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,Friday,- July 24. 1942

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'COMMENTARY

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Copyright, 2942, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

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Famous Violinist

Shatzen Elected
Two powedocumentary
sound Innis; -"The City" and , Head of Halevy
"Igfanhattan'Waterfront", will he

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presented outdoor at the Jewish

Community Center, Woodward at
Holbrook, Monday, July 27, at 9
P. M.
"The City" is a powerful plea
for adequate housing facilities
and intelligently planned com-
munities; as. exemplified by
Greenbelt. The film has been
given four stars by critics
throughout the country. The
second film portrays graphically
the sea's meeting with the City
of New York.
Members are admitted with-
out charge. There is a 17c fee
for non-members.

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ENGEANCE BY MEN
Don't discount too easily and
:adily the possibility of world-
ide vengeance against the Ger-
ans. It will be too natural an
to be marveled at. The cur-
mit discussion as to blame for
ie world's barbarism—whether
is that of all Germans or only
teir leaders—is pertinent
In Louis Bromfield's stirring
avel."Until the Day Break," in
hick an American actress a violinist, was compelled to
atched wits with the Gestapo scrub the pavement before the
_ Paris and became a leader in Viennese Hotel Bristol, wearing
.e underground anti-Nazi move- a placard that read, "I am a Jew
ent, there is a character who and a Communist. I do this as
:rhaps better than any other penance." One night she hanged
:hoes the sentiments of re- herself. The professor and his
mge. When she speaks you wife tried to escape by way of
2gin to feel as if the Scrip- the Tyrol. They succeeded, but
ral admonition "Vengeance Is the lady died of exposure and
ine, saith the Lord," is sudden- hardships in Switzerland. The
transformed into vengeance professor went to Paris "because
men and women against Paris was kind to refugees and
ose who wronged them.
in Paris there were many men
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like himself." Even after the
EVENGE--AFTER THE WAR Germans came, he was sheltered.
Filomena was a big woman But it was a hard life. One night,
ho hung out at Luigi's Cafe Roxie and her friends were told,
here refugees were sheltered. when they came to Luigi's, "Do
it then began the raids. Fil- not ask for the professor. He is
hena's dog was kicked to death dead." We are told in Brom-
• a Nazi trooper. She began field's story:
"The old man had written a
kill Germans. An order went
it to kill 50 hostages for every note of apology to the family of
:ad German. Nicky urges the house where he was hiding
at other methods of retaliation saying that he meant to join
found—the blowing up of his wife, his son and his daugh-
airs, the dynamiting of ter since he was too old and too
idges. But, Filomena is not to sad to continue living. He ad-
deterred from her schemes. vised them when they found his
le announces to Roxie, the body to take it after dark into
the street and leave it there.
:roine, the American:
"I will kill and kill Germans Then no one would ever know
en after the war is over and who he was or who had be-
re is peace. And not I alone friended him and hidden him.
t the Czechs and the Jugoslays And that was what they had
d the Norwegians and even done."
When the reader gets the full
'e Italians . . I have already
.cltacked six. Four are dead. import of the story of Nazi bar-
"th the first two who lived I barism, and of the sufferings in-
learning. Now I know how flicted upon tens of millions of
do it . I know now the people by their new lust for
power, man's retaliating lust for
Or."
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vengeance is better understood.
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E GERMANS HUMANS?
A
NAZI
SPY
STORY
•uis Bromfield's heroine was
The energetic FBI activities
t convinced at first_ Her lover,
cky, had pleaded with her to which have resulted in the
in the conspiracy against rounding up of Nazi spies sug-
Germans whom he described gests as very entertaining read-
"abominable:" "They are not ing the novel "Stop on the Green
Until you hate them you Light" by Maurice Barrington, a
never understand. Until you pseudonym for a distinguished
to them they will lie to you English historian. There is a
d betray you and cheat and thrill on every page of this well
L Until you hate you are written story which relates how
1pless as a child against them. a Nazi spy ring was rounded up
by the clever heroine and an
me day you will know!"
t first, Roxie pleads, "Don't Englishman who becomes in-
that!" But towards the end volved in the plot—unto a happy
this brilliant Harper-published marital ending.
There is an interesting side-
el she becomes a full-fledged
mber of the underground: she light in the story. When • the
learned from direct experi- couple becomes involved in dan-
with a German, who had ger, as a result of the chase after
pared to subject her to a bru- them by Nazi agents, they are
beating. But when she man- advised to leave the "for-Gen-
to trap him and to out- tiles-only" resort and learn that
Morris Greenbaum owns it.
rt him:
She was going underground When the Englishman asks, "Is
, like the others. There was this place owned by a Mr.
new strength inside her, a Greenbaum? But 1 thought Jews
, rugged strength born of weren't allowed?" he is told:
"In many ways you are a sim-
Nicky had seen—the dead
dren, old women along the ple man. Mr. Greenbaum owns
d, the murdered priests, the this camp, and he doesn't allow
ven, tortured Jewi, the starv- Jews in it. He owns a camp
and dying from one end of that takes only Jews. He owns
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ope to the other. She knew camps that take only Reds.
what it was—that thing wouldn't be surpised if he owned
talked about, deep inside camps that take only Nazis or
that never died but burned Fascists. He's a businessman, a
good businessman, a kind man,
dily and forever . . . "
• is the vengeance cropping but I think you'd better go."
Rather extreme, isn't it? Do
of man in defiance of
you suppose there are half a
ipture.
dozen such Greenbaum's with
STORY ABOUT A REFUGEE lots of kindness but no self-res-
Louis Bromfield's great nov- pect in their hearts? We doubt
'Until the Day Break" there it. In fact, the quotation just re-
touching story about one of fered to even sounds a bit anti-
men who were sheltered at Semitic. The author of the novel
• i's. He was a Jewish pro- "Stop on the Green Light" did
or, from Austria. His son, a not need to spoil an excellent
r, was sent to Dachau, and story with a bit of venomous
a long silence word arrived satire. The Publishers (Harper
t he was dead. A daughter & Bros.) will do well to re-read
her husband were deported the story for a check-up on this
Poland. A second daughter, item.

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music

Center Gets -Highly .
Rated Sound "Film.%

The board of directors of the
Detroit Halevy Singing society
have elected the following offi-
cers to serve during the 18th
year of Halevy activities: Morris
Shatzen, president; Eugene
Franzblau, vice-president and
chairman of the membership
committee; Hyman H. Cohen,
treasurer; Sonia Bussell, finan-
cial secretary; Rose Berghoff,
recording and corresponding sec-
retary. _
The executive committee, con-
sisting of the officers and chair-
men- of the standing committees,
was completed by the appoint-
ment of the following commit-
tee chairmen: Max Levy, musi-
cal; Israel M. Hertz, patrons;
Harry Resnick and David Gold-
berg, publicity; Nathan Bennish,
librarian; Julius Chafetz, ar-
rangements; Joe Bussell and
Anna Warren, entertainment;
Nathaniel Raskin, program; and
Dr. William Klein, delegate to
Jewish Community Council.
The Halevy board approved
re-appointment of Dan Frohman
as musical director and William
Gayman as assistant musical di-
rector for the coming year.

Outdoor Concert
Artists Announced

Miss Ruth Kanarek, dramatic
soprano. and Arthur Grossman.
young Detroit violinist, will be
guest artists in the outdoor con-
cert at the Jewish Community
Center, Tuesday evening, July
28, at 8:30 P. M.
A student of the Julliard Grad-
uate School of Music, Mr. Gross-
man has made many New York
appearances and has been heard
as soloist in Carnegie Hall. Only
20 years old, he is a graduate of
Detroit's Central High School,
and before his career took him
to New York was a student of
Bernard Silverstein. Mrs. Rebec-
ca Katzman Frohman will be
Mr. Grossman's accompanist.
A native New Yorker, Miss
Kanarek began her singing ca-
reer as soloist with her college
choir. At present she is- studying
here with Mrs. Eleanor Hazzard
Peacock. Miss Kanarek will be
accompanied by Miss Dorothy
DeLeo.

WASHINGTON (JPS)—From
one source or another, the Jew-
ish Army issue is projected into
the Senate or House virtually
every day. Recent submission of
material included a document
from the Jewish National Work-
ers' Alliance branch in Milwau-
kee, given to the Senate by Sen-
ator Alexander Wiley of Wis-
consin, and a speech on the sub-
ject by Congressman Richard
P. Gale of Minnesota.

PROTECT
YOUR HOME

Inside and Out

Comes to Masonic
Temple on Oct. 27

Another Jewish
Boy First; This
Time in Australia

Advance sales for the Masonic
NEW YORK (JPS)—The num-
Auditorium Tenth Anniversary ber of American Jews who have
Concert Series are well in excess captured "firsts" in some field of
of last year, according to C. W. the nation's war activities was
enlarged by the addition of Pri-
vate Ernest Yurman, 21-year-old
Brooklyn lad, who is revealed to
have been the first New Yorker
to have landed on Australian soil
with the expeditionary force that
went there after Pearl Harbor.
Somewhere in the Australian
bush, Pvt. Yurman has undergone
a series of bombardments to-
gether with his buddies from the
Dakotas and the Rocky Mountain
states, according. to Lewis Se-
bring, Jr., Herald Tribune cor-
respondent with the American
troops in Australia.
There are three Yurman boys
in America's army. Sgt. Morris
Yurman, 28, is in Hawaii, while
Pvt. Herman Yurman, 22, is in
Northern Ireland.

FRITZ KREISLER

Van Lopik, manager of the Ma-
sonic Temple.

Season ticket holders will have
a choice of hearing either Serge
Rachmaninoff, Oct. 12, or Fritz
Kreisler, Oct. 27. The season's
schedule includes the famous
Philadelphia Symphony Orches-
tra on Nov. 3, with 110 musicians
under the baton of Eugene Or-
mandy; the popular Gen. Platoff

Don Cossack Chorus, Dec. 15;
Richard Crooks, the great tenor
of the Metropolitan and radio, as-
sisted by William Primrose, viol-
ist, Jan. 8; the Ballet Russe, with
large orchestra, Feb. 4.
The Masonic Auditorium Con-
cert Series will close March 22
with a concert by the great Negro
contralto, Marian Anderson.

A STAMP A DAY KEEPS
THE AXIS AWAY

Half-Yearly
Sale

TROPICALS

Lawmakers Hear
Jewish Army Pleas

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