Ewen Produces Glamorous Story
of Life of Song-Writer Rodgers

How do plays materialize?
Who writes the music? What
happens to them and to their
creations?
Who are the producers and
the song-writers?
David Ewen, the most au-
thoratative writer on the thea-
ter, provides answers to many
of the questions that arise re-
garding the theater and the
people who made Broadway the
center of entertainment in the
world. His newest book, "With
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RICHARD ROGERS

a Song in His Heart — The

Story of Richard Rodgers,"
published by Holt, Rinehart and
Winston (383 Madison, N.Y. 17),
is one of his most fascinating

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U.S. Defense Dept. to Ignore Request of Council for Judaism
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The to provide them with back- not in any way reflect on the

United States Defense Depart-
ment gave notice that, for the
time being, it is not revising its
official "Pocket Guide to the
Middle East" in a manner de-
manded by the anti - Zionist
American Council for Judaism.
The notification was sent by
Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., Dep-
uty Assistant Secretary of De-

top composers," and Larry Hart
with whom he worked closely
was "one of its most brilliant
lyracists." The cooperative ef-
fort of these two men forms one
of the glorious chapters in
Ewen's book.
A mere resume of some of the
plays described here would at
once give incontestable proof of fense for Education, to Beinesh
Rodgers' genius. Ewen accomp- Epstein, vice-chairman of the
lished his task of delineating United Zionists - Revisionists of
Rodgers as being "with a song America.
The "Pocket Guide to the
in his heart" with great skill
Middle East" is provided to
in his new book.
The reader is introduced to American military personnel
Mr. Rodgers, the able Dorothy serving in the Mid-East region,
Feiner, and the description of
their love affair is one of the Buy New Ranch Camp
noteworthy chapters in this
Purchase of a camp in Wing-
book.
dale, N.Y., has been announced
As an indication of the by
Louis Winer of Chicago,
great achievements of Rod- president
of the National Ramah
gers and his associates we ComMission.
The camp, to be
have a long list of appendices known
as Camp Ramah in New
to this book: the stage pro- York, will
be the seventh in
ductions of Rodgers and Hart,
from 1920 to 1942, and those North America in the growing
of Rodgers and Hammerstein network of summer educational
from 1943 to 1959; a list of camps under the supervision of
the motion pictures of Rod- the Jewish Theological Semi-
gers' creations, from 1930 to nary of America.
The new camp is situated in
1962; "The Greatest Songs of
Richard Rodgers" — with the Berkshire hills of Dutchess
lyrics by Lorenz Hart and County, with three waterfront
Oscar Hammerstein, and with areas on mile-long Lake Ellis;
Rodgers' own lyrics; the re- 80 miles from New York City,
it formerly housed the Kee-Wah
cordings, etc.
The song collections, the bibli- Camps.
ography and other data add • to
the impressions of this volume.
Ewen has again enriched the li-
brary devoted to the theater.

Two
members of the Chicago Jewish
community were honored when
new forests bearing their names
were dedicated by the Jewish
National Fund in the Hills of
Jerusalem. The men are Morris
Devoskin, whose name was
given to a forest totaling 120,-
000 trees; and Theodore Law-
less, whose name was given to
a forest with 20,000 trees.

November to Be "And
Month" for Israel Bonds

Jewish communities in the
United States and Canada will
observe November as "Ar ad
Month" in honor of the first an-
niversary of the establishment
of the key development town in
the Negev, it was announced by
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice
president of the Israel Bond Or-
ganization.
The first settlers arrived in
Arad Nov. 21, 1962, Dr. Schwartz

said. The town is located in the
desert west of the Dead Sea, on
the site of an ancient city whose
king defeated Moses and the
Children of Israel when they first
came out of Egypt. Israel's wan-
dering in the desert for 40 years
resulted from this defeat.

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rights and duties of American
citizens of the Jewish faith."

recently with the Defense De-
partment, requesting a change
in that formulation. Epstein pro-
tested that request, declaring
that the sentence is "historically
and factually correct and does

ment should find it necessary
to revise the booklet in the fu-
ture, Katzenbach assured the
Zionist - Revisionist leader, "be
assured that your comments will
be given every consideration."

In his reply to Epstein, Katz-
enbach declared that no revi-
sion of the booklet is planned
now since "the present stocks
of this particular publication
The Council for Judaism, ac- are sufficient to last for some
cording to Epstein, intervened time." If the Defense Depart-

lovely aims.

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Kolchak's Fate in
Book by Fleming

stories.
A knowledge and under-
This is more than a mere standing of events in Russia and
account of the works of Rod- the historic occurrences that
gers. It is a descriptive ac- preceded the emergence of the
count of the great song present power, is incomplete
writer's works, of his associa- without the facts relating to the
tions, of the genius that has era during which Admiral
made him the most notable Aleksandr Vassilievich Kolchak
figure on Broadway.
was commander in chief of Rus-
The people who have worked sia's fleet and for a time su-
with him — Oscar Hammer preme ruler of his country.
stein, Larry Hart and many
The story of this Russian
others — pass in review in the leader is told in "The Fate of
Ewen account, and his new hook Admiral Kolchak," by Peter
emerges as inseparable from the Fleming, published by Harcourt,
various volumes that make up Brace & World (757 3rd NY17).
the history of the theater, the
This is the story of the man
glamor of Broadway, the bio- who fought the communist lead-
graphical description of the lead- ers, who headed the White case
er in his field.
in his country, who later met a
The scores of plays that were tragic fate.
made possible by Rodgers' music
The author is critical of Presi-
are described here, and this dent Wilson's leadership and
book is, in essence, a resume of accuses him of having acted
the great productions that without consulting the other
thrilled millions during the past statesmen in the Allied cause.
three decades. In 1930 Rodgers
The charge also is made that
was already "one of Broadway's the Bolsheviks became indif-

JNF Plants Forests
for 2 Chicago Jews
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —

ground information about the
area. One statement in the book-
let declares: "Through centuries
of persecution and discrimina-
tion in other lands, the Jews
remained spiritually united but
without a country."

ferent to the battle with Ger-
many and deserted the Russian
cause.
Trotsky and his associates
play an important role in this
book in which the fate of Tsar
Nicholas and his family also is
described in detail.
Kolchak, unlike other White
generals and admirals, appar-
ently was innocent of anti-
Semitic actions, yet it would
have been interesting to know
how he reacted to the Jewish
issue in Russia. There is no ref-
erence to it in Fleming's book.
"The Fate of Admiral Kol-
chak" is an important addition
to the literature on Russia, and
students of USSR problems,
whether or not they agree with
the Fleming approach, will find
his book of great merit, and of
assistance in gathering facts
about the Soviet Union's early

days.

Unexploded Bomb
Found in Synagogue
in Rio De Janeiro

RIO DE JANERIO, (JTA) —
An unexploded bomb and a
swastika - embellished l e t t e r
warning of anti-Jewish attacks

"similar to those that took place
in Argentina" were discovered
in the Gemilut Chassadim Syna-
gogue, a Sephardic congregation.

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