Friday, March 21, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Eleven

JWV
Broadcast

Guest Soloist

By DR. PERRY P. BURNSTINE

MORE MOVIE DECENCY —
ILI There is a move afoot by the
Protestant Motion Picture Com-
mission to set up a committee of
Hollywood church and film per-
sonalities for the purpose of pre-
senting the Protestant point of
view to the industry. With the
Catholic Legion of Decency al-
ready in the field, this will be
the second church group to be-
come active in recommending pol-
icy dealing with the moral and
artistic standards of motion pic-
tures.
It seems a shame that no Jew-
ish counterpart of these two ex-
ists. Invariably, when a Jewish
character is portrayed on the
screen, It is the stereotyped shoul-
der-shrugging, money - grabbing
caricature who appears. Being
least representative of the Jewish
people, such roles are always
harmful and tend to create the
concept of a "characteristic Jew"
in the minds of the film-going
public.
A Jewish Motion Picture Com-
mission could do a great deal to
break down this form of dis-
crimination and insure fair screen
treatment to the Jewish people.

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SCREEN STORIES — For his
contributions to the humanities
through his firm "The Best Years
of Our Lives," Samuel Goldwyn
was presented an Award of Merit
by Rabbi Ernest Trattner of
Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills.
Goldwyn being out of town, Dana
Amirews, one of the film's stars—
and by the way, he's the son of a
Protestant minister—accepted the
award on Goodwyn's behalf . . .
You'll see Edward G. Robinson
talking out of the front of his
mouth for a change in his next
role. He'll play a small town bar-
ber in the forthcoming Sol Lesser
production "I Heard Them Sing."...
Hollywood will do it every time!
Whenever a specific type of story
clicks, it's immediately followed by
a whole rash of the same. They
like to call it a "cycle" out here.
Present cycle is the trend toward

IF YOU, AS AN employer of
men, have a place for training a
dlsablea veteran of World War II,
you are urged to call the Veterans
Administration, CH. 4900, Ex. 344
requesting that a Veterans Ad-
ministration worker call at your
place of business to discuss ar-
rangements for training.
Lest we forget, the war is still
not over for the disabled veteran
Now is the time to show your
good faith in our men and the
type of government they fought to
protect and believed should con-
tinue to exist. They believed that
BETTY KOWALSKY
when they returned from war,
even if disabled, they would be
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given at least a fighting chance
to be a good citizen In a good
country.
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THE DETROIT LADIES AUX-
ILIARY will hold an Aunt Jemi-
ma pancake supper Monday, April
14, featuring Aunt Jemima on
Mrs. M. J. Greenberg duty singing and preparing pan-
in person.
to be Installing Officer , cakes
The public is invited. A pancake
will be presented to each guest
Election and installation of of- free. Proceeds will be used for
ficers of the Women's Auxiliary, hospital work of the JWV.
Jewish Home for Aged, will be
JERICHO LODGE
held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the
The annual donor luncheon of
home, Burlingame and Petoskey
avenues. Mrs. M. J. Greenberg Jericho Rebekah Lodge No. 328
will take place at 12:30 p.m.Wed-
will be installing officer.
Betty Kowalsky, pianist, and nesday at Rosenberg's Catering
Frances Bloom, vocalist, will per- Co.
form, Mrs. David Kliger, program
AMERICAN'S CLUB
chairman, announced.
Proceeds of the food shower of
Mrs. R. Rose, sunshine chair-
man, was hostess to residents of the Ladies Auxiliary, American's
the home at a Purim party, at Club of Detroit, held last week
which Cantor Jacob Sonenklar at the home of Mrs. Lou Barrish
and a Shaarey Zedelt choir were of Richton avenue, will go to
European survivors.
featured.

filming living persons instead of
waiting until they die to do a
glorified obituary. The Jolson Sto-
ry, one of the finest musicals
Hollywood has ever made, started
it. Comes now The Cantor Story!
There's nothing very definite on
It yet, but Eddie Cantor is talk-
ing production with Columbia
Pictures for working out a story
based on his life and career. Like
Jolson, Eddie won't appear but
will record 16 songs he made
famous and dub them in later.
Casting seems to be the hardest
part of production, for besides the
Cantor eyes to contend with,
there's Ida and the five girls.
Who but Eddie would be con-
vincing in that role?

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Home Auxiliary
to Elect Officers

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MOVIE vs. RACISM — The
menace of anti-Semitism, long
neglected• as screen-fare, has
finally hit Hollywood—but hard.
Goldwyn began the thing last
year by announcing production of
Gwethalyn Graham's novel, "Earth
and High Heaven'"—the tale of a
romance between a Jewish boy
and a Canadian Christian girl, in
which racism rears its vicious
head. Then the King Brothers
bought the best-selling "Focus" by
Arthur Miller, which Jerome Cho-
dorov is working into screenplay
format for early production.
"Focus" depicts an anti-Semite
who being mistaken for a Jew,
runs afoul the same discrimina-
tions he himself perpetrated upon
other Jews. And Laura Hobson's
"Gentleman's Agreement," dealing
with a Gentile newspaperman who
poses as a Jew to investigate anti-
Semitism, has been purchased by
20th Century-Fox with Moss Hart
doing the screen adaptation.
All three stories are idictments
of anti-Semitism and point out
the dangers of continued religious
bigotry. Coming at this time, when
discrimination is again on the
rise, there is little doubt they will
be timely as well as valuable.
Let's hope they aren't loused-up
with a typical boy-meets-girl
veneer.

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never danced a step before. There's no special talent, no special
ability required. Robert Morgan's personalized Free Style method
and Morgan teachers make this feat possible. You'll save hours
and money. Morgan's 2•for.1 rates cut the cost of dance lessons
in half. Every course is completely GUARANTEED by our Lesson
Refund Plan. Whether you want to polish up your old steps or
ere starting from scratch on the Foxtrot, Waltz, Rumba and
Samba come to Robert Morgan's tomorrow. No appointment is
necessary. Come right to the studio any time up fill 10 P. M.

Myron Stein is chairman of the
finance section, assisted by Ben-
jamin Levinson, Meyer Steinberg
Joseph Fisher and Julius Rubiner.
Other section meetings In the
coming week arc cleaners and
dyers supplies under the chair-
manship of Yale Levin with the
help of Ben Stern; the linen sup-
plies section with John Isaacs as
chairman, assisted by Joseph Sand-
ler, Harry Schumer, David Rosen,
Joseph Greenbaum and Jacob
Cukerman; and the overalls sec-
tion with Morris Schaver, chair-
man, aided by Norman Shulewitz
and Louis Dalitz. The employes
section of the linen supply group
is headed by Isaac Litwack, while
Robert Lattin is chairman of the
diaper service.
Jack Lapides heads the laundry
section with the assistance of
Philip Sulcrow and Sam Baker.
Heading barber and beauty shops
and supplies are Kenneth Sachs,
chairman, Morris Sachs and Ar-
thur Lipsitt.
The movers and cartage section
is led by Charles Robinson with
the help of Edward Levy and
Earl S. Barnett, while Robert
Loewenberg is chairman of the
morticians and monument works
section aided by Ira Kaufman and
Maurits, Zackheim.

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — When
Herb Willis entered his office
after being assigned as Produc-
tion assistant on the King Broth-
ers picture, "The Gangster," he
said, "This is where I went out."
He found he was assigned to
the same office he had when he
was a corporal with an Army Air
Forces motion picture unit.
Willis, a former Detroit mu-
sician, was signed by Mary Pick-
ford as producer's assistant in
Pickford Productions, but when
nroduction plans failed to materi-
alize, he left Pickford and joined
Comet Productions.
After working on three pictures
for Comet, he joined C. B. De-
Mille in the production of a re-
ligious picture. At this point he
is doing his share in "The Gang-
ster."
His wife and two children, Jack'
Ind Kenneth, have often been
icon on the set. Jack, the oldest,
has been placed in the picture
doing a bit in a Coney Island
scene.
A married sister, Betty Baum,
lives at 2177 Victorial avenue,
Windsor, Ont.

ONE
DANCE
LESSON

Campaign Gift an Obligation,
Not Charity, Says Rabbi Adler

In an inspiring talk to the serv-
ices division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign Monday night at the
Jewish Community Center, Rabbi
Morris Adler told the group that
contributions to the campaign are
"not charity, but sharing, for each
American Jew might well say to
himself, 'There but for the grace
of God go I.'"
Gathered for their first organi-
zational meeting, members of the
Division under the chairmanship
of Fred A. Ginsburg, listed a series
of section meetings.
CLEANERS TO MEET
Three sections will .meet Thurs-
day evening at the Jewish Com-
munity Center/ Harry Rosman,
chairman of the cleaners and dy-
ers group will be assisted by Sid-
ney Rosman, Arnold Rosman, Mil-
ton Eisler, Michael Dashkin, Ar-
nold Gross and Max Rissman.
Sol Litton will head the tailors'
meeting on the same night, while
Morris Spitzer, with Cse assistance
of Leo Polk-and Raymond Marin,
leads the employes section.
Friday noon, the insurance group
with Louis Blumberg as chairman
will meet for luncheon. Assisting
Blumberg are Maurice Klein, Da-
vid Nushzno, Ben Tolmich, Philip
Kanter, David M. Welling and
Harry Yudkoff.

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