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Friday, December 16, 1966 33
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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By ELIAITU SALPETER
Chief JTA Correspondent in Israel
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
cial outlook for the coming season
Israel's theater season has just and the Hunger."
Israel's economic recession has, is even more gloomy than that of
started and, to judge by the first
Israel's Theaters
weeks, it is going to be stormy
weather on most fronts, beginning
with the flops of the first shows
and ending with the dispute with
the ushers' union.
Israel's theaters are about all
repertory companies. That means
that they have their permanent
staff of actors as well as adminis-
trative and technical personnel and
-theoretically-this should enable
them to cover deficits of one pro-
duction from profits of another,
more successful with the public.
There are two or three non-reper-
tory companies assembled by a
producer for the staging of a spe-
cific show, usually musical, such as
"Fiddler on the Roof." Tickets
to such shows are often twice as
expensive as to those of the reper-
tory theaters, yet-by and large-
they have much better attendance.
0
S
T
OTTO SILVERS was given a high
honor when recently asked to be
the court clerk during the official
robing of Court of Appeals Judge
Charles Levin . . . Otto made . many
friends, helped many people and
although now retired, continued to
carry his fine name with well-de-
served dignity .. . He retired Oct.
1, after 39 years as clerk with
Traffic Court and 21 months with
the Court of Appeals.
AS GUEST COLUMNIST f o r
the year, applicant No. 1 is 5-year-
old son Scott David Raskin . . .
But don't be fooled by his age . . .
Scott has all the makings to show
up his old man as a public rela-
tions counsel . . He may not be
able to read or write too well yet,
but what a mouth!
* * *
MOST INTERESTING AND re-
vealing booklet is "JNF Questions
and Answers-A Pocket Quiz" .. .
which explains thoroughly what
Jewish National Fund is and its
work . .
* * *
BEN RIBIAT IS the new wor-
shipful master of Daylight Masonic
Lodge . . . Formal installation is
today, 7 p.m., on second floor of
Masonic Temple . . . Reception fol-
lows at Calvert Catering.
* * •
THEIR 12-YEAR-OLD daughter,
Ruthe, was at a girl friend's house
and forgot to leave the phone num-
ber . . . Sam Gelb told wife Ida to
look in the phone book under her
last name . . . She discovered there
were five alike, and so they started
down the list . . . Phone number
three was the first one at home ...
"Is this the Rubins where the little
girl goes to dancing school?" Ida
asked .. . "No," came the answer.
"This is the Rubins where the man
was in the bathtub."
* * *
AT RECENT husband and wives
testimonial dinner for Eleanor
Riseman, Lillian Katz and Tessie
Freeman, the girls were given
plaques for over 25 years of out-
standing service to Infants Service
Group . . . The organization's al-
ways great dinner-dance, Feb. 27,
at Latin Quarter, is again expected
to be a sell-out . . . Eleanor is in
charge of entertainment and Lois
Singer, dinner-dance chairman . .
Mimi Davis is president of ISG .. .
Get on the ball and call Nancy
Baron for those tickets . . . 353-
3544.
* * *
GARY SAPERSTEIN, 6-year-old
red-headed son of Audrey and
Herb, had only one question to ask
after viewing their newly pur-
chased home in Huntington Woods
for the first time ... "Are we go-
ing to have furniture in the living
room, again?"
of course, its impact also on-theater the last one, which also ended with
attendance. As a result, the finan- deficits for practically all groups.
Russian Treatment of Tevya
"Habimah," the oldest and
most famous of Israel's repertory
theaters, now carries the title
"The National Theater." How-
ever, it is generally agreed that
the best group is the "Chamber
Theater," usually presenting very
good, and sometimes very ex-
cellent, productions. "Ohel," the
Histadrut•affiliated theater, is
the weakest of the three major
groups, all of which are based in
Tel Aviv. However, every thea-
ter, big and small alike, regular-
' ly travels practically each week
not only to Jerusalem or Haifa
but also often to smaller towns
and even to major kibbutzim.
view. He decided, it seems, to "do"
Tevya, of all Sholem Aleichem's
stories, because Tevya preaches
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc-)
LONDON-The current issue of
the Yiddish monthly in Moscow,
Sovietish Heimland, carries an in-
terview with the Soviet-Jewish film
director, Leonid Trauberg, who is
making a large-scale firm (epic,
in the vernacular of Western film
makers) of Sholem Aleichem's
Tevya the Milkman. This in itself is
interesting news. There was no film
on a Jewish theme made in the
Soviet Union since the days of
Solomon Mikhoels way back in the
Thirties.
tolerance and good relations be-
tween various groups of people and
between individuals. The film
would, therefore, be a contribution
to the fight against anti-Semitism
and Fascism - abroad, where it
still prevails. In Western Germany,
for example, where Jewish ceme-
teries are often desecrated. To this
end, Ivan Poperillo, a passing char-
acter in the story, will be a major
character in the film. Because, says
Trauberg, Ivan Poperillo, the black-
smith, and Tevya are good friends
Toronto Court Upsets
City Law Against
Hate Speeches
TORONTO (JTA)-Toronto's by-
law against inciting racial hatred
in city park speeches was ruled
invalid Monday, when Magistrate
Charles Opper acquitted William
John Beattie, Canadian neo-Nazi,
on a charge of using language
likely to stir up hatred against
Jews and Negroes. The magistrate
said freedom of speech is a matter
that can be legislated only by
Parliament.
In his 15-page judgment, Magis-
trate Opper said his view was
New shows usually run first in based on the Bill of Rights, passed
Tel Aviv, with about half of the by Parliament in 1960, which spe-
regular actors having roles in it. cifically provides for freedom of
Meanwhile, performances of ear- speech and is intended to apply to
lier shows, engaging the other half all persons in Canada.
of the actors, are given in other
"The idea of freedom of speech
cities. Then, after a week or two,
is woven through the fabric of
the new show goes for two or three
British justice as we have known
days on the road, while the earlier
it, and still continues," he said.
show comes back to Tel Aviv, for
"I believe that this right, no
those who did not see it before.
matter how trying the circum-
Thus, late in November, on a
stances may be, should not be
Saturday night (which is the busi-
tampered with lightly and par-
est show-night of the week in Is-
ticularly on a local basis or even
rael) one could choose in Tel Aviv
on a provincial basis, but that
between eight theater shows and
there should be one law in this
one opera performance (in addi-
connection for every Canadian
tion to some concerts and recitals).
In Jerusalem the same night there
were three different plays plus one
concert, as Haifa's own repertory
theater was presenting that night
Shakespeare's "Richard The Third"
(running for the second season) in
Tel Aviv.
The interesting thing about these
theaters, indicating the possibilities
inherent in most of them, is that
even the best one can all of a sud-
den present an unbelievably inept
and dull production, while second
raters sometimes produce first rate
presentations. For example, the
Chamber Theater's latest produc-
tion, "The Dragon," by the Soviet-
Jewish author Yevgeni Schwartz,
is worse in all respects than what
one would expect even from a
neighborhood amateur troup. On
the other hand, their production of
Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," carried
over from last season, could hold
its own on any of the best stages of
Europe or America.
Habima also started the season
with a high-school quality produc-
tion of Lessing's "Nathan The
Wise." (The very choice of that
200-year-old, naive, didactic play
.as a season opener is in itself so
incredibly mistaken that it can
hardly be attributed to people hav-
ing the slightest contact with the
theater-going public.) However, at
the same time, Habima is also still
showing a good production of.
Shakespeare's "Othello" and a very
sophisticated performance of Ed-
ward Albee's "Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?"
Ohel has not yet produced any
new shows this season, but still
manages to sell some of its entire
performances to various unions
who distribute the tickets among
their members at cut rate. They
can see a rather mediocre perform-
ance of Berthold Brecht's "A Man
Is a Man" or an almost excellent
production of Ionesco's "The Thirst
As to the kind of film Trauberg
is making, he details in his inter-
By S. J. GOLDSMITH
London Correspondent of JTA
resident."
In the first prosecution under the
city bylaw, Beattie was accused
over remarks in his 35-minute
speech last June 19 in Allan Gar-
dens. A double ring of plainclothes
detectives and mounted policemen
surrounded Beattie during his
speech, and held back more than
2,000 persons, police witnesses told
Magistrate Opper.
Beattie was charged with using
language likely to stir hatred
against sections of the public dis-
tinguished by color, race, religion,
ethnic or national origin, namely
Jews and Negroes.
The magistrate disagreed with
all the arguments presented by the
defense counsel except one - the
freedom of speech argument -
which was enough to acquit the
defendant.
The magistrate held that Beat-
tie's speech was insulting to Jews
and Negroes and, that it did stir
up hatred, but declared that the
Bill of Rights upholds freedom of
speech as a fundamental freedom
which cannot be overridden by a
and their relations symbolize the
good relations between Jews and
Ukrainians.
There can be no objections to
Trauberg's treatment of the story
so far. It happens in the best cir-
cles-film-making circles-that a
,
minor character in a book is ele-
vated to the status of a major char-
acter in a film. This is particularly
easy with authors who died fifty
years ago . . .
Nor can one expect Trauberg
to admit that some Russians
could also do with a film which
preaches brotherhood of man,
as long as the film will be shown
in Russia as well as in the rest
of the world.
It will of course be a Russian
film. There are no facilities in
Soviet Russia for the making of
Yiddish films. And since there
are none in Hollywood. either, one
cannot very well complain. The
part of Tevya will be played by a
Russian actor. This again is of no
importance. A good actor is bound
to play Tevya well. After all, Rus-
sian
actors play • Hamlet and
Macbeth.
What is more worrying is Trau-
berg's treatment of the last part
of the story. He says he had intro-
duced an episode which is not in
the original. Tevya dreams that he
is having an audience with the
Czar, and the Czar is leaning on a
sofa and eating herring and onions
without the slightest worry about
the cost of such delicacies.
Now this is not Tevya at all.
From what we know of our old
friend Tevya, such a dream would
not be likely to visit him. He never
tried to get above himself. An au-
dience with the Czar, if you please
. . . Nor would he be likely-grant-
ed that he had such a dream-
to be envious of the Czar and re-
mark upon the cost. He would be
more likely to pronounce which is
uttered by Jews upon seeing royalty
(Direct JTA Telegraph Wire
to The Jewish News)
in the flesh, and to wish the Czar
a very good appetite.
Another addition to the story
for the purpose of the film is
"elements from Job," to quote
the director. The editor kindly in-
forms us in a footnote that "Job
was a prophet whom God is sup-
posed to have punished with
severe pain." For this we are
grateful. Never mind the defini-
tion; the good will is there . .."
But why Job? Job, Trauberg says,
fits into the film because Tevya
was also revolting against the es-
tablished order-injustice etc. True
enough. But Sholem Aleichem did
a very good job (small jay this
time, please) of protesting against
injustice in his own inimitable way.
His Tevya can very well explain
his attitude to the Almighty with-
gun salute. Captain D. W. Har-
per, commander of the destroyer
fleet, visited Israel Navy command
officers and Mayor Abba Khoushy
of Haifa, who returned the visit.
The 500 visiting navy men were
entertained by the Israeli navy.
which date the film will be ready.
One is apprehensive about Tevya's
fate in the hands of Trauberg. We
may in the end have not Tevya but
Moishe Litvakoff, a Jew with a
little learning who became the edi-
tor of the Emes.
municipal authority.
At present a government bill is
under debate in the Canadian Sen-
ate, which will outlaw genocide
and incitement to racial hatred.
500 British Limeys Invade
Israel in Four-Day Visit
TEL AVIV-Two units of the out any outside help. It seems
British Mediterranean fleet, a de- Trauberg, is trying to make out of
stroyer and a frigate, arrived in Tevya a revolutionary . in celebra-
Haifa Tuesday for a four-day visit. tion of the fiftieth anniversary if
The ships received the traditional the October Revolution (1967) for
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