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Behrinan Writes Noteworthy Story of Max Beerbohm

BY HENRY LEONARD

When S. N. Behrman appends
his name to a book,-- it may well
assure for it best seller status.
When Behrman writes about so
eminent a genius as Sir Max
Beerbohm, the volume assumes
even vaster significance.
Random House may have
another money-maker in Behr-
man's "Portrait of Max—An In-
timate Memoir of Sir Max Beer-
bohm."
The reader will be glued to
this book the moment he opens
its pages. There is, indeed, inti-
macy. The volume is studded with
caricatures and s e 1 f - portraits.
Through its pages march scores
of the world's greatest figures.
"Portrait of Max" has an
even finer quality: it is replete
with anecdotes. While it en-
lightens, it also entertains.
Jewish encyclopedias list as
Jews Beerbohm and his half
brother, the famous actor, Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, about
whom much is said in the Behr-
man account. But from "Portrait
190
of Max" we quote Behrman:
The Man Who Belched in Shul
"I told Max that I had been
On Yom Kippur Day
shown an anti-Semitic poem
Cup, I95A, Lconard Pritikin
written by Pound against him. In
it the spelling of Max's name was
distorted. Max was interested, and
not at all surprised. 'I am not
Report Israel Scientist Jewish Congress House Jewish,'
he said. 'I cannot claim
that. But then, you know, he •
Discovers New Pill for to be Built in Israel
A World Jewish Congress crazy. He greatly admired M
Birth Control Process
House, forming a permanent
LONDON, (JTA) — The dis- link between Israel and Dia-
covery by an Israeli scientist of spora Jewry. is shortly to be U.S. Bank Loans $'
a birth control process through built in Israel.
to Nasser So He C
a pill made from an extract of
Samuel Bronfman, chairman
mushrooms was announced
Buy
100 GM Trains
of the North
here.
American
Di-
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
The scientist, well known in
vision of the United Arab Republic was given
England, is Dr. M. C. Shelesn-
World Jewish a $22,500,000 credit by the U.S.
yak, head of the department of
Congress, an- Export-Import Bank this week
endocrinology and reproductive
nounced t h e to finance the purchase in the
physiology at the Weizmann In-
appointment of United States of 100 General
stitute of Science, at Rehovot.
Dr. Moses Cy- Motors Diesel electric locomo-
Dr. Shelesnyak has been
rus Weiler as tives.
working on the new process for
chairman of
The announcement was made
eight years, carrying on some
the administra- on the eve of President Nasser's
of his researches at Birming-
tive committee arrival by President Samuel C.
ham University in England,
of the House Waugh of the American Govern-
three years ago. In 1958, he re-
of Jewish Com- ment Banki
ceived the Oliver Bird Prize
ist the U
munities, as credit
there for developing a theory
arry forward
e iza-
the WJC build- way
on th- mechanization of im-
and moderniz
program
ing w ill be
plantation and its control.
eluding improv ent of service
Dr. Weiler
known.
Dr. Shelesnyak said he has,
in the Gaza trip. The c e it will
thus far, carried out his experi-
Dr. Weiler, a South Afri
be repaid er ight
ments with the birth control Rabbi who founded the
years co enc
pills on animals only, avoiding ment of Progressive Judai
Meanw e, it
experimentation with women the Union, now lives in
nounced
Ca'
at another
so not to "become involved He is currently visiting
Americ ship, the Marine Voy-
in religious controversy."
communities in Latin
ager,
been placed on
However, it is reported in one and will later tour Euro
Arab League blacklist for
g
dispatch that the scientist and
with Israel, and tha
vessel
his colleagues have made some Gould, Rose, Shumsky
will be refus
port facili-
"major tests" with about 100
women volunteers in Israel, Stratford Music Directo
STRATFORD, Ontario—With
"meeting with absolute
The value of foresight is dem-
the retirement of Louis Apple- onstrated by the after effects.
success."
baum as musical director of the
Stratford Festival, Michael
Israel Appoints Trade Langham,
the festival's artistic
Commissioner in U.S.
director, today announced that
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Yesha- the music directorship in 1961
ahu Stopper has been appointed will be shared by three re-
the Israel Trade Commissioner nowned musicians.
in the United States, it was
Glenn Gould, pianist, Leon-
announced by Arieh Manor, Is- ard Rose, cellist, and Oscar
rael's Economic Minister in this Shumsky, violinist, agreed to
country. St opper, who was undertake the duties of direct-
formerly his country's commer- ing the festival's music season,
cial attache in Istanbul, suc- he said: Ezra Schabas, special
ceeds Nathan Raviv, who was lecturer in the faculty of music
the Israel Trade Commissioner of the University of Toronto
and director of public relations
in this country since 1957.
A total of $29,000,000 in for the Royal Conservatory of
goods was exported by Israel Music, will be music manager.
to the United St s i 1959,
All have previously been as-
Raviv reported.
mated sociated with the Stratford Fes-
that this year's o
• ould be tival. Gould appeared as solo-
$30,000,000. Isr
ports from ist in 1955, 1956 and 1960. Rose
the Unite. S
about three and Shumsky were soloists in
times e
mt of goods it 1959 and 1960.
• or
is country.
Schabas, prominent clarinet-
ist, played in the Festival Or-
chestra, 1955-57, and served as
music manager in the 1958 sea-
son.
READY FO

solini. All that Fascist business!'
. . . Max told me he felt that
Belloc was, on occasion, a victim
of Monomania. 'He had the con-
viction that there was only a
single lane to Heaven,' Max said.
`It suited him, for example, to
believe that Dreyfus was guilty.
Ergo'Max tapped his forehead
—`Dreyfus was guilty'."
Perhaps Beerbohm's remark
"I am not Jewish" was meant as
an indication of non-affiliation.
The value of "Portrait of
Max" lies as much in the inti-
mate account of Beerbohm as
it does in the knowledge the
reader acquires about scores of
great men—about Sir William
Rothenstein, "one of , Max's
closest friends," Balfour, Shaw,
Yeats, Wells, Swinburne, Beren-
son, Maugham, and so many
more that they are too numer-
ous to mention.
Interesting references are

made to Reginald Turner and his
father, Lord Burnham, proprietor
of the Daily Telegraph and "a
great pioneer in English journal-
ism . . . Burnham was born Levy.
He later changed his name, first
to Levu-Lawson, and then to
Lawson . . . The elder Lawson,
Max told me, was very clever
and made a great fortune."
The anecdotes in the book
would in themselves provide end-
less copy for a very lengthy re-
view, and so would the comments
on many of the world's great.
Suffice it to say that out of Behr-
man's "Portrait of Max" there
emerges a most interesting
character—a great caricaturist, a
fine poet, an able drama critic—
as well as a most interesting pano-
rama of people and events. Behr-
man's book will be read and
talked about for a long time.
—P.S.

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9 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, September 30, 1960

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