Risdon Real Estate Opens Branch
I Actor Refuses Role in Austrian Play Hammarskjold Aide
Visits in Near East
to Serve Suburban Communities
Until Anti-Semitic Issue Is Aired
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) —

VIENNA, (JTA)—Fritz Kort-
ner, a dedicated Jew who is
considered to be among the
greatest living actors and direc-
tors on the German Stage, has
notified a local theatrical man-
ager that he will not appear in
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" until
certain "official circles of Vi-
enna have disassociated them-
selves" from recent anti-Semitic
episodes.
Kortner, presently directing
Shakespeare's "Henry IV" in
Munich, said he had been look-
ing forward to his first post-
war appearance in his native
Vienna,
He cited recent "hideous anti-
Semitic occurrences," specifi-
cally referring to an incident
involving German actress Kae-
the Dorsch, Austrian film di-
rector Franz Antel and Vienna
Jewish drama critic Hans Wei-
gel.
When the latter published an
unflattering account of a per-
formance by Miss Dorsch, she
attacked him and shattered his
glasses.
Munich's "Sueddeutsche Zei-
tung," considered South Ger-
many's most important daily,
insists Miss Dorsch was influ-
enced by neo-Nazi motivations
in selecting Weigel for her as-
sault.
The play's cast, however,
backed Miss Dorsch in extraor-
dinary fashion, with veteran
actor Raoul Aslan demanding
that Vienna-born Weigel be ex-
pelled from the country, and
Antel following suit by calling
Weigel "a repulsive Jew." When
challenged, he blustered defi-
antly that he was proud of be-
ing an "old Nazi."
Kortner's protest was directed

against this climate of heedless-
ness, and brought to a head the
indignation voiced in certain
sections of the German ,press.
In consequence, Antel has now
apologized to Weigel.
(In New York, Variety, show
business trade paper, reported
that Republic Pictures now has
a new Antel film, "The Con-
gress Dances," ready for re-
lease.

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Republic to Release
Veit Harlan Movie

NEW YORK (JTA) — Re-
public Pictures- is releasing a
picture called "Circus Girl" in
which Veit Harlan, notorious
Nazi film functionary who
made the viciously anti-Semitic
film "Jew Suess" receives full
I credit as director, it was re-
ported here by Variety, show
business trade newspaper.
The report noted that the
political past of some foreign
film makers sometimes worried
the public of those countries,
but it "doesn't necessarily con-
cern the American distribu-
tors."
Variety reported that show-
ing of Harlan's work caused
riots in some cities of Ger-
many after the war, but that
this sentiment seemed to have
subsided to some extent.
Netherlessness, the report
went on to note that a German
producer had dropped Ernst
von Salomon as a script writer
for a new film, "On Order of
Canaris." von Salomon was an
active Nazi who wrote the
strongly anti-American "Frage-
bogen" (Questionnaires) after
the war.

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Andrew W. Cordier, executive
assistant to Secretary ,General
Dag Hammarskjold, and highest
ranking member of the United
Nations secretariat under Mr.
Hammarskjold, who is most
familiar with every phase of the
Arab-Israel disputes in the Mid-
dle East, left for a visit to a
number of capitals, including
Amman, Beirut, Jerusalem and
Cairo.
Mr. Cordier's trip is tied to
the fact that 16 new member
nations were admitted to the
UN last winter and he will pre-
sumably discuss - with the for-
eign offices in many capitals
in Europe as well as in the
Middle East their plans in con-
nection with the next session of
the General Assembly which
opens Nov. •12. His itinerary in-
cludes also Paris, London and
Geneva, as well as the capitals
of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and
Egypt. He will be in Beirut Aug.
21, Amman, Aug. 22, Jerusalem,
Aug 23, and Cairo, Aug. 24.

60,000 Fans See Israel
Soccer Team Lose to Russia

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A cham-
pionship Soviet soccer team beat
an Israeli t e am before some
60,000 fans who jammed Ramath
Gan Stadium to see the second
of two matches in a regional
elimination cont e s t for the
forthcoming Melbourne Olympic
Games.
The score was 2-1, a moral
victory for the Israeli team
which was beaten by the same
R us s ian team in Moscow's
Dynamo Stadium 5-0 several
weeks ago. Israelis were glued
to radio sets listening to a broad=
cast of the game.

New Israeli Dance Record
Israeli dance enthuSiasts can
look forward to a new long
playing album released by Tikva
Records. The disc features Tova
Ronni, vocalist, and instructions
by Dvora Lapson, Jewish dance
expert. The album is nationally
distributed by House of Men-
orah, New York.

U.S. Labor Zionists Open Hamlin House in Israel

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Hamlin
House, an American Labor Zion-
ist project, was opened here at
a ceremony attended by United
State Ambassador Edward B.
Lawson and Speaker of the Is-
rael Parliament Joseph Sprin-
zak.
The three-story $250,000 build-
ing is located near Histadrut
headuarters. The project is
named in honor of Isaac Ham-
lin, former executive head of

the Histadrut campaign in the
United States.
Hamlin, who settled recently
in Israel, told the gathering that
the center would serve as a
symbol— of brotherhood and
friendship between the Israeli
and American labor movements.
He said the House would serve
as a center for American tour-
ists and would contain a per-
manent exhibition of Histadrut
activities.

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JEWISH 'NEWS
STAMP COLLECTOR

By HENRY B. STERN
Since 1951 millions of postage
stamps ckf the United Nations
have seen service on mail des-
tined for all parts of the world.
The story of the creation and
utilization of these stamps is
ably told in Douglas Patrick's
"The Postage Stamps and Pos-
tal History of the United Na-
tions," (Ryerson Press: Toron-
to).
This book tells of the value
of UN stamps in promoting
world understanding. It in-
cludes data on the stamps and
UN Postal Administration which
the collector will find of aid
in "writing up" the explanation
section of album pages.
The chapter entitled "Col-
lector's Facts and Frantasies" is
particularly noteworthy. Mr.
Patrick describes and illustrates
a cacheted cover commemorat-
ing Israel's admittance to the
United Nations on May 11, 1949.
The cover was Mailed from the
former headquarters of the UN
at Lake Success, New York.
Both the United States "To-
wards United Nations" stamp
(Scott No. 928) and the Israel
Mogen David flag stamp (Scott
No. 15) were cancelled on the
cover.
This volume includes a de-
tailed catalogue of United Na-
tion stamps up to 1954. The
topical s t amp collector of
"United Nations on Stamps of
the World" will find a great
deal of material listing those
countries which have honored
the UN by postal issues.
The author of this book is the
same Douglas Patrick who con-
ducts the CBC Stamp Club on
the Trans-Canada radio network.

Pictured above is the new branch office of Risdon Real
Estate, one of this city's most unique enterprises in that its
leadership consists of a mother and her two sons. The company,
with a total of 35 years of real estate experience, is composed
of Edna M. Risdon, Edmund C. and William A. Risdon and
seven associates. They have specialized in new and used resi-
dential properties in Northwest Detroit and environs since 1942.
The main office is at 18977 Wyoming, south of 7 Mile, while the
branch office, serving Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods,
Beverly Hills and Birmingham, is located at '712 N. Woodward,
near Catalpa. The firm is a member of the National Associa-
tion of Realtors, Detroit Real Estate Board and United North-
western R e al Estate Association. For information, call
LI. 7-7222 or JO. 4-6361.

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