PiEVFROMANISII OIROXIGLg March 27, 193G and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE BRETROI1JEWIS/1 ef RON Imp and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Ca., I. 'Entered as Seeond.da matter March a, ISM .t the Post- office et Detroit. Mich. under th. At of March t, 1070. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle London :lent 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England Subscription, in Advance..._ .........._..-$3.00 Per Year To insure publication, all correepondenc• and new. matter must reach this office by Tumid., evening of each week. When mailing notices ; kIndly use one side of the mew only. T. Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee correspondence on nab. Abate of Intent to the Jewish people, but disclaims responal• betty for an indorsement of the clews expreseed by the writer. 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 , 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. Abraham Liessin's Aninversary a ti a ti ti ft t I R , fll to ra eel D, h4 RI laI hei set oa I 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 Stales EDITOR*. NOIR: W. pre..,t hennrith the armed andreminding action.. lb. lbw Nov. I al. by the dialaraished Rawl. statessemew who Jf1411 uhlotima In thW witch` Amhtwodor revetments the T. M. K R. Tronsnonilic eloW• with the Jewlah statement In Dim 1.1.1. • which be 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 t ► LIZASC ITRN TO NEXT PACE) 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- m - sass 71771 TO Le fT PAOR) 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 11DITORI NOTE: Mont. the man nf 1000 taer., telm started life no • Jncrler • MM. , a old mew In the 1 iddiwi Art Theater I. Witty neorniseti as she d nm st 4 enalin senen eitsnarter ere... .in 1 he recent ann sward .1 the Aeadetm 4 Mothin Iletore Arts anti Science" 1111.8. na "al ebbe. nn the Italica het a write-in vote bentmitt him 01, Minna me did mot (4.41 irrIllA with the winner. Ile dwelt" the title of No. I man in the opiate. of Jim lull,. the Wart n1 and brilliant est...estate, and story writer. (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 (PLZABB TURN TO LAST PA0111)