December 19. 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 4 BEN HECHT'S 1001 AFTERNOONS CENTF'AL FACTORY AND OVET'ALL SUPPLY CO. result of Harpo's trick. Multi-colored New York has job as a been stripped and is now on dis- "Don Harpo de la Mancha" fail is play in all its nakedness. the title of this story. Don't h A master does the trick: Ben to read it. It will do yourheart Hecht describes the great Ameri- good. Most signifificant of all the es- can metropolis in his fascinating "1001 Afternoons in New says is the one entitled "Run, book, York,"—a collection of sketches Sheep, Run," which is one of the which originally appeared in PM most excoriating condemnations and which is now out in its en- of frightened Jews who fail to e tirety as a Viking Press publi- see danger ahead and who It 's hide their heads in the sand. cation. To enhance the value of this dandy. These are merely samples of book, George Grosz, one of the 100gems included in Ben IIecht's most eminent of modern paint- the "1 Afternoons in New York". IMMO This is the stuff that great litera- ture is made of. Primarily it is the stuff out of which is cre- ated fighting material for de- mocracy. Ben Hecht did an ex- cellent job—perhaps the best of his career. PLAZA 8180 SINCERE CHANUKAH GREETINGS Coin haufs "ow& eirozers There IS ONE In Your Neighborhood • FISHER WALL PAPER CO. 514 RANDOLPH ST. DISTRIBUTORS 1336 Napoleon CA. 6781 Chanukah Greetings To Atir CAdillac 5950 BEN HECHT E. E. DeMOTT, Prop. 13501 PURITAN AVE. VErmont 5-2550 Sincere Chanukah Greetings DEXTER AUTO WASH 12005 DEXTER (Corner Elmhurst) NOrthlawn 9444 NEW YORK. (JPS)—Indica live of the intensified activity of the Hebrew movement in Amer- ica in rendering the classics into the ancient language is the news that Shakespeare's The Tem- pest" has been translated into Hebrew by Ephraim Lisitzky, prominent poet, the Histadruth Ivrith, National Organization for Hebrew Culture, announced here. Other plays by Shakespeare which have been translated into Hebrew are "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth" and the "Merchant of Venice". ers, has done the illustrations for all of the sketches. A Joyous Chanukah to All BEN'S UNIFORMS Lauds Hillel 15492 LIVERNOIS The Bergson Story Central Detroit Warehouse Co. and Merchants Forwarding Terminal Co. 1687 W. FORT ST. University 2-3112 If it were only for his famous article on Henri Bergson, the great French-Jewish philosopher, the book would be worth its price of $3. Remember that story? It was a description, in typical Hechtian style, of the great Frenchman refusing to ac- cept dispensation from the anti- Semitic laws promulgated in France upon the advent of Nazism. At 80, Bergson left his death-bed to stand in line and to register with all other Jews. This brief article is one of the classics of our time. It is a rebuke to Joe Kennedy who had advised movie moguls to lay low and not to cry out against indig- nities. Sincere Chanukah. Greetings and Best Wishes RAndolph 3540 A Joyous Chanukah to All MICHIGAN CARTAGE and STORAGE CO. Only One of Many But there are at least 50 more articles just as effective, just as powerful, just as stimulating. These combine to make "1001 Afternoons in New York" a truly great book. But in speaking of the essays and sketches, one must not over- look the introduction. The latter is a call to action, a declaration of faith, a statement of princi- Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor, of ples by Ben Hecht. He speaks of the "damnable Maryland, who hailed the Bnai obfuscations" which permit Nazis Brith Hillel Foundation at the to air their views and to abuse University of Maryland as a vital agency for deepening the religious the free press. "As a journalist loyalties of American youth. practicing partisanship," he writes, "I felt that such open our cause must NTHANYA, Palestine.—(JPS- treachery to work only evil on it." i He sees Palcor)—The phenomenal growth danger and he warns that "the of Palestine's youthful diamond wiliest admirers of our free press industry was graphically illus- is the German engaged in his trated by the announcement made anaconda devouring the world. here at a meeting of the Dia- This goose-headed conqueror sees mond Cutter's Club that it ex- is in our cat-fight journalism the estimated that the diamond he has ports from this country during promise of that disunity the coming year will reach the been able to use for his own ends since the hellish invention $3,000,000 mark. of the Third Reich." Many Marvelous Pieces SAM GRANADIER MY BEST WISHES TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY FOR A JOYOUS CHANUKAH. MAY EVERY CANDLE LIGHT UP A WORLD DARKENED WITH BIGOTRY AND HATRED –J S. A. 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