THE 'JEWISH NEWS
Friday. December 4,I 1942
Enchanted etroiters Cheer
Huberman Concert Triumph
More Than • 1,500 Thrtil to Brilliant Performance of Great
Palestine • Virtuoso to Aid Farband Colony; Emma
Shever Wins High Acclaim
Bronislaw Huberman celebrates two anniversaries
this month—his 60th birthday and.the 50th anniversary of
his first recital at the International Exhibition of Music in
Vienna. The two are inter-reted for one reason the
"wunderkind" of a half a century ago remains the inspired
genius who has captivated audiences throughout the
world.
HEARD in
the LOBBIES
by David Deutsch
(Copyright 1942 by Independent
Jewish Press Service, Inc.)
Successor?
Who will succeed fair-minded
Maurice Wertheim as President
of the American Jewish' COmmit-
tee? Why is he being pushed out?
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The Lehman Appointment
`The wrap - the - Jews - in-moth-
balls theorists got a blow in the
solar, plexus from F. D. R.'s in-
spired appointment of Herbert
H. Lehman as Director of Foreign
Relief and Rehabilitation . . .
Don't think there weren't some
(Jews!) who said "it wouldn't
look right" if a Jew were named
to represent the U. S. A. to all
the world as the giver of 'food,
clothing, shelter . . . But F. D. R.
as always, was concerned only
with picking the.best man within
the range of his view. He prob-
ably doesn't mind it that Leh-
man's appointment will be taken
by the Nazis as another version of
that crazy 'Disney ballad: "Heil,
heil—right in der Fuehrer's face"
. . . The anti-Semites in Congress
are already pulling lohg faces and
they can expect the New York
Daily News to take the lead in
explaining what's wrong with the
More than 1,500 persons came 0
hear him Sunday evening, at was attended by more than 400
the concert arranged by the Jew-
persons, at the Rose Sittig Cohen
ish National Workers' Alliance
branches in Detroit, in the Scot- Building. On Friday he was
tish Rite Cathedral of the Ma- honored by the 'Detroit Zionists
sonic Temple. It is posSible that at a luncheon at Hotel Statler.
to many the event was im- At both events he delivered stir-
portant primarily because they
ring addresses in which he show-
felt the necessity of honoring the
man who had founded the Pales- ed how men like himself ap-
tine Symphony Orchestra. But proach the Jewish national ideal
once there, they remained to and become ardent Zionists.
praise and to cheer for more and
At the labor Zionist rally, Mr.
more of that great 'treat which Huberman described the rise of
this eminent violinist provided the Palestine Symphony Orches-
So generously for a music-loving tra which he had organized. He
audience.
told of the difficulties involved
Plays Superb Kreutzer
and of the help given the cause
Huberman's interpretation of by men like the late Ossip Ga-
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata was brilowitsch and Arturo Toscanini.
superb. His technic', the warmth
Toscanini's appearance as con-
with which he approached his ductor of the Palestine Sym-
subject, his ,unique style, made phony Orchestra inspired Mr.
the. -performance one long to be Huberman's tribute. He told of whole business . . . Already the
remembered.
the interest of the great maestro
But then came the Mendels- in the Palestine Symphony Or- Daily News has had its "line-,
sohn Violin Concerto, so brilliant chestra and said that . the only giver," John O'Donnell, tell the
an evaluation that the large audi- time the guest director became American people that the food is
ence sat breathless and enchant- impatient, after conducting 19 being taken right out of our
ed. There was no doubt that a concerts, was when the question mouths by these foreigners .
genius was at work and that one of fees was raised. Toscanini And when you think of strong,
of the greatest masters • of all would accept no remuneration, self-respecting Jews,' give a salute
time had made Detroit's music declaring that he had become to to Herbert Lehman, who won't
lovers his debtors. It was no deeply attached to the musicians take life easy even though he
could, and even though his wife
wonder that he was called upon
in Palestine that he found it dif-
begged him for eight years to
to return time and again for re- ficult to leave.
give up the New York Governor-
peated bows.
"But I shall come back," he ship so that he could get some
The Beethoven Concerto alone
was sufficient as a treat for even said—and he did, again on a rest and peace . . . And the N. Y.
the most discriminating audience. voluntary basis, to conduct the Governorship will seem like only
But there was more of that great great Jewish orchestra through an apprenticeship compared to
talent in the second portion of a following season.
the job now given to him, vir-
Zionism a Revolution
the program, and an audience
tually the Atlas for the world's
that remained until near mid-
At • Friday's luncheon, Mr. downtrodden.
night, felt that it had paid too Huberman gave a scholarly and
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little for that fine concert.
ph iloso phic interpretation of
Night of Stars
Huberman did not receive a various world revolutions. He
That was a funny boner some-
good "press" in Detroit. A re- referred to the Zionist movement
viewer in one of our daily news- as another revolution which had one pulled at "Night of Stars,"
papers concludes a brief and resulted • in the conversion of the nation's biggest entertain-
complimentary story with this many antagonists to the cause of ment, given annually at New
York's Madison Square Garden
sentence: "A reporter unfortuate- Palestine's redemption.
for the U.J.A. .. . Luise Rainer,
ly heard only the `Kreutzer,'
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the Austrian exile a4rid. Jewess
'being occupied with ballet eLse-
Lawrence W. Crohn was lunch-
where in the Masonic Temple." eon chairman Friday. Morris L. as well as double Academy Award
That reporter would have re- Schaver presided at the labor winner, read a passage "from the
mained with Huberman had he Zionist rally and Mr. Huberman Bible," the M.C. of the show
heard the Mendelssohn Concerto. was introduced by Philip Slomo- said. He even added, with very
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vitz, who spoke of the eminent doubtful accuracy, that Governor
Folk Songs Charm Audience
violinist's great contributions to Lehman had suggested the read-
The concert was enhanced by Palestine and the realization of ing. It happened to be the "faith,
the appearance of Emma Shever his dream to find a home in Eretz hope and charity" passage—from
as assisting artist. Mrs. Shever Israel for the German Jewish the New Testament. And in that
proved to her admiring audience musicians who had been expelled huge crowd of 20,000, few real-
that she is a charming interpreter by Hitler. There were other ized what had happened! It's a
of folk songs. Her "Chassidic features on that program which good thing they have a "Know
Melody" was superb. Besides, combined to make an unusually Your Bible Week" occasionally
she presented a variety of other interesting evening.
. . . It was a' great show, for
numbers which enchanted her
Harry Schumer was chairman which veteran U.P.A. director,
listeners.
of the committee on arrange- Sam Blitz, deserves a lot of
What made Mrs. Shever's por- ments for the Huberman concert, credit. He's been nursing the
tion of the program stand out proceeds of which will go to ful- idea along for nine years now
was the variety of her selection. fill Detroit's quota for the Far-
—often over the opposition of
She sang two songs in Russian, band Colony in Palestine.
many of his own people . . . He's
and her concluding number es-
pecially won the hearts of her
audience. It was Shostakovi.ch's
"Song of the United Nations," in
Russian, Yiddish and English.
Emma Shever's versatility, her
use of songs in many languages,
especially the Hebrew, as was so
well demonstrated by her pre-
sentation of the Yemenite Song,
always indicates a deep-rooted
love for the folk music, for the
language of the masses and the
builders of Zion. She puts her
heart in such songs, and she in-
variably strikes . a deep kinship
in her audience.
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FAMED ARTIST FETED
Bronislaw Huberman's visit in
Detroit was not limited to the
concert. He was the guest of the
labor Zionists of Detroit at a.
Thanksgiving Eve rally which
to
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'
helped raise sums way up to-
ward a million since the thing
began . . . One of the hits of the
long array of stars was cor-
respondent Queritin Reynolds,
who pooh-poohed the stories of
rivalry between" Army and Navy
leaders in action and said that
Gen. Eisenhower and Rear Ad-
miral Hewitt in North Africa
greeted each other regularly with
the ancient Hebrew salute,
"Sholom Neichem." A good
story, even if only a story . . .
Al Jolson, son of a cantor, was
never in better form than when
he opened his collar, unknotted
his tie in order to have full voice
for the rendition of "A.Chazan
auf Shabbos." Any shul would
do well to have him for the Rosh
Hashanah services . . . Not- to
be outdone, George-Jessel showed
his own perfect Yiddish by giv-
ing the account of a baseball
game as first seen by an an-
nouncer for Yiddish radio pro-
grams suddenly confronted with
the assignment of reporting a
Cardinal-Yankee diamond tussle
. . George Murphy, singing-
dancing star of M-G-M, told the
delighted audience the story
which he says he was first to tell
Louis B. Mayer, his boss. It's
about "Ginsburg," who made
trouble in the camps when he
waS first inducted and then be-
came a hero in the Solomon Is-
lands, the 'climax of the story
being that Ginsburg, the indi-
vidualist, succeeded because he
was given grenades and a ma-
chine gun and told: "You're in
business for yourself" . . . That
story has been circulating ever
since the war started and the
people who do most of the tell-
ing are Jews themselves (Mur-
phy isn't). To this observer, it's
one of the nastiest anti-Jewish-
slanted stories that could pos-
sibly be heard by' a non-Jew or
by other Jews. It has that sly,
malicious dig at Jewish discipline
and courage which is particularly
foul in a period which has pro-
duced such genuine Jewish
heroes in the American Army
and Navy . . . Jews ought to
ration that story.
Detroit Will Send
Delegates to UPA
Silver, Weizmann, Ickes, Van
Paassen, Agronsky Among
Speakers at _Conference
Detroit will be represented at
the annual conference of the Na-
tional Council for Palestine of
the United Palestine Appeal, to
be held at the Biltmore Hotel
in New York.
The following are Detroit
members of the National U.P.A.
Council: Rabbi Morris Adler,
Sidney. J. Allen, Fred M. Butzel,
Abraham Cooper, Lawrence W.
Crohn, Mrs. Dora B. Ehrlich,
James I. Ellmann, Clarence H.
Enggass, Rabbi Leon Fram, Har-
ry Frank, Samuel Frank, Rabbi
B. Benedict Glazer, Dr. Abra-
ham M. Hershman, Judge Harry
B. Keidan, Julian H. Krolik,
Nathan Linden, Mrs. Henry Ros-
enblum, Charles Rubiner, Morris
L. Schaver, Nate S. Shapero,
Judge Charles C. Simons, Philip
Slomovitz, Isidore Sobeloff, Ab-
raham Srere, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wineman, 'and Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter.
Speakers at the conference,
and at the banquet on Sunday
evening, wilt include Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, .national chairman
of the U.P.A.; Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, Secretary of Interior Har-
old L. Ickes, Pierre van Passen,
Martin Agronsky, Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, Louis Lipsky, Dr. Stephgn
S. Wise and Nathan Straus, Jr.
George Sez-
Praise the Gal—
and Pass Her
What She's
Wishin' . ,
Perfumes f o r
he Holidays!
GEO. KAY
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