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," Harris' 'Friedman & Son': Poor
Play, Interesting Autobiography
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Mark Harris, author of a troiter Richard Ellrnan, his
number of plays and other meetings with Ellman and his
works, has written another high regard for him, as well
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comic-drama, "Friedman and as for other authors, are of
son," published by Macmillan, interest. And additionally inter-
esting are the accounts of the
which poses many questions.
I
It is a story about A. B. grants he had won and this
F/4"' Ferguson, a write r, and his comment:
"To celebrate my Ford Grant
father, Solomon Friedman. The
latter had not spoken with his (the Ford Foundation awarded
Et) son for some months — the him $7,500 to write a play) my
reasons: his son's change of wife and I decorated our
with glossy photo-
z FT4 name, and perhaps also his in- mantelpiece
graphs of Henry Ford and in-
termarriage.
These reasons could lend them- vited eleven friends to dinner.
selves
to the making of a good Henry Ford, for many intel-1
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plot. But the play already lectuals, represents an era of
ti
staged by a repertory theater anti-Semitism. Indeed, my own
E in San Francisco, is so mixed reaction to him goes deep
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up that one wonders what pur- enough to prevent my buying a
Ford car. The fact of Ford ;
pose it serves.
money
now lavished upon intel-
It just doesn't make sense.
The mix-up, the appearance of lectual workers in many areas
Schimmel as intermediary be- —often upon Jews—is a hopeful
tween father and son is bur- commentary upon American pos-
lesqued, the injection of Israel sibility . . . On this particular
just doesn't click, the reference evening the comedy turned to
to Arabs (Miss Liberty is an jokes, Jewish jokes . . . We
told all the Jewish jokes we
Arab girl) is unrealistic.
In real life. Jews do not hate knew . . . 'survival jokes,' some-
Arabs, as the play would infer. body called them, for they
The hope is for good relations; seemed to stress the resilience
yet the Arab issue is not a of the Jews; at least in America,
where, with more than half a
amicable one.
The speech by the publisher chance, we have demonstrated
Waxman in the play proves a generally marked capacity to
the point. Waxman said he convert limitations to triumphs.
told Ferguson the author: mix- There was much laugh t e r,
up the Irish and the Jews, treat -cumulatively ascending. Then
Ireland and Israel favorably in a moment of pause, a lovely
. 1blonde lady—sufficiently in-
and the Arabs unfavorably
Gentile, married to a
etc.
etc. . . . Why such an unfavor- Jew—asked in purest wonder,
able attitude?
Then, the involvement of the l'Why don't you just assimilate?'
term synagogue: in a real estate 1To this my friend Mark Linen-
and parking lot deal: without ! thal, arriving late from another
!party replied, as he was remov-
making any sense at all !
ing his coat, 'It can't be done,
But the Macmillan-published
book, totalling 152 pages, is I've tried'."
And so one wonders, even
90 pages play and the rest is
autobiographical. The first por- if the authobiography is so in-
tion, the self-revealing narra- teresting, what it accomplishes,
tive, is a dramatic account of how much it contributes towards
the author's life, family diffi- positive Jewish thinking : • grant-
culties, his Jewish interests, ling that Mark Harris does have
etc. It begins with an intrigu- a deep Jewish interest? The
ing statement. Quoting Schim- answer is that his play is not
mel in the play: "Consider the pcsitive even if his autobio-
Department of English of our graphy is most interesting.
famous University, where Jew- "Friedman & Son" leaves us
ish boys whose fathers could cold:
scarcely speak the language teach
the sons and the daughters of W. Gel-Man Minister
the first families of the May-
flower ho N to make a little Returns from Egypt
BONN, (JTA) — West Ger-
bit of sense in English," Harris
refers to his own position in many's Minister of Economic
the department of literature at Cooperation, A. Scheel, return-
ir a visit to Cairo
San Francisco State College. ed to Bonn om
Then he tells about his-father. during which he reportedly told
his mother who had not lived Cairo officials that the West
with her husband for years, the German government planned to
exercise a stricter watch on
bequest to another woman.
Many of the details in the weapons matters in areas of
man's life are interesting and political tension.
they undoubtedly will create a
Even the weaver is a ruler
topic for discussion. Harris' in-
terest in"James Joyce" by De- in his own house.—Megillah 12.
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MONTREAL (JTA)—Forty or-
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An ordained rabbi in Hartford,
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Said Blumenfeld in passing
sentence: "Having held yourself
out throughout the trial as a
rabbi, in other words as a teacher
of your people, it is difficult to
understand how these precepts
were so completely ignored."
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Province to enact an amendment
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