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Unified systenis of propaganda are very frequently suspect. The crea- tion of an "information bur- eau" by the government, for instance, is not always taken at its face value as a medium for disseminating facts. Sophisti- cated people are wont to sus- pect that its purpose is to pro- mote the government in slower or cover up its mistakes. The term "organized propaganda" has a subtle connotation which does not carry favorably in the minds of many people. The very fact that Jews are without a propaganda machine is in itself an answer to many charges levelled against them. A plot to overthrow the world cannot be carried on by a ma- chine which is divided and bro- ken and through its disunion is ineffective and impotent. The charge of an organized conspir- acy against something or other is seen to be a hollow farce once its instruments of propa- ganda have been closely ex- , amined. A VIRTUE WITH AN OUTSTANDING WEAKNESS But this virtue has also been an outstanding weakness. With- out a unified propaganda ma- chine with a carefully planned policy of defense the Jews have been unable to adopt an effec- tive approach against anti- Semitism. Our lack of a pro- per 'strategy has been responsi- ble for a supreme mistake, which is that our defense has been purely negative. We have devoted ourselves to answering libels to prove that we are not intent upon controlling the world, either by a capitalist conspiracy to rule it or a com- munist conspiracy to overthrow it. We have been busy trying to show that Jews are arsonists, criminals, or sharp in business practices. The result has been that we have created a negative approach toward the Jew. The Christian has come to regard him in the light of his faults rather than of his virtues. There has developed a school of constructive defense of the Jew among Christians, but it Is largely impotent. The defense is nearly always carried on by religionists and it is based upon the contention that the Jews are the people of the Book. It is mystical rather than practical; related to eternalities rather than to realities. The average Christian is not concerned that Judaism is the mother of Chris- tianity, for his judgment of the Jew Is based upon present-day concepts. The approach to his mind must be in terms of such realities, which Is the Chris- tian's only criterion. There Is need for a new kind of strategy both for Christians who are anxious to defend Jews and for Jews who are bent upon defending themselves. This need is to create a constructive approach toward the Jew. What the present negative approach has done may be seen from the fact that the average individ- ual can name the alleged faults of the Jew in half a minute. But ask him to name the vir- tues of the Jew and he will have a pretty difficult tinie enumerating them in half an hour, if at all. WHAT ME MUST IMPRESS UPON CHRISTIANS I am not saying that we ought to stop proving libels wrong. The need to refute slanders is imperative. But at the same time we ought to be- gin telling the world, and have our Christian friends tell the world, that we have many assets which are valuable to it, so that when a man is asked to enuin- crate our good points he will not have to rack his brains to find out what they are. We need to get Christians into the habit of thinking that the Jews are one of the most law-abiding elements; that they are charitable and humane and concerned with the welfare of the common man; that they have a solid sobriety in a world which drowns its sorrows in al- cohol; that they practice a noble ideal of the family and have a high sense of responsi- bility toward it; that they are concerned with the serious and important in life, toward the end of making it more livable; that they are a peace-loving people who shun war and vio- lence as a means of settling dis- putes, These are a few of the things The lug Angeles and Hollywood chapter of the Mailamm held a re- we need to impress upon Chris- ception and musicale in honor of tians. When a Christian knows its honorary national vice-presi- of these characteristics and dent, Bronislaw Huberman, world weighs our alleged foibles in re- renowned violinist, in the first :a:1;z named city this week. our vices are not so important There is an Anglo-Jewish pub-1 or serious as he always believed Usher who is now girding his them to be and that our good loins to invade the New York field. SCREEN'S NO.1 O. MAN CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE who has suffered much, of a sen- sitive soul edged with steel to bet- ter understand the shocks of the world. By temperament he is a dream- er, with keen perceptions and ap- preciations. In ability as an ac- tor he ranks with Charles Laugh- ton. His sense of humor is more mel- ancholy than boisterous. I once saw him smile at a cinema bill- ing, GEORGE RAFT supported by SIR GUY STANDING In "The Good Earth," Muni plays 18 different periods, from youth to extreme old age. The Chinese contours of his face are achieved by "facial inlays"—plas- tic moulds that fit the face ex- actly. A "standin" wore each mask for 10 hours to make sure it would not cause discomfort be- fore it was tried on Muni. It required many months of pa- tient experimenting before the 18 "makeups" were finally agreed upon. Paul Muni wits born of Jewish parents in Austria. They were strolling players. Before he was five years old, he had travelled with them through the principal countries of Europe. Though he was not allowed to act when a child, his father having other plans for his future, the boy ab- sorbed everything pertaining to the stage. His real name is Muni Weisenfreund., He is 39 years of age. Ile came with his parents to America when he was seven years old. They remained in New York and enrolled Paul in the public schools, where he quickly learned to speak enough English to act as their interpreter and teacher. The wanderers took to the road again, and settled in Cleveland, where Paul's father be- came a theatrical producer in a small way. A rather sad, ideal- istic man, he managed and acted in his productions. The future actor's mother also played various roles. Muni first appeared on the stage when he was in the second year of high school. One of the ac- tors had departed suddenly. His parents had no money to hire an- other. Paul took his place. The play was one of the strang- est that an Austrian Jew, but seven years in America, could pos- sibly have produced. It has the cheerful title of "Two Corpses at Breakfast," and concerned a lodge in which a starving husband and wife conspired to collect the benefits due to each. Paul was the president of the lodge. Ile wore long pants, a beard and a high silk hat. Walking on the stage, he swung a cane nonchalantly. To Paul's father all was sacred in the world of make-believe. Ile saw no humor in a 14-year-old boy in such a role. Muni's mother was horrified when he refused to take off the long pants after the play. "Who would consider the president of a lodge, or an actor, in knee pants?" he asked her. Ills father had mapped another career for hint; he was to be the world's greatest violinist. The father's income from all his thea- trical adventuring was never more than $40 a week. Out of that amount he spent $6 on violin les- sons for Paul. "Some day, when you become a great player, I shall buy you a Stradivari," he would say, while Paul played discordant music,"Wonderful! Wonderful!" The fond father told the boy all he knew of Liszt, Ole Bull and other musicians. For to him, caught up in the distracting prob- lems of a workaday world, the music from heaven came to earth through the violin. As poverty had always hounded the gentle parent, it was to deal him a last long blow. His son had no especially strong desire for the stage until he had impersonated the lodge president. From then on, it.was the all-ab- sorbing interest of his life. As the months passed, he no longer cared for the violin. Finally he told his father. The parent listened without saying a word, while, boy- like, Paul did not realize he had stricken hint to the heart. With- out a change of expression, his father took the violin and broke it with his hands. How vividly the son remembers. "The years may have given me much or little; but never the pow- er to obliterate that scene. I can- not forget my father's eyes. We did not discuss the violin again." For other reasons, his soother did not approve of his ambition to become an actor. She would often say to his father, "You know the boy cannot act." His mothers antagonism toward his career became so acute that they hardly spoke to each other for several years. At last the boy said, "Mother —we must make a truce—for his sake. Let's not discuss my work again—until you can approve of it." His mother agreed. This pact was never broken. Though his father, still remem- bering, made no comment on Paul's striving, he was kind and helpful. Besides being an ambryo actor, Paul became musician, stage car- penter and prompter in his fa- ther's company. As there were! few juvenile roles, Paul was soon' given "old men's parts." Unknowing, he was on the road that led to fame. Ile spent many hours a day in the theater, "making up" for diffi- cult roles. In time his father smiled approval. Later, a brother studied the violin. The heart of Paul's father softened. "My father died from over- work and worry while I was still a young fellow. " The family disbknded. For the next 10 years Paul wandered about America, playing points by far overshadow our so-called bad ones. Knowing these things he is likely to look at the Jew in a new light. wherever opportunity offered. For several months, "between shows," he was a juggler with a burlesque show. In all the shifting scenes of life, I know of none more pathetic. Once, in New York, he met the world's greatest juggler, who is now his neighbor. "My boy," he said, "I'm afraid you'll never make a juggler." "Why?" asked Muni. "Because," answered W. C. Fields, "your eyes are too sad." Ile had then, as now, a diffi- dence which verged on shyness. By an odd twist, he had chosen a profession in which this quality was out of Mace. With a deep yearning for something fine in life, he had absorbed the Yiddish folk lore, the hopes, dreams and frustrations of his people. "No- where in America was I ever made conscious that I was a Jew." With a reverent pride in his heritage, and long years of train- ing, he became associated with Maurice Schwartz at the Yiddish Art Theater in New York. As usual, he played many old men's parts. His work ,helped spread the fame of the little theater over New York. More than a year passed before a greater chance came. Sam Har- ris wanted an actor to play the part of an old man in "We Amer- icans." Ile sent for Muni. When Paul appeared, Mr. Harris walked away in disgust, saying, "Why he's just a kid." After much insistence, Harris gave him the role. Later, when George Abbott was about to produce "Four Walls," he discussed it with Sant Harris, When another man in the office suggested that Muni be used in the play, Harris said, "Why Paul Muni only plays old men's parts." Becoming sterotyped in the minds of producers is also a prob- lem in the theater. Mr. Harris was wrong,. After successful runs in "We Americans" and "Four Walls," Muni really became fam- ous in the role of an attorney of his own age in "Counselor at Law." Then the portals of Hollywood opened. lie reached the cinema city after much deliberation. His first film was "Scarface," depicting a shoddily passing gang- ster phase in the history of Amer- ica. Muni gave the role of the gangster a dynamic fervor. While the picture was highly successful commercially, it added little to his stature as an artist. His struggle in Hollywood has since been to obtain screen ma- terial that he considers worthy. He was seen in many mediocre films until cast as the lead in "The Story of Louis Pasteur." To pre- pare himself for the role. he stud- ied every phase 'of the great Frenchman's life for months. An even larger opportunity has been given him by Irving Thalberg in The Good Earth." His mother came to hint after the preview of a successful pic- ture. Holding out the now wrink- led hand that had soothed him as a child, she said, "1 ant proud of you, 8011 " —the one-time actress on the road of Europe controlled herself. "There is only one thing—" ieh' was it, mother?" tr wasn't here." "Are you sure, mother? Ile guided me all through the film." STEINBERG SPEAKS AT SHAAREY ZEDEK SACHAR TO SPEAK STOP JEW-BAITING HERE ON TUESDAY SHAW ASKS HITLER I Mork. Before many months had passed the University of Illinois Hillel Foundation had become so pheno- menally successful that the B'nai Writh asked Dr. Sachar if he would assume the national stew- ardship of the movement. Ile ac- cepted the challenge and the pres- ent high esteem in which the foundations are held throughout the country is due in no small measure to the enthusiasm and ability of their leader. Dr. Sachar is brought to De- troit by the Men's Club of Temple Beth El. Admission to his address which commmences at 8:30 p. Tuesday in the Chapel of Temple Beth El, is upon presentation of membership cards in the Men's Club. Members may bring their wives on their cards. Non-members other than wives of members, will be charged 35 cents. FLOOD SUFFERERS NEED YOUR IIELP: (CON( LADED FROM PAGE ONE) (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1) as a public speaker had surpassed his position as teacher. Dr, Sacher was an instructor in history at the University of Illi- nois when the late Rabbi Benjamin F'rankel founded the first Hillel Foundation on that campus. The pedagogue became intensely inter- ested in the foundation idea, and when Rabbi Frankel died, Sachar was asked to carry on with the King David. He cannot get over the fact that the lost tribes of Israel expose us all to the suspi- cion (sometime, as in Abyssinia, to the boast) that we are those lost tribes, or at least that we must have absorbed them. I there- fore urge upon him that his anti- Sentitism and national exclusive- ness must be pathological; a craze, a complex, a bee in his bonnet, a hole in his armor, a hitch in his statesmanship, one of those lesions which sometimes prove fatal. As it has no logical connection with! 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