
World
New York, three outstanding and pagandists" anyone who has
The system that will be followed the heads of the families are for of hope.
Hear ; them .
Heat
nationally-known Jewish organiza- deeply and passionately at heart
emigration,
on
their personal quali-
Thus the interests of the nation
already been decided upon.
Israel and its fate and its cause. has
tions.
Trained groups of the Youth all- ties, their age, and not a little on here became identical with the
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A great traveler, Laemmle aver-
yah are normally to be joined into their financial situation, always humanitarian principle. It must I Me BIER IN THE GIIIEN BOTTLE
ages at least six trips between Los
Very well then, I am a propa- "kibbuzim," where they will at made more difficult , by the delay
THAN TO ANY OTHER
Angeles and New York and at least gandist—a Jewish propagandist. first live on the wages they will and hindrance in the transferring be remembered, though, that the
h
one trip to Europe each year. It There are far too few. That is earn in the orange growing dis- of the money. But one thing is educational task of the Yout
BEER IN AMERICA
is questionable if any movie im- the only trouble. There should be trict, supplemented by working a plain today: with the help of the aliyah can only build up on the
presario has personally met more groups of Jewish propagandists piece of land of their own. Similar Jews all over the world it will be foundation of the colonizing work
done
by
the
Karen
Hayesod.
The
film fans, theater men and film cre- and these groups should have their agricultural groups have been most possible to bring a growing per-
ators than has this veteran of the press and members of these groups successful in practice. The larger
entertainment world. His hobby is should go up and down the land the part played from the beginn
knowing people and studying them, and win Jewish souls from their in- ing by the work on their own land, r
which probably accounts for his difference and from their inertia and the sooner they can be fully
personal popularity and the fact and open their closed minds and settled, the better, of course, for
that thousands of people know him stir the obduracy of their call- the work and unity of the group,
as "Uncle Carl" and talk to him oused hearts.
and the better for Jewish national
as they would to a real relative.
They should go especially to colonization.
His mail reaches the staggering those many many dreary and mel-
J. N. F. Provides the Land
total of more than 5,000 letters per ancholy and disconsolate circles
It is only a few months before
month from theatergoers. His stu- in which Jews have their clubs— the first of the kibbuzim from
dios have produced and presented only because others are closed to amongst the ranks of the youth
more than 9,000 film plays and he them, and associate only with Jews aliyah will have to stand on their
has sponsored the careers of many —merely in terror of a latent anti. own feet. The Jewish National
CARL LAEMMLE
of the foremost actors, actresses, Semitism in non-Jews, and bring Fund liberally provides the land
fought the "trust" in the courts writers and directors teen on the up their children to be beggars for the original supplementary
silver screen. Nearly 50 per cent at alien thresholds and would so farms, and later for the real settle-
and finally . won a Ut S. Supreme
Court decision which made it pos- of filmdom's famous either started like to intermarry and do not quite ments. But there are further im-
sible for all of the American com- at Universal or appeared in Uni- dare or finally dare and either come portant tasks of a constructive
panies of today to start in busi- versal pictures as one time or an- to some grief or else, in the best nature: the ground must be pre-
other. With determination, keen cases, are pursued all their lives pared for cultivation a supply of
ness.
foresight and optimism he has
Laemmle then opened several kept the Universal organizations by a sullen sense of sin which their water arranged for, living-accomo-
branch offices and in 1908 at Min- out of mergers, out of competition entire outlook forbids them to ac- dation, cow-sheds and poultry
Says "Hello" to • good ''Buy!" Stay at
neapolis he produced his first pic- with theaters and independent of knowledge to themselves—the sin, houses must be built, and live-stock
this New, 28-story hotel...a coast*,
ture, a 900 foot feature, "Hia- all combines. He still leads the namely, of having diminished Is. and seeds, etc. must be bought.
coast patronage Ii your guarantee o
reel. These groups have a form The schooling of the youth aliyah
watha," made at historic Minne- business he founded.
eatisfsction. Here, Times SQUARE
which, they think (quite wrongly , has trained the young generation
haha Falls.
(l•opyr10t, 1936, SAPS)
fill'ROUND you—lust a stone's throw
of course) is merely imposed on which has come over to us from
He Filmed "Ivanhoe"
to "Radio City", 69 theatres 5th
them from without. And this form Germany both in body and in mind,
As
years
passed
the
Universal
MIZRACHI LEADER
has no content. This form is empty. turning them into fine pioneer
Avenue and railroad terminals. Yet—
Film Manufacturing Co. w a
when you want absolute quiet— your
And so, of course, it too wrinkles colonists. But, on the whole, they
WILL
VISIT
HERE
founded
with
studios
at
Fort
Lee,
Piccadilly Room shuts off the city's
and withers and decays. And out have little or no money, and they
New Jersey. Later studios were
clamor as you would turn off a light
of the terrible cowardice bred by will need capital on long-term
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE it
built in Hollywood and in 1915
the false emancipation these credit for the founding and work-
aright, richly lutelehed room,—
Universal City, California, was await Rabbi Berlin on his arriva l groups of Jews, living and dying ing of their settlements. These
.1th kati.— deep, soft "'loopy. $250
bed. and up.to•the•saleute
opened.
as Jews, live as un-Jewishly as credits will be an investment,
in
the
city
Feb.
24.
ioavealeaces. Rat.. low
As Laemmle'a production activi-
Rabbi Berlin is a notable figure possible and so deep within they though, and by no means merely
ties increased so did Universal's in the Zionist world. Ile is mem - live empty lives and on account of a "philanthropic transaction," for
y
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branch exchanges in Europe, Af- ber of the praesidium of the their emptiness it is precisely both the people and the methods
rica, South America, Asia and World Zionist Organization and these people who succumb to all have shown themselves to be satis-
45th ST.. JUST WEST of B'WAY
Australia, despite growing compe- of the Zionist Actions Commit- kinds of silly and false propaganda factory.
It is obvious that the organiza-
tition. Today Universal Pictures tee. Ile is an orator of power and and are the willing victims of
wooleionne. • r
Corporation operates more branch- distinction, a lucid thinker, a every shallow notion and unten- tion supporting the youth aliyah
cannot
be burdened witk provid-
frequent contributor to the He- able doctrine if only it is not a
brew and Yiddish press and a suc- Jewish notion and a Jewish doc- ing the credits for the settling of
the
"discharged"
through expand-
cessful man of affairs. He is the trine. They go in for so-called free
author of "From Wolozhin to thinking and for faith healing and ing, existing and founding new
Jerusalem," a work of interest to for any "ism" that is not their kibbuzim and kvutzoth. The youth
the Jewish historian and biog. own and for all the ultra fads and aliyah organization is concerned
CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE from 51-G-51. Ile might have gone
exclusively with organizing and
on for two years at the huge sal- rapher. The slogan of the Miz- all the latest errors which are com-
financing the training of German
nation laugh did not click here. ary, but "I preferred to be busy." rachl movement, "the Land of Is - monly so old that they have been
Jewish youth. Its obligations to
rael,
for
the
People
of
Israel,
ac-
forgotten.
Or
they
ally
themselves
Ile appeared in New York with
"1 died the death," he said.
to the Torah of Israel," with any movement, whatever its the individual are discharged when
A dismal week followed. lie "Vanities," and later went on the cording
he has completed his two years of
merits,
that
does
not
yet
exclude
is
of
his
coining.
changed his repartee, played clas- road. "Then I got the radio bug,"
After achieving leadership in Jews. And so their whole lives are training. This is the point at which
His contract with Carroll had
sical music. To no purpose.
begins the work of the Palestine
furtive
and
ignoble
and
passed
in
Ile was sent to Scranton, Wilkes- several months to run. Given his the Mizrachi movement in Europe,
Foundation Fund, to whose aims
Barre, Altoona. His act was again release at the cost of many thou- galvanizing it into a powerful a kind of limbo into which there
successful. Again he returned to sands to himself, he returned • to force in the Zionist world, Rabbi never blows a living wind and over
Berlin came to the United States which never shines a throbbing RICE QUITS AS PWA
the Palace at New York. The act New York "to try radio."
A long period of idleness fol- in the early part of the World star.
died again.
THEATER DIRECTOR
We need propagandists. We need
In despair, the young trouper lowed. He could not "catch on." War and organized the religious.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Elmer
missionaries for the dark corners
remained, trying vainly to con- Advertisers considered his repar- minded Zionists of the country
of Judaism. We need a Conyre- Rice, playwright and stormy pet-
quer the city. Weeks passed. Ile tee •"too smart" for so wide an into a national Mizrachi body.
rel of the American theater has
For 10 years he was president of gatio de propaganda fide.
audience.
woo out of work.
(Cop)right, 103, S. A. F. S.)
resigned as the regional director
A New York columnist, Eddie this organization. A decade ago
At last he was offered booking
of the Federal Theater project in
Sullivan, asked him to appear as he moved to Palestine where he
in Toledo. Ile did not have rail- guest artist."
man, Daniel Temchin, Jacob the New York area as a result of
makes his home.
road fare.
Within two years Benny was
Delegates to the Mizrachi con- Levin, Max Schneider, A. Haupt- a difference of opinion with Jacob
My father had his own voted "first man of the air.'
vention in Washington from De- man, Isaac Rosenthal and Mrs. Baker, assistant Federal admin-
t rouble's."
istrator of the WPA.
"Many have been given credit troit will be: Rabbi Isaac Stoll- M. Shaw.
He went to a man who had been for getting me my first break
loud in his friendship. Could he it belongs to Eddie Sullivan."
borrow 25 dollars? The man re-
They remain friends today—an-
fused. "He saw my act at the other proof of the age-long friend-
Palace," explains Jack, smiling.
ship between the Irishman and the
Bewildered, his appearance in
Jew.
Toledo 30 hours away, he ex-
His idea of radio comedy is
plained his predicament to another
unique in that he is always "on
trouper, who was also out of work.
the spot." He allows any member
"I've forgotten his first name,"
of his company to "get a laugh"
says Jack. "Ile was the brother
at his expense.
of Eddie Webber."
In his current film, "Broadway
"I've got 48 dollars left. I'll Melody of 1935," he plays the role
loan you twenty-five."
of a columnist who is knocked
He reached Toledo on time.
down several times.
He wired the loan to young
"They made a sucker of Jack,"
Webber Out of his first week's
was the shrewd Walter Winchell's
salary. In two months he received
comment.
word that Webber had committed
Jack Benny's wife is the most
suicide. "Out of work and no
incident touched exceptional woman In Hollywood.
money." The
She
has no desire to appear in
Jack. "If he were only alive now,"
says the famous master of radio films with him. "My baby and the
radio
are quite enough," she ex.
wit.
He might not have appeared in plains.
When asked if Hollywood was
New York again for a long time,
except—he met the champion of inimical to married life, she smiled,
"Not if you're married to Jack
the world, Jack Dempsey.
"Why don't you try New York?" Benny."
Jack Dempsey asked.
The Metro-Goldwyn-51ayer Stu-
"I did—and flopped twice."
dio. officials are preparing Jack
"Put her there,' said Dempsey Benny to follow in the footsteps
—" so did I. It's stage fright— of the debonair William Powell.
the people are the same there as
This seems like a large under-
anywhere else—I found that out taking. But—they know Jack
—it was me. Go on back and lick Benny.
'em."
The radio and screen star has
"I tried that too," said Jack but one regret. His mother died
Benny.
at the dawn of his success. Father
"But you didn't lick yourself and son talk of her every time
first," returned the champion.
they meet.
Benny returned to the Palace.
D•op) right. Ike,• A A. F
This time he was not the same.
The taut, nervous manner had
This picture shows how the Jamestown
gone. The second week he was SAMUEL, BEARSTED
moved to fourth on the bill.
LEAVE FOR LONDON
Colonists
exchanged tobacco for brides.
"How'd you do it?" I asked.
And here is a picture of the modern
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE I)
"I kidded Brooklyn," was the
They paid "120 pounds of the best leaf"
answer.
auction warehouse of today where the
those who must remain by pra Idiot
for
transportation
of
each
futurewife
who
a
"big
was
From then on he
economic aid, education In •Peci•I
timer" in vaudeville, and by "kid- w horde for Jewish children. all of whom
same type of leaf tobacco is sold on the
came
to
the
New
World
from
England.
are.
or
shortly
will
he,
barred
from
ding" all the acts each week, he
public *Moo., aid In trelnIng and emi-
open market to the highest bidder.
often remained in one city for a gmting Mow who ran leave Germany,
immediate emergency aid for Mo. who
month.
no one flee to tom to.
Always he carried his violin— have
Paged: To ...In the entire 'oriel
and did not play.
f &Mir and economic life of three mil-
One afternoon Bert Wheeler hid lion 1..1v. ho •re on the Net. of de ,
don Aid includ. euhrentions to
his violin. "I had to hurry out and Ntru ■
borrow another one before I could tenence of Iii
etitutIone. ech.ls for tens of thou.nds
go on."
of children who have no other educa•
The violin act became famous tional opportunities. child feeding of a.
and had many imitators in the many .. 20,000 a dey In RN/01S. and of
ILO. *dulls; training of yo... Pow.
vaudeville world.
and adults for agricult use and new
Now a headliner, he again met
l Oa, UMW.* Creche-
the Marx Brothers in Vancouver. vaII. maaw, Le
clotakta, and etlwr parts at IC...
They took the young vaudeville Fun)... Medical gal, huec•re and
with "the line of patter" to the
' ■ nornle reh•nilitetion
Refugee Coastwise
t Retraining, legal
Id.
home of Mary Livingston. They ethics.
of funds for
and old,
saw something of each other dur- (case' to pl.. of permanent Bettie'
ing the week. A desultory corres- num! Iodating Palestine
The Juedische Heimspeisung
pondence followed, and then
soup kitchens maintained in Ber-
stopped.
He later played Los Angeles— lin for the feeding of needy Jews,
for six weeks. Ile met Miss Liv- served 71,361 free meals during
■
ingston again. She was then the the year 1935, according to
competent young buyer for a report made by that organization
to
the
American
Jewish
Joint
"style shop."
Distribution Committee, 7 Han-
They were married.
Harry Rapt, M-G-51 official, was over Street, New York City. The
in the audience during Jack's last report also shows that 15.024
week. He was casting for "Holly- food packages were supplied to
wood Revue of 1939•—and signed needy families.
The work of the Juedische
Jack to a long-term contract. He
LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.
next appeared in "Chasing Rain- Heimtheisung is subventioned by
bows." Then idle for months, at the Joint Distribution Commit-
$1,500 a week, he became restless. tee through the 7,entral Ausschuss
Getting an offer to appear in in Berlin, central agency for Jew-
Earl C.arroll's "Vanities," he ish emergency aid and reconstruc-
0 le* UNIT & &Erns Tobacco Ca
asked and obtained his release tion within Germany.

OLONIAL HOTEL

Hollywood's
Little Napoleon

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What Will Happen to German Jewish Youth
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