THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, August 18, 1967
No Room for Anti-Semitism
in Cinema of Soviet 1 nion
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copy right, 190, JTA, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD — Robert Cohn
son of Columbia Pictures co-found-
er Jack Cohn, recently returned
from the Moscow Film Festival
where he was scheduled to screen
his latest picture, "Young Ameri-
cans."
The film which had been ac-
cepted by the Russians at first,'
finally was ruled out by the Moscow
Festival Committee. As a one-sided
approach "to American family life."
Cohn plans to make a sequel to
Young Americans" behind the
Iron Curtain.
The man in the street in Moscow,
Cohn tells me. is full of admiration
for the Israelis, though none of the
political aspects ever are being
discussed. But the mere fact that
American Jews, such as he (as
well as the motion picture Indus- I
try's legal head, Louis Nizer, pro-
ducer Stanley Kramer and writer
Abby Mann, were highly honored
by their Russian colleagues, indi-
cates to Cohn that there is no place
for anti-Semitism in the cinema
of the Soviet Union today.
In fact, Kramer was treated with
higher respect as any top movie
star, because to the Russians a
producer-director is the sole genius
of the film, and they have seen and
admired four of Kramer's pictures,
from "Judgment at Nuremberg,"
"The Defiant Ones" and "It's a
Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to
"Ship to Fools"—out of less than
50 Hollywood films shown alto-
gether in the Soviet Union durir.g
the past 10 years. Cohn reveals
that Kramer received a standing
ovation from the more than 16,000
people gathered in the vast Con-
gress Flail of Moscow.
Half Century of Dedication to Kitchen as Household
Workshop Is Shown in Mrs. Greenberg's Cook Book
A number of Jewish cookbooks
have been published in recent
years. Numerous culinary authori-
ties, entertainers and gourmets
generally have collected recipes
and menus and many of the books
have become very popular.
Few of the books, however, are
backed by as interesting a story
as the Penguin handbook, "Jewish
Cookery." by Florence Greenberg.
In "Young Americans," Cohn
gambled on new, creative con-
cepts in the art of filmmaking in
the person of writer-director
Alex Grasshoff, a young graduate
from television. Starting as a
mail boy at Paramount after
leaving UCLA in 1953, Grass-
' hoff later wrote, produced and
directed a series of low-budget
films before joining the David
Wolper TV organization, where
he produced and directed "The
Story of — Hollywood and the
Stars" and other specials.
* *
Dorothy Kilgallen's
Reportorial Skills
Shown in Her Book
Keenan Wynn has been cast by
Warner Bros. in the role of Sen.
Billboard Rawkins in "Finian's
Rainbow," filmization of the E. Y.
Harburn and Fred Saidy Broad-
Posthumously published as a way musical of yesteryear, cur-
collection of the noteworthy mur- rently before the cameras under
der stories covered by Dorothy Francis Ford Coppola's direction.
Kilgallen, her "Murder One" is- Michael Shillo, from the Habima
sued by Random House is a great Theater in Tel Aviv was signed
tribute to a distinguished writer. by Universal Studios for a featured
There are six famous cases that role in "A Time for Heroes," star-
are covered in this volume, and in ring Rod Taylor and Claudia Cardi-
each instance the late Miss Kil- nale under Joseph Sargent's direc-
gallon reveals a keen sense of the tion, Shillo starred on Broadway in
sensational, ability as a reporter, I "Rashomon" and portrayed an im-
skill as an interpreter of the portant role in "Cast A Giant
events that were marked by the Shadow," the story of Mickey
Marcus photographed on location
cases she covered.
The Finch-Tregoff, Freta Penitz, in Israel by Mel Shavelson for the
Eva Coo, Robert Allen Edwards, Mirisch Corporation.
. * *
Creighton-A ppelgate and Sam
Sheppard murder stories are told
Peter Sellers was the center of
here most interestingly. Miss Kil- the party at the Samuel Goldwyn
gallon drew upon the court files, Studios at the completion of his
has quoted from testimony and has first Hollywood movie. "The
given a view of .he notorious Party," a madcap satire on the
events that attracted widest atten- ways and habits of cinema cele-
tion.
brities and those who try to mingle
Especially revealing is the
with them at their swanky affairs.
case of Dr. Sheppard. Dorothy
We talked with Sellers at the
Kilgallen played an interesting studio party, not about the film
role and her view leads the but about his participatoin in the
reader to believe that the ac- recent rally for Israel at the Holly-
cused may well have been inno-
wood Bowl. Sellers is extremely
cent.
The role of Samuel S. Leibowitz interested to speak and hear about
Israel. He plans to participate in
in
the chapter entitled
"Motive
Unmentionable"
in the Greta
a motion picture designed to raise
Peitz case is interesting. This is money for the Israel Emergency
the case of the woman who shot Fund.
her lover. Dr. F ritz Gebhardt.
whose wife in Germany was a
Jewess.
In all instances recorded in the
posthumously issued Kilgallen
book there are dramas, interesting
motivations, a series of events
Feeling the need for a hard look
splendidly delineated by an able
at the facts revolving around the
reporter.
Vietnam problem, Donald Duncan,
an ex-GI, who after 18 months with
the Green Berets in Vietnam
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turned down a commission,
charges that our policies make
more enemies than friends.
In "The New Legions," pub-
lished by Random House, Duncan
calls for an end to "our paranoia
about communism." He declares:
"When we become a country rep-
resenting continuing change and
progress, we can help necessary
revolutions to succeed before they
become bloody conflicts. Instead
of being known and feared for our
legions, we should be a nation in-
terested in helping peoples — not
governments. We can if we have
the courage."
Critical of American military
policies in Vietnam, Duncan
charges that the American position
leads to the making of communists
rather than of destroying commu-
nism.
Thus, our government's Viet-
namese stand has a severe critic
in the ex-GI Donald Duncan.
The life story of the author, who
began to write about Jewish cook-
ing as the age of 29, and who at
the age of 80 — in 1962 — was
writing articles for the London
Jewish Chronicle, is vital to an
understanding of the background
of this notable book.
Born in London in 1882, edu.
Committee to Raise
Funds for Refugees
NEW YORK (JTA) — The for-
mation of the Near East Emer-
gency Donation (NEED) Commit-
tee to raise large amounts of
money for urgent humanitarian ef-
forts for refugees in the Middle
East was announced by James A.
Linen, president of Time Inc., who
is serving as chairman of the
board of the newly formed or-
ganization here.
NEED consists of 37 prominent
U.S. citizens in the fields of gov-
ernment, business, education, and
journalism and is under the honor
ary chairmanship of former Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Among
the members of the board of di-
rectors are several prominent
Jewish leaders, including Philip
M. Klutznick, former U.S. ambas-
sador to the UN, Robert S. Benja-
min of United Artists Corp., Edgar
Bronfman of Seagram & Sons, Ad-
miral Lewis L. Strauss, John L.
Loeb of Loeb, Rhodes & Co., and
Andre Meyer of Lazard Freres &
Co.
Linen said the committee will
disband after two or three
months after collecting large
sums of money which it hopes
to get from individuals, founda-
tions and other sources. This
money will be turned over to
the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Re-
fugees (UNRWA) to aid the
new refugees. NEED has been
granted tax exempt status by the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
"In the aftermath of the Middle
Eastern war, one urgent humani-
tarian demand is nonpolitical and
beyond international dispute: the
need for emergency aid to war re-
fugees," said Linen. In a message
to the newly formed organization,
Gen. Eisenhower called for "an
immediate and massive drive to
create a new private fund to aid
the refugees who deserve support
from all."
cated in an English day school
and in a German boarding school,
she gained experience cooking for
a family of 12. She became a
trained nu r s e, was assigned to
Army Nursing Service in World
War I and was mentioned honor-
ably in dispatches from Galipoli.
Upon her return to England she
met her late husband who was
editor of the London Jewish
Chronicle, to whom she was mar-
ried in 1920, and began to write
food columns for his paper. From
1941 to 1946 Mrs. Greenberg gave
culinary talks for BBC. She has
contributed to many magazines.
Her "Jewish Cookery," pub-
lished by Penguin Books, is the
combination of her lifetime of
devotion to the kitchen as "the
workroom of the household," as
she describes it in the prefatory
remarks to her work.
In this, the seventh edition of
her cookbook, Mrs. Greenberg has
retained all her favorites, has com-
piled guides for cooking, for
koshering foods, for storaging eat-
ables, for canning, and other rela-
vant usages of stoves, utensils, etc.
The recipes fill more than 420
pages of text. All occasions are
provided for. There is a special
section for Passover and the Seder
table is given special attention.
Naturally, the dietary laws are
fully adhered to, and the tested
hints make this volume especially
interesting, and the octogenarian
author of this work has not over-
looked a single item of value for
the Jewish housewife. At the same
time, the vast variety of recipes
incorporated in "Jewish Cookery"
makes the work as useful for non-
Jews as it is for Jewish house-
wives.
Meat and dairy products are
grouped in the culinary guide.
There are suggestions for lunch-
eons, dinner, the making of special
sandwiches, desserts and tradi-
tional Jewish dishes.
In a section of _miscellany there
are suggestions for the use of
stale bread, eggless batter, utiliza-
tion of cottage cheese.
Here, a traditionalist emerges as
a modernist. Florence Greenberg's
"Jewish Cookery" is a notable
work.
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