Directs 2 Avant-Garde Films
The Exciting Story of Jack Garfein
By HERBERT G. LUFT
-tion center, Herschel contacted
(Copyright, 1964, am, Inc.)
Joel Brand; in order to postpone
HOLLYWOOD — Jack Garfein,
the shipment of the Jews the
rumor was spread that a typhus
whose wife Carroll Baker stars in
the current release of "The Car- epidemic had broken out in the
prison camp. For while SS chief
petbaggers" and will portray "Jean
Wislesceny, Eichmann's deputy
Harlow" in Joseph E. Levine's
in Czechoslovakia who was
forthcoming production, told me
hanged after the war, held off
during an interview in Beverly the transport, Herschel Garfein
escaped to Hungary. He was later
Hills about two avant-garde films
er murdered by the fascists.
of his own tnat are being made
Jack tells me that he was 11
under Levine's banner at Para-
years old and his sister 8 when,
mount studios.
in 1941, his mother told both to
The first one of the two pic- take off their yellow armbands
tures depicting contemporary with the Star eof David and start
American life is based on the best- s`-to walk away from the town of
selling novel "A Long and Happy Bardejov. Passing the German gar-
Life" by Reynolds Price, with a rison, she wanted to be arrested
screenplay currently being com- by the local authorities for smug-
pleted by Charles Eastman. The gling foreign currency. Imprison-
picture deals with the problems ment on a minor charge would
of young people trapped emotional- have saved her from deportation.
ly in the turmoil of our time. Gar- But while the customs officials
fein is trying to sign Steve Mc- were willing to hold her for illegal-
Queen for the male lead.
ly carrying foreign money, they
The second venture of Messrs. could not arrest the children. So
Garfein-Levine will be "Natural she took both and hid them under
Child," a novel by Calder Wil- the seat of a bus going to Hun-
lingham who also wrote "End as gary. Garfein tells me that they
a Man" bfought to the screen by were caught and with his mother,
Sam Spiegel as "The Strange One." at 34 a beautiful woman, deported
Ben . Gazzara who made his movie to the camp of Auschwitz. There,
debut under Garfein's direction in they had to pass inspection; his
the artistic but unsuccessful work sister refused to leave the hand
by Willingham will star in the of the mother and both perished.
new story by the same author, Jack came into a labor battalion
probably with Sue Lyon as the and spent four years in the worst
naive sexy Southern girl caught camps recorded in the annals of
in the Bohemian circle of Green- Nazism. When he was liberated by
wich Village. Both films are being the British at Bergen-Belsen in
guided by Garfein with Levine's April of 1945. he weighed only
Embassy Pictures and his own 48 pounds. He says that he was
Prometheus Films functioning as sent with 500 other children
joint produ cers.
through intervention of Count
At the age of 15, Jack "grad- Folke Bernadotte to Sweden where
he
was given a new life by faster
uated" from 11 of the worst Ger-
man concentration camps. Today, parents.
almost two decades later, he talks
He arrived in the U.S. in Janu-
about the past calmly and delib- ary of 1946 and left his uncle who
erately—only for a few brief mo- had sponsored his immigration
ments giving away his emotional after three months in order not to
involvement.
burden the family. Always inter-
Garfein was born in Nun-
ested in the theater, he applied
kacevo, Czechoslovakia, but grew
to Erwin Priscator's New School
up in Bardejov, a Czech health
for a scholarship and was accepted.
resort known also as Barthfelder At 19, he taught Hebrew at the
Bad. His father, Herschel Gar-
YMHA. Through Piscator, he met
Lee Strasberg. At 21, Jack
fen. was -the founder of the
Garfein was directing television
Zionist movement of Slovakia
and an off-Broadway production
and his name is entered in, the
of "Camille." Strasberg saw his
"Golden Book" next to Edward
TV and theatrical work and in-
Benesch. In 1939, the quisling
vited him to join the Actors Studio,
regime of Slovakia put the elder
not as a student but as a director.
Garfein on trial for selling lum-
During the 1952-53 season, the
ber to Great Britain. When he
young man assembled a group of
and many others were readied
rookie thespians, among them
for deportation to the extermina-
Gazzara, Tony Frnciosa and the
late James Dean for an off-Broad-
way production of "End as a
Man" (the same play he later
transposed to the screen). It was
so successful that Garfein moved
it up to Broadway.
Israel Will Overcome
Trade Gap, Says Sapir
NEW YORK (JTA) — Pinhas
Sapir, Israel's Minister of Finance,
Commerce and Industry, expressed
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decade, Israel will substantially
overcome its most burdening eco-
nomic problem," the trade gap be-
tween imports and exports. His ob-
servations were made during a
luncheon meeting of the American-
Israel Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
He indicated that the solution to
the trade gap lies in the rapid de-
velopment of Israel's industrial ca-
pacity, and the expansion of its ex-
ports. He outlined a five-year in-
dustrial forecast which calls for
doubling of industrial production
and tripling of exports by 1970. In
describing the industrial forecast
for the years 1965-1970, Minister
Sapir indicated that this was the
second such projection, with the
first one running through 1965.
Role of Two Jews in Memorializing D. Hammarskjold
BY SAUL CARSON
(JTA Correspondent at the UN)
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—It
is difficult for one who had lived
through the period to realize that
three years had gone by since that
morning in 1961 when first, there
was a rumor, then a confirmation
about Dag Hammarskjold's' death.
Now the passage of time has made
it all too real. "Dag," as he was
called here affectionately by
many — is:indeed, gone. With
him went an ra. And if further
proof of the act that a new era
had come, he is the new stained
glass window, igned and made
by the famous Jewish artist, Marc
Chagall, casting a deep blue -but
somehow somber light into the
black=white squares of the erraz-
zo floor of the Secretariat Build-
ing lobby.
"It fits," remarks Chagall —
in French to one friend, repeated
in Yiddish to another. And one
has the feeling that the verdict
of fitness alludes not merely to
the physical but to the spiritual
as well. "It fits."
The man who made this win-
dow, hereafter to be known as
the Dag Hammarskjold Memor-
ial Window, is the same artist
who did those marvelous 12
windows one had seen very re-
cently in the synagogue at the
Hadassah-H e b r e w University
Hospital in Jerusalem. Those,
too, "fit"—although there have
been many grumblings about the
architecture furnishing the
framework for . the Jerusalem
windows. Chagall does not share
the dissatisfaction voiced re-
Ecclesiastes—
Reading Portion
During Sukkot
The Book of Ecclesiastes is read
during services on Sukkot.
The "Graphic History of the
Jewish Heritage" offers this avalu-
ation of the scroll:
The scroll of Ecclesiastes is at-
tributed to Solomon in the text it-
self: "The words of Koheleth the
son of David, king in Jerusalem"
(Ecclesiastes 1.1). Koheleth is
Solomon, who "amassed" wisdom.
An examination of the contents of
the book leads one to the con-
clusion that it was composed in
Solomon's later years, for much of
Ecclesiastes is based on wisdom
gained through a variety of experi-
ences. The sate put it thus: "When
a person is young, he recites
songs; in his maturity he utters
proverbs; when he grows old he
declares 'Vanity of vanities, all is
second verse
of Eccles
-
Tastes)."
Basically, Ecclesiastes teaches
the foolishness of involvement in
affairs that are irrelevant to the
reality of life. There is no point
struggling to change the course of
the world. "One generation passeth
away, and another generation
cometh; And the earth abideth for
ever" (Ecclesiastes 1.4). The wise
man recognizes the world's frus-
trations: "For much wisdom is
much vexation; And he that in-
creaseth knowledge increaseth sor-
row" (Ecclesiastes 1.18); yet, "The
wise man, his eyes are in his
head; But the fool walketh in
darkness" (Ecclesiastes 2.14), In
addition to folly, Ecclesiastes de-,
spises miserliness and greed. In
stead, he tells men to enjoy life
while they can, stressing, however,
that they will "haveto account for
their deeds. "Rejoice, 0 young
man, in thy youth; And let thy
heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth, And walk in the ways of :
thy heart, And in the sight of -
thine eyes; But know htou, that for
all these things God will bring
thee into judgment" (Ecclesiastes
11.9). Every extreme is a "vanity
of vanities"—i.e., the worst of van-
ities.
Besides its hortatory passages,
the scroll of Ecclesiastes contains
The perfect man: He doesn't many profound maxims and soph-
stay up late; doesn't shoot craps; isticated wisdom.
doesn't touch intoxicating liquors:
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doesn't chase women; doesn't ex-
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garding the Jerusalem installa-
tion. To him, that too fits—as
it does to many observers, in-
cluding this one.
There is a significant commen-
tary on the Hammarskjold era
in the fact that there is disagree-
ment among. pro-Israeli Jews as
to Hammerskjold's place vis-a-vis
Israel. To Marc Chagall—a Jew to
his very marrow—Hammerskjold
was the great builder toward
peace. To a man like Jacob Blau-
stein, who knew Hammerskjold
very well, on the personal as well
as the official level, Hammer-
skjold was the greatest man of
his day.
As you walk into the Secretariat
Building these days, on the edge
of the circular fountain gracing
the facade, there is another mon-
ument to Hammerskjold, unveiled
Only last summer—the gift of
Blaustein. A graceful, single slab
of bronze, broken only by a circu-
lar cut-out near the gothic top of
the work, this one is entitled
"Single Form." This monument
was done by a Britist artist, Bar-
bara Hepworth, upon the sugges-
tion of Hammarskjold himself,
and it was executed upon Blau-
stein's initiative as a gift memorial
to Blaustein's friend Dag Hammar-
skjold.
Next month, the pubishing
house of Alfred Knopf will is-
sue "Markings," the diary kept
by Dag Hammarskjold over a
period of some 36 years. In that
diary, there is a poem by Mr.
Hammarskjold, entitled "Single
Form."
Chagall's "it fits" comment —
and Blaustein's affectionate com-
mitment to the memory of Ham-1
marskjold — seem to point to the
need for a rethinking of Hammar-
skjold's worth to Israel. No one
doubts the depth of the commit-
ment to Israel's value on the part
of. either the donor of "Single
Form" or of the artist who con-
tributed the new Dag Hammar-
skjold Memorial Window. They
understood.
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