DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle Flint, Michigan Extends Best Wishes to LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU 41 Flint Beverage Distributors Frankenmuth Beer and Ale Miller's High Life 420 N. Chevrolet Dial 9-6601 Hint, Mich. New Year's Greetings to All FLINT HI-SPEED CO. Distributors of All September 19, 1941 for a Happy New Year MUNI stage play. "The Story of Louis the theater, honky - tonking Pasteur" is his favorite picture around. I didn't mind then—I (Continued froth Page 1) and in the midst of talking about was young, energetic, and I his "bests" he said that "Seven didn't know the difference. But cans" brought him his first recog- Faces" is about his worst pie- too often it was a feverish and nition in the New York Theater, ture and he doesn't mean maybe. unhappy existence, and now . . although he had played for sev- For his role on the moving pie- when I should be full of fight, eral seasons with the Theater ture "Louis Pasteur" he was I'm pretty well ready to retire. Guild and other art theaters. given the Academy Award for I'm not threatening the world, f in the mind you, because I know darned His present ambition is to be the fines t performance allowed to continue his career year 1936. well the world can get along along the lines he has laid out Besides his primary interest in without me. But my wife and I for himself. "I don't want to give the theater, music is his great-, have given each other our word the impression," says Mr. Muni, est interest. , Ile has studied it that we're just going to live for "that I regard acting as some- since he was four years old and a while—idle, travel, read a thing which is so sacred that he just loves it. He is an ex- book occasionally, be at peace. you have to put it on a kind of ceedingly fine violinist and could I want to sit back in an old rock- pinnacle. • That kind of talk undoubtedly make a success on ing chair on a boat, observe and makes me squirm. Acting is a the concert stage should he ever not be observed, wake up in the job like any other. But you give up acting—which he em- morning with a blissful grin at can't analyze it too much., The phatically will not . . . even the thought that there aren't last thing I want to think about though he just recently had quite any manuscripts to read, any is how I, achieve an effect." a disagreement with Warner business to negotiate, any hag- Brothers and resigned from their gling around to do. I want to go "You know how to roller staff. He favors particularly and go till I'm tired of going. skate, don't you? Mr. Muni the music of Beethoven and Bach. Then? Well—then if some role "Well if someone asks For light modern music he ap- Hi-Speed Products asked. you how you do it, what is your proves of the music of Jerome answer . . . you don't know. Kern and Irving Berlin. He loves HAROLD E. PEER, Distributor You just do it. You've learned music. He would like to manage how. You can become more prize fights. adept through practice. But if Paul's motion pictures keep 1512 DORT HIGHWAY you try to think what you are doing while you are actually him in Hollywood most of the PHONE 2-9161 rolling along in the park, if you time and he has to live there, look down at the wheels and at- but he prefers to live in New York. He has been in Holly- 1 4 tempt to puzzle out what's go- wood so long that he says he is ing on, you fall down. Well "getting used to Hollywood" and that s a little how I feel. I'll buys his clothes in New York, try to answer any questions if Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu I can, but I won't guarantee saying that his tailor knows ex- that I won't fall down, or change actly what he wants. Dresses in my opinions later. There's no good taste but wears slacks and last word, you know, about this old clothes around his farm out- business. So shoot away and side of Hollywood. Mr. Muni is one actor who get your information for your states openly that he dislikes ap- interview." Washed Sand and Gravel Paul Muni's characterizations plause, "because no actor should invariably give the impression come out of his role to take CEMENT BLOCKS of thoughtfulness and they are bows." He doesn't like inter- TILE AND BRICK so securely based on training ruptions during the making of a and long experience that the picture or the rehearsal of a General Excavating technique is virtually taken for play. As a make-up artist there is none better, as no doubt you granted. can tell in his pictures. When DIAL 3-8100 Even though Paul was a great given a role he will spend sev- 2054 DORT HIGHWAY success in his recent appearance eral weeks before a mirror with Flint, Mich. in "Key Largo," on Broadway his grease paint and crepe hair a short time ago, he regards until he "looks" the role. Once "Counsellor at Lam' , " his facorite he shaved off some of his hair so a wig would fit and waited no end for it to grow back ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL! again. His beard was real for his role in "Louis Pasteur" and also for his characterization of Emile Zola. ELECTRICAL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES Paul has no pet extravagances worth mentioning. He drives a FORREST BOSWELL, Mgr. modest car and lives simply. He 116 W. KEARSLEY declares that he wants to live PHONE 2-5191 FLINT, MICHIGAN well—very well, indeed — but that he does not need to be rich in order to do so. To keep fit he takes long walks and in- 1,-- Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year ! dulges in general exercises. As he told us before, he is inter- ested in prize fights and likes to box whenever he can. Rides horseback in the hills and quiet places and enjoys baseball games, PISTONS FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS soccor and football, but fights PARTS FOR ALL CARS seem of greater interest. Pa -ul seldom goes to parties, prefer- 704 North Saginaw Street Phone 2-3118 ring to gather with a small FLINT, MICHIGAN group of intimate friends. Talking about the picture "Louis Pasteur" Paul admits that really was a picture. He needed no urging to make it. He had, ROSH HASHONAI I GREETINGS TO ALL! in fact, to do some considerable urging, himself, to have it made. "It's not box office," he and others advocates were told. Even when it had been made and shown to them in all its glory, INCORPORATED salesmen grumbled: "No sex— no romance — no gangsters:. How're we going to sell it?" DRY GOODS WOMEN'S WEAR "Don't sell it," counselled one, cannier than the others, "Let it Curtains and Draperies alone—it'll sell itself—" a proph- ecy magnificently fulfilled as no doubt you all know. It moved 510-518 SOUTH SAGINAW ST. peope as no other picture has moved them — brought letters FLINT, MICHIGAN from a public new to the art of fan-letter writing—from medical students—fired to a new, ideal- istic ardor for their work . . . and it was Paul Muni whose accomplishment this was. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! "I took my kid to your pic- ture last night, Mr. Muni," an electrician told him. "When it was over she sat there, her eyes shining, then she put her hand on my arm and begged: "Daddy, will you buy me a microscope?" "That kind of thing makes you really happy," said Paul. One thing he told us whicb All Branches of Laundry Work Finished dismayed us very much and Family Washing a Specialty which we found hard to recon- cile with the easy vigor he radi- ates. "I'm tired," he said, "In 'hone 9-3732 321 Y2 Avon the very near future I'm going to quit. I spent the better part FLINT. MICHIGAN of my youth, wasting my nervous energy, struggling for a place in MILLER GRAVEL CO. BOSWELL MAYTAG CO. FLINT PISTON SERVICE CO. HERBERT N. BUSH • SANITARY LAUNDRY LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU Clark's Store Fixtures Complete Equipment for Hotels, Restaurants, Beer Gardens. Grocers, Meat Markets, etc. 1025 HARRISON ST. PHONE 2-0050 Flint, Mich. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes KOEPKE BROS. CO. General Contractors should be' kind enough to drop into my lap, and I could see it would make me sick not to do it, I'd do it. Otherwise—noth- ing." No one is indispensable. It is a commonly used and readily ac- cepted statement. We have ac- cepted and parroted that too many times. But somehow we can not help wishing he'll go on with the great work which has served to inspire and spread so much happiness. We are bound not only to use worthily our great inheritance, but to preserve and, if possible, augment it; and then transmit it to coming generations. The fruit of three thousand years of civilization and a hundred gen- erations of suffering may not be sacrificed by us. It will be - sacrificed if dissipated.—Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Commercial — Residential Industrial Store Fronts— Alterations 109 W. SIXTH ST. PHONE 3-3411 Flint, Mich. A I fappy New Year to All Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an edu- cated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.—Hitchcock. FLINT Mosaic Tile 8 Terrazzo Co. 3490 S. SAGINAW ST. PHONE 3-3551 Flint, Mich. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! AUTO BODY SHOP Body Rebuilding Spray Painting Upholstering - Auto Tops - Straightening Metal Bumping - Frame and Axle CORNER AVENUE A and LOUISA ST. FLINT, MICHIGAN PHONE 2-4422 SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL! BAXTER LOAN CO. KRESGE BLDG. FLINT, MICHIGAN PHONE 2-4731 ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO A1.1.! NEWALL 8 BRAUN INSURERS PHIL J. BRAUN Established 1886 712 F. P. Smith Bldg. Phone 2-9163 FLINT, MICHIGAN Rosh Hashonah Greeting., to Our Jewish Friends HAMADY BROS. Automobile Shoppers Food Markets Better Market — Better Quality Food at Low Prices FLINT, MICHIGAN