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Sabbath Readings of the Law •
Pentateuchal portion Lev. 1:1-5:26.
Prophetical portion—ls. 43 :21-44:23.
March 27, 1936
Nisan 4, 5696
Fred M. Butzel—Fund-Raiser
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Fred M. Butzel is everything but a fund-
raiser. He can inspire others to get money
but he himself is better suited to build the
philosophy around a campaign. During
the decades he has devoted to community
work he has distinguished himself on many
fronts, but never as a collecter of monies.
He was the chairman of a Palestine fund-
raising drive about 12 years ago, and the
period of the campaign was a most in-
teresting community experience. He in-
jected into the drive his charming person-
ality and the campaigners had a great
time of the pro-Palestine month. But the
net result was far from being a howling
BUMS.
Last year Mr. Butzel, to resort to a ver-
nacular, "broke the ice" and accepted the
chairmanship of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Except for the partial success of
the Old Folks' Home appeal in the drive,
the campaign was the first fund-raising
success in several years, and workers were
heartened to know that their efforts mark-
ed the beginning of a return to normal.
This year Mr. Butzel, the traditional
fund-raising failure, has again been draft-
ed for leadership in the drive, and in spite
of the belief that the selected chairman
belongs in every other post but in the one
which requires the leading effort in secur-
ing the needed relief funds, workers are so
encouraged as to feel that Mr. Butzel's
chairmanship marks the first assurance of
success in this year's drive.
The reason for such confie Ace and en-
thusiasm is obvious. Mr. Butzel, more than
any other Detroiter, has inspired the young
people of our community. Ile was the
teacher of our young men and their guide
in community service. These young men
now form the vanguard in all our commu-
nity efforts. They are the campaigners,
the social service leaders, the contribu-
tors as well as the collectors of contribu-
tions. And at the head of this army stands
their teacher—Fred M. Butzel.
It is no wonder, therefore, that Fred M.
Butzel, the fund-raising "failure," now
becomes a howling fund-raising success.
We greet Mr. Butzel, the chairman of
the 1936 Allied Jewish Campaign, with a
feeling of confidence that he and the drive
he is to lead will be highly successful.
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Forty years of literary effort, 25 years
of which were spent as editor of the "Zu-
kunft," have more than earned for Abra-
ham Liessin the honors which are now
being bestowed upon him by Jewish liter-
ary circles throughout the world.
Mr. Liessin is one of an important group
of Jewish intellectuals who, although they
devoted their major activities to Socialism,
nevertheless retained so much of Jewish
devotion and interest as to perpetuate their
works and to cause them to be ranked
among the great contributors to Jewish
life.
In the most interesting special edition
of the "Zukunft" just issued to honor Mr.
Liessin's anniversary, important references
are made to the fact that as far back as
1903 Mr. Liessin severely reprimanded
those Jewish Socialists for whom the mere
mention of the term Palestine was abomin-
ation. In his tribute to Mr. Liessin, Hillel
Rogoff refers to an article by Liessin in
the Forward of Oct. 24, 1903, in which the
eminent editor and writer wrote that if
Jews were permitted to live a free national
life in Palestine they would "teach
the nations to live Socialistically, just as
they taught them to think Sccialistically."
Anyone who 32 years ago could write in
such terms deserves the highest respect for
retaining his mental balance both as a So-
cialist and as a Jew as the time when the
two terms were held by many to be in-
consistent.
Mere reference to the numerous tributes
contained in the Liessin issue of the "Zu-
kunft" is sufficient proof of the re-
spect in which this eminent journalist is
held throughout the world, Among those
who honor him in special articles are Prof.
Simeon Dubnow, Zalmon Schneur, Peretz
Hirschbein, Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky, Prof.
Croll, Dr. S. Bernstein, B. Vladeck, Dr.
A. Ginsburg, David Pinski, Abraham Rei-
sin, Esther Frumkin, Morris Winchewsky,
David Einhorn, S. Niger, Dr. A. Coralnick,
Daniel Perski, and a score of others.
It is more than a privilege, it is a dis-
tinct honor to be able to add our own trib-
ute to those of the eminent men to whom
we have just made reference.
Our Choice for Gottheil Medal
We are called upon once again to join
in selecting the awardee for the Gottheil
Medal, presented annually by Zeta Beta
Tau Fraternity to the American who has
done the most for Jewry during the past
year.
This year we feel that the medal should
go to President Roosevelt because of his
consistent condemnation of persecutions,
religious intolerance and racial bigotry.
His recent greeting to the University in
Exile, his address on the occasion of Na-
tional Brotherhood Day sponsored by the
National Conference of Jews and Chris-
tians, his statements to Catholic groups
during the p r o t eats that have been
made against the persecution of Catholics
in Mexico and on several other occasions
he provided comfort not only to those of
us in this country who are concerned over
the status of oppressed beings throughout
the world, but also to the oppressed in nu-
merous countries.
Our second choice for this year's award
is Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn. If it were not
for the fact that we are selecting Presi-
dent Roosevelt for first choice at a time
when we are so deeply worried over re-
ligious and racial intolerance, Dr. Lewi-
sohn would rank highest in our estimation
for the honor about to be awarded through
thepresentation of the Gottheil Medal.
Dr. Lewisohn is one of the very great
creative Jewish geniuses of our time. His
re-evaluation of Jewish cultural and his-
torical values have given new dignity to
Jewish aspirations, to the Jewish desire for
independent expression culturally and na-
tionally and have helped in the movement
which seeks to provide the Jew with an
erect stature.
We don't know of two other man whom
we would at this time select for the Gott-
heil honor—unless we were again to name
Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the
Nation, who was our choice two years ago.
An Effort Deserving Emulation
The Labor Chest for Relief and Libera-
tion of Workers of Europe has issued a
statement under the heading "An Inspiring
Example," in which the International Lad-
ies' Garment Workers' Union is com-
mended for propagating the boycott of
German-made goods. The Chest's state-
ment reads:
The February 1 issue of Justice, official
organ of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union, contains the following im-
portant notice prominently displayed on its
front page:
"The Union is calling upon all manu-
facturers in industries making women's
garments to refuse to have German-made
machines or machine parts installed in their
factories. Our workers will positively re-
fuse to work on such machines as they have
beeen refusing to patronize any German-
made goods in support of the nation-wide
boycott which is now In progress."
The Labor Chest heartily recommends the
action taken by the powerful International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to all labor
bodies in the United States and Canada. The
struggle between organized labor and Fascism
is a struggle of life and Jeath. Fascist vic-
tory spells labor's doom; the breakdown of all
institutions which labor has succeeded in
building up in decades of heart-breaking work.
This is war. Only an unceasing warfare dili-
gently directed at the weak spots of the
enemy's armor can assure labor's victory.
It is clear at this time that the only way
of smashing Nazism, unless it is to come
as the result of a war, is by means of the
economic weapon. While a great deal has
already been accomplished through con-
sistent boycott efforts, the goal has not yet
been achieved, and Germany is making a
desperate attempt to break the boycott by
means of dumping her goods and under-
selling the merchandise of other countries.
It stands to reason that very often it
becomes necessary to make a sacrifice and
to pay more for other goods rather than
accept German-made articles. This is an
important point to remember in propagat-
ing the boycott, and no one who has the
cause of liberty and decency at heart must
permit a lower price to cause him to for-
get the basic issues involved in the present
struggle against the Nazi regime.
Every effort, especially those of the type
resorted to by the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' union, must be com-
mended, encouraged and emulated.
The Furtwaengler Incident
Even if Wilhelm Furtwaengler were not
an out-and-out Nazi, the movement to bar
him from directing the New York Phil-
harmonic Symphony Society was a justi-
fied one because the principle was at stake
of accepting a representative of the Nazi
government—even if he himself is at heart
anti-Nazi—for an important post in this
country. By quitting the proferred post
voluntarily Furtwaengler avoided a great
deal of annoyance for himself and a storm
of protest on the part of those in this coun-
try who are concerned that the freedom
of our institutions should be guaranteed.
Since Furtwaengler quit, however, it has
been revealed that he has accepted all of
the Nazi tactics by eliminating a composi-
tion by the Jewish composer Mendelssohn
from the program of his concert in Buda-
pest. As a result, liberals and Jews boy-
cotted his concert. Evidently the Ameri-
can boycotters were not in the wrong when
A Gloomy Picture
they caused a storm of protests against
Dr. John Haynes Holmes—"the one bringing to this country a director who
and only John Haynes Holmes" as Dr. started out by being anti-Nazi but who has
Stephen S. Wise calls him—painted a since fallen under the influence of Hitler
gloomy picture of the future in Germany and his cohorts.
when he told the Detroit Institute on Re-
ligion conducted here recently by Jews,
The month's gold star goes to the Mil-
Catholics and Protestants: "Hitler's re-
gime is here, and here to stay. God help waukee Jewish community, the first large
the rest of the world." Dr. Holmes believes American city to complete its United Pal-
that there is little hope that the church in estine Appeal drive and to oversubscribe
Germany will ever untangle itself from the its quota.
oppression of Hitler.
It is a civic and human duty for every
If there is so little hope for the un-
tangling of the church from Nazi chains, one to contribute to the Red , Cross fund
.a% hat may Jews and other minority groups for the relief of the flood sufferers. If
you have not as yet made your contribu-
hope for?
Isn't the answer, therefore, emigration? tions, do so NOW.
Lights from
Shadowland
I SAW IT MYSELF
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
deli,"WitTuliapi slontior of V:. * Bet;
Arts Feature SybdicalL CopfrIghters of
this testae..
(Copyright, 1931, a A. P. 11.)
STUDIO NEWS FLASHES
An original story by Leo Bin.
inski has been purchased by Pick-
ford-Lasky Productions, it was an-
nounced by Jesse L. Lasky, presi-
dent and production chief of the
new United Artists producing or-
ganization. Reuben Mamoulian will
direct the picture when it goes be-
fore the cameras on May 1.
Sally Eilers is back on the Hol-
lywood set after a session with
the flu.
Sam (Schlepperman) Hearn
was greatly surprised when his
wife wired him a birthday break-
fast, complete with flowers, all the
way from Freeport, Long Island.
Louis Friedlander begins work
this week on Universal's produc-
tion. "What Price Parole?" a
dramatic denunciation of the pres-
ent laxity in paroling criminals.
Sally Unterberger is co-author of
the story and Julius Bernheim is
the producer. •
By now you have read of the
sale of Universal Studios by Carl
L a e rn in I e for $5,500,000. Mr.
Laemmle who is the founder and
president of the corporation which
was established 30 years ago, is
to remain as chairman of the
boar d. William Koenig, studio
manager, Laemmle and other Uni-
versal production and sales exe-
cutives are holding conferences
this week to plan next season's
program.
Jeffrey Bernerd, sales manager
of Gaumont-British Film Co., will
be on his way back to England by
the time you read this column. He
carries in his pockets completed
plans for the distribution of his
company's products in the United
States. He left Hollywood for San
Francisco then to New York and
London.
Prominent visitors in Hollywood
and the movie studios this week
included Morris Levinson of
Rochester, New York, secretary
and general manager of Hart's
Food Stores, Inc., the largest in-
dependent retail grocers in Roches-
ter, N. Y. and vicinity.
Igor Gorin, European opera
star, has been given a new long-
term contract by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, the studio which brought
him from Europe. Since coming
to this country Gorin has become
one of the most popular singing
stars of the radio over "Holly-
wood Hotel" program. He is to
continue these national broadcasts,
except when film production activi-
ties prevent him.
Norma Shearer is having the
dress she wears in the balcony
scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
copied as an evening gown . .
Luise Rainer getting so tanned
while on location that she'll be able
to dispense with dark make-up.
We hear the powers that be at
Universal are not very keen about
filming a picture based on the life
of Ilaym Solomon and the story
of this great Jew's part in the
Revolutionary War.
When Hollywood learned that
Chaplin's new picture was barred
from exhibition in Germany by
Hitler, Eddie Cantor said the fa-
mous comedian had no one but
himself to blame. "It was Char-
l ie's mistake," Cantor remarked,
"in not consulting the German
holder of the moustache copy-
right."
PRODUCER OF CHAMPION
PICTURES
here's a list of some of the
many great honors and awards
t hat have come to David 0. Selz-
nick, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
who is now president of Selznick
International Pictures. Ile is the
only producer who had two of his
productions listed among the "best
ten" on the Film Daily poll for
1934-35. In 1934 he was represent-
ed by "Dinner at Eight" and "Viva
Villa." In 1935 his contributions
to this exceptional honor roll were
"David Copperfield" and "Anna
Karenina." Of a total of 451 votes
cast, "Copperfield" received 335.
Selznick was the only producer
responsible for two of the pictures
listed by the National Board of
Review as the most popular and
entertaining films of 1935; he was
awarded the Mussolini Cup for
1935 after the International Mo-
tion Picture Exposition, held in
Italy, had voted "Anna Karenina"
the best motion picture made in
any country in that year. lie was
hailed by Quigley Publications as
the producer of more box office
champions than any other pro-
ducer in the last two years. This
great producer ran first, second
and third on the City of Rochester's
selections for the best pictures of
1935. lie was presented with a
gold medal of honor by the Parents
Magazine, representing half a
million mothers and fathers for
his production of "David Copper-
field ;" he was awarded the Medal
of Honor and Citation by the In-
ternational Festival of Motion
Pictures as Brussels for the best
film made in 1935; the three big-
gest money-making pictures turned
out by MGM in recent years were
all Selznick productions. What a
man! What a producer!
Tidbits from Everywhere
The Slow Death of the Jews in the Slums of Warsaw
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By DR. BERNARD HELLER
Director of Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan
(cop ) right 1936. S. A. F. 8
EDITOR'S NOTE: The anti-Semitic forces in Poland have broken loose. In Prbytyk and near.
by town. pogroms on a most brutal scale are taking place. The government, despite
its protestations of good will towards its Jewish population, has been unable to check
the rioting hooligans. Dr. Bernard Heller, an astute ob r, well-trained to draw con•
elusions, visited Poland • few months ago. With uncanny intuition he foresaw the
present pogroms. We present herewith his article on the slum. of Warsaw. We will
publish further articles on the Polish Jewish situation, based on personal investigation
and study by Dr. Heller.
(Copyright, 1936, Seven Arts Feature 13/ndicate)
One of the most depressing experiences of
my life was the walk that I took through the
Jewish slums of Warsaw. I saw tenement houses
that were indescribably dilapidated and whose
walls hadn't seen a coat of paint for decades.
The so-called apartments consisted mostly of a
large room which was used jointly as a kitchen,
bedroom, and a dining place. If the room of that
apartment had a large window and a private
faucet in addition to the common faucet in the
courtyard, then it was deemed an apartment with
conveniences. In the courtyard of these tene-
ments there were dozens of children who were
supposed to be playing, but if you loo:.ed closely
at their faces and studied them, you would see
that the unsanitary conditions under which they
lived and the malnutrition deprived them of the
vivacity and naturalness which come with young-
sters. It was pathetic to see babies lying on
the ground, a thin sheet separating them from
the dirty and cold soil and their mothers with
bent back over the tubs were scrubbing or rins-
ing a tattered short or dress.
The basements of these tenements, which in
America we would consider unfit as the abode
of cats or dogs, are used as stories and also as
dwellings. In these cellar-holes, you will find
a cobbler cutting his leather or repairing the
sole or the heel of a shoe. You will find a tailor
sewing patches on an old pair of trousers, which
I thought never could be used again. These
very workshops were also used as living rooms
and bedrooms.
Coming out of one of the court yards near
the open market place where hundreds of Jews
were selling and buying things to wear, which
we would be ashamed to give to the Salvation
Army, I stumbled into a man who was telling
the woeful news of the morning to his wife,
who had brought him his noon meal, if such we
can call it. My attention was attracted by the
wail and sad tone of his voice. The complain-
ant was a coal vender. His establishment con-
sisted of a hole in the cellar and about 500
pounds of coal and a scale. That morning the
tax collector came and made an appraisal of the
coal and the scale and left him a statement de-
manding the quarterly payment of I can't recall
the exact number of zlotys. It was evident from
the discussion with his wife that the sum was
more than he could muster. "I guess the govern-
ment will levy this scale as it did the last one
lad we will have to run to Moishe to weigh
every few pounds of coal we shall sell," was her
stoic retort and as she said that her eyes moist-
ened and tears began to trick down her cheeks.
Jews Are Taxed Out of Existence
If the tax impositions of the government
bear heavily upon small merchants, they threaten
to crush these commercial and industrial enter-
prises to which Jews have been drawn.
In studying the activities of the government
in this sphere, I became more convinced that its
objective is the economic starvation and strangu-
lation of Polish Jewry. Poland is vehemently
opposed to Communism and Socialism and yet
it has been appropriating to itself economic ac-
tivities and businesses which have always been
considered the province of private effort except
under socialistic and enterprises with which Jews
have been and are associated.
Now when the government engages in such
business, it is impossible for the private individ-
uals to compete with it. They can't extend the
credit which the government can and they are
handicapped by the payments of heavy taxes
from which the government enterprise is exempt.
The private industry may for some period con-
tinue to exist, but in the course of time it is
bound to go under. Jews of Poland were inter-
ested a great deal in lumber yielding forests,
salt, naphtha and coal industries. The govern-
ment has already taken over the forest and lum-
ber business and is slowly but surely proceeding
to take over the others. In the beginning they
kept the Jews in the employ of those industries.
At the same time they placed besides them Poles
to learn the business and after they learnt the
business, they dismissed the Jews.
If the Polish government subscribed to a
program of socialization of what was formerly
private industries, but in its employment policies
would manifest an attitude of equality towards
all people, then no charge of discrimination could
justly be levelled against it. But here we find •
the disease of which I spoke more flagrantly
manifested than anywhere else.
Jews constitute about 10 per cent ht the
population and pay 56 per cent of the taxes.
One out of every five persons in Poland is a
civil or government employee. Now the Jews
are practically entirely excluded from such posts.
In Bialstock, which is a city of a 100,000
Pioneer Jews Wanted
By the HON. ALEXANDER A. TROYANOVSKY
Ambassador of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to United
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persuestly in 1914.
The foundation of Jewish settle-,
ment in Biro-Bidjan on March 28.
1928, was acclaimed by the Soviet
Union, and the decision, on May
7, 1934, to form the Province of
Biro-Bidjan was celebrated by the
entire population of the U. S. S. R.
While in some countries aU of
the people Incited against the Jew-
ish part, in our country you may
hear the slogan "The whole Soviet
Union is helping to build Biro-
Bidjan." Workers and peasants
from all sections of the Soviet
Union have sent presents and good
wishes to the newly created Jewish
province.
This Jewish province hu great
natural resources, and its area-
Strictly
Confidential
24,000 square miles—is equal to
that of Belgium and Holland com-
bined. The province contains near-
ly 10 million acres of timber suit-
able for export. The forests abound
with far-braving animals, such
as sables, foxes and bears. The
rivers are rich in fish. In addition
there are varied mineral resources
In Sutar there are gold-digging
operations. Along the Minims
mountains are great reserves of
iron ore, about half a billion tons
of pure iron. These reserves are
now in process of exploration• and
our government has decided to
build a metallurgical plant in the
near future with a capacity of
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population, there are over 60,000 Jews. There
are about 1,500 municipal employees. One will
not find in that city even a Jewish policeman,
not to mention officials of higher dignity and in-
fluence.
The relentlesspolicy of economic strangula-
tion of Polish Jewry seemed to me to be myoptic
as well as brutal. Were not the Poles aware
of the fact, I asked myself, that the material
prosperity of Poland is bound to suffer with the
economic ruin of a substantial fraction of its
citizens? Do they not see that their course is
bound to bring about the utter impoverishment
of Polish Jewry? What do they plan or pro-
pose t• do with those Jews who find themselves
trapped in Poland because they lack the sub-
stance and the means to flee ere they be reduced
to destitution and beggary? Do they not realize
that Jews like any other people must have some
means of earning a livelihood—and that if they
will be made unwelcome in or be disqualified from
joining the labor guilds and if the Polish farmer
will make it difficult for a Jew to obtain and cul-
tivate land in his vicinity—and if the govern-
ment will persist in taxing his little business to
death or with its limitless resources enter in
ruinous competition with those enterprises in
which Jews predominate, and that when he is
forced to surrender, he will be excluded from
any government post or job, then how do they
expect him to sustain himself? Do they not
see that such conditions are bound to drive the
victims to a dangerous desperation. It is from
such victims that revolutionists are recruited.
Can't Poland see what happened to Russia be-
cause of such a policy and program?
Twilight Followed by Despair
When I went through the Jewish slums of
Warsaw I saw white-bearded old Jews with pale
emaciated faces sitting either on the steps of
their hovels or at crude tables in their dingy
rooms and poring over the portfolios of what I
recognized from the distance to be tractates of
the Talmud. On the very same street a few
steps from where such an old man sat not in-
frequently a shabbily dressed girl may have been
seen beckoning with her eye strangers who passed
by. The proximity of the old man absorbed in
sacred script and these women of questionable
reputation and virtue was puzzling until my
guide informed me that these girls are driven to
that life by sheer deprivation and actual hunger
and that they may be the very daughters of
these sad and mystic old men. How can the
Poles look upon such involuntary degradation
with equanimity?
I put these questions to some distinguished
Poles who I assumed to be enlightened and hu-
mane. Now knowing that I was a Jew, they
were frank and open with their explanations or
rationalizations. The following was the reply
of a university instructor: "The Jews are rich.
We Poles are too wise to worry about the Jewish
poor. They have world Jewry and the Jewish
international bankers to fall back upon. All con-
cern and commiseration is due to the poor Polish
workers and farmer." His justification of the
government's entrance into the economic enter-
prises or businesses in which Jews particularly
were engaged revealed not a socialistic or al-
truistic but ah anti-Jewish motivation. "Poland
will attain political autonomy and national free-
dom only when its commerce and industry will
be in the possession and control of Poles instead
of Jewish and aliens groups," he protested. I
tried to show him how unfair and unjust this anti-
Jewish policy is. I explained to him my convic-
tion that its effects will be deleterious not merely
upan the group against whom it is aimed, but
that it is bound to deter Poland from becoming
the great and liberal republic which its followers
and devotees dreamed it would be.
In his reply he endeavored to deny the
charge that he or the Polish government was
anti-Semitic. "We do not hate the Jews; we
merely love the Poles and if a choice must be
made between consideration and welfare of the
Jews and that of the Poles, is it not natural
for us to be favorably disposed to the latter?
The Jews are lucky that our party controls the
government. Sad would be their lot if our
opponents, the National Democratic Party, would
get into power. They are as avowedly anti-
&Mit ie as are the German Nazis. They may not
subscribe to any race theories of the auperiority
of Slavic blood, but as to their hostility to the
Jews, they do not take a back seat even to the
followers of Hitler." I felt more sad as I began
to realize that his assertions were not devoid of
truth. The trying period which the Jews of
Poland are going through is but the twilight
which, God forbid, may be followed by a night
of utter darkness and despair.
What's Wrong
With Our Jewish
Defense Strategy?
By MENTOR
It has always been true of
the Jews that they have been
among the world's worst apolo-
gists. The reason for this is
that there has rarely, if ever,
been unity among them. The
Catholic Church, with its sys-
tym of organization and bier-
archial authority, is able to in-
stitute a method of defense and
propaganda which is directed
by a central power. But the
Jews are divided into many dif-
ferent parties, each of which
has a mocks operandi of its
own and our systems of de-
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RAWTHER INTERESTING
Wilhelm Furtwaengler's with-
drawal from his appointment as
musical director of the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Society
was not a 100 per cent voluntary
gesture . . The directors of the
society advised him in detail of
the opposition his appointment had
engendered and tactfully suggest-
ed this way out . . . Incidentally,
the job originally intended for
Furtwaengler will probably go to
Leopold Stokowski.
The New Deal is banking heavily
on Governor Lehman's immense
Jewish following to carry New
York State for Roosevelt this No-
vember.
Frau Yetta Levy-Stein, German
Jewish leader, is panicking Jewish
audiences with hertear-jerking
appeals In behalf of the Youth
Aliyah ... She recently set some
kind of a precedent for Jewish
fund-raising when she traveled
from Wichita, Kansas, to Toronto
via plane, railroad and two taxis.
Judge Julian W. Mack is head-
ing a committee which is seeking
funds here for the School of the
Parents' Education Association in
Palestine.
A certain Jewish leader in
Paterson, N. J., is responsible for
the displacement of popular Sam
Leff by the equally popular Tim
Bower as New Jersey field worker
of the Jewish Welfare Board.
VIA SHORT WAVE
Ingo Arvad, Danish beauty
queen and one-time newspaper gal,
is the new boas of Nazi propa-
ganda in Denmark . . . She got
the job by turning loose her Nor-
dic charms on Hitler himself.
Although Mussolini has no use
for anti-Semitism, Italy may have
to give legal standing to the Nazi
marriage laws because of a new
German- Italian treaty which
pledges both countries to give mu-
tual recognition to the civil and
juridical codes of the two count-
ries.
Premier Van Zeeland of Bel-
gium has started a libel action
against Armand Jansens, Belgian
Nazi leader, for accusing the prem-
ier of being a "Jewish tool" . . .
Jansen's grudge against the Jews
arises from the fart that his wife
ran off with a Polish Jewish gigolo.
In Italian diplomatic circles
abroad they say that when II Duce
first met Hitler the latter greeted
Mussolini with the Nazi salute and
the words "Heil Imperator" . . .
To which the Italian dictator is
said to have replied with the Fas-
cist salute and the words "Heil,
Imitator."
PERSONALIA
New Yorkers got quite a shock
when they learned that the man
with whom Bernice Levy, daughter
of Borough President Sam Levy
(who is an elder of the Yeshiva
College), eloped with a brother of
the late notorious gambler Arnold
Rothstein.
One of the criticism levied
against Major Bowes, the man
who made amateurs pay, is that
he takes on too many Jews.
Francis Lederer, screen idol, is
denying rumors of his engagement
to Ida Lupine . . . His fiancee is
Mary Anita Loos, niece of the
novelist.
Watch out for a gentleman who
calls himself Count Paul de Mon-
tefierce and claims to be a relative
of the famous English family of
that name . . . His real name is
Nicholas Wisema n, alias Paul
Stone.
By the time you read this Maur-
ice Samuel will be on his way back
to Palestine ... Before sailing he
completed the transaction of a
1000-page novel by I. J. Singer,
author of "Yoshe Kalb," which will
be published by Knopf.
Not Belth, publicity man for the
Joint Distribution Committee, re-
cently married Helen Wallach, sis-
ter of the American Jewish Com-
mittee's Sidney Wallach.
POLITICAL STRAWS
This year's presidential election
will see some interesting align-
ments in Jewish circles . . . The
Warburgs, of course, beaded by
James P., son of the late Paul
Warburg, will be very much in the
foreground of the anti-New Deal-
ers ... There is a possibility that
Stephen S. Wise may make an ex-
tensive speaking tour for Frank-
lin D.... Which reminds us some-
how of a letter by Prof. Felix
Frankfurter which came recently
to our attention . . . Says this
letter in effect: "I am very much
in favor of your X movement, but
you know that I'm concentrating
all my attention on Palestine"
This should be news to the Zion-
ists, because as far as we know
Frankfurter hasn't done much for
Palestine in the last few years ...
To Frankfurter, by the Way, will
go the first vacancy on the United
States Supreme Court, provided
that this vacancy occurs as the re-
sult of the resignation of Justice
Brandeis . . . The latter, as you
know, is now past 80, although
mentally still in his prime .. .
Screen's No. 1 Man
An Intimate Close-Up of Paul Muni
By JIM TULLY
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(copyright, MB Seven Arts Feature
Pymilcate)
To prepare himself for the lead-
i ng rol e in the film version of
"The Good Earth," Paul Muni has
just returned from • four months'
sojourn in San Francisco's China-
town and other Oriental centers.
H is make-up W. so accurate that
at no time was he recognised by
the movie loving Chinese. Upon
arriving in Hollywood, still in dis-
guise. he appeared at the Metro.
Goldwyn-Mayer lot and was de-
nied admission until he revealed !
his identity, It is the first time ini
the history cf the cinema that any
player has so thoroughly adapted
himself to a role.
He is my neighbor in the San
F ernando Valley, far from the
centers of the cinema. A culti-
vated and civilized man, he speaks
seven languages fluently. A mas-
ter of make-up, he became famous
on the New York stage as "The
Man of • Thousand Faces."
His face is strong, and tender
in repose. It is the mask of one
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