friday,- August 22, 1947 THE JEWISH NEWS 1.0atuse Sat Weft .1 •.. a. areo0A a Wade • LIVES OF OUR TIMES Our Film Folk (Copyright 1947. Jewish Telegraphic • Agency) By LEON GUTTERMAN HOLLYWOOD—From its crude nativity in a rebuilt Arab home outside Jerusalem, a Palestinian film industry is taking shape in the plans of Norman Lourie, and in two feature-length pictures, "My Father's House" and "The House in the Desert," which will probably vie for the honor of being the first ever produced in the Holy Land. ''My Father's House" already has arrived here under the arm of Herbert Kline, newspaperman, who co-produced it with Meyer Levin, the novelist. Lourie, after completing "House in the Desert," has just announced the formation of Palestine Films, Inc., and plans to start another production this October from a script by play- wright S. N. Behrman. "Palestine is ideally suited for film production," Kline says, By BORIS SMOLARI. "since its climate is conducive to exterior photography." (Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.) Current violence in Palestine need not be a deterrent to the On the Watch building of a strong, self-suffic- The State Department has been watching very closely the anti- ient industry, according to Laurie. Jewish attacks in Britain which followed the hanging of two British • • • soldiers in Palestine, as well as the Arab terror which is now being his departure to the Rio Confer- Paulette Goddard will return instigated in Palestine . Prior to C. Marshall was ready to express to the legitimate theater in Dub- ence, Secretary of State George publicly some of his opinions on the Palestine issue, but the expected lin next week. She will appear statement was not made for reasons known only to the State Depart- with her husband, Burgess Mere- ment ... It is feared in diplomatic circles here that the Arab terror dith, in ,a production of Maxwell in Palestine is aimed primarily at confusing the United Nations on Anderson's "Winterset," in which the eve of its expected decisions regarding Palestine's future . . . It he created the lead role on Broad- is known that the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, the uncrowned head of the Palestine Arabs, is determined to direct "military operations" in way. Palestine from his place of exile in Cairo . . . He has appointed a • • • more than 100 Arabs to act as "military leaders" in Palestine, Georgie Jessel will be accolad- staff of fixing a salary for each . . . They include a Commander-in-Chief, ed in Washington by the national Chief of Staff, regional commanders, instructors and other "military" Variety Clubs, September 20, at officers ... Between now and the UN General Assembly session next a big testimonial. month at which a decision on Palestine will ,have to be made, Arab • • • provocations against Jews in Palestine are expected to increase .. . When the _new Kraft Music This will make the job of the Haganah—the Jewish sell-defense Hall-Al Jolson show tees off in organization—all the more difficult, since it must now defend a third the fall on NBC, Oscar Levant front ... Hitherto the organization operated only against the British will be among the permanent fix- policy of preventing Jews from entering Palestine and against Jewish extremists within Palestine . . • Now, the Haganah must also pit its tures. strength against drab gangs. • • • • • Between You and Me Communists Disturb Convert Of Palestinians in Prague PRAGUE, (TTA)—A number of disturbances interrupted a Pales- tinian concert here in connection with the World Youth Festival. A delegation of Palestine Com- munists protested the singing of Hatikvah at the opening of the concert and the hanging of the Zionist flag from the rostrum. At the end of the affair, differences were ironed out by displaying the Zionist, Communist and Palestine Arab flags, to represent the three delegations attending the festival. LONDON (JTA)—The British press reports that a petition is being circulated here to demand the resignation of all Jewish members of Parliament and to bar them as candidates in future elections. Police halted a public meeting of the pro-fascist British League of ex-Servicemen in the Wiles- don district of London after the - audience overturned the speak- ers' platform. At a meeting in Chelsea called to protest the hanging of two British soldiers in Palestine members of the au- dience objected to the anti-Jew- ish speeches of the speakers. Meanwhile, a left-wing group opened a week-long campaign to fight fascism and anti-Semitism with a parade through the pre- dominantly Jewish - populated East End of London. BUDAPEST, (JVA)—The Office of Abandoned Property was li- quidated by a decree of the Hun- garian Government and all heir- less and abandoned Jewish prop- erty will be transferred to the JewisheRehabilitation Fund. The government also nullified all property transactions involving Jews after December, 1944. This move is expected to bring new sums into the Rehabilitation Fund as Jewish property is recovered. Paini%-7Wallpaper Furnaces FURNACE CLEANING TRIMZ $500 READY PASTED WALLPAPER Dust Stop Furnace Filters PLASTI-KOTE V-2 Free Delivery and Installation Zionist Trends The session of the Zionist Actions Cominittee, supreme Zionist Oil Burners & Furnaces body between Congresses, may bring many surprises for American Zionists ... It opens next week jn Switzerland in a different spirit Sold and Installed than that which pervaded the World Zionist Congress which was also held there, last December . . ,While the Congress dealt with major Palestine problems more or less theoretically, the Actions Committee will have to deal with them in a more concrete way .. . It will have to decide whether to accept the recommendations of the UN. 3-2668 UN Special Committee on Palestine . . . And it will also have to make a definite and practical decision as to how to deal with the extremists in Palestine ... Serious differences of opinions among the members of the Actions Committee are foreseen. The American Zionist delegation will this time also play a lead- ing role, similar to the one it played at the congress ... But between the last session of the congress and the present time many new developments have arisen ... There were the British-Arab talks in London, there was the special UN Assembly on Palestine, there was the speech by Andrei Gromyko which clarified Moscow's position vis-a-vis the Zionist request for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, there was the "Exodus" affair, and there is mounting Arab-Jewish tension in Palestine ... Not to speak of the forthcoming fight at the General Assembly. . . These developments require decisions which will be of historic importance, affecting the entire future of Palestine. Actions Committee will I think one can safely predict that demand the convocation of a Zionist congress as early as possible without waiting for the usual two-year interval between congresses . The Palestine issue is approaching a climax, and the convocation of a World Zionist Congress before the end of this year is therefore practically unavoidable. British Petition Asks Jewish MPs Resign Restitution to Jews BUSINESS DIRECTORY • John Garfield is set for the male I.Nid in Irene Selznick's Broadway production of Ten- 'nessee Williams' .new stage play, "A Streefea7:-Named Desire.z' . • • Ingrid Bergman says she figures to net herself better than a $1,- 000,000 from her one-third inter- est in her new film, "Arch of Triumph." Figures computed by her show that her three pictures last year averaged a domestic gross of $10,000,000. • • • Successful playwright George S. Kaufman, debuting at the moment as a film director on "The Senator Was Indiscreet," at Universal - International studio, is planning a revival in fall of the Pulitzer Prize show, "Of Thee I Sing." • • • Warner Bros. efforts to cash in On the box-office strength of "The Jolson Story" by reissuing a 1935 Al Jolson starrer has fiz- zled. The company, after trial engagements of "Go Into Your Dance," has withdrawn the film from circulation. 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