FeWiart,.-Sofilessaima 20,1 ,944 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. 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Insurance Underwriter • MAX BLOOM 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 • S 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. 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