Friday, April 15, 1949

Page Seventeen

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

`Joan of Arc' Ties
Old France and Israel

ZOA Play Contest
Offers $1,000 Prizes

Weizman n Sworn In

A one-act playwriting contest
with $1,000 in prizes is announced
by the national education depart-
ment of the ZOA. The contest re-
quires that plays should deal
"with the problems of developing
a full and meaningful Jewish life
in the United States or else-
where."

By DR. SAMUEL MARGOSHES

inquiring as to what business she
had to try to foist her rule over
J Bergman in the title role, is a foreign country, and that's real-
a film with an absorbing story, ly the theme sac of the film.
There you have the essence of
gorgeous scenes, superb acting
and remarkable photography, a the historical indictment against
truly rare combination; but it is all land-grabbers, of whom-Eng-
more than that. It is a movie with land is both a symbol and a warn-
an idea. • ing.

OAN

OF ARC," with Ingrid

To proceed with the specifica-
lions, the story is that of Joan
the Maid, th- simple country girl
o. Lorraine, who, in the most
critical period in Mt., history of
France convinced herself, and
what'sv more astounding, the Dau-
•phin of France, that she could'
save her country, raised an army
and led it to victory against the'
might of England, only to fall vic-
tim to English treachery and end
her life amidst flames at the
stake.

The Irish, no doubt, will appre-
ciate it fully, savoring the ac-
count of British brutality, and
so will the peoples of India, to
cite only a few that have felt on
their own necks the-yoke of Brit-
ish rule.

There is no trace of an atrocity
propaganda; rather I would say
the facts are permitted to tell
their own story. Early in the
film-drama someone speaks the
crucial line concerning England,

GREETINGS

MAURICE
GARELIK

ANALOGY TO ISRAEL

ONE CANNOT sit in the dimly
lit movie house and watch the
great drama on the screen with-
out thinking of the spectacle Eng-
land is offering today in her long
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and undeclared wir on Israel.,For
what England did in the Fifteenth,
DRAMA OF IDEAS
Century to Francie, she has been
IT SHOULD BE noted that doing to Israel in the Twentieth.
what gives "Joan of Arc" its par-
It is the same hard-heartedness.'
ticular appeal, and, I might say, 1
that, for years, kept the gates of
fascination, is not so much the.
Palestine shut in the face of Jew- ,
great heart-throb and artistic
ish victims fleeing. from the Hit-
quality, unusual as they are, as r
ler hell, the same brutality that
the drama of ideas, which, pre-
shunted boatloads of Jewish sur-
sented on the screen, highlights
vivors of concentration camps and
great and stirring conflicts that I
gas chambers from the very
bear a remarkable similarity to
shores of the Promised Land to,
those of our own day and age.
the detention camps of Cyprus,.
The parallel, I might say, is so the same dehumanized naked
close as to produce an almost un-
force that sent Duv Gruner and;
canny feeling.
the leaders of the Jewish Resist-
Two great forces of tremendous , ance movement in Palestine to
impact clash in the high drama! the gallows, the same cynicism I
of Joan the Maid, for Joan of Arc and hypocrisy which, operating
is nothing, if not the embodiment behind a mask of neutrality, in-
of heaven-soaring faith. A young cited and armed the soldiers of
unsophisticated maiden, she heard five Arab states to crush Israel
voices bidding her to go and free to the greater glory of British
France groaning under the heel' imperialism and the higher prof-
of the British invader. As Miss its of the British oil companies.
Bergman portrays her, the Maid
makes an unfon,cttable picture
FAITH TRIUMPHANT
of rustic innocence and deep
PERHAPS IT IS partly due to
piety.
my preoccupation with Israel and
Arrayed against her is the
with what I sa/there during my
brute force of England, masquer-
recent visit, that I see a very close
ading as a legitimate power,
•and more than a superficial par-
thOugh in fact it is as cynical and
allel between the faith of Joan of
cunning and hypocritical re-
Arc, that drove the British out of
gime as ever ruled over another
France, and the faith and valor
people.
of Ilaganah, that drove the Brit-
• • •
kb out of Palestine.
NO ATTACK ON ENGLAND
With their roots planted in dif-

WHAT IS REMARKABLE in
this great drama of ideas, is the
fact that no frontal attack on
England is either made or, I
think, intended throughout the
film.

Competition will continue
through Oct. 4. For information,
write the ZOA education depart-
ment, 41 East 42nd Street, N. Y.
17, N. Y.

ferent soil and their sources lying
in different strata of the human
soul, these two aspects of faith
have, I am firmly convinced,
much in common.

What unites them is an emo
tional and spiritual intensity and
a determination, ripened into
heroism, that knows no bounds
and brooks no obstacles in its
path.
It is this faith, proverbially

PLUMBING

AND HEATING

"I, Chaim ben Ozer, do solemnly swear . .." Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann taking the oath of office as the first president of Israel as
it was administered by Joseph Sprinzak, speaker of the Knesset.

I
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ARABS STUDY HEBREW
capable of moving, mountains,
TEL AVIV—(ZOA)—Two Ara-
that moves great masses of men
to acts of unparallelled valor and bic papers published in Jaffa and
to miraculous deeds, which the Tel Aviv arc featuring lessons in
history of all religions and of all Hebrew.
wars of liberation is full.

"Joan of Arc" is a great film-
drama with a tremendous uni-
versal al:Irma], but it has a special
message to those of us who, ith
Our eyes riveted on the g eat
Struggle in Israel, are folio ing
the stirring epic of our•people in
its war of liberation against for-
eign invaders.

3,350 ENTERPRISES

TEL AVIV—A census at the
end of 1948 showed 3,350 indus-
trial enterprises functioning in
Israel, employing a total of 32,250
workers.

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