- and THE LEGAL CHRONICLL STAGE AND SCREEN Lily Pons Coming FAMOUS ARTISTS Here on March 17 AT TOWN HALL PARKING • • • CURB SERVICE The' INFORMER "Under Your Spell" 1 ,e SHAWN'S DANCERS AT TOWN HALL MARCH 17 ACTLJr avirrarior Revelry by Night • "Joe. Johnson Or L.A.S. Auxiliary's Tenth Anniversary The Detroit Auxiliary of the Los Angeles Sanatorium will cele- brate its 10th anniversary on Sun- day, April 11, at the Phoenix Club, John It and Erskine. The program will begin at 3 p. m. and will con- tinue through the afternoon, con- cluding with a dinner-dance in the evening. The afternoon program will in- clude a concert and the showing of sanatorium movies. The dinner will be served at 6 p. m. The price per plate will be $5. Those desir- ing to earn their admission fees are asked to communicate with A. H. Jaffin, Detroit representative, 1711 Clairmount Ave., telephone Madison 6766. Mr. Jaffin announces that the month of March has been set aside as a period for the sale of seals for the sanatorium. lie states that arrangements can be made by those selling the stamps to earn their $5 admissions in this manner. Books of these stamps are being mailed to Detroit Jews. According to Mr. Jaffin, 120 De- troiters were cared for at the Ted Shawn Doing the "Dania Los Angeles Sanatorium during the last 10 years. Approximately Afro-Cubana" $10,000 was spent each year for day morning, March 17, in a new the care of these tubercular Program which Shawn calls the patients, whereas the income from greatest and most dynamic of his Detroit was considerably smaller. Jacob S. Pearlstien, national career. The attraction will include field director of the sanatorium, in three groups of dances, the "Kin- an appeal to Detroit Jews, states etic lifolpai," folic and art themes that the demands upon the Los Angeles institution for service are and religious dances. "Dania Afro-Cubana," a solo increasing and that cities through- dance by Shawn, will open the out the country are applying for group of folk and art themes. In service for their patients. Ile addition to the piano there is points out that the capacity of accompaniment by members of 215 beds is always filled, with a the company who plays expertly long waiting list that the institu- on Cuban drums. gourds and tion is unable to accommodate. He gives evidence of increasing de- wood-blocks. The religious group will include mands upon the sanatorium's serv- the "Mevlevi Dervish," with ice in the following table: of patients 1933 1934 1935 1934 Shawn as soloist. It has been re- Number cared for .. . .. 393 393 lie ferred to as genuinely great work Average patient. 191 203 211 lit per day of art, for in spite of its spec- list at tacular 270 revolutions in four Waiting 31 94 end of year 19 27 minutes, it is not just a stunt. The annual expenditures, ex- The dance is based on the reli- clusive of depreciation, have been gious ritual of the Mevlevi sect 1934, $252,680.31; 1935, $248,- of Dervishes of Syrian Tripoli 901.64; 1936, $288,105.41. and expresses the dramatic strug- Mr. Jaffin stated this week that gle of the spirit to rise above the the sanatorium will celebrate its desires of the flesh. 25th anniversary in 1938 and at Tickets for the Shawn Dancers that time is planning to conduct are on sale now at Grinnell's, also an $800,000 expansion campaign. Monday to Wednesday at the Some of the old buildings are to Fisher Theater Box Office, $1.65, be demolished and new ones $1.10, 83c, including tax. erected. The Detroit auxiliary hopes to inaugurate its efforts for the national 25th anniversary At Club Ten-Forty drive and to make its contribution to the expansion fund with funds to be raised on the occasion of its own 10th anniversary drive. tke 'laugh's( EDDIE BRATTON music ✓y.t. 3 SHOWS SAT.& SUN. 8231 WOODUJIIRD FRITZ KUHN AND IIIS FUEEIRER — ADOLF HITLER empfangt Amerikadeutsche At Webster Hall Fritz Kuhn's denial that he is the spokesman for the N•eis in this c oantry is repudiated by the photograph. Fritz Kuhn is the second man from the left, neat to Hitler. The picture was taken Last summer in Germany on the occasion of Kuhn's decoratio ■ by Hitler for services to en. Nazis in their fight against the "Jewish danger." The Detroit Jewish Chronicle printed this photograph is its issue et Oct. 30, 1938. by E. G. Liebold, secretary to Mr. Ford, in behalf of Mr. Ford repudi• I. ■ • statement issued Nhat n by Honey azi., Ito me said •enployed t stem' the eireelaties of 'Tills Int eeeee lona' J•w" by the s ulsvorsive p r oo do. The Mate. Feed would wet be discharged ainsply ► &tenet. •they wer• eag•gd is mead wee merle In answer to the demand by Samuel Untersn•yer that Fritz Kuhn be discharged by above Use Feed Motor Compeer. JOAQUIN GARAY, Mexican singing star, is f d at Club Ten-Forty. Downtown Theaters MICHIGAN —Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and Charles But- terworth in "Swing High, Swing Low" is now at the Michigan The- ater. The stage show presents Neils Goodelle, glamorous NBC artists, Rex Weber, Harris and Howard, Seven Royal Uyenous and Mattison's Rhythmaniacs. MADISON--Jules Verne's great- est romance "Michael Strogoff" has at last reached the screen and is now at the Madison Theater. The picture is the story of a young Russian, who sacrafices his life in- numerable times for the honor and glory of saving his country from devastation. UNITED ARTISTS —Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" is now in its second week at the United Artists Theater. FOX—Unforgettably portrayed by an inspired cast, "Nancy Steele Is Missing," one of Charles Francis Coe's most exciting stories, is on the screen as one of the season's most unusual and powerful dramas at the Fox Theater. Ethel Shutta, the famous song and comedy star of stage, screen and radio, head- lines another brilliant Fox stage show with her inimitable comic songs. "CRIMINAL LAWYER" LEE TRACY 1011111Wwww. Nft194 data t MARI 1111111111111111111111CM NOW NOW THE MOST TERRIFIC DRAMATIC SENSATION EVER SHOWN AT THE STATE THEATRE: igASIDNEY 1,,,,FONDA A frantic young out-I cats becomes a dan- getout filer when he shoots his way to "YOU ONLY freedom to Ws his terrified bridal PWS BARTON MaeLANE WILLIAM DAMAN BECOMES A A SOCIA L LION WILD CAT NORTH WOODS sod. 30e eek• ARK AYINUE LOGGER 0 ER OBERT S HOME FOR AGED GROUP! BRIDGE, SHOW APRIL 6 I Dr. Osborne A. B rines, acting , superintendent of Receiving Hose ' pital, who is a recognized patho- logist and chairman of the state cancer committee, will be guest speaker at the March meeting of the Women's Auxiliary, Jewish • Catering to Luncheons, Bridge Parties, etc. BOESKY'S ON 12th STREET 12th & Hazelwood Contributions to Funds of Council of Jewish Women Il S LAST "SMART BLONDE"? t if BARTON Macl.ANE 1. DAY! EA Ted Shawn and his Men Danc- ers. who packed them in at the Fisher Theater last year, return Will Be Observed With Concert to the Detroit Town Hall Wednes- and Dinner-Dance April 11 Lily Pons, Fretich coloratura of Albert Rappaport Among Those the Metropolitan Opera Company, Who Will Appear March 18 FRI. — SAT. — SUN. — MAR. 12 . 13 • 14 who will be heard in recital at in Poushkin Drama Orchestra hall on Wednesday eve- VICTOR McLAGLEN ning, March 17, has to dress four Detroit Town Hall in the Cass IN different people: Lily Pons the Theater, will close its eighth sea- The Academy Award Winner son next Friday morning, March 19, at 11 o'clock, when "Opera Russet' a Russian musical drama commemorating the centennial an- niversary of Alexander Poushkin, PLUS Russia's greatest poet and writer, LAWRENCE TIBBETT will be presented. IN Two short operas with full cos- tumes and suggestive scenery will be given and both of the libret- toes are by Alexander Poushkin; AIR CONDITIONED • • MIRROPNONIC SOUND the music of "Eugene Eniegin" is by Tschaikowsky and that of "The OPEN 11 A.M. , s11. 1130 A.M. Water Nymph" (Rousselka) is by Dargomyzhsky. Among the most beautiful Russian operas "The Water Nymph" is considered one of the strongest in its dramatic subjects as well as in its musical value; it has already been accepted as an immortal classic. Albert Rappaport, internation- ally famous tenor, Sidor Belarsky Russian basso cantante, and Rac- quet Sokolskaya, soprano, have sung in this country with the Chi- cago Civic Opera Company with outstanding success and in Russia were members of the Moscow Great LILY PONS Opera House. Mr. Rappaport has opera singer, Lily Pons the con- been accorded by the critics super- cert artist, Lily Pons the moving lative praise for his interpreta- picture actress and just plain Lily tive versatility, the sweetness and Pons. And, they are all different. excellent quality of his voice, for Her concert gowns are much like his superb diction, and as an actor the evening dresses which she of unusual merits. wears in private life, but must have an added dramatic quality. The diminutive star likes herself in rather unusual "P i c t u r e Dresses" and has adapted several WEBSTER HALL frdm old medieval paintings. She feels that while the concert dress Elizabeth Swanson and Frank should express the singer's per- Alexander, Detroit team, at Web- sonality, it should not be so out- ster Hall Grill, are leaving the standing as to dominate the scene. end of this month for a tour of AIR CONDITIONED the West Indies and South Amer- TO ', JUR COMFORT ACADEMY AWARD FILM ica, before going to London for 550 E.ADAMS ' 01.0230 AT CENTER THEATER the Coronation. Bee Sarche's personality blues and character Get Aboard the "RHYTHM EXCURSION" songs are featured by Les Arquet- On Friday, Saturday and Sun- te's rhythmic dance orchestra, as day, March 12, 13 and 14, the solos and trio numbers by Center Theater, located on Wood- arc Palmer, Ralph Fisher and Producing, •nnouncing, Ringing, dancing ward, near the Boulevard. will Taney mast Zev Clay. soningtione, *apes, - present two outstanding pictures. • OAKUM HORUS OF 10 glen will appear in Victor McLa TEN-FORTY "The Informer," the film which 11 GREAT ACTS! Original lyrics set to two and won him the Academy Award, and Heather Angel, Preston Foster three-part harmony are presented and Lawrence Tibbett will star by the Ross Trio, two musical girls and a boy, singing this week in "Under Your Spell." "The Informer," a historical at the Club Tea-Forty. Joaquin AT POWATAN description of the Irish Revolu- Garay, the Mexican singing star tion, has rightfully been acclaim- of the screen, will leave next ed by the most critical of critics Thursday for an engagement at as the outstanding drama the the Chicago Theater. Maybelle screen has ever presented. Its Van's Adorables have a Park Ave- pain and its passion. its terror and nue number entitled "Let's Go its glory have [dined countless Strutting." Bill Lankin's varied piano selections and Max Fidler's audiences to their depths. dance orchestra complete the Symphony's Final Week of program. Wini Shaw was at the Tuesday celebrity night party last Season's Concerts week and returned several times. • Beginning Monday, March 15, SAKS " to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Marie Austin is a cute singer of will enter into its final week of concerts for the 1936-1937 season. of hot rhythms now appearing at Saks Cafe. Viriato Bette Hen- In all, six programs will be pre- riques is an international cor- sented during the week. At the last of the subscription respondent for newspapers and concerts Thursday night, March magazines in Europe, South Af- 18, in Orchestra Hall, John Wum- rica and South America, as he mer, first flutist of the orchestra, dances his way around the world. • SIN SMTVIN NNW UMW will appear as soloist, giving a Jack Mack's rapid new tap dance first performance in Ittroit of on a flight of stairs is a lightning . NINRIQURS E. ADRIENNE Mozart's Concerto in D Major for novelty, and Florence Strong's . MARIE AUSTIN Flute and Orchestra. The orches- vocal arrangements with Eddie . JACKIE MACK tra, under the direction of Victor Bretton's swing orchestra com- ADELE LOMBARD, one of Kolar, will contribute two of the plete a varied bill. . FLORENCE ST • the charming Lombard Sisters favorite symphonies in all music, PLANTATION dancing at the Powatan Club. the B Minor ("Unfinished") Sym- NO COVER CHARGE Joe Johnson, new director of phony of Schubert and the First Symphony in C. Minor, by Brahms. entertainment at the Club Plan- Offered as one of the winter's tation, introduces "Rhythm Ex- Vaudeville and Drama at novelties, the Tatterman Marion- cursion," the popular type of sep- Federal Theater, 12th ettes, of Cleveland, will combine ia revues which he has been pro- with the orchestra to present two ducing during the past year at and Seward performances of Ilenrik Ibsen's Chicago Swingland and is assist- Four acts of headline vaudeville, Dramatic Poem, "Peer Gynt," ed by Desoree Alexander, talent- together with the thrilling stage Saturday morning and Saturday ed singer and dancer. Other prin- mystery-drama, "The Spider," are night, March 20. Edward Grieg's cipals in the show are Marcia offered in the program of the De- incidental music to "Peer Gynt" Marquery, with hot songs and Spanish accent; Teddy and Bobby troit Federal Theater players at will be played. Drinkard, comedy apache danc- the Peoples Theater, 8212 Twelfth * Levet & Cc u; ;Vag ers; Ted Lewis, Detroit crooner; Recital by Pupil of Mrs. Ru- St., beginning Friday, March 19. Strangeman, comedian, and Cath- * Grace Drysdale's Poppets benstein Saturday The vaudeville will be offered as erine Ragland, torch singer, with * Dick Sloth $1111111 M. C. a preliminary program to the mys- novelty tap and rhythm dances by tery drama written by Fulton Mrs. Rose Rubenstein will pre- the Three Lucky Bucks. Dancing *I DINNI9 * Powatao's Oursler and Lowell Brentano. The sent Audrey Ann Vagiates• 10- • %,,.. Perfect vaudeville acts will be offered by dears old, in a piano recital on Lombard pd. T..... POWATAN WWI David Cams, Samuel Chagy and Saturday afternoon, March 20, at r..... strN Baal Siders Grace Drysdale's Puppets do Maude Maitland. Mr. Chagy will 3 p. m., at the Rubenstein Piano sing selections in Jewish and Rus- Studios, 2329 W. Grand Blvd. everything but•talk. This is the first time such an act has, ever sian requested by the audience. I The public is invited. played the Powatan Club and Manager Sammy Sofferin is de- lighted at the excitement Miss Drysdale has created. She brings her puppets right out on the dance floor and they go to town. George Lovett and Company, the musical mind readers are now in their third week. Dick Stutz, singing master of ceremonies. has a wealth of material and then there are the Two Dancing Lom- bard Sisters, charming bits of per- sonality. Art Mooney and his band play for dancing. FREE March 12, 1937 74DeraordEinsnaRONICUI) PAGE TE The Detroit Section National MRS. WALTER ARONOFF Council of Jewish Women have received' the following contribu- Home for Aged, this Monday af- tions: ternoon, March 15, at 2 p. m., in For the Council Camp Scholar- the Brown Memorial Chapel of ship Fund: In memory of Samuel Temple Beth El, Woodward and R. Glogower, from Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Ayes. Dr. Brines will Leo M. Butzel, Mr. and Mrs. lecture under the auspices of the Louis. S. Cohane, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne County Medical Society, Albert Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Maur- on the subject "Causes and Cura- ice Klein, Mi. and Mrs. John A. bility of cancer," and will in- Heavenrich and the Wednesday clude the showing of a motion Club including Mr. and Mrs. L. J. film entitled "The Call to Arms." Hoexter, Mr. and Mrs. Irving A question period will follow the Hirschman, Mr. and Mrs. I. It. lecture. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Sulz- Members who attend this meet- berger, Mr and Mrs. Oscar Robin- ing will have the opportunity to son, Miss Sadie Hirschman and obtain their tickets for the forth- Jesse Hirschman; in memory of coming dessert-bridge and style Edith Pappenheimer, from Mr. and show to be held in the Fountain Mrs. John A. Heavenrich; in mem- Room of the Masonic Temple, ory of Sadie Jacobson Bing, from which the auxiliary is sponsoring Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Cohane, to raise funds for the purchase Mrs. Diana Wiener, Mr. and Mrs. of some of the furnishings for Theodore Keltrr, and Mr. and Mrs. the new Jewish Home for Aged. There are but a few weeks left William Weisberg of Chicago; in memory of Ilattie May from Mr. before the 50 residents of the Jewish Old Folks' Home will be and Mrs. Leo M. Butzel, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Heavenrich, Mr. and transferred to their new quarters. Mrs. Joseph M Welt, and Mr. and Many essentials for their comfort Mrs. Henry Wineman; in memory will have to be purchased very of Mrs. Henry Kern of Los An- soon. In order not to interfere- with geles, from Mr. and Mrs. Henry the membership-tea arranged by Wineman. the Women's Auxiliary of the For the Ida E. Ginsburg Schol- arship Fund: In memory of Sadie Jewish Children's Home, the date of the dessert-bridge and style Jacobson Bing from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. show will be Tuesday, April 6, at p. m., instead of Wednesday, Herbert Robinson and Mrs. Ber- nard Wurzburger; in memory of April 17, as had previously been Caroline Levy Berns from Mr. and announced. Judging by the turnout and Mrs. Herbert Robinson and Mrs. Bernard Wurzburger. In memory the eagerness displayed by the committee-women meeting in the of Samuel R. Glogower from Mr. and Mrs. Louis James Rosenberg, home of Mrs. Walter Aronoff last Monday afternoon, in behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Robinson and Mrs. Bernard Wurzburger; in the affair, the project will be ■ tremendous success. memory of Hattie May from Mr. Mrs. Samuel Kanners is gen- and Mrs. Albert Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Louis James Rosenberg, Mr. eral chairman, with Mrs. Rae Goldberg and Mrs. Simon Shet- and Mrs. Herbert Robinson and Mrs. Bernard Wurzburger; in zer as co-chairmen. Mrs. Walter Aronoff and Mrs. Jack Dunn are memory of Yetta Schiller from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyers; In co-chairmen of the style show which will include both adult and memory of Helena Schembeck from Mr. and Mrs. Ilerbert Robinson children's fashions and special ceremony attire. and Mrs. Bernard Wurzburger; in A "Buy • Blanket" plan is in memory of Joseph Weiss from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Robinson and progress at the present time in collaboration with the party. Mrs. Mrs. Bernard Wurzburger. For the Elsa F. Welling Scholar. Albert Homonoff, chairman, will ship Fund: In memory of Sadie issue blanket booklets to the mem- Jacobson Ring from Dr. B. D. bers desiring them, at Monday's Welling; in memory of Hattie May meeting. Mrs. A. M. Ferar, pres- from Mrs. Bertha Hill, Dr. and ident • announces that only mem- Mrs. David J. Levy, Dr. B. D. bers of the auxiliary are eligible Welling; in memory of Samuel R. to partake of either the bridge Glogower from Dr. and Mrs. David and style show or the blanket purchases. J. Levy. Committee-women selling blank- ets are asked to phone in names Judge Smith Demonstrates of blanket purchasers to Mrs. David Kliger, publicity chairman, Blindness Is Not a Han- CINEMA— "Revolutionists," new Soviet picture now showing at the Cinema Theater, 58 East Co- lumbia, just off Woodward, is • dicap for Good Jurist historical picture showing the rise of the revolutionary movement in Ned H. Smith is a candidate to Czarist Russia from its early be- ginning in 1896 to the famous succeed himself as a judge of the "Red Presnia" revolt in Moscow Common Pleas Court. During his occupancy of office he has demon- In 1905. strated beyond doubt that blind- ADAMS—"Breesing Home" por- ness is not a handicap to a jurist. Judge Smith has been a resident trays the life of • carefree night club singer who bumps into • trio of Michigan since 1902, and a resi- dent of Detroit for the last 20 complications. She falls in love of with a man who doesn't love her, years. His life has been a constant struggle against obstacles which is wangled into a crooked racing scheme and becomes the owner of • would have daunted an ordinary man. Born with weak eyesight, un- race horse. "On the Avenue," the Irving Berlin musical will continue able to attend the regular public Its downtown showing for a third schools, his education began in the Michigan School for the Blind at week. Lansing, Later, he came to North- DOWNTOWN—"Ecstasy" is a ern High School, and following much banned European film, equip- that completed literature and law ped with English dialogue and ap- at the University of Michigan. BEE SARCHF., singer. is parently designed for American He is a former assistant prose- among the stars on Os. pro. consumption ! starring the beauti- cutor, having served under three grans at Webster HalL ful Hedy )(mailer. The story of a administration in that palm and girl's unfortunate marriage to a • majority of his duties were those A ring with • Hebrew inscrip- man mach older than herself, its of traffic court in which for eight tion is one of the prized posses- failure and the emotional fulfil. years he prosecuted cases against sions of Virginia Bruce, Aryan meet achieved in her love for a those offenders who make the streets unsafe for pedestrians. young engineer. screen star, reports Winch•lL DOWNTOWN and RESTAURANT 2035 Park Ave., at Elizabeth Now .DANCING NIGHTLY AND SATURDAY MATINEE CHICO REYES AND HIS ORCHESTRA BETTY THOMPSON Bong stylist LUNCHES 35c DINNERS 90e EXCELLENT FOOD CHOICE LIQUORS I Special S Sunday Dinner Under New Management Tel. CL 1313 CASi AT P TNAM Townsend 7-7171. so that these names may appear in The Detroit Jewish Chronicle. The furnishings committee for the home Is composed of Mes- dames A. M. Ferar, Harry Wine. Simon Shetzer, I. E. Goodman, Samuel Kanner! and A. Srere. This committee has worked with the assistance of Wallace Newton, interior decorator, and the Robin- son Furniture Company. Contributions to the Memorial Fund have been received from Mr. and Mrs. J. liarvith, one in memory of I. Goldberg, and one in memory of Louis Bloch. CALENDAR OF EVENTS March 13 and 14—"Community Center Capers." March 14—Annual dance of Grodno Society in Alpine Room of Detroit Leland Hotel. March 14—Annual frolic of Zedzk•h Juniors. March 15, 2 p. m.—Women's Auxiliary, Jewish Home for Aged, regular meeting at Brown Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth El, Woodward at Gladstone. Dr. Osborne A. Brines will lec- ture on "Causes and Curability of Cancer." with motion film illustrating his subject. March 17—Address by Dr. Ben Zion Mossinsohn of Tel Aviv, Palestine. in Windsor. March 17—Meeting of Eva Prenzlauer Maternity Aid. March 20—Masquerade ball of Little Women of Hadassah. at Northwest Extention of Seven Arts Institute, Fenkell and Dexter. March 22—Tea for new members of Sisterhood of Temple Beth El. March 22—Lecture by Elias Newman on Palestinian and Jewish art at Shaarey Zedek. March 23—Address by Dr. Ben Zion Mossinsohn of Tel Aviv, Palestine, under auspices of Allied Jewish Campaign. April 6—Address by Dr. Abram Leon Sachar before the combined Bnai Beth Lodges of Detroit and the Detroit Bnai Bath Ladies Auxiliary on the subject "The Present Challenge' . at Temple Beth EL