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Ti4E JEWISH NEWS
Bnai Brith Young Women's Parley
Hears Detroit Delegate's Report
Our
Film
Folk
(Copyright
1945 ,Tewisit
Telegraphic
Agency)
By LEON GITTTERALIX
Prcelucer Sainmy Goldwyn,
wish ei cosmetics manufactur-
ers would devote less time to
perfecting suntan oils and mare
t._ finding a lotion to prevent sun-
tan! Its costing him $1,000 daily
for extra makeup tests because
the Goldwyn Girls in his new-
Danny Kaye comedy can't help
getting suntanned—and it doesn't
look good in color!
• • •
Larry Parks, a Scotch Presby-
terian, became fluent in Yid
during the months he prepared.
for his starring role of Al Tolson
in -The Jolson Story' recently
completed at Columbia.
*
Pandro S. Berman was signed
to a 104ear contract by Metro
Goldwyn Mayer.
Berman has
been producing at MGM for six
years, and currently has two
films ready for release, **Under-
current," starring Katharine Hep-
burn and Robert Taylor, and
- Sea of Grass," a Hepburn-
Spencer Traey-Melvyn Dottilaa
starrer. One of his box office
smash hits last year was the fam-
ous ''Dragon Seed."
• • •
Eddie Cantor and his cast were
rehearsing and cutting scripts for
a forthcoming show in a sound-
proof conference room at NBC
the other day. Suddenly the room
was mysteriously filled with the
strains
of "Old Man River."
Eddie went to -the door and pulled
it open and a. 14-year-old boy fell
in. He'd been singing his lungs
out through the keyhole! - I just.
wanted an audition, Mr. Cantor."
he explained breathlessly. Eddie
gave him an audition with all the
fixings--after the broadcast.
Page Fifty-five_
Miss America of '45
In Comic Portrays
Fight for Tolerance
The New York publishing firm.
Famous Funnies, Inc.. will shortly
release latest comic book offering
"New- Heroic Comics," containing
a strip based on the activities of
Bess Myerson. Miss America of
1945.
•
These colorful comic pages stress
the Bronx Beauty's work for toler-
ance which has taken her on na-
tional lecture tours.
In addition to speaking for rac-
ial and religious understanding
and unity, the winner of the cov-.
eted Atlantic City title has given
much. time to entertaining wound-
ed servicemen in veterans hos-
Shown here are a group of the youthful delegates to • the first pitals.
Such activities are highlighted
national convention of Bnai Beth Young Women held at Cejwin
Camp, Port Jarvis, IL Y. The delegates are listening to a report in the comic strip together with
of' the program committee by Charlotte Waterston of Detroit. The Bess lifyerson's theme "You Can - t
young women formed a national organizs4tion and adopted a program Be Beautiful and Hate."
of activities.
the best humor stories gleaned.
from more than 28 years of
columns by the most celebrated
columnist of them all.
• •
More than 800 million persons
—a third of the world's popula-
tion face acute hunger or death
by starvation, in war-ravaged
and drought-stricken Europe and
Asia. Aid UNRRA's efforts to
help save lives by mailing a
check for purchase of food to
Emergency Food Col lection, Room
SOL 153 E. Elizabeth St.. De-
troit I.
* * *
Note on Tolerance
Greetings From
ay HR. ASHER ISAACS
M the Jewish Outlook, PIttaborah
JOSE
DRUCKER
A
roar
CARD sent out by a
Michigan Summer Resort sounds
a new note in tolerance. It reads:
"Confidential_ Plenty of rooms
at Grand Hotel for high class
Gentile guests, but our quota of
I0% only for Jewish guests has
been booked for the season. Tele-
phone or telegraph collect to
Reservation. Manager Ratter any
time for reservations." It seems
that it is easier to find 10% Jew-
ish guests (and we a ssume they
Few people know this, but while are high class) than to round up
the beautiful Ingrid Bergman non-Jewish guests of equally high
(one of our favorite people) was character. But at any rate. the
starring in "Saratoga Trunk," she best comment on the whole thing
was also photographing her own is found in the appropriate name
alidired version of the Warner of the manager.
Bros. picture! Ingrid shoots her
Harpo Marx was driving Lou
Holtz down to Palm Springs the
ether day and toward the end
of the journey he said, `We're
lost." Asked - Lou, - How do you
know?" ,"Because it's snowing!"
exclaimed Harpo. And suite
enough it was. They were only
about 50 miles off and about
3,000 feet up from where they
belonged.!
1946
GREETINGS
AND BEST WISHES
FOR THE
NEW YEAR
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Best Wishes for A Happy New Year
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and DAUGHTERS
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GREETINGS ON THE
Max Grass
BUYER OF USED CLOTHING
Major Doran. I have received in-
structions for the destruction of
your building at an early date.
Insurance
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MAX
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LONDON fJTA)—The Jewish
Agency received' a letter warning
that its building on Great Russell
St. is slated for early destructioin
in reprisal for the slaying of Maj.
Desmond Doran by extremists in
TeI Aviv.
The letter • was signed -Buf,"
the initials of Sir Oswald Mos-
ley's outlawed British Union of
Fascists. Though it is believed to
be the work of a crank, the Agen-
t
cy handed the letter over to the
!authorities-.
The letter read.:
i - Warning. Since the death . of
own personal color movies with
her own 16-millimeter camera:
G R EETINGS and BFST
using spare ends of film. She is
her own producer, director, cam-
WISHES for the
eraman and film editor, but on
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NEW ITAR
OCCaSICIEL she can command a dis-
Paul' Muni is being considered tinguished crew. Ingrid started
for the lead role in Charlie Ein- making her own pictorial record
feld—Dave Loew's "Arch of Tri- of movie making in Hollywood
MEYER MINKIN
umph," but neither the actor nor shortly after she arrived in the
the company seem to make up American film capital. Her suc-
AND FAMILY
their minds. For one thing, Paul
cess with a miniature version of
has just finished work in "Angel
"Casablanca" encouraged her to
270,4 Fullerton
On My Shoulder." which wound
attempt an even more ambitious
up shooting the other day, and he
effort with "Saratoga Trunk."
wants a rest before entering into
another picture commitment.
• • •
So you can always spot an
Irishman, Jew or Swede, can
you? More than
1,800 extras
Slipairsors - Upholstery
passed in review before Al Jol-
son and director Al Green in the
course of the selection of a syna-
gogue congregation of 216. It
New- Year's Greetings to Our Many
was for a sequence in Colum-
bia's Technicolor music drama,
Friends and Customers
"The Jolson Story." A survey
broke down the handpicked con-
gregation as follows: 78% Anglo-
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American, 14% mixed ancestry,
1% Jewish!
• * •
Walter Winchell's new book,
"Gift - of Laughter," is one pro-
longed joy-ride of wonderful anec-
dotes, witty lines, and the sort of
heartstring-twanging stories that
are the very heartbeat of Broad-
way and Hollywood. It contains
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