Secunda Retains 1st Play, 'Worm,'
`Bei Mir Bist Du to Be Produced
Shein' Ownership
•
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Sholom
Secunda, who sold the rights to
his "Bei Mir Bist Du Shein"
for $30,000 after he wrote it
and then watched other people
get rich from
it for two dec-
ades, became
the owner
again this
week of his in-
ternational hit
song whert the
copyright"
to him.
Under United
States law, a
copyright ex-
pires after 28
years and can
be renewed
Secunda - only by the
author or composer or by some-
one he designates.
For the first time since he
wrote it in 1937, Secunda will
begin to share in its continuing
earnings. He signed a contract
with Harms, Inc.,. the music
publisher which promoted the
song into international fame.
Secunda, under the agree-
ment, will get about $5,000 in
royalties. If he had kept the
copyright, he would have re-
ceived more than $300,000 by
this time.
The 66-year-old composer of
Yiddish musicals for. the Second
Avenue theater in Manhattan
was not embittered,' however.
He said the loss bothered
"everyone else more than it
bothered ine." Anyway, he said,
he didn't think much of the
hit tune as compared to some
of his symphonic compositions.
Secunda composed the music
for the song as he, was walking
with his wife on a Far Rock-
away boardwalk. He and his
lyricist needed a theme song
for a yiddish musical they had.
written.• A few years later,
Secunda was offered $30 for it
which he accepted. The next
thing he knew, the melody was
being sung by an unknown trio
called the Andrews Sisters.- It
has since sold 250,000 copies in
sheet music and 2,500,000
records.
Esther Kaufman, a 63-year-
old New York grandmother
who has written a play that
is being produced, smiles
happily as she clutches the
script of "A Worm in
Horseradish" under her arm.
Her first play, "Worm" is
set in Manhattan's Lower East
Side at the turn of the cen-
tury. It will open at the
Maidman Playhouse, an off-
Broadway theater, March 13.
Zionist-Revisionists
Hold Parley in N
ional
Morris Brafam,
chairman of the
t d Zionist-
an-
Revisionists
nounced
he organization
its national conven-
wi ll h •
the Baltimore Hotel,
ti on
Ne
ork, 25-26.
e conference will •
the Jabotinsky Y
al,
•
r.
nvention in co
the 80th birth •
of Zee
adimir) Jabotinsky,
ionist
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• World Zionis
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Discrimination Is Issue in California' Illinois Fraternities
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
Officers of the Stanford Univer-
sity chapter of Alpha Tau Omega
held firmly to their refusal to
drop four Jewish student pledges
under threat from the national
officers of revoking the chapter's
'charter.
National_ leaders met wi the
chapter officials at a close door
meeting in Palo Alto, b t the
meeting ended with no cha e in
the position of either group.
Gerald E. Johnson, who repre-
sented the five-man high council
of the national office, explained
that the national policy was not
to exclude Jews "if they embrace
the Christian faith." He said the
national council would study the
situation and decide what action
should be taken on the ultimatum.
Michael Kavanaugh, president
of the chapter, reiterated an
earlier policy statement' of the
chapter that it had the right to
choose its own members without
regard to race, color or religion.
He was vigorously supported
by William Craig, Stanford Dean
of Men, and California State At-
torney General Stanley Mosk, who
suggested that the chapter ga
into the courts to sustain its po-
sition. He also asked other Cali-
fornia college officials to deter-
mine what their chapters of the
fraternity were doing in regard to
admissions. . The fraternity has
chapters at San Jose and San
Berkeley, UCLA,
ccidental an •
e University of
Southern Califor
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LAKE FOREST, L., (JTA)-
official of "L • Forest Col-
lege said that Da
C. Schillef
of Chicago, had • n ousted from
•
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
chapter on orders of the frater-
nity national council because he
was Jewish.,,
Howard Hoogesteger, dean of
students, said that the youth, who
refused to comment on the an-
nouncement, had been pledged
the chapter
the action was
January by t
The dean s
was continu
' ternity house as a "social mem-
ber." A student- faculty - trustee-
disclosed that the
•
alum
e Chicago
chapter had p
e ac-
student in the hope
tion "would be appro d b • the
council."
natiq
ber of the five- an
ter
council said the
nat
that
ustified by t
w
unded on
aternit
t
pies" and should
C 1 1
that way.
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Brazil Indicts Author
for Libel Against Jews
An example:
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA) —
Criminal charges have been filed
against Pio Benedito Ottoni, au-
thor of the book, "An Inquisi-
tion," for blood libel accusations
against the Jews, it was announc-
ed here by Dr. Isaac Izeckson, a
member of the Rio de Janeiro
City Council.
Brazilian statutes impose se-
vere penalties for the publication
of hate propaganda or for libel-
ing religious groups. The sixth
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Cohn Is Brotherhood
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t can be done to set things right?
Irwin Cohn, prominent attorney
and recent recipient of the Fred
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Jewish Welfare Federation for
distinguished community service,
currently is serving as chairman
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John C. Manning, special writer
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Adult Group President Joyce
Markin.
Rabbi Harold D. Hahn conducts
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