Friday, March 12, 1941

THE, JEWISH NEWS

Page Eleven

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THEATER

MUSIC

Splendid Films at
Littman's Theater

Zionist Music Fete
Set for March 25

Policy of Bringing Best Pro- Prominent Artists to Take
Part in Annual Event at
ductions Continues,
Shaarey .Zedek
Manager States

Abraham Littman, manager of
Littman's People's Theater, 12th
and Seward, this week announced
that the program of giving the
community the best available
talking pictures continues.
This Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, Mr. Littman is offering
two outstanding films, "The Jolly
Paupers," and "Tekiath Kaff."
One of the ablest Jewish theatri-
cal casts in the world prepared
these pictures in Poland before
the war.
Mr. Littman emphasized that
these films represent the finest in
Jewish acting and pointed out
that everyone who participated in
the making of the two films is
an artist of high caliber.

Detroit's most prominent art-
ists will participate in the an-
nual music festival of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit, at the
Shaarey Zedek, on Thursday
evening, March 25.
Announcement of the selection
of the artists was made this
week by Lawrence W. Crohn,

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TALKERS' GROUP
The Talkers' Group meets at
the Jewish Community Center
on Thursday evenings. Edward
Emerich, leader of the group,
announces that new members are
invited. The group is open to
all adults, men and women, who
are interested in discussing cur-
rent problems.
The next meeting of the Talk-
ers' Group will be held in the
Center Library on Thursday,
March 18, at 9 p. m. Visitors
are welcome.
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FREDERICK SWEET TO
SPEAK TO B. & P. GROUP
Business
and
Professional
Women's group will hear Fred-
erick Sweet, educational repre-
sentative of the UAW-CIO, on
the subject, "The Voteless Mil-
lion of the South." Refreshments
will be served.
The meetings have been
changed from Thursday evening
to Monday at 7:30 p. m.
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DR. BRUMBAUGH TO SPEAK
AT BOOK CHAT MONDAY
Dr. Thornton T. Brumbaugh,
executive director of the Detroit
Council of Churches, will be the
guest of the Book Chat group at
the Jewish Community Center
Monday ; March 15, at 8:30 p. m.
He will review "Report From
Tokio" by Joseph C. Grew, Am-
bassador to Japan until the be-
gininng of the war. Dr. Brum-
baugh lived in Japan for a num-
ber of years and speaks with
authority on Japan and' its
people.
Book chats at the Jewish Com-
munity Center are arranged in
conjunction with the Utley
Branch of the Detroit Public Li-
brary, and are open to the public
without charge.
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"KNOW YOUR LEGISLATORS"
TOPIC OF MOTHERS' CLUBS
Mothers' Club members are
prepared to use their voice and
influence for the passage of more
liberal and just laws. With these
in mind, the slogan for the
month of March is "Know Your
Legislators!"
The annual Purim masquerade
ball honoring the United Nations,
will take place Wednesday eve-
ning, March 24, at the Jewish
Community Center, 8904 Wood-
ward. There will be prizes
for the best United Nations

costumes.

The annual spring concert of
the Student Group of the Music
Study Club will take place
March 16, at 8:30 p. m., in the
Grinnell Auditorium, Bernard
Katz, president, announced.
The senior group will meet
that night at the auditorium so
that all have an opportunity to
hear Detroit's future musicians.
Details supervised in the past
by Pvt. Robert Hirsch will be
assumed by the group sponsor,
Mrs. I. Mendelssohn.
Muriel Moscowitz,
Robert
Werner, Bernard Katz, Sheldon
Sandweiss, Eileen Resnick, Leah
Crohn and Florence Weintraub,
will participate.
Admission is free.
The club will meet this Friday
at 8:15 p. m., at the home of
Barbara Weinberg, 16546 Wilde-
mere.

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`Leningrad Siege'
Shown in Film
At the Cinema

Music Department Sponsors
Festival March 3 I ;
Tickets Free

Leah Crohn, soprano, Betty
Kowalsky, and Kurt Saffir, 13-
year-old pianists, and Joseph
Silverstein, 10-year-old violinist,
will be the soloists at the Purim
festival sponsored by the music

`Blossom Time' Opens
At the Cass Monday

Jewish Center
Activities

ACTIVITIES FOR WAR
WORKERS, OUT-OF-TOWNERS
Lectures, concerts, and danc-
ing are among activities for war-
workers and out-of-towners ar-
ranged on Sunday afternoons at
the Jewish Community Center.
An entertainment committee
functions to 4orrange special pro-
grams andiCi assist as hostesses.
The weekly meetings which
have been changed from Mon-
day to Thursday are social and
recreational affairs and all war-
workers and out-of-towners are
invited.

Young Artists
In Purim Fete
At the Center

Music Study Club
Students' Annual
Spring Concert

Twenty-two cameramen risked
their lives daily in the filming of
"The Siege of Leningrad," the
Soviet film released by Artkino
Pictures, with commentary by
Edward R. Murrow, now showing
at the Cinema Theater, E. Colum-
bia near Woodward.
With such a wide variety of
film to choose from, the editors
were able to include some extra-
ordinary sequences.
The one that is most vividly
remembered is a guerrilla scene.
The camera is trained on a stump
of bushes at which two guerrillas
are aiming. Suddenly three Nazis
appear. The camera, following
their movements, comes to a stop
as a rifle shot rings out and the
center Nazi drops.
At this point the cameraman
could not make up his mind as
to whether to photograph the
dead Nazi, or to follow the other
two. He does both — but gets
enough shots of the fleeing Nazis
—their faces twisted in fear to
dispel the "superman" illusion
once and for all.
The final sequence shows the
guerrillas removing papers from
the dead Nazi.

BALLAD SINGERS MAKE
DETROIT DEBUT MARCH 17
The American Ballad Singers
department of the Jewish Com- will make their Detroit debut
munity Center at 3:30 p. m., on before the Detroit Town Hall
audience in the Fisher Theater
Sunday, March 21.
Wednesday, March 17, at 11 a. m.
Young artists are given a
chance to display their talents at
concerts of this nature sponsored
LITTMAN'S PEOPLES THEATRE
by the Center's music depart-
8210 TWELFTH STREET
ment, Mrs. Abraham Cooper,
TRinity 2-0100
chairman of the Center's music
committee, announced this week.
Two Great Pictures
Others on the March 21 pro-
Featuring Great Casts
gram will include Mahri Coshev-
er, Windsor dancer, and her
group of young dancers. The
Center Symphony Orchestra, dir-
(Freiliche Kabtzonim)
ected by Julius Chajes, will play
"Hebrew Rhapsody" by Bras-
and
laysky and Chajes' Palestinian
"Hora."

BETTY KOWALSKY

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MARGUERITE KOZENN

chairman of the event, who was
also responsible for arranging
the first of this type of Zionist
programs, Last year's music
festival proved so highly suc-
cessful that it was decided to
make it an annual community
affair.
According to Mr. Crohn, the
entire program will be devoted
to Jewish music, arranged in
three sections—traditional, Chas-
sidic and folk songs and the
newest Palestinian music.
Participating Artists
Participants in this concert
will include the following art-
ists:
Marguerite Kozenn, dramatic
soprano, was has appeared in
concerts and in opera in this
country, in Rumania and in Pal-
estine, where she sang over the
radio in Jerusalem; Morris Hoch-
berg, violinist, concertmaster of
the Michigan Symphony Orches-
tra; Julius Chajes, pianist-com-
poser, director of music at the
Jewish Community Center and
Temple Beth El; Bernard Argie-
wicz, cellist of the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra; Cantor Jacob
H. Sonenklar ' of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and Cantor Rob-
ert S. Tulman of Temple Israel.
Mrs. S. Q. Kesler will be the
accompanist.

Everett Marshall As Franz
Schubert in "Blossom Time"

During the 21 years of its
phenomenal career, "Blossom
Time" hasn't missed a single
season on the road. This color-
ful operetta, based on the life
and music of the famous Vien-
nese composer Franz Schubert,
comes to the Cass Theater for
one week beginning Sunday
matinee, March 21. Also, there
will be a matinee Saturday.
Heading the cast, in the role
of Franz Schubert, is the former
Metropolitan Opera baritone,
Everett Marshall.
A spirit of care-free comedy
is injected into the romantic
love story by such laugh experts
as Detmar Poppen, Harry K.
Morton and Zella Russell.
The cast also features Joe
Toner, Victor Morley and Ann
Pennington.

Max Lepler, of 3444 Edison,
died Feb. 25, at the age of 65.
MADY CHRISTIANS AT CASS He leaves his wife, Esther; son,
Kopel; two daughters, Mildred
TOWN HALL NEXT FRIDAY
Mady Christians, international- and Mrs. Joseph Bernard.
ly famous stage, screen and radio
actress, co-star of the prize win-
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
FLORSHEIM. DEALER
ning play "The Watch on the
flaRSHEIM
eth..
Rhine," will be presented in a
lecture-recital by The Detroit
Town Hall, in the Cass theater,
Friday morning, March 19, at 11
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
o'clock. Miss Christians' lecture
Open Evenings
will close the series.

The Jolly Paupers

TEKIATH KAFF

The singing of Purim and Pal-
estinian songs, under Mr. Chaj es'
direction, will conclude the pro-
gram.

Sunday 2:30 to Midnight
Mon. & Tues. Eves. 7:30 to 12

Admission cards are available
free before the day of the fest-
ival at the Center office.

Adults, 45c; Children, 15c
tax included

MASONIC AUDITORIUM

MONDAY, MARCH 22, 8:20 P. M.

MARIAN

BERSON

CONTRALTO

Tickets 83c to $2.75

Grinnell's, TE 2-7100

FIRST DETROIT SHOWING

Every American Should See
The Victorious E p ic of the Bravest City
in Al History!

SIEGE Of Litil

The Flint Wendell Winkle Brought Back from Aussie ?,

515 pays of Immortal Heroism
On the Screen!

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2 WEEKS BEG. SUN., MAR. 14

MESSRS, SHUBERT Present

Famous Baritone of New York Metropolitan Opera

EVERETT MARSHALL

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TWO OF SIGMUND ROMBERGS MOST TUNEFUL
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DETROIT

Surrounded by a Nazi Armg

America's fourth city fighting for ifs
life, with ifs back to Lake St. Clair, its
homes in flames, ifs people half-starved,
but its war-factories going full blast!

NOW you can see the complete story

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FRANK HORNADAY• BARBARA SCULLY. DETMAR POPPEN - AGNES CASSIDY•NINA VARELA
HARRY K. MORTON• ZELLA RUSSELL. VICTOR MORLEY•LORRAINE BRIDGES
E1 ANN PENNINGTON

1st Week
2nd Week
Featuring BARBARA SCULLY

Frank Hornaday-Detmar Poppen-Agnes, Cassidy-Nina Varela
II. K. Morton-Zella Russell-Victor Morley-Lorraine Bridges

and ANN PENNINGTON

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For Both Op'ettas

1.65, 1.10; Mats. Wed. (Mar. 17) and Sats., TAX
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BARGAIN MATINEE SUN. March 21 $1.65, 1.10, 55c

"Blossom Time"
Kindly send stamped, self-addressed envelope with remittance.

how 3,000,000 Leningrad citizens smashed the
Nazi ring of steel.

SEGE 01F LEM

A feature-length film photographed under a storm
of Nazi bombs and bullets
Narrated by EDWARD R. MURROW
—SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION-

"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 7th SYMPHONY"

Played by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
With Mme. Maxim Litvinoff & Edward G. Robinson

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Woodward at E. Columbia
CH. 4052

Cont. from 11:45 A. M. Daily

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