Friday,

Scenes Along Broadway
and a Change in Marquees

Second Exodus Saves

Growth Despite Crises

These Jews from Egypt

Haifa Technion's Sports Programs

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his wife of over 25 years, he
By JACK H. GORDON
Over 3,50 years ago Shakes- also was separated from his
peare wrote, "What's in a paintings. He sold them to initi-
name?" These words were first ate a new collection which he
spoken at the first presenta- hopes will surpass his first one.
Joseph Schildkraut informs
tion. of "Romeo and Juliet" in
19-56. Since then they have been us that the theater for him is
repeated both on and of the a formal affair, and that is why
stage countless times — "what's no marquee will refer to him
as Pepi, a name his friends have
in a name?"
This season on Broadway, called him all his life. He came
the theater marquees could by his nick-name honestly, for
have looked very different • it is the Hungarian equivalent
than they did. Some of them of Joe. He tells the story about
might have read as follows: his famous actor father, Ru-
Muni Weisenfrend in "Inherit dolph Schildkraut. Appearing
The Wind," "Judy Tuvith in on Broadway for the first time
"Bells. Are Ringing," Em- after years of acting on Second
mamiel Goldenberg in "Mid- Avenue and in Europe before
dle of the Night," .Fepi Schild- that, a Broadway producer
kraut in "The Diary of Anne asked Rudolph Schildkraut what
Frank," and Menascha the kind of billing he wanted for
Magnificent in "Uncle Willie." the show, The elder Schild-
Muni Weisenfrend, of course, kraut replied, "Put me any-
is the name Paul Muni was where. They will find me."
born with and was, known by
. The , fame of the play,
until he left the JeWish Theater "Diary of Anne Frank," has
for Broadway in the twenties. spread all over the world. It
Recently his visits to the legiti- has been reproduced in many
mate theater-have been far too languages. When - first pre-
infrequent. Weare offered the sented in Germany Joseph
Schildkraut was offered the
opportunity of seeing his elee-
tric portrayal of Clarence Dar- opportunity of duplicating his
row these days, and who knows role there. He turned it down.
how many more chances we gn a New York television
Show he was recently asked
will have of seeing him perform.
The attendant cifeumstances re- why—and his reply was, "I
volving about his portrayal has am allergic to murderers in
been as dramatic as the charac- three-quarter time."
terization, for Paul Muni was
This late in life, Broadway
forced" to leave the cast for critics have given Sk -ulnick a
several •months for an eye oper- new name. They dubbed hirii
ation. Mel#-yn Douglas, - who "Menasha, The Magnificent."
might have but d•dn't emerge After panning the play, "Uncle
from the same Jewish Theater Willie," they hailed the antics
as Muni, replaced him and of this- good-natured whimsical
e earned the greatest recognition little clown, reaching for dic-
of his career. Now, once again, tionary adjectives ,of praise'. In-
Mr. Muni has returned to con- •Menascha's own words, "Every-
tinue his- dynamic interpreta7 thing wasn't always so rosy!"
tion of Clarence Darrow's proto- In his plaintive .manner of
speech, he recounts the time not
type. '
• "Tuvim" loosely means "holi- too long ago - when for him a
days," and so Judy loosely slice of pumpernickel was such
translated her family name to a treat that he put it between
Judy Holliday. She changed her two slices of rye and created a
name just before she exploded pumpernickel sandwich. He re-
into stardom several years ago tains his melancholy • face and
in "Born Yesterday." This sea-. all his mournful movements,
son the Magic of "Holliday" has but times sure have changed for
elevated "Bells Are Ringing" Mehascha, the Magnificent.
from an also-ran to a smash hit.
What's in a name? The repu-
Sydney Chaplin, her leading tations of Muni, Holliday, Rob-
man, is the son of the famous inson, Schildkraut and Skulnick
and controversial Charlie. Evi- have spelled success for much
dently, offstage Judy thinks he mediocre theater fare.
has charm and • good looks; the
Broadway gossip-ers are linking
`Closed Shop' Decision
them together as an item.
Edward G. Robinson angli- in Professor's Book
cized his name from Emmanuel
WALTHAM, Mass. — A re-
Goldenberg, retaining the mid- searching Brandeis University
dle initial for sentimental rea.- professolis has brought to light
sons. A fan of master painters, an 1842 Massachusetts decision
Mr. Robinson became almost as that a union, seeking in effect
well known for his art collec- a closed shop, was legal.
tion as for his portrayal of
The finding is only one of
gangster roles in Hollywood many surveyed by Prof. Leon-
films. llecently separated from ard Levy of Brandeis University
in his study of the long career
of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw.
Etymologist Confirms
Little known outside of Massa :.
chusetts, Justice Shaw wrote
Israel-Egypt History
_legal decisions in the Massa-
By TUVIAH W. NAKARAI
chusetts Supreme Court, which
ProfesSor of Semitic Languages and
were forerunners of our na-
Literature, School of Religion,
Butler University
tional legal pattern, Dr. Levy
An AJP Feature
points out. •
Thirty years ago there were
Shaw was never a laborer.
some scholars who thought that He was a conservative pre-Civil
Israel was never in Egypt, but War Whig, Dr. Levy said.
Egyptology has shown that - the
The decision in which Prof.
name Moshe of
Levy says Shaw wrote "the
Israel's E g yp-
Magna Charta of American
tian liberator,
Trade-unionism," is included in
• itself may be
a new book, "The Law- of the
Commonwealth and Chief Jus-
an Egyptian
tice Shaw," published by Harv-
word M.-
ard University Press.
meaning s o n,
The author teaches American
just like our
constitutional law and history.
Hebrew b e n
or Aramic bar.
Quebec Synagogue Is
This is ,precise-
1Sr the compo-
600th to Affiliate with USA
nent of some
Cong. Beth El, Mount Royal,
Egyptian
Quebec; Canada, became the
names like
600th affiliate of the United
Ramses, son' of
Synagogue of America at the
Ra.
March meeting of the group's
Mor e' e o n- Prof. • Nakarai
executive council. -
vincing is the fact that the per-
Organized five years ago, the
sonal name Moshe actually ap- Canadian congregation now
pears at least in one Egyptian comprises 325 families, and is
inscription and in one Egyptian led by Rabbi Morton M. Leif s
papyrus, both of which are man, a graduate of the Jewish
dated.. from the 13th century Theological Seminary of
America.
B.C.E.

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The second Exodus from
Egypt has ended successfully
for this Egyptian boy and his
father who prepare for the
observance of the Passover
seder in Israel. Thanks to the
efforts of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee and the United
Israel Appeal they are pre-
paring to build a new life.
Over 100,000 Jews, now in
flight from East European and
Moslem countries must now be
resettled, necessitating a spe-
cial $100,000,000 emergency
fund above regular United
Jewish Appeal needs to save,
transport and resettle new
refugees such as the ones
shown above,

Chess Championship

By HAROLD J. RIBALOW
Mikhail B o t v i n n i k is all
wrapped up defending his world
chess champiohship against the
challenge of Vassily Smyslov,
in Moscow. The two masters
take turns at beating each other,
but it is to early to tell which
way it will end up. Botvinnik
has been the titleholder for a
long time and, so far, Jewish
stars have held the world cham-
pionship fOr more years than
all others combined. It will be
interesting to see if Smyslov can
break the hold the Jewish play-
ers have on all others.

By HAROLD U. RIBALOW
Although we read constantly
of crises in the Middle East and
of political debate in Israel,
there is also a steady, healthy
increase o? interest in sports in
the Jewish State. A recent spe-
cial report has come -to my desk
which deserves to be shared by
all readers concerned with
sports and its future in Israel.
Carl Alpert, the director of pub-
lic relations of the Technion
Israel Institute of Technology.
in Haifa, Israel, and a former
New York newspaperman and
Zionist educator, calls these
facts -to my attention:
1. Nearly 100 Technion stu-
dents are now rowing in Israel's
top technical school. That is;.
100 have been chosen for' crew
training. Lack of boats prevents
the expansion of what has be-
come the most popular sport at
the school. The crews practice
on the waters of Haifa Bay. Last
year, the varsity team partic-
ipated in a mile and a half race
and won the coveted Martin
Axiner Cup.
2. Basketball, soccer, volley
ball, tablestennis, boxing, fenc-
ing, European handball, track
and field and other games are
very popular on the campus.
And don't forget chess. The hoop
team is one of the best in the
land and figures to keep its
status as champs.
Technion's major handicap—
and this is true of many of
Israel's sports teams—has . been
a lack of a ogym, sports fields
and equipment. The first athle-

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tic field is now being built at
Technion City, but equipment
is still in short supply. Mr.
Alpert tells me—and this comes
from official sources—"over a
period of several years applica-
tions for assistance have been
made to the U.S. Committee for
Sports in Israel, but no help has
been forthcoming."
Kurt Marx, who serves as
part-time coach at the Technion,
declares that "we feel that or-
ganized campus athletics. is an
important part of a student's
education. We have had some
help from the Municipality of
Haifa and from the local Mac-
cabi and Hapoel Sports Clubs,
but our athletic program still
lags far behind the possibilities,
for lack of means."

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