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MISS RHODA GOULD
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gould, 5102
W. Outer Dr., announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Rhoda Lorraine, to Arnold Owen
Shapero, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben C. Shapero of Fairfax Dr.,
Southfield.
The bride-elect is a student in
the College of Education at
Wayne State University. Her fi-
ance is a graduate of -Wayne
State University and is attending
Detroit College of Law. A March
31 wedding is planned.
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Under the Masks ...Lipsky's
Reminiscences on Theater
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
The Jewish world both here
and abroad has long known
Louis Lipsky as a communal
and Zionist leader with heresies
and boldness that often plagued
his enemies and delighted his
friends. Blessed with a keen
mind, a sharp pen and a poet's
imagination, he could not even
in the years when he was solely
preoccupied with Zionist affairs
harness himself to the patterns
which were - .
meant for the :Orw
mundane—
and he re-
belled, against
himself,
against his
destiny.
Louis L i p
sky in essence;
is a creative
man , and as
he ponders
his years he
must often
pause in con-
templation Lipsky N
whether abandonment of crea-
tive writing was not perhaps
too high a price to pay for lead-
ership, even in such a messianic
movement that Zionism was in
its beginning days and in the
elation of its fulfillment.
Since there is neither apothe-
cary nor scale sufficiently deli-
cate to weigh such intangibles,
this writer certainly will not in-
dulge in speculation beyond ob-
serving that the 'world of litera-
ture conceivably lost a great fig-
ure when Louis Lipsky decided
that his path was not in story
but in doing.
And yet it can not be said
of Lipsky that he had completely
deserted his muse. Over the
years he has delighted hundreds
of thousands of people with the
charm of his words, both as a
speaker and author.
Now, in his newest volume,
Tales of the Yiddish Rialto
(Yoseloff), he comes to us, in
fulfillment, as an artist, as a
consummate story teller, as
a penetrating observer of the
human scene.
The author calls the book
reminiscences of playwrights
and players in New York's Jew-
ish theatre in the early 1900's.
In fact, however, it transcends
reminiscing, for basically it is
a portrayal of a group of peo-
ple, in this case Yiddish actors,
caught in the web of a profes-
sion where there is much mer-
riment but little happiness.
The impact of the stories is
a brilliant limning of the Yid-
dish theater and its -. figures in
the early days of Jewish living
in New York's Lower East Side.
But what is more important is
that the book is a portrayal not
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alone of actors but of people
who happen to be actors. They
wear grease, and paint and
masks and all manner of trap-
pings, these actors; but under-
neath they are human beings
whose lives • are seared in addi-
tion by plagues of the limelight
and public exposure. Lipsky re-
moves the grease and lifts the
masks for us and we behold the
men and women of the Yiddish
rialto not through a photo-
graphic but an artistic eye.
The men and women strut-
ting the pages of the book, to
use Lipsky's words, "were
vagrants who had become
actors and singers in a thea-
tre," people who "lived in the
Ghetto but were not part of
it," men who defied conven
tion and willingly paid the
price for it. And yet it is a
sympathetic story that Lipsky
tells.
There is great temptation
here to quote heavily from the
volume, but that would offer the
challenge of violating the copy-
right law since we would have
to give the bulk of the book.
One of the finest plebes in
the book is a story called "Bad-
chen in Pastel," the tale of a
jester who lost his voice only
to regain it temporarily. Though
it is done jestingly, as befits
the theme, the tale is the story
of anguish, the anguish of the
artist, any artist who lost his
instrument of expression. The
Badchen's artistic message may
not have been a lofty one, but
when he is silenced in voice
his despair is no less than that
of the most gifted. Lipsky paints
the story with such precision
that one actually feels the Bad-
chen's agony.
In another story, "The
Moth," he deals with the
peripheral figures in the Jew-
ish theatre of that time. The
tale is about a man who
couldn't keep away from the
world of the actors even
though he knew that his per-
sistence would only result in
being singed to death, like the
moth against fire. He was con-
sumptive, this moth, but so
powerful was the attraction
of the world of the theatre
to him that he ignored cure,
and in the end he died.
This • writer entered the con-
scious Jewish field much later,
yet he recognizes many of the
personages who pass through
the pages of the book under
disguised names. They were a
miserable lot, the early pio-
neers of the Yiddish theatre,
but they laid the foundation for
a craft that rose and ebbed
along with the rise and fall of
Jewish immigration.
Lipsky's book is not only a
contribution to an understand-
ing of one of the facets of Jew-
ish life in America, the Yiddish
theatre, but a remarkable liter-
ary work that will 'be of en-
during value to those who like
to peep behind the curtain.
,Lipsky is a consummate stu-
dent of the theater. His present
volume serves to rescue from
oblivion one of the most color-
ful chapters in Jewish living
in America at the turn of the
century.
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